Staff Research Interests
The members of the School of Law have a wide variety of research interests. The interests of individual staff members are listed below.
Associate Professor Greg Carne: Constitutional Law, Human Rights (international and domestic application), National Security Law, International Law.
Associate Professor Guy Charlton: Usufructuary rights, Indigenous law, biodiversity and local government, legal history, constitutional law.
Associate Professor Skye Charry: Rural Issues, Sex Discrimination Law and Gender.
Ms Karen Conte: Children’s law and whether Courts have ultimately acted in children's best interests.
Ms Julia Day: Health Law, Torts and Social Media Law.
Dr Imelda Deinla: Rule of law and democracy in Southeast Asia/ASEAN, post-conflict justice and legal pluralism, women in law and judicial politics, criminology
Associate Professor Eric Ghosh: Jurisprudence, Administrative Law, Constitutional Theory and republican political theory.
Dr Patrick Graham: Constitutional and Administrative Law, European Union Law, Emergency powers in the common law world, Native title
Ms Bronwen Jackman: Evidence, Property Law and Equity.
Dr Andrew Lawson: Sustainable agriculture governance; Governance of agricultural impacts on the environment; Voluntary stewardship programs for farmers.
Dr Siva Barathi Marimuthu (Sharl): Regulation of Advertisements of Therapeutic Goods, Comparative Studies and Civil Procedure.
Professor Cameron Moore: Law of the Sea, International Law, Environmental Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Constitutional Law, Naval and Military Operations Law.
Professor Mark Perry: Biotechnology and Other Technology Law, Intellectual Property, Innovation Law.
Dr Wellett Potter: Law of copyright, intellectual property, other technology law and biotechnology.
Professor Ottavio Quirico: International Law, Comparative Law, Environmental Law.
Associate Professor Mia Rahim: Meta-regulation, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility regulation, transnational corporation regulation; global supply chain regulation; corporations on environmental and human rights.
Dr Laura Smith-Khan: Legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession; Migration, asylum and refugee law; Sociolinguistics, human rights, and language and law.
Ms Lisa Ward: Media law/policy; freedom of speech (including defamation); freedom of the media; social media; business law; and podcasting.
Dr Kip Werren: Estate Planning and Succession, Asset Protection, Business Structures, Law and Agriculture, Conservation Funding.