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Publications Click here for Publication listing Overview After completing a law degree in Germany and emigrating to Australia in 1985, I worked with Munich Reinsurance Company and Blake Dawson Waldron Solicitors for two years, before commencing an LLB degree at UNSW to requalify in Australian law. I have been on the academic staff at UNSW Faculty of Law since 1990, teaching the compulsory core subject Legal System-Torts. I have introduced and taught the elective subject Japanese Law at both LLB and LLM levels. Further subjects I currently teach are Comparative Law and Asian Legal Systems and Business Laws. Courses Taught LAWS1051 Legal System LAWS1061 Torts LAWS2085 Comparative Law LAWS2121 Asian Legal Systems and Business Law Hamburg Summer School HSS Career Profile 1980-1981 Research Assistant to Professors Bernstein and Kötz, Department of Private International and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg (Germany) 1984-1985 Editorial Assistant, Rabels Zeitschrift, Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and Private International Law, Hamburg 1985 Legal Consultant, Legal Aid Commission, Hamburg 1985-1986 Regional Claims Officer, Munich Reinsurance, Sydney 1986-1987 Paralegal, Blake Dawson Waldron Solicitors, Sydney 1987-1989 Research Assistant to [then] Associate Professor Graycar, Faculty of Law, UNSW 1990-1996 Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNSW 1996-present Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNSW Research Interests Access to justice, Comparative civil procedure, Tort law Current Research Projects Australian and German civil litigation - a comparative and empirical analysis Grants ARC Linkage Grant (with T Wright, University of Newcastle)- Australian and German civil litigation - a comparative and empirical analysis Journal Affiliations The Australian Journal of Asian Law, Member Editorial Board Service to Discipline and the Profession Consultancy for the Law Council of Australia for Chapter 2 of its submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission, Review of the Adversarial System of Litigation, November 1997 Submission to the Queensland Law Reform Commission regarding its review of the Limitation of Actions Act 1974 (Qld), 1997 Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Australian Journal of Asian Law Elected Member, International Association of Procedural Law Elected Member, Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für Internationales Verfahrensrecht e.V. [Scientific Association for International Law of Procedure] Member, Deutsch-Japanische Juristenvereinigung [German-Japanese Lawyers’ Association] Member, International Sociological Association, Research Committee on Sociology of Law Member, Australasian Law Teachers’ Association |
