Dr Tammy Johnson

Dr Tammy Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Bond University. Prior to entering academia, she practised for several years as a solicitor in private practice, working primarily in property law, commercial law, and succession and estate administration.

Dr Johnson has over 20 years’ experience in legal education, curriculum leadership, and professional engagement. She is a recognised authority in property law and is the lead author of Real Property Law in Queensland (6th ed, Thomson Reuters, 2026), a core text prescribed across Queensland universities. She brings a strong practice‑informed perspective to her teaching and scholarship, with particular expertise in doctrinal law, legal skills education, and professionally oriented curriculum design.

At Bond University, Dr Johnson teaches across core and advanced subjects, including Property Law, Contract Law, Succession Law and Legal Drafting. Her teaching is underpinned by research‑informed, inclusive pedagogy and a sustained commitment to academic rigour and professional capability development.

Research Interests

Dr Johnson completed her PhD in Law at Queensland University of Technology in 2020. Her doctoral research developed a harm‑based analytical framework for evaluating the regulation of commercial surrogacy in Australia, focusing on regulatory coherence, policy justification, and the management of social and legal harms.

She is Co‑Director of the Centre for Professional Legal Education and has an established record of higher degree research supervision. She is accepting HDR students who wish to conduct research in Legal Education, Health Law, Property Law, or Succession Law.

Dr Johnson’s research interests include:

• Doctrinal property law
• Legal education and curriculum design
• Experiential learning and professional capability development
• Regulation of health and reproductive technologies
• Succession law and estate administration
• Regulatory responses to social harm

Her research integrates doctrinal analysis with socio‑legal and policy‑oriented perspectives and has impact across academia, the legal profession, and law reform processes.