Excellent research with impact
UTS Law researchers investigate legal matters of significant community, national and global importance. Our scholars are bold, ambitious, and creative, and we shape debates, research agendas, law, practice and policy.
Our scholarship is characterised by excellence, rigour and integrity. Our research contributes to the depth and strengths of our teaching programs.
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#8
in Australia for law and legal studies.
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026
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#4
in Australia for legal studies research quality.
THE World University Rankings by Subject 2026
Our research centres
UTS Law research centres are characterised by having well established links and collaboration with industry and external organisations, demonstrating tangible impact on society and the broader community.
Anti-Slavery Australia
The only specialist centre providing free legal and migration services to people who have experienced or are at risk of modern slavery in Australia.
Centre for Media Transition
Explores and develops responses to the dramatic and ongoing movements wrought by digital disruption to the media industry, the role of journalism in Australian democracy and the world more widely, and the business models that support a diverse and prosperous industry.
Our impact
We strive to make a positive and effective contribution to our discipline, policy and lawmaking, and public debate through our research.
Our people
Our diverse and inclusive culture makes us the faculty of choice for staff, students and the wider community.
Visiting research fellowships
UTS Law hosts leading international and Australian researchers to spend short periods of time in the faculty.
Research with impact
Research impact stories highlight UTS Law’s fascinating and diverse range of academic research.
Podcast wins award
The Last Outlaws, a trilogy podcast made at UTS about Australia's last proclaimed outlaws, Jimmy and Joe Governor, has taken out the Digital History Prize at the NSW Premier's History Awards.
Citizens of where?
Should the impacts of climate change drive Pacific Islander people from their homes, serious questions arise over their relationship with their home country.
In whose best interest?
Every person has the human right to autonomy and self-determination over their own body.
Unbiased AI could improve women's rights
Award-winning researcher Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa on how artificial intelligence may prove the best legal mind for tackling inequality.
Scales of justice loaded against women
Self-representation creates barriers for women in the Family Law Courts.
In whose best interest?
Every person has the human right to autonomy and self-determination over their own body.
Podcast wins award
The Last Outlaws, a trilogy podcast made at UTS about Australia's last proclaimed outlaws, Jimmy and Joe Governor, has taken out the Digital History Prize at the NSW Premier's History Awards.
Unbiased AI could improve women's rights
Award-winning researcher Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa on how artificial intelligence may prove the best legal mind for tackling inequality.
Citizens of where?
Should the impacts of climate change drive Pacific Islander people from their homes, serious questions arise over their relationship with their home country.
Scales of justice loaded against women
Self-representation creates barriers for women in the Family Law Courts.