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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#7
In Australia for law and legal studies.
QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025
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#5
In Australia for legal studies research quality.
THE World University Rankings by Subject 2025
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.
The only specialist centre providing free legal and migration services to people who have experienced or are at risk of modern slavery in Australia.
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.
Research strengths
Our research clusters are groupings of researchers who are actively engaged in a particular theme of legal research. These groups are not only made up of UTS Law academics, but also external academics, postdoctoral research fellows and higher degree research students.
- Criminal Justice
- Feminist Legal Research
- International Law and Human Rights
- Law, Health and Justice
- Law and History
- Media Law
- Migration and Labour Law
- Private Law
- Technology and Intellectual Property
We strive to make a positive and effective contribution to our discipline, policy and lawmaking, and public debate through our research.
Our diverse and inclusive culture makes us the faculty of choice for staff, students and the wider community.
UTS Law hosts leading international and Australian researchers to spend short periods of time in the faculty.
Study with us
As a research candidate, you'll be mentored by leading academics and exposed to interdisciplinary perspectives.
Get in touch
Our reception is located at Level 16, UTS Central (Building 2), 61 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW.
Email: law.research@uts.edu.au
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
Research snapshots
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.
Should the impacts of climate change drive Pacific Islander people from their homes, serious questions arise over their relationship with their home country.
Every person has the human right to autonomy and self-determination over their own body.
Award-winning researcher Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa on how artificial intelligence may prove the best legal mind for tackling inequality.
Self-representation creates barriers for women in the Family Law Courts.
Every person has the human right to autonomy and self-determination over their own body.
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.
Award-winning researcher Dr Ramona Vijeyarasa on how artificial intelligence may prove the best legal mind for tackling inequality.
Should the impacts of climate change drive Pacific Islander people from their homes, serious questions arise over their relationship with their home country.
Self-representation creates barriers for women in the Family Law Courts.