Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett
Associate Professor
TC Beirne School of Law
Affiliate of Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law & Affiliate of Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law
Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law
+61 7 334 67526
W415 Forgan Smith Building, St Lucia campus.
Researcher biography
Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett lectures in Ethics and the Legal Profession and Contract Law. She is the Director of Teaching and Learning at the School of Law. She is a Fellow of the Centre for Public, Comparative and International Law and researches in the area of lawyers' ethics and practice, access to justice and women and the law. She was a CI on the Australian Feminist Judgments Project funded by the Australian Research Council under a Discovery Project Grant. She is undertaking a number of projects relating to lawyers working across Australia including around family violence, and how technology impacts upon access to justice and ethics in the legal profession. She has led a project concerning technology and access to justice in the legal assistance sector funded under an AIBE Applied Research Fund grant and was a CI on a project funded by the Queensland Law Society concerning disruption to and innovation by small law firms across Queensland. Francesca was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre on the Legal Profession at Stanford University in November 2018.
She is a member of the Queensland Law Society Ethics Committee and is the Vice President of the International Association of Legal Ethics. Francesca is an Academic Member of the School's Pro Bono Centre Advisory Board. Before joining the Law School, she practiced for a number of years as a commercial solicitor at a national law firm in Melbourne and Brisbane. Prior to embarking on her legal career, Francesca completed a PhD in English which concerned the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families.
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Women and the law The University of Queensland |
2016–2017 |
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Ethics and regulation of Australian lawyers. The University of Queensland |
2016–2017 |
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Lawyering in the bush The University of Queensland |
2016–2017 |
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Access to Justice: Technology, Innovation and Sustainability AIBE Applied Research Fund |
2018 |
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Trust, Ethics and Governance Alliance (TEGA) The University of Queensland |
Publications
Books
Holmes, Vivien and Bartlett, Francesca (2023). Parker & Evans's Inside Lawyers' Ethics. 4th ed. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Bartlett, Francesca, Mortensen, Reid and Tranter, Kieran (2010). Alternative perspectives on lawyers and legal ethics: Reimagining the profession. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9780203846889
Tranter, Kieran, Bartlett, Francesca, Corbin, Lillian, Mortensen, Reid and Robertson, Michael (2010). Reaffirming legal ethics: Taking stock and new ideas. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9780203849354
Book Chapters
Bartlett, Francesca (2017). Reforming Australian litigation lawyers: educational impacts of civil procedural laws and judicial activism. Private law in the twenty-first century. (pp. 527-546) edited by Kit Barker, Ross Grantham and Karen Fairweather. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing. doi: 10.5040/9781509908615.ch-025
Bartlett, Francesca and Haller, Linda (2017). Australia: legal services regulation in Australia - Innovative co-regulation. International perspectives on the regulation of lawyers and legal services. (pp. 161-184) edited by Andrew Boon. London, United Kingdom: Hart.
Douglas, Heather and Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Practice and persuasion: women, feminism and judicial diversity. Judicial independence in Australia: contemporary challenges, future directions. (pp. 76-88) edited by Rebecca Ananian-Welsh and Jonathan Crowe. Sydney, Australia: Federation Press.
Douglas, Heather Anne, Bartlett, Francesca, Luker, Trish and Hunter, Rosemary (2014). Introduction: Righting Australian Law. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 1-18) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
Douglas, Heather Anne, Bartlett, Francesca, Luker, Trish and Hunter, Rosemary (2014). Reflections on rewriting the law. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 19-40) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
Bartlett, Francesca (2014). Louth v Diprose 175 CLR 621. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 196-206) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
Bartlett, Francesca (2014). Formal equality and third party interests in the family home. Australian Feminist Judgments: Righting and Rewriting Law. (pp. 207-211) edited by Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker and Rosemary Hunter. Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing.
Bartlett, Francesca, Mortensen, Reid and Tranter, Kieran (2011). Introduction. Alternative perspectives on lawyers and legal ethics: Reimagining the profession. (pp. 1-10) edited by Francesca Bartlett, Reid Mortensen and Kieran Tranter. Abingdon Oxon, U.K. ; New York, U.S.A.: RoutledgeAbingdon.
Robertson, Michael, Corbin, Lillian, Tranter, Kieran and Bartlett, Francesca (2011). Introduction. The ethics project in legal education. (pp. 1-8) edited by Michael Robertson, Lillian Corbin, Kieran Tranter and Francesca Bartlett. Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Tranter, Kieran, Bartlett, Francesca, Corbin, Lillian, Mortensen, Reid and Robertson, Mike (2010). Introduction : Reaffirming legal ethics. Reaffirming Legal Ethics: Taking Stock and New Ideas. (pp. 1-11) edited by Kieran Tranter, Francesca Bartlett, Lillian Corbin, Michael Robertson and Reid Mortensen. London, Engalnd, U.K.: Routledge.
