Biography
Dr Gabrielle Wolf is an Associate Professor in Deakin Law School. Gabrielle obtained degrees in Arts (with Honours), Law, and a PhD in History from the University of Melbourne, and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Learning and Teaching from Deakin University.
Since commencing at Deakin Law School in 2014, Gabrielle has published on aspects of the current and past regulation of health practitioners, public health law, health records and sentencing law.
Gabrielle is currently the Course Director of the Bachelor of Laws. From 2018 to 2019, Gabrielle was the Course Director of the Juris Doctor and, in 2016, Gabrielle was a researcher for the Data to Decisions Cooperative Research Centre.
Prior to joining Deakin Law School, Gabrielle published on topics in law, history and theatre studies. She also worked as a research associate for a judge in the Family Court of Australia and as a lawyer in private practice and in-house. Gabrielle practised in a range of areas of the law, including the regulation of health practitioners, at Minter Ellison Lawyers, the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, the Medical Practitioners Board of Victoria, Russell Kennedy Lawyers, and Macpherson & Kelley Lawyers.
Read more on Gabrielle's profileResearch interests
- Health Law
- Public Health Law
- Legal History
- Regulation of Health Practitioners
- Health Records
- Sentencing Law
Affiliations
- Member, Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS).
- Member, Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine (ANZSHM).
Teaching interests
- Contract Law
Units taught
- MLL334 - Evidence Law
- MLJ702 - Contract Law and Policy
Conferences
- ‘From Black Death to COVID-19: Infectious Diseases and Legal Change’ (Paper presented at ‘Urgent Histories’, conference of the Australian Historical Association, Deakin University, Melbourne, 29 June 2022).
- ‘Controlling the “Invasion”: The Commonwealth Alien Doctors Board and Medical Migrants in Australia, 1942-1946’ (guest lecture presented for the Medical History Society of Victoria on 25 May 2022).
- Wolf, G. 'Doctors Seeking Asylum and Medical Practice in Australia: Lessons From New South Wales, 1937-42', Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Conference, 2019.
- Wolf, G. 'Machinations of the British Medical Association: Excluding Refugee Doctors From Queensland's Medical Profession, 1937-42', Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Conference, 2019.
- Wolf, G. ‘Moritz Meyer and the Medical Board: Preventing Refugee Doctors from Practising Medicine in Victoria, Australia, 1937-58’, Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Conference, 2018.
- Wolf, G., 'Preservation of Patient Confidentiality in an Electronic Health Record System', Medical Software Industry Association Summit, 2017.
- Wolf, G., 'Hartnett, Epstein, Van der Hope: Regulating Unconventional Doctors', Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Biennial Conference, 2017.
- Wolf, G., 'Hartnett, Epstein, Van der Hope: Emotion and the Regulation of Unconventional Doctors', History of Emotions Conference, 2016.
- Wolf, G., 'From Cancelling the Registration of the ‘Inebriate’ to Suspending the Registration of the ‘Impaired’: Powers Granted to Medical Boards in Victoria to Regulate Unwell Doctors Between 1844 and 2015', Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Biennial Conference, 2015.
- Wolf, G., 'A Delayed Inheritance: The Medical Board of Victoria's 75-Year Wait to Find Doctors Guilty of Infamous Conduct in a Professional Respect', Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Conference, 2014.
- Wolf, G., 'A Modern Sort of Mateship: Challenges to Australian Mateship in the New Wave', Sponsored by the School of Historical Studies, Monash University, History Australia, Eras and the Melbourne Branch of the Society for the Study of Labour History, 2006.
- Wolf, G., 'Historical Entertainment: Representations of Australian History and the Nation in Melbourne Federation Theatre', Australian Historical Association Conference, 2002.
- Wolf, G., 'Australian Immigrants and Aborigines: Outsiders to the Australian National Stage?', Adelaide University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, 2001.
- Wolf, G., 'Performing the Nation on Melbourne Stages: British Authority in Australia', International Federation of Theatre Research conference, 2001.
- Wolf, G., 'Stage of a City: Marvellous Melbourne as Culture and Performance', Australasian Drama Studies Association Conference, 2001.
Professional activities
Google Scholar
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sa0qQxwAAAAJ&hl=en
Media appearances
- ABC Radio National, 'Books and Arts' with Michael Cathcart, a panel discussion about the Australian Performing Group, Australia, 17 July 2017.
- 'Are Health Boards Fair and Impartial?', Sydney Morning Herald and Canberra Times, Australia, 20 August 2014.
- Co-host of 'Batmania', 3RRR radio station, Australia, 2014.
- ABC Melbourne with Jon Faine, interview regarding Make It Australian, Australia, 7 May 2008.
