Overview
Donna Askew is a Lecturer at Melbourne Law School Clinics where she coordinates and teaches into Public Interest Law Clinic (PILC) and the Climate Resilience Clinic (CRC). Donna is also a Strategic Advisor at Eastern Community Legal Centre, one of Australia’s leading and largest community legal centres. There, she provides strategic partnership and community engagement advice and supports the provision of legal help to community at risk of climate change impacts.
Donna has a wide-ranging background in access to justice service innovation, including establishing cross-sector partnerships in the higher education, health justice and integrated practice settings. Donna regularly presents on access to justice issues both locally and internationally, with a focus on working with legal capability at the entry point to legal assistance sector service provision.
Prior to coming to the Law School, Donna was the Director of Partnerships & Community Engagement at Eastern Community Legal Centre, having worked in the legal assistance sector for over a decade. Donna is admitted to legal practice in Victoria.
Teaching (2026)
The Melbourne JD