Division of Business
School of Law
School of Law
LLB (Hons) (Uni of Adel), LLM (Uni of Adel), Phd (Uni of Syd), GDLP (UniSA)
Dr Waye joins the University of South Australia after 20 years of teaching and research experience at the Law School, University of Adelaide at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Dr Waye's teaching expertise includes Arbitration Law (both domestic and international), Evidence and Procedure, Corporate Law, Contract Law and Wine Law.
In addition to teaching and researching at the University of Adelaide, Dr Waye has also taught and or undertaken research at the University of Auckland, the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Cape Town, University College Dublin, the University of Oregon, the University of New South Wales Graduate School of Management, and has taught summer school in Adelaide for William & Mary College. Outside of University, Dr Waye has also provided educational services to the South Australian Chamber of Commerce and the South Australian Workcover Corporation.
Throughout her teaching career, Dr Waye has demonstrated a strong commitment to effective student centred learning and has been actively involved in the development and application of innovative teaching methodologies and in curriculum design. In particular Dr Waye has been interested in learning methods which immerse students in authentic learning experiences that facilitate the realisation of professional attributes such as problem solving, critical analysis and strategic thinking. As well as the necessary discipline knowledge graduates will require to become successful legal practitioners, the new law degree at the University of South Australia also emphasises the attainment of these professional attributes.
Dr Waye's research interests are rich and varied. Reflecting the globalised state of commerce and the legal profession, Dr Waye's research incorporates international and comparative elements, and spans subject matter such as multilateral and bilateral treaties affecting the wine industry, comparisons between the Australian and United States' systems of criminal procedure, matters affecting access to justice in England, Australia and the United States, and rights attendant upon dissolution of corporations in England, Australia and the United States. Much of Dr Waye's research has been process oriented , that is concerned with the efficacy of legal process. Dr Waye's current research examines the trading of legal claims at common law in England, Australia and the United States.
Dr Waye is an active member of the Corporations Committee, Business
Law Section, Law Council of Australia, the peak body representing legal
practitioners throughout Australia. Responsibilities of committee
members include dissemination of information about current corporate law
developments and involvement in consultative processes for corporate law
reform proposals.
For a number of years, Dr Waye was also a member of the editorial board
of 'The Arbitrator & Mediator', a journal published by the Institute of
Arbitrators & Mediators Australia.
LLB, LLM, SJD
Professor Ivan Shearer is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Sydney, having retired from the Challis Chair of International Law of that University in 2003. Professor Shearer recently became an Adjunct Professor in the School of Law, University of South Australia. He previously taught at the University of New South Wales (1975-1993) and the University of Adelaide (1965-1972). He has held visiting positions at the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, Indiana University, Bloomington, the United States Naval War College, Newport, and All Souls College, Oxford.
His particular fields of teaching and research are general international law, jurisdiction in international law, the law of armed conflict, the international protection of human rights, the law of the sea, and international criminal law.
Professor Shearer is a member of the Bars of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, and has appeared in cases before the higher Australian courts including the High Court of Australia. He served as a Senior Member of the Australian Administrative Appeals Tribunal from 2004 to 2008. He is a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague. He has served in two recent international arbitrations and in two cases before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg.
Since 2001 Professor Shearer has served as an elected member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. In March 2007 he was elected Vice-President of the Committee for a term of two years.
Professor Shearer served in the Royal Australian Navy Legal Reserve and retired in 2000 with the rank of Captain. He was awarded the Reserve Forces Decoration, with clasp.
In 1995 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
LLB (Hons), LLM
Rob Fowler was appointed to Chair in Environmental Law at UniSA in 2002; previously
Associate Professor, Law School, University of Adelaide (and Dean of
Law, 1995-1998). He was also co-founder of the Australian Centre for Environmental Law (a joint
centre of ANU, Sydney and Adelaide Universities) in 1992, and Director
of its Adelaide Branch, 1992-1995 and 1999 - 2001.
