Professor Genevieve Grant is Director of the Warren Centre for Civil Justice in the Law Faculty at Monash University. She is co-author of Luntz & Hambly's Torts: Cases, Legislation and Commentary (LexisNexis, 10th ed, 2025) and Victorian Statutory Compensation Systems (LexisNexis, 2021, with Jason Taliadoros).

Genevieve's research uses empirical methods to evaluate justice system performance, including the design and operation of dispute resolution, civil justice and injury compensation systems. This work cuts across the fields of dispute resolution, legal technology, injury compensation, legal ethics and health law. 

Genevieve has experience investigating the perspectives of justice system stakeholders and particiants (including lawyers, consumers of legal services, compensation claimants, users of online dispute resolution platforms, courts, family law disputants, medical examiners and administrative decision-makers). She is particularly interested in the use of administrative data to enhance access to justice.

Genevieve has an extensive track record of interdisciplinary research partnerships with government agencies, courts, compensation schemes, regulators and dispute resolution organisations. She has a PhD in public health and law from The University of Melbourne. Details of her recent research can be found on Google Scholar. 

Genevieve's current and recent research includes:

• The NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Better Health Outcomes After Compensable Injury (2022-27) 
• Workers' Voice (Redesigning Workers' Compensation Using Participatory Systems Modelling, ARC Discovery Project (2023-26), with Prof Alex Collie, A/Prof Jason Thompson, A/Prof Libby Callaway, Prof Ellen MacEachen and Ms Grainne Cruickshank)
• Redesigining Digital Justice (ARC Discovery Project 2025-28), with Prof Patrick Olivier, Dr Delvin Vargehese and Dr Pranav Kulkarni (Action Lab, Faculty of IT) and Prof Liz Jones (The University of Melbourne)

Empirical legal research

Injury compensation systems

Civil justice and dispute resolution

Legal ethics

Company law

Genevieve undertakes consulting work on a range of dispute resolution, civil justice and injury compensation system design and evaluation projects. Her partners in this work include government agencies, civil justice institutions, insurers, compensation schemes and dispute resolution organisations.

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

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