Staff Profiles
Ms Erica Grundell
Senior Fellow (The Melbourne Law Masters)
Victorian Department of Health
Erica Grundell completed Arts and Honours Law degrees from the University of Melbourne in 1991. After a period in private practice, she worked for two years as solicitor to the Victorian Mental Health Review Board.
Since 1996, Erica has worked for the Victorian Government, providing legal policy advice to the Victorian Department of Human Services (DHS). Her work with DHS has included management of major legislative policy, review and reform projects for the Mental Health Branch, and her current position involves provision of legal policy advice to the Director of Mental Health.
Erica has a Masters degree in Law from the University of Melbourne. Her recent research has been focussed on the intersection of health law, ethics and policy and its implications for health practitioners, and her work has been published in the Monash Bioethics Review and in Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. She is previous co-author of the chapter on mental health law in the Victorian Lawyers' Practice Manual.
Teaching:
The Melbourne Law Masters:
