Rate My Professor Dominique Allen

Allen's research focuses on anti-discrimination law, employment law, alternative dispute resolution, human rights law, and equality, utilizing doctrinal, comparative, and empirical methods. Key projects encompass an Australian Research Council grant for examining mechanisms to resolve human rights complaints across four jurisdictions (2023-2025, with Prof. Tamara Walsh), a study on Victorian women's experiences with sex discrimination laws (2022, with Dr. Adriana Orifici), evaluations of Victoria’s Equal Opportunity Act 2010 mechanisms, and assessments of alternative dispute resolution for discrimination claims in Australia. She has secured funding from the Victorian Legal Services Board, Victorian Women's Benevolent Trust, and Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Major publications include the co-authored textbook Australian Anti-Discrimination and Equal Opportunity Law (3rd ed., The Federation Press, 2018, with Prof. Neil Rees AM and Prof. Simon Rice OAM), “A new approach to Australia’s sex discrimination and labour laws is designed to improve equality for women at work” (Industrial Law Journal, 2023), “Bearers of rights, not just babies: pondering pregnancy as an impairment to explore pathways to equality” (Alternative Law Journal, 2024, with B. Smith, R. Kayess, and A. Orifici), and “Twenty years of human rights protection in the Australian Capital Territory: what have we learned” (University of New South Wales Law Journal, 2024, with T. Walsh). Her work informs law reform inquiries, equality agencies, conferences, and media.