Mr Ross Hyams

Convenor, Legal Practice Programs (1/1/2011-30/6/2011)
BA, LLB, LLM,

Professional Profile

Ross Hyams, B.A., LL.M is a practising 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 Non-Adversarial Justice (with King M, Freiberg A and Batagol B), The Federation Press (2009). 

Practical Legal Skills  published by Oxford University Press (2007) and co-authored with  Campbell S and Evans A  was first published in 1998 and is now in its 3rd edition.

A selection of Mr Hyams' publications is available at:
http://ssrn.com/author=1189861

Areas of Expertise

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

Teaching Commitments

Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Sem1/T2) (2011)) (LAW1101)
Australian legal reasoning and methods (Sum/T1) (2011) (LAW7470)