Associate Professor Adrian Evans

Research Interests

Alternative Dispute Resolution
Computers
Consumer Protection
Criminal Law
Criminal Procedure/Criminal Justice
Family Law
Legal Aid
Legal Education
Legal Ethics
Legal Profession and Practice
Practical Legal Training
Wills and Administration of Estates

Editorial Boards

1988-date: Editor, Lawyers Practice Manual (Vic) 1985-date, 2 Volumes, Loose leaf and online, LBC-Thomson.

Grants and Commissions

2002: $47,000 Melbourne-Monash Collaborative Committee Joint Courseware Development Grant for the Development of Legal Ethics in Context on-line exercises in the two major substantive subject areas of Corporations Law and Civil Procedure (with Camille Cameron)

2001-03: $96,000 First Chief Investigator, ARC Large Grant The Development of New Lawyers Values (with Stephen Parker and Josephine Palermo)

1999: $400,000 over 3 years, 2000-03 and continuing at $100.000 pa. Commonwealth Attorney General - National Clinical Initiative Grant. This grant has led to the establishment of the nationally acclaimed Family Law Assistance Programme (FLAP), based at Monash-Oakleigh Legal Service, which matches Monash law students on a 1:1 basis with the many unrepresented persons seeking a hearing in the Family Court. FLAP is achieving a high resolution rate in those cases, setting a benchmark for the Court.

1998: ARC Small Grant ($14,000) to investigate the values of Monash graduates in Law with particular attention to the relationship between the clinical programme and the development of those values.

1993: ARC Small Grant ($10,000) to investigate the nature and extent
of client dissatisfaction with the Victorian legal profession.

Publications

2008

Evans A H, 'Southern Exposure: Post-Liberalism and Moral Recovery in Australian Legal Education' Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education (2008) 42(3) 329-338

Evans A H and  Hyams, R L, 'Independent Evaluations of Clinical Legal Education Programs: Appropriate Objectives and Processes in an Australian Setting' Griffith Law Review (2008) 17(1) 52-86 

'Almost There: Empirical Insights into Clinical Method and Ethics Courses in Climbing the Hill Towards Lawyers' Professionalism' (with Palermo J), Griffith Law Review (2008) 17(1) 252-283

'The Ethical Infrastucture of Legal Practice in Large Law Firms:Values, Policy and Behaviour' The University of New South Wales Law Journal (with Parker C E, Haller L R, Le Mire S and Mortensen R G),  (2008) 31(1) 158-188

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2008