Student Research Projects

Doctor of Juridical Studies (SJD)

Student

Thesis title

Supervisor/s

Elizabeth Biok

Refugees in Asia-Pacific Region: A contemporary study

Crock, M          

Louise Camenzuli

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

Boer, B & Stephens, T

Catherine Chang

Laws to address trafficking of children: Perspectives for Australia

Crock, M

Nicholas Chen

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

Crock, M & Irving, H

Erica Elliot

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

Mason, G

Sam Garkawe

Government funded Financial Compensation Schemes for Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights

Kinley, D

Jack Pembroke-Birss

Psychological Health and Well-being in the Aged: A New Approach to Law and Regulation of the Aged in Australia

Carney, T & Magnusson, R

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

Anne Amos

Doping Regulation: Rationale or Rationalisation?

Carney, T

Pamela Angus-Leppan The financial abuse of older people's property assets Carney, T & Burns, F

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

Evaluating International Development Assistance in Legal & Judicial Reform

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

The "Mental health tribunals and regulation of compulsory mental health care: collaboration, conflict and compromise

Carney, T

Laurie Berg

Borders Crossing: Low-Waged Temporary Migrant Workers, Political Communities 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 & Ziegert, A

John Boersig Towards a New Framework for Sentencing: Blending Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Notions of Justice Carney, T

Louise Boon-Kuo

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

Findlay, M & Johns, F

Jamila Chowdhury

Building an integrated model for effective family dispute ADR in Bangladesh: A possible in-court-out-court linkage

Astor, H & Graycar, R

Eric Coonan

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

Lyster, R

Lynda Crowley Cyr

Homelessness and Mental Illness in Australia: A Crisis of Suffering, Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

Carney, T

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

Katherine Fallah

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

Findlay, M

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

Paul Folino-Gallo

Cleaning Out Her Majesty's Dustbins: Juvenile Drug Sanctioning Policy in Australia

Lee, M & Mason, G

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

Nana Rebecca Howard

The Commodfication of Human Beings

Bennett, B & Kinley, D

Quan Jin

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

Astor, H & Nottage, L

Keith Jones

A New Theory of Public Law Delivery in Governance Networks Based on Function Systems Science

Ziegert, A & Birch, C

Keith Kendall

A Tax Adviser's Privilege for Australia

McCallum, R

Patrick Keyzer

Open Constitutional Courts in Australia

Carney, T & Webber, J

Richard Kocsis

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

Mason, G

Gehna Krayem  The Status of Islamic Family Law amongst the Muslim Community in NSW  Astor, H & Parkinson, P

Thomas Lennox

How legal structures affect value - comparison of the corporate vehicle with pass through vehicles

Hill, J & Vann, R

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

Lin Lu

Film Censorship in the Digital Era

Karpin, I & Rolph, D

Andrew Martin

Governance and Water Management: The Role of a Socio-political interpretation of Adaptive Management in integration of Multi-stakeholders in Decision-Making and in Dispute Resolution

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

The appropriateness/otherwise of administrative law to government commerfcial activities following corporatisation/contracting out.

Franklin, N

Bryan O'Connor

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

Apps, P & Burns, L

Madeleine Perrottet

A comparative analysis of contemporary legal and philosophical approaches to new biotechnological entities

Karpin, I

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

Butt, P & Glister, J

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 & Elliot, S

Li-Shen Janice Sim

Filicide: A project on the consequences of Labelling

Findlay, M

Anu Singh

Offending Women - Toward a Greater Understanding of Female Criminality

Stubbs, J & Mason, G

Amanda Stephens

The legal outcome in non-accidental head injury in children

Parkinson, P & Oates, 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

Winterton, G & Irving, H

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

An Examination of the use of cross applications in NSW Apprehended Domestic Violence Order (ADVO) 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

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

Wayne Courtney

Indemnities in Commercial Contracts

Carter, J & Tolhurst, G

Paul Govind

Whether technology transfer under the CDM is being effectively regulated to encourage the growth of renewable energy technological capacity and by implication sustainable growth in the developing world

Lyster, R & Stephens, T

Paul Hayes

Resolution of Sporting Disputes in Australia - A Uniform Sporting Code

Fridman, S

Darrell Kake

The duties of directors and committee members of trading corporations and not for organisations: Saints or sinners?

Fridman, S

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

Carl Lauterwein

Criminal Law in Australia - An Analysis of the (true) legislative goals

Ziegert, A & Findlay, M

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 Reproductive Technology

Magnusson, R

Dominique Saunders

Treatment of severe Anorexia Nervosa: A role for law in therapy?

Carney, T

Christopher Sexton

Biogenetics and Intellectual Property Law - A Pathway to the Future?

Loughlan, P & Rolph, D

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 & Karpin, I

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

Master of Criminology (MCrim) by Research

Student Thesis title Supervisor/s
Thalia Anthony Constructing and Policing Indigenous Crime: towards a cross-cultural theory Findlay, M
Pota Hatzopoulos Youth and drugs-Epidemic or social mass hysteria? An in-depth analysis of young people and drugs in Australia Mason, G & Lee, M