The Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law (AgLaw)
The Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law at the University of New England is a law and policy research and consulting centre which focuses on law and institutional reforms that will improve sustainable use of natural resources, and the quality of rural life. We also supervise PhD and Masters students from Australia and overseas in relevant research projects, and we offer a suite of four distance-learning Masters subjects in natural resource governance.
The AgLaw Centre is supported by the substantial intellectual resources of the Faculties of the Professions and Arts and Sciences. These Faculties provide access to economists, lawyers, management experts, soil scientists, production sciences, mathematicians, biologists and many other specialists. The Centre also has an extensive network of local and international academic and commercial collaborators. The AgLaw Centre also works closely with a number of Cooperative Research Centres hosted at the University, in sectors including irrigation, genetics, viticulture, livestock and poultry.
The resource basis of the AgLaw Centre allows it to field skilled, multi-disciplinary teams on issues such as natural resource management, institutions and governance, efficient contracts and agreements, equity for remote and regional communities, indigenous issues, and the integration of regulation with voluntary self-management.