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Professor Joellen Riley

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Degrees

BA (Hons), Dip Ed (Secondary), MA Syd; LLB (Hons 1) Syd; BCL (Hons 1) Oxon; PhD Syd; Dip Mgt MGSM


Courses Taught

  • Executive Employment
  • Advanced Employment Law
  • Labour Law
  • Corporate Law


Areas of Interest

  • Employment contract law
  • Labour law
  • Intersections of commercial, corporate and intellectual property law with employment and labour law


Brief Biographical Detail

Professor Joellen Riley, Dean at the faculty of law holds degrees in law from the Universities of Sydney and Oxford, and has been teaching and researching in the field of employment and labour law since 1998. She studied law after a number of years as a financial journalist, and spent some time in commercial legal practice before joining the University of Sydney. Her academic career includes some years on the staff of the Law Faculty of the University of New South Wales, where she taught principally in corporate and commercial law. Joellen is a Fellow of the Commercial Law Association. Since 2008, she has been a co-editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Law.

Publications

Books | Edited Books/Special Journal Issues | Book Chapters | Refereed Journal Articles | Refereed Invited Contributions to Journals | Notes in Refereed Journals | Book Reviews in Refereed Journals | Articles and Notes in Other Journals | Government Reports | Electronic Publications | Published Conference Papers (invited) | Invited Conference and Seminar Papers | Other Conference Papers


Books

  • Johnstone, R, McCrystal, S, Nossar, I, Quinlan, M, Rawling, M and Riley, J, Beyond Employment: The Legal Regulation of Work Relationships, Federation Press: Sydney (2012)
  • Sappideen, C, O’Grady, P, Riley, J, Warburton, G, Macken’s Law of Employment (7th edition), Lawbook Co.: Sydney (2011)
  • Owens, R, Riley, J & Murray, J, The Law of Work (2nd Edition), Oxford University Press: Melbourne (2011)
  • Owens, R and Riley, J, The Law of Work, Oxford University Press (2007) 605 pages. Electronic supplement, “A New Chapter” published in July 2008.
  • Riley, J, Independent Work Contracts, Thomson LBC: Sydney (2007) 251 pages
  • Riley, J and Peterson, K, Work Choices: A Guide to the 2005 Changes, Thomson: Sydney, (2006) 926 pages including extracts of legislation
  • Riley, J, Employee Protection at Common Law, Federation Press: Sydney (2005) 262 pages
  • Riley, J, (with a chapter by Greg McCarry and a chapter by Megan Smith) Workplace Relations: A Guide to the 1996 Changes, LBC Information Services: Sydney (1997) (548 pages including extracts of legislation)

Edited Books/Special Journal Issues

  • Riley, J & Sheldon, P, Remaking Australian Industrial Relations, CCH (2008)
  • Riley, J, ‘Beyond WorkChoices: Remaking Industrial Relations in Australia’ (with Sheldon, P) (2008) 18(2) Economic and Labour Relations Review – Special Issue. Includes, editors introduction: Riley and Sheldon ‘Remaking Industrial Relations in Australia’ 1-6

