Felicity Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 6691212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felicity Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felicity |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL F |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7913-9176 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Becoming, Doing, Being
The legal profession offers its members a special identity in exchange for prolonged education and regulatory oversight. This article explores how the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) challenges that promise – particularly for new entrants – and the profession’s meaning and value. A key contribution of the article is to bridge two bodies of scholarship: the literature on institutional change (professional versus/and other l…
HIV knowledge and protective factors among racial-ethnic minority youth
Due to systemic racism and homophobia, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer (LGBQ+) youth of color are disproportionately affected by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) / AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) and viral hepatitis (VH). Innovative approaches that acknowledge strengths such as ethnic identity need to be examined to understand specific protective factors that can support LGBQ+ youth of color. This study aimed to examine the moderati…
Transforming the legal profession
A lively debate progresses about change to the professions, including law, especially change in the form of managerialism. ‘Managerialism’ covers the methods and beliefs of managers within organisations, used to actively influence, evaluate, and ‘market’ professional work. But what about when that managerialism is change itself? How do we understand managerialism-as-change? This paper reports on an interview study with change managers, or ‘transf…
Legal Project Management
Post-Global Financial Crisis, global law firms and in-house departments have started to take up ‘Legal Project Management’ (LPM). LPM adopts and adapts project management methods for the law context as a means of streamlining, planning and costing legal work. This article examines LPM as an aspiring driver of managerialist change within the legal profession. In its reframing of all legal matters as ‘projects’, LPM is also an example of a more spe…
The Ethical AI Lawyer
This article focuses on individual lawyers’ responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their practice. More specifically, it examines the ways in which a lawyer’s ethical capabilities and motivations are tested by the rapid growth of automated systems, both to identify the ethical risks posed by AI tools in legal services, and to uncover what is required of lawyers when they use this technology. To do so, we use psychologist James Rest’s …
Empirical research in law
Undertaking empirical research in law can be a daunting task, one for which current undergraduate and postgraduate legal education does not provide a great deal of preparation. Yet the ability to undertake such research is valuable and, some suggest, in demand. Many areas of law, its operation and effects, can be usefully informed by empirical research. This article suggests that the benefits of empiricism are both pragmatic or policy-driven, and…
Outcomes of Child-Inclusive Mediation
This article presents the findings of a small qualitative study of child-inclusive mediation concerning parenting arrangements after separation. Fourteen parents who had undertaken child-inclusive mediation, and a comparison group of 19 parents who had engaged in mediation without their children being involved, were asked about the outcomes of the mediation process. The parents had all undertaken mediation through Family Relationship Centres in c…
Outcomes of Child-Inclusive Mediation
This article presents the findings of a small qualitative study of child-inclusive mediation concerning parenting arrangements after separation. Fourteen parents who had undertaken child-inclusive mediation, and a comparison group of 19 parents who had engaged in mediation without their children being involved, were asked about the outcomes of the mediation process. The parents had all undertaken mediation through Family Relationship Centres in c…
Outcomes of Child-Inclusive Mediation
This article presents the findings of a small qualitative study of child-inclusive mediation concerning parenting arrangements after separation. Fourteen parents who had undertaken child-inclusive mediation, and a comparison group of 19 parents who had engaged in mediation without their children being involved, were asked about the outcomes of the mediation process. The parents had all undertaken mediation through Family Relationship Centres in c…
Empirical research in law
Undertaking empirical research in law can be a daunting task, one for which current undergraduate and postgraduate legal education does not provide a great deal of preparation. Yet the ability to undertake such research is valuable and, some suggest, in demand. Many areas of law, its operation and effects, can be usefully informed by empirical research. This article suggests that the benefits of empiricism are both pragmatic or policy-driven, and…
The Ethical AI Lawyer
This article focuses on individual lawyers’ responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their practice. More specifically, it examines the ways in which a lawyer’s ethical capabilities and motivations are tested by the rapid growth of automated systems, both to identify the ethical risks posed by AI tools in legal services, and to uncover what is required of lawyers when they use this technology. To do so, we use psychologist James Rest’s …
Legal Project Management
Post-Global Financial Crisis, global law firms and in-house departments have started to take up ‘Legal Project Management’ (LPM). LPM adopts and adapts project management methods for the law context as a means of streamlining, planning and costing legal work. This article examines LPM as an aspiring driver of managerialist change within the legal profession. In its reframing of all legal matters as ‘projects’, LPM is also an example of a more spe…
Transforming the legal profession
A lively debate progresses about change to the professions, including law, especially change in the form of managerialism. ‘Managerialism’ covers the methods and beliefs of managers within organisations, used to actively influence, evaluate, and ‘market’ professional work. But what about when that managerialism is change itself? How do we understand managerialism-as-change? This paper reports on an interview study with change managers, or ‘transf…
HIV knowledge and protective factors among racial-ethnic minority youth
Due to systemic racism and homophobia, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer (LGBQ+) youth of color are disproportionately affected by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) / AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) and viral hepatitis (VH). Innovative approaches that acknowledge strengths such as ethnic identity need to be examined to understand specific protective factors that can support LGBQ+ youth of color. This study aimed to examine the moderati…
Becoming, Doing, Being
The legal profession offers its members a special identity in exchange for prolonged education and regulatory oversight. This article explores how the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) challenges that promise – particularly for new entrants – and the profession’s meaning and value. A key contribution of the article is to bridge two bodies of scholarship: the literature on institutional change (professional versus/and other l…
Legal Education and Practice Innovations (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence in Law (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Engineering ethics (2 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (2 works) · Legal profession (2 works)