Rate My Professor Heather Douglas

Douglas is a member of the Melbourne Alliance to End Violence Against Women and Their Children, serves on the editorial boards of Legalities: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Law and Society and Australian Feminist Studies, and acts as an ambassador for NOFASARD Australia. She contributes to the Australian Selection Committee for the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University since 2018 and assisted in the Indigenous Judgments Project. Her contributions have been honoured with the Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2022 for service to tertiary law education and the community, election as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law, the University of Melbourne Woodward Medal in 2025 for research excellence, and the 2021 Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand book prize for Women, Intimate Partner Violence and the Law (Oxford University Press, 2021). Other key publications include Indigenous Crime and Settler Law: White Sovereignty After Empire (co-authored with Mark Finnane, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Indigenous Legal Judgments: Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision Making (co-edited with Nicole Watson, Routledge, 2021). Her scholarship has influenced legislative and judicial reforms on domestic abuse.