Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett
Associate Professor

Francesca Bartlett

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Background

Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett lectures in Ethics and the Legal Profession and Family Law. 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 law and family violence, abuse of process and duty of competence, as well as legal professions in the Pacific. She has led a project concerning technology and access to justice in the legal assistance sector funded under an AIBE Applied Research Fund grant and was 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 the co-author (with Holmes) of textbook, Parker & Evans' Inside Legal Ethics in 2023 and forthcoming 2026. She also has an interest in clinical legal education and runs an international placement course funded by New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant funding.

She is a member of the Queensland Law Society Ethics Advsory Committee and is the Vice President of the International Association of Legal Ethics. Francesca is an Academic Member of the School's Pro Bono Centre Advisory Board, and has held a senior administrative position as Director of teaching and Learning in the Law School. 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.

Availability

Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett is:
Available for supervision

Fields of research

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the law Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, society and community Access to justice Applied ethics Family law Human Society Indigenous Studies Law and Legal Studies Law and humanities Law and society and socio-legal research Law in context Law reform Law, gender and sexuality (incl. feminist legal scholarship) Legal ethics Legal institutions (incl. courts and justice systems) Legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession Legal systems Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation Philosophy and Religious Studies

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, La Trobe University
  • Doctor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
  • Masters (Coursework) of Juris Doctor, University of Melbourne

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

Associate Professor 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. She regularly provides education to the legal sector such as a recent webinar hosted by the Community Legal Centres Queensland reporting on her research concerning best practice for lawyers working in domestic and family violence contexts. Her recent project collaborating with academics from a regional university resulted in a report delivered to the Queensland Law Society on disruption to legal practice.

Search Professor Francesca Bartlett’s works on UQ eSpace

92 works between 1998 and 2024
All (92) Journal Article (43) Book Chapter (11) Conference Publication (25) Book (6) Other Outputs (7)

21 - 40 of 92 works

2017

Journal Article

'Benchmarking' ethical identity of law students and how it is (or is not) impacted by law school

Bartlett, Francesca (2017). 'Benchmarking' ethical identity of law students and how it is (or is not) impacted by law school. JOTWELL

'Benchmarking' ethical identity of law students and how it is (or is not) impacted by law school

2017

Book Chapter

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

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

2017

Conference Publication

Regulating lawyers across the South Pacific: problems of transplantation and ethical regulation in small nations

Bartlett, Francesca (2017). Regulating lawyers across the South Pacific: problems of transplantation and ethical regulation in small nations. ANZ Legal Ethics Colloquim 6 (ANZLC VI), Auckland Law School, 1-3 December 2017.

Regulating lawyers across the South Pacific: problems of transplantation and ethical regulation in small nations

2017

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.

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

2017

Conference Publication

Model Laws in the South Pacific

Bartlett, Francesca (2017). Model Laws in the South Pacific. Regulation of Legal and Judicial Services Conference, Fordham Law School, New York, 8-9 December 2017.

Model Laws in the South Pacific

2016

Journal Article

Pro bono lawyering: personal motives and institutional practice

Bartlett, Francesca and Taylor, Monica (2016). Pro bono lawyering: personal motives and institutional practice. Legal Ethics, 19 (2), 260-280. doi: 10.1080/1460728x.2016.1247632

Pro bono lawyering: personal motives and institutional practice

2016

Journal Article

Summary compensation and apology orders in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand: different structures, different responses?

Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Summary compensation and apology orders in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand: different structures, different responses?. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 24 (2), 1-27. doi: 10.1080/09695958.2016.1247710

Summary compensation and apology orders in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand: different structures, different responses?

2016

Journal Article

Making lawyers pay for malpractice in court: skirting advocates' immunity in Australia

Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Making lawyers pay for malpractice in court: skirting advocates' immunity in Australia. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 24 (2), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/09695958.2016.1223672

Making lawyers pay for malpractice in court: skirting advocates' immunity in Australia

2016

Journal Article

Views from inside: a comparison of admission process in NSW and Victoria

Haller, Linda and Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Views from inside: a comparison of admission process in NSW and Victoria. Monash University Law Review, 42 (1), 109-148.

