Awards and scholarships

View the wide range of awards, scholarships and prizes available to students in the Faculty of Law, and past winners.

Every year, the Law School awards prizes and scholarships to students in recognition of their hard work and talents. Many of the prizes are in the name of earlier alumni or staff and, in this way, the outstanding qualities of both the past and present are interwoven.

Visit the scholarships website for details of current scholarships and prizes, application forms and deadlines. There are two sections to visit. Scholarships page and Prizes page.

Scholars have been allocated to all the 2022/23 summer scholarships. Summer Scholarships will open in the second half of 2023. Please check back then to apply.

Dean’s List 2021

Congratulations go to the following students, who are included on the Dean’s List for academic excellence in 2021:

Jack Apperley
Angelica Araboglos
Maia Armistead
Sam Baker
Emerald Bendall
Maisy Bentley
Stella Bismark
Isaac Black
Alexandra Briscoe
India Bulman
Sarah Burton
Alani Butters
Lara Cable
Theo Castle-McLean
Micah Christensen
Ben Clark
Isla Clarkson
Hattie Compton-Moen
Aimee Cox
Jasmine Cox
George Curzon-Hobson
Tallara Daldorf
Cody Dalton
Finn Davenport
Megan de Klerk
Anna Dombroski
Katie Donald
Jack Douglas
Sarah Downs
Seb Ellice
Ana Falkov
Oscar Finnemore
Ava Flaws
Georgia Fyfe
Alexander Gasson
Xandi Gobbi
Louise Goodwin
Claire Graham
Ellie Hansen
Amelia Harland
Kate Haszard
Georgia Hawley
Cate Hensen
Michael Hiddleston
Cait Hollywood
Lara Hopkinson
Lia Horsley
Hannah Houghton
Alister Hughes
Emma Jackson
Rebecca Jacobs
Lucy Jessep
Phoebe Jones
Joshua Kemp Whimp
Olivia Kiel
Rebecca Kimpton
Edan Kyriak
Cully Lockyer

Jessie MacEwan
James Macey
Hanna Malloch
Alice Mander
Sameer Mandhan
Keeran Marks
Stephen Martin
Isla McDonald
Pete McKenzie
Tayla McKenzie Bethell
Jack McNeill
Gabe Melrose
Aranga Molijn
Rhianna Morar
Matt Murray
Hannah Nathan
Thomas Neazor-Grant
Misha Nesbitt
Florence Oakley
Natalie Olson
Helena Palmer
Delaney Parfitt
Flo Pascual
Bella Pentecost
Thomas Pope-Kerr
Amelia Porteous
Lucille Reece
Claire Rees
Hannah Reynecke
Megan Ritchie
Tomas Roche
Samantha Romijn
Hugo Schwarz
Rita Shasha
George Shirtcliffe
Salif Sidibe
Antonia Smith
Taine Te Huki
Devon Tesoriero
Rowan Thomason
Dugal Thomson
Gracyn Thomson
Claudia van Zijl
Natalie Vaughan
Amelia Vincent
Katie Vodanovich
Rosie Wall
Nicola Walsh
Annabelle Webster
Katie Wells
Margaret Wells
Toni Wharehoka
Tom White
Lydia Whyte
Jamie Yee
Philia Yeo
Gemma Young
Gavin Zhou

View past Dean’s Lists

Prize winners for 2021 were:

A H Johnstone Scholarship in Law—Jack Apperley and Stella Bismark
Archibald Francis McCallum Scholarship in Law—Rebecca Kimpton
Bernard Randall Prize in Family Law—James O'Donovan
Chapman Tripp Prize—Karan Venter
Chris Highfield Memorial Prize in Judicial Review—Alister Hughes
Chris Highfield Memorial Prize in Public Law— Megan Ritchie
Coleman-Brown Memorial Award (Winner)—Cate Hensen
Coleman-Brown Memorial Award (Runners-Up)—Saskia Whitson and Lucille Reece
Colin Patterson Memorial Prize—Seb Ellice
Dan Winfield Memorial Prize in Intellectual Property— Sam Poulsen
Faculty of Law Prize in Legal System—Lucy Jessep
Flacks & Wong Prize in Company Law—Russell Busby
Fran Wright Memorial Prize in Criminal Law—Sarah Parton
Gordon Orr Prize— Isabella Jensen
ILM Richardson Prize in Private Law—Alexandra Briscoe, Alice Mander and Stella Bismark
John Miller Award in Social Justice & Community Devt-U/G—Toni Wharehoka
John Miller Award in Social Justice & Community Devt-P/G—Frankie Karetai Wood-Bodley
Lord Cooke of Thorndon Prize—Jack Apperley
NZ Law Review Prize— Jack Apperley, Stella Bismark and Hannah Houghton
Quentin Baxter Prize in International Law—Aimee Cox
Quentin Baxter Prize in Public and International Law—Taran Molloy
Robert Orr McGechan Memorial Prize—Alister Hughes
Sir John McGrath Distinguished Prize in Public Law—Taran Molloy
Thomson Reuters Prize in Jurisprudence—Cate Hensen
Thomson Reuters Prize in the Law of Contract—Tomas Roche
Val Gormly Memorial Prize—Rebecca Kimpton
VicBooks Award for Best Tutor—LAWS 121—Sapphire Petrie-McVean
VicBooks Award for Best Tutor—LAWS 122—Olivia Boivin
VicBooks Award for Best Tutor—LAWS 123—Ellen Lellman
VicBooks Award for Best Tutor—LAWS 211—Seb Ellice
VicBooks Award for Best Tutor—LAWS 212—Leander Schubert
VicBooks Award for Best Tutor—LAWS 213—Natalie Vaughan
VicBooks Award for Best Tutor—LAWS 214—Aimee Cox
VicBooks Award for Best Tutor—LAWS 301—Louis Daysh
Victoria University Medal for Academic Excellence—Karan Venter