Dr Fiona Hum is a Senior Teaching Fellow and Lecturer at Monash University. Fiona was admitted as a solicitor and barrister of the Supreme Court of Victoria and has practiced in the areas of commercial litigation, criminal law, personal injury law. She was a consultant to major insurance companies and the Victorian police force. Fiona completed her doctorate at the University of Melbourne on euthanasia laws in the Northern Territory.

Her research and expertise are in the areas of Evidence, Medical law, and gendered and racial perspectives in Law.

Fiona  was awarded the Faculty of Law Teaching Excellence Award 2010, including a number of other teaching awards over the years.

Fiona was a contributing author to Professor Patricia Easteal’s (AM) book Women in the Law in Australia, Lexis Nexis, 2010. Her chapters are entitled: “Women Complainants and The Evidential Process” and “Medical and Tort Injuries Against Pregnant Women”. As a result of this, Fiona was asked to give a paper and be a key note speaker for a major conference, “Legal Professional Reform: Where to from here?” , the Women’s Lawyers Conference on “Justice for All” in August 2010. Fiona has published text books in Evidence Law with Cambridge University Press 2nd ed, 2022. The 3rd ed will be published 2025. It is being used by major Australian universities and by members of the Bar. A monograph on trial narratives within the courtroom will also be published in 2025, Routledge.

Evidence Law

Gendered and Racial Approaches to Law

Criminal Justice

Health Law

Miscarriages of Justice

Wrongful Convictions

Principles of Evidence

Evidence

Legal Issues in Medicine

Ethics, legal and professional issues in psychology (Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences)