Across the country, property scholars are grappling with issues that refuse to stay in their lanes. Truth telling and native title, climate driven upheaval, housing precarity, AI generated assets, and the redesign of cities are no longer niche debates – they’re national conversations with real world consequences. This year’s conference brings those threads together, asking how property law can respond when the problems are messy, structural, and urgent.
Expect sessions that cut across disciplines and sectors:
The conference is known for its collegiality and its willingness to test ideas in a generous, intellectually serious environment. This year’s theme raises the stakes: it invites scholars, practitioners, and researchers, to think bigger, argue harder, and imagine what property law could become in a world that keeps shifting under our feet.
Abstract submissions are now open, with program details to follow.
If you want an early, inside view of where the field is heading – this is where the conversation starts.
One-day ($110) and two-day registration ($190) options are available for this in person event. Registrations close Sunday 14 June 2026.
RMIT are back for RMIT Games Day 2026 tournaments!
RMIT University invites you to the launch of the Regenerative Futures Institute (RFI), a new interdisciplinary initiative advancing regenerative practice through education, research and collaboration.
RMIT University in partnership with The Wheeler Centre presents Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, for a powerful conversation about the erosion of trust in governments, mainstream media and online sources.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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