Rate My Professor Bronwyn Arnold

Dr Bronwyn Arnold serves as a Lecturer in Law within the School of Law, College of Business and Law at Adelaide University. She completed her PhD at the University of South Australia in 2022. Her doctoral thesis, titled 'Sentencing the sexually abused child sex offender: childhood histories of contact abuse and pleas in mitigation,' focused on the sentencing outcomes for child sex offenders who were themselves victims of sexual abuse in childhood. Arnold's research interests span sentencing, generative AI, Equity and Trusts, corporate law, and financial planning law. She is actively engaged in higher degree research supervision, eligible to co-supervise Masters and PhD candidates. Currently, she co-supervises Mr David Evans's part-time doctorate, which explores the differing expectations between lawyers and psychologists in legal proceedings. She teaches courses such as Common Law in Context and How Law Works.

In her scholarly output, Arnold has published several notable works. Her 2025 article 'Presumption of Harm and Descriptions of Child Sexual Victimization: Sentencing the Victim-Offender' appeared in the British Journal of Criminology, online issue 6, pages 1-19. In 2023, she published ''You, of all people': the inappropriateness of imputing knowledge of victim harm onto sexually abused child sexual offenders during sentencing' in Current Issues in Criminal Justice, volume 35, issue 2, pages 214-233. Her earlier work includes 'What shall we do with the dishonest fiduciary? The unpredictability of allowances for work and skill' in the UniSA Student Law Review, 2016, volume 2, pages 1-20. Additionally, Arnold received the JUS Team Champion Award in 2025.