Dr Fady Aoun
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Dr Fady Aoun

BEc (Hons) LLB (Hons) PhD (Sydney)
Senior Lecturer
Phone
+61 2 9351 0226
Fax
+61 2 9351 0200
Address
F10 - Law School (Camperdown)
The University of Sydney
Details
Dr Fady Aoun
  • Corporations Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Trade Mark Law and Theory
  • Legal History
  • Foundations of Law
  • Corporations Law
  • Copyright & Designs
  • Principles of Intellectual Property
  • Trade Marks & Patents
  • Law Society of New South Wales
  • Corporate Law Teachers Association
  • Australian and New Zealand Legal History Society
Project titleResearch student
The Moratorium and Automatic Stay in Australian Corporate InsolvencyLeonard MCCARTHY
Typology and Dynamics of Corporate Criminal Liability for Corruption in IndonesiaKarina Dwi Nugrahati PUTRI

Selected publications

Publications

Books

  • Aoun, F., Armson, E., Dixon, O., Nehme, M. (2023). Redmond's Corporations & Financial Markets Law, 8th edition. Pyrmont, NSW: Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Ltd.
  • Price, D., Bodkin, C., Aoun, F. (2017). Intellectual Property: Commentary & Materials - Sixth Edition. Pyrmont, NSW: Thomson Reuters. [More Information]

Edited Books

  • Aoun, F., Austin, R. (2012). Restructuring Companies in Troubled Times: Director and Creditor Perspectives. Sydney: Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law.

Book Chapters

  • Aoun, F., Boon-Kuo, L., Mitchell, T. (2024). Towards Decolonising the Ordinary Person Test in Legal Education. In Foluke I Adebisi, Suhraiya Jivraj, Ntina Tzouvala (Eds.), Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy Strategies, Successes, and Challenges, (pp. 117-132). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Aoun, F., Nottage, L. (2017). The Rise and Unlikely Demise of Independent Directors in Australia. In Dan W. Puchniak, Harald Baum, Luke Nottage (Eds.), Independent Directors in Asia: A Historical, Contextual and Comparative Approach, (pp. 393-430). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]

Journals

  • Aoun, F. (2022). The Battle to Own Racist Trade Marks and Commercial Imagery in Colonial Australia. Law & History, 9(1), 90-124.
  • Aoun, F. (2021). The Belated Awakening of the Public Sphere to Racist Branding & Racist Stereotypes in Trademarks. IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review, 61(3), 545-672.
  • Aoun, F. (2019). Whitewashing Australia's History of Stigmatising Trade Marks and Commercial Imagery. Melbourne University Law Review, 42(3), 671-736.

Conferences

  • Aoun, F., Arcioni, E., Boon-Kuo, L., Di Bartolomeo, L. (2024). Ngara: embedding truth-telling about the legal system in the Sydney Law School curriculum. Australasian Law Academics Annual conference, Adelaide: Presentation.
  • Aoun, F. (2022). Incorporating Indigenous Content, Knowledges & Contexts into Teaching Corporate Law. Re: The Corporation, Re-Thinking, Re-Forming, Re-Imagining, Society of Corporate Law Academics (SCoLA), University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Qld: Panellist.
  • Aoun, F. (2022). Tobacco Empires as Agents of Empire: Reconceptualising Corporate Empires within Sovereign Empires. British Legal History Conference, Maynooth, Ireland (via Zoom): Presentation.

Reference Works

  • Aoun, F. (2021). Corporations Law. In Ray Finkelstein and David Hamer (Eds.), LexisNexis Concise Australian Legal Dictionary, 6th edition. LexisNexis.

Other

  • Aoun, F., Bowrey, K., Handler, M. (2022), Submission to IP Australia's Indigenous Knowledge Initiative.
  • Aoun, F. (2022), The Belated Awakening of the Public Sphere to Racist Branding. [More Information]
  • Aoun, F. (2020), Submission to the Select Committee on the Aboriginal Flag. [More Information]

2024

  • Aoun, F., Arcioni, E., Boon-Kuo, L., Di Bartolomeo, L. (2024). Ngara: embedding truth-telling about the legal system in the Sydney Law School curriculum. Australasian Law Academics Annual conference, Adelaide: Presentation.
  • Aoun, F., Boon-Kuo, L., Mitchell, T. (2024). Towards Decolonising the Ordinary Person Test in Legal Education. In Foluke I Adebisi, Suhraiya Jivraj, Ntina Tzouvala (Eds.), Decolonisation, Anti-Racism, and Legal Pedagogy Strategies, Successes, and Challenges, (pp. 117-132). Oxon: Routledge. [More Information]

2023

  • Aoun, F., Armson, E., Dixon, O., Nehme, M. (2023). Redmond's Corporations & Financial Markets Law, 8th edition. Pyrmont, NSW: Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Ltd.

2022

  • Aoun, F. (2022). Incorporating Indigenous Content, Knowledges & Contexts into Teaching Corporate Law. Re: The Corporation, Re-Thinking, Re-Forming, Re-Imagining, Society of Corporate Law Academics (SCoLA), University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Qld: Panellist.
  • Aoun, F., Bowrey, K., Handler, M. (2022), Submission to IP Australia's Indigenous Knowledge Initiative.
  • Aoun, F. (2022). The Battle to Own Racist Trade Marks and Commercial Imagery in Colonial Australia. Law & History, 9(1), 90-124.

