Rate My Professor Michelle Edgely

Michelle Edgely is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of New England. She holds the qualifications BCom LLB(Hons) LLM. Her primary research areas are therapeutic jurisprudence, sentencing, and criminal procedure. Edgely serves as the primary contact for postgraduate research supervision in criminal law sentencing of mentally impaired offenders, therapeutic jurisprudence, and mental health courts. She has taught units including Criminal Sentencing and Punishment (LLM515), Advanced Criminal Law (LLM514, LAW314), and Criminal Procedure (LLM561). Edgely has also held the position of Acting Associate Dean Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Science, Agriculture, Business and Law at UNE.

Edgely has produced significant scholarly work, including refereed journal articles such as 'Addressing the Solution-Focused Sceptics: Moving Beyond Punitivity in the Sentencing of Drug-Addicted and Mentally Impaired Offenders' (2016, University of New South Wales Law Journal 39(1) 206-233), 'Why do Mental Health Courts Work? A Confluence of Treatment, Support and Adroit Judicial Supervision' (2014, International Journal of Law & Psychiatry 37 572-580), 'Solution-focused Court Programs for Mentally Impaired Offenders: What Works?' (2013, Journal of Judicial Administration 22 207-223), 'Women who Kill Their Abusers: How Queensland's New Abusive Relationships Defence Continues to Ignore Reality' (2011, Flinders Law Review 13 125-176, with E. Marchetti), 'Common Law Sentencing of Mentally Impaired Offenders in Australian Courts: A Call for Coherence & Consistency' (2009, Psychiatry, Psychology & Law 6(2) 240-261), and 'Preventing Crime or Punishing Propensities? A Purposive Examination of the Preventative Detention of Sex Offenders in Queensland and Western Australia' (2007, University of Western Australia Law Review 7(1) 351-386). Book chapters include 'Truth or Justice? Double Jeopardy Reform for Queensland: Rights in Jeopardy' (2008) and 'The Coalition Campaign: Unity & Stealth' (1997). She has presented conference papers on therapeutic jurisprudence and mentally impaired offenders at events such as the International Congress on Law & Mental Health (2015, 2011), Australasian Law Academics Association Conference (2023), and others. Edgely supervised postgraduate theses from 2017 to 2024 on topics including post-appellate review for wrongful convictions, specialist sentencing courts for Indigenous offenders, and criminalising coercive control. She is a member of the Therapeutic Jurisprudence in the Mainstream Advisory Group, Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Australia and New Zealand Society of Criminology, Australian Institute of Judicial Administration, and Law and Justice Institute (Qld). Previously, she was a Lecturer at Griffith University Law School from 2007 to 2014.