Mr Kip Werren
Assoc.Lecturer, Faculty of The Professions, School of Law
Qualifications
BFA LLB (First Class Hons) (UNE), Certified Practising Accountant of CPA Australia Professional National Accountant of the National Institute of Accountants Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Contact
| Email: | kwerren2@une.edu.au |
| Room: | W038 41 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2351 (or +61 2 6773 2351 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3602 |
Kip’s current teaching areas are Corporations Law and Taxation Law. His previous teaching areas include Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct, Administrative Law, Civil Procedure and Evidence, and Introduction to Business Law. His research interests are Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances, Asset Protection, Succession, Business Structures, Small Business and the Law, and funding conservation. He is currently enrolled in a PhD at the University of Western Sydney and his candidature was confirmed in November 2009. The title of the Thesis is 'Utilising Taxation Incentives to Promote Private Sector Funded Conservation'. Environmental taxation reform is an important impetus towards sustainability. However, Australian governments have demonstrated a limited appetite to adopt many reforms that ‘green taxation’ advocates would wish, such as shifting from taxes on employment to taxes on energy use. It is suggested that a politically modest tax reform model has a better chance of adoption than more radical changes. The thesis will focus first upon the creation of a pragmatic business model for conservation. The thesis will then identify minimal taxation changes that could have a high impact in bringing this business model to life. The approach demonstrates that small taxation changes have the potential to create significant on-ground impacts provided that they are embedded within a transacting-efficient business model.
Supervisory Positions:
Principal Supervisor: Professor Michael Jeffery, University of Western Sydney
Secondary Supervisor: Professor Donna Craig, University of Western Sydney
Secondary Supervisor: Professor Paul Martin, University of New England Agriculture Law Centre
Publications
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Legal Encyclopaedias:
Butterworths, Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, vol 13 (at 1 January 2004) Evidence. (33%)
Book Chapters:
Kip Werren, ‘Future Interest and Perpetuities’ in R Price and L Griggs, Property Law in Principle (2nd ed, 2008). (100%)
Paul Martin and Kip Werren, ‘The Use of Taxation Incentives to Create New Eco-Service Markets’ in Lin-Heng Lye, Janet E Milne, Hope Ashiabor, Larry Kreiser and Kurt Deketelaere (eds), Critical Issues in Environment Taxation: International and Comparative Perspectives, Volume VII, (2009) 511 (50%)
Case Note:
Kip Werren, ‘Delay Totally Invalidates an Administrative Decision: Nais and Others v Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs and Another (2005) 223 ALR 171’ (2006) 3 University of New England Law Journal 93.
CDs and Electronic Resources:
Kip Werren, Legal Forms Kit (including Wills, POA, Checklists, Residential Tenancy Agreements, Appointment of Medical Agent and Letters of Demand - for all jurisdictions) (2006). (100%)
Reports
Kip Werren and Susan Shearing, ‘Concepts for Private Sector Funded Conservation Using Tax-Effective Instruments’ (Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law, 2007). (50%) (Land and Water Authority Reference: UNE 57)
Paul Martin and Kip Werren, ‘Discussion paper: An industry plan for the Victorian environment?’ (Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law, 2009). (Department of Sustainability and the environment) (50%)
Presentations at Conferences
Paul Martin and Kip Werren, ‘The Utilisation of Taxation Incentives to Enhance Eco-Service Markets’ (paper presented at the 9th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation (9th GCET), Singapore, 6th & 7th November 2008). (50%)