Dr Tamara Tulich

Dr Tamara Tulich is a senior lecturer in the UWA Law School, researching preventive justice, anti-terror lawmaking and indefinite detention regimes. She is particularly interested in the emerging field of preventive justice scholarship, and the legal, policy, and human rights implications of ‘prevention’ in contemporary lawmaking. 

Before turning to academia, Dr Tulich practised as a solicitor at the Mental Health Advocacy Service at New South Wales Legal Aid and served as Associate to Chief Justice Higgins AO of the ACT Supreme Court. She later completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales as a member of the ARC Laureate Fellowship project ‘Anti-Terror Laws and the Democratic Challenge’ in the Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law.

Dr Tulich’s research contributes to law reform to deliver better outcomes for people in contact with the justice system. Her current collaborative projects include working on a review and evaluation of Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime Legislation in Western Australia, NSW and Queensland.

She is also working on expanding diversionary pathways out of the criminal justice system for Aboriginal youth with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders,  including through court-based innovations and reform to WA’s mentally impaired accused legislation.