Dr Liesel Spencer joined the School of Law at WSU in 2007.  Her research interests are in public health law and food systems governance, focussing on regulation of food security. Liesel’s research in this area spans school food programs, social security law both in Australian and overseas, the impact of the cost of living crisis on food security, and urban agriculture. She is interested in diverse methodological approaches to research including empirical methods, comparative law and legal geography. Liesel is admitted as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (but is not currently practising).  She is a first-year teaching specialist and the recipient of multiple student-selected teaching awards, and has taught, convened and written curriculum for the subjects Torts Law, Public Health Law, Comparative Law, Introduction to Law, Professional Responsibilty and Legal Ethics, and Civil Procedure; and has also taught Legal Analysis and Critique, Criminal Law, Law Foundation, and Law of Business Organisations.