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Overall, our legal research specialises in bringing a multi-contextual approach to the connections between law and social, business, and environmental responsibility in Australasia and the Commonwealth, in ways that integrate research, education and training, and professional and community outreach. Our particular research specializations appear on our homepage [link back to front page section at bottom].
Research Centres
- Centre for Comparative Law, History and Governance
- Centre for Environmental Law
- Law and Property Rights Research Centre
- Centre for Environmental Dispute Assessment & Resolution
Research Clusters
- Legal History (see Centre for Comparative Law, History and Governance
- Environmental Law (See Centre for Environmental Law)
- Sustainability & Justice
- Centre for International Regulation & Commercial Law
- Access to Justice
- International & Comparative Law & Governance
- Health Law and Bioethics
Academic Research Management & Administration
Research Contact Details
Associate Dean (Research): Professor
Bryan Horrigan
Bryan.horrigan@law.mq.edu.au
Ph 02 9850 7303
Director Higher Degree Research: Associate
Professor Hope Ashiabor
Hope.ashiabor@law.mq.edu.au
Ph 02 9850 8457
Research Officer: Ms Gwyneth Teh
research@law.mq.edu.au
Ph 02 9850 7061
Postgraduate Research Administrative Officer: Jacquie Williams
Jacquie.williams@law.mq.edu.au
Ph 02 9850 7067
Academic Staff of Division of Law
The teaching staff of the Division of Law have wide-ranging interests and research areas, which are listed below. In general, their interests reflect the commitment to viewing the operation of the law and legal system in its total social, economic and political context. All staff have published widely and in a broad range of subject areas.
Professors
Professor Tyrone Carlin
LLB (Hons) (Syd), BCom (UNSW), Grad Dip Fin (ASIA). LLM (Hons) (Syd), MCom (Hons) (UNSW), PhD (Macq), FFin, CA, CPA, MFP
Financial reporting; public sector financial management; commercial law
Professor Andrew Buck
BA (Hons) (NSW); MA; PhD (Newcastle); Grad Dip Juris (Syd)
Property; Legal history; Law and literature
Professor Rosalind Croucher (currently on leave as a Commissioner to
the Australian Law Reform Commission)
BA (Hons) LLB (Sydney), PhD (UNSW), AMusA (AMEB),
FRSA, FACLM (Hon)
Wills, trusts, equity, legal history, property, management of use of corpses
Professor Donna Craig
BA LLB (UNSW) LLM (York, Canada)
Biodiversity law and sustainable livlihoods; Sustainable ecosystems in
arid
regions; Regional governance agreements and co-management; Indigenous
rights and environmental law; Intellectual and cultural property
Professor Peter Gillies
MA LLM (Syd) PhD (UNSW)
Business law, international trade law, criminal law, international commercial
arbitration, trade practices, banking and finance law
Professor Bryan Horrigan
BA, LLB (Qld), DPhil (Oxon)
International and comparative law and regulation, business law and regulation,
governmental law and regulation
Professor M. Rafiqul Islam
BA (Hons) LLB, MA (Rajsh), LLM, PhD (Monash)
Public international law; International trade law; International law of
foreign investment; Law of international economic institutions; International
human rights and humanitarian law; Law of international organisations;
International environmental law; Indigenous people in international law;
International law in the Asia-Pacific; Constitutional law of Bangladesh
Professor Michael Jeffery
QC BA LLB (Toronto) LLM (York, Canada)
The impact of trade and intellectual property rights on biodiversity conservation;
Governance of protected areas; Bioprospecting and biotechnology regulation;
Climate change and the use of market-based mechanisms; Public participation
in the context of environmental decision-making; Environmental impact
assessment; Eco-services and water conservation; Environmental management
of arid lands; Co-management in the context of indigenous rights and the
development of environmental law in the context of human rights.
Professor Denise Meyerson
BA (Witwatersrand) LLB (Capetown) B Phil (Oxon)
D Phil (Oxon)
The theoretical foundations of public law; the separation of powers; comparative
constitutionalism; jurisprudence; human rights
Emeritus Professor Tony Blackshield
LLM (Syd)
Constitutional Law, Tort Law
Associate Professors
Associate Professor Hope Ashiabor
LLB (Hons), Qual Cert Legal Prac (Ghana), LLM (Monash),
PG Dip Taxation, Cert. Higher Ed (Macq)
Environmental taxes; Tax expenditures and policy implementation; International
tax law and policy; The compliance costs of taxation; The interface between
technology and student learning
Associate Professor Archana Parashar
BSc LLM (Delhi) PhD (ANU)
Feminist legal theory; Discrimination law; Family law
Associate Professor Peter Radan
BA LLB PhD (Syd) DipEd (SCAE)
Self-determination; Secession; Laws of war; Law and religion
Associate Professor Cameron Stewart
BEc LLB (Hons) (Macq), Grad Dip Jur (Syd), PhD (Syd),
FACLM (Hon)
Medical law; Torts; Discrimination; Property law; Legal theory; Human
rights law
Associate Professor Malcolm Voyce
LLB (Auck), MA, PhD (Lond), PhD (Macq)
Property law and Succession concerning the privatisation of public property,
geographical indications, intellectual property rights, social welfare,
family farm inheritance; Law and religion
Senior Lecturers
Ms Patricia Blazey
SRN (University College Hospital London), BA LLB (Macq),
LLM (Syd)
Chinese Trade Law, European Trade Law, Environmental Taxation, Sustainable
Transport and Energy
Dr Margaret Kelly
BA (Hons) (QU), LLB (ANU), PhD (Macq)
Constitutional law, administrative law; the nature of governance; Australian
governance; the people; Common law history and constitutionalism; History
and law of the monarchy; Constitutional history; legal history; Jurisprudence
: natural law, common law, philosophy of law; Australian politics; The
State
Dr Natalie Klein
BA (Juris) LLB (Hons) (Adel), LLM JSD (Yale)
Public international law, particularly international dispute resolution;
Law of the sea; International humanitarian law; International commercial
arbitration, Investment disputes
Ms Pamela Morgan
BA LLB (Macq) MA (UTS)
Ethics; Clinical legal education; regulation and discipline in the Legal
Profession; Conveyancing practice and procedure; Online teaching of practical
skills
Ms Vijaya Nagarajan
BEc LLB (Macq) LLM (Monash) Grad Dip in Higher Education
(UTS)
Regulation; Competition law; Commercial law; Legal education
Michael Quilter
BA (Macq) LLB (NSW) LLM (Macq)
History of bankruptcy law and its relationship to literature
Niloufer Selvadurai
BA LLB (Hons) (Syd)
Media and telecommunications law
David Spencer
BA (Macq), LLB (Syd), GDLP, LLM (UTS )
Contracts; Dispute resolution
Dr Iain Stewart
LLB (Hons) (Exeter), PhD (London)
Comparative law; constitutional law; theory of law; Australian Research
Council INTREADER
Penelope Watson
BA (Hons) (Tas) LLB (UNSW) LLM (Syd)
Torts generally, with specific interests in negligence, causation, educational
malpractice and school law, medical/health law including wrongful life
and birth, tobacco litigation, mass torts, privacy; Remedies generally
especially damages and personal injury; legal education and generic skills.
