Rate My Professor Joanne Stagg

Joanne Stagg is a Lecturer at Griffith Law School, Griffith University, a position she has held since 2004. Located at the Gold Coast campus in room G36 3.79, she is the First Year Coordinator for the LLB program and convenes courses such as Torts 1 (7721LAW). She is contactable by phone at +61 (0)7 5552 7711. Stagg maintains an active academic profile on platforms including Griffith Experts, Google Scholar, ORCID (0000-0002-2622-9458), ResearchGate, and Academia.edu. She is currently a PhD candidate at Deakin University.

Stagg's research focuses on law, feminist theory, law and medicine, legal education, gender studies, gender identity, gender equality, masculinities, LGBT issues, and critical legal studies. Her publications address topics such as gendered identities in medical registries, consent in health policy, ethical conflicts in legal practice, innovative pedagogy in law schools, and military approaches to sexual violence. Key works include: 'Imagining Global Governments' (2025); 'Women, Peace, and Security: Getting Women in the Room Is a Start Not an End Goal' in Handbook of Women and International Law (2025); 'Well-intentioned but missing the point: the Australian Defence Force approach to addressing conflict-based sexual violence' co-authored with Tamsin Phillipa Paige (2021); 'Active Learning in Law by Flipping the Classroom: An Enquiry into Effectiveness and Engagement' co-authored with Kylie Burns, Mary Keyes, Therese Wilson, and Kate Van Doore (Legal Education Review, 2017); 'Australian Pap Smear Registers and the Creation of Gendered Identities' (Griffith Law Review, 2014); 'No need for ‘yes’: Australian Pap Smear Registers, consent and the (re-)creation of gendered identities' (Women's Studies International Forum, 2013); 'Lawyers' Business: Conflicts of Duties Arising from Lawyers' Business Models' (Legal Ethics, 2011); and 'Law, Gender and HPV Vaccination in Australia' (2016). Her scholarship has received 13 citations on ResearchGate.