Bartlett, Francesca (1999). Assimilation and women's work. Unmasking whiteness: race relations and reconciliation. (pp. 52-67) edited by Belinda McKay. Brisbane, Australia: Griffith University Publications.
Journal Articles
Timoshanko, Aaron, Hart, Caroline, Bartlett, Francesca and Murray, Angus (2024). An empirical study of lawyers’ capability to adapt to disruption in Queensland, Australia. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 31 (1), 83-110. doi: 10.1080/09695958.2023.2295365
Wangmann, Jane, Bartlett, Francesca, Batagol, Becky, Booth, Tracey, Douglas, Heather, Kaye, Miranda and Seear, Kate (2023). What is ‘good domestic violence lawyering’?: Views from specialist women’s legal services in Australia. International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 37 (1) ebac034, 1-23. doi: 10.1093/lawfam/ebac034
Webley, Lisa, Flood, John, Webb, Julian, Bartlett, Francesca, Galloway, Kate and Tranter, Kieran (2019). The profession(s)' engagements with lawtech: narratives and archetypes of future law. Law, Technology and Humans, 1 (1), 6-26. doi: 10.5204/lthj.v1i0.1314
Galloway, Kate, Webb, Julian, Bartlett, Francesca, Flood, John and Webley, Lisa (2019). The legal academy’s engagements with lawtech: technology narratives and archetypes as drivers of change. Law, Technology and Humans, 1 (1), 27-45. doi: 10.5204/lthj.v1i0.1337
Bartlett, Francesca (2018). A Professional Project in the South Pacific: Regionalism and Reforming Solomon Islands' Legal Profession. Fordham International Law Journal, 42 (2), 230-270.
Bartlett, Francesca and Douglas, Heather (2018). 'Benchmarking' a Supreme Court and Federal Court Judge in Australia. Onati Socio-Legal Series, 8 (9), 1355-1385. doi: 10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0992
Bartlett, Francesca and Taylor, Monica (2016). Pro bono lawyering: personal motives and institutional practice. Legal Ethics, 19 (2), 260-280. doi: 10.1080/1460728x.2016.1247632
Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Summary compensation and apology orders in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand: different structures, different responses?. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 24 (2), 1-27. doi: 10.1080/09695958.2016.1247710
Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Making lawyers pay for malpractice in court: skirting advocates' immunity in Australia. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 24 (2), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/09695958.2016.1223672
Haller, Linda and Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Views from inside: a comparison of admission process in NSW and Victoria. Monash University Law Review, 42 (1), 109-148.
Bartlett, Francesca and Corrin, Jennifer Clare (2016). Representative or the Same? Representative rule and class actions in Queensland and Western Australia. Civil Justice Quarterly, 35 (1), 41-60.
Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Remaining the same, staying different - Attwells v Jackson Laic Lawyers. Legal Ethics, 19 (2), 324-327. doi: 10.1080/1460728x.2016.1247538
Bartlett, Francesca and Linda Haller (2015). Admission to practice in Queensland - cases and processes. Queensland Lawyer, 35 (4), 170-184.
Bartlett, Francesca and Corrin, Jennifer (2014). A flood of claims? Procedural and ethical issues in collective actions. Proctor, 34 (2), 26-29.
Corrin, Jennifer Clare and Bartlett, Francesca (2013). Stemming the flood: procedural and ethical issues arising from potential flood litigation. Australian Law Journal, 87 (4), 250-258.
Bartlett, Francesca, Hall, Wayne and Carter, Adrian (2013). Case and comment. Tasmania v Martin (no 2): voluntariness and causation for criminal offending associated with treatment of Parkinson's disease. Criminal Law Journal, 37 (5), 330-341.
Bartlett, Francesca and Haller, Linda (2013). Disclosing lawyers: questioning law and process in the admission of Australian lawyers. Federal Law Review, 41 (2), 227-264.
Bartlett, Francesca and Burrell, Robert (2013). Understanding the "safe harbour": The prohibition on engaging in legal practice and its application to patent and trade marks attorneys in Australia. Australian Intellectual Property Journal, 24 (2), 74-93.
Bartlett, Francesca (2012). Crownies. Alternative Law Journal, 68-68.
