Research grants

• Evacuations in international law: disasters, conflicts and humanitarian crises
  Lead Investigator: Scientia Professor Jane McAdam
  Funding amount: $3,146,592 (2023-2027) 
• The Financial Data Revolution: Seizing the Benefits, Controlling the Risks 
  Lead Investigator: Scientia Professor Ross Buckley
  Funding amount: $2,634,900 (2020-2025) 

• Defending constitutional democracy: the military & the constitution in Asia 
  Lead Investigator: Professor Melissa Crouch
  Funding amount: $1,205,235 (2025-2028)
• Constitutional design and democratic resilience 
  Lead Investigator: Professor Rosalind Dixon
  Funding amount: $1,074,409 (2021-2025)
• Diplomatic knowledge, disasters and the future of international legal order 
  Lead Investigator: Professor Fleur Johns
  Funding amount: $951,471 (2021-2025)
• Suspect sciences: enhancing emerging identification technologies and forensic expertise 
  Lead Investigator: Professor Gary Edmond
  Funding amount: $815,014 (2020) 
• Informal lawmaking in maritime security: new directions in ocean governance
  Lead Investigator: Professor Natalie Klein
  Funding amount: $1,018,446 (2020) 

• Remedies for Victims of Modern Slavery in Indo-Pacific Fisheries (DP250102044)
  Investigators: Professor Justine Nolan (Lead Investigator), Professor Natalie Klein (CI, UNSW Sydney), Professor Shelley Marshall (CI, RMIT University). 
  Grant amount: $742,533 (2025-2028)
• Fixing Gaps in Ocean Governance: International Law Duties of Persons at Sea (DP250102643)
  Investigators: Professor Natalie Klein (Lead Investigator), Professor Sarah Williams (CI, UNSW Sydney), Professor Irini Papanicolopulu (PI, SOAS University of London). 
  Grant amount: $675,265 (2025-2028)
• National Security Exceptions in International Trade and Investment Treaties (DP250100953) 
  Investigators: Associate Professor Caroline Henckels (Lead Investigator, Monash University), Professor Andrew Mitchell (CI, Monash University), Dr Elizabeth Sheargold (CI, Monash University), Associate Professor Jonathan Bonnitcha (CI, UNSW Sydney). 
  Grant amount: $549,734 (2025-2028)
• Inside the jury: A novel experimental technique to study jury deliberation (DP250102628) 
  Investigators: Professor Richard Kemp (Lead Investigator, UNSW Sydney), Professor Jill Hunter (CI, UNSW Sydney). 
  Grant amount: $641,610 (2025-2028)
• Responding to sexual harm: an Australian historical criminology approach (DP230101503)    
  Investigators: Professor Lisa Featherstone (Lead Investigator, La Trobe University), Dr Andy Kaladelfos (CI, UNSW Sydney), Dr Yorick Smaal (CI, Griffith University), Dr Bianca Fileborn (CI, The University of Melbourne). 
  Grant amount: $ 463,914 (2023-2026)
• Judges' work, place and psychological health - a national view (DP220100585)    
  Investigators: Professor Jill Hunter (Lead Investigator), Professor Prudence Vines (CI, UNSW Sydney), Professor Natalie Skead (CI, The University of Western Australia), Associate Professor Kylie Burns (CI, Griffith University), Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu (CI, Flinders University), Professor Catherine Warner (CI, University of Tasmania), Professor Richard Kemp (CI, UNSW Sydney), Adjunct Associate Professor Terese Henning (CI, University of Tasmania). 
  Grant amount:$556,708 (2022-2024).
• China’s belt and road initiative: a new model of economic governance? (DP220101632)    
  Investigators: Associate Professor Jonathan Bonnitcha (Lead Investigator), Associate Professor Kun Fan (CI, UNSW Sydney), Scientia Professor Ross Buckley (CI, UNSW Sydney), Professor Heng Wang (PI, National University of Singapore).
  Grant amount:$293,716 (2022-2024).
• Violence, risk and safety: the changing face of Australian criminal law (DP210101072)    
  Investigators: Professor Luke McNamara (Lead Investigator), Associate Professor Julia Quilter (CI), Professor Arlie Loughnan (CI, University of Wollongong), Adjunct Professor Russell Hogg (CI, Queensland University of Technology), Emeritus Professor David Brown (CI, University of Sydney), Professor Lindsay Farmer (PI, University of Glasgow, UK).    
  Grant amount: $327,330
• Reimagining judging in international criminal courts: a gendered approach (DP210103628)    
  Investigators: Scientia Professor Louise Chappell (Lead Investigator), Dr Rosemary Grey (CI, University of Sydney), Dr Kcasey McLoughlin (CI, University of Newcastle).   
  Grant amount: $346,555
• Producing, managing and owning knowledge in the 21st century university (DP200101578)   
  Investigators: Professor Kathryn Bowrey (Lead Investigator), Professor Kimberlee Weatherall (CI), Dr Kylie Pappalardo (CI), Professor Irene Watson (CI), Professor Jill McKeough (CI), Emeritus Professor Thomas Cochrane (CI)   
  Grant amount: $361,000
• Improving international law regulation of maritime autonomous vessels (DP200102091)   
  Investigators: Professor Natalie Klein (Lead Investigator), Associate Professor Douglas Guilfoyle (CI), Associate Professor Md Saiful Karim (CI), Professor Robert McLaughlin (CI).   
  Grant amount: $158,630 
• Intoxication evidence in rape trials: a double-edged sword? (DP200100101)  
  Investigators: Professor Julia Quilter (Lead Investigator, University of Wollongong), Professor Luke McNamara (UNSW Sydney)  
  Grant amount: $239,322
• Non-urban water governance: rethinking compliance and enforcement (DP190101584)   
  Investigators: Professor Cameron Holley (Lead Investigator), Associate Professor Darren Sinclair (University of Canberra), Dr Jean-Daniel Rinaudo (BRGM The French Geological Survey), Associate Professor Rhett Larson (Arizona State University)   
  Grant amount: $338,000
• Juries, justice and citizenship: historicising women’s inequality (DP190100940)   
  Investigators: Professor Jill Hunter (Lead Investigator), Professor Penelope Russell (University of Sydney), Professor Diane Kirby (UTS), Dr Alecia Simmonds (UTS)   
  Grant amount: $322,000
• Contemporary populism and constitutional democracy (DP190102961)   
  Investigators: Professor Martin Krygier (Lead Investigator), Associate Professor Adam Czarnota, Professor Wojcieh Sadurski (University of Sydney)   
  Grant amount: $331,000 
• Australian violence: understanding victimisation through history (DP190100322)
  Investigators: Dr Andy Kaladelfos
  Grant amount: $404,636

