Dr Jade Lindley is an Associate Professor at The University of Western Australia (UWA) Law School and is a Member of the UWA Oceans Institute. She is an expert in transnational organized crime and its nexus with international law. Jade teaches and has published extensively in this space, particularly as it relates to maritime and environmental crimes including illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, often linked to small island developing states.

Dr. Jade Lindley joined the UWA Law School in 2016 having previously worked in research within state and federal government including the Corruption and Crime Commission and the Australian Institute of Criminology. Jade periodically consults to various bodies of the United Nations and presented at the twenty-fifth session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Vienna in 2016. Jade was awarded her PhD from the Australian National University, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology.

Jade is an alumni of the prestigious United States Department of State International Visitors Leadership Program, invited to participate in the first Indian Ocean themed Program, 'Strategic and Economic Priorities of the Indian Ocean', held in October 2017.

Since 2021, Jade has been a member among the 'Network of Experts' within the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime https://globalinitiative.net/profile/dr-jade-lindley/  

Jade is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC) and has previously served as the Western Australian Committee Member. She is a member on two ANZSOC Thematic Groups: Green Criminology and Corporate Crime.

2025

* 'Illegal fishing in the Indo-Pacific: Sea cucumbers as a case study' (Acadamy of Social Sciences in Australia Inc. via the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) (with Dr Frederic Ducarme) $20,000

2024

* 'Understanding the spill-over of transnational crime in the Indian Ocean small island developing states on France d'outre-mer and Australia' (Australian-French Association for Research and Innovation Inc. (AFRAN)) $5,000

2019-2022

* 'Optimising Compliance Outcomes in Recreational Fisheries - 2019-011' funded by the Australian Government through the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) $37,774 (total funding inc in-kind $138,657)

2018

* 'Leveraging the Indonesia-Australia Joint Declaration on Maritime Cooperation' UWA Research Income Growth Grant, (with Dr Julian Clifton, Dr Malcolm McCulloch and Dr Erika Techera) $19,910

* 'Yielding High Quality Law PhD Theses in Timeframe' UWA Law School Teaching and Research Nexus Grant (with Dr Natalie Skead) $2,500

* 'Protecting the Blue Economy from Crime: Curtailing transnational organised crime in the Indian Ocean' UWA Law School Research Development Grant $2,750

2017
* 'Over-representation of Aboriginal Persons in Police Custody and Diversionary Alternatives', Western Australia Police (with Dr Harry Blagg, Dr Tamara Tulich and Dr Joseph Clare) $133,600

Unit Coordinating

LAWS2231 Transnational and Organised Crime

LAWS6979 Advanced Legal Research Design and Methodology

LAWS3401 Emerging Trends in Crime and Criminology (new in semester 2, 2026)

UWA Law School Honours (Business Law, Law and Soceity and Criminology streams)

Ongoing Teaching

LAWS3214 International Law and the SDGs

LAWS5223 Theories for Contemporary Criminal Justice 

Past Teaching

LAWS1111 Law, Conflict and Change

LAWS2226 International Legal Institutions

Jade's research interests include transnational organized crime, environmental crime, regulation, and international law. I have a particular interest in fraud and corruption as it links to other transnational organized crimes.