Francesca Bartlett

Associate Professor Francesca Bartlett lectures in Ethics and the Legal Profession and Family Law. She is the Deputy Dean of the Law School. She is a Fellow of the Centre for Public, Comparative and International Law and researches in the area of lawyers' ethics and practice, access to justice and women and the law. She was a CI on the Australian Feminist Judgments Project funded by the Australian Research Council under a Discovery Project Grant. She is undertaking a number of projects relating to lawyers working across Australia including around family law and family violence, abuse of process and duty of competence, as well as legal professions in the Pacific. She has led a project concerning technology and access to justice in the legal assistance sector funded under an AIBE Applied Research Fund grant and was a CI on a project funded by the Queensland Law Society concerning disruption to and innovation by small law firms across Queensland. Francesca was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre on the Legal Profession at Stanford University in November 2018. She is the co-author (with Holmes) of textbook, Parker & Evans' Inside Legal Ethics in 2023 and forthcoming 2026. She also has an interest in clinical legal education and runs an international placement course funded by New Colombo Plan Mobility Grant funding. She is a member of the Queensland Law Society Ethics Advsory Committee and is the Vice President of the International Association of Legal Ethics. Francesca is an Academic Member of the School's Pro Bono Centre Advisory Board, and has held a senior administrative position as Director of teaching and Learning in the Law School. Before joining the Law School, she practiced for a number of years as a commercial solicitor at a national law firm in Melbourne and Brisbane. Socio-legal research into legal professionalism; Women and the Law; Lawyers' ethics; Family Law

[2023] What is 'good domestic violence lawyering'?: Views from specialist women's legal services in Australia [2023] Parker & Evans's Inside Lawyers' Ethics [2026] The Australian Legal Profession: regulatory liberalisation and increasing professional stratification [2026] Learning and reflecting across cultures: student insights into course design for virtual and in-person international legal placements [2026] Fighting Systems violence: feminist ethical practice [2026] Parker and Evans's inside legal ethics [2026] Reflecting on twenty-five years of legal ethics … and more [2025] Ethical mistakes about using AI in legal practice [2024] An empirical study of lawyers' capability to adapt to disruption in Queensland, Australia [2023] Trials in the public spotlight - lawyers' trial ethics [2023