Bartlett, Francesca (2011). The role of apologies in professional discipline. Legal Ethics, 14 (1), 49-72. doi: 10.5235/146072811796373005
Robertson, Michael, Corbin, Lillian, Tranter, Kieran and Bartlett, Francesca (2010). Preface. The Ethics Project in Legal Education, 12610 LNCS, vii-viii. doi: 10.4324/9780203840856
Robertson, Michael, Corbin, Lillian, Tranter, Kieran and Bartlett, Francesca (2010). Introduction. The Ethics Project in Legal Education, 1-8. doi: 10.4324/9780203840856
Bartlett, Francesca, Mortensen, Reid and Tranter, Kieran (2010). Introduction. Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics: Reimagining the Profession, 1-10. doi: 10.4324/9780203846889
Bartlett, Francesca, Mortensen, Reid and Tranter, Kieran (2010). Introduction. Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics: Reimagining the Profession, 9780203846889, 1-5. doi: 10.4324/9780203846889
Tranter, Kieran, Bartlett, Francesca, Corbin, Lillian, Mortensen, Reid and Robertson, Mike (2010). Introduction. Reaffirming Legal Ethics: Taking Stock and New Ideas, 1-11. doi: 10.4324/9780203849354
Tranter, Kieran, Bartlett, Francesca, Corbin, Lillian, Mortensen, Reid and Robertson, Michael (2010). Preface. Reaffirming Legal Ethics: Taking Stock and New Ideas, vii-viii. doi: 10.4324/9780203849354
Bartlett, Francesca (2010). AAL Roundtable. Hearsay (41)
Bartlett, Francesca and Mortensen, Reid (2009). Integrity in legal practice: A report from the third international legal ethics conference, Gold Coast, Australia. Legal Ethics, 12 (1), 100-106. doi: 10.1080/1460728X.2009.11423927
Bartlett, Francesca and Mortensen, Reid (2009). Integrity in Legal Practice: A report from the Third International Legal Ethics Conference. Legal Ethics, 12 (1), 100-107.
Bartlett, Francesca and Aitken, Lyn (2009). Competence in caring in legal practice. International Journal of the Legal Profession, 16 (2-3), 319-338. doi: 10.1080/09695951003588972
Bartlett, Francesca (2009). The Ethics of 'Transgressive' Lawyering: Considering the Defence of Dr Haneef. University of Queensland Law Journal, 28 (2), 309-325.
Bartlett, Francesca, Mortensen, Reid G. and Robertson, Michael (2009). Special editors' introduction : Australian and New Zealand lawyers : Ethics and regulation. University of Queensland Law Journal, 28 (2), 181-181.
Bartlett, F. (2008). Professional discipline against female lawyers in Queensland: A gendered analysis. Griffith Law Review, 17 (1), 301-329. doi: 10.1080/10383441.2008.10854612
Bartlett, Francesca (2008). Student misconduct and admission to legal practise: New judicial approaches. Monash University Law Review, 34 (2), 309-330.
Bartlett, Francesca (2008). Model advocates or a model for change? The model equal opportunity briefing policy as affirmative action. Melbourne University Law Review, 32 (3), 351-381.
Bartlett, Francesca (2007). Raising the bar: legal profession in East Asia. Lawasia Journal, 217-224.
Bartlett, Francesca (2007). Changing law: rights, regulation and reconciliation. Griffith Law Review, 16 (1), 289-293. doi: 10.1080/10383441.2007.10854591
Bartlett, Francesca (2003). Settlements residue auctions in the Australian national electricity market. International Energy Law and Taxation Review
Bartlett, Francesca (1999). Speaking her language - a report on a women's seminar. Migration Action, 21
Bartlett, Francesca (1999). Clean, white girls: assimilation and women's work. Hecate, 25 (1), 10-38.
Conference Papers
Bartlett, Francesca (2021). Domestic and Family Violence Lawyering in Australia - Shared Understandings and Teaching Ethical Competency. 2021 Stellenbosch University Legal Ethics/Ethics in Law conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa (attended online), 29-30 November 2021.
Bartlett, Francesca (2019). Lawyers as Gatekeepers. The Regualtion of Corporate Ethics: Governance in an Age of Inquiries, Supreme Court of Queensland, 13 September 2019.
Bartlett, Francesca (2019). Measuring effectiveness and acceptance of legaltech in self-representation services. Taking Justice Online: A Critical Perspectives Workshop, Monash Law School, Monash University, 26 November 2019.
Bartlett, Francesca and Wu, Richard (2018). The Changing Professional Identity of Hong Kong Women Lawyers: From Local to Transnational Practitioners. Asia Law and Society Association Conference 2018, Bond Law School, Gold Coast, 29 November-1 December 2018.
Bartlett, Francesca (2018). An uncomfortable place for technology in the Australian community legal sector. International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC 2018), Melbourne, Australia, 6-8 December 2018.
