2006 Refereed Conference Papers and Invited Papers

Conference Papers are Published by the Australasian Law Teachers Association (2006)

 

Invited Conference Papers Presented in the Inaugural Legal Academic Job Network
held on Wednesday 5 July 06 
(Published as they were submitted)

The purpose of this session was to explore issues relating to a legal academic career and to provide a forum for early career academics to see presentations from academics of different levels and experience on developing a successful legal academic career. Issues that may be relevant for more senior academics will also be touched upon.

Those invited to present were:

• Professor Michael Coper (Dean of the ANU College of Law, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)
  On building a successful career as an academic lawyer
  
   

• Professor Rosalind Croucher (Dean of the Division of Law, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
  What about me? academic futures - from the ground up
  
   

• Ms Judie Lancaster (Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
  Crossing borders: negotiating the complexities of an academic career path

Refereed Conference Papers Presented in ALTA Interest Group Sessions
(To view any of the papers below, click on the name of the paper)
 

Company Law

• Josephine Coffey
  A civil liability action for insider trading: Fyffes PLC v DCC PLC [2005] IEHC 477

• Larrelle Chapple & Catherine McCormack
  Takeovers: acceptance facilities revisited in the patrick case

• John Lessing and Ranee Johns
  Resisting a hostile takeover: the lion nathan bid for coopers brewery

• Judith Marychurch & Natalie Stoianoff
  Blurring the lines of environmental responsibility: How corporate and public governance was circumvented in the ok tedi mining limited disaster

• David Parker
  The undercapitalisation of a company: can this be the basis for piercing the corporate veil?
   

Comparative & Asian Law

• Jian Fu
  Derivative actions as a mechanism for the protection of minority shareholders in china: a result of convergence or divergence

Criminal Law

• Alex Steel
  General fraud offences in australia
   

Dispute Resolution

• Kathy Douglas
  Inspirational teaching of alternative dispute resolution: Utilising improvisation to enhance understanding of narrative mediation

• Andrew Vincent & John Zeleznikow
  Please negotiation and decision support
   

Environmental Law

• Angela Dwyer
  Species listing and precaution under the environment protection and biodiversity conservation act 1999 (Cth)

• Philippa England
  Regulating urban containment in australia: brisbane and melbourne compared

• Laura Horn
  Corporate environmental accountability and responsibility

• Kenneth Palmer
  Decision-making under the resource management act 1991 (nz)

• Graeme Wiffen
  Heritage legislation: The heritage act 2004 (ACT) and current practice
   

Equity & Trusts

• Tracey Carver & Tina Cockburn
  Making trusts more accessible: An interactive learning programme
   

Ethics & the Legal Profession

• Linda Haller
  Old habits die hard: The battle to extend the protective nature of professional discipline
   

Evidence & Procedure

• Judith Marychurch
  Cross-disciplinary assessment: Bringing law students and expert witnesses together
   

Family Law

• Geoff Monahan
  Future needs strike back? Assessing the consequences of contributions to a de facto relationship
   

Indigenous Peoples & the Law

• Craig Coxhead
  Assisting indigenous students to succeed: Let's start by giving them a safe learning environment

• Margaret Stephenson
  Reforms to indigenous land title in australia: some lessons from other jurisdictions

International Law

• Natalie Klein
  Threats of terrorism and threats to international legal structures: A law of the sea perspective

• Dan Svantesson
  The not so 'borderless' internet: Does it still give rise to private international law issues?
   

Intellectual Property

• Bill Childs, Robert G. McLaughlan, Ruth Soetendorp & Jim Roach
  Preparing engineers and scientists for the 21st Century: A case for imbedding an inherent awareness of intellectual property in undergraduate engineering & science curricula

Labour Law

• Trish Keeper
  Employee rights in the advent of employer insolvency: A comparative consideration of the rights of new zealand employees

• Pam Nuttall & Felicity Reid
  Protecting vulnerable workers: Conflicting priorities of policy and common law
   

Law & Medicine

• Tina Cockburn & Bill Madden
  Disclosure of adverse events: An integral and necessary part of the treatment?

• Debra Wilson
  Sex, sheep and science fiction: Cloning and the media
   

Law & Social Justice

• Rachel Spencer
  From atticus finch to dennis denuto: using popular media to teach legal skills & ethics
   

Legal Education

• Matthew Ball
  Legal education and the idealistic student: The need for a government analysis

• Alison Bone
  Plagiarism can be prevented: a starter pack

• Des Butler
  The merlin affair: Using multimedia in the teaching and learning of law

• Jennifer Butler & Kristy Richardson
  Teaching taxation law: Rethinking aids for delivery

• Pauline Collins & Anthony Gray
  Worry to women of welfare to work & work choices

• Rosalind Croucher
  Crunching the criteria: The dissectionist's guide to promotion

• Kalmen Datt
  Reflections on teaching first year law course delivered in distance mode from an assessment perspective

• Philippa England
  A five year review of unincorporated associations and trusts in flexible delivery mode: a high speed journey to somewhere

• Judith Gutman, Tom Fisher & Erika Martens
  Teaching alternative dispute resolution in law school: Why, how and what for?

Legal History

• David Barker
  The american case method and its influence on modern legal education
   

Legal Research & Communication

• Terry Hutchinson
  Educating the transnational lawyer: Globalisation and the effects on legal research
   

Property Law

• Lynden Griggs
  The content and timing of vendor disclosure in the sale of residential real estate: Why both must be considered

• Alan Toy
  Knowing receipt in the torrens context
   

Revenue Law

• Stephen Graw & Robin Woellner
  Self -assessment: Are we there yet? Are we there yet?
   

Tort & Contract

• Des Butler
  Cyberbullying: New technology, new challenges to law

• Tina Cockburn
  The re-emergence of intentional torts in the wake of the civil liability acts

• Rosalind Croucher & John Croucher
  Excluding the self-excluded: 'Reasonable force' and the problem gambler in australia

• Debra Ronan
  Challenged but not defeated by technology: Why the postal rule should apply to contracts formed by email

• Bruno Zeller
  Internationalisation and the teaching of contract law