Miranda Podleska
Senior Teaching Fellow
Level 2, Building 4, Faculty of Law, Bond University
Contact details
Professional biography
Miranda is an admitted solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia. She is also a mediator.
Miranda holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Tasmania, a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Australian Securities Institute and a Diploma of Law from the New South Wales Legal Profession Admission Board. She completed her Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, as well as her Master of Laws, at Bond University.
Miranda commenced her professional career in banking and finance and prior to joining the legal profession she worked exclusively in construction and property development for over a decade. Miranda's key areas of legal practice, within which she continues to work with a select number of clients, are commercial and property law.
Miranda joined Bond University in 2017 and commenced teaching in the Faculty of Law's Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice program before moving into the Bachelor of Law and Juris Doctor programs. Additionally, Miranda enjoys an interfaculty collaboration with the Faculty of Society and Design where she teaches, from time to time, in the Bachelor of Property and the Bachelor of Construction Management and Quantity Surveying.
Miranda’s service contributions include working closely with My Community Legal – Gold Coast as both a Board member and as the coordinator for this community legal centre within the Bond Legal Clinics Program.
Teaching expertise
Miranda’s areas of teaching expertise include property, commercial, contract, banking and finance, as well as legal skills and ethics.
Teaching awards
- Bond University, Faculty of Law CLSA 2024 Teacher Award
- Bond University, Faculty of Law 2020 Team Award for Teaching Excellence
- Bond University, Faculty of Law 2018 Early Career Teaching Excellence Commendation
Professional admissions
- Solicitor, Supreme Court of Queensland
- Solicitor, High Court of Australia
- Member, Queensland Law Society
- Member, My Community Legal - Gold Coast
Professional appointments
- Board Member, My Community Legal - Gold Coast
- Coordinator, Bond University My Community Legal Clinic
Qualifications
- Master of Laws, Bond University
- Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Bond University
- Diploma in Law, Legal Profession Admission Board
- Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment, Securities Institute Education
- Bachelor of Economics, University of Tasmania
Subjects
- GDLP75-101: Commercial and Corporate Practice
- GDLP75-102: Property Law Practice
- GDLP75-201: Law Placement 1
- GDLP75-202: Transition to Practice
- GDLP77-300: Law Placement 2
- GDLP77-304: Banking and Finance Practice
- LAWS75-105: Legal Foundations A
- LAWS75-204: Property Law A
- LAWS75-217: Contract Law B
- LAWS75-218: Property Law B
- SSUD71-106: Real Estate Property Rights