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Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett

Associate Professor

School of Law
Faculty of Business, Economics and Law
f.bartlett@law.uq.edu.au
+61 7 334 67526

Overview

Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett lectures in Ethics and the Legal Profession and Contract Law. She is the Director of Teaching and Learning at the School of Law. She is also the Integrity Officer of the Law School. She is a Fellow of the Centre for Public, Comparative and International Law and researches in the area of lawyers' ethics and practice, access to justice and women and the law. She was a CI on the Australian Feminist Judgments Project funded by the Australian Research Council under a Discovery Project Grant. She is undertaking a number of projects relating to lawyers working across Australia including around family violence, and how technology impacts upon access to justice and ethics in the legal profession. She has recently led a project concerning technology and access to justice in the legal assistance sector funded under an AIBE Applied Research Fund grant and is a CI on a project funded by the Queensland Law Society concerning disruption to and innovation by small law firms across Queensland. Francesca was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre on the Legal Profession at Stanford University in November 2018.

She is a member of the Queensland Law Society Ethics Committee, the Australian Pro Bono Research Committee and is the Secretary of the International Association of Legal Ethics. She regularly provides academic assistance to the Queensland Law Society's Practice Management Course. Francesca is an Academic Member of the School's Pro Bono Centre Advisory Board. Before joining the Law School, she practiced for a number of years as a commercial solicitor at a national law firm in Melbourne and Brisbane. Prior to embarking on her legal career, Francesca completed a PhD in English which concerned the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families.

Research Interests

  • Socio-legal research into legal professionalism
  • Women and the Law
  • Feminist jurisprudence
  • Women and the judiciary
  • Pro bono and cause lawyering
  • Lawyers' ethics

Research Impacts

Dr Bartlett's research has contributed to debates surrounding the regulation of the legal profession in a number of ways. For instance, she has conducted empirical research concerning women lawyers and judges and the barriers they face to achieving 'success' in law. Some of this research is cited on the Law Council of Australia's website and has been considered by the Council of Law Deans. She has also provided expert advice to an Australian Law Reform Council Inquiry, including drafting a background paper, concerning judicial independence and ethics. She was invited to join the Queensland Law Society’s Ethics Committee based on her research around lawyers’ ethics. In this role she regularly participates in production of professional ethics education and guidance as well as policy advice.

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor, University of Melbourne
  • Doctor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
  • Bachelor of Arts, La Trobe University

Publications

  • Journal Article: Representative or the Same? Representative rule and class actions in Queensland and Western Australia

    Bartlett, Francesca and Corrin, Jennifer Clare (2016). Representative or the Same? Representative rule and class actions in Queensland and Western Australia. Civil Justice Quarterly, 35 (1), 41-60.

  • Book Chapter: Formal equality and third party interests in the family home

    Bartlett, Francesca (2014). Formal equality and third party interests in the family home. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 207-211) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.

  • Book Chapter: Reflections on rewriting the law

    Douglas, Heather Anne, Bartlett, Francesca, Luker, Trish and Hunter, Rosemary (2014). Reflections on rewriting the law. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 19-40) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.

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Available Projects

  • Lawyer’s ethics and professional standards

    Potential topics available include:

    • Technology and ethical legal practise;
    • Advocates’ immunity;
    • The role of the lawyer in access to justice and efficient administration of the courts
    • Prosecutorial ethics and judicial ethics;
    • Regulation of the legal profession including admission and disciplinary law and debates about professionalism
    • Teaching lawyers’ ethics

    For further information contact Dr Francesca Bartlett, e: f.bartlett@law.uq.edu.au

  • Gender and ‘Others’ doing the law

    Potential topics available include:

    1. Gender and judging – does diversity matter? What is the scope for feminist judging?
    2. Questions of bias and gendered approaches to the law
    3. Advocating ‘other’ interests
    4. Equality of representation within the legal profession

    For further information contact Dr Francesca Bartlett, e: f.bartlett@law.uq.edu.au

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Publications

Featured Publications

  • Representative or the Same? Representative rule and class actions in Queensland and Western Australia

    Bartlett, Francesca and Corrin, Jennifer Clare (2016). Representative or the Same? Representative rule and class actions in Queensland and Western Australia. Civil Justice Quarterly, 35 (1), 41-60.

  • Formal equality and third party interests in the family home

    Bartlett, Francesca (2014). Formal equality and third party interests in the family home. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 207-211) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.

