Bartels, Lorana

Australian National University

Australia

Lorana Bartels holds Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws degrees from the University of NSW and a PhD from the University of Tasmania. She also holds a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education. Lorana is admitted to practice as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of NSW.

Lorana is currently Professor of Criminology in the Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University. She was previously Head of the School of Law and Justice at the University of Canberra. She has also held research and policy positions at the Family Court of Australia, the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, the NSW Attorney-General’s Office, the NSW Public Defenders Office and the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Lorana is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra and University of Tasmania and Life Member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a member of the editorial boards of the Alternative Law Journal; Criminal Law Journal; International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology; and SAGE Handbook of Domestic Violence.

Lorana publishes widely on a range of criminal justice issues, especially sentencing and corrections, and the treatment of Indigenous people and women in the criminal justice system.