Bartlett, Francesca (2018). Collaboration between universities and the community legal sector - the case of A2J author and unpaid wages. National Community Legal Centres Conference, Sydney, Australia, 27-30 August 2018.
Bartlett, Francesca (2017). Model Laws in the South Pacific. Regulation of Legal and Judicial Services Conference, Fordham Law School, New York, 8-9 December 2017.
Bartlett, Francesca (2017). Regulating lawyers across the South Pacific: problems of transplantation and ethical regulation in small nations. ANZ Legal Ethics Colloquim 6 (ANZLC VI), Auckland Law School, 1-3 December 2017.
Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Compensatory or Disciplinary? Apology Orders in Professional Discipline of Lawyers in Australia and New Zealand. International Institute for the Sociology of Law Workshop, Onati, Spain, 5-6 May.
Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Judicial Case Management. Civil Procedure Academic Focus Roundtable, Monash University, Melbourne, 18-19 February.
Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Why Practise in the Bush?. Law and Society Association of Austrlaia and New Zealand Conference, Brisbane, 2 December 2016.
Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Technology, Ethics and Legal Education. International Legal Ethics Conference VII, Forham Law School, New York, 14-16 July.
Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Quality Control of Professional Conduct. International Legal Ethics Conference VII, Fordham Law School, New York, 14-16 July.
Bartlett, Francesca (2016). Understanding the Safe Harbour. Annual Conference, The Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia, Gold Coast, Queensland, 14-16 April.
Douglas, Heather Anne and Bartlett, Francesca (2015). Women, Feminism and Judicial Diversity. Judicial Independence in Australia: Contemporary Challenges, Future Directions, Brisbane, 11 July 2015.
Bartlett, Francesca (2015). Skirting Advocates' Immunity Giving Financial Redress to Clients for Poor In-court Work. Consumer Redress When Lawyers Are Negligent, International Institute for the Sociology of Law Workshop, Onati, Spain, 9-10 July.
Bartlett, Francesca (2015). The Gendered Politics of Admission. ANZ Legal Ethics Colloquium 5: Sustainable Legal Ethics, Melbourne, 13 November.
Bartlett, Francesca and Monica Taylor (2014). What Does Pro Bono Publico Mean to Lawyers?. Australian and New Zealand Law & Society Conference, University of Queensland, Queensland, 5 December.
Bartlett, Francesca and Carroll, Robyn (2014). Ordering Lawyers to Apologise for Their Misconduct: What's the Benefit?. International Legal Ethics Conference IV, London, United Kingdom, 12 July.
Bartlett, Francesca (2014). Assessing a Person's Mental Capacity and Wellness when They Apply to Be a Lawyer. 2014 National Wellness for Law Forum, Brisbane, Australia, 6-7 February 2014.
Carter, Adrian, O'Sullivan, John, Dissanayaka, Nadeeka, Bartlett, Francesca, Hall, Wayne and Bell, Peter (2013). Drug-induced compulsive disorders: clinical, ethical and legal challenges. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs Conference, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 24-27 November 2013. Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.. doi: 10.1111/dar.12077
Bartlett, Francesca (2013). Treatment-induced Compulsive Acts Leading to a Breach of Law: Implications in Determining Criminality and Legal Sanction. Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and Other Drugs Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 24 - 27 November 2013.
Bartlett, Francesca (2013). Getting Back into the Club: Re-admission, Re-acceptance and Presumption of 'Continuance' of Poor Character. Challenging Professional Boundaries' Australian and New Zealand Legal Ethics Colloquium, Flinders University, South Australia, 28 November 2013.
Bartlett, Francesca (2011). Breastfeeding in the workplace: is the law to encourage or protect?. Mothers at the Margins, Sixth Australian International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Motherhood, Brisbane, 27-30 April 2011.
Bartlett, Francesca (2011). The Australian Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement. Mothers at the Margins, Sixth Australian International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Motherhood, Brisbane, Australia, 27 - 30 April 2011.
Audio Document
Seminar Papers
Bartlett, Francesca (2016). The Development of Pay Equity. Professional Staff Seminar. Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, Brisbane.
Research Reports
Hart, Caroline, Timoshanko, Aaron, Bartlett, Francesca, Murray, Angus and Perry-Petersen, Andrea (2023). Future ready report: Queensland sole, micro, small and medium law firm capability to meet disruption: COVID-19, technology and intergenerational change. Queensland, Australia: Submitted to Queensland Law Society.
Newspaper Articles
Bartlett, Francesca (2010, 06 25). Legal Ethics Lecturer Courier Mail, UQ Media Clips
Evans, Adrian, Bartlett, Francesca, Hall, Kath, Haller, Linda, Holmes, Vivien and LeMire, Suzanne (2010, 06 22). Submission to National Legal Profession Reform Online posting