Petra Mahy

Dr Petra Mahy is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University, where she was previously a Senior Lecturer (July 2017-October 2022). Prior to that, she was a lecturer in law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London (2015-2017), a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford (2013-2015) and a research fellow at the Department of Business Law and Taxation, Monash University (2010-2013). 

Beginning in March 2023, Petra has taken an assignment with the Australian Volunteers program and is working as a legal advisor with the Office of the Vice-President/Ministry of Justice, Republic of Palau. 

Petra is both a lawyer and an anthropologist and her research interests fall in the disciplines of socio-legal, comparative law and regulatory studies.

She is a Chief Investigator on the ARC Discovery Project "Formal and Informal Regulation of Labour Disputes in Southeast Asia" (DP190100821) (2019-2023). This project is empirically investigating the operation and effectiveness of formal labour dispute resolution systems as well as informal disputing pathways in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam.  

Petra's other research interests are concerned with regulatory systems and their historical evolution in Southeast Asia, including in relation to company law, consumer protection and more recently internet regulation.