The Legal Governance Concentration of Research Excellence (CORE) in the Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, is offering up to two full time Macquarie University Research Excellence PhD Scholarships (MQRES) under the supervision of Professor David Weisbrot AM, the co-convenor of the CORE.

The successful applicant will join an innovative team of researchers at Macquarie Law School who are undertaking inter-disciplinary research on contemporary issues related to legal governance and public policy.

Applicants may pursue doctoral studies in one of the following areas:

• the governance and ethical, legal and social implications of new medical technologies, especially genetics and nanotechnology
• the changing nature of legal practice, and the implications for the regulation and organisation of the profession, as well as for education, ethics and professional responsibility
• freedom of speech, expression and assembly
• Pacific Islands legal systems, especially the interplay between customary law and western law
• the nature, methodology and impact of modern institutional law reform agencies
• information law, including privacy, freedom of information, secrecy laws, archives, and the handling of classified and security sensitive information
• animal welfare law

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2011

Further Scholarship Information and Application