School of Accounting and Finance

Ana Milena is an Associate Lecturer in law at Charles Sturt University. Prior to her academic career in Charles Sturt University, Ana taught law at the University of Western Sydney and the University of Wollongong.  Her teaching experience includes tutoring and mentoring Indigenous Students and Students with special disabilities studying law.  Before joining the Australian academia, Ana completed successfully an LLB (Hons) in Colombia, her country of birth. These studies were followed by her completion of a graduate diploma in tertiary education.

In Colombia, she started her career as a prosecutorial officer. After moving to Australia, Ana completed an LLB (Hons) at The University of Western Sydney. She also completed a Graduate Diploma of legal Practice from UWS in 2007. Ana was admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court in 2008.

Her professional experience includes practice of criminal law and legal officer for a federal parliamentarian.

Ana is a member of the Social Justice Research Cluster of the University of Western Sydney and a member of the Teachning and Learning Committee of the School of Business at CSU.  She is also a researcher in the areas of Criminal Law, self-defence, intimate violence and indigenous issues.

In 2012, Ana completed a Master of Laws (Honours) with the University of Western Sydney and wrote her thesis on "The Applicability of the Battered Woman Syndrome Model to Gay Males and Lesbian Women who Kill their Intimate Batterers in Self-defence".  She is now working on her PhD.

Teaching and Research

• Criminal Law
• Business law and teaching law to interdisciplinary students.
• Indigenous legal issues
• Legal theory and political philosophy
• The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning