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5.08/20/2025

Inspires a love for learning in everyone.

4.05/21/2025

Brings real-world insights to the classroom.

5.03/31/2025

Encourages students to explore new ideas.

4.02/27/2025

Encourages innovative and creative solutions.

5.02/7/2025

Makes complex topics easy to understand.

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About Petra

Dr Petra Mahy is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation within the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University. A lawyer and anthropologist, her research spans socio-legal studies, comparative law, and regulatory studies, focusing on legal and regulatory systems in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, and the Pacific. Her academic interests include labour law, company law, legal history, and gender studies. She is a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council Discovery Project 'Formal and Informal Regulation of Labour Disputes in Southeast Asia' (DP190100821, 2019-2025), which examines formal and informal labour dispute resolution mechanisms in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam. At Monash, she contributes to the Centre for Labour, Organisation and Law and the Asia-Pacific Regulation Research Group. Mahy serves on the Editorial Committee of the Australian Journal of Asian Law.