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Ellie Jones strives to apply her understanding of the law far beyond corporate corridors and lofty courtrooms.

Growing up in Dubbo, Makaah Darcy dreamed of studying law at the University of Newcastle. As the proud recipient of the Claudia Sloan Scholarship for Indigenous Students, Makaah says believing in herself and receiving support from the scholarship turned her dream into reality.

Finding the body is vital in any murder investigation. PhD graduate, Victoria (Tori) Berezowski’s research focused on innovative techniques to help locate hidden graves.

Earlier this month, Travis Bazzana made history as the first Australian selected number one in the Major League Baseball (MLB) draft.

For almost 1,000 years, pregnant women in England could avoid the death penalty just by virtue of being pregnant. A pregnant woman sentenced to death would receive a stay of execution until the baby was born.

Australia is a human rights outlier among liberal democracies, with no national charter of human rights. Its human rights protections are piecemeal and split across a patchwork of laws, authorities and jurisdictions.

As part of our advocacy work, the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Law and Social Justice (CLSJ) made two submissions to the Inquiry (submissions 185 and 185.1).

The request by Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders is a significant step in the effort to bring justice to the victims of international crimes in Israel and Palestine.

Bullying by judges, magistrates and other judicial officers is a factor in many lawyers leaving the profession.

On 10 May 2024, representatives of the Centre for Law and Social Justice (CLSJ) and Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) briefed Senator Penny Allman-Payne on the Right to Education Report.

On Wednesday 10 April 2024, Trisha Doyle MP, NSW Parliamentary Secretary for Environment, Heritage, Climate Change, and Energy, launched the School Students' Statement on the Right to a Healthy Environment.

NEWCASTLE-based researchers, parents, government, and child protection workers have come together in what's believed to be a national first to find solutions to a broken system.