Jacinta Dharmananda

Jacinta Dharmananda is a Senior Lecturer at the Law School of the University of Western Australia ('UWA'). She has contributed to several scholarly publications on statutory interpretation, and is co-author of the Council of Australian Law Deans Good Practice Guide to Teaching Statutory Interpretation (Council of Australian Law Deans, 2015). Her work on statutory interpretation has been cited by the High Court of Australia and shortlisted for the CALD 2020 Australian Legal Research awards (Article/Chapter ECR category). In 2017 she was the recipient of a Parliamentary Library Summer Research Scholarship to undertake research on legislation at the Parliamentary Library in Canberra. She is currently completing her doctorate at the Australian National University on the relationship between the legislative process and statutory interpretation law. In 2012 she designed, developed and taught an elective subject on statutory interpretation, a subject she has since taught to LLB and Juris Doctor students at UWA. In 2022 she designed, developed and commenced teaching to all Juris Doctor students a compulsory subject devoted to the interpretation of legal instruments, with a focus on statutory interpretation. Prior to joining UWA Law School, she worked as a commercial lawyer for over a decade in private practice and in-house in Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore and Tokyo.