Thomson Reuters is pleased to announce the appointment of Associate Professor Beth Gaze as the joint Work and Employment Section Editor for the Australian Journal of Administrative Law, working alongside Dr Joo-Cheong Tham.

Associate Professor Gaze has degrees in science and law from Melbourne and Monash Universities and the University of California (Berkeley), where she held a Fulbright postgraduate student grant, and has been admitted to legal practice in Australia.  She teaches Equality and Discrimination Law, Administrative Law and Legal Method and Reasoning at Melbourne Law School, and is a member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law and the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies.

Her research interests are in anti-discrimination and equality law, feminist legal thought, and administrative law including tribunals, and she has a particular interest in socio-legal research including empirical research.  She has held several ARC grants, and has conducted empirical research into the enforcement process under Australian federal anti-discrimination law.  In 2009 Associate Professor Gaze was an expert consultant to the Victorian Parliament’s Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee in its Inquiry into the Exceptions and Exemptions in the Equal Opportunity Act 1995.  She was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Gardner Review of the Equal Opportunity Act 1995 which reported in 2008.

We are delighted to have Associate Professor Gaze join the editorial team for the Journal, bringing a wealth of experience and knowledge on work and employment law, which we are sure subscribers will benefit from.