Dr Gaye Lansdell is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law.  Dr Lansdell has many years' experience as both a practitioner and an academic spanning a number of Australian jurisdictions and including the United Kingdom. Dr Lansdell commenced at Monash as the Director of the Postgraduate Diploma of Legal Practice, a practical training skills equipping students to become admitted as legal practitioners in Victoria, before moving into academia.

Her research expertise and publication record covers the areas of legal practice, legal education, ethics and professional reaponsibility and criminal law practice. She has been the recipient of grants for research in the area of criminal law and practice and in relation to online legal education. In 2009-2013, she was the recipient of a Legal Services Board grant examining the Infringement System in Victoria which led, in part, to changes in that system and its scheme of operation for Victorians. From 2014-2020 she was the Lead Chief Investigator on a project examining the impact of Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) on various aspects of the criminal justice system pursuant to a grant awarded through the Office of Public Advocate, Victoria. This work was extended to specifically focus on young offenders with ABI and other neurodisabilities in the criminal justice system with support and funding from the Australian Institute of Criminology (2019-2020). The research from both of these projects culminated in the 2021 publication: Neurodisability annd the Criminal Justice System: Comparative and Therapeutic Reponses (Edward Elgar, UK). Since 2022, Dr Lansdell has been conducting extensive research on the barriers to effective participation of young people (and their parents) in court processes in the criminal justice system particular young people of disability and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Criminology

Criminal Justice

Social Disability and the Law

Legal Education

Legal Ethics

Medical Law

Practical Legal Training

Criminal Law and Practice

LAW5001 Principles of Criminal Law and Procedure, T3, 2025

LAW4332 Criminal Law 2, Semester 2,  2025