Ms Becky Batagol

Lecturer
LLB (Hons), BA (Hons),

Professional Profile

Becky Batagol completed her undergraduate degrees in arts and law at Monash University in 1998. She has since worked as a paralegal, an article clerk, a research assistant, a tutor in law and world traveller before commencing as a lecturer at Monash University in 2006.

In 2005 she was a visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Oxford University. Becky’s PhD thesis, Community Based Family Mediation: Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law? is an empirical study of whether and how separating and divorcing couples use law when resolving their disputes at mediation. It is interdisciplinary and draws on methodologies from sociology and social work to examine issues connected with family law, dispute resolution and gender . It is aimed at law reform. A book based upon this project will be released in 2007 in conjunction with the Law Foundation of NSW. (http://www.lawfoundation.net.au/research/current.html )

Areas of Expertise

Family law and policy
Non-adversarial justice and dispute resolution
Legal practice and ethics
Socio-legal research and methods
Gender and law
Constitutional law

Teaching Commitments

Constitutional Law (LAW3200)
Constitutional Law (LAW3201)
Introduction to Family Law (LAW4177)
Introduction to Legal Reasoning (LAW1101)
Non-adversarial Justice (LAW4225)
Principles of Constitutional Law (LAW7268)