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Dr. David Rolph

Profile

Degrees

BA (Hons I); LLB (Hons I); PhD (Syd)

Courses Taught

  • Torts
  • Media Law
  • Intellectual Property

Current Areas of Research Interest

  • Defamation
  • Privacy
  • Copyright
  • Negligence
  • Conflict of laws

Biographical Detail

Following graduation, Dr Rolph worked as tipstaff and research assistant to Justice Simos in the Supreme Court of New South Wales. In 2005, he was awarded his doctorate for his research into the concept of reputation in defamation law. Dr Rolph joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney as a lecturer in January 2005. He is admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He is currently the editor of the Sydney Law Review

Publications

Books | Refereed Journal Articles | Other Journal Articles | Reference Works | Conference Presentations

Books

  • Rolph, D, Reputation, Celebrity and Defamation Law, Ashgate: Aldershot and Burlington (2008)

Refereed Journal Articles

  • Rolph, D, ‘Dirty Pictures: Defamation, Reputation and Nudity’ (2006) 10 Law Text Culture 101-134.
  • Rolph, D, ‘A Carton of Milk, A Bump to the Head and One Legal Headache: Vicarious Liability in the High Court of Australia’ (2006) 19 Australian Journal of Labour Law 294-305.
  • Rolph, D, 'No Worries? Employers' Duty of Care for Negligently Inflicted Stress' (2005) 18 Australian Journal of Labour Law 344-356.
  • Rolph, D, 'Simple Questions, Difficult Juries: Perversity in Australian Defamation Trials After John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Rivkin' (2004) 18(3) Commercial Law Quarterly 9-20.
  • Rolph, D & Handler, M, ‘'A Real Pea Souper': The Panel case and the development of the fair dealing defences to copyright infringement in Australia’ (2003) 27 Melbourne University Law Review 381-422.
  • Rolph, D, ‘A clearly inappropriate forum? Jurisdiction, internet defamation and the High Court of Australia’ (2003) 8 Media and Arts Law Review 59-71.
  • Rolph, D, ‘Perverse jury verdicts in New South Wales defamation trials’ (2003) 11 Torts Law Journal 28-50.
  • Rolph, D, ‘The message, not the Medium: Defamation, publication and the internet in Dow Jones & Co Inc v Gutnick’ (2002) 24(2) Sydney Law Review 263-280.

Other Journal Articles

  • Rolph, D, ‘Preparing for a Full-Scale Invasion: Truth, Privacy and Defamation’ (2007) 25(3/4) Communications Law Bulletin 5-8.
  • Rolph, D, ‘Uniform at Last? An overview of uniform, national defamation laws’ (2006) 76 Precedent 35-38.
  • Rolph, D, ‘News from Australia’ (2005) 19(1) Intellectual Property Journal 245-251.
  • Rolph, D, ‘News from Australia’ (2005) 18(3) Intellectual Property Journal 469-476.
  • Rolph, D, 'Gillooly, M, The Third Man: Reform of the Australasian Defamation Defences' (2005) 27 Sydney Law Review 761-64.
  • Rolph, D, ‘News from Australia’ (2004) 18(2) Intellectual Property Journal 267-275.
  • Rolph, D, ‘News from Australia’ (2004) 18(1) Intellectual Property Journal 123-130.
  • Rolph, D, ‘News from Australia’ (2004) 17(2) Intellectual Property Journal 293-99.
  • Rolph, D & Weatherall, K, ‘Implications of Dow Jones v Gutnick: Strum und Drang or Storm in a teacup? - Part 2) (2003) 6(2) Internet Law Bulletin 18-22.
  • Rolph, D & Weatherall, K, ‘Implications of Dow Jones v Gutnick: Strum und Drang or Storm in a teacup? - Part 1’ (2003) 6(1) Internet Law Bulletin 7-11.
  • Rolph, D, ‘News from Australia’ (2003) 17(1) Intellectual Property Journal 117-124.
  • Rolph, D, ‘News from Australia’ (2003) 16(3) Intellectual Property Journal 625-630.
  • Rolph, D, ‘News from Australia’ (2003) 16(2) Intellectual Property Journal 381-388.
  • Rolph, D, ‘News from Australia’ (2002) 16(1) Intellectual Property Journal 123-128.

Reference Works

  • Rolph, D, 'Contempt' in Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, LexisNexis: Sydney (updated 2008).
  • Rolph, D, 'Limitation of Actions' in Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, LexisNexis: Sydney (updated 2008).
  • Rolph, D, 'Tort' in Halsbury’s Laws of Australia, LexisNexis: Sydney (updated 2007).

Conference Presentations

  • Rolph, D, ‘Privacy and Photography: Some Preliminary Thoughts’, presented presented at a Lunchtime Seminar, University of Sydney: Faculty of Law, 5 June 2008.
  • Rolph, D, 'Privacy issues for artists', presented at the Arts Law Centre and the City of Sydney, Rex Centre, Potts Point, 3 April 2008.
  • Rolph, D, ‘Privacy Protection in Australia and the United Kingdom: Current Developments and Future Directions’, presented at Research Seminar, University of Technology, Sydney: Faculty of Law, 30 October 2007.
  • Rolph, D, 'Now What?: Uniform , National Defamation Laws and Beyond', presented at a Lunchtime Seminar, University of Sydney: Faculty of Law, 27 July 2006.
  • Rolph, D, ‘At long last: the impact of uniform, national defamation laws in Australia’, presented at Commercial Law Association 2006 Leading Edge Thursday Seminar Series, 25 May 2006.
  • Rolph, D, 'The Concept of Reputation in Australian Defamation Law: A Case Study', presented at MediaCommLaw 2005 Conference, Melbourne Law School, 2 December 2005.
  • Rolph, D, Panellist, 'Teaching Media and Communications Law', MediaCommLaw 2005 Conference, Melbourne Law School, 2 December 2005.
  • Rolph, D, ‘Perverse or Unreasonable? The implications of John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Rivkin on defamation jury verdicts’, presented at Law in a Changing World, 5th Annual PG Conference, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, 2003.
  • Rolph, D, ‘The Concept of Reputation in Defamation Law’, presented at Rights & Wrongs: Judging the Law, 4th Annual PG Conference, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, 2002.
  • Rolph, D, ‘Publication, Reputation and Jurisdiction: the challenges of defamation in a globalised world’, presented at Law, Culture, Social Change: Legal Responses to Innovation, 3rd Annual PG Conference, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, 2001.
  • Rolph, D, ‘Risk, Fault and Responsibility in the Law of Tort: The case of alcohol server liability’, presented at Risk and Responsibility: Changing limits to Law, 2nd Annual PG Conference, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, 2000.