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Howard Bell is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Law and Justice, Charles Sturt University. He serves as a principal lawyer with the NSW Department of Customer Service specializing in regulatory legal practice and administrative law, while concurrently holding the rank of Major in the Australian Army Reserve with operational deployment experience in East Timor.
His educational background includes:
- Dip Law (1985)
- LL.M (1989)
- Cert IV (TAE) (2000)
- PhD (Syd) (2004)
- Grad Dip Res Mgmt (2005)
- Cert IV in WHS (2015)
- Spec Acc (Govt and Admin Law) (2016)
Research focuses on administrative law and human rights reform, particularly therapeutic jurisprudence applications for homelessness court systems and advocacy for an Australian human rights act. His foundational work examined socio-legal influences on juror impression formation in criminal courts, building on earlier forensic science expertise from criminal bar practice. Current scholarship bridges legal theory with community justice initiatives through social justice frameworks.
His notable awards include:
- Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to the community through social justice and legal organisations (2011)
- H.J McLemmens Award for postgraduate students in criminology
Howard Bell has supervised doctoral research in public safety, counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism, and peace studies while maintaining extensive teaching across NSW Police Academy, Army training establishments, TAFE NSW (25+ years), and community education programs at University of Sydney and WEA-Sydney covering human rights, environmental law, and climate change.
