Professor Marilyn Pittard

Associate Dean (Research)
BEc (Hons), LLB (Hons),

Professional Profile

Marilyn Pittard is Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, with responsibility for labour and employment law in both the undergraduate and postgraduate law programmes. She has recently completed a term as Associate Dean (Postgraduate Studies) in the Faculty of Law, and has been Associate Dean (Research) and also Director of the Honours Programme in the faculty.

Professor Pittard has co-authored several editions of Australian Labour Law: Cases and Materials, published by Butterworths and LexisNexis, (the most recent edition being published in 2003) and the text, Industrial Relations in Australia: Development, Law and Operation (Longman, 1995). She has also published extensively in labour law and industrial relations journals.

She has editorial responsibilities for journals in the field: The Australian Journal of Labour Law (founding member of the editorial Board; and section editor), and editor of the Employment Law Bulletin (formerly the Human Resources Law Bulletin). She is Faculty adviser to the Monash University Law Review.

Admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor, Professor Pittard frequently addresses lawyers and industrial relations practitioners at seminars and training programmes. She is on the Executive Committee of the Industrial Relations Society of Victoria, and is an elected member of the Committee of the Australian Labour Law Association. She is co-convenor of the Victorian Chapter of the Australian Labour Law Association. She is a member of the Cancer Council Research Ethics Committee.

Areas of Expertise

Australian Industrial Relations Law

Employment Law

Public Sector Employment Law

Occupational Health & Safety Law

Administrative Law

Teaching Commitments

Contemporary Workplace Relations Law (LAW4119)
Forward with Fairness: New Labour Law (LAW7338)
Administrative Law (LAW3100)
Labour Organisations (LAW4126)
Law of Employment (LAW4132)
Workplace Bargaining and Agreements Law (LAW7435)