- 'Timeless Allure of Live Action', Australian Literary Review, Australia, 6 December 2006.
- 'Backstage Passes', Australian Literary Review, Australia, 4 October 2006.
Awards
- Deakin University Vice-Chancellor's Mid-Career Researcher Award for Career Excellence, 2019
- Commendation, Victorian Community History Awards, for Make It Australian: The Australian Performing Group, The Pram Factory and New Wave Theatre, Australia, 2009.
- Manuscript Sponsorship, Writing Centre for Scholars and Researchers, School of Graduate Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2006.
- Lloyd Robson Memorial Award, History Department, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2002.
- The University of Melbourne Travel for Research in Postgraduate Study funding, Australia, 2001.
- Australian Postgraduate Award with Stipend, Australia, 2000.
- The University of Melbourne International Scholarship, Australia, 1996.
Publications
COVID-19, Law, and & Regulation: Rights, Freedoms, and Obligations in a Pandemic
Belinda Bennett, Ian Freckelton, Gabrielle Wolf
(2023), Oxford, Eng., A1
Gabrielle Wolf, Ian Freckelton
(2023), pp. 0-0, Australian Public Health Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Sydney, N.S.W., B1
Inheritance, Tradition and Reform: The Evolution of Australian Public Health Law
Gabrielle Wolf
(2023), pp. 0-0, Australian Public Health Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Sydney, N.S.W., B1
Gabrielle Wolf
(2023), Vol. 30, pp. 23-47, Journal of Law and Medicine, North Ryde, N.S.W., C1
J Kotzmann, M Bagaric, G Wolf, M Stonebridge
(2022), Vol. 45, pp. 184-208, University of New South Wales Law Journal, C1
"A Nasty Bump": Lessons From Refugee Doctors' Defiance of Discrimination, 1937-1950
Gabrielle Wolf
(2022), Vol. 29, Journal of Law and Medicine, Rozelle, N.S.W., C1
Gabrielle Wolf
(2022), Vol. 45, pp. 1449-1488, University of New South Wales Law Journal, Sydney, N.S.W., C1-1
COVID-19 and the Future of Australian Public Health Law
Belinda Bennett, Ian Freckelton, Gabrielle Wolf
(2022), Vol. 43, pp. 403-437, Adelaide Law Review, Adelaide, S.A., C1
Responses to Monkeypox: Learning from Previous Public Health Emergencies
Ian Freckelton, Gabrielle Wolf
(2022), Vol. 29, pp. 967-986, Journal of Law and Medicine, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
Gabrielle Wolf
(2021), pp. 34-50, Pandemics, Public Health Emergencies and Government Powers: Perspectives on Australian Law, Alexandria, N.S.W., B1
Towards a coherent sentencing jurisprudence for animal cruelty offences
Gabrielle Wolf, Mirko Bagaric, Jane Kotzmann
(2021), Vol. 95, pp. 368-391, Australian law journal, [Pyrmont, N.S.W.], C1
Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, Daniel McCord, Brienna Bagaric, Nick Fischer
(2021), Vol. 25, pp. 489-528, Lewis and Clark law review, Portland, Or., C1
A Panacea for Australia's COVID-19 Crisis? Weighing Some Legal Implications of Mandatory Vaccination
G Wolf, J Taliadoros, P Gleeson
(2021), Vol. 28, pp. 993-1017, Journal of law and medicine, Australia, C1
Growing Enlightenment: Sentencing Offenders With Autism Spectrum Disorder in Australia
Gabrielle Wolf
(2021), Vol. 44, pp. 1703-1740, University of New South Wales Law Journal, Kensington, N.S.W., C1
Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, Daniel McCord
(2020), Vol. 44, pp. 54-70, CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL, C1
In the interim: assessing and managing risk when doctors are accused of sexual misconduct
Gabrielle Wolf
(2020), Vol. 49, pp. 1-17, Australian bar review, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
The Law and Politics of Registering Doctors: Lessons From New South Wales, 1937-42
Gabrielle Wolf
(2020), Vol. 43, pp. 1521-1551, University of New South Wales Law Journal, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf
(2020), Vol. 49, pp. 1-25, Australian Bar Review, Chatswood, N.S.W., C1
Embracing the Future: Using Artificial Intelligence in Australian Health Practitioner Regulation
G Wolf
(2020), Vol. 28, pp. 21-44, Journal of law and medicine, Australia, C1
Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, Daniel McCord
(2020), Vol. 53, pp. 499-544, Indiana law review, Indianapolis, Ind., C1
The illusion of principled justice: the fiction that sentencing principle is applied consistently
Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, Brienna Bagaric
(2019), Vol. 47, pp. 12-40, Australian Bar Review, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
Trauma and sentencing: the case for mitigating penalty for childhood physical and sexual abuse
Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, Peter Isham
(2019), Vol. 30, pp. 1-59, Stanford law and policy review, Stanford, Calif., C1
Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, Daniel McCord
(2019), Vol. 43, pp. 130-146, CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL, C1
The My Health Record system: potential to undermine the paradigm of patient confidentiality?
