Professor Tania Leiman
Professor and Dean of Law
College of Business, Government and Law
Appointed Dean of Law in 2017, Professor Tania Leiman pioneered the introduction in 2020 of Flinders Law's highly innovative new undergraduate law curriculum. She is committed to growing legal professionals who can identify opportunities for innovation, understand impacts of emerging technologies and use this knowledge and skill to increase access to justice. Justice requires a focus not just on law and regulation, but on awareness of rights and obligations, viability of economic opportunities for communities, participation and partnerships for shared governance and the sustainability of our environment.
Tania has received multiple individual and team national, university and faculty teaching excellence awards. She is a Teaching Specialist (Clinical Practitioner) with a focus on Clinical Legal Education.
Tania is the current Vice Chair (Legal Education), Council of Australian Law Deans.
Tania is a member of the award-winning Flinders Legal Centre's Executive Management and was a supervising solicitor there from 2012-2016.
Tania supervises honours students researching the legal implications of emerging technologies.
Her current interests include legal implications of future mobility solutions (including automated vehicles & advanced driver assistance systems [ADAS]), sex robots, ovulation apps and wearables, artificial intelligence and legal tech, and the future of legal education.
She has previously served as
- SA representative, National Advisory Board of the Australian Society for Computers and Law;
- invited member, National Transport Commission's Automated Vehicles Industry Insights Group;
- member, Legal sub-group, Australian Driverless Vehicle Initiative [ADVI]’s Policy & Risk Group.
Following an earlier career in private legal practice, Tania continues to undertake legal consultancy work, particularly in relation to legal implications of grey fleet & light fleet, and regulatory issues re future mobility technologies.
Publications available at orcid.org/0000-0002-3525-994X
LLB (Adel), GDLP (SAIT), GCE(HE) (Flinders), Prof Cert (Innovation for Transformation), GAICD
Tania is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court of South Australia and the High Court of Australia and holds a current unrestricted practising certificate.
2023 LSSA Bulletin Article of the Year
2022 LSSA Bulletin Article of the Year - pages 34-35
2020: CBGL Teaching & Learning Innovation Grant 'Digital Age Lab' (with Mark Ferraretto)
2018: Finalist, Academic of the Year, Lawyers Weekly Women in the Law Awards (Australia wide)
2016: Australian Awards for University Teaching: Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning - $10,000 Prize [Team award - Flinders Legal Advice Clinic -'For creating inspirational and transformative clinical legal education that motivates students to develop an ethical professional identity, while acquiring high quality practical skills'
2016-2018: Team member, Flinders Legal Advice Clinic, Law Foundation Grant $100,000
2013-2015: Team member, Flinders Legal Advice Clinic, Law Foundation Grant $100,000
2014: VC's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Flinders University - $5,000 Prize [Team award - Flinders Legal Advice Clinic]
2014: Flinders University, 'Embedding Transition Pedagogy and Principles across First Year Curriculum Grants’ - $4,000 grant [Team grant - Flinders Legal Advice Clinic]
2014: EHL Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Flinders University [Team award - Flinders Legal Advice Clinic] - $3,000 prize
2013: Finalist, LexisNexis Lecturer of the Year Award (Australia wide)
2011-12: EHL Faculty Scholar - $10,000 Grant
2011: Flinders Law Students' Association 'Hope' Award - inaugural winner
2011: ALTC Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning - $10,000 Prize [Individual award - 'For sustained excellence in teaching that supports, empowers and inspires first year law students to engage with law']
2010: VC's Award for Excellence in Teaching, Flinders University - $5,000 Prize
2010: EHL Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Flinders University [Individual award] - $3,000 Prize
2009: School of Social Work and Social Policy Faculty Sessional Staff Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of South Australia
Vice Chair (Legal Education) and member of Executive, Council of Australian Law Deans
Council Member, Law Society of South Australia Council (ex officio as Dean of Law)
Member, The Law Foundation of South Australia Inc. (ex officio as Dean of Law)
Member, Legal Practitioners Education and Admission Council (ex officio as Dean of Law)
Member, Management Team, Flinders LegalCentre
Member:
- Australian Institute of Company Directors AAICD
- International Bar Association & Internation Bar Association Academic and Professional Development Committee
- The Australian Society for Computers & Law (National Advisory Board, SA member)
- Automated Vehicles Industry Insights Group, National Transport Commission, (Invited member)
- Australian Driverless Vehicles Initiative [ADVI] Policy and Risk Group (former Chair, Legal Subgroup)
- Australasian Cyber Law Institute
- Law Foundation of South Australia Inc. Board (ex-officio)
- Legal Practitioners Education and Admission Council (ex-officio)
- Law Society of South Australia Council (ex-officio)
- Law Society of South Australia Legal Technology Committee
- Council of Australian Law Deans
- Vice-Chair, Legal Education, Council of Australian Law Deans Executive
- Law Council of Australia
- Australian Lawyers Alliance
- Australian Law Academics Assocation
- Australasian Legal Practice Management Association
- Innovation & Enterprise Community of Practice, Flinders University
- Flinders College of Distinguished Educators
- Wellness Network for Law
- Australasian Legal Practice Management Association
- Flinders Blockchain Alliance (co- founder)
Former Co-convenor
- Legal Education Associate Deans' Network
- First Year Law Teachers Community of Practice, Flinders University
Former member:
- Families and Communities Research Ethics Committee, Department for Communities and Social Inclusion, Government of South Australia
- Faculty of Education Humanities and Law Disability Academic Advisor, Flinders University
- Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee, Flinders University
- Research Ethics Committee, Tabor College
- Higher Education Research Group of Adelaide (Chair, Journal Working Group)
- First Year Community of Practice, Flinders University
- Law
- Automated vehicles
- Disruption in legal profession
- Future mobility
- Hyperloop Technology (legal and regulatory implications)
- Legal implications re Grey Fleet and light fleet
- Mobility as a Service/Transport as a Service
- Ovulation apps and wearables
- Sex Robots
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