Our Research Academics
| Academic | Research area |
|---|---|
| Mr Ross Abbs | Criminal law procedure; Sentencing; Torts |
| Professor Margaret Allars | Administrative law; Constitutional law; Legal theory; Citizenship; Public health law; Nationhood |
| Mr Ross Anderson | Legal history |
| Mr Fady Aoun | Intellectual property; Market manipulation; Insider trading |
| Professor Patricia Apps | Public economics; Welfare state; Health policy; Law and economics; Taxation; Labour markets; Income distribution |
| Ms Elisa Arcioni | Australian Constitutional and Public Law |
| Emeritus Professor Hilary Astor | Dispute resolution; Mediation; Family mediation; Family law; Discrimination and the law; Dispute systems design |
| Ms Irene Baghoomians | International human rights law and practice; International humanitarian law; Clinical legal education |
| Dr Gerry Bates | Environmental law; Pollution law |
| Professor Vivienne Bath | Developments in Chinese Law, particularly administrative law and governance; State assets and intellectual property; International business law; Chinese company and business law |
| Professor Belinda Bennett | Health and medical law; Legal regulation of new technologies in healthcare; Legal issues relating to reproduction; Genetics; Globalisation and health law; Public health law; Legal regulation of nanotechnologies |
| Dr Christopher Birch | Legal philosophy; Personal identity; Punishment; Moral responsibility; Philosophy of mind |
| Ms Celeste Black | Income tax law; Animal law; Climate Law; Taxation of charities |
| Emeritus Professor Ben Boer | International Environmental Law; Comparative Environmental Law; Natural and Cultural Heritage Law; Environmental Law in the Asia Pacific; Indonesian Environmental Law International and domestic law relating to protected areas, soils and forests |
| Professor Chester Brown | Public international law; International dispute settlement; International arbitration; International investment law; Private International law; international environmental law |
| Mr Micah Burch | Income taxation; Tax Policy, Taxation of charities; Tax administration; Tax jurisprudence; Constitutional law; US law |
| Associate Professor Fiona Burns | Equity; Elder financial abuse; Undue influence; Property; Estoppel; Unconscionable dealing; Legal history; Wills and successions |
| Emeritus Professor Peter Butt | Real property; Native title; Conveyancing; Plain legal language; Legal drafting |
| Associate Professor Simon Butt | Indonesian law ( including constitutional, criminal, civil, human rights, commercial, Islamic and customary); Comparative law (particularly transplanting legal norms between jurisdictions); Intellectual property |
| Emeritus Professor Terry Carney | Social security law; Child welfare; Drug law and policy; Mental health law; Adult guardianship; Ageing and disability; Anorexia nervosa; Welfare reform; Welfare-to-work; Social rights; Neoliberalism; Citizenship theory; Therapeutic jurisprudence; Civil commitment |
| Professor John Carter | Contract law; Restitution; Sale of goods; Commercial law |
| Professor Peter Cashman | Litigation; Advocacy; Civil litigation; Class action law; Legal applications of statistical methods and epidemiology; Product liability; Mass torts; Environmental law; Law reform |
| Associate Professor Judith Cashmore | Family law; Child protection and child welfare; Child witness; Children's rights; Children's evidence; Children's participation in legal proceedings |
| Mr Garner Clancey | Crime prevention; Place-based analysis and prevention of crime; Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED); Securitisation; Youth crime; Juvenile Justice |
| Professor Matthew Conaglen | Equity; Trusts; Property; Obligations (with a particular interest in Fiduciary Obligations) |
| Professor Graeme Cooper | International tax law; Corporate tax law; Consumption tax law; Income tax law |
| Dr Wayne Courtney | Contracts; Commercial law; Electronic commerce |
| Dr Emily Crawford | International law; International humanitarian law; International criminal law; Non-State Actors |
| Professor Mary Crock | Administration law; Migration law; Refugee law; Human rights; International law; Public law; Comparative law; Children |
| Associate Professor Thomas Crofts | Comparative criminal law; Criminalization; Criminal law reform; Criminal responsibility; Juvenile justice |
