Mr Ross Hyams

Senior Lecturer
BA, LLB, LLM,

Professional Profile

Ross Hyams, B.A., LL.M is a practicing solicitor and Senior Lecturer in Law at Monash University. He worked in private practice as a solicitor in a commercial legal firm from 1987 until 1990. 

He has taught in the Faculty of Law clinical program since 1990.  He was the Coordinator of the Monash-Oakleigh Legal Service from 1990 to 2000 and then, from 2001 to 2005, Director of the Springvale Monash Legal Service.  In 2004 he was awarded the Law Institute of Victoria President's Inaugural Community Lawyers' Award in recognition of outstanding contributions made within the legal profession and beyond.

He is the co-author of Hyams, R., Campbell S. & Evans A. Practical Legal Skills Oxford University Press (2007). 3rd edition which was first published in 1998.

Areas of Expertise

Family Law
Legal Education
Clinical Legal Practice
Assessment in Legal Education
Non-Adversarial Justice

Teaching Commitments

Introduction to Legal Reasoning (LAW1101)
Parents, Children and the State (LAW4163)
Professional Practice (LAW5216)
Professional Practice (Summer) (LAW5120)
Non-Adversarial Justice (LAW4225)
Non-Adversarial Family Law (LAW7432)