Dr Amanda Kennedy
Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law
Qualifications
BCom / LLB (Hons), Grad. Dip. Legal Practice, Grad. Cert. Law Teaching (Monash), PhD (UNE), Legal Practitioner (NSW)
Contact
| Email: | amanda.kennedy@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W37 AgLaw Centre |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3493 (or +61 2 6773 3493 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3602 |
Dr Kennedy’s research has previously focused upon issues of contract within industrial law, including the use of individual contracts of employment, and employee liability for private out-of-hours conduct. Dr Kennedy's PhD explored individualism and collectivism within the academic employment relationship, focusing specifically on the influences upon decisions made by universities as employers to contract in an individual or collective manner. Dr Kennedy’s work was multi-disciplinary, fusing legal analysis with qualitative evidence of management practice and industrial relations procedures.
Dr Kennedy obtained her PhD in 2007, and was appointed as an Adjunct Research Associate of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law the same year. She participated in a number of the Centre’s research endeavours, including a collaborative project with several colleagues exploring usufructuary rights and the politics surrounding privately held claims on resources in publicly owned land.
In 2008, Dr Kennedy was appointed the Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law. Dr Kennedy’s research has since focused upon issues of rural social policy, and behavioural aspects of environmental law. She is currently conducting research into the use of technology to improve access to professional development and welfare services for rural based professionals, and is also working on a cross-institutional project exploring the incorporation of behavioural science principles to improve the effectiveness of environmental law.
Dr Kennedy is also the Academic Coordinator of four Masters units offered by the Centre within UNE’s Masters of Environmental Systems, Management and Climate Change program.
Dr Kennedy is the Vice President of the Mary White College Senior Common Room.
Publications
(note: nee Williamson)
Refereed Journal Articles
- Kennedy, A., ‘“More Sinned against than sinning”: Telstra Corporation Ltd v Streeter’ (2008) 21(1) Australian Journal of Labour Law 59.
- Williamson, A., ‘An Examination of Cultural and Religious Divorce in Australia’ (2004) 11 James Cook University Law Review 168.
- Werren, J., and Williamson, A., ‘Advocate’s Immunity: What Makes Lawyers So Special?’ (2006) 9 Yearbook of New Zealand Jurisprudence 302.
- Brower, A., Page, J., Kennedy, A., and Martin, P., 'The Cowboy, the Southern Man, and the Man from Snowy River: The Symbolic Politics of Property in Australia, the US, and New Zealand' (2009) Georgetown International Environmental Law Journal (2009) Georgetown International Environmental Law Journal (forthcoming).
- Kleefeld, J and Kennedy, A., “A Delicate Necessity”: Bruker v Marcovitz and the problem of Jewish Divorce (2008) 24 Canadian Journal of Family Law 205.
Non-refereed Journal Articles
- Werren, J., and Williamson, A., ‘Casenote: D’Orta-Ekenaike v Victorian Legal Aid and Another (2005) 214 ALR 92’ (2005) 2 University of New England Law Journal 103.
- Kennedy, A., “The ‘new balance’? Employee privacy in Australia” paper presented at the Australian Labour Law Association Conference 2008, 14-15 November, Melbourne.
- Kennedy, A., “Where does work life begin and private life end? An examination of employee liability for out-of-hours conduct” paper presented at the Gender, Family Responsibility and Legal Change Conference 2008, 10-12 July, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. This paper is to be submitted for review in the refereed Conference Proceedings in 2009.
- Kennedy, A., “Crossing the boundaries? Exploring employer controls on lawful employee conduct outside working hours” paper presented at the Celtic Pacific Legal Conference 2008, 10-17 July, Dublin, Ireland.
Refereed Conference Papers
- Williamson, A., ‘Individualism versus collectivism within academia: implications for managing the employment relationship’, paper presented at the Australian Centre for Research in Work and Employment (ACREW) Conference, Melbourne, June 22-24 2005.
- Williamson, A., ‘Individualism and collectivism within the academic employment relationship: a changing Australian higher education employment relations agenda’, paper presented at the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia (HERDSA) 2005 Conference, University of Sydney, July 3-6 2005. Published in ‘Research and Development in Higher Education: Higher Education in a Changing World’ Volume 28, Proceedings of the Annual Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australia (HERDSA) 2005 Conference.
Non-refereed Conference Papers and Seminars
- Colbran, S., and Kennedy, A., ‘Australian Law Postgraduate Network’, seminar presented at the Collaborating to Offer Small Courses / Subjects Forum, Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, hosted by UNE, Armidale NSW, May 17-18 2007.
- Kennedy, A., ‘Flexibility and choice for whom? The Higher Education Workplace Relations Requirements and the individualisation of the Australian academic employment relationship’, paper presented at the International Graduate Legal Research Conference, King’s College, London, United Kingdom, April 12-13 2007.
- Williamson, A., ‘Supple, Sassier and Commercially Minded: Assessing the current drive to individualise the academic employment relationship’, paper presented at the Asia-Pacific Postgraduate Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 24-26 2005.
- Werren, J., and Williamson, A., ‘Advocate’s Immunity: What Makes Lawyers So Special?’, paper presented at the Australian Law Teacher’s Association (ALTA) Conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, July 4-8 2005.