Alysia Blackham is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the intersection between equality law, labour law, and public law, using socio-legal and empirical research methods to cast new light on legal problems. Alysia has published widely in the UK, Europe and Australia. Her books include Extending Working Life for Older Workers: Age Discrimination Law, Policy and Practice (Hart, 2016) - awarded second prize in the 2017 SLS Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship; and the 2020 ISA-RCSL Adam Podgórecki Junior Prize; Empirical Research and Workplace Discrimination Law (Brill, 2019); and Reforming Age Discrimination Law: Beyond Individual Enforcement (OUP, 2022). Alysia is the convener of the Empirical Research Network at Melbourne Law School; and of the Age Equality Working Group of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law.
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