Rate My Professor Liz Bishop

Dr Liz Bishop (BA, LLB, SJD) serves as Senior Lecturer in the Michael Kirby Centre for Public Health and Human Rights, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She delivers lectures on law and ethics to postgraduate students in the Master of International Health and to undergraduates in the MBBS at Monash Clayton and Health Sciences programs. In addition to her teaching, she acts as Research Governance Officer within the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Prior to joining the Centre, Bishop lectured and tutored in Criminal and Administrative Law at Monash University's Faculty of Law. Her doctoral research examined women, equality, and discrimination, shaping her academic interests in human rights, the legal system's impact on women, criminal law creation, implementation, and effects, as well as health legal partnerships.

Bishop's extensive career includes roles as Secretary to the Rules and Heads of Lists Committees at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Judicial Associate and Researcher in administrative law at the Supreme Court of Victoria, and Senior Adviser to the Attorney-General of Victoria and the Minister for Women's Affairs, focusing on criminal law, legislative processes, and women's policy development. Community involvement encompasses convenor of the Haemophilia Auxiliary at the Royal Children's Hospital, founding member and former convenor of Victorian Women Lawyers, and former board member of Australian Women Lawyers. Her scholarly contributions feature publications such as 'When Conventional Justice Fails' (Law Institute Journal, 2017, with B. Loff), 'A Hospital-based Patient Legal Clinic' (Journal of Law and Medicine, 2016, with H. Shahkhan and B. Loff), 'Parents as Advocates' (Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2016), and 'According to Merit? Standing for Equality' (2015). She has led projects including a pilot restorative justice intervention for sexual assault victim/survivors, establishing Victorian health legal partnerships in hospitals, and designing targeted training for health legal partnerships. Bishop has organized conferences such as the Second International Conference on Non-Adversarial Justice (2017) and contributed to public lectures on ABC's The Law Report (2017).