Student Research Projects

Doctor of Juridical Studies (SJD)

Student

Thesis title

Supervisor/s

Rizal Abdul Kadir

Stability of Maritime Boundaries in Disputed Maritime Zones Triggs, G

Raymond Max Brazil

The Evolution of the Duties, Powers and Responsibilities of Australian State and Territory Coroners 1788-2008 Cashman, P

Louise Camenzuli

World Heritage Landscapes: Rethinking the protection and conservation of "Cultural Landscapes"

Boer, B & Stephens, T

Catherine Chang

Trafficking of children in Asia Pacific region: Is it a problem in Australia and is Australia complicit in the region's problem

Crock, M & Stubbs, J

Nicholas Chen

Revisiting Notions of Discretionary Justice: Finding the way forward for procedural fairness inAustralia

Crock, M & Irving, H

Andrew Stuart Murray Expert Evidence and the Problem of Privilege Peden, E & Cashman, P

Julie Anne Zetler

E-health: The legal and ethical implications of computerized patient records on confidentiality and privacy

Bennett, B

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Student

Thesis title

Supervisor/s

Philip George Adey The law on negligently occasioned pure psychiatric harm in Australia following the landmark Annetts decision and the contemporaneous civil liability Acts Bennett, B
Pamela Angus-Leppan The financial abuse of older people's property assets Carney, T

Fady Aoun

Look Not Lest Ye Be Offended - JesusTM, Redskins®, and Black Tail®: An Analysis of the Law relating to Offensive and Scandalous Trade Marks

Loughlan, P & Rolph, D

Elisa Arcioni

The Constitution and Australian National Identity

Irving, H

Livingston Armytage

Assessing the Effectiveness of Judicial Reform in International Development Assistance

Kinley, D & Saul, B

Richard Bailey

Resisting Detention: Power, Resistance and Bare Life in Australian Immigration Detention Centres

Johns, F

Rebecca Bates

Australian water supply and the Private sector: Can Australia Protect its citizens' right to water?

Lyster, R & Franklin, N

Fleur Beaupert

Mental health tribunals and regulation of compulsory mental health care: dispensing justice in a tablet?

Carney, T

Laurie Berg

Crossing Borders: Temporary Migrant Workers and the Limits of Human Rights

Crock, M & McCallum, R

Paul Beverley

A Critical Analysis of Biodiversity Law in New Zealand

Boer, B

Edwin Bikundo

International Criminal Law, Abusing Process and Criminal Aggression: Virtue Pays Homage to Vice

Findlay, M, Saul, B & Ziegert, A

Louise Boon-Kuo

Immigration border controls, onshore policing and "national security" - law, politics and practice in migration policing in Australia

Findlay, M & Johns, F

Mark Levinge Brabazon

Principles of International Trust Taxation Burns, L & Vann, R

Jamila Chowdhury

Women's access to equitable justice in Bangladesh: Is family mediation a virtue or a vice?

Astor, H & Smith, B

Eric Coonan

Environmental and planning regulation of Australian uranium resources: Too much regulation? or too little?

Lyster, R

Wayne Courtney

Contractual Indemnities in Commercial Contracts Carter, J & Tolhurst, G

Jesse Cunningham

The Social (De)construction of Punishment: Towards a System Theoretical Rationale for Law's Education

Ziegert, A & Walton, K

Robert Davis

The Law and Econom(etr)ics of Corruption

Hill, J & Findlay, M

Mark De Silva

International Conflict related Environmental Claims - A Critical Analysis of the UN Compensation Commission Experience

Boer, B & Johns, F

Erica Elliot

The Story of Lace: The Saying, the Said and the Law Mason, G

Katherine Fallah

Market Forces: The Status and Regulation of Mercenaries and Private Military Contractors at International Law

Findlay, M, Saul, B & Johns, F

Rebecca Faugno

Corporate Social Liability: the Accountability of Transnational Mining and Resources Corporations for Environmental Degradation

Kinley, D, Franklin, N & Fridman, S

Rachael Field

A New Theory of Neutrality in Mediation Based on Ethics

Astor, H

Katrina George

Autonomy at the Death Bed: The Impact of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide on Patient Autonomy

Magnusson, R

Stefan Gruber

Re-Awakening a Giant's Culture - A Legal Approach to Preserving China's Cultural Heritage

Boer, B

Md Mostafa Haider

Deconstructing the Agency and Institution of the Poor: Extreme Poverty in Bangladesh from a Global Perspective Johns, F & Saul, B