His current position at the University of South Australia (UniSA)
involves participation in the activities of two new Centres.
First, through the Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination
Assessment & Remediation of the Environment (CRC CARE), he is
responsible as a Program Leader for the development and implementation
of research projects related to the legal, policy, social and economic
aspects of site contamination. This is one of four research programs
within the CRC, which was established in late 2005 and has an
anticipated budget of over A$100 million for the next 7 years.
Second, he is a co-founder of the new Centre for Environmental
Management and Compliance (CEMAC) at UniSA. CEMAC undertakes the design
and delivery of training courses for government officers and the private
sector in relation to environmental management and compliance.
Professor Fowler has in recent years (1999-2005) also led a number of
AUSAID-funded projects to deliver training in Environmental Law and
Enforcement to Indonesian judges, prosecutors, police, environmental
officials and NGO representatives - both in Indonesia and for groups
visiting Australia.
He has served on numerous State and Federal bodies in Australia that are
concerned with environmental and natural resources issues, and consults
regularly to government agencies on environmental law matters. He has
over 100 publications in the fields of environmental and natural
resources law.
Awards received include: - National Environmental Law Association award
for contribution to Australian Environmental Law (1989); - Fulbright
Senior Scholar (1992); - elected member, IUCN Environmental Law
Commission (1996)
BA (Hons), LLB (Hons), Phd (Tas)
Dr Lacey has over eight years experience in teaching law, having previously taught at the University of Tasmania (1999-2002) and the University of Adelaide (2002-2007). Her areas of expertise include Australian Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Public International Law, and Human Rights. An area in which Dr Lacey also has considerable experience is the coordination of mooting programs, including the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and the Harry Gibbs Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition.
In the delivery of subjects in public law, Dr Lacey has developed a number of key initiatives aimed at facilitating student engagement with the profession and promoting student centred learning. In particular, Dr Lacey developed the Annual Administrative Law Students' Forum at both her previous institutions - an initiative that provides students with a unique opportunity to present their research to members of the broader legal community.
Throughout her career, Dr Lacey has demonstrated a strong commitment to a teaching methodology that is centred on active student engagement, flexible teaching delivery and the development of graduate attributes that equip students with the skills to make an effective contribution to the community.
Dr Lacey has published widely in the fields of constitutional and administrative law. Her field of expertise is the effect of international law in the domestic legal sphere. In this area, she has published in leading refereed journals including the Federal Law Review, the Sydney Law Review and the Melbourne Journal of International Law, and has contributed to leading texts, including The Fluid State: International Law and National Legal Systems (edited by Charlesworth, Chiam, Hovell and Williams). Her work has been cited in decisions of the High Court of Australia and Reports of the Australian Law Reform Commission.
Her PhD Thesis, 'International Human Rights Law and the Exercise of Judicial Discretion in Australia', was awarded the Dean's Commendation Award for Outstanding Doctoral Theses in 2006 and will be published by Presidian in 2008.
Dr Lacey is the current Book Review Editor for the Australian Year Book of International Law and is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, the Australian Association of Constitutional Lawyers and Australian Lawyers for Human Rights.
BA (Uni of Adel), LLB (Hons) (Uni of Tas), PhD (Uni of Tas)
Dr Julia Davis joined the University of South Australia in January 2008 after 13 years of teaching and research experience at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania. Her teaching expertise includes Tort Law, Jurisprudence, Sentencing Law and Conflicts (Private International Law).
Dr Davis has a strong commitment to helping students to develop their legal, advocacy and communications skills. She has been recognised many times for her leadership in teaching by the University of Tasmania, culminating in 2006 with the presentation of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence for her innovative teaching practices, her achievements in developing imaginative and creative teaching and learning resources, and for her ability to enthuse, inspire and support her students.