| Ms Penelope Crossley | Energy law; Resources law; Regulatory theory; Climate change law; The intersection of energy law and tort law |
| Professor Andrew Dickinson | Private International Law (Australia, UK, European, Comparative); Cross-Border Dispute Resolution/Civil Procedure; EU Private Law; Immunities and Privileges of States/International Organisations |
| Professor Michael Dirkis | Tax policy; Tax administration; International taxation; Environmental taxes |
| Dr Andrew Edgar | Administrative law; Environmental litigation |
| Professor Timothy Edgar | Tax treatment of financial instruments and financial institutions |
| Dr Salim Farrar | Criminal procedures; Public international law |
| Professor Mark Findlay | Criminal law; Comparative criminal justice; Juries; Policing; Globalisation; International criminal justice |
| Professor Peter Gerangelos | Australian constitutional law; Comparative constitutional law; International legal institutions; Separation of powers; Judicial power; Parliamentary soveriegnty |
| Mr Jamie Glister | Equity; Law of trusts |
| Dr Scott Grattan | Property law; Porperty rights theory |
| Emeritus Professor Reg Graycar | Public law/Administrative Law; Legal systems/processes; Law reform; Legal responses to systemic injuries; Feminist legal theory; Gendered harms |
| Dr Stefan Gruber | Cultural heritage law and policy; Social change, development and law in China; Asian law, society and sustainable development; International and comparative environmental law; Laws of war |
| Associate Professor David Hamer | Evidence and Proof; Criminal Law and Theory; Causation; Legal Method; Statutory Interpretation; Torts; Legal Theory |
| Professor Jennifer Hill | Corporations Law; Comparative Corporate Governance; Regulation; Shareholder Rights; Directors' Duties; Executive Compensation; Takeovers |
| Professor Helen Irving | Constitutional law and history; Jurisprudence; Citizenship history; Federalism |
| Associate Professor Fleur Johns | International Law; Legal Theory; Legal History; Global Governance |
| Professor David Kinley | International and Domestic Human Rights Law; Corporations and Human Rights; Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Human Rights and Global Finance |
| Dr Ghena Krayem | Multiculturalism; Legal pluralism; Islamic law; Dispute resolution |
| Ms Miiko Kumar | Evidence; Impact of human rights on evidence; Civil and criminal procedure |
| Ms Patricia Lane | Property Law; Native Title; Environmental law; Equity; Property regimes; Peace-making |
| Associate Professor Murray Lee | Fear of Crime; Crime and Social Isolation; Criminological Theory; Rural Violence; The Criminalisation of Drug Use |
| Professor Bing Ling | Chinese and comparative contract law; Chinese civil law; Public international law |
| Dr Arlie Loughnan | Criminal law and theory; Mental incapacity in criminal law; Legal theory; Legal pedagogy |
| Professor Rosemary Lyster | Australian and International Climate Law; Climate Change justice; Energy Law; Emissions trading schemes; carbon pricing; Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+); Water Law and Genetically modified organisms |
| Professor Roger Magnusson | Health law, policy and ethics; Public health law and policy; Privacy and confidentiality; Media law; Euthanasia; Medical law; Tobacco control; Communicable diseases |
| Associate Professor Gail Mason | Hate crime, homophobic violence and racist violence; Hate crime law; Feminist and poststructural theory; Law and emotion; Gender, sexuality and law |
| Emeritus Professor Ron McCallum AO | Industrial law; Labour law; Employment law; Workplace safety; Litigation; Evidence; Industrial citizenship |
| Professor Sheelagh McCracken | Finance Law; Commercial Law |
| Associate Professor Shae McCrystal | Residential tenancy; Labour Law; Collective Bargaining |
| Professor Barbara McDonald |
Liability for Negligence; Tort Law and reform; Negligence; Proportionate Liability; Professional and Fiduciary Liability; Remedies and Compensation for Injury and Loss; Trusts, particularly constructive trusts; Media Law: Defamation, Privacy, Breach of Confidence |
| Mr Bron McKillop | Criminal law; Criminal procedure; Evidence; Comparative law |
| Professor Rebecca Millar | Goods and services tax law; Comparative value added taxes law; Income tax concession for research and development |