2021

  • Aoun, F. (2021). Corporations Law. In Ray Finkelstein and David Hamer (Eds.), LexisNexis Concise Australian Legal Dictionary, 6th edition. LexisNexis.
  • Aoun, F. (2021). The Belated Awakening of the Public Sphere to Racist Branding & Racist Stereotypes in Trademarks. IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review, 61(3), 545-672.

2020

  • Aoun, F. (2020), Submission to the Select Committee on the Aboriginal Flag. [More Information]
  • Aoun, F. (2020). The Belated Awakening of the Public Sphere to Racist Branding & Racist Stereotypes in Trademarks. IDEA Symposium on Race and IP, United States: Presentation.
  • Aoun, F. (2020). The Sun Never Set on Imperialist Ideology and the Representation of 'Others': Troubling Trade Marks throughout the British Empire. "One Empire, Many Colonies, Similar or Different Histories?", 39th Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS), Auckland: Presentation.

2019

  • Aoun, F. (2019). 'The Battle to Own Racist Trade Marks and Commercial Imagery in Colonial Australia' in "Does Law's History Matter? The Politics of our Disciplinary Practices". Australian and New Zealand Legal History Conference, Deakin University, Melbourne, Vic: Presentation.
  • Aoun, F. (2019). The Problem of Stigmatising Trade Marks in the Anglo-Australian Public Sphere. 2nd Biennial Race + Intellectual Property Conference: Engagement, Empowerment, Exclusions, New York University Law School, New York: Presentation.
  • Aoun, F. (2019). Whitewashing Australia's History of Stigmatising Trade Marks and Commercial Imagery. Melbourne University Law Review, 42(3), 671-736.

2017

  • Aoun, F. (2017). Colonisation of the Other in trade mark law. NIRAKN (National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network) International Conference 2017: Race, Whiteness and Indigeneity, Surfers Paradise, Australia: NIRAKN (National Indigenous Research and Knowledges Network).
  • Price, D., Bodkin, C., Aoun, F. (2017). Intellectual Property: Commentary & Materials - Sixth Edition. Pyrmont, NSW: Thomson Reuters. [More Information]
  • Watson, N., Aoun, F., Porter, A. (2017), Racist stereotypes, resistance and reclaiming dignity - Sydney Law School public lecture at Redfern Legal Centre to commemorate NAIDOC week 2017.

2016

  • Nottage, L., Aoun, F. (2016). Independent Director Requirements in Australia and the Asian Region. Company and Securities Law Journal, 34(8), 631-637.
  • Nottage, L., Aoun, F. (2016). The Rise of Independent Directors in Australia: Adoption, Reform and Uncertainty. International and Comparative Law Review, 23(2), 443-560. [More Information]
  • Aoun, F., Nottage, L. (2016). The Rise of Independent Directors in Australia: Adoption, Reform and Uncertainty. 25th Annual Corporate Law Teachers Association (CLTA) Conference 2016, Kensington, NSW: Presentation.

2015

  • Aoun, F., Nottage, L. (2015). The Rise of Independent Directors in Australia: Adoption, Reform and Uncertainty. Independent Directors in Asia Conference 2015, Singapore: Presentation.

2014

  • Aoun, F. (2014). Scandalous and Offensive Trade Marks: A Historical Perspective. Sydney Law School - National University of Singapore Symposium 2014, Sydney, NSW: Presentation.

2013

  • Aoun, F. (2013). Racist Trade Marks in the Australian and British Historical Trade Mark Registers. 32nd Annual Australian New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) Conference 2013: People, Power and Place, Dunedin, New Zealand: Presentation.

2012

  • Nottage, L., Aoun, F. (2012). Book Review: Dan Puchniak, Harald Baum, Michael Ewing-Chow (eds), The Derivative Action in Asia: A Comparative and Functional Approach (2012) Cambridge University Press, 425pp. Sydney Law Review, 34(1), 213-217.
  • Aoun, F., Austin, R. (2012). Restructuring Companies in Troubled Times: Director and Creditor Perspectives. Sydney: Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law.

2011

  • Aoun, F., Nottage, L. (2011). Independent Directors in Australia and Singapore: Same But Different. East Asian Law and Society Conference 2011 - Dialects and Dialectics: East Asian Dialogues in Law and Society, Seoul, Republic of Korea: Presentation.

2010

  • Aoun, F. (2010). Exploring the Underdevelopment of the Law of Offensive and Scandalous Trade Marks. Legal Research 3 Conference 2010. Presentation.

2006

  • Aoun, F. (2006). Jesus Juice, Redskins and Black Tail: The Law relating to Offensive and Scandalous Trade Marks. 7th Annual Sydney Law School Postgraduate Conference 2006, Sydney, NSW: Presentation.

2005

  • McDonald, B., Aoun, F. (2005). Optimal Model in Teaching Law: Surveys Conducted under CHASS Teaching Improvement Fund Grant. The University of Sydney Law Faculty Retreat 2005, Sydney, NSW: Presentation.

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