Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law

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The Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (IEGL) is a joint initiative of the United Nations University (UNU), Griffith University and QUT (Faculty of Law) in association with ANU.

IEGL is one of only twenty two UNU research institute’s around the world - each with a specific mandate to pursue research of special relevance to the United Nations. It brings together the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith, the Centre for International and Public Law at ANU and now, the Law and Justice Research Centre at QUT.

The Institute's vision is to be a globally networked resource for the development of values-based governance through research and capacity building. It aims to engage other academic, non-government organisations (NGOs), government, business and multilateral institutions and networks to improve governance and build institutional integrity in governments, corporations, NGOs and international institutions. IEGL will become the heart of UNU research into Law and QUT will be playing a major role in that work. Its work will include cross-disciplinary theorising and empirical work that brings together the normative sciences of ethics and law with the social sciences of international relations, political science, economics, sociology and criminology.