DEAKIN LAW SCHOOL RESEARCH REPORT
(No 10 of 2012)
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Congratulations to the authors of the following recent publications:
Allan, Sonia 2012, ‘Gate-keeping parenthood: the law and access to assisted reproductive
treatment’, Family Law Review, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 149-163
(http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30047302).
Allan, Sonia 2011, ‘Psycho-social, ethical and legal arguments for and against the
retrospective release of information about donors to donor-conceived individuals in
Australia’, Journal of Law and Medicine, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 354-376
(http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30047303).
Teh, Mui Kim 2012, ‘Corporal punishment - archaic or reasonable discipline method?’,
International Journal of Law and Education, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 73-86
(http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30048360).
Rinaldi, Mark, Lambropoulos, Victoria and Millar, Rohan 2012, Fairwork legislation 2012
Thomson Reuters, Australia (http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30047304).
Bhatia, Neera and Tibballs, James 2012, ‘Legal clarification of "loss of chance of a better
outcome" in Australia’, Medical Journal of Australia, vol. 196, no. 3, pp. 167-168
(http://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30047247).
PUBLICATION DRO GUIDELINES
Dear Authors, please make sure that you forward details of your publications on the special Faculty
Proforma (attached) to Dr Aysun Alpyurek (aysun.alpyurek@deakin.edu.au) so that Dr Alpyurek can
upload your publication on the DRO. Unless they appear on the DRO, your publications will not be counted
for the purposes of the University (PPR, etc).
Publications must meet the HERDC definition of research (see attachment)
The link to the Faculty instructions of reporting research
publications: http://deakin.edu.au/buslaw/research/publications.php
When you publish articles in Law reviews, inter-disciplinary publications, or journals from other disciplines,
please complete the Publications Proforma (attached), paying particular attention to the Research Coding
requirement:
(a) FOR code (Fields of Research code http://deakin.edu.au/research/grants/resources/for-2008codes.php (scroll down to Law)
(b) SEO code (Socio-Economic Objective code http://deakin.edu.au/research/grants/resources/seo-2008codes.php (scroll down to Law)
Completion of these codes ensures that your publications are assigned to the School of Law by the
University and ERA.
GRANT FUNDING SUCCESSES
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Richard Coverdale, the Centre for Rural Regional Law and Justice: $178,000 to be
distributed over 3 years to the Centre (to fund part-time Learning and Development
Coordinator) from Legal Services Board
Dr Lucinda Jordan, $4,000 grant from the Australasian Institute of Judicial
Administration (AIJA) to write an article on Access to justice issues in the Magistrate's
Court in rural and regional Australia. This will then form the evidence base for an ARC
application the Centre will be developing next year in partnership with James Cook
University and Flinders University.
STANDING REQUEST
Could you advise me (with cc to Suzie Miller) of any External Research funding you hold for 2012 and
beyond?
The format is as follows:
Title
Source
Staff Member
Total Grant
LAW SCHOOL RESEARCH SEMINAR SCHEDULE
FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
Dr John Morss and George Duke (Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation joint speakers.
FRIDAY, 5 OCTOBER
Prof Veronica L Taylor
Professor, Regulatory Institutions Network Director,
School of Regulation, Justice and Diplomacy College of Asia Pacific; The Australian
National University Acton ACT
Burwood: e-Moot Court (C34.06)
Geelong: Dean’s Meeting Coom (ib4.211)
Warrnambool: B&L Training Room (j4.20)
FRIDAY, 12 OCTOBER 2012
Dr Firew Tiba
FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER
Prof Ingo Saenger
FRIDAY, 16 NOVEMBER 2012
Dr Andrew Torre
Copyright: A Case Study in the Transaction Costs Theory of Law
SCHOOL RESEARCH HUB MEETINGS
Torts & Personal Injury Research Hub: Wednesday, 3 October 10.30am -12pm
SAVE THE DATE:
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Prof Christoph Antons is convening two high profile workshops at the Deakin City
Campus (see attached flyer):
1-2 November 2012:
Intellectual and cultural property
Keynote speakers from overseas at the workshop will be Prof. Rosemary Coombe (York
University, Toronto) and Prof. Robert Paterson (University of British Columbia).
10-11 December 2012
Legal issues related to the internet in Asia
Keynote speakers at second workshop will be Prof. Reto Hilty (Max Planck Institute for
Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Munich) and Prof. Tim Wu (Columbia
University).
RESEARCH RELATED ACTIVITIES
Prof Danuta Mendelson presented a paper and held a workshop on the ‘Abolition of
Expert Witness Protection by the United Kingdom Supreme Court in the case of
Jones v Kaney [2011] UKSC 13; 2 A.C. 398’ at the Satellite Symposium on Contemporary
Medico-legal Issues and Pain (Friday 24th August 2012, Como, Italy). The paper will be
published a an article titled ‘From Witness to Defendant’ in the Journal of Law and
Medicine.
Prof Danuta Mendelson co-presented a workshop on at the 14th Congress on Pain of the
International Association for the Study of Pain (28 August 2012, Milan, Italy)
http://www.iasp-pain.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
FACULTY FUNDING
New application forms for Faculty funding are attached.
OUR HRD CANDIDATES
Thank you very much to those who have responded to my request for the following information to be placed
on the Deakin Law School’s Research Website involving the list of 2012 HRD candidates (including
members of the Law School undertaking their HRD candidatures elsewhere).
For those of you who are yet to respond, I would very grateful if you could supply:
1. You name, qualifications and photo (the last is strictly at you discretion);
2. A short explanatory paragraph with the précis of the research question(s) you are researching, or
intending to investigate;
3. Any materials (either files or URLs) pertaining to your thesis/candidature that you wish to link to
your ‘basic’ information. The material may include a link to the electronic version of your completed
thesis; more extensive outline of the thesis-in-progerss; any published articles; reports, etc.
With kind regards,
Danuta Mendelson
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