Book Chapters

  • Riley, J, ‘A Blurred Boundary between Entrepreneurship and Servitude: Regulating Business Format Franchising in Australia’ in J Fudge, S McCrystal and K Sankaran (eds), Challenging the Legal Boundaries of Work Regulation, Hart Publishing: Oxford (2012) 101-119
  • Riley, J , ‘From Industrial Arbitration to Workplace Mediation: Changing Approaches to Dispute Resolution’ in A Forsyth & A Stewart (eds), Fair Work: The New Workplace Laws and the Work Choices Legacy, The Federation Press: Sydney (2009) 186-206
  • Riley, J, ‘Commodifying sheer talent: perverse developments in the law’s enforcement of restrictive covenants’ in W van Canaegem and C Arup (eds), Intellectual Property Policy Reform, Edward Elgar: UK (2009) 267-284
  • Riley, J, ‘The Employment Contract: Rights and Responsibilities’ in Australian Master Fair Work Guide, CCH: Sydney (2010 edition)
  • Riley, J , ‘Legal Developments in the Transitional Period’ in Riley and Sheldon, Remaking Australian Industrial Relations, CCH (2008) 53-64
  • Riley, J, ‘No Rights without Remedies: labor’s industrial relations architecture and the enforcement gap’ in Riley and Sheldon, Remaking Australian Industrial Relations, CCH (2008) 167-174
  • Riley, J, ‘The New Conflict Managers: A Critical Assessment of ADR Methods under Work Choices’ (with Sarina, T) in Michelson, G., Jamieson, S & Burgess, J (eds) New Employment Actors: Developments from Australia, Peter Lang AG: Berne, Switzerland (2008) Ch 10, 223-234
  • Riley, J, ‘Good Faith Performance’ in Bromberg, M and Irving, M (eds) Australian Charter of Employment Rights, Australian Institute of Employment Rights, Hardie Grant Books (2007) pp 9-18
  • Riley, J, ‘The Employment Contract: Rights and Responsibilities’ in Australian Master Workplace Relations Guide: The Work Choices Edition, CCH, Sydney (2007) (Revised for Australian Master Workplace Relations Guide, 2008 and 2009 editions).
  • Riley, J, ‘Regulating unequal work relationships for fairness and efficiency: A study of Business Format Franchising’ in C. Arup, P. Gahan, J. Howe, R. Johnstone, R. Mitchell and A. O'Donnell (eds.), Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation: Essays on the Construction, Constitution and Regulation of Labour Markets and Work Relationships, Federation Press: Sydney (2006)
  • Riley, J, ‘Australia’ in Blanpain, R (ed) Corporate Restructuring and The Role of Labour (2003) 47 Bulletin of Comparative Labor Relations 15-35

