Professor The Hon. George Hampel AM QC

Professor of Trial Practice and Advocacy
LLB,

Professional Profile

George Hampel was appointed as Professor of Trial Practice and Advocacy of Faculty of Law at Monash University in September 2000.

Until then he was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Victorian from 1983 and a barrister from 1958. He held the positions of Vice President of the Law Council of Australia, Vice Chairman of the Victorian Bar Council, Chairman of the Leo Cussen Institute, member of the Council of Legal Education and Council of Adult Education. Since 1991 he has been Chairman of the Australian Advocacy Institute and from 2001 - 2010 President of the International Institute of Forensic Studies. He was the Foundation Member of the Victorian Bar Reader’s Course, Chairman of the Constitution Commission of Victoria and is currently the Chairman of the Legal Practice Board of Victoria.

He held appointments as Adjunct Professor at the Australian National, Melbourne and Bond Universities, and the University of Western Australia. Since 1972 George developed and has continued to teach advocacy at law schools to barristers and solicitors in Australia and overseas. He developed courses for the English Bar, the Scottish Faculty of Advocates and the Singapore Bar. He trains war crime prosecutors in The Hague and Tanzania and regularly conducts short courses and workshops for the Monash University Forensic Studies Programme, locally and abroad. 

Professor Hampel is a Member in the General Division of the Order of Australia, AM (citations for development of advocacy training and service to legal institutions) and was awarded the Centenary of Federation Medal (for chairing the Constitution Commission).

Areas of Expertise

Advocacy skills and techniques
Ethics of advocacy
Advocacy training methods
Expert evidence and training of experts

Teaching Commitments

Loss, causation and damages (Sem1/T2) (2011) (LAW7283)
Pre trial analysis and preparation (Sem1/T2) (2011) (LAW7282)
The expert witness in the adversary system (Sem1/T2) (2011) (LAW7281)
Trial practice and advocacy 506 (Sem1/T2) (2011) (LAW5127)
Trial practice and advocacy 506 - Prato (Sem1/T2) (2011) (LAW5127)
Advocacy theory and practice (Sem2/T3) (2011) (LAW7303)
The expert witness in the courtroom (Sem2/T3) (2011) (LAW7284)
Trial practice and advocacy 506 (Sem2/T3) (2011) (LAW5127)

Course Commitments

Graduate Certificate in Forensic Studies (Accounting) (3378)