Professor Dominique Moritz
Associate Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Email: dmoritz@usc.edu.au
Profile
Associate Professor Dominique Moritz is an academic leader in children's decision-making and law, specialising in building legal fluency for non-legal audiences. Her work bridges the gap between legal expertise and public understanding. Dominique has built strong industry connections and has contributed to collaborative research projects attracting over $1 million in external grant funding. Her work has been published internationally and contributed to legislative change. She is a qualified lawyer and former police officer.
Research
Publications
Dominique Moritz and Ben Mathews, ‘A Continuum of Protection to Empowerment: The Evolving Legal Landscape of Decision-Making for Children and Adolescents’ (2023) 12 (6) Laws 89
Dominique Moritz, ‘Children’s Developmental (Im)maturity: Aligning Conflicting Decisional Capacity Assessment Approaches in Australia’ (2023) 12 Laws 1 – 20
Mac Tuomi and Dominique Moritz, ‘Criminal responsibility of older children: The failings of doli incapax in Australia’ (2023) Children & Society 1 – 14
Dominique Moritz and Mac Tuomi, ‘Four thresholds of doli incapax in Australia: inconsistency or uniformity for children’s criminal responsibility’ (2023) 48 Alternative Law Review 25-30
Dominique Moritz, ‘Context, Motivations and Objectivity: Navigating the Legal Quagmire of Child Sexual Exploitation Material Offences in Australia’ (2022) 40 University of Tasmania Law Review 1-48
Dominique Moritz and Phillip Ebbs, ‘Consent and refusal of treatment by older children in emergency settings’ (2021) 33(1) Emergency Medicine Australasia 168