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Riley, J, 'Sterilising Talent: A Critical Assessment of Injunctions Enforcing Negative Covenants' (2012) 34(4) Sydney Law Review 617-636
  • Riley, J, 'Siblings but Not Twins: Making Sense of 'Mutual Trust' and 'Good Faith' in Employment Contracts' (2012) 36 Melbourne University Law Review 521
  • MacDermott, T and Riley, J, 'ADR and Industrial Tribunals: Innovations and Challenges in Resolving Individual Workplace Grievances' (2012) 38(2) Monash University Law Review 82-102
  • Riley, J, 'Bargaining Fair Work Style: Fault-lines in the Australian Model' (2012) 37(1) New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations 22-29
  • Riley, J, ‘A Safe Touch Down for Qantas?’ (2012) 25(1) Australian Journal of Labour Law 76-83
  • Riley, J, 'Teaching Labour Law in a Common Law Jurisdiction' (2012) 28(1) International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 71-79
  • Riley, J, 'Adverse action claims under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth): some lessons from the early cases' (2011) 25(3) Commercial Law Quarterly 12-16
  • MacDermott, T & Riley, J, 'Alternative Dispute Resolution and Individual Workplace Rights: The Evolving Role of Fair Work Australia' (2011) 53(5) Journal of Industrial Relations 718-32
  • Riley, J, 'La risposte del diritto del lavoro australiano all crisi finanziaria globale (Australian Labour Law Responses to the Global Financial Crisis)' (2010) 24(1) Lavoro e Diritto (Italian Labour Law Journal) 151-164
  • Riley, J, 'Workplace Dispute Resolution under the Fair Work Act: Is There a Role for Private Alternative Dispute Resolution Providers?' (2009) 20(4) Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal 236-243
  • Riley, J, 'Transfer of Business Under the Fair Work Act' (2009) 23(2) Commercial Law Quarterly 15-22
  • Riley, J, ‘The Boundaries of Mutual Trust and Good Faith’ (2009) 22(1) Australian Journal of Labour Law 73-86
  • Riley, J, ‘Working around Work Choices: Collective Bargaining and the Common Law’ (with Andrew Stewart) (2007) 31 Melbourne University Law Review 903- 937
  • Riley, J, ‘Election 2007: Industrial relations policy’ Australian Review of Public Affairs, September 2007, http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2007/election/riley/html
  • Riley, J, ‘Regulating for Fair Dealing in Work Contracts: A New South Wales Approach’ (2007) 36 (1) Industrial Law Journal 19-34
  • Riley, J, ‘A Fair Deal for the Entrepreneurial Worker? Self-employment and Independent Contracting Post Work Choices’ (2006) 19(3) Australian Journal of Labour Law 246-262
  • Riley, J, ‘The Evolution of the Contract of Employment, post Work Choices’ (2006) 29 UNSWLJ 166
  • Riley, J, ‘Contracting for work/family balance’ in Murray J (ed) Work, Family and the Law, (2005) 23(1) Law in Context 182-201
  • Riley, J, ‘Law Graduates’ Skills – A Pilot study into Employers’ Perspectives’ (with Peden) (2005) 15 Legal Education Review 87-124
  • Riley, J, 'Who Owns Human Capital? A Critical Appraisal of Legal Techniques for Capturing the Value of Work' (2005) 18(1) Australian Journal of Labour Law 1-25. Reprinted with permission in (2006) IV(2) ICFAI Journal of Employment Law 15-36 , Hyderabad, India.
  • Riley, J, ‘The “Sweat of the Brow” Theory gone Mad – Uses and Abuses of Copyright in Australian Courts’ (2005) 30 (3) Alternative Law Journal 109-111
  • Riley, J, ‘No “poaching”? Why Not? A reflection on the legitimacy of post-employment restrictive covenants” (2005) 19 (1) Commercial Law Quarterly 3-8
  • Riley, J, ‘Family-friendly Work Practices and the Law’ (with Belinda Smith) (2004) 26 Sydney Law Review 395-426.
  • Riley, J, ‘A cautionary tale for employee advocates: Bredel v Moore Business Systems Ltd’ (2004) 18 Commercial Law Quarterly 3-11
  • Riley, J, ‘Who Owns the Customers? A reflection on recent cases on post employment restraint clauses’ (2003) 17(2) Commercial Law Quarterly 3-11
  • Riley, J, ‘Mutual Trust and Good Faith: Can Private Contract Law Guarantee Fair Dealing in the Workplace?’ (2003) 16 Australian Labour Law Journal 28-49
  • Riley, J, ‘Protection for employment entitlements: a legal perspective’ (2003) 29 (1) Australian Bulletin of Labour 31
  • Riley, J, ‘Bargaining for Security: Lessons for Employees from the World of Corporate Finance’ (2002) 44 Journal of Industrial Relations 491-507
  • Riley, J, ‘Lessons from Ansett: Locating Labour’s Voice in Corporate Enterprise’ (2002) 27(3) Alternative Law Journal 112-115, 141
  • Riley, J, ‘Australische Gewerkschaften – Kollektiver Akteur aus eigenem Recht oder Interessenvertreter des Einzelnen?’ (trans: Australian unions: Labour Market participants in their own right, or service providers?” (with Wendeling-Schroeder) (2002) Neue Zeitschrift fuer Arbeitsrecht NZA 16/2002, 890 – 893
  • Riley, J, ‘Unfair Contracts Review: Unfair Favouritism for High Flyers?’ (2002) 16(2) Commercial Law Quarterly 15-22
  • Riley, J, ‘Trust Law and Commercial Contracts’ (2001) 15 (3) Commercial Law Quarterly 23-27
  • Riley, J, ‘A Challenge for Commercial Certainty: Retention of Title trusts’ (2000) 14 Commercial Law Quarterly 13 – 18
  • Riley, J, ‘Directors’ personal guarantees: Should the lender know if directors are sleeping together?’ (1999) 13 Commercial Law Quarterly 22 – 25
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Refereed Invited Contributions to Journals

  • Sutherland, C & Riley, J, 'Industrial Legislation in 2009' (2010) 52(3) Journal of Industrial Relations 275-287
  • Riley, J, ‘Industrial Legislation in 2007’ (with Sutherland, Carolyn) (2008) 50 Journal of Industrial Law
  • Riley, J, ‘Industrial Legislation in 2006’ (with Sarina T) (2007) 49 Journal of Industrial Relations 345-361
  • Riley, J, ‘Industrial Legislation in 2005’ (with Sarina T) (2006) 48 Journal of Industrial Relations 341. This was republished as a chapter in Hall, Richard (ed) Industrial Relations: A Current Review (Sage, UK, 2006).
  • Riley, J, ‘Industrial Legislation in 2004’ (with Smith B and Sarina T) (2005) 47 (2) Journal of Industrial Relations 171-185
  • Riley, J, ‘Industrial Legislation in 2003’ (2004) 46(2) Journal of Industrial Relations 184 -194
  • Riley, J, ‘Industrial legislation in 2002’ (2003) 45(2) Journal of Industrial Relations 151 – 165
  • Riley, J, ‘Industrial Legislation in 2001’ (2002) 44 Journal of Industrial Relations 198-210
  • Riley, J, ‘Industrial Legislation in 2000’ (2001) 43 Journal of Industrial Relations 148 – 160

