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Jeff Giddings
Director of Clinical Legal Education Faculty of Law, Griffith University Brisbane Australia |
Jeff Giddings is the Director of Clinical Legal Education at the Faculty of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane Australia. He has been involved in legal aid and community legal centres in Australia for more than 15 years as a practitioner, manager and researcher. He has worked at Springvale Legal Service, Fitzroy Legal Service and West Heidelberg Community Legal Service in Victoria and currently directs clinical legal education programs run with Caxton Legal Centre. Jeff served 2 terms as a Commissioner of the Legal Aid Commission of Victoria from 1987-1990 and 1992-1994.
Jeff edited the monograph, Legal Aid in Victoria: At the Crossroads: At the Crossroads Again published in 1998. With Professor Rosemary Hunter, he received an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant (2003-2005) for the project, Australian Innovation in Legal Aid Services: Balancing Cost and Client Needs. Also with Professor Hunter, he is completing research for National Legal Aid on Self Represented Litigants in the Family Court and Legal Aid. In 2000, he was a member of a group, which completed a consultancy for the Australian Federal Attorney-General's Department to research the delivery of primary dispute resolution services by legal aid commissions. With his colleague, Michael Robertson, Jeff is involved in ongoing research related to the development and use of self-help legal services in both the public and private sectors. Jeff is Director of the Lawyers, Legal Services and Legal Education Research Program of the Socio-Legal Research Centre, based in the Griffith Law Faculty.
In 1999, Jeff was the joint winner of the Australian Award for University Teaching in Law and Legal Studies as well as receiving the Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2001, Jeff and his clinical teaching colleague, Barbara Hook received the Griffith Award for Excellence in Team Teaching. From 2001 to 2003, he has also been a member of the team delivering a national training program on the use of child-centred practices in family law for the Australian Federal Attorney-General's Department.