Nafis Muhamad Hanif

Away from Ethnicity as Mystery towards Race as Capital: Omega as a Transnational Ethnic Enterprise Findlay, M

Pota Hatzopoulos

The Media's Representation of the Crystal Methamphetamine ("ice") issue and its influence on Australian Illicit Drug Policies Mason, G & Lee, M

Juan He

Chinese Measures Affecting Imports of Automobile Parts: To be a Good Defendant is the First Step in the First Case

Triggs, G & Brown, C

Justin Adrian Hogan Doran Comparative Private International Law Jurisdiction in Cyperspace: An Analysis of the emerging rules of jurisdiction over internet based economic activity and publications, and the lessons for the design of jurisdiction rules in private international law Triggs, G

Nana Rebecca Howard

The Commodfication of Human Beings

Bennett, B & Kinley, D

Quan Jin

Chinese People's mediation in  urban communities - culture, variance and development

Astor, H & Nottage, L

Sunita Jogarajan

A Multilateral Tax Treaty for ASEAN Vann, R & Burns, L

Keith Jones

Law, Politics & a modern legislation

Ziegert, A & Birch, C

Keith Kendall

A Tax Adviser's Privilege for Australia

McCallum, R

Richard Kocsis

An Empirical Examination of Crime Scene Behaviours and Offender Characteristics in Kidnapping for Ransom Crime

Mason, G

Ghena Krayem  The application of Islamic family law in Australia  Parkinson, P & Astor, H 
Georgina Llyod  Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage - Law and Policy: A case study of Angkor  Boer, B

Stefan Lo

Corporate Law and Liabilities of the Corporation and Corporate Controllers

Hill, J

Carlos Lopez Western Australia's New Public Health Act: Achieving Better Law Reform and Serving Australia's Indigenous Peoples Astor, H & Magnusson, R

Lin Lu

Film Censorship in the Digital Era

Rolph, D

Alexia Marinos The Commercial Exploitation of Fame Attached to Fictitious Characters or Real Persons in Australia: A closer look at Character Merchandising Loughlan, P & Butt, S

Andrew Martin

Water Governance in New South Wales: The Role of a Socio-political Interpretation of Adaptive Management

Lyster, R & Franklin, N

Christopher Martin

Government Housing: Governing crime and Disorder in Public housing in NSW

Stubbs, J

Allan McCay

Free Will and Retribution in Sentencing: The Implications of Behavioural Genetics

Findlay, M

Katherine Miles

Transforming Foreign Investment: International Law, the Environment and sustainable finance

Boer, B & Stephens, T

Loretta Nash

Application of Administrative Law to Government Business Enterprises

Franklin, N

Nasreen Miza Hilmy Nasrijal A Comparative Study on the Problem and Challenges in the Enforcement of Child Maintenance Order Parkinson, P & Farrar, S

Thi Thanh Hai Nguyen

Economic Globalization and its Impact to the Enjoyment of Human Rights in Vietnam: The Role of Transnational Corporation and Business Sector Kinley, D & Saul, B

Bryan O'Connor

The Economic and Law Aspects of the Commonwealth Government's "Safety Net" Changes to Health Policy

Apps, P & Burns, L

Michael Christoph O'Connor

Medical Complicity with Torture Shearer, I & Johns, F

Margaret Anne Pereira

Crime and Harm: The Construction of Drug Use and Abuse

Lee, M & Mason, G

Alison Pert

Australia as a good International Citizen

Kinley, D

Michael Rawling

Regulating  the Capital Boundary Problem: Principal Contractor Liability through Supply Chain Regulation

Carney, T & McCallum, R

Hannah Robert

The Cuckold's Cause - What do "paternity fraud" disputes tell us about legal constructions of parentage in the age of DNA testing

Graycar, R

Nicola Ross

Hearing children's voices? What legal representation of children means. Children's Agency and the dynamics of new models of legal representation

Parkinson, P & Cashmore, J

Pearl Rozenberg

Accessions, Specifications and confusions

Lane, P

Anders Rupp

Evolution and Metamorphosis of Concepts of Law in the Earth System: International Law for Sustainable Development and Ecosystem-based approaches reconciling Ecological Integrity with Cultural Identity

Boer, B

Philippa Ryan

The rise of a new theorectical basis of liability under the two limbs of Barnes V Addy

McDonald, B

Caroline Saint Legal and Ethical Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza Issues of Resource Allocation and Promotion of Social Harmony? Bennett, B & Carney, T