Notes in Refereed Journals

  • Riley, J, ‘Australie: Le recours au faux travail indépendant’ [2011/2] Revue de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale 95-96.
  • Riley, J, 'Australie: L’égalité des sexes, enfin?' [2010] Bulletin de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale 234-237
  • Riley, J, ‘Australie’ [2009] Bulletin de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale 237-240
  • Riley, J, ‘Australie’ [2008] Bulletin de droit comparé du travail et de la sécurité sociale 256-260
  • Riley, J, ‘Employing Minors in New South Wales: the Industrial Relations (Child Employment) Act 2006 (NSW)’ (2007) 20 (3) Australian Journal of Labour Law 295-301
  • Riley, J, ‘Pensioning off Lord Asquith’s cook: Blackadder v Ramsay Butchering’ (2005) 18 (2) Australian Journal of Labour Law 177
  • Riley, J, ‘Individual Contracting and Collective Bargaining in the Balance’(2000) 13 Australian Journal of Labour Law 92 – 98
  • Riley, J, ‘The Property Rights of Home Makers under General Law: Bryson v Bryant’ (1994) 16 Sydney Law Review 412 – 423

Book Reviews in Refereed Journals

  • Riley, J, ‘The Tolpuddle Martyrs: Injustice within the Law by jerbert Vere Evatt (with a new Introduction by Geoffrey Robertson’ (2010) 16 Australian Journal of Human Rights 223-5
  • Riley, J, ‘The Employment Contract and the Changed World of Work by Stella Vettori’ (2008) 24 Journal of Contract Law 284-286
  • Riley, J, ‘Wealth by Stealth by Harry Glasbeek’ (2004) 26 Sydney Law Review 456-458.
  • Riley, J, ‘The Property Rights of Cohabitees by John Mee’ (2002) 16 (3) Australian Journal of Family Law 259-266
  • Riley, J, ‘Reinventing Aristocracy: The Constitutional Reformation of Corporate Governance by Andrew Frazer’ (1999) 21 Sydney Law Review 328

Articles and Notes in Other Journals

  • Riley, J, 'Bargaining in Good Faith' (2009) 94 Precedent 16-19
  • Riley, J, ‘Good faith in employment relationships’ (April 2009) 2 The Debate: Good Faith and the Employment Relationships 7-9 (by Australian Institute of Employment Rights)
  • Riley, J, ‘Innovation Put on Ice? How overly jealous intellectual property protection discourages creativity and productivity’ (2008) 20(7) Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin 102-104. (Reprinted with permission in Lawyers Weekly 18 July 2008, 17)
  • Riley, J, ‘Workplace policies and the duty to provide a safe work environment’ CCH Industrial Law News, Issue 8, 3 September 2007, 1-3
  • Riley, J, ‘Erschütterung des australischen Arbeitsrechts? Die Work Choices Reform 2006’ (With Desch, W) (2006) 3 Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationals Arbeits- und Sozialrecht 225-243
  • Riley, J, ‘The potency of workplace policies’ CCH Industrial Law News Issue 9, 26 September 2006, 1-3
  • Riley, J, ‘Remedies for arbitrary dismissals after Work Choices’ (2006) 74 Precedent 20-23 (published by the Australian Lawyers Alliance)
  • Riley, J, ‘Fair Dismissal at Common law?’ CCH Industrial Law News, 6 September 2005 (electronic)
  • Riley, J, ‘Contracting for work/life balance’ CCH Industrial Law News Issue 4, 29 April 2004, 1-5
  • Riley, J, ‘Psychiatric harm and mutual trust and confidence’ CCH Industrial Law News Issue 9, 30 September 2004, 4-6
  • Riley, J, ‘Arguing Trade Practices in Employment’ CCH Industrial Law News Issue 6, 18 June 2003, 5-7
  • Riley, J, ‘Security for Employee Entitlements’ July 2002, (2002)7 Industrial Law News 1 – 3
  • Riley, J, ‘Trusts created by reservation of title in trade supply contracts’ (2001) 75 Australian Law Journal 348
  • Riley, J, ‘The “Special Equity of Wives” ‘ (1999) 73 Australian Law Journal 170-172 (Reproduced with permission in CCH Family Law Bulletin)
  • Riley, J (With Kingsford Smith, D and Aitken, L), ‘Unveiling the Waterfront’ (1998) Butterworths Corporate Law Bulletin 10 BCLB [172]

Government Reports

  • Public Holidays in NSW: Review of the Banks and Bank Holidays Act 1912, Final Report, released October 2009.
  • Review of the Banks and Bank Holidays Act 1912, Options Paper, released September 2009
  • Office of Industrial Relations, Review of the Banks and Bank Holidays Act 1912 (NSW), Discussion Paper, released 29 June 2009.

