LAW UNSW : University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law - Sydney Australia




 


 

(Supervisor's name in brackets)

Graduated Research Students 2006 - 2009

PhD in Law

Roberto Buonamano, 'International Legal Theory' (Dirk Meure)

Christine Burns, 'Online legal services: The revolution that failed?' (Graham Greenleaf)  

Emily Crawford, 'Unequal before the law: eliminating the distinction between types of armed conflict in international law' (Rosemary Rayfuse)

Cassandra Goldie, 'Living in public space: A human rights wasteland' (George Williams)

David Grant, 'The mythological state and its empire' (Martin Krygier)

Donald Grattan, 'The logos of land: economic and proprietarian conceptions of statutory access rights' (Brendan Edgeworth)

Michael Grewcock, 'Crimes of exclusion: the Australian State's responses to unauthorised migrants' (David Brown)

Koesrianti, 'The ASEAN trade dispute settlement mechanism: from diplomacy to legalism' (Rosemary Rayfuse/Bryan Mercurio)

Daniel Meagher, 'Rethinking the regulation of race hate in Australia' (George Williams)

Michael Milgate, 'A dialogue: Hobbes and his perception of the role and development of the common law' (Adam Czarnota)

Campbell Rankine, 'The disutility of assessing trust beneficiaries on income derived by trustees: a critique of the existing regime whereunder beneficiaries are taxed on trust income before they receive it' (Michael Walpole/ Phillip Burgess)

Sophie Riley, 'Invasive alien species and the protection of biodiversity: the role of quarantine laws in resolving inadequacies in the international legal regime' (Rosemary Rayfuse)

Anne Twomey, 'The de-colonisation of the Australian States' (Kevin Booker/Arthur Glass)

Michael Walpole, 'Proposal for the reform of taxation and goodwill in Australia' (Robert Deutsch)




PhD in Taxation

Philip Lignier, 'Identification and evaluation of the managerial benefits derived by small businesses as a result of complying with the Australian tax system' (Chris Evans/ Margaret McKerchar)

Jacqueline McManus, 'Capacity-development at work: The contribution of workplace-based learning to tax administration' (Neil Warren/David Beckett)

Rachel Tooma, 'A case for a uniform statutory general anti-avoidance rule in Australian Taxation legislation' (Michael Walpole)

Wollela Yesegat, 'Operating costs of, and compliance with VAT in Ethiopia' (Binh Tran-Nam/Margaret McKerchar)




SJD in Law

Scott Calnan, 'In the trenches: a comparative analysis of the nature of effectiveness of the mobilisation of law by domestic human rights NGOs in the United State, Britain and Germany' (Judge Elizabeth Evatt/Annette Manfording/Arthur Glass)

Thi Minh Nguyen, 'Legal and professional challenges confronting practising lawyers in contemporary Vietnam' (Martin Krygier/Adam Czarnota)




LLM by Research

Nicole Bromberger, 'Mental Illness and negligence law' (Arthur Glass/Robert Shelly)

Francesca Dominello, 'Lessons in History in the High Court's approach to Native Title in Australia' (Arthur Glass)

Robin Higgs, 'Implantable surgical devices – issues of product liability' (Gail Pearson)

Katherine Nesbitt, 'The preventive detention of terrorist suspects in the United States and Australia: a comparative constitutional analysis' (George Williams/Andrew Lynch)

Jessica Wyndham, 'Rhetoric versus reality: the guiding principles on internal displacement 1998-2008' (Justine Nolan/Jane McAdam)




Current Students

PhD in Law

Nicholas Baker, 'Australian defamation law' (Michael Chesterman/Brendan Edgeworth)

Joffre Balce, 'Debt for development exchanges'  (Ross Buckley/ Andrew Byrnes)

Catherine Bond, 'Mapping Australia's Copyright Commons' (Graham Greenleaf/Kathy Bowrey)

Tracy Booth, 'Criminal law, criminal justice, criminology, penology' (David Brown)

Jacoba Brasch, 'From exceptionalism to convergence: the development of fair trial standards in Australian military justice' (Andrew Byrnes)

Louise Buckingham, 'Copyright and indigenous works: A comparative analysis (old –new: Interrogating international IP institutions: Neo-colonialism and the development of a culture of Indigenous-IP legal space' (Kathy Bowrey/Michael Handler/Jane Anderson)

Justin Carter, 'The law of contempt in Australia at the dawn of the human rights era' (Ed Santow/Michael Chesterman)

Juan Chen, 'The guidance and supervision of mergers and acquisitions of the state-owned enterprises by foreign capital (MASFC) in China' (Hui Huang/Deborah Healey)

Philip Chung, 'Computerisation of legal information' (Graham Greenleaf/Alan Tyree)

