Research Unit on Military Law and Ethics

Research Unit at the Adelaide Law School. Focus on international law, military operational law, and the ethical frameworks underpinning this.

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Last month, Associate Professor Colette Langos convened a symposium at the University of Nottingham titled: Sustainability in Defence Procurement: A Comparative Regulatory Perspective.

This event marked the first in a robust and growing partnership between the two law schools!

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RUMLAE Director Professor Dale Stephens recently met with representatives of the US State Department, Mr Matthew Steinhelfer, Ms Oznur Alturk and Mr Jacob Goldschlager, who were undertaking a broader visit to the university facilitated by the UofA DSI Director Prof. Michael Webb.

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RUMLAE Management Board members, Prof Dale Stephens, Prof Matthew Stubbs and Dr Colette Langos contributed to the topics taught in the second iteration of the post-graduate 'Nuclear Regulatory Law' course taught at The University of Adelaide, spearheaded by Ms Kirsty Braybon.

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RUMLAE would like to congratulate the 2025 IHL Moot Grand Final winners, Ms Georgina Gross and Mr Aidan Eaton and also the Runners Up, Ms Holly Boswell and Mr Josh Wilson in what was a very impressive Grand Final held on the evening of 5 June.

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Digital Resilience: International and Domestic Legal Responses to Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence is now available from Springer, edited by RUMLAE's Dale Stephens, Matthew Stubbs, and Samuel White.

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RUMLAE Director, Prof Dale Stephens recently participated as a presenter and course manager in the 2025 Maritime Security Cooperation Workshop held in Canberra.

Pictured (L-R): Lieutenant Commander Felicia Fragapane RAN, IPCML Director Ms Grace Corbiau, Captain Dale Stephens RAN

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The University of Adelaide Law School Prize ceremony was held on Thursday 3rd April to recognise high achieving students who completed Post Graduate and Undergraduate courses in 2024.

RUMLAE Congratulates Rod Furner and Catherine Burns on their Academic Prizes.

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RUMLAE is very pleased to congratulate Emma Colovic and Evelyn Vincin Walker for being runners-up in the Grand Final of the Red Cross International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Moot (Asia-Pacific) conducted recently in Hong Kong.

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RUMLAE Director Professor Dale Stephens was very pleased to recently host Commander Jacqueline Swinton RAN and Commander Ian Santicola USN who were visiting from Hawaii to discuss arrangements for the forthcoming Air and Maritime Legal Rights and Obligations project.

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RUMLAE member Professor Matthew Stubbs has spent the Michaelmas Term as a Research Visitor at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford.

He has been working on a project asking – 'Are Human Rights Relevant to a Blockade?'

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In November 2024, RUMLAE welcomed Professor Sigmund Simonsen from Western Norway University as a Visiting Scholar to Adelaide Law School. Professor Simonsen is working with RUMLAE members Professor Dale Stephens and Professor Matthew Stubbs on the San Remo Manual update.

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RUMLAE Board member, Dr Kellie Toole’s book 'Prosecuting Crime in the Public Interest' has just been released by Hart Publishing. The book is an updated extension of her PhD thesis on independence and accountability in executive decision-making.

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RUMLAE Director Professor Dale Stephens recently attended the US Indo-Pacific Military Law and Operations Conference in Manila. The theme of the conference was 'The Future of the Indo-Pacific: Partnering to Defend Sovereignty'.

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Four of RUMLAE’s members were in Canberra on Thursday 12 September to celebrate the release of the second edition of Military Law in Australia, published by Federation Press.

The new edition is available here: https://t.co/ReMPsmkFv6

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RUMLAE member Dr Samuel White (@notsamwhite) and Tyson Yunkaporta talk in a recent ABC opinion about how utilising Indigenous Australian models of thinking can help us respond to cyber threats.

Read the article here: https://t.co/SiDpgq1Oup

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RUMLAE Research Project in Hawaii

RUMLAE Management Board members Professors Dale Stephens and Matthew Stubbs recently travelled to Honolulu to meet with staff of US Indo-Pacific Command to discuss forthcoming research on air and sea navigational rights.

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RUMLAE congratulates Emma Colovic and Evelyn Walker who participated in this year’s IHL & Advocacy course and represented the @UniofAdelaide at the recent ALSA Red Cross National IHL Moot Competition in Hobart. We are very happy to say that they were crowned National Champions.

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RUMLAE member, Dr Samuel White (@notsamwhite), has edited his third volume of Laws of Yesterday's Wars. The series asks the question: how international is international humanitarian law?

You can access West Point's symposium on the third volume here: https://t.co/Y8L7oyDslL

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RUMLAE was delighted to have been instrumentally involved in the design and teaching of Adelaide Law School's first post-graduate Nuclear Regulatory Law course .

RUMLAE Director, Prof Dale Stephens, was a co-course coordinator along with adjunct lecturer Ms Kirsty Braybon

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RUMLAE is pleased to announce the return of our monthly podcast series, hosted by our very own @notsamwhite. The inaugural episode is RUMLAE's first 'HDR Spotlight', featuring Duncan Blake.

You can find the podcast collection here: https://t.co/brZpCvFEfL