| Ms Tanya Mitchell | Criminal law; Criminal procedure; Indigenous people and law |
| Dr Jacqui Mowbray | International Law; Legal Theory; Human Rights Law; Language policy; Minority languages; Cultural rights; Economic and social rights |
| Professor Luke Nottage | Comparative contract law; Comparative product liability; Japanese Law; Asian Law; International Commercial arbitration; Information technology law; Comparative Legal education; Comparative corporate governance |
| Professor Pat O'Malley | Risk and Security; Criminology and Current Social Theory; Contemporary Criminal Justice; Social Theory; Money and Legal Remedies |
| Professor Patrick Parkinson | Family law; Child protection law; Equity; Trusts; Fiduciary law; Estoppel; Child sexual abuse |
| Professor Elisabeth Peden | Contract law; Implied terms; Good faith; Damages; Evidence; Personal property; Construction; Commercial law |
| Dr Alison Pert | Use of Force; Jurisdiction; Immunity in International Law |
| Professor Joellen Riley | Employment contract law; Labour law; Intersections of commercial, corporate and intellectual property law with employment and labour law |
| Associate Professor David Rolph | Intellectual property; Torts; Media law; Defamation; Negligence; Copyright; Conflict of laws |
| Professor Wojciech Sadurski | Jurisprudence; Legal theory; Philosophy of law; Political philosophy (especially: liberal political philosophy and theory of justice); Constitutional theory; Comparative Constitutionalism; Constitutionalism of Central and Eastern Europe |
| Professor Ben Saul | Public internatonal Law; Anti-Terrorism Law; International Humanitarian Law; Law on the Use of Force; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights Law; International Environmental Law; Law and Development |
| Assoicate Professor Kristin Savell | Criminal law; Health law; Law and biopolitics; End-of-life decision making; Abortion and reproductive rights; Disability studies; Legal personhood |
| Dr Michael Sevel | Legal philosophy; Rule of law; Moral and political philosophy; Admiralty and maritime law |
| Dr Rita Shackel | Expert evidence; Psychological testimony; Prosecution of child sexual assault cases; Victims of crime; Victim impact statements & sentencing; Children and law; Criminal processes; Legal professional responsibility and ethics, Legal education |
| Emeritus Professor Ivan Shearer AM, RFD | Public international law; Law of the sea; Human rights; Law of armed conflict; Extradition; Refugees |
| Ms Susan Shearing | Sustainable business and environmental regulation; Environmental financing; Natural and cultural heritage and protected areas management; Water law; Biodiversity Law; Climate change |
| Dr Belinda Smith | Employment and industrial law; Work and family; Anti-discrimination law; Gender; Equality; Regulatory theory |
| Associate Professor Tim Stephens | Public international law; International environmental law; Law of the sea; International dispute resolution; Constitutional law |
| Professor Cameron Stewart | Health law; Ethics; Property and equity, Guardianship law; End-of-Life decision-making; Human tissue regulation |
| Professor John Stumbles |
Personal Property Securities Act; Insolvent Trusts: the impact of insolvency law on insolvent trustees and insolvent trust funds; The Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in respect of Securities held with an Intermediary; The UNIDROIT Convention regulating dealings in securities held by intermediaries |
| Professor Greg Tolhurst | Contract; Cultural heritage; Restitution; Commercial law; Personal property; Banking; Equity |
| Professor Anne Twomey | Constitutional Law; Electoral Law; Federalism; Constitutional history; the Crown; the Executive; Parliament; the Republic |
| Professor Richard Vann | Taxation law; Taxation policy; Corporate taxation; International taxation |
| Dr Kevin Walton | Legal philosophy; Jurisprudence; Legal theory |
| Associate Professor Kimberlee Weatherall | Copyright; Patent; Trade Marks; Law and Technology; Intellectual Property and International Trade; Legal History; Empirical Legal Research; Law and Economics |
| Honorary Associate Professor Alex Ziegert | Sociological theory of law; Sociological jurisprudence; Comparative legal systems and global law; Asian law; Law and social control; Comparative family studies; Legal technical assistance; Legal education |