Electronic Publications

Published Conference Papers (invited)

  • Riley, J, ‘Alternative actions in the light of Work Choices: Implied terms’, New South Wales Young Lawyers Employment and Industrial Law One Day Seminar, Sydney, 25 February 2006, (Continuing Legal Education Seminar Papers published and distributed by the Law Society of NSW). Reprinted with permission in (2006) 106 Australian Construction Law Newsletter 12-19
  • Riley, J, ‘Regulating for Fair Dealing in Work Contracts: A NSW Approach’ Reconstructing Employment Contracts, London School of Economics, 13 January 2006.
  • Riley, J, ‘Corporate Restructuring and the Role of Labour Law’ Australia 6th Japan Institute of Labor Tokyo Comparative Labor Law Seminar, March 2002, Tokyo. Published as JIL Report 2002, No 10 by the Japan Institute of Labor.
  • Riley, J, ‘Protecting Entitlements – A Lawyer’s perspective on the problem’ Conference on Employment Entitlements: History, Diversity, Access and Protection, organized by the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies (University of Sydney) and the Employment Studies Centre (University of Newcastle) November 2002. Published as “Protection for Employment Entitlements: A Legal Perspective” in Employee Entitlements in Australia, Employment Studies Centre, Monograph No 3/2003, September 2003, University of Newcastle.

