Staff Research Interests
The members of the School of Law have a wide variety of research interests. The interests of individual staff members are listed below.
Professor Michael Adams: Corporate governance in banking and financial services. Governance in not-for-profits. Directors duties. Class actions. Overlap of Federal law and State law in legal duties. International corporate governance.
Professor Sonia Allan: Child Rights; Health Law; Human Rights; Global Health Law; Law Reform; Public Health Law; Regulation of Existing and Emerging Health Technologies (for example, assisted reproduction. donor conception, artificial intelligence in healthcare, genetics, medicines and therapeutic devices).
Associate Professor Greg Carne: Constitutional Law, Human Rights (international and domestic application), National Security Law, International Law.
Associate Professor Guy Charlton: Usufructuary rights, Indigenous law, biodiversity and local government, legal history, constitutional law.
Associate Professor Skye Charry: Rural Issues, Sex Discrimination Law and Gender.
Ms Karen Conte: Children’s law and whether Courts have ultimately acted in children's best interests.
Ms René Cornish: Semiotics of law; Visual jurisprudence; Social media as 'witnessing'.
Ms Julia Day: Health Law, Torts.
Dr Imelda Deinla: Law; Politics; Criminology
Ms Michelle Edgely: Therapeutic jurisprudence, sentencing, criminal procedure.
Associate Professor Eric Ghosh: Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Constitutional Theory and republican political theory.
Dr Patrick Graham: Constitutional and Administrative Law, European Union Law, Emergency powers in the common law world, Native title
Ms Bronwen Jackman: Evidence, Property Law and Equity.
Dr Andrew Lawson: Sustainable agriculture governance; Governance of agricultural impacts on the environment; Voluntary stewardship programs for farmers.
Adjunct Professor Mark Lunney: Torts, History of the Common Law and Legal Profession.
Dr Siva Barathi Marimuthu (Sharl): Regulation of Advertisements of Therapeutic Goods, Comparative Studies and Civil Procedure.
Professor Paul Martin: natural resource governance, including legal and institutional innovation, law reform, hybrid or collaborative governance, and other aspects of law in use. I am keen to develop non-doctrinal approaches to research (marrying doctrinal and empirical investigation) and improve applied effectiveness and governance outcomes.
Professor Cameron Moore: Law of the Sea, International Law, Environmental Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Constitutional Law, Naval and Military Operations Law.
Professor Mark Perry: Biotechnology and Other Technology Law, Intellectual Property, Innovation Law.
Dr Wellett Potter: Law of copyright, intellectual property, other technology law and biotechnology.
Professor Ottavio Quirico: International Law, Comparative Law, Environmental Law.
Associate Professor Mia Rahim: Meta-regulation, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility regulation, transnational corporation regulation; global supply chain regulation; corporations on environmental and human rights.
Dr Laura Smith-Khan: Legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession; Migration, asylum and refugee law; Sociolinguistics
Ms Lisa Ward: Media law/policy; freedom of speech (including defamation); freedom of the media; social media; business law; and podcasting.
Dr Kip Werren: Estate Planning and Succession, Asset Protection, Business Structures, Law and Agriculture, Conservation Funding.
