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Arie Freiberg

Faculty: Expert contributors

Australia

Areas of expertise

  • Non-adversarial justice
  • Regulation
  • Sentencing

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Professor Arie Freiberg AM holds an Adjunct Faculty appointment at ANZSOG and is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. He is one of Australia’s foremost experts on sentencing and the criminal justice system and has published widely from both a national and international perspective. He has been Chair of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council since 2004 and of the Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Council since 2013.

His particular areas of expertise are sentencing, non-adversarial justice and regulation. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (2014) and Tel Aviv University (2008) and has served as a consultant to the Federal, Victorian, South Australian and Western Australian governments on sentencing matters as well as the Australian and South African Law Reform Commissions. In 2015 he consulted to the Royal Commission on Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Contexts on sentencing issues and in 2016 he was a consultant to the Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General on drug courts. He has also consulted for a number of state government agencies and departments on regulatory reform.

Professor Freiberg graduated from the University of Melbourne with an honours degree in Law and a Diploma in Criminology in 1972 and holds a Master of Laws degree from Monash University. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Melbourne in 2001 and is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Academy of Law and holds an Adjunct Faculty appointment in the Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand School of Government. Between 1996 and 1998, he was President of the Australian and Aotearoa-New Zealand Society of Criminology. In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his service to law, particularly in the fields of criminology and reform related to sentencing, to legal education and academic leadership.

Arie Freiberg is an Emeritus Professor at Monash University. He was Dean of the Faculty of Law at Monash University between 2004 and 2012. Before this, he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne in 2003. He was appointed to the Foundation Chair of Criminology at the University of Melbourne in January 1991 where he served as Head of the Department of Criminology between January 1992 and June 2002. In 2013 he was appointed an Emeritus Professor of Monash University.

Professor Freiberg’s experience in postgraduate teaching includes teaching into Masters degrees at both Monash and Melbourne universities since the 1990s in subjects relating to sentencing and regulation as well as teaching at the JD level at Harvard University in non-adversarial justice (2014). He has taught the ANZSOG EMPA subject Governing by the Rules since 2008. As dean, he led a curriculum review in the Faculty of Law, Monash University in 2010-11.

Career Highlights:

Member of the Order of Australia for services to law
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences
Fellow of the Australia Academy of Law
Past Dean, Faculty Law, Monash University (2004-2012)
Past Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
Foundation Chair of Criminology at the University of Melbourne
Past President of the Australian and Aotearoa-New Zealand Society for Criminology.
Consultant to Australian governments on sentencing matters, child sex abuse and drug courts
Over 170 publications covering the fields of sentencing, non-adversarial justice, criminology, regulatory practice and regulatory theory.