2007 Refereed Conference Papers and Invited Papers

Conference Papers are Published by the Australasian Law Teachers Association (2007)

 

Invited Conference Papers Presented in the ALTA Academic Achievements and Suggestions Plenary
Held on the 26^th of September 2007

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 Paula Baron (Dean of the Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia)
  
   

• Dr Samantha Hardy (Senior Lecturer in Conflict Resolution and Law, Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland, Melbourne Campus, Australia)
  Academic Career Progression: Being Strategic
   

 

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

Commercial and Consumer Protection

• Frank Zumbo
  Promoting Fairer Consumer Contracts: An Assessment of the Alternative Regulatory Models

Company Law

• Marina Nehme
  The Power of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to Accept Enforceable Undertakings: Aims and Current Practices
   

• Margaret Hyland
  The Constitutionality of ASIC's Power to Issue Infringement Notices: A Critical Appraisal
   

Comparative & Asian Law

• Masudul Haque
  Free and Fair Elections in Bangladesh and the Illusion of a Neutral Caretaker Government

Criminal Law

• Dennis Baker
  Rethinking Consensual Harm Doing
   

• Ian Dobinson & Lesley Townsley
  The Not So Ordinary Reasonable Person or the Man from Clapham just got off the Bus.
   

• Andrew Hemming
  White Man Speak with Forked Tongue
   

• Jennifer Yule
  Current Issues with Regards to the Defences of Provocation and Self-Defence in the Criminal Law Context
   

• Kelley Burton
  Taming the Unruly Criminal Law: Where do you Draw the Boundaries of Criminal Conduct?
   

Environmental Law

• Laura Horn
  'Intragenerational Equity' a Key Concept in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
   

• Kenneth Palmer
  Wind Power Consents in New Zealand

Intellectual Property

• Sarah Hinchliffe
  The Impact of the EU-Australia Wine Agreement and Trips on Australian Wine Law and Trade

• David Price
  'The End of the Rainbow?' Recent Judicial Decisions on the Registration of Colour Trade Marks

• Alexandra Sims
  The Handmaiden and the Whipping Boy: The Court's Use of Public Policy in Limiting Copyright Protection

Law & Medicine

• Debra Wilson
  The Legal Implications of Chemical Castration Of Sex Offenders In Criminal Law

Law & Social Justice

• Paula Darvas & Eu-Jin Teo
  Reflections on Work Choices: Rhetoric, Reality and Australian Constitutional Law
   

• Feona Sayles
  All Things Equal? Gender Differences in the Sentencing of Gender-Neutral Sexual Offences
   

• Melville Thomas
  Law and Gay Identity

Law for Non-Law Students

• Susan Fitzpatrick
  Making IBL Relevant to Gen Y
   

• David Parker
  Teaching Law to Chinese Students: Some Reflections

Legal Education

• Michael Blissenden
  Legal Education Today: Teaching to Actively Engage Law Students- New Approaches to the Use of Decided Cases

• Des Butler
  The Contracts Vignettes: Cost Effective Podcasting Producing Quality Learning Outcomes in First Year Contract Law

• Kathy Douglas & Michele Ruyters
  Going to the Movies: Legal Education, Problem Based Learning and Public Policy
   

• John Juriansz
  The Challenges of Adopting New Integrated Technology Strategies- Integrated E-Learning and Blended Learning into Existing LLB Units
   

• Feona Sayles & Debra Wilson
  The Use of Technology to Create an Interactive Learning Environment For Internal and Distance Students

• Natalie Skead & Normann Witzleb
  Developing Course Outcomes and an Integrated Curriculum at the University of Western Australia Law School

Legal History

• Shane Sullivan
  Violence, Local Magistrates and the Informal Law 1700-1833: Magistrates and Mediation in Kent
   

Practical Legal Training

• Lynn Du Moulin
  Influencing Public Policy and the Law: Lawyers at the Intersection of Policy, Law, Administration and Politics
   

• Paul Rogers
  Placement in PLT: A Thoroughbred or just a Hack?

Property Law

• Fiona Burns
  Prescriptive and Implied Easements: Do the have a Future in the Torrens System in NSW?

• Fiona Burns
  Key Aspects of the Succession Act 2006
   

• Penny Carruthers
  Taming the Unruly in Personam Exception: An Examination of the Limits of the In Personam Exception to Indefeasibility of Title.
   

Revenue Law

• Robin Woellner
  Is the ATO a Law Unto Itself?
   

Tort & Contract

• Des Butler
  Jane Doe V ABC and Media Liability for the Disclosure of Personal Information: Four More Bold Steps in Four Different Directions

• Nikki Bromberger
  Capacity and the Law of Negligence- Ignorance and Prejudice Guiding the Way
   

• Malcolm Barrett and Mandy Shircore
  Drink if you Dare: The Civil and Criminal Consequences for the Victim of Intentional Drink Spiking