Gabrielle Wolf, Danuta Mendelson
(2019), Vol. 42, pp. 619-651, University of New South Wales law journal, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
M Proeve, G Wolf
(2019), Vol. 26, pp. 868-885, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, England, C1
Mirko Bagaric, Jane Kotzmann, Gabrielle Wolf
(2019), Vol. 71, pp. 385-447, South Carolina Law Review, Columbia, S.C., C1
Gabrielle Wolf
(2019), Vol. 45, pp. 487-529, MONASH UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, C1
Technological incarceration and the end of the prison crisis
M Bagaric, D Hunter, G Wolf
(2018), Vol. 108, pp. 73-135, Journal of criminal law and criminology, Baltimore, Md., C1
Hartnett, Epstein, Van der Hope: regulating unconventional doctors
G Wolf
(2018), Vol. 25, pp. 331-356, Journal of Law and Medicine, Rozelle, N.S.W., C1
The United States' Incarceration Crisis: Cautionary Lessons for Australian Sentencing
Mirko Bagaric, Theo Alexander, Gabrielle Wolf
(2018), Vol. 42, pp. 34-50, CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL, C1
Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf
(2018), Vol. 25, George Mason law review, Arlington, Va., C1
Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, William Rininger
(2018), Vol. 22, pp. 1-60, Lewis and Clark law review, Portland, Or., C1
G Wolf
(2018), Vol. 26, pp. 61-88, Journal of law and medicine, Rozelle, N.S.W., C1
Gabrielle Wolf, Mirko Bagaric
(2018), Vol. 44, pp. 567-601, Monash university law review, Clayton, Vic., C1
Regulating health professionals
G Wolf
(2017), pp. 73-99, Health law: frameworks and context, Cambridge, Eng., B1
Health privacy and confidentiality
D Mendelson, G Wolf
(2017), pp. 266-282, Tensions and traumas in health law, Annandale, N.S.W., B1
Monitoring a "menace": peer review and the regulation of substance-addicted doctors, 1933-48
G Wolf
(2017), Vol. 24, pp. 597-615, Journal of law and medicine, New York, N.Y., C1
M Bagaric, N Fischer, G Wolf
(2017), Vol. 45, pp. 785-850, Hofstra law review, Hempstead, N.Y., C1
Compelling Safety: Reforming Australian Treating Doctors' Mandatory Reporting Obligations
Gabrielle Wolf
(2017), Vol. 39, pp. 199-231, SYDNEY LAW REVIEW, C1
Towards compassion: statutory powers to regulate impaired doctors in Victoria, 1844-2016.
G Wolf
(2016), Vol. 39, pp. 1410-1437, University of New South Wales law journal, Sydney, N.S.W., C1
"My [electronic] health record"-cui bono (for whose benefit)?
D Mendelson, G Wolf
(2016), Vol. 24, pp. 283-296, Journal of Law and Medicine, Australia, C1
G Wolf
(2015), Vol. 22, pp. 568-587, Journal of law and medicine, North Ryde, N.S.W., C1-1
G Wolf
(2014), Vol. 40, pp. 890-919, Monash University law review, Melbourne, Vic., C1
Make it Australian: the Australian Performing Group, the Pram Factory and new wave theatre
G Wolf
(2008), Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., A1-1
Echoes of Paris in the antipodes: French theatre and opera in Melbourne (1850-1914)
C Sowerwine, G Wolf
(2008), Vol. 45, pp. 81-97, Australian Journal of French Studies, United Kingdom, C1-1
G Wolf
(2004), Vol. 28, pp. 73-81, Journal of Australian studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Frustrating sperm: regulation of AID in Victoria under the Infertility Treatment Act 1995 (Vic)
G Wolf
(1996), Vol. 10, pp. 1-15, Australian journal of family law, Chatswood, N.S.W., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
Other Funding Sources
Identity assurance - B1
Prof Louis De Koker, Prof Pompeu Casanovas Romeu, Prof Danuta Mendelson, Dr Bridget Bainbridge, A/Prof Gabrielle Wolf, Prof Sandeep Gopalan
Data to Decisions CRC
- 2016: $115,535
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report