Rate My Professor Fiona Hum

Dr Fiona Hum is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Advance HE. Prior to her academic career, she was admitted as a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of Victoria, practicing in commercial litigation, criminal law, and personal injury law. She also consulted for major insurance companies and the Victorian Police Force. Her practical legal background underpins her innovative teaching pedagogy and research in evidence law, medical law, gendered and racial perspectives within the legal system, wrongful convictions, miscarriages of justice, and social justice outcomes. Additionally, her work on compassion training for law students addresses well-being and legal education, with ongoing expansion into global sustainability and climate change challenges.

Hum has earned recognition for her teaching excellence, including the Faculty of Law Teaching Excellence Award in 2010, multiple certificates of recognition, and Advance HE Fellowship in 2025. She is the author and co-author of several textbooks on Australian Uniform Evidence Law published by Cambridge University Press, widely adopted by major Australian universities and used by barristers. Notable publications include chapters “Women Complainants and the Evidential Process” and “Medical and Tort Injuries Against Pregnant Women” in Women in the Law in Australia (LexisNexis, 2010), recent peer-reviewed articles such as “Law students’ perspectives on a single session compassion training seminar” (The Law Teacher, 2025), “Purpose, procedure and performance: oaths and affirmations reconsidered” (The Australian Law Journal, 2024), and “Lost in translation: the wrongful conviction of Kathleen Folbigg based on fresh medical evidence and expert interpretation of her diaries” (The Australian Law Journal, 2023). Her monograph, Through the Distorted Lens: Constructing Truth and Reality with Legal Narratives (Routledge, 2026), contributes to understanding trial narratives. She delivered a keynote address at the Women’s Lawyers Conference “Justice for All” in 2010, chairs the Student Misconduct Panel at Monash University (2026), and serves on the editorial board of Nexus Academic Publishers. Previously, she was an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne (2019-2021).