• ‘Recognition after Uluru: what next for First Nations?’ (IN190100075)  
  Professor Megan Davis (Lead Investigator), Professor George Williams  
  Grant amount: $399,600

• Fast-track asylum procedures: balancing fairness and efficiency (DE220101189)  
  Investigators: Associate Professor Daniel Ghezelbash (Lead Investigator)  
  Grant amount: $458,332 (2022-2024)
• Mining the deep oceans: ensuring compliance with international obligations (DE190101081)  
  Investigators: Dr Aline Jaeckel (Lead Investigator)  
  Grant amount: $364,990
• Protected entry for asylum seekers in history and international refugee law (DE200101236)
  Investigators: Dr Claire Higgins (Lead Investigator)  
  Grant amount: $389,201
• Public law accountability of outsourced government services (DE210101055)   
  Investigator: Dr Janina Boughey (Lead Investigator)   
  Grant amount: $334,775  
• Artificial intelligence decision-making, privacy and discrimination laws (DE210101183)   
  Investigator: Dr Monika Zalnieriute (Lead Investigator)   
  Grant amount: $426,530  

• Non-urban water regulation: next generation compliance & enforcement (LP220200350)  
  Investigators: Professor Cameron Holley (Lead Investigator), Professor Darren Sinclair (CI, University of Canberra), Dr Juan Castilla-Rho (CI, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
  Grant amount: $425,995 (2023-2026)

• Digitising the drafting of the Australian constitution (LE230100159)  
  Investigators: Dr Murray Wesson (Lead Investigator, The University of Western Australia), Professor Sarah Murray (CI, The University of Western Australia), Dr Tamara Tulich (CI, The University of Western Australia), Professor John Williams (CI, The University of Adelaide), Professor Anne Twomey (CI, The University of Sydney), Professor Dr Nicholas Aroney (CI, The University of Queensland), Professor James Stellios (CI, The Australian National University), Professor Rosalind Dixon (CI, UNSW Sydney), Professor Ann Genovese (CI, The University of Melbourne), Professor Luke Beck (CI, Monash University), Associate Professor Melissa Castan (CI, Monash University), Associate Professor Benjamin Saunders (CI, Deakin University), Dr Dylan Lino (CI, The University of Queensland). 
  Grant amount: $ 319,046 (2023)
• The Australian Royal Commissions and public inquiries library (LE210100043)  
  Investigators: Associate Professor Philip Chung (Lead Investigator), Professor Andrew Mowbray (CI, University of Technology Sydney), Dr Gabrielle Appleby (CI UNSW Sydney); Professor Anita Stuhmcke (CI, University of Technology Sydney), Professor Thalia Anthony (CI, University of Technology Sydney), Professor Robert Cunningham (CI, Curtin University), Professor Mark Lunney (CI, The University of New England), Professor Matthew Groves (CI, Deakin University), Professor Gregory Taylor (CI, The University of Adelaide), Associate Professor Luke Beck (CI, Monash University), Associate Professor Andrew Edgar (CI, The University of Sydney), Dr Tanya Josev; Dr Dominique Dalla-Pozza (CI, Australian National University), Dr Vicky Comino (CI, The University of Queensland), Dr Murray Wesson (CI, The University of Western Australia). 
  Grant amount: $ 539,000 (2021)

UNSW Law & Justice academics have also been successful in obtaining grants from a range of prestigious external funding bodies, including: 

• Asian Studies Association of Australia 
• Asian Development Bank 
• Australia-ASEAN Council 
• Australian Academy for the Humanities 
  
• CPA Australia 
• Corrs Chambers Westgarth (Linkage partner) 
• Investment Industry Association of Canada (IIAC) (Linkage Partner) 
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Australia 
• James Martin Institute
• NSW Government
• Commonwealth Department of Health
• Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) 
• Konrad Adenauer Stiftung 
• UN Capital Development Fund 
• USA Networks of Excellence Mobility and Bridging Grants 
  
• International Association of Privacy Professionals 
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC, Canada) Partnership Development Shared Grant 
• Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF).