Dr Becky Batagol

Lecturer
PhD, LLB (Hons), BA (Hons),

Professional Profile

Becky Batagol was awarded her PhD in 2008.  Her thesis, Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law? The Case of Family Mediation was an empirical study ofwhether and how separating and divorcing couples use law when resolving their disputes at mediation.  It was interdisciplianry and drew 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, co-authored with professor Thea Brown, will be released in 2009 in conjunction with the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW and Themis Press.

With Dr Michael King, Professor Arie Freiberg and Mr Ross Hyams, Becky has written Non-Adversarial Justice which was published by Federation Press in 2009.  

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.  Becky has been a visitor at the Institute of Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall, York University, Canada and at the Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work, Oxford University.

Becky is a member of The Well Being of Children Following Parental Separation and Divorce Research Consortium funded by the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth
(http://www.med.monash.edu.au/childwellbeingrc/)

In 2009 Becky was awarded the Monash University Vice-Chancellor's commendation for excellence in doctoral research.

A selection of Dr Batagol's publications is available at:
http://ssrn.com/author=106603

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)
Non-Adversarial Family Law (LAW7432)