Rate My Professor Yvette Holt

Yvette Holt is a Lecturer and First Year Coordinator in the Law discipline within the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts at Southern Cross University. She has been a lecturer and tutor there since 2006, while also working part-time in criminal law practice in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. Holt has been teaching law for 20 years. She holds a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from the University of Sydney, graduating in 1997, and an LLM (Hons) from the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1998. Her teaching responsibilities cover a broad spectrum including Criminal Law, Criminal Process, Human Rights and Mooting, International Law, Contract Law, Statutory Interpretation, Competition Law, and the Jessup Moot unit. Her stated research interests center on human rights and environmental issues, criminal law, and a particular focus on youth justice.

Prior to joining Southern Cross University, Holt gained extensive practical experience in law. She worked for four years at Allens law firm in Sydney, primarily in the Litigation department. As a legal research officer at the New South Wales Law Reform Commission, she contributed to the Review of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW), Report 92 (1999). Holt also served as an Associate to a Federal Court Judge. Additionally, she volunteered at several prominent Sydney community legal centres, including the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC), Public Interest Law Clearing House (PILCH), Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS), Disability Discrimination Legal Centre, and Redfern Legal Centre. Within the university, she has taken on roles such as Part-time Teaching Scholar, member of the steering committee and moderator for the law discipline's Children's Law Conference, and participant in collaborative peer review of teaching in Criminal Law.