Views from inside: a comparison of admission process in NSW and Victoria

2016

Conference Publication

Compensatory or Disciplinary? Apology Orders in Professional Discipline of Lawyers in Australia and New Zealand

Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Compensatory or Disciplinary? Apology Orders in Professional Discipline of Lawyers in Australia and New Zealand. International Institute for the Sociology of Law Workshop, Onati, Spain, 5-6 May.

Compensatory or Disciplinary? Apology Orders in Professional Discipline of Lawyers in Australia and New Zealand

2016

Conference Publication

Quality Control of Professional Conduct

Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Quality Control of Professional Conduct. International Legal Ethics Conference VII, Fordham Law School, New York, 14-16 July.

Quality Control of Professional Conduct

2016

Conference Publication

Why Practise in the Bush?

Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Why Practise in the Bush?. Law and Society Association of Austrlaia and New Zealand Conference, Brisbane, 2 December 2016.

Why Practise in the Bush?

2016

Conference Publication

Understanding the Safe Harbour

Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Understanding the Safe Harbour. Annual Conference, The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia, Gold Coast, Queensland, 14-16 April.

Understanding the Safe Harbour

2016

Conference Publication

Judicial Case Management

Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Judicial Case Management. Civil Procedure Academic Focus Roundtable, Monash University, Melbourne, 18-19 February.

Judicial Case Management

2016

Book Chapter

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.

Practice and persuasion: women, feminism and judicial diversity

2016

Journal Article

Remaining the same, staying different - Attwells v Jackson Laic Lawyers

Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Remaining the same, staying different - Attwells v Jackson Laic Lawyers. Legal Ethics, 19 (2), 324-327. doi: 10.1080/1460728x.2016.1247538

Remaining the same, staying different - Attwells v Jackson Laic Lawyers

2016

Conference Publication

Technology, Ethics and Legal Education

Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Technology, Ethics and Legal Education. International Legal Ethics Conference VII, Forham Law School, New York, 14-16 July.

Technology, Ethics and Legal Education

2015

Other Outputs

Submission (by letter) to the Law Admissions Consultative Committee regarding review of required law subjects for admission to legal practice

Bartlett, Francesca (2015). Submission (by letter) to the Law Admissions Consultative Committee regarding review of required law subjects for admission to legal practice.

Submission (by letter) to the Law Admissions Consultative Committee regarding review of required law subjects for admission to legal practice

2015

Conference Publication

Skirting Advocates' Immunity Giving Financial Redress to Clients for Poor In-court Work

Bartlett, Francesca (2015). Skirting Advocates' Immunity Giving Financial Redress to Clients for Poor In-court Work. Consumer Redress When Lawyers Are Negligent, International Institute for the Sociology of Law Workshop, Onati, Spain, 9-10 July.

Skirting Advocates' Immunity Giving Financial Redress to Clients for Poor In-court Work

2015

Conference Publication

The Gendered Politics of Admission

Bartlett, Francesca (2015). The Gendered Politics of Admission. ANZ Legal Ethics Colloquium 5: Sustainable Legal Ethics, Melbourne, 13 November.

The Gendered Politics of Admission

Past funding

  • 2012 - 2014
    Australian Feminist Judgments Project: Jurisprudence as Praxis
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2006 - 2008
    Women in Court: Equal Opportunity Briefing and the Appointment of Women to the Judiciary
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Availability

Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett is:
Available for supervision

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Available projects

  • Lawyer’s ethics and professional standards

    Potential topics available include:

    • Technology and ethical legal practise;
    • 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 and legal education.

    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

  • Lawyer’s ethics and professional standards

    Potential topics available include:

    • Technology and ethical legal practise;
    • 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 and legal education.

    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

  • Lawyer’s ethics and professional standards

    Potential topics available include:

    • Technology and ethical legal practise;
    • 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 and legal education.

    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

  • Family law and family lawyers

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

Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Master Philosophy

    Identifying and Defining Legal Risk - Formulating a Principle Based Definition

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor John Swinson

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Real Housewives of Academia: Working Class Women's Labour and Higher Education through the 21st Century

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Sharlene Leroy-Dyer

  • Master Philosophy

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

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor John Swinson

  • Master Philosophy

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

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor John Swinson

Completed supervision

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