Ann Genovese joined the Faculty of Law in 2006 as a Senior Lecturer. Ann completed her Arts and Law degrees at the University of Adelaide, and her PhD, in History, at the University of Technology, Sydney, for which she won the inaugural Chancellors Award for excellence. Her research interests have consistently been directed to understanding the theoretical and methodological relationship between law and history, and its impacts upon Australian law reform and justice.

 Prior to joining the Faculty, Ann worked inside and outside the Academy. She was a Senior Researcher at the Justice Research Centre in Sydney, working on public policy issues in relation to unrepresented litigants, and Legal Aid funding, in the family law jurisdiction. She has also  taught Australian Legal History and Jurisprudence, in the Faculty of Law at UTS; developed the subject Australian Political and Legal Systems for the first Masters in Indigenous Social Policy (also at UTS), and has taught various politics and theory subjects in the Humanities, at UTS and at UNSW.  Her most recent research has been a collaborative ARC project with Professor Ann Curthoys (Manning Clark Chair of Australian History at ANU) and Associate Professor Alexander Reilly, (Law, University of Adelaide). The research has produced a book, Rights and Redemption: law, history, indigenous peoples (UNSW Press, forthcoming, 2008), which examines the role of history in key Indigenous rights cases which occurred during the era of the Howard government, and investigates how the courts have made use of historians as expert witnesses, as well as how the colonial past has been framed and understood by the courts. Ann is currently on leave, undertaking an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship, examining the interrelationships between shifts in liberal discourse and feminist legal reform in Australai's recent past, through the vehicle of family law.