Strategic vision
Inspiring legal minds with our long-term vision
Our strategic vision maintains our tradition of excellence, world-leading status, and deep commitment to law reform and justice, and aims to transform the legal landscape.
Sydney Law School is proud to embark on its next exciting chapter with the development and launch of our new aspirational vision and mission, embodied in our 2024-2025 Strategy, characterised by our shared ambition to inspire legal minds within the Law School, the profession and beyond.
We will achieve our vision and mission through an uncompromising pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, and external engagement, underpinned by a commitment to reform and justice.
Harness our long tradition of excellence and reform to inspire legal minds.
To be a vibrant, diverse and innovative community of legal scholarship, recognised globally for our excellence; training tomorrow's leaders and addressing societal challenges through law reform and justice.
As a world-leading law school we aim to be ranked globally and recognised as the premier law school in Australia.
Through this Strategy of re-imagining the future of Sydney Law School, we build on our tradition of excellence, celebrating and harnessing our foundational DNA to transform the legal landscape and society more broadly. Drawing lessons from our long history of achievement, and wealth of talent across our engaged community of students, alumni and staff, the Law School forges a path of innovation in education, research and community engagement, while remaining true to our foundational mission of inspiring legal minds.
Since our inception in 1890, we have fostered a proud heritage of excellence and leadership, challenging convention and driving law reform and justice. Today, the Law School is a globally leading institution, consistently ranking in the top 20 law schools worldwide (QS World University Rankings by Subject).
We are an internationally engaged academic community working at the forefront of our disciplines. We address complex problems and deliver research of the highest quality and create impact across a wide range of traditional, established and emerging areas of global significance.
As a globally leading law school, our strategy must be clear, compelling and ambitious; enabling us to continue to contribute to emerging problems of global significance and the critical issues of law reform and justice, while maintaining our longstanding tradition of excellence.
The Strategy is centred on three core pillars, Education, Research, and External Engagement, and underpinned by a clear approach to our Culture, People, Resources and Governance.
Above all, the Strategy ensures that students, staff, partnerships and community remain at the heart of Sydney Law School.