Professor Tony Foley is a leading scholar in the areas of institutional responses to criminal wrongdoing and restorative justice. He also conducts empirical research on the legal profession and lawyer well being. He has published widely in those fields and regularly presents his research at national and international conferences.
Tony sits as a Senior Member of the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal. He was the final Chair of the ACT Law Reform Advisory Council, the territory's peak law reform body, which ceased in 2019.
Appointments
Current
- Emeritus Professor, ANU College of Law
- Senior Member, ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal
Past
- Interim Pro Vice Chancellor, University Experience (2019-20)
- Chair, ACT Law Reform Advisory Council (2016-18)
- Director of Clinical Programs (2011-17)
- ACT Legal Aid, Duty Solicitor (2005-15)
- Associate Director Research ANU College of Law (2009-10)
- Law Society of the Australian Capital Territory, Member Complaints Committee (2007-12)
- Associate Director, ANU Legal Workshop (2004–06)
- Australian Capital Territory Government's Victims Assistance Board Member (2002-06)
Awards
| 2015 | Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) Australian Awards for University Teaching, Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning |
| 2014 | ANU Vice-Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning |
View more publications on the ANU Researchers website
Read selected publications in the ANU Digital Collection
View more publications on the ANU Researchers website
Read selected publications in the ANU Digital Collection
Research biography
Professor Tony Foley is a leading scholar in the areas of institutional responses to criminal wrongdoing, restorative justice and legal education and the legal profession. He has published widely in those fields and regularly presents his research at international conferences.
In 2014, Tony presented on restorative justice and institutional change at the European Forum for Restorative Justice Conference in Belfast and the Law and Society Association Conference in Minneapolis. His research on the ethics of legal practice (with Vivien Holmes, Margie Rowe and Stephen Tang) has been presented at many national and international conferences, including the 2013 Law on the Edge Conference in Vancouver (with Stephen Tang).
He has been a member of expert panels advising government. In 2012, he was an invited panel member on the HC Coombs Policy Forum advising the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department on legal assistance mechanisms and ADR policy development. As an expert in restorative justice, in 2011-12, he was also a member of the Evaluation Group of ACT Drug Programs.
Tony has been a visiting scholar at Dalhousie Law School in Canada and the ANU Regulatory Institutions Network and also sits as a Senior Member of the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
Research projects & collaborations
PROJECT LEADER:
TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PROJECT
This project examines the experiences of new lawyers in their first year of practice, specifically how they make the transition from student to lawyer and develop their professional identity.
Commissioned reports
- (with F Tito Wheatland, S Rice) 2016 ACT Law Reform Advisory Council Report into the Guardianship and Management of Property Act 1991
- (with F Tito Wheatland, and Council members) ACT Law Reform Advisory Council Report Canberra- becoming a restorative city (84pp) October 2018
Teaching awards
| 2015 | Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) Australian Awards for University Teaching, Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning |
| 2014 | ANU Vice-Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning |
