Susan Bartie

Dr. Susan Bartie is a Research Fellow and DECRA Fellow at the Australian National University's College of Law, Governance and Policy. With qualifications including a PhD, LLM, and LLB, she specializes in legal history and socio-legal studies. Her research examines the historical development of legal education and environmental lawyering in Australia.

Bartie's research focuses on:

• Historical analysis of legal scholars and environmental lawyers
• Comparative studies of legal education systems
• Gender dynamics in legal academia
• Socio-legal approaches to environmental governance
• Development of Australian legal thought

Her publications reveal consistent focus on legal historiography, with recent work expanding into environmental law and biographical methods. Earlier scholarship centered on pedagogical innovations and women in legal academia.

Awards & Grants:

• ARC DECRA Fellowship (2022-2025): $451,711 for environmental law history project
• Canadian SSHRC Grant (2018): $25,000 for legal education research
• American Society for Legal History Grant (2018): $10,000
• Teaching Excellence Citation (2016)

Bartie supervises doctoral candidates in legal history and gender studies, including projects on women judges in Sri Lanka and architects of international justice systems. She leads the project 'A Socio-Legal History of Australia's Environmental Lawyers' (2022-2025) examining 50 years of environmental advocacy.