Rate My Professor Tony Foley

Professor Tony Foley is an Emeritus Professor in the ANU College of Law at the Australian National University, within the Law faculty. He earned a BA, LLM (Hons), Master of Dispute Resolution (Distinction), and PhD from ANU. A leading scholar in institutional responses to criminal wrongdoing, restorative justice, legal education, the legal profession, and lawyer wellbeing, Foley has published extensively in these fields. Notable publications include 'Lawyer wellbeing, workplace experiences and ethics: a research report' (2025, with V. Holmes, J. Webb, S. Tang, S. Ainsworth), 'Sexual Harassment & Legal Profession Regulation: Is Strengthening Ethical Culture the Answer?' (2021, Law Institute Journal, with V. Holmes, T. Foley, J. Webb, S. Ainsworth), 'Ethical Climate, Job Satisfaction and Wellbeing: Observations from an Empirical Study of New Australian Lawyers' (2020, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, with S. Tang, V. Holmes), 'Ethical misconduct by new Australian lawyers: prevalence and prevention' (2020, International Journal of the Legal Profession, with S. Tang, V. Holmes), and 'Changing institutional culture in the wake of clerical abuse–the essentials of restorative and legal regulation' (2019, Contemporary Justice Review). He also co-authored ACT Law Reform Advisory Council reports: 'Becoming a restorative city' (2018) and a report on the Guardianship and Management of Property Act 1991 (2016, with F. Tito Wheatland, S. Rice).