Rate My Professor Genevieve Grant

Associate Professor Genevieve Grant serves as Director of the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. She holds a PhD in public health and law from the University of Melbourne. Grant's research utilizes empirical methods to evaluate the performance of justice systems, encompassing the design and operation of dispute resolution, civil justice, and injury compensation systems. Her work spans dispute resolution, legal technology, injury compensation, legal ethics, and health law. She examines perspectives from diverse stakeholders, including lawyers, consumers of legal services, compensation claimants, online dispute resolution users, courts, family law disputants, medical examiners, and administrative decision-makers. Grant has a strong interest in employing administrative data to advance access to justice and boasts an extensive record of interdisciplinary partnerships with government agencies, courts, compensation schemes, regulators, and dispute resolution organizations.

Grant is co-author of Luntz & Hambly's Torts: Cases, Legislation and Commentary (LexisNexis, 10th ed., 2025) and Victorian Statutory Compensation Systems (LexisNexis, 2021, with Jason Taliadoros). Notable recent publications include "Australian coronial litigation: an empirical profile" with Naomi Burstyner (University of New South Wales Law Journal, 2025), "The accident preference, ‘unrigorous thinking’ and injury compensation schemes" with Harold Luntz (2024), "The case for expanded access to corporate registry data: empirical and comparative insights" with L. Buckley and J. Hardman (Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 2025), and "What are people's perspectives on different labels for neck pain after a motor vehicle crash?" with Y. Xie et al. (Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 2025). She leads prominent projects such as the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Better Health Outcomes After Compensable Injury (2022-2027), ARC Discovery Project Workers' Voice: Redesigning Workers' Compensation Using Participatory Systems Modelling (2023-2026), and ARC Discovery Project Redesigning Digital Justice (2025-2028). Grant has earned the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher (2017), Dean's Awards for Research Enterprise (2018 and 2021), and Faculty of Law Teaching Award (shared, 2025). Her external appointments include membership on the Consumer Panel of the Victorian Legal Services Board and the Maternity and Newborn Learning Health Network Data Group at Safer Care Victoria.