Invited Conference and Seminar Papers

  • Riley, J, 'Labour Law: Australia vs New Zealand', Supreme and Federal Court Judges Conference, 22 January 2013, Adelaide
  • Riley, J, 'Regulatory responses to the blurring boundary between employment and self-employment: a view from the Antipodes'. MTA-PTE Labour Law Research Group, University of Pecs, Hungary, October 25-26, 2012
  • Riley, J, 'Uses and abuses of the corporate form in managing employers' regulatory obligations', ILERA, Philadelphia, July 2012
  • Riley, J, ‘Trading hours / Working hours: A contested frontier’, Keynote address at the Annual Conference of the SDA in Newcastle, 6 March 2012
  • Riley, J, ‘Developments in Workplace Law’ Legal Studies State Conference 2012, Sydney, 29 March 2012
  • Riley, J, ‘Developments in Australian Labour Law’, Sydney Law School CLE presented by podcast in Tokyo on 11 February 2012
  • Riley, J, ‘Keynote Address: Dispute Resolution: Respecting the Umpire’, Industrial Relations Society of Victoria 2011 Convention, Melbourne, 14 October 2011
  • Riley, J, ‘Adverse Action Claims under the Fair Work Act’, 10th Annual Workforce Conference: Does the Fair Work Act cause more conflict than it resolves?, Sydney, 5 September 2011
  • Riley, J, ‘The Law and Stress in the Workplace’. The Mind Body Interface: Mental Health and Obesity, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, CODCD University of Sydney, 26 August 2011
  • Riley, J, ‘How are Companies Responding to the Fair Work System?’, Workplace Research Centre 19th Annual Labour Law Conference, Sydney, 1 August 2011
  • Riley, J, ‘Privacy and workplace conduct’, ACTU workshop, Coogee, 28 March 2011
  • Riley, J, ‘Social Networking and the Law’, Legal Studies Association, Rosehill, 24 March 2011
  • Riley, J, Keynote Address: 'The law, work and social inclusion’ Legal Aid NSW Civil Law conference, Mercure Hotel, Sydney, 5 November 2010
  • Riley, J, 'Business Format Franchising: the Australian Experience', Blurring Legal Boundaries: Commercialization and Informalization of Work, Spain, 1-2 July 2010
  • Riley, J, ‘Teaching labour law in a common law jurisdiction’ International Association of Law Schools Conference on Labour Law and Labour Market in the New World Economy, 20-22 May 2010, University of Milan, Italy
  • Riley, J, ‘Is Fair Work Fair?’ Industrial Relations Society of NSW Annual Conference, Industrial Relations: Reforming or Recycling?, Kiama, 14-15 May 2010
  • Riley, J, 'Fair Work: Is Fair Achievable – the General Protections' Industrial Relations Society of South Australia, Annual Conference 2010, 19 March 2010, West Lakes, Adelaide
  • Riley, J, 'Fair Work: the new framework', Legal Studies State Conference 2010, Rosehill, Sydney, 25 March 2010
  • Riley, J, 'Is the Fair Work Act Fair?', Industrial Relations Society of New South Wales annual Conference 2009, Shoal Bay, 30 October 2009
  • Riley, J, ‘Transfer of Business under the new Fair Work Act’, LexisNexis National Industrial Relations Law Conference, Sydney, 16-17 June 2009
  • Riley, J, ‘Developments in Workplace Law’, Legal Studies State Conference 2009, Sydney, 2 April 2009
  • Riley, J, ‘Mutual Trust and Good Faith’, Australian Labour Law Association Sydney NSW Chapter Seminar, Sydney Law School, 31 March 2009
  • Riley, J, ‘Good Faith in Employment and Industrial Law’, combined College of Law, ANU, Australian Labour Law Association, and Industrial Relations Society of ACT seminar, ANU, Canberra, 25 March 2009
  • Riley, J, ‘Workplace Bargaining, the role of Fair Work Australia, and Industrial Action’ NSW Young Lawyers Annual One Day Seminar on Employment and Industrial Law, Sydney, 28 February 2009
  • Riley, J, ‘Good faith: What will it mean for employers?’ Commercial Law Association Update on Federal Government Changes to Employment Law, Sydney, 27 February 2009
  • Riley, J, ‘What about the worker? The move toward establishing a system of rights for employees’, JCA Colloquium 2008, Surfers Paradise, Queensland 12 October 2008
  • Riley, J, ‘A New Vision for Industrial Relations’ Catholic Commission for Employment Relations Committee Conference, Brighton Beach, Sydney 22 August 2008
  • Riley, J, ‘Individual agreements and arrangements’, From Work Choices to Forward with Fairness: Continuity and Change in Australian Labour Law, 16th Annual Labour Law Conference, Sydney, 15 August 2008
  • Riley, J, ‘Dispute Resolution and Fair Work Australia’, Australian Labour Law: From Work Choices to Fair Work, Workshop held by the Workplace Law & Corporate Research Group at Monash University and the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2-3 July 2008
  • Riley, J, ‘Where to now? Post Election Industrial Relations’ Changing Employment Relationships in Changing Communities, 2008 Biennial Social Welfare Conference of the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations, Parramatta, 13 March 2008
  • Riley, J, ‘Commodifying Sheer Talent: perverse developments in the law’s enforcement of restrictive covenants in employment contracts’ Intellectual Property and Creativity/Innovation – Critiques and Alternatives’, Conference held jointly by Bond University and Monash University, Bond University Gold Coast, 1 December 2007
  • Riley, J, ‘Assessment of Damages in Employment Contracts’, LIV2007 Workplace Relations Conference, Law Institute of Victoria, Melbourne, 16 November 2007
  • Riley, J, ‘Employment Contracts for Retention: Post Employment Restraint Clauses’ Australian Employment Law Summit 2007: Workplace agreements and contracts under a new regime, Sydney, 1 November 2007
  • Riley, J, ‘The Future Role of the Employment Contract’, IR Choices for the Future, 36th Annual Convention of the Industrial Relations Society of Western Australia, Bunker Bay, WA, 26 October 2007
  • Riley, J, ‘Collective Bargaining: the Impact of WorkChoices and Future Prospects’, Industrial Relations Forum: Unions, employers and the Upcoming Election presented by Harris Wheeler Lawyers and the Newcastle Trades Hall Council, Newcastle, 25 September 2007
  • Riley, J, ‘Stepping into the Breach: A New Duty of Good Faith?’ 2007 Labour Law Conference: The Critical Issues, Workplace Research Centre, Sydney, 3 August 2007
  • Riley, J, ‘Developments in Employment Contract Law’ Labour Law Seminar, Centre for Employment & Labour Relations Law, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 6 July 2007
