Dr Kip Werren

Lecturer , Property Law, Commercial Law, Disability Legal Issues - School of Law

Kip Werren

Phone: +61 2 6773 2351

Email: kwerren2@une.edu.au

Biography

Dr Kip Werren has experience in professional legal practice and professional accounting practice. He continues to provide advice in the areas of business structures, estate planning, property law, corporations law and commercial law.

Qualifications

BFA LLB (First Class Hons) (UNE), Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (The College of Law), PhD (WSU), CPA of CPA Australia, Fellow of the Institute of Public Accountants, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales

Teaching Areas

LLM Research Topics

Honours in Law

Remedies and Advance Legal Skills

Law Experiential Learning

Property Law

Commercial Law

NDIS and Disability Legal  Issues

Taxation Law

Primary Research Area/s

Natural Resource Management and Regulation; Law and Agriculture; Taxation Law; Property Law; Commercial Law

Research Interests

Australia (the world’s sixth largest country) is a megadiverse country. Over time Australia has transformed ecosystems in order to meet the growing demand for food, fibre, and fuel.  This has led to species extinction, loss of key services such as water purification, and decreased protection from natural disasters due to the loss of buffers such as wetlands.  According to the International Union for Conservation (IUCN) Red List of threatened Species Australia has 8,488 threatened species.

To halt and reverse the decline of ecosystems requires the allocation of extensive resources and coordinated effort across all sections of government, business, and local communities. Nonetheless, unless action is taken in the near future we face a tipping point of numerous irreversible biodiversity losses.

Research Supervision Experience

Currently co-supervising:

Should I Stay or Should I Go: A Proposal For Reform of the Insolvent Trading Laws in Australia to Effectively Balance the Competing Interests of Reasonable Entrepreneurial Risk Taking by Company Directors and Interests of Creditors of Companies; and

Greening Economies: A Comparative Judicial Perspective on AU, US and the EU

Publications

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books:

Bronwen Jackman and Kip Werren,Property Law  (LexisNexis, 2nd ed, 2015). (50%)

Fiona Hum, Bronwen Jackman, Ottavio Quirico, Gregor Urbas, and Kip Werren, Australian Uniform Evidence Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (10%)

Book Chapters:

Kip Werren, 'Future Interest and Perpetuities' in R Price and L Griggs, Property Law in Principle (Thomson Reuter, 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 (Oxford University Press, 2009) 511 (50%)

David  Rossiter, Kip Werren, Paul Martin, and Larissa Ribeiro da Cruz Godoy, 'Funding Biodiversity Conservation'  in  Paul Martin, Márcia Dieguez Leuzinger, Solange Teles da Silva, and Gabriel Leuzinger Coutinho  (eds),  Achieving Biodiversity Protection in Megadiverse Countries (Routledge, 2020) 188 (25%)

Kip Werren and Guy Charlton, 'Right to Work of Persons with Disabilities: the Public-Private Interface' in Ottavio Quirico (ed),  Inclusive Sustainability: Harmonising Disability Law and Policy (Springer, 2022) 131 (50%)

Paul Martin and Kip Werren, ‘Landcare enablement through resourcing and institutional strategies’ in A P Dale, M Seigel, J Curnow and C A Campbell (eds), Global resilience through local self-reliance: The Landcare Model (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Monograph No. 212, Forthcoming in 2022) (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%)

Electronic Newspapers

Paul Martin, Kip Werren, and Amy Cosby, ‘The Environment Needs Billions of Dollars More: Here’s How to Raise the Money’, The Conversation (online), 7  February 2017

https://theconversation.com/the-environment-needs-billions-of-dollars-more-heres-how-to-raise-the-money-70401

Clinical Skills and Experience

Legal Practitioner

Accountant

Memberships

Member of the Law Society of NSW

CPA of CPA Australia

Fellow of the Institute of Public Accountants

Member of Energy & Resources Law Association

Member of the Australian Institute of Administration Law

Member of Tax & Super Australia

Associate Member of NSW Farmers Association

Community and Advocacy Organisation Collaborations

Board Member of Community Legal Centres NSW. Community legal centres provide free legal help to people in  need. As the peak community legal centre body, CLC NSW:

Advocates for progressive law reform and social justice directly to government and in the broader community;

Provides high-quality services for its members, which helps them to provide high-quality services to their communities;

Supports and builds the communities they are a part of, to create strong, well-informed and capable communities; and

Seeks to be a strong, principled and community-led organisation.

Consultant with Growing Potential.  GP  is  a community based not-for-profit organisation. They have long-established community ties across Western Sydney, and beyond.  GP provides indigenous services, childcare services, early childhood intervention services, community  services, and early education training, GP is an essential partner in facilitating the UNE Graduate Certificate in NDIS Business Development, LAW447 NDIS and Disability Legal Issues, and LAW306/LLM506  Law Experiential Learning.