Joellen Riley (born 1957) is an Australian labour lawyer and academic and, from 2013 to 2018, was the dean of the Sydney Law School.
[1] Prior to becoming a lawyer, Riley worked as a finance journalist at Fairfax Media.
After earning her law degree, Riley completed a Diploma of Legal Practice at the College of Law in North Sydney and worked at Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons) before receiving the Ivan Roberts Scholarship that permitted her to study at the University of Oxford, where she graduated with a B.C.L.
[1] After the defeat of Paul Keating by John Howard and the commencement of the tabling of the Workplace Relations Act 1996, Riley became interested in labour law and, soon thereafter, began to teach the area and completed a Ph.D., under the supervision of Ronald C. McCallum and Patrick Parkinson, in employment, equity, and commercial law.
[1] Riley is married to lawyer John Munton, with whom she has two daughters, Alexandra and Philippa.