B Sc., LLB (Hons) (Monash), LLM (U. Cal (Berkeley)), PhD (Monash), GDipPsychStuds (Deakin), Admitted to practice (Vic).
Beth Gaze has degrees in science and law from Melbourne and Monash Universities and the University of California (Berkeley), where she held a Fulbright postgraduate student grant, and has been admitted to legal practice in Australia. She teaches Equality and Discrimination Law, Administrative Law and Legal Method and Reasoning at Melbourne Law School, and is a member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law and the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies.
Associate Professor Gaze's research interests are in anti-discrimination and equality law, feminist legal thought, and administrative law including tribunals, and she has a particular interest in socio-legal research including empirical research. She has held several ARC grants, and has conducted empirical research into the enforcement process under Australian federal anti-discrimination law. In 2009 Associate Professor Gaze was an expert consultant to the Victorian Parliament’s Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee in its Inquiry into the Exceptions and Exemptions in theEqual Opportunity Act 1995. She was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Gardner Review of the Equal Opportunity Act 1995 which reported in 2008.
Equality and anti-discrimination law with a focus on employment and work-family conflict.
Comparative equality and human rights laws and their administration
Tribunal processes and administration, including tribunal enforcement in discrimination law and in other areas such as social security and mental health.
Empirical and socio-legal research.
Other Faculty and University Responsibilities
Member, Research and Law Library Committee, Wellbeing Committee
Member and Co-Director of Studies, Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law,
Member, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies
Memberships and Affiliations
Member, Australian Institute of Administrative Law, Australian Labour Law Association, Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK), Discrimination Law Association (UK)
