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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].

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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

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