Vanessa Johnston was appointed to the Law Faculty in 2015. She is a solicitor, who is admitted to practice in Victorian and Commonwealth jursidictions. Prior to her appointment to Monash University, Vanessa worked in private practice at small and mid sized law firms, primarily in the areas of property, commercial, and tax law.

Vanessa completed her PhD with Monash University in the area of climate change law. Her thesis examined how Australia should use tax laws to encourage mitigation of road transport GHG emissions, based on a comparison between Australian and German law.

Vanessa teaches in core property law subjects, and also in electives such as climate change law. Her key research interest relates to regulatory aspects of climate change in Australia, and also carbon pricing, and how these relate to real property, and also transport.

WHile much of her work focuses on Australia, she also has experence with comparate legal research between 2 or more jurisdictions, and also working on interdisciplinary projects involving colleagues from other university faculties, external industry and government partners.  

2019:

LAW 2112 Property A S1 (Lecturer)

LAW5018 Advanced Property Law T2 (Chief Examiner)

LAW4679/LAW5389 The Law of Climate Change (Chief Examiner) (Winter Intensive, Sunway Campus, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Property Law

Enviornmental Law

Taxation

Transport

International Environmental Law