Jeremy Boland

Jeremy Boland is a Lecturer at Melbourne Law School. He holds a BA and LLB (Hons) from the University of Adelaide, a BA (Hons) from the Australian National University, and an MA from the University of South Australia. He is admitted to legal practice in the Supreme Court of South Australia and the High Court of Australia.

Jeremy is a former corporate lawyer who became a volunteer youth worker and ended up working with justice involved young people and their families. He led a range of community service programs, including crisis accommodation, support services for women and children escaping domestic violence, strategic early intervention and prevention initiatives targeting the most disadvantaged families with 0-5 year olds, and camp-based leadership development programs for justice involved young men.

Jeremy also worked in youth justice and corrections policy, drafting government responses to human rights audits of closed environments and advising with respect to offender information management. He held a statutory oversight role at Australia’s first human rights prison, where he also led recruitment and workforce development activities, and designed and implemented values-based approaches to recruitment of Correctional Officers, including initiatives that successfully attracted and retained women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to uniformed roles.

Jeremy has extensive experience in legal recruitment, as well as over 20 years’ experience teaching Corporations Law, Administrative Law, Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Law Reform and Social Justice, and Criminology at several Australian universities, including the Australian National University where he taught for 20 years and designed and led several clinical legal education programs in partnership with juvenile justice and corrections institutions.

In recent years, Jeremy has been Head of Residence and College Dean at residential colleges affiliated with the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne. In these roles, Jeremy was responsible for strategic and operational leadership, as well as pastoral care and student wellbeing.

In addition to his current roles at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Catholic University where he teaches Criminology, Jeremy provides recruitment services to the Commonwealth Government, helping agencies deliver excellence and integrity in recruitment practice.

Jeremy believes relationships are central to positive learning outcomes. Accordingly, he is committed to fostering an open and welcoming classroom environment where he applies a “big picture” approach, helping students “connect the dots” by identifying, organising and harmonising foundational legal principles and ideas.

Jeremy is gearing up for a PhD focussed on the exercise of executive power and the impact of administrative decision-making on justice involved young men.