Robyn Pettit

Lecturer

BA, LLB (Macq), LLM (Syd), GradCertHighEd (UTS), Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and the High Court of Australia.

Academic Profile

Robyn Pettit was a foundation member of the teaching team when the Faculty's in-house Practical Legal Training (PLT) commenced in 1996. Prior to this, she taught in the Litigation section at the College of Law from 1990- 1996.

Robyn was admitted as a solicitor in 1985 and worked in suburban private practice and for the Legal Aid Commission (Bankstown and Parramatta Offices) in the years immediately following. She has also taught in Hong Kong.

Robyn has been Director, UTS Community Law and Research Centre, which has provided students with the opportunity to develop their intellectual and professional skills in a real-life environment. In 2003, she spent 5 months assisting the Law Faculty, University of the South Pacific in Vanuatu further develop its local legal research systems and helped in the delivery of the subject, Law Clinic at both the University and at the Community legal Centre in Port Vila.

Robyn is currently taking an active role in the Faculty's curriculum review- in particular, the ways in which legal skills training can be best fostered during the law degree program.