International Law and Trade Branch
The International Law and Trade Branch provides legal advice and policy advice across a range of areas including:
- treaty law
- external affairs power
- clearance of National Interest Analyses for tabling in the Parliament
- international environmental law
- fisheries
- international trade law
- World Trade Organization
- the extraterritorial application of the laws of Australia and other countries
- law of the sea
- maritime boundaries and maritime zones
- offshore constitutional settlement
- shipping law
- air law
- space law
- foreign state immunity
- diplomatic and consular immunity
- international dispute settlement
- border protection
- UNIDROIT and UNCITRAL
- international commercial arbitration, and
- marine insurance.
Legislation for which we are responsible