Rate My Professor Pnina Levine

Pnina Levine is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School at Curtin Law School in the Faculty of Business and Law at Curtin University. She is a PhD candidate at Curtin University, where her research examines the legalities associated with university responses to student and staff misconduct. A Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), Pnina is a graduate of the University of Western Australia. Prior to joining Curtin University in 2014, she worked as a legal practitioner for over ten years, including in senior legal roles. She serves as the administrator for the Legal Internship Program at Curtin Law School and contributes to teaching in areas such as contract law and trusts law.

Pnina's research specializations encompass trusts law, contract law, misconduct by university staff and students, higher education law, and consumer issues relevant to the ageing population, particularly in retirement villages legislation. Her key publications include 'After Ridd: Can Australian Universities Still Regulate Uncivil Behaviours Within Their Institutions?' (2023, University of Western Australia Law Review), 'To What Extent Should Academic Freedom Allow Academics to Criticise Their Universities?' co-authored with Haydn Rigby, 'The Legalities of Revoking University Degrees for Misconduct: Recommendations for Australian Universities' with Michelle Evans (2018, UNSW Law Journal), 'The Ridd Case and the Model Code for the Protection of Free Speech: Wins for Academic Freedom or Losses for University Codes of Conduct and Respectful and Courteous Behaviour?' with Rob Guthrie, 'Capping the Liability of Former Residents to Pay Recurrent Charges under the Retirement Villages Act 1992 (WA) – What is the Cap?' (2013), and 'Recent Developments: Selling off the Plan (A Warning for Strata Lawyers)' with E. Webb (2014). She has also authored articles on procedural fairness in academic misconduct investigations and contributed to the book Learning Law. In 2026, she published an article in The Conversation on balancing academic freedom with protections against antisemitism. Pnina received the Curtin Law School Dean's Colleague Award for Engagement and Impact in 2023. She has delivered presentations on contract cheating, academic misconduct from a procedural fairness perspective, and participated in panels at the Law Society of Western Australia.