Associate Professor Justine Rogers is a specialist in the history, workings, and future of the legal profession. Her research projects explore:

• legal ethics and regulation
• legal technology and innovation
• lawyers' identity and wellbeing
• legal education policy and practice.

Justine has published widely in international journals as well as for government and practitioner audiences. She has a special interest and expertise in empirical research, particularly qualitative approaches.

Justine was Deputy Director of the Law Society of NSW Future of Law and Innovation in the Profession (FLIP) research stream, a strategic partnership with the NSW Law Society and UNSW and affiliated with the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation at UNSW Law.  This research focused on the main sources of technological change (challenges and threats) for the legal profession. Some of the outputs are found here. From 2013-2018, she was a chief investigator in an Australian Research Council Linkage grant with the Professional Standards Councils on professionalism and professional regulation in the 21st Century, and its flagship study is found here. 

Justine is a passionate educator and has contributed to the scholarships in legal education and tertiary practice. She is the main educational designer of one of the course she convenes and teaches, Lawyers, Ethics & Justice, the core legal ethics course at UNSW Law & Justice. Justine also convenes and teaches one of the strands of jurisprudence, Theories of Law and Justice. In 2019, Justine was awarded a UNSW Award for Teaching Excellence in the design category.

From 2018-2023, Justine was a member of the Board of Directors for the Australian Pro Bono Centre.

Justine completed her DPhil at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, which was an ethnographic study of London barristers and pupillage. Justine also holds an MSc in Educational Research Methodology from the University of Oxford. With a specialty in research methodology, Justine welcomes the supervision of empirical studies of law, the courts, and the legal profession.