  • Riley, J, ‘What alternative applications?’ Work Choices: Formulating and Drafting Alternative Applications in Light of Work Choices, NSW Young Lawyers CLE Seminar Series, Sydney, 30 May 2007
  • Riley, J, ‘Working around Work Choices: common law agreement-making’ Australian Workplace Relations Summit 2007, Sydney, 14 March 2007
  • Riley, J, ‘Independent Contracting Arrangements’ Employment Law: Working with Work Choices, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Continuing Education Seminar, 27 February 2007, Sydney. Available on the UNSW Research Papers on-line data base at: http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps/art41/
  • Riley, J, ‘Damages in Executive Employment Litigation’ NSW Young Lawyers Annual One Day Employment and Industrial Law Seminar, 24 February 2007, Sydney. Bepress: http://law.bepress.com/unswwps/flrps/art52/ SSRN:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1003943
  • Riley, J, ‘Employees or contractors? Engaging staff following Work Choices’ University of New South Wales Faculty of Law Continuing Legal Education Seminar: Employment Law – What Choices? Sydney, 6 December 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘Workplace Disputes Resolution after Work Choices – Design challenges for a New Private Model’ National PIR Group Conference, Canberra, 23-24 October 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘Mental Health and Employment: Issues for Lawyers’ Tristan Jepson Memorial Symposium: Mental Health and the Legal Profession, UNSW Faculty of Law Continuing Legal Education, 8 September 2006, Sydney. Available on SSRN at http://ssrn.com/abstract=993296. This is also reprinted with permission in ICFAI Quarterly Journal of Healthcare Law, India (forthcoming).
  • Riley, J, ‘Common Law Protection for Employees’ A Fair Go from Here? Conference Department of Industrial Relations NSW, Sydney, 24 August 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘Enterprise Work under the proposed Independent Contractors legislation’ 15th Annual Labour Law Conference Work Choices: What’s Happened So Far? Sydney 10 August 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘Employee Protection at Common Law: Back to the Future?’ Industrial Relations Society of South Australia Annual Conference, Adelaide. 16 June 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘Reflections on Agreement making post work choices.’ Symposium on the Future of Labour Law, Melbourne University, 2 June 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘Early Fallout from Work Choices’ NSW Young Lawyers Annual Conference,, Windsor, NSW, 27 May 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘An Australian perspective on flexible work’, European Labour Law Network Conference on Flexibility in Labour Law, Leiden, Netherlands, 19 May 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘Common law collective agreements – where to now?’ Australian Labour Law Association South Australian Chapter Meeting, Adelaide, 11 April 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘Work Choices and Unfair Contracts Review’, Workshop on Commonwealth Work Choices Legislation for the Federal Court of Australia, Sydney, 23 March 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘A critical overview of Work Choices and its impact on the regulation of the Australian labour market’ Kirby Seminar Series, University of New England, 10 March 2006, Armidale.
  • Riley, J, ‘Collective agreements after Work Choices - is there a 'common law' alternative?’ Commercial Law Association Half Day Seminar on the Changing Legal Framework for Workplace Relations, Sydney, 23 February 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘A Fair Deal for the Enterprise Worker? Self-employment and independent contracting post Work Choices." A National Roundtable on Fairness and Equality in the New Workplace, Adelaide University, 7 February 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘The Impact of Industrial Relations Reform on Employers’, Building a Sustainable Workforce, 2005 National Local Government Human Resources Conference, Sydney, 23 November 2005
  • Riley, J, ‘Overview of the Federal Industrial Relations Changes’, Australian Human Resources Institute, Sydney, 16 November 2005
  • Riley, J, ‘Turning employees into contractors: new opportunities’ Labour Law 2005: What the Future Holds, acirrt Annual Labour Law Conference, Sydney, 8 September 2005
  • Riley, J, ‘Industrial Relations Reform’ Changing of the Guard - New Issues for a New Era, NSW Young Lawyers Public Forum, Sydney, 16 August 2005
  • Riley, J, ‘The proposed IR reforms and the future of Australian Industrial Relations’, Annual Conference of Judges Associates of the Supreme Court of NSW, Sydney, 19 August 2005
  • Riley, J, ‘No poaching clauses – are they legitimate?’ Staff seminar, Law Faculty, University College London, UK, 5 October 2005
  • Riley, J, ‘Uses and Abuses of Copyright Law’ Commercial Law Association 2005 Leading Edge Seminar Series, Sydney, 11 March 2005
  • Riley, J, ‘Who Owns the Customers? A Reflection on Recent Cases on Post Employment Restraints’ Sponsor’s Seminar for the Centre of Employment & Labour Relations Law, Melbourne University, 1 December 2004
  • Riley, J, ‘Beyond Deregulation: Imagining an Equitable Private Law of Work’ Staff Seminar for the Centre of Employment & Labour Relations Law, Melbourne University, 2 December 2004
  • Riley, J, ‘Arguing Implied Terms and Estoppel in Employment Matters’ NSW Bar Association Continuing Professional Development Programme, 31 March 2004
  • Riley, J, ‘Arguing the Trade Practices Act in Employment Matters’ 11th Annual Labour Law Conference in Sydney, 4 April 2003
  • Riley, J, ‘Who Owns the Customers?’ Presentation at the Commercial Law Leading Edge Seminar, in Sydney on May 9, 2003
  • Riley, J, ‘Unfair Contracts Review’ Commercial Law Association Leading Edge Seminar Series, Sydney, 8 March 2002
  • Riley, J, ‘Trust Law and Commercial Contracts’ Commercial Law Association Leading Edge Seminar Series, Sydney, 13 July 2001
  • Riley, J, ‘Federal Labour Law: Where to from here?’ University of New South Wales Conference on Employment Law – Where to from here? Sydney, 26 October 2001

