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A/Prof. Gabrielle Wolf

STAFF PROFILE

Position

Associate Professor

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

Department

Deakin Law School

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne, 2005
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Melbourne, 1997
Bachelor of Laws (Hons), University of Melbourne, 1997

Contact

g.wolf@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 924 68277

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 Deputy Director of Teaching. She was previously the Course Director of the Bachelor of Laws, the Course Director of the Juris Doctor, and 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.

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Research 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

  • ‘Lessons from Refugee Doctors’ Defiance of Discrimination, 1937-50’ (paper presented at ‘Second Opinions’, conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine, 13 July 2023).
  • ‘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).
  • '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.
  • '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.
  • ‘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.
  • 'Preservation of Patient Confidentiality in an Electronic Health Record System', Medical Software Industry Association Summit, 2017.
  • 'Hartnett, Epstein, Van der Hope: Regulating Unconventional Doctors', Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine Biennial Conference, 2017.
  • 'Hartnett, Epstein, Van der Hope: Emotion and the Regulation of Unconventional Doctors', History of Emotions Conference, 2016.
  • '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.
  • '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.
  • '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.
  • 'Historical Entertainment: Representations of Australian History and the Nation in Melbourne Federation Theatre', Australian Historical Association Conference, 2002.
  • 'Australian Immigrants and Aborigines: Outsiders to the Australian National Stage?', Adelaide University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Conference, 2001.
  • 'Performing the Nation on Melbourne Stages: British Authority in Australia', International Federation of Theatre Research conference, 2001.
  • 'Stage of a City: Marvellous Melbourne as Culture and Performance', Australasian Drama Studies Association Conference, 2001.

Professional activities

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 Faculty of Business and Law Award for Research and Innovation, 2023
  • Grant, The Francis Forbes Society for Australian Legal History, 2023.
  • 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

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2024

Health Care for Victoria's Prisoners: Honing Government Obligations

Gabrielle Wolf

(2024), Vol. 34, pp. 343-373, Public Law Review, Toronto, Canada, C1

journal article
2023

COVID-19, Law, and & Regulation: Rights, Freedoms, and Obligations in a Pandemic

Belinda Bennett, Ian Freckelton, Gabrielle Wolf

(2023), Oxford, Eng., A1

book

Australian Vaccination Laws

Gabrielle Wolf, Ian Freckelton

(2023), pp. 0-0, Australian Public Health Law: Contemporary Issues and Challenges, Sydney, N.S.W., B1

book chapter

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

book chapter

How to Manage a Pandemic?: Decision-making Under the Public Health and Wellbeing Amendment (Pandemic Management) Act 2021 (Vic)

Gabrielle Wolf

(2023), Vol. 30, pp. 23-47, Journal of Law and Medicine, North Ryde, N.S.W., C1

journal article
2022

ADDRESSING THE IMPACT OF ANIMAL ABUSE: THE NEED FOR LEGAL RECOGNITION OF ABUSED PETS AS SENTIENT VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN AUSTRALIA

J Kotzmann, M Bagaric, G Wolf, M Stonebridge

(2022), Vol. 45, pp. 184-208, University of New South Wales Law Journal, C1

journal article

"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

journal article

Controlling the 'Invasion': The Commonwealth Alien Doctors Board and Medical Migrants in Australia, 1942-6

Gabrielle Wolf

(2022), Vol. 45, pp. 1449-1488, University of New South Wales Law Journal, Sydney, N.S.W., C1-1

journal article

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

journal article

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

journal article
2021

COVID-19 in Historical Context: Australian Legal and Regulatory Responses to Past Influenza Pandemics

Gabrielle Wolf

(2021), pp. 34-50, Pandemics, Public Health Emergencies and Government Powers: Perspectives on Australian Law, Alexandria, N.S.W., B1

book chapter

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

journal article

American exceptionalism at its finest: "soft on crime" now a vote-winner in the world's largest incarcerator

Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, Daniel McCord, Brienna Bagaric, Nick Fischer

(2021), Vol. 25, pp. 489-528, Lewis and Clark law review, Portland, Or., C1

journal article

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

journal article

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

journal article
2020

Sentencing Developments in the United States in 2019: Shifting from the "Tough on Crime" Mantra to (Seriously) Contemplating the Abolition of Prisons

Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, Daniel McCord

(2020), Vol. 44, pp. 54-70, CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL, C1

journal article

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

journal article

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

journal article

An argument for recognising childhood sexual abuse and physical abuse as a mitigating factor in sentencing

Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf

(2020), Vol. 49, pp. 1-25, Australian Bar Review, Chatswood, N.S.W., C1

journal article

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

journal article

Nothing seemingly works in sentencing: not mandatory penalties; not discretionary penalties-but science has the answer

Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, Daniel McCord

(2020), Vol. 53, pp. 499-544, Indiana law review, Indianapolis, Ind., C1

journal article
2019

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

journal article

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

journal article

United States Sentencing Developments: The World's Largest Mass Incarcerator Goes into Decarceration Mode

Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, Daniel McCord

(2019), Vol. 43, pp. 130-146, CRIMINAL LAW JOURNAL, C1

journal article

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

journal article

Professional reports for sentencing courts: recommendations for reporting on child exploitation material offenders' risk of recidivism and prospects for rehabilitation

M Proeve, G Wolf

(2019), Vol. 26, pp. 868-885, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, England, C1

journal article

A rational approach to sentencing offenders for animal cruelty: A normative and scientific analysis underpinning proportionate penalties for animal cruelty offenders

Mirko Bagaric, Jane Kotzmann, Gabrielle Wolf

(2019), Vol. 71, pp. 385-447, South Carolina Law Review, Columbia, S.C., C1

journal article

NOT BLACK AND WHITE?: DISCIPLINARY REGULATION OF DOCTORS CONVICTED OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY OFFENCES IN AUSTRALIA

Gabrielle Wolf

(2019), Vol. 45, pp. 487-529, MONASH UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW, C1

journal article
2018

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

journal article

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

journal article

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

journal article

Sentencing by computer: enhancing sentencing transparency and predictability, and (possibly) bridging the gap between sentencing knowledge and practice

Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf

(2018), Vol. 25, George Mason law review, Arlington, Va., C1

journal article

Mitigating America's mass incarceration crisis without compromising community protection: expanding the role of rehabilitation in sentencing

Mirko Bagaric, Gabrielle Wolf, William Rininger

(2018), Vol. 22, pp. 1-60, Lewis and Clark law review, Portland, Or., C1

journal article

Moritz Meyer and the Medical Board: preventing refugee doctors from practising medicine in Victoria, Australia, 1937-1958

G Wolf

(2018), Vol. 26, pp. 61-88, Journal of law and medicine, Rozelle, N.S.W., C1

journal article

Nice or nasty? Reasons to abolish character as a consideration in Australian sentencing hearings and professionals' disciplinary proceedings

Gabrielle Wolf, Mirko Bagaric

(2018), Vol. 44, pp. 567-601, Monash university law review, Clayton, Vic., C1

journal article
2017

Regulating health professionals

G Wolf

(2017), pp. 73-99, Health law: frameworks and context, Cambridge, Eng., B1

book chapter

Health privacy and confidentiality

D Mendelson, G Wolf

(2017), pp. 266-282, Tensions and traumas in health law, Annandale, N.S.W., B1

book chapter

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

journal article

Bringing sentencing into the 21st century: closing the gap between practice and knowledge by introducing expertise into sentencing law

M Bagaric, N Fischer, G Wolf

(2017), Vol. 45, pp. 785-850, Hofstra law review, Hempstead, N.Y., C1

journal article

Compelling Safety: Reforming Australian Treating Doctors' Mandatory Reporting Obligations

Gabrielle Wolf

(2017), Vol. 39, pp. 199-231, SYDNEY LAW REVIEW, C1

journal article
2016

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

journal article

"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

journal article
2015

A delayed inheritance: The Medical Board of Victoria's 75-year wait to find doctors guilty of "infamous conduct in a professional respect"

G Wolf

(2015), Vol. 22, pp. 568-587, Journal of law and medicine, North Ryde, N.S.W., C1-1

journal article
2014

Sticking up for Victoria? - Victoria's Legislative Council inquires into the performance of the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency

G Wolf

(2014), Vol. 40, pp. 890-919, Monash University law review, Melbourne, Vic., C1

journal article
2008

Make it Australian: the Australian Performing Group, the Pram Factory and new wave theatre

G Wolf

(2008), Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., A1-1

book

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

journal article
2004

Innocent convicts and respectable bushrangers: history and the nation in Melbourne melodrama, 1890‐1914

G Wolf

(2004), Vol. 28, pp. 73-81, Journal of Australian studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1

journal article
1996

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

journal article

Funded Projects at Deakin

Industry and Other Funding

European Medical Emigres in Tasmania and the Law 1933-1946

A/Prof Gabrielle Wolf

The Francis Forbes Society For Australian Legal History - Research Grant

  • 2023: $2,160

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