Rate My Professor Jacqueline Weinberg

Dr Jacqueline Weinberg is the Academic Director of Springvale Monash Legal Service, Director of Clinical Units, Lecturer in Law and Clinical Practice Supervisor, and Senior Lecturer in Springvale Monash Legal Services at Monash University Faculty of Law. Committed to education and academic pursuits for over 30 years, she holds a BA, HDE, LLB, LLM, and PhD from Monash University, awarded on 24 June 2020. Her PhD thesis, titled ‘An Exploration of Alternative Dispute Resolution in Clinical Legal Education’, was funded by an Australian Postgraduate Award in 2016. A graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD), she has served as a clinical educator in the Monash Clinical Program since 2009, supervising students in live-client clinics that provide free legal advice to vulnerable communities.

Weinberg specializes in clinical legal education, with research interests in teaching alternative dispute resolution skills in Australian clinics, enhancing social justice learning, technology and access to justice via virtual legal clinics and Law Tech Clinics, and wellbeing in clinical legal education. She has established Technology and the Law clinics and AI and the Law clinics in collaboration with legal industry stakeholders. Key publications include the edited book Wellness for Law: Reflecting on the Past Shaping the Future (LexisNexis, 2025, co-edited with J. Marychurch and K. Fischer-Doherty), the chapter ‘Technological dimensions of clinical legal education - necessity and opportunity’ in Global Clinical Legal Education (Routledge, 2025), ‘Innovative opportunities in technology and the law: the Virtual Legal Clinic’ in Teaching Legal Education in The Digital Age (Routledge, 2023), ‘Lessons learned from remote delivery: supervision and the student experience’ (International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 2023), and ‘The Law Tech Clinic: leading the way in entrepreneurial law clinics’ (International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 2023). Her contributions have earned Faculty of Law Teaching Awards in 2020 and 2019, the Faculty of Law Teaching Award for Educational Leadership in 2021, a 2018-2019 Teaching Award, and the Faculty Teaching Award for Excellence in Experiential Learning in 2018. A core member of the ADR Research Network, she has presented at international conferences such as International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conferences and National Wellness for Law Forums, and organized the 2025 IJCLE Conference and 2024 Wellness for Law Forum, influencing experiential legal education globally.