(18 December 2023 – 17 December 2025)
Professor Anita Stuhmcke is a distinguished legal scholar committed to social justice. Anita’s research focuses upon facilitating legal and policy change to promote the ability of an individual to access and exercise legal rights. Her work in these areas has led to important policy and law reform, in particular reforms concerning reproductive rights and the role of ombudsman.
As Dean of UTS Law, Anita leads a faculty that provides a high-quality legal education, values innovative scholarship, and contributes to the public good as a positive and forceful agent of change. UTS Law is ranked by the Australian Research Council as above world standard for Excellence in Research and for Research Engagement and Impact.
Anita is committed to the faculty being Indigenous led. She has been heavily involved in the faculty’s response to technology and the changing nature of the legal profession, introducing new subjects and programs, and developing impactful areas of research and partnership.
Anita’s research straddles areas of social change that explore social exclusion and public access to services, such as the transition from citizen to consumer in public law. Her research philosophy is that academia does not exist in isolation from developments in society but is both a result of and an impetus for social change.
Anita has held a variety of leadership and service positions at the University and Faculty level, including being an elected member of UTS Council, Board member of Activate UTS, Student Ombud; Chair of the University Appeals Committee and Student Conduct Committee.
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