Qualifications 

Bachelor of Arts - Central Queensland University 

Bachelor of Laws (Honors) - Bond University 

Graduate Diploma Legal Practice - College of Law 

Master of Laws (High Distinction) - Bond University 

Jodie completed her LLB with first class honours, obtaining numerous awards, including
the Women's Lawyers Association Prize and the Queensland Law Society Prize. 

She was admitted originally as a Legal Practitioner in New South Wales in 2001 and
subsequently as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland. The majority of her work
in practice was at Legal Aid Queensland, dealing with juvenile offenders. While at Legal
Aid she took the opportunity to work at a Community Legal Centre in East Timor as an
Australian Youth Ambassador for Development. 

She joined Bond full time in 2005 and simultaneously completed her Masters with High
Distinction. 

She is currently a doctoral candiate at ANU, focusing on institutional responsibility in
transitional justice (specifically looking at Timor-Leste). 

Articles

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Editorial: Autumn 2011 (with Tina Hunter), The National Legal Eagle (2011)
 

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Twelve angry peers or one angry judge: An analysis of judge alone trials in Australia, Criminal law journal (2011)

Recently, New South Wales amended its legislation to provide for judicial discretion when determining, upon...

 

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Inspiring or undermining confidence? Amendments to the right to judge alone trials in the ACT, Canberra law review (2011)

Extract:
On 23 June 1964, a patent was granted for the Hula Hoop.1 The same date...

 

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Editorial: Spring 2010 (with Tina Hunter), The National Legal Eagle (2010)
 

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Editorial: Autumn 2010 (with Tina Hunter), The National Legal Eagle (2010)
 

Books

Principles of sentencing (with Geraldine Mackenzie and Nigel Stobbs), Law papers (2010)

Sentencing of offenders is often described as a difficult task, requiring as it does the...

 

Book Chapters

Ensuring a fair trial for an accused in a digital era: Lessons for Australia (with Elizabeth Greene), The courts and the media: Challenges in the era of digital and social media (2012)

Extract:
Technological advances in reporti/tg, based upon the ever widening platform of the internet, will inevitably...

 

Non-custodial and substitutional sentencing options, Australian sentencing principles (2010)