Li-Shen Janice Sim

Risks Invisible: Parents and Carers Who Kill

Findlay, M

Anu Singh

Offending Women - Toward a Greater Understanding of Female Criminality

Stubbs, J & Mason, G

Linda Roslyn Steele

Questioning the Therapeutic Management of People with Intellectual Disability and Acquired Brain Injury in the Criminal Justice System Savell, K & Findlay, M

Amanda Stephens

The legal outcome in non-accidental head injury in children

Parkinson, P & Oates, K

Madelenine Claire Suttie A comparative analysis of contemporary legal and philosophical approaches to new biotechnological entities Savell, K

Christopher Taylor

The Development of Australian Double Tax Treaty Policy and Practice

Vann, R & Burns, L

Kristine Thomas

The Expansion of the Federal Government's Power to Legislate with Respect to Industrial Relations: Will there ever be a truly national industrial relations power under the Australian Constitution?

McCallum, R & Smith, B

Ka Fai Antony Ting

Taxation of Corporate Groups under Enterprise Doctrine: An International Comparative Study of Consolidation Regimes

Vann, R & Cooper, G

George Tomossy

Protecting Human Subjects in the Global Research Enterprise

Carney, T

Janice Toner

Legislating for Biodiversity Conservation: Is it State Theft?

Lyster, R

Cassandra Treadwell

Are we Failing Death? Futile medical treatment - who is responsible and how do we avoid it?

Magnusson, R & Savell, K

Ashley Tsacalos

An analysis of the advocacy of Sir Garfield Barwick in constitutional law cases

Irving, H & Twomwy, A

Anne Wallace

Justice and the virtual expert: Using remote witness facilities and digital technologies t enhance the presentation of expert forensic evidence and improve the experience of the witness

Carney, T

Jane Wangmann

'She said...' 'He said..': Cross Applications in NSW Apprehended Domestic Violence Order Proceedings

Stubbs, J

James Watson

The Equitable Remedy of Account

Peden, E

Sonya Willis

Civil Litigation in NSW: Is the system broken and, if so, how can we fix it?

Allars, M & Cashman, P

Holly Woodhouse Publishing Contracts: A Deal with Devil Carter, J & Peden, E

Weihuan Zhou

De Facto Discrimination under the Jurisprudence of the World Trade Organisation: The Search for Flexible and Predictable Interpretation under the Non-Discrimination Rules

Triggs, G & Williams, B

Master of Laws (LLM) by Research

Student

Thesis title

Supervisor/s

Joel Butler

Industrial Law & the Fair Go: Law & Culture in NSW & the Commonwealth - Colonial Times to the Present.

Irving, H

Joanna Elizabeth Fear Contempt of Parliament - Is there a Role for the Courts? Twomey, A & Irving, H

Paul Govind

The role for developing countries as regulatory actors in the international climate change regime

Lyster, R & Stephens, T

Paul Hayes

Resolution of Sporting Disputes in Australia - A Uniform Sporting Code

Fridman, S

Edward Jones No Going back: How the Human Rights Act 1998 has Changed the Practices of UK Courts and Counsel Even Outside the Purview of the Act Kinley, D

Miiko Kumar

Can complaint evidence be used to prove its truth? An analysis of credibility and hearsay evidence in rape trials

Savell, K & Peden, E

Carlos Lopez

Western Australia's New Public Health Act: Achieving Better Law Reform and Serving Australia's Indigenous Peoples

Astor, H & Butt, P

Donald Marshall

Civil Liability in the Area of Assisted Production: The Case for Reform

Magnusson, R

Belinda Helen Reeve

Regulation of the Food Industry and the Prevention of Child Obesity

Magnusson, R

Lesley Townsley

Unchain My Heart: Emotional Variables and Ethical Issues in the Practice of Criminal Law

Mason, G & Findlay, M

Anna Walsh

The shifting Legal and Moral Status of the Unborn human being

Bennett, B

Gregory Walsh

Appropriately regulating the exercise of the discretion to grant exemptions from the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW)

Parkinson, P & Smith, B

Nicholas Wilson  Climate Change: Turning Up The Heat on Development Assessment in New South Wales Franklin, N & Lyster, R
Michael Young Covered Bonds Uncovered: Regulatory v Contractual Refinancing Techniques Tolhurst, G

Master of Criminology (MCrim) by Research

Student Thesis title Supervisor/s

Thalia Anthony

Late-modern developments in Sentencing Principles for Indigenous Offenders Findlay, M

Finoa Mary Tait

Is there evidence to suggest that Victim Impact Statements aid in the healing and recovery process for Victims of Crime? Stubbs, J & Shackel, R