International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Richard Johnstone

Richard Johnstone is a Professor in the Griffith Law School, where he is the Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Research. Until April 2004 he was the foundation Director of the National Research Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, based in the Regulatory Institutions Network in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Previously Richard taught at the law schools of the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland and Monash University. Richard's academic interests are in occupational health and safety regulation, socio-legal research, labour law and legal education. He has authored, co-authored or edited thirteen books, in occupational health and safety regulation, legal education, labour law and legal theory. In legal education, Richard was a co-founder of the ALTA Law Teaching Workshop in 1988. In 1993 and 1994 he was Director of Teaching in the Melbourne Law School. He was a co-author of the groundbreaking The Quiet (R)evolatuin: Improving Teaching and Learning in Law (Law Book, 1994). He was Associate Dean (Curriculum, Learning and Teaching) in the Griffith Law School in 2004, and chaired the review of the Griffith Law School’s undergraduate curriculum in that year. In 2006 Richard chaired a committee which reviewed the Bachelor of Law and Legal Practice Program in the Flinders Law School.