Jodie graduated from High School in Rockhampton, Queensland. She studied an Arts degree at Central Queensland University while working for the Queensland Police in the Communications Room. She went on to study law at Bond University and graduated with first class honours. In practice, she mainly worked for Legal Aid Queensland in Youth Justice. While at Legal Aid Queensland she was selected as an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development to Timor-Leste, which required acting in a capacity-building role in a law firm. Subsequently she completed her Masters in Law with High Distinction and started working full time in academia at Bond University. She started teaching at Central Queensland University in 2019. 

• Central Queensland University
• Bond University
• Australian National University
• Griffith University

• Central Queensland University
• Bond University
• QUT

2015: Finalist, Lawyer's Weekly Women in Law Award: Academic of the Year

2011: Winner, Stanley Shaw Bond Prize for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Law, Bond University

2011: Nominee, Bond University Vice-Chancellor's Quality Award for Teaching Excellence

2001: Una Prentice Prize (Women's Lawyers Association)

2000: Queensland Law Society Prize

Interviewed for ‘Adventure Therapy Proves Powerful Therapy with Troubled Teens’ broadcast 5 August 2016 on The World Today, ABC National Radio, see http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2016/s4514005.htm

2006-2018: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Bond University. Co-ordinated: Foundations of Public and Criminal Law, Criminal Law and Procedure B, International Criminal Law.

2005-2006: Senior Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Law, Bond University. Presented workshops in the Professional Legal Training Program

2003-2005: Adjunct Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Law, Bond University. Tutored in Criminal Law and Procedure A; Criminal Law and Procedure B; Evidence; and Civil Procedure

2003-2018: Academic at Bond University, Australia

2012: Scholar in Residence, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University, USA

2009: Project Officer - Homicide in Abusive Relationships, Gold Coast, Australia 

2001-2005: Legal Aid Queensland - Positions held in Counsel, Homeless Persons Legal Project, Cairns Regional Office and (mostly) at Youth Legal Aid

2002: Australian Youth Ambassador for Development, Timor-Leste

Admissions:

2007: Barrister, High Court of Australia

2003: Barrister, Supreme Court of Queensland

2001: Solicitor, Supreme Court of Queensland

2001: Legal Practitioner, Supreme Court of New South Wales

Current Memberships:

Australasian Law Teachers Association

Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law

Centre for Professional Legal Education

Global and Comparative Law and Policy Network

Center for International Governance and Justice, Regnet

Past (significant):

2016-2018: Member of the Toowoomba Regional Youth Advisory Committee

2013-2017: Co-Chair of the Youth Justice Subcommittee of the Law and Justice Institute of Queensland

2015-2017: Senator, Bond University Academic Senate

2009-2014: Deputy Director, Centre for Law, Governance and Public Policy, Bond University

2009-2014: Founding Chair, Thesis Support Group, Bond University Faculty of Law

2017: Invited by the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory to participate in a closed workshop in Alice Springs 23 February 2017.

2017: Cited in Final Report of the Victorian Legal and Social Committee's Inquiry into Youth Justice Centre's in Victoria; cited in the Final Report of the Queensland Law Reform Commission into Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes.

2016: Invited to give evidence at the oral hearing of the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee Inquiry on the Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015 (17 February 2016). Transcript available at https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/LACSC/2015/11-YouthJusticeAOLAB15/11-trns-17Feb2016.pdf.

2016: Cited in Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee, ‘Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016’ Report No. 29, 55thParliament (June 2016); Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee, ‘Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015’ Report No. 22, 55thParliament (March 2016); Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee, ‘Inquiry into a Possible Human Rights Act for Queensland’ Report No. 30, 55thParliament (June 2016)

2016: Co-authored book cited by the Western Australian Supreme Court

2015: Co-authored book cited by the Queensland Court of Appeal; journal article cited by the New South Wales Supreme Court

2014: Invited to give evidence at the oral hearing of the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee Inquiry on the Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2014 (3 March 2014). Transcript available on Hansard at https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/LACSC/2014/YouthJustice2014/trns-3Mar2014.pdf

2014: Co-authored journal article cited by Victorian Law Reform Commission Review of the Crimes (Mental Impairment and Unfitness to be Tried) Act 1997 Report (June 2014)

2013: Academic Advisor to Bond University's Finalist International Criminal Court Moot Team

2013: Co-authored chapter cited by South Australian Supreme Court; journal article cited by the Western Australian Court of Appeal

2012: Scholar in Residence, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University, USA

2011: Academic Advisor to Bond University's World Champion International Criminal Court Moot Team

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• O’Leary J, ‘Submission to the Parliament of Victoria Legal and Social Issues Committee’s Inquiry into Youth Justice Centres in Victoria’ (6 March 2017) available at http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/stories/committees/SCLSI/Youth_Justice_System/Submissions/Submission_24-Jodie_OLeary.pdf
• O’Leary J, Greene E and Field, R, ‘Submission in Response to the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme Review’ (3 February 2017) held by the Queensland Law Reform Commission
• O’Leary J and Taylor J for the Law and Justice Institute (Qld), ‘Submission in Response to the Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016’ (10 May 2016) available at https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/LACSC/2016/18-YouthJusticeAB16/submissions/013.pdf
• Taylor J and O’Leary J for the Law and Justice Institute (Qld), ‘Submission in Response to the Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015’ (22 January 2016) available at https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/LACSC/2015/11-YouthJusticeAOLAB15/submissions/013.pdf
• O’Leary J, ‘Submission in Response to the Human Rights Inquiry’ (19 April 2016) available at https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/documents/committees/LACSC/2015/14-HumanRights/submissions/483.pdf
• Watt BD, O’Leary J and O’Toole S, ‘Juvenile Fitness for Trial in Queensland: Formal Report’ (27 August 2014)
• O’Leary J, O’Toole S and Watt BD, ‘Submission to the Review of the Mental Health Act 2000’ (21 July 2014)
• O’Leary J and Taylor J for the Law and Justice Institute (Qld), ‘Additional Submission on behalf of the Law and Justice Institute in response to the Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2014’ (2014) available at https://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/work-of-committees/committees/LACSC/inquiries/past-inquiries/YouthJustice2014
• O’Leary J, Taylor J, Alexander T, Wight J, Bartholomew D and Benjamin J for the Law and Justice Institute (Qld), ‘Submission on behalf of the Law and Justice Institute in response to the Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2014’ (2014)
• O’Donovan D, O’Leary J and Watt BD, ‘Submission on behalf of the Centre for Law, Governance and Public Policy in response to the Youth Justice and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2014’ (2014)
• O’Leary J, Watt B, O’Toole S and Keyzer P, ‘Submission in Response to the Safer Streets Crime Action Plan – Youth Justice’ (2013)
• O’Leary J, ‘Submission in response to Department of Communities Review of the Juvenile Justice Act 1992’ (2007)
• Contributor to Legal Aid Queensland, Duty Lawyer Handbook (2004, 4thedn)
• Co-editor and Contributor to Juvenile Justice – A Legal Practitioners Guide (2003, 4thedn)

2011-2013: Editor, Bond Law Review

2009-2011: Editor, National Legal Eagle