Dominique Allen

• Professor, Business Law & Taxation, Monash University

Dominique is a socio-legal scholar, researching anti-discrimination law and equality. Her work uses doctrinal, comparative and empirical methodologies. In 2022 she received the Dean's Award for Equity, Diversity and Social Inclusion Research Excellence. In 2023 she received the Dean's Commendation for Excellence in Research Engagement and Impact (with Dr Adriana Orifici).

Dominique was awarded funding from the Australian Research Council to examine mechanisms for resolving human rights complaints (with Prof. Tamara Walsh, University of Queensland). Commencing in 2023, the project is being conducted in partnership with human rights agencies and community legal centres in four Australian jurisdictions.

In 2022 Dominique completed a research project on women's experience of using Victoria's anti-discrimination laws (with Dr Adriana Orifici) which was funded by the Victorian Women's Benevolent Trust. The project built upon their research on pregnancy discrimination in the workplace and the impact of COVID-19 on workers with family responsibilities.

In 2020 Dominique co-convened a workshop funded by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia entitled 'Using Transparency to Achieve Equality' which brought together researchers from law, politics, health and demography along with government and industry. Papers were published in a special edition of Law in Context.

Dominique completed a large empirical research project that assessed the impact of the innovative mechanisms contained in Victoria's Equal Opportunity Act 2010, which was funded by the Victorian Legal Services Board. In 2019 she used empirical methodologies to assess the ADR practices used to resolve discrimination claims in Queensland, NSW and federally.

Previously, she has conducted research projects on the enforcement of anti-discrimination law, the role of statutory equal opportunity agencies in Australia and overseas, the impact of COVID-19 on workers with family responsibilities, pregnancy discrimination in the workplace and the role of ADR in resolving legal disputes. Details of Dominique's research can be found on Google Scholar.

Dominique has published widely in law journals in Australia and internationally on anti-discrimination law, sexual harassment, comparative law, equality, ADR, and human rights. She regularly presents at local and international conferences and contributes to local and national law reform inquiries. With Professor Neil Rees AM and Professor Simon Rice OAM, she is the author of Australian Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law (Third Ed, The Federation Press, 2018).

Dominique is the Director of Research in the Department of Business Law & Taxation in the Monash Business School. She served as Secretary of the Australian Labour Law Association 2016-2023.

Dominique sits on the Advisory Board of the Anti-Discrimination Law Review (Wolters Kluwer) and on the Advisory Board of the US-based Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law.

Dominique has a PhD from Melbourne Law School and an Honours degree in law from the Australian National University. She was a Senior Lecturer at Deakin Law School from 2010-2016 and taught contract law and workplace law. Prior to becoming an academic, Dominique practiced as a solicitor in the ACT.

Dominique is interested in supervising HDR students in areas relating to race, sex, age and disability discrimination, enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, equality agencies, sexual harassment, and workplace equality.

• –present Professor, Business Law & Taxation, Monash University

• 2009 The University of Melbourne, PhD

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