Centre for
Law as Protection

The Centre for Law as Protection is building a scholarly community to study the idea of protection, shape policy and develop legal tools to protect people, animals and the environment.

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‘Military violence threatens our lives across the globe. Reducing this threat requires placing protection at the centre of government decision-making and limiting arbitrariness. It is crucial to identify new and creative ways that law can be used to save lives and quash violence’.

Our research areas

Our research is organised across four thematic streams. Each stream addresses the scope and meaning of protection from a significant cluster of existing threats and develops concrete legal tools tailored to these threats. Together, the four research streams build a conceptual and practical infrastructure of law as a crucial means of protection. Additionally, all four research streams are connected through our cross-theme lead for animal and environmental protection.

Protection from organised violence and abuse of governmental power

Protection from technology-based harms

Protection from economic harm and abuse of corporate power

Protection from inequality, marginality, and deprivation

Latest news & events

ANZSIL International Peace and Security Interest Group (IPSIG)

2025 Annual Workshop: Monday 24 February 2025 Deakin University, Naarm/Melbourne Call for papers and registration: Deadline 10 January 2025 Disregard for international legal obligations in armed conflict and situations...

Research Seminar with Professor Craig Martin

Join us for a research seminar with Professor Craig Martin from Washburn University, US. Professor Martin will share insights from his research on Geoengineering Wars and Atmospheric Governance, a...