Ms Molly Townes O'Brien
AB Brown University; JD Northeastern University School of Law; LLM Temple University
Associate Professor of Law; Director of Teaching and Learning ANU College of Law
ANU College of Law
T:
6125-0437
Areas of expertise
- Access To Justice 180102
- Human Rights And Justice Issues 220104
- Criminal Law And Procedure 180110
- Education Assessment And Evaluation 130303
- Civil Law And Procedure 180104
- Litigation, Adjudication And Dispute Resolution 180123
- Law 1801
- Other Law And Legal Studies 1899
Publications
- Levy, R, O'Brien, M, Rice, S et al 2017, 'Introduction', in (ed.), New Directions for Law in Australia: Essays in Contemporary Law Reform, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 1-10.
- Colbran , S, Douglas, R, Jackson, S et al. 2016, Civil Procedure, LexisNexis Butterworths, Melbourne, Victoria.
- O'Brien, M 2016, 'Connecting law students to health and wellbeing', in Rachel Field, James Duffy, Colin James (ed.), Promoting law student and lawyer well-being in Australia and beyond, Routledge, Oxon, United Kingdom, pp. 158-168.
- Colbran , S, Spender, P, Douglas, R et al. 2015, Civil procedure: commentary and materials (6th ed), LexisNexis, Australia.
- Lineweaver, CH & O'Brien, M 2015, 'The Cosmic Context of the Millenium Development Goals: Maximum Entropy and Sustainability', in Dr Tom Faunce (ed.), Nanotechnology For a Secure and Sustainable Future, Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore.
- O'Brien, M, Leiman, T & Duffy, J 2014, 'The Power of Naming: the Multifaceted value of learning students' names', QUT Law Review (University of Queensland Law Review), vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 114-128.
- O'Brien, M 2014, 'Legal Education as a Meaningful Struggle', Wellness for Law Forum, QUT Faculty of Law, Brisbane Australia.
- O'Brien, M 2014, 'CONNECTING LAW STUDENT WELLBEING TO SOCIAL JUSTICE, PROBLEM-SOLVING AND HUMAN EMOTIONS', QUT Law Review (University of Queensland Law Review), vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 52-62.
- O'Brien, M & Bailey, P 2014, 'Mother Tongue Education as a Legal Right for Indigenous Children', in Elke Stracke (ed.), Intersections: Applied Linguistics as a Meeting Place, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 312-329.
- O'Brien, M 2014, 'The Learning Journey: Please Take Me with You', Adelaide Law Review, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 23-34.
- Connolly, A & O'Brien, M 2014, 'The Challenge of the How: Developing a Process for Legal Education Program Renewal', in L Wolff, M Nicolae (ed.), The First-year Law Experience: A New Beginning, Halstead Press, Braddon, ACT, pp. 117-129.
- O'Brien, M 2013, 'Bring Your Whole Self to Law School', National Wellness for Law Forum, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
- O'Brien, M 2013, 'PRESENTATION - Perspectives on Criminal Prosecution and Identity'.
- O'Brien, M 2013, 'SEMINAR - Enriching Legal Education Globally: The Role of Curriculum and Legal Methodology'.
- O'Brien, M 2013, 'PRESENTATION - From Plessy to Present: Desegregation and the Struggle for Equal Schooling'.
- O'Brien, M & Tang, S 2013, 'Stop struggling for the struggle's sake: Make it meaningful', The International First Year in Higher Education Conference, The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, New Zealand, pp. 1-10.
- O'Brien, M 2013, 'Connecting law student wellbeing to social justice, problem solving and human emotions', National Wellness for Law Forum, University of Melbourne, Melbourne.
- O'Brien, M & Tang, S 2013, Law school too hard? Why the struggle could be a good one. The Conversation.
- O'Brien, M 2012, 'Criminal Law's Tribalism', Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 31-50.
- O'Brien, M, Tang, S & Hall, K 2011, 'No time to lose: Negative impact on law student wellbeing may begin in year one', International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, vol. 2, no. 2012, pp. 49-60.
- Rice, S & O'Brien, M 2009, Inquiry into Access to Justice.
- O'Brien, M, Tang, S & Hall, K 2011, 'Changing Our Thinking: Empirical Research on Law Student Wellbeing, Thinking Styles and the Law Curriculum', Legal Education Review, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 149-182.
- O'Brien, M., Tang, S. & Hall, K. 2011 'No Time to Lose: Negative Impact on Law Student Wellbeing May Begin in Year One', The International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, Vol. 2, No.2, pp. 49-60, 2011
- O'Brien, M 2011, 'Facing Down The Gladiators: Addressing Law School's Hidden Adversarial Curriculum ', Monash Law Review, vol. 37, no. 1.
- O'Brien, M 2011, 'An Active Learning Smorgasbord for Teaching Evidence', Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, vol. 4, no. 1 & 2, pp. 31-40.
- O'Brien, M 2011, 'Walking the Walk: Using Student-Faculty Dialogue to Change an Adversarial Curriculum', Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, vol. 4, no. 1 & 2, pp. 129-135.
- Hall, K, O'Brien, M & Tang, S 2010, 'Developing a Professional Identity in Law School: A View from Australia', Phoenix Law Review, vol. 4, no. 19, pp. 19-50.
- O'Brien, M 2009, 'Desegregation and the Struggle for Equal Schooling: Rolling the Rock of Sisyphus', in Maurice R. Dyson, Daniel B. Weddle (ed.), Our Promise: Achieving Educational Equality for America's Children, Carolina Academic Press, North Carolina, USA, pp. 3-24.
- O'Brien, M & Hall, K 2009, 'Alternative Dispute Resolution', in S. Colbran, G. Reinhardt, P. Spender, S. Jackson, R. Douglas, M. Townes O'Brien (ed.), Civil Procedure: Commentary and Materials (4th ed), LexisNexis, Australia, pp. 62-120.
- O'Brien, M & Littrich, J 2008, 'Using Assessment Practice to Evaluate the Legal Skills Curriculum', Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 61-76.
- O'Brien, M 2008, 'Exploring The Group-Identity Function of Criminal Law', Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference 2008, ed. Chris Cunneen & Michael Salter, SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Sydney, Australia, pp. 285-310.
- O'Brien, M 2006, 'Essay Review: Final Test and Class and Schools', Educational Studies, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 77-83.
- O'Brien, M 2004, 'Brown on the Ground: A Journey of Faith in Public Schooling', University of Toledo Law Review, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 813-839.
- O'Brien, M & Woodrum, A 2004, 'The Constitutional Common School', Cleveland State Law Review, vol. 51, pp. 581-642.
- O'Brien, M 2003, 'At the Intersection of Public Policy and Private Process: Court-Ordered Mediation and the Remedial Process in School Funding Litigation', Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution (JDR), vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 391-438.
