Dr Tamara Tulich is an Associate Professor in the Law School at the University of Western Australia. Tamara researches and publishes in the areas of preventive justice, anti-terror lawmaking and indefinite detention regimes. She is co-editor of the collection Regulating Preventive Justice (Routledge, 2017) (with Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, Simon Bronitt and Sarah Murray) and a co-author of the monograph, Decolonising Justice for Aboriginal Youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (Routledge, 2021) (with Harry Blagg, Robyn Williams (Noongar), Raewyn Mutch (Ngai Tahu), Suzie May, Dorothy Badry & Michelle Stewart). An article Tamara co-authored with Harry Blagg and Suzie May, ‘Aboriginal youth with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and enmeshment in the Australian justice system: Can an intercultural form of restorative justice make a difference?’, was awarded the 'Best Academic Article on Restorative Justice 2020' by the European Society of Criminology's Restorative Justice Working Group. 

Tamara regularly comments in the media on her areas of expertise and has been called before parliamentary and other inquiries to speak to submissions on Australia’s anti-terror laws and indefinite detention regimes. Prior to joining UWA in 2014, Tamara was a PhD candidate and Nettheim Doctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of New South Wales, and a member of the ARC Laureate Fellowship project ‘Anti-Terror Laws and the Democratic Challenge’ in the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law. Tamara previously practiced as a solicitor at the Mental Health Advocacy Service at NSW Legal Aid and served as Associate to Chief Justice Higgins AO of the ACT Supreme Court.

2025, Dr Dominique Dalla-Pozza, Associate Professor Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, Associate Professor Keiran Hardy and Associate Professor Tamara Tulich, Independent National Security Legislation Monitor,  'Research to Support the INSLM Review of Australia’s Legal Definition of a ‘Terrorist Act,’' $56, 211.56 

2025, Associate Professor Tamara Tulich, Associate Professor Jessie Blackbourn, Dr Stéphanie De Coensel, Dr Roxane de Massol de Rebetz, Professor Axel Dessecker, Associate Professor John Ip, Associate Professor Milda Istiqomah, Sarah Lynch, Associate Professor Michael Nesbitt, Professor Daniel Pascoe, Professor Anupama Roy, Professor Ujjwal Singh, Professor Maartje van der Woude, Professor Arianna Vedaschi, Dr Jamie Walvisch, UWA Research Collaboration Award, ‘Sentencing Terrorism: an international comparative perspective,’ $24, 683

2023-2025, Associate Professor Murray Wesson, Professor Sarah Murray, Dr Tamara Tulich, Professor John Williams, Professor Anne Twomey, Professor Dr Nicholas Aroney, Professor James Stellios, Professor Rosalind Dixon, Professor Ann Genovese, Associate Professor Luke Beck, Associate Professor Melissa Castan, Associate Professor Benjamin Saunders, Dr Dylan Lino, Ms Jacinta Dharmananda, Dr Nicholas Cole, ARC LIEF (LE230100159), 'Digitising the Drafting of the Australian Constitution,' $319,000

2022-2026, Dr Tamara Tulich, ARC DECRA (DE220100633), 'The Australian Preventive Justice Project,' $445, 125

2018-2020, Professor Harry Blagg, Dr Tamara Tulich, ANROWS, 'Understanding the role of law and culture in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities in responding to and preventing family violence,' $284, 836

2017-2019, Professor Harry Blagg, Dr Tamara Tulich, Dr Jade Lindley, Dr Joe Clare, Ms Dorinda Cox (Noongar), WA Police Service, 'Over-representation of Aboriginal Persons in Police Custody and Diversionary Alternatives', $133, 600

2017, Professor Harry Blagg, Dr Tamara Tulich, Dr Raewyn Mutch (Ngāi Tahu), Dr Victoria Hovane (Ngarluma, Jaru & Gooniyandi), Department of Health (Commonwealth), 'FASD and the Criminal Justice System', $60,000

2016-2018, Associate Professor Natalie Skead, Associate Professor Hilde Tubex, Associate Professor Sarah Murray, Dr Tamara Tulich, Australian Institute of Criminology, Criminology Research Grants 2016-17, ‘Pocketing the Proceeds of Crime: The Legislation, Criminological Perspectives and Experience’, $53,786

2015/16, Prof Harry Blagg, Dr Tamara Tulich, Australian Institute of Criminology, Criminology Research Grants 2014-15, ‘Developing Diversionary Pathways for Indigenous Youth with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD): A Three Community Study in Western Australia’, $47, 883

2014, Dr Tamara Tulich, Dr Catherine Kelly, UWA Improving Student Learning Grant, 'The Development of Digital Film Resources to Enhance Student Learning in LAWS1111, Law Conflict and Change', $2950

Tamara teaches into Foundations of Public Law, Constitutional Law and Intersections of Law, Policy and Governance.

Tamara has previously coordinated Foundations of Public Law, Law, Conflict and Change, Foundations of Law and Governance, and Investigating Law and Society. She has also taught Principles of Public Law at the University of New South Wales.