Penelope Carruthers

Penelope Carruthers is a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Fellow at the UWA Law School, affiliated with The University of Western Australia. She serves as the International Student Advisor (Academic) for Law and coordinates the Law School's Internship programme. Her teaching focuses on Property and Land Law.

Her research interests span Property Law, Land Law, Equity, Trusts, and Legal Education. She has contributed to over 30 research outputs, including peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on topics like adverse possession, mortgage law reforms, and legal pedagogy.

Penny’s work often intersects legal theory with practical applications, such as analyzing property rights in Western Australian jurisprudence and evaluating teaching methodologies in legal education. Her collaborations include studies on longitudinal trends in property law instruction and the evolving approaches to legal assessment.

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in her profile, though her h-index of 3 reflects moderate citation impact. She has no listed advisees but actively contributes to academic governance and curriculum development within the Law School.