Marie-Ange Coll, 'The role of US federal agencies and US Congress in the construction and regulation of the Internet' (Martin Krygier/Kathy Bowrey)

Nazir Gul Daawar, 'Unequal before the law: eliminating the distinction between types of armed conflict in international law' (Martin Krygier/Justine Nolan)

Dominique Dalla-Pozza, 'The Australian approach to enacting counter-terrorism laws' (George Williams/Andrew Lynch)

Andre De Almeida Geraldes, 'International law, development and the Amazon forests' (Andrew Byrnes/Gillian Moon)

Imelda Deinla, 'Dynamics of regional integration and the development of the Rule of Law: the ASEAN challenge' (Adam Czarnota/Andrew Tan)

Michael Scott Donald, 'Role of trust law in superannuation' (Dimity Kingsford- Smith/Simone Degeling)

Natalie Fowell, 'Property, theory and copyright' (Kathy Bowrey)

Phillip French, 'Disability: the new frontier in human rights' (Andrew Byrnes/Andrea Durbach)

Eugenia Georgiades, 'Protecting user's generating content' (Graham Greenleaf/Ed Santow)

Umair Ghori, 'Quotas, safeguards and conflicting interests in the global textiles trade' (Ross Buckley/Bryan Mercurio)

Maggie Hall, 'The prison project: penal culture and the re-invention of the prison in Australia' (Chris Cunneen/David Brown)

Joseph Indaimo, 'In defense of the argument against human rights' (Robert Shelly/ Ben Golder)

Rezana Karim, 'Comparative Criminal Justice –  A critical appraisal of NSW Law Reform with respect to dealing with sexual assault victims in criminal trials' (Jill Hunter/Sandra Egger)

Mitchell Landrigan, 'The interface of political free speech and religious free speech under the Australian Constitution' (George Williams)

Karen Lee, 'Evaluating the effectiveness of self-regulation in the telecommunications industry' (Angus Corbett/Andrew Lynch/Lesley Hitchens)

Teresa Libesman, 'Human rights, cultural rights and Indigenous child welfare' (Chris Cunneen)

Susanne Lloyd-Jones, 'The parallel interface: national security and communication regulation in the era of convergence and global terrorism' (Kathy Bowrey/Andrew Lynch)

Whitney Mason, 'Why people obey the law in conflict situations' (Martin Krygier/William Maley )

Alana Maurushat, 'Legal and ethical issues in computer malware propagation' (Graham Greenleaf/Roger Clarke)

Katherine McFarlane, 'An examination of the trajectories and drift of children in care to the criminal justice system in NSW' (Chris Cunneen/Eileen Baldry)

Michael Nancarrow, 'Between the market and the state: The emergence of community housing and its regulation in New South Wales' (Brendan Edgeworth/Martin Krygier)

Loc Nguyen, 'The Rule of Law and its application in legal reform in Vietnam' (Martin Krygier/Adam Czarnota)

Jennifer Norberry, 'Law and national security crisis – contemporary Australian perspective' ( George Williams/Andrew Lynch)

Gillian North, 'Financial reporting in Australia in the digital age: Information asymmetries between institutional and retail investors' (Dimity Kingsford-Smith/Jeff Coulton)

John Selby, 'An institutional analysis of the .au Domain Name Space' (Graham Greenleaf/Roger Clarke)

Nolan Sharkey, 'Developing culturally neutral tax regimes: A case study of businesses in China' (Neil Warren/Hans Hendrische)

Yogeswaran Subramaniam, 'Reform of Orang Asli land rights in Malaysia' (Janice Gray/Sean Brennan)

Steven Thomson, 'Crown appeals against inadequacy of sentence in NSW' (Jill Hunter/George Zdenkowski/David Arnott)

Gregory Weeks, 'The availability of relief for inconsistency with non-legislative rules or guidelines' (Theunis Roux/Mark Aronson)




PhD in Taxation

John Bevacqua, 'Legal remedies for administrative errors in tax' (Michael Walpole/Prue Vines)

Kalmen Datt, 'The regulation of directors in relation to tax: Is this legislative overkill?' (Michael Walpole/Angus Corbett)

Alexander Fullarton, 'Miners' motivation:Taxpayer involvement in mass marketed tax avoidance schemes in the Pilbara region of WA in the 90's' (Chris Evans/Dale Pinto)

Evgeny Guglyuvatvy, 'Environmental taxes and emission trading schemes: What is appropriate policy for dealing with environmental problems?' (Binh Tran-Nam/Natalie Stoianoff)

Peter Hill, 'Conceptual and legislative framework for the exercise of the Commissioner of Taxation's administrative and compliance powers' (Michael Walpole/Rachel Tooma)

Helen Hodgson, 'A proposal for a family tax transfer system' (Chris Evans/Bettina Cass)

