Rate My Professor Jennifer Paneth

Jennifer Paneth serves as a Lecturer in the Law Academic unit at Monash University Faculty of Law. She holds a BA/LLB (Hons) and an LLM from Monash University, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Since 2007, Paneth has taught as a tutor and lecturer in the mainstream LLB and JD programs, covering Criminal Law, Foundations of Law, Australian Legal Reasoning and Methods, Contract Law, Property Law, and Ethics in Legal Practice. Her current teaching responsibilities include undergraduate units LAW1114 Criminal Law, LAW2101 Contract Law A, LAW2102 Contract Law B, LAW4303 Litigation and Dispute Resolution, and postgraduate units LAW5001 Criminal Law and LAW5013 Principles of Litigation and Dispute Resolution.

Paneth's research interests encompass human rights law, with evaluations of modern slavery legislation, religious freedom bills under international obligations, and the shift to supported decision-making in Victorian mental health law; sexual harassment frameworks post-#MeToo; privacy law tensions with freedom of expression; and criminal law, including ideological protections in religious institutions and criminalisation of gestures in anti-vilification laws. Research keywords include modern slavery and criminal law. She contributed to government grant-funded projects with the Sir Zelman Cowen Centre to empower leaders in culturally and linguistically diverse communities against domestic abuse. A Fellow of the Monash Eleos Justice Initiative, she has taught in the Anti-Death Penalty Clinic since 2019 and engaged in clinical legal education. Paneth received three teaching awards in 2019, including Highest Performing Teaching Associate; Faculty of Law Teaching Citation for Highest Student Satisfaction Score in 2021; Vice-Chancellor's Award for Industry and Community Education Programs (Community) in 2022; Vice-Chancellor's Education Excellence Nomination in 2021; and a 2025 Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Awards nomination for innovative, immersive teaching enhancing student engagement and outcomes. She co-authored the 2025 chapter 'Filling in the gaps: Australian pracademics creating social justice impact in a criminal justice setting' in Pracademics in Criminal Justice.