Mr Bryan Pape
Snr.Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Law
Qualifications
BCom (UNSW), DipLaw (BAB), GradCertHighEd (NE), Barrister (NSW, Vic and NT), Legal Practitioner (NSW)
Contact
| Email: | bpape2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W038 LG9 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2331 (or +61 2 6773 2331 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3602 |
Bryan Pape joined the Law School in 2000. Professionally he practised and, continues to do so, as a barrister specialising in taxation and corporation law cases. He is a former member of the Taxation Board of Review (No.1), [1981–1984] and the Australian Accounting Standards Board, [1992–1994]. From 2000–2003 he lectured in Taxation and Corporations Law.
In 2004, he acted as the Director of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law. Before taking up that temporary appointment he had attended the 2003 Annual Conference of the American Agricultural Law Association, in San Antonio, Texas. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law.
Having directed the LS 280 mooting programme for nine consecutive semesters up to and including Semester 1, 2005, he then developed and implemented the new unit LS 480 Advanced Legal Research Legal Writing and Advocacy. He was a member of the User Group which advised on the building of the recently opened, Sir Frank Kitto Moot Court.
In Semester II, 2005 he co-ordinated and lectured in LS 372 Law of Contract II.
His present research interest is in the area of law and economics. Particularly, using public choice economics to develop ways to improve the working of Australian federalism from fiscal, constitutional and regional governance perspectives. Recently he attended a Symposium on Executive Power organized by The Yale Law Journal, held at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, [24–25 March 2006]. He also attended the Annual Conference of the Public Choice Society, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, [30 March – 2 April 2006] as well as conferring on federalism matters in Boston, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [27–28 March 2006], The Cato Institute and the Multistate Tax Commission in Washington DC, [3–5 April 2006] and the School of Law at George Mason University, at Arlington in Virginia.
He is a Fellow of Drummond and Smith College.
Publications and papers:
- ‘Budget Surplus May Belong to States’, Adelaide Advertiser, 23 May 2008, 18
- The Use and Abuse of the Commonwealth Finance Power, a paper delivered to the 17th Annual Conference of the Samuel Griffith Society on 10 April 2005.
[ Downloadable version of this paper – PDF, 904 KB ] - Federalism or Centralism, published in the Page Review Vol.1 (2), 2005.
[ Downloadable version of this paper – PDF, 72 KB ] - Working Paper (not to be reproduced without prior permission):
Federalism for the Second Century
[ Downloadable version of this paper – PDF, 716 KB ]