Professional Profile of Professor Arie Freiberg, Dean of Law

Arie Freiberg was appointed as Dean of the Faculty Law at Monash University in January 2004. Prior to taking up this position, 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.

He 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 Australian and New Zealand School of Government.  Between 1996 and 1998 he was President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology.

His particular areas of expertise are sentencing and the administration of criminal justice. He has been a Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University and has served as a consultant to the Victorian, South Australian Western Australian and federal government on sentencing matters. In 2000 he served as a consultant to the South African Law Commission in its reference on sentencing and in 2002 he completed a major review of sentencing for the Victorian Attorney-General published as Pathways to Justice (Department of Justice, 2002). In 2003 he was appointed by the Minister for Community Services as a member of an independent panel to conduct a consultation on child protection in Victoria and in July 2004 was appointed Chair of the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council. He is currently a member of the Council of the Australian Institute of Judicial Administration.

He has over one hundred publications in areas such as sentencing, confiscation of proceeds of crime, tax compliance, corporate crime, juries, juvenile justice, sanctions, victimology, superannuation fraud, trust in criminal justice, commercial confidentiality in corrections, dangerous offenders, the role of emotion in criminal justice, drug courts, problem-oriented courts and non-adversarial justice. His major books are Sentencing: State and Federal Law in Victoria 2nd ed (with Richard Fox, OUP, 1999) and Sentencing Reform and Penal Change: The Victorian Experience (with Stuart Ross, Federation Press, 1999) and Penal Populism, Sentencing Councils and Sentencing Policy (ed with Karen Gelb, Hawkins Press, 2008).