Professor Marilyn Pittard is Associate Dean Engagement and Professor of Law in the Law Faculty, with responsibility for labour and employment law in both the undergraduate and postgraduate law programmes. She completed a three year term as Associate Dean Academic Resourcing in the Faculty of Law, Monash University at the end of 2020, served as  Associate Dean, International and Engagement from 2011 to end 2015, Associate Dean (Postgraduate Studies) in the Faculty of Law in 2009, and also for the period 2003 to 2006. She was Associate Dean (Research) for two periods, 1997 to 2000 and 2007 to 2009. Professor Pittard has also served as Director of the Honours Programme; Deputy Associate Dean, International and Engagement (2016-2017); and Acting Dean in the Faculty.

She was Convenor Prato Law program until 2020; and a former Deputy Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies. She is member of both the Castan Centre for Huiman Rights and CLARS.

Professor Pittard publishes extensively in labour and employment law in books and law journals, with research publications arising from the award of Australian Research Council grant funding and research grants from other funding bodies. 

Her recent book chapters include:

• "Protecting Vulnerable Workers, Fairness and State Intervention", chapter 13 in Alan Bogg, Jacob Rowbottom, Alison L Young (eds), The Constitution of Social Democracy, Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2020, pp237–260 (IBSN 9781509916597); and                       

• "Criminalisation, Social Exclusion, and Access to Employment" , chapter 24 in Alan Bogg, Jennifer Collins, Mark Freedland and Jonathan Herring (eds), Criminality at Work, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2020, pp 474 - 495.

 Her recent books include:  

• Asia-Pacific Judiciaries: Independence, Impartiality and Integrity, editted by HP Lee and Marilyn Pittard, publisher Cambridge University Press, UK, 2018 (18 chapters, 431 pages).

• Australian Labour and Employment Law, LexisNexis, 2015 (1095 pages, co-author Dr Richard Naughton);

• Business Innovation and the Law: Perspectives from Intellectual Property, Labour, Competition and Corporate Law (27 chapters, editors Professors M Pittard and Ann Monotti and Assoc Prof John Duns, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, 2013).

She has published several editions of Australian Labour Law: Text, Cases and Commentary published by LexisNexis (co-author R Naughton); and Public Sector Employment Law in the Twenty-First Century, (Professors M Pittard and Professor P Weeks eds, ANU E-Press, 2007), arising from an Australian Research Council Grant.

Her article on redundancy law appears in French in the second issue, 2017, of Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale, entitled 'Les licenciements économiques en Australie: un cadre légal équitable?'.

She is the International Academy of Comparative Law’s national special rapporteur for Australia on the theme of Contemporary forms of slavery, for the International Academy of Comparative Law's General Congress,  Asunción, Paraguay, 23 – 28 October 2022, and with Anthony Hallal has written the report 'Anti-Slavery Law and Practice in Contemporary Australia' (2022).

She is co-convenor of two public law lecture series: the Monash Law Faculty’s Lucinda Lecture series and the Fiat Justitia Lecture series, covering topical issues in the field of both constitutional law and administrative law. These lectures are published in the Monash University Law Review.

She was President of the Australian Labour Law Association (ALLA) since 2017 until end 2021, served as Vice President of ALLA for many years and is current national committee member; and she is Principal Examiner for Law Institute of Victoria Workplace Law Specialisation Accreditation. She is editor of LexisNexis Employment Law Bulletin, which is disseminated broadly to lawyers and human resources practitioners as well as academia in 10 issues per year, and founding and current member of the editorial committee of the Australian Labour Law Journal.

Professor Pittard is chair of the Academic Course Appraisal Committee of the Victorian Legal Admissions Board (VLAB).  She is Deputy Chair of the  Cancer Council Human Research Ethics Committee (Victoria), and since 2005 served as legal member of that committee.

Administrative Law and Regulation

Anti-Discrimination Law

Australian Legal System

Corporatisation/Privatisation

Employment Law

Employment Rights

Human Rights

Labour Law

International Labour Law

Workplace rights

LAW4199/LAW5633 Contemporary Workplace Relations Law SEM1/T2

LAW 5358 Current Issues in workplace law SEM1/T1

LAW 5374 Federal Labour Law SEM2/T3