One of Dr Davis's special interests is the use of film technology in assisting student learning. In 2005 she wrote and produced an interactive DVD package on communication and advocacy skills entitled More Than Words, which is now used in several Australian and international universities. This DVD is supplemented with a complete package of student learning resources to assist student to develop their skills.
In 2007 Dr Davis was commissioned to write an innovative text on Torts as part of a new publishing initiative by Oxford University Press: the Oxford Law Guidebooks. The aim of this book is to combine an exposition of the law with a detailed guide to the essential legal, study and problem solving skills that Torts students need to master for success at Law School.
Dr Davis has research interests in three main fields: the theoretical, practical and psychological aspects of sentencing; the philosophy of the criminal law; and the concept of justice. She has published chapters in books and articles based on her research on criminal law theory, sentencing, domestic violence and child sexual abuse in Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Europe. Her most recent publication is a chapter in the new book from Springer published in 2008, entitled Perspectives on Human Dignity: A Conversation, which had its origins in a multi-disciplinary colloquium on human dignity that attracted contributions from philosophers, historians, physicians, lawyers, artists and poets. This chapter 'Doing Justice to Dignity in the Criminal Law' presents a model of the criminal wrongdoing that does justice to the elements of welfare, autonomy and dignity and explains how the idea of human dignity can be used to fill out our understanding of the duties that the criminal law imposes on us.
Dr Davis is also part of a team led by Professor Kate Warner (University of Tasmania) that won a large Criminology Research Council research grant to conduct a Jury Sentencing Survey over the period 2007-2009. The study aims to improve the measurement of public attitudes to sentencing by designing and implementing a jury survey to be administered after guilty verdicts, by giving jurors sentencing information and using the survey results to assist policy makers to respond to informed public opinion with the ultimate goal of improving confidence in the criminal justice system.
Dr Davis is a member of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy.
BA, LLB, PhD (Law)
After graduating BA from Sydney University and LLB from the University of
Tasmania, Steven was admitted to practise in NSW and worked for governments for
the next decade plus: the NSW, SA, Kenyan and WA Governments. Along the way he
graduated PhD from Adelaide University with a thesis on an aspect of
Governmental immunity from the law, which gave him a first opportunity to argue
in the High Court: Bropho in 1990.
Steven had gone to the Bar by then and has since appeared in appellate courts in
WA, NSW and SA as well as the High Court. His practice focuses on public law
(the relationship of individuals and community to the State) and statutory
interpretation, and his High Court arguments reflect that bias: for example
Webster v Lampard (1993), Teoh (1995), Wilson v Minister for Aboriginal Affairs
(1996), Judamia (1996), Minister for Immigration v B (2004, the Bakhtiyari
children case) and McNamara v CCCT and RTA (2005).
Steven hopes to inspire student interest in Statutory Interpretation, as he sees
that as the most pressing area of practical need for lawyers in the future, and
a skill that, for historical reasons, has not been taught in the past. He also
looks forward to being involved in teaching advocacy and the training of moot
teams.
Steven has published in law journals and newspapers around Australia and the UK,
and delivered papers similarly, and in Ireland, South Africa and Hong Kong. He
has taught part time at the University of NSW, and full time at the University
of Adelaide, and is now a 40% appointment at University of SA.
LLB (Hons) (Adel), LLM (Cantab)
Rebecca LaForgia is a senior lecturer in law in the Law School at University of South Australia. Her main research interest is in the export of normative ideas, such as democracy and transparency, through United States bilateral free trade agreements. This research forms the basis of her PhD which she is currently undertaking. In 2005 she completed a submission to the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the type of state to state dispute body to be included within the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement. This lead to an article with Bryan Mercurio in the Melbourne Journal of International entitled "Expanding Democracy: Why Australia Should Negotiate for Open and Transparent Dispute Settlement in its Free Trade Agreements". Rebecca has also written on transparency and trade in the context of rules of origin. She has a forthcoming article (to be published in July 2008) with Dr Marinella Marmo on the use of a trade analysis in the context of the trafficking of women. 'Inclusive National Governance and Trafficked Women in Australia: Otherness and Local Demand' Asian Journal of Criminology. In 2006 she was awarded a grant to conduct research at the Trade Implementation Section of the Department of Labor in Washington D.C. Rebecca also has research interests in constitutional law and was invited to appear before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee on the issue of migration. This submission become the basis for two articles (one co-authored).
