Associate Professor Alysia Blackham is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. She is an internationally renowned expert on age discrimination law and the consequences of ageing for workplaces. Her innovative research focuses on the intersection of employment law, equality law and public law, using empirical evidence to cast new light on legal problems. Alysia has published extensively across leading Australian and international journals and in legal and interdisciplinary forums. Alysia is regularly invited to present her scholarship in Australia and internationally.

Alysia has delivered bespoke training and seminars to the Commonwealth Attorney-General's department; WorkSafe Victoria; the Victorian Commission for Gender Equality in the Public Sector; South Australian Parliament; and the Victorian public sector. Alysia has delivered tailored research projects for the European Network of Legal Experts in the Field of Gender Equality and European Commission, and the Victorian Commission for Gender Equality in the Public Sector.

https://alysia.blackham.com.au/ 

https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/97769-alysia-blackham

https://www.ageworks.info/

Kylie Burns is a Professor in the Griffith Law School. She was previously a solicitor in insurance litigation with Feez Ruthning (now Allens Linklaters). Kylie has research and teaching expertise in personal injury law, accident compensation systems,  the NDIS, judicial reasoning and cognition, and judicial psychological stress. She is a co-author of the leading Australian torts textbook (with Luntz, Hambly, Dietrich and Foster) Torts: Cases,  Legislation and Commentary. She is currently a chief investigator on two ARC Discovery Projects concerning the NDIS, and Judicial Well-Being. Kylie is very passionate about learning and teaching and student engagement. She has published in legal education, lead teaching workshops and seminar, and has been the recipient of teaching awards and grants including a National Citation from the Office for Learning and Teaching. She is 2020-21 Griffith Vice Chancellor's Educational Leader of the Year.

https://experts.griffith.edu.au/7249-kylie-burns

Jess Mant is a Lecturer at Monash Law. Jess is a socio-legal empirical researcher, specialising in issues of access to justice and family law. She is particularly interested in innovations that improve the accessibility of legal systems as well as the empowerment and capabilities of those experiencing legal need.

Jess has published widely on these issues in a variety of leading academic journals and book publishers. One of her recent monographs, Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System (Hart, 2022), examines the issue of self-representation in the family courts. A key objective of her research agenda is to produce research and evidence that can make impactful improvements to the accessibility of justice. For instance, her most recent co-authored monograph Legal Aid and the Future of Access to Justice (Hart, 2023), reports the findings of the largest ever census of legal aid practitioners in England and Wales, and was published as an open access (free to read) resource that is being used by not-for-profit organisations and practitioners to support service enhancements as well as advocacy and campaign work within the legal aid sector.

Jess joined Monash Law in 2022 after establishing her career in the UK, where she previously held the position of Lecturer in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, and prior to that, Sessional Lecturer at the Centre for Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds.

https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/jess-mant

Brandon is a Lecturer and joined the UTS Faculty of Law in 2023. He holds a J.D. from the University of Ottawa and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School. His graduate research was funded by the Fulbright Foundation, Yale University, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). His current research focuses on progressive private law and access to civil justice issues. He has taught torts and toxic torts for several years in Canada, where he was the recipient of the 2021 Hannah and Harold Barnett Excellence in Teaching First Year Law Award. Prior to entering academia, Brandon practiced as a commercial litigator in Toronto, Canada and worked as a research fellow for a community legal clinic.

https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Brandon.Stewart

Dominique is a socio-legal scholar, researching anti-discrimination law and equality. Her work uses doctrinal, comparative and empirical methodologies. 

Dominique was awarded funding from the Australian Research Council to examine mechanisms for resolving human rights complaints (with Prof. Tamara Walsh, University of Queensland). Commencing in 2023, the project is being conducted in partnership with human rights agencies and community legal centres in four Australian jurisdictions.

Dominique has published widely in law journals in Australia and internationally on anti-discrimination law, comparative law, equality, critical race theory and human rights. She regularly presents at local and international conferences and contributes to local and national law reform inquiries. With Professor Neil Rees AM and Professor Simon Rice OAM, she is the author of Australian Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law (Third Ed, The Federation Press, 2018).

Dominique is the Director of Research and Director of the Labour, Equality and Human Right research group in the Monash Business School. 

https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/dominique-allen