Other Conference Papers

  • Riley, J, ‘Bargaining Fair Work Style: Fault-lines in the Australian Model’, Victoria University, Wellington, 2 December 2011
  • MacDermott, T and Riley, J, ‘ADR and Industrial Tribunals: innovations and challenges in resolving individual workplace grievances’ International Conference on Access to Non-Judicial Justice, City University of Hong Kong, 26-28 October 2011
  • Riley, J, ‘Privatising Justice: An Examination of Private Alternative Dispute Resolution for Individual Workplace Grievances’, ALLA Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, November 2008
  • Riley, J (with Troy Sarina), ‘The New conflict Managers: A critical Assessment of ADR Methods under Work Choices’ New Actors and Institutions in Australian and New Zealand Industrial Relations, School of Business, University of Sydney and Employment Studies Centre, University of Newcastle, Sydney, 2-3 November 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘Estoppel in the employment context: a solution to standard form unfairness?” Australian Labour Law Association Third Biennial Conference on the challenge of Contemporary Labour Law: New Directions and Disciplines’ Brisbane, 22-23 September 2006
  • Riley, J, ‘Regulating unequal work relationships for fairness and efficiency: a study of business format franchising’ Labour Law Equity and Efficiency: Structuring and Regulating the Labour Market for the 21st Century, Melbourne, 8-9 July 2005
  • Riley, J, ‘Who owns human capital?’ Australian Labour Law Association Second Biennial Conference on Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace, Sydney, 24 September 2004
  • Riley, J, ‘The Law and Work/Life Strategies’ at Work/Life Association Forum on Key Trends and Issues driving Work/Life Strategies, Victoria University, Melbourne, 15 September 2004
  • Riley, J, ‘Why the Supreme Court of NSW is a woeful jurisdiction for arguing employment matters: A disrespectful analysis of Bredel v Moore Business Systems Australia Ltd.’ Commercial Law Association Leading Edge Seminar Series, Sydney, 11 June 2004
  • Riley, J, ‘Beyond Deregulation: Imagining an equitable private law of work’ INTELL 7, Kyoto, Japan, 29 March 2004
  • Riley, J, ‘Contracting for Work-Life Balance’ 12th Annual Labour Law Conference in Sydney 1 April 2004
  • Riley, J, ‘Protecting Employee Entitlements’ presentation at the Annual Conference of the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW on May 2, 2003
  • Riley, J, ‘Mutual Trust and Good Faith: Can private contract law guarantee fair dealing at the workplace?’ Inaugural Annual Conference of the Australian Labour Law Association, Melbourne, October 2002
  • Riley, J, ‘Locating Labour’s Voice in Corporate Enterprise: Lessons from Ansett’, Corporate Law Teachers Association Conference, Melbourne, February 2002
  • Riley, J, ‘Protecting employee entitlements: Recent Australian developments’ 9th Annual Labour Law Conference, Sydney, 28 June 2001
  • Riley, J (With Hill, J), ‘Corporate Theory and the role of the Employee: A Case Study of National Textiles’ Corporate Law Teachers Association Conference, Melbourne, February 2001
  • Riley, J, ‘Unravelling National Textiles: A labour lawyer’s perspective on a corporate collapse’ Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference, Canberra, July 2000