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

Driving Cybersecurity Change

How to mobilise safe and responsible cybersecurity policies through interdisciplinary and cross-sector engagement. Event details Day/Date: Friday, 18 October 2024 Time: 11am – 5pm AEDT Venue: Deakin Downtown –...

Centre for Law as Protection Launch

Join us for the launch of the Deakin Law School’s Centre for Law as Protection, as we share our vision for the Centre and hear from a range of...