Associate Professor Adrian Evans

Associate Professor
PhD, LLM, Assoc. in Theology, LLB, BComm,

Professional Profile

Adrian Evans has taught, practised law and consulted in a clinical legal education context for twenty years at LaTrobe and Monash Universities. He was coordinator of Springvale Legal Service Inc. from 1988-2000, the largest Australian clinical programme. He is both an academic and a legal practitioner, with teaching responsibilities in legal process, legal ethics and clinical case supervision. He has empirically examined and published in relation to ‘best practice’ ethics for lawyers and law firms, ‘quality’ clinical-traditional links in law teaching, client attitudes to lawyers, the values of legal practitioners, the approaches of IBA members to monitoring and controlling defalcations and the ethical environment in which lawyer’s fidelity compensation is addressed locally and internationally.

Adrian is currently researching values-based approaches to teaching legal ethics and systemic opportunities to secure the ethical future of the legal profession. Adrian is a recipient of the Monash Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching and is the Convenor of Legal Practice Programs at Monash Law School.

2005 3rd International Journal of Clinical Education/8th Australian Clinical Education Joint Conference Website. A full program and all papers presented at this conference are accessible.

A selection of Associate Professor Evans' publications is available at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=643509

Areas of Expertise

Clinical Legal Education
Legal Education
Legal Ethics
Assessment of Lawyers' Ethics
Fidelity Compensation
Law School Standards

Teaching Commitments

Legal Process (LAW1100)
Professional Practice (LAW5216)
Advanced Professional Practice (LAW5149)
Lawyers Ethics and Society (LAW5125)