Overview
Lucinda is a Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellow in the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law. Her postdoctoral project, commencing in 2024, will be an interdisciplinary study of bankruptcy in Australian law and literature from 1788 to the present.
Lucinda joined the Centre as a Research Fellow in 2014, collaborating with Professor Ian Ramsay and Associate Professor Paul Ali on a major empirical study of Australia’s personal insolvency laws. This study considered the extent to which bankruptcy and debt agreements offer effective relief to people experiencing severe financial hardship. More recently, Lucinda worked with Professors Ramsay and Ali on the Harmful Financial Products Project. This wide-ranging empirical study examined a number of non-mainstream financial products, such as pawn loans, buy-now-pay-later services and point-of-sale credit. It explored the potential for these products to cause harm, particularly to vulnerable consumers.
Prior to joining the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law, Lucinda worked in the community legal sector, where she specialised in civil law policy and access to justice issues. She has practised as a solicitor and served as a judge’s associate in the Supreme Court of Victoria. Lucinda has also taught and lectured in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. She holds Honours degrees in Arts and Law from the University of Melbourne and was awarded her PhD in 2019.