Staff profile
Ms Judy Gutman
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
La Trobe Law SchoolBundoora, Melbourne (Bundoora)
- T: +4 3 94791563
- E: j.gutman@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications
BA LLB (Hons) (Melb) LLM (Monash)
Membership of professional Associations
Member Optomotrists Registration Board of Victoria, Member Law Institute of Victoria
Area of study
Law
Brief Profile
Judy is admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia. She has worked as a solicitor in private practice. Since 1998, Judy has worked as a lecturer in Law at La Trobe Law. Judy's teaching and research focus on alternative dispute resolution, legal ethics and professional responsibility and regulation. Judy is published in Australian and international journals and has delivered conference papers in Australia and in Europe. Judy was appointed to the Optomestrists Registration Board in July 2008.
Teaching Units
Legal Institutions and Methods
Dispute Resolution
Criminal Law
Legal Practice and Conduct
Recent Publications
'The Medical Practitioner's Role in Detecting Child Sexual Abuse: Balancing Protection with Intervention' (1996) 4 Journal of Law and Medicine 187.
'The Effects of Child Sexual Abuse: is there a child sexual abuse syndrome?' (1997) 4 Journal of Law and Medicine 361.
'The Role of Victim-Offender Mediation in Intra-familial Child Sexual Abuse Cases' (1998) 9 Australian Dispute Resolution Journal 265.
'The Right not to Know: Patient Autonomy or Medical Paternalism (2000) 7 Journal of Law and Medicine 286.
'The Psychological Impact of the Legal System on Sexually Abused Children' (2001) 8 Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 174.
'The Right not to Know and Coronary Angiography' 10 (2002) Journal of Law and Medicine 168.
'Teaching Alternative Dispute Resolution in Law School: Why, How and What For? (2006) ALTA Refereed Conference Papers.
'Why Teach Alternative Dispute Resolution to Law Students? Part One: Past and Current Practices and Some Unanswered Questions' (2007) Legal Education Review 125.
'Why Teach Alternative Dispute Resolution to Law Students: Part Two: An Empirical Survey' (2007) Legal Education Review 67.
'Teaching ADR to Australian Law Students; implications for legal practice in Australia' (2008) 19 Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal 42.
'Why Teach Alternative Dispute Resolution to Law Students: Part Two: An Empirical Survey' (2008) 16 (2) Legal Education Digest 14.
'The Reality of Non-Adversarial Justice: principles and practice' accepted for publication and in press, to be published in Deakin Law Review in its first publication for 2009.
Non Adversarial Justice in Common Law Jurisdictions: Principles, Practice and Tensions in press, to be published in ATINER conference proceedings, 2009.


