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Dr Belinda Smith

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Degrees

BEc (Soc. Sci) (Hons) Syd; LLB (Hons) Syd; JSD Col

Courses Taught

  • Employment and Industrial Law
  • Anti-discrimination Law
  • Administrative Law

Areas of Interest

  • Employment and industrial law
  • Anti-discrimination law
  • Work and family

Brief Biographical Information

Dr Belinda Smith researches primarily in the area of anti-discrimination law, gender equity, and work-family conflict. After working at the Australian Industrial Relations Commission and the Industrial Law Group of Blake Dawson Waldron, Belinda took up a teaching fellowship in the Law School at Columbia University in New York where she began her academic career and undertook a JSD.

Publications

Chapters in Books:

  • ‘Australian Anti-Discrimination Laws – Framework, Developments and Issues’ in Takashi Araki & Hiroya Nakakubo (eds), New Developments in Employment Discrimination Law, Kluwer International (2008) (forthcoming)
  • ‘The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: A new role for Equality Advocate?’ in Grant Michelson, Suzanne Jamieson, John Burgess (eds.) New Employment Actors: Developments from Australia, Peter Lang AG, (2008) 89-108
  • ‘A Regulatory Analysis of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth): Can it effect equality or only redress harm?’ in Christopher Arup, et al (eds), Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation - Essays on the Construction, Constitution and Regulation of Labour Markets and Work Relationships, Federation Press: Sydney (2006), 105-124

Articles in Refereed Journals

  • ‘It’s About Time – For a New Approach to Equality’ (2008) Federal Law Review (forthcoming)
  • ‘From Wardley to Purvis: How far has Australian anti-discrimination law come in 30 years?’ (2008) 21 Australian Journal of Labour Law (forthcoming)
  • ‘Work and Family – A Gender Issue and More for Labour Lawyers’ (2007) 20(1) Australian Journal of Labour Law 92-103.
  • ‘Not the Baby and the Bathwater – Regulatory Reform for Equality Laws to Address Work-Family Conflict’, (2006) 28(4) Sydney Law Review 689-732.
  • 'Industrial Legislation in 2004' (2005) 47(2) Journal of Industrial Relations 171-185. (with Riley, J & Sarina, T)
  • 'Family-friendly Work Practices and the Law' (2004) 26 Sydney Law Review 395-426 (with Riley, J)
  • 'A Time to Value: Proposal for a National Paid Maternity Leave Scheme' (2003) 16 Australian Journal of Labour Law 226-233.
  • 'Maternity Leave: Still Unpaid and Still Uncertain' (2002) 15 Australian Journal of Labour Law 291-297.
  • 'Time Norms in the Workplace: Their Exclusionary Effect and Potential for Change' (2002) 11 Columbia Journal of Gender & Law 271-360.

Unreferred publications:

  • ‘Gender Injustice: An international comparative analysis of equality in employment’ (2006) 48(1) Journal of Industrial Relations 124-125.

Invited Conference papers

  • “Australian Anti-Discrimination Laws – Framework, Developments and Issues” 9th Japan Institute of Labor Policy and Training Tokyo Comparative Labor Law Seminar, 19 February 2008, Tokyo.
  • “Positive Equality Duties (UK)" A National Workshop on the Future of Australian Anti-Discrimination Law, University of Melbourne Law School, 15 November 2007.
  • “Implications of the High Court decision in Purvis" Conference of the Members, Administrative Decisions Tribunal New South Wales, Equal Opportunity Division, Sydney, 2 November 2007.
  • “Equal Opportunity Law in an era of Work Choices”, Women and WorkChoices Roundtable, University of Sydney, March 2007.
  • “Reflections on work and family post work choices” Symposium on the Future of Labour Law, Melbourne University, 2 June 2006.

Sample of other papers:

  • “Anti-Discrimination Act 30 Years On – where to from here?” 30th Anniversary of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act Forum, University of Sydney. 30 October 2007.
  • “Using Equality Laws to Regulate for Work-Family Balance” Australian Labour Law Association Third Biennial Conference on the challenge of Contemporary Labour Law: New Directions and Disciplines” 22-23 September 2006, Brisbane.
  • “The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission: A new role for Equality Advocate?” New Actors and Institutions in Australian and New Zealand Industrial Relations, School of Business, University of Sydney and Employment Studies Centre, University of Newcastle, 2-3 November 2006, Sydney.
  • “Not the Baby and the Bathwater – reforming anti-discrimination laws to address work-family conflict” Regulatory Institutions Network ANU Research School of Social Sciences, Program Visitor, February 2006.
  • “Would Anti-Discrimination Regulation Benefit From a Little Responsiveness?” Regulatory Institutions Network Conference, ANU Research School of Social Sciences, December 2005.
  • “A Regulatory Review of the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth) in respect of family responsibilities discrimination in work” Australian Labour Law Association Second Biennial Conference on Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace, Sydney, 24 September 2004.
  • “Can anti-discrimination laws effect family-friendly conditions?” 12th Annual Labour Law Conference in Sydney, April 2004.