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Dr Scott Grattan

Profile


Degrees and Qualifications

BA LLB (Hons 1) Macquarie LLM BrCol PhD UNSW


Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Property and Commercial law


Research Interests

  • Property Law
  • Property rights theory


Brief Biographical Details

After graduating in Law with first class honours from Macquarie University, Scott practiced as a solicitor in the commercial property and banking & finance sections of Freehill, Hollingdale & Page for two and a half years. He then undertook postgraduate study in Canada, before returning to Australia to take up a position in the Faculty of Law at the University of Wollongong. He worked there for many years, teaching property and trusts and, occasionally, conflict of laws and law & economics. He joined the Sydney Law School in February 2012. Scott has a PhD from the University of New South Wales and is a co-author of Australian Real Property Law (5th ed, 2011) [with Bradbrook, MacCallum and Moore] and Australian Property Law: Cases and Materials (4th ed, 2011) [with Bradbrook, MacCallum, Moore and Griggs].

Publications

Books | Book Chapters | Refereed Journal Articles | Conference Papers and Presentations


Books

  • Bradbrook, A J, MacCallum, S V, Moore, A P, Grattan, S & Griggs, L, Australian Property Law: Cases and Materials (4th edition), Lawbook Co.: Pyrmont NSW (2011)
  • Bradbrook, A J, MacCallum, S V, Moore, A P, Grattan, S, Australian Real Property Law (5th edition), Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia: Rozelle NSW (2011)
  • Gray, J, Edgeworth, B, Foster, N & Grattan, S, Property Law in New South Wales (2nd Edition), LexisNexis Butterworths: Sydney (2007)

Book Chapters

  • Grattan, S, ‘Forged but Indefeasible Mortgages: Remedial Options’ in L Bennett Moss, B Edgeworth & C Sherry (eds), Property and Security: Selected Essays, Lawbook Co.: Pyrmont (2010) 171-198
  • Grattan, S, ‘Proprietarian Conceptions of Statutory Access Rights’ in E Cooke (ed), Modern Studies in Property Law Volume 2, Hart Publishing: UK (2003) 353-374

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Grattan, S, ‘Recent developments regarding forged mortgages: the interrelationship between indefeasibility and the personal covenant to pay’ (2009) 21(2) Bond Law Review 43-67
  • Grattan, S, ‘Courting Councils and Counselling Courts: Subjectivity and Objectivity in s 88K cases’ (2005) 12(2) Australian Property Law Journal 126-156
  • Grattan, S, ‘The Name(s) of the Rose: Personality, Preferences and Court-Imposed Easements’ (2004) 10 Canterbury Law Review 329-345
  • McNamara, L & Grattan, S, ‘The Recognition of Indigenous Land Rights as “Native Title”: Continuity And Transformation’ (1999) 3 (2) Flinders Journal of Law Reform 137-162
  • Grattan, S & McNamara, L, ‘The Common Law Construct of Native Title: A “Re-Feudalisation” of Australian Land Law’ (1999) 8(1) Griffith Law Review 50 - 85
  • Grattan, S, ‘Judicial Reasoning and the Adjudication of Airspace Trespass’ (1996) 4(2) Australian Property Law Journal 128 - 145

Conference Papers and Presentations

  • Grattan, S, ‘Forged but Indefeasible Mortgages: Remedial Options’, presented at the 9th Australasian Real Property Teachers' Conference, Sydney, 17-19 April 2009.
  • Grattan, S, ‘Recent Developments Regarding Forged Mortgages: Indefeasibility, the Personal Covenant to Pay and Remedial Options’, presented at Bond University Faculty of Law’s “Torrens Title: The Integrity of the Register” symposium , Gold Coast, 2008
  • Grattan, S, ‘The Names of the Rose: Personality, Preferences and Court-Imposed Easements’, presented at the Australasian Real Property Teachers’ Conference , Christchurch, New Zealand, July 2004
  • Grattan, S, ‘Proprietarian Conceptions of Statutory Access Rights’, presented at the 4th Biennial Conference of the Centre for Property Law, Reading, United Kingdom, 25-26 March 2002
  • Grattan, S, ‘The Logos of Land: Section s 88K and Economic Theory’, presented at the Australasian Real Property Law Teachers' Conference, Melbourne, February 2001
  • Grattan, S, ‘Conflicts and Platonic Allegory: Choice of Law in the Shadows of the Cave’, presented at Legal Theory Seminar Series, Department of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, May 1999
  • Grattan, S, ‘The Recognition of Native Title: Legal Pluralism or Legal Imperialism?’ (with Luke McNamara), presented at Law and History Conference: Empires, Colonies, Legal Cultures, Melbourne, 5-7 July 1998
  • Grattan, S, ‘The Concepts of 'People' and 'Place' in Tort Choice of Law’, presented at Law and Society Conference, Southern Cross University, December 1995
  • Grattan, S, ‘Judicial Reasoning and the Adjudication of Airspace Trespass’, presented at Australian Real Property Law Conference, Bond University, July 1995
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