Julie Zetler
RN, BA (Syd), LLB, LLM, MBioethics (UTS), GCert
Arbitration (UAdel)
Privacy law; Information technology; Health law (including Elder law);
Lecturers
Dr Shawkat Alam
LLB (Hons) (Raj), LLM (Dhaka), PhD (Macq)
International environmental law, public international law, international
trade law, WTO and sustainable development, globalisation and sustainable
development, developing countries in global environmental politics, trade
- poverty and environment nexus, international human rights law, law of
international institutions, regional trading blocks and the environment,
intellectual property rights and legal education
Roy Baker
LLB (Hons) (Brunel), LLM (British Columbia), LLM (NSW)
Defamation, media law, journalism and the law, censorship, free speech,
discrimination, European law, international law.
Dr Kay-Wah Chan
LLB (Hons), PGCert Law (Hong Kong), GradDip Japanese, PhD (Macq)
Japanese law and legal system, other East Asian legal systems, legal professions and quasi-legal professions in Japan and other East Asian societies, professional legal education in Japan and other East Asian societies, and relationship between socio-economic development and law/legal system in Japan
Dr Nicole Graham
BA (Hons 1, University Medal) (Macq), PhD (Syd)
Land law (real property and environmental laws); Heritage law; Legal
geography; Australian legal history, Law and literature, Poststructural
philosophy, Theories of subjectivity
Penelope Janu
BA LLB (Hons) LLM (Syd) Dip International Law (Vienna)
Business law
Anne McGuigan
BA LLB (Qld) LLM (Syd)
Family law; Discrimination law; Legal history; Indigenous people and the
law; Criminal law; Criminology
Juliette Overland
LLB (Hons 1) (QUT)
Regulation of corporate crime (especially insider trading); Corporate
governance; Directors Duties; Currently undertaking a PhD through ANU
examining and considering the reform of insider trading law
John Selby
LLB (Hons 1, University Medal), BInt Bus (Griffith); GDipLegal
Prac (NSW College of Law), Grad Dip in Arbitration (UQ)
Internet law; Regulation of competing rights in cyberspace; Privacy
law; Intellectual property law; Arbitration; International trade law;
Economic analysis of law; Computer adaptive testing
George Tomossy
ARCT (Toronto), BSc (Toronto), LLB (McGill)
Health law and bioethics, research ethics and regulation, law and mental
health, elder law, children and the law
Dr Aleardo Zanghellini
JD (cum laude) (Milan), LLM (British Columbia), M St
(Oxford), PhD (Sydney)
Moral, constitutional and human rights; family law; law and sexuality;
jurisprudence
Associate Lecturers
Andrew Dahdal
BCom (Ec) LLB (Macq)
Corporations Law, Constitutional Law and History, Commercial Evidence
Francesca Dominello
BA LLB (Macq)
Indigenous legal issues, especially the representation of indigenous
peoples in Australian law; family law; constitutional law; remedies; popular
culture and the law, especially the representation of law in animation
Dr Lisa Ford
BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) MA (Qld), MA MPhil PhD (Columbia)
History and theory of sovereignty and jurisdiction; indigenous legal history; law and unfree labour; legal history of settler societies; gender and popular culture
Paul Govind
BA LLB (Hons) (Macq)
Dr Tyrone Kirchengast
BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) (Macq), GradDipLegPrac (ColLaw), PhD (LaTrobe)
Criminal law and procedure; sentencing; victims of crime; drug misuse and trafficking; Foucault, law and governance
Debra Ronan
BEd Syd, Dip Teach (STC), DipLaw (SAB)
Erika Techera
LLB (Hons), Grad Dip Leg Prac (UTS), M Env Law, LLM (Macq)
International comparative law; business law; heritage law
Khorseduz Zaman
LLB (Hons), LLM (Rajshahi), LLM (International & Bus Law) (YNU Japan)
World Trade Organization Law, International Economic Law, European Union Law
General Academic and Administrative Staff Contact Details
http://www.law.mq.edu.au/html/academic/contact_us.htm