  • Reflections on rewriting the law

    Douglas, Heather Anne, Bartlett, Francesca, Luker, Trish and Hunter, Rosemary (2014). Reflections on rewriting the law. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 19-40) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.

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Book Chapter

  • Australia: legal services regulation in Australia - Innovative co-regulation

    Bartlett, Francesca and Haller, Linda (2017). Australia: legal services regulation in Australia - Innovative co-regulation. International perspectives on the regulation of lawyers and legal services. (pp. 161-184) edited by Andrew Boon. London, United Kingdom: Hart.

  • Reforming Australian litigation lawyers: educational impacts of civil procedural laws and judicial activism

    Bartlett, Francesca (2017). Reforming Australian litigation lawyers: educational impacts of civil procedural laws and judicial activism. Private law in the twenty-first century. (pp. 527-546) edited by Kit Barker, Ross Grantham and Karen Fairweather. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing. doi: 10.5040/9781509908615.ch-025

  • Practice and persuasion: women, feminism and judicial diversity

    Douglas, Heather and Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Practice and persuasion: women, feminism and judicial diversity. Judicial independence in Australia: contemporary challenges, future directions. (pp. 76-88) edited by Rebecca Ananian-Welsh and Jonathan Crowe. Sydney, Australia: Federation Press.

  • Formal equality and third party interests in the family home

    Bartlett, Francesca (2014). Formal equality and third party interests in the family home. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 207-211) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.

  • Introduction: Righting Australian Law

    Douglas, Heather Anne, Bartlett, Francesca, Luker, Trish and Hunter, Rosemary (2014). Introduction: Righting Australian Law. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 1-18) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.

  • Louth v Diprose 175 CLR 621

    Bartlett, Francesca (2014). Louth v Diprose 175 CLR 621. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 196-206) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.

  • Reflections on rewriting the law

    Douglas, Heather Anne, Bartlett, Francesca, Luker, Trish and Hunter, Rosemary (2014). Reflections on rewriting the law. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 19-40) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.

  • Introduction

    Robertson, Michael, Corbin, Lillian, Tranter, Kieran and Bartlett, Francesca (2011). Introduction. The ethics project in legal education. (pp. 1-8) edited by Michael Robertson, Lillian Corbin, Kieran Tranter and Francesca Bartlett. Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

  • Introduction

    Bartlett, Francesca, Mortensen, Reid and Tranter, Kieran (2011). Introduction. Alternative perspectives on lawyers and legal ethics: Reimagining the profession. (pp. 1-10) edited by Francesca Bartlett, Reid Mortensen and Kieran Tranter. Abingdon Oxon, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A.: RoutledgeAbingdon.

  • Introduction : Reaffirming legal ethics

    Tranter, Kieran, Bartlett, Francesca, Corbin, Lillian, Mortensen, Reid and Robertson, Mike (2010). Introduction : Reaffirming legal ethics. Reaffirming Legal Ethics: Taking Stock and New Ideas. (pp. 1-11) edited by Kieran Tranter, Francesca Bartlett, Lillian Corbin, Michael Robertson and Reid Mortensen. London, Engalnd, U.K.: Routledge.

  • Assimilation and women's work

    Bartlett, Francesca (1999). Assimilation and women's work. Unmasking whiteness: race relations and reconciliation. (pp. 52-67) edited by Belinda McKay. Brisbane, Australia: Griffith University Publications.

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PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Legal risk and its management in corporate and commercial transactions: Formulating a principle-based definition of legal risk.

    Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

Completed Supervision

Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.

  • Lawyer’s ethics and professional standards

    Potential topics available include:

    • Technology and ethical legal practise;
    • Advocates’ immunity;
    • The role of the lawyer in access to justice and efficient administration of the courts
    • Prosecutorial ethics and judicial ethics;
    • Regulation of the legal profession including admission and disciplinary law and debates about professionalism
    • Teaching lawyers’ ethics

    For further information contact Dr Francesca Bartlett, e: f.bartlett@law.uq.edu.au

  • Gender and ‘Others’ doing the law

    Potential topics available include:

    1. Gender and judging – does diversity matter? What is the scope for feminist judging?
    2. Questions of bias and gendered approaches to the law
    3. Advocating ‘other’ interests
    4. Equality of representation within the legal profession

    For further information contact Dr Francesca Bartlett, e: f.bartlett@law.uq.edu.au

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