Academic Staff

Professor Paul Fairall Foundation Dean of Law

A graduate of the University of Canterbury and the Australian National University, Professor Fairall has been John Bray Professor of Law and Dean of Law at the University of Adelaide since 2002.

He was Professor of Law and Dean of the Law School at James Cook University from 1995 to 2001 and Associate Professor of Law at Bond University from 1991 to 1995.

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Professor Vicki Waye Professor 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.

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Professor Ivan Shearer AM RFD
Adjunct Professor of Law

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.

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Professor Rob Fowler
Adjunct Professor

LLB (Hons), LLM

Rob Fowler was appointed to Chair in Environmental Law at UniSA in 2002. He had previously worked as an Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide Law School, including a stint as Dean of Law from 1995 to 1998. He was the 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 from 1992-1995 and 1999 - 2001.

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Associate Professor Wendy Lacey Associate Professor of Law

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.

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Associate Professor Julia Davis Associate Professor of Law, Program Director

BA (Uni of Adel), LLB (Hons) (Uni of Tas), PhD (Uni of Tas)

Dr Julia Davis joined the Law School in 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 where she taught Tort Law, Jurisprudence, Sentencing Law and Conflicts (Private International Law). One of her special teaching interests is the use of film technology in assisting student learning. Her research interests include the theoretical, practical and psychological aspects of sentencing, the philosophy of the criminal law, and the concept of justice.

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Dr Pierre-Jean Bordahandy
Senior Lecturer

LLB (Pau), DU Criminology (Pau), DU Comparative Law (Aix-en-Provence), DESS (Aix-en-Provence), LLM (Stockholm), Doctorat Droit Prive (Aix-en-Provence), PhD (University of Queensland).

Dr Bordahandy joins the University of South Australia after 7 years of teaching and research experience both at the Law School of the University of Queensland and at the law School of the University of Adelaide at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Dr Bordahandy's areas of research includes Maritime Law, Air and Space Law, Comparative law and International Export Trade Law.

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Dr Steven Churches Senior Lecturer

BA, LLB, PhD (Law)

Steven graduated in Arts from Sydney University, Law from Tasmania, and with a PhD in Law from Adelaide University. He has been in legal practice since 1976, the bulk of that time as a barrister and part time legal teacher.
Steven's particular interest is in the utility of the law in the relationship of individuals and the community to the State. His practice as a barrister is almost entirely in appellate and judicial review proceedings dealing with administrative and constitutional law issues, or concerning statutory interpretation.

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Dr Sulette Lombard
Senior Lecturer in Law

BLC (Uni of Pretoria, Sth Africa), LLB (Uni of Pretoria, Sth Africa), LLM (Uni of Sth Africa), LLD (Uni of Pretoria, Sth 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.

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Jane Knowler Senior Lecturer: Law

LLB (Uni of Natal, South Africa), LLM (Uni of Adel)

Jane Knowler holds a BA. LLB from the University of Natal (South Africa) and an LLM from the University of Adelaide. She is about to embark on a PhD at the University of Queensland looking at conflict of interest regulation in the private and public sectors. Her research areas complement her teaching interests - namely Equity, Trusts, Property Law and Remedies.

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Rebecca LaForgia

Senior Lecturer

LLB (Hons) (Adel), LLM (Cantab)

Rebecca Laforgia brings academic experience in the area of international law, international trade law and constitutional law. She has recently delivered papers at several international conferences on the role international trade law plays in cultural exchange and within transnational crime. Rebecca has a first class honours degree from Adelaide University and a first class masters degree from Cambridge University. She is currently undertaking a PhD in the area of international trade law.

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Sue Milne
Lecturer

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.

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David Plater
Adjunct Lecturer

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 his 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.

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