Dr. Angelo Capuano

Dr Angelo Capuano is a legal educator and socio-legal scholar at Central Queensland University, where he is a Lecturer in Law, the College of Law's First Year Student Coordinator and Co-Coordinator of Research. He teaches Contracts and Professional Legal Conduct.

Angelo holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University, a Bachelor of Civil Law (a postgraduate degree) from the University of Oxford, where he was financially supported by a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, and a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from Victoria University. Before entering academia, he worked as a government lawyer and court researcher in the Victorian government and as a Judge's Associate at the Federal Court of Australia.

Angelo's interdisciplinary research maps new and emerging workplace inequalities in the digital age, drawing on doctrinal, conceptual and quantitative methods. He is the author of the monograph Class and Social Background Discrimination in the Modern Workplace: Mapping Inequality in the Digital Age (Bristol University Press, 2023), and his work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals including the UNSW Law Journal. His research on the concept of 'social origin' discrimination has been cited in court and tribunal decisions, most notably in a majority judgment by eight judges of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Angelo translates his research on bias and AI into practical outcomes, delivering training as a consultant to private practice and government in the legal sector. He has written for The Conversation and provided expert commentary on ABC Radio National, and featured in various other media outlets.

Angelo's lived experience in Melbourne's traditionally working-class western suburbs, together with permanently reduced vision following a ruptured corneal transplant, uniquely informs his ongoing work on disadvantage and intersectional discrimination in the digital age.