Gabrielle Wolf is a Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. She joined the Faculty in 2025 from Deakin University where she had worked for 10 years, served as Director of Teaching, Deputy Director of Teaching, Course Director of the Bachelor of Laws, and Course Director of the Juris Doctor, and taught and developed teaching units, mainly in contract law.

Gabrielle researches in the areas of the regulation of health practitioners, public health law, health records, legal history and sentencing law. She has published two books: Belinda Bennett, Ian Freckelton and Gabrielle Wolf, COVID-19, Law & Regulation: Rights, Freedoms, and Obligations in a Pandemic (Oxford University Press, 2023), and Gabrielle Wolf, Make It Australian: The APG, The Pram Factory and New Wave Theatre (Currency Press, 2008). She has also published chapters in edited scholarly books and close to 50 articles in leading academic journals. Gabrielle regularly presents her research at academic conferences and to audiences outside academia.

Gabrielle received the Deakin University Faculty of Business and Law Award for Research and Innovation in 2023, and the Deakin University Vice-Chancellor’s Mid-Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence in 2019. She received a grant from the Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History, contributed to a Deakin Science and Society Network grant, and was a researcher for the Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Centre. She is an editor for the ‘Legal Issues’ section of the Journal of Law and Medicine, and an elected committee member of the Medical History Society of Victoria.

Before entering academia, Gabrielle worked as a research associate for a judge in the Family Court of Australia and as a lawyer in private practice and in-house, practising mainly in the area of the regulation of health practitioners.

Research Interests

• Health Law
• Regulation of Health Practitioners
• Public Health Law
• Health Records
• Legal History
• Sentencing Law

Supervision Interests

Gabrielle welcomes potential students interested in researching in the areas of health law and/or legal history.