BLC (with distinction) (University of Pretoria, South Africa,) LLB (with distinction) (University of Pretoria, South Africa), LLM (University of South Africa), LLD (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Dr Lombard moved to Australia from South Africa to join the
foundation staff of the Law School. She previously held the position of
senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria. During the 11 years that
she taught at the University of Pretoria, Dr Lombard gained extensive
experience in teaching various courses in the field of commercial law,
such as Entrepreneurial Law, Insolvency Law, Labour Law, Social Security
Law, Commercial Law and Business Law. Dr Lombard has a strong commitment
to qualitative teaching and favours teaching methods that promote active
engagement by students in their learning. Her aim, through a
collaborative effort with colleagues and students, is to deliver
graduates with the requisite knowledge, skills and qualities that will
enable them to be successful professionals.
In addition to teaching graduate courses, Dr Lombard was also involved
in short courses and presentations to practitioners, through bodies such
as the Association of Insolvency Practitioners of South Africa, with a
focus on providing updates on the latest law reforms.
Dr Lombard's research interests are closely linked with the areas that she teaches and encompass fields such as corporate governance; corporate social responsibility; directors' duties and director liability and corporate insolvency. She published in leading refereed South African law journals, as well as international journals and presented papers at South African, as well as international conferences on related topics and co-authored a number of text books and student text books in these areas.
BA (Lib Studies), LLB (Adel)
Sue Milne is a Lecturer in Law at the University of South Australia, after spending 7 years as manager of the Law Library at the University of Adelaide with responsibility for the teaching of legal research and writing at the University. During her 10 years at the High Court of Australia she gained significant experience in the methodologies of researching comparative law, specifically the laws of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, in addition to Australia.
Sue has a special interest in legal research and legal methodology and has published widely in this area. Other areas of interest are public law, human rights law and intellectual property, specifically with regard to scholarly information. Her teaching focus reflects some of these interests as Sue is concerned to exploit the use of information and communications technologies to best advantage in promoting an understanding of the law. To this end she has created webpages and online tutorials on legal research, and is involved in a research project under the AIJA's Access to Justice program.
Sue is a member of the Australasian Law Teachers Association and the Australian Law Librarian's Association, where she has been an office holder and an early editorial board member of the Association's journal, the Australian Law Librarian.
BA, LLB, LLM
David Plater graduated from Monash University in 1987 with a Bachelor
of Arts and in 1989 with a Bachelor of Laws. He completed a Master of
Laws in Criminal Litigation at the Inns of Court Law School in London in
2002 -2003.
He is presently in the final portion of completing my PhD at the
University of Tasmania into the development and modern role of the
prosecution lawyer in the criminal process. He is admitted as a
barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Courts of the Northern Territory,
Tasmania and South Australia. He is also admitted as a solicitor of the
Supreme Court of England and Wales and as a solicitor of the High Court
of the Republic of Ireland.
After completing his articles of clerkship in 1990 at the Northern Territory Crown Law Department David travelled widely before practising criminal law from 1992 to 2006 in England as a Crown Prosecutor with the Crown Prosecution Service in Kent and London. He was last employed as a Senior Crown Prosecutor at the Youth and Inner London Crown Court branch of the CPS.
From 2006 to 2008 during his PhD he was involved with tutoring and lecturing in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Tasmania and assisting with student mooting and work experience. I am presently employed as a legal practitioner in Adelaide and are an Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Law at the University of South Australia.
