Rate My Professor Tamara Wilkinson

Dr Tamara Wilkinson is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, where she serves as a corporate, regulatory, and taxation scholar specialising in the design of government incentives and their analysis through doctrinal, economic, and comparative lenses. Her work has focused on incentives for innovation, venture capital investment, early-stage angel financing, private investment, and diversity in the Australian screen industry. She completed her PhD in Law at Monash University in 2022 with a thesis titled "Leading Practice in the Design of Government Venture Capital Incentives," passed with no amendments, following an LLB and BA in French from Monash in 2012. Wilkinson's engagement with Monash Law spans over a decade, beginning as an LLB Honours student, continuing as a research assistant on the ARC Discovery Project "Designing World Class Venture Capital Programs" led by Professor Stephen Barkoczy, and culminating in her current lecturing position after her doctorate.

She teaches a range of subjects across undergraduate, postgraduate, and masters levels, including her masters elective Private Investment Law—which she co-created—Corporations Law, Global Issues in International Trade and Finance, Australian Legal Research and Methods, and Lawyers' Ethics. Key publications include Private Investment Law (LexisNexis, 2025), Venture Capital Investment and Government Incentives: Law, Regulation, and Policy Design (Hart Publishing, 2024), Incentivising Angels: A Comparative Framework of Tax Incentives for Start-Up Investors (Springer, 2019, co-authored with Stephen Barkoczy), and Innovation and Venture Capital Law and Policy (Federation Press, 2016). Recent articles comprise "An appraisal of Australia’s corporate collective investment vehicles" (Australian Journal of Corporate Law, 2024) and a three-part series in Financial Services Newsletter (2025). Wilkinson received the Dean's Early Career Researcher Research Excellence Award in 2025. She chairs the Law Faculty's OHS Committee, acts as Events and Social Media Officer for the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies, served as Editor-in-Chief of The Laws of Australia, and contributes to peer review. Her research informs global policy on innovation funding, with media appearances on Sky News and AusBiz highlighting her expertise in corporate governance and regulation.