Jason Kerr, 'Taxpayer compliance behaviour' (Margaret McKerchar/ Chris Evans)

Catriona Lavermicocca, 'Tax risk management as a corporate governance issue in Australia and its impact on income tax compliance by large corporate taxpayers' (Chris Evans/Margaret McKerchar)

Vincent Mangioni, 'Codifying value in the assessment of land value taxation' (Neil Warren)

Fiona Martin, 'Taxation of Indigenous Charities' (Michael Walpole/Chris Cunneen)

Muzainah Mansor, 'An analysis on the indirect tax system performance' (Neil Warren/Binh Tran-Nam)

Dianne Miller, 'Climate change taxation: will the introduction of the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme result in a need for substantive tax reform?' (Chris Evans/Fiona Martin)

Izlawanie Muhammed, 'Behaviour of tax auditors in Malaysia' (Margaret McKerchar/Jacqueline McManus/Ming Ling Lai)

Victoria Roberts, 'Achieving global food security and environmentally sustainable agriculture in Australia: To what extent can tax reform contribute?' (Margaret McKerchar/Natalie Stoianoff)

Ian Ross-Gowan, 'The identification of opportunities to better harmonise tax legislation and accounting standards post the introduction of IFRS and the tax consolidation's regime' (Michael Walpole/Gordon Mackenzie)

Suek Hua Woung, 'The study of taxpayer morale in Malaysia' (Christopher Evans/Binh Tran-Nam)

Hanna Zakowska, 'Standard business reporting and its implications on reporting burden' (Binh Tran-Nam/Chris Evans)




SJD

Pornsakol Panikabutara, 'The Rule of Law in Thailand: Fact or Fiction?' (Adam Czarnota/Kriangsak Kittichaisaree)

Soula Papadopoulos, 'Co-operative federalism is not a constitutional term' (George Williams/Andrew Lynch)

Fabiana Dal'Mas Rocha, 'Prosecutions for domestic violence cases and Afro-Brazilian women' (Chris Cunneen/Christine Forster)

Belinda Russon, 'The law of equality and justice - Evaluating domestic violence outcomes for Aboriginal women in New South Wales' ( Chris Cunneen/Alex Steel)

Anton Trichardt, 'Comfort letters: chameleonic documents in law' (Ross Buckley/Paul Redmond)




LLM by Research

Sophia Christou, 'The 'User' under law in the online environment: Beyond the legal perspective' (Kathy Bowrey/Michael Handler)

Andrew Dahdal, 'The Birth, Rise and Decline of the Banking Power in the Australian Commonwealth' (George Williams)

Manoj Dias-Abeygunawardena, 'A comparative study of the law relating to the safe guarding of employee rights in Australia and Germany in circumstances where an organisation restructure has taken place' (Joellen Riley/Carolyn Penfold)

Fabian Flintoff 'The increasing casualisation of the workplace and responses to the law'
(Joellen Riley, Carolyn Penfold)

Jacqueline James, 'Contemporary Australian anti-terror laws: do they disproportionately restrict freedom of the press?' (Andrew Lynch/Sean Brennan)

Niamh Kinchin, 'Accountable decision making in the global context: An Australian perspective' (Linda Pearson/Ed Santow)

Wenwen Lu, 'Terrorism and national security in Australia: International Human Rights perspectives and comparative study with APEC and other Asian countries' (Andrew Byrnes/ Andrew Lynch)

Cathleen Sherry, 'The role of by-laws in strata and community title living' (Brendon Edgeworth/Bill Randolph)

Leon Terrill, 'Aboriginal land tenure in the Northern Territory' (Sean Brennan/Megan Davis)

David Thorpe, 'Athlete sponsorship, restraint of trade and developing paradigms (in media and competition)' (Deborah Healey/Carolyn Penfold)

Sarah Wyatt, 'Painting the Law; Aboriginal art as legal evidence' (Chris Cunneen/Vivien Johnson)




MTAX by Research

David Bowler, 'Tax Penalty Practices' ( Michael Walpole/Kalmen Datt)

Peter Dixon, 'Conversations about a new tax system: narrative analysis of how the GST regime was introduced' (Neil Warren/Helen Hodgson)

Clare Hyden, 'Significance of education and awareness in motivating compliance with taxation laws' (Margaret McKerchar/Jacqueline Mc Manus)

John Minas, 'Capital gains tax discount' (Chris Evans)

Maureen Noonan, 'Is it fair? A comparison of the retirement funding opportunities in Australia for employees and small business owners' (Gordon Mackenzie/Lisa Marriott)

Kristopher Riordan, 'Taxation certification and advice in the Australian Planning Industry' (Dimity Kingsford-Smith/Gordon Mackenzie)

John Thomson, 'Self-managed superannuation funds ' (Gordon Mackenzie/Margaret McKerchar)







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