Faculty of Law research profiles

Faculty of Law Research

Bond Law has a well-established reputation for innovative and internationally focused research into diverse aspects of law and related disciplines. Bond Law’s academics have headed ground-breaking legal challenges and court appeals, both here in Australia and on an international scale.

Our research groups include:

Our legal research teams include:

The Canadian Law, Policy, and Practice (CLPP) team
The Technology and Jurisdiction team
The Blockchain and DLT team
The Dispute Resolution Research team

Our researchers and supervisors

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Faculty of Law Researchers

Research Newsletter

Welcome to the Faculty of Law's Research newsletter. In this newsletter you can read about the latest publications and activities by the academics within the Faculty; some examples of the many ways in which work by our academics is engaging and having an impact upon the legal profession, our legal system and the wider community; the latest achievements by our HDR students, our research centres and our research networks; and some upcoming research events and opportunities. Enjoy!

Aspirations & Inspirations 2018

Aspirations & Inspirations 2017

Research journals

The Faculty of Law manage the publication of a number of Law journals within a diverse range of research disciplines. They have an international focus and are circulated to law libraries and legal and accounting practitioners throughout the world. All the journals are refereed by experts in the field and professional peers. Bond Law staff also sit on the Editorial Panels of several other law journals in a variety of jurisdictions, including Britain, Malaysia and New Zealand.

Australian Journal of Clinical Education

The Australian Journal of Clinical Education ("AJCE") is an open access double-blind peer-reviewed journal devoted to issues of practice and innovation in clinical education across the two disciplines of Law and Health. The Bond University Faculty of Law's Centre for Professional Legal Education administers the journal.

The AJCE is an open access journal. All articles are published and made available at no cost to the author or the reader and are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Bond Law Review

The Bond Law Review ("BLR") is a refereed journal that publishes articles, comments and notes on the whole spectrum of legal topics and issues.

The BLR is published twice each year by the Bond University Faculty of Law Review Editorial Committee.

Dispute Resolution Review

The Dispute Resolution Review is an open access peer-reviewed journal covering the spectrum of dispute resolution processes and practices.

Enterprise Governance eJournal (formerly Corporate Governance eJournal)

Established in 2005 by the Centre for Commercial Law, the Enterprise Governance eJournal(formerly the Corporate Governance eJournal ("CGEJ")is an Australian journal on with a focus on global corporate governance law and practices for commercial and not for profit organisations. The eJournal has an international and comparative law focus. Contributors will discuss and analyse all aspects of corporate governance law and practice, with special emphasis on company directors' powers and duties.

The eJournal is published online as each article or note is refereed, accepted for publication, edited and posted on the web. From time to time, selected contributions will also be published in monographs.

The eJournal will be of interest to lawyers, managers, law and management academics and students. Articles are written by leading researchers, practitioners and students in aspects of corporate governance law and practice.

Legal Education Review

The Legal Education Review (LER) is an independent, refereed journal. Its objectives are to encourage and disseminate research into legal education and to stimulate discussion debate and experimentation on topics related to legal education.

All articles are published under an Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives Creative Commons Licence CC-BY-NC-ND.

The LER was established in 1989 with the support of a grant from the Law Foundation of NSW. The Editors of the Review are appointed by the Australasian Law Academics Association (ALAA), whilst publication of the journal is managed by the Bond University Law Faculty.

Owen Dixon Society eJournal

The Owen Dixon Society was founded at Bond University in 1994 in honour of Sir Owen Dixon. Its members include law teachers, students and practitioners who support the ideals of a University education in Law put forward by Australia’s most eminent Judge, Sir Owen Dixon (1886-1972).

Revenue Law Journal

Established in 1989, the Revenue Law Journal ("RLJ") is an Australian journal with an international focus on all aspects of taxation. One volume of the Revenue Law Journal is published each year. The Revenue Law Journal is circulated to law libraries throughout the world, to practitioners, academics and law students. Leading tax thinkers write articles which are scrutinised by experts of international standing.

Sports Law eJournal

Established in 2005 by the Centre for Commercial Law, the Sports Law eJournal ("SLEJ") is an electronic journal on sports law. The eJournal has an international and comparative law focus and contributors will discuss and analyse all aspects of sports law and regulation.

The eJournal is published online as each article or note is refereed, accepted for publication, edited and becomes available on the web. From time to time, selected collections of contributions will also be published as monographs.

The eJournal will be of interest to sports lawyers and administrators, sports managers and leaders, sports participants and sports law and management students. Articles are written by leading researchers, practitioners and students in all aspects of sports law.

Spreadsheets in Education

This open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal provides a focus for advances in our understanding of the creative uses of spreadsheets in education.

All accepted papers are published and made available at no cost to the author or the reader and may be freely downloaded and used in accordance with the terms of the Non Commercial No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) Creative Commons licence.

This journal does not levy any Article Processing Charge for the processing or publication of a paper and download statistics are provided for each article.

Research events

Research Week 2019

'Legal Research at the Frontiers'
Monday 14 October 2019
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm AEST
Register here

Find out more about Research Week

Full Research Week Calendar of events

The purpose of the Faculty of Law Twilight Seminar Series is to celebrate and disseminate the world-class expertise of our researchers, honorary adjunct professors and visiting scholars. It provides the context for staff, students, and the broader community to engage with leading minds and stimulating topics. These events are free of charge and everybody is welcome to attend. Read more

8 August 2019	Lunchtime Seminar Co-hosted by the Global and Comparative Law and Policy Network Graham Hassall and Kennedy Graham	'Global Constitutionalism in the 21st Century: The UN in a Time of Crisis'
8 August 2019	Twilight Seminar Professor Steven Freeleand	'The Wonders of Space Law: Meeting the Challenges of Technology'
9 August 2019	Colloquium Co-hosted by the Technology and Jurisdiction legal research team	'Technology and Jurisdiction in Outer Space and Cyberspace'
9 July 2019	Twilight Seminar Professor Gregory Durston	'Admiralty Sessions in Early Modern England: An Old Response to a Present-Day Problem'
11 July 2019	NAIDOC Week Panel Discussion Assistant Professors' Narelle Bedford, Lisa Bonin and Louise Parsons	'Voice, Treaty, Truth'
24 June 2019	Twilight Seminar Co-hosted by the Global and Comparative Law and Policy Network Professor Kristine Bowman	'Free Speech on Campus in the United States and Australia'
6 June 2019	Twilight Seminar Co-hosted by the Global and Comparative Law and Policy Network	'Survivors Speak: How the Criminal Justice System Responds to Sexual Violence'
10 April 2019	Twilight Seminar Judge Eugene M. Hyman	'Non-Fatal Strangulation Cases: Perspectives From the United States'
21 March 2019	Twilight Seminar co-hosted with Somerset Writer's Festival Jerome Doraisamy	'Health, happiness and law: Proactive, individual responsibility for lawyers'
6 March 2019	Twilight Seminar Professor Vicki Beyer	'What's going on with Ghosn?'
14-15 February 2019	Colloquium on Sport Hosted by the Centre for Commercial Law, Centre for Professional Legal Education, Faculty of Law and Bond Business School	'Wellbeing in Sport: A Multitude of Perspectives'
12 February 2019	Twilight Seminar Professor Dean Song Richardson	'Innovation, Creativity and the Brain'. View Seminar
12 February 2019	Colloquium on GI's Hosted by the Centre for Commercial Law, Bond University, and the Delegation of the European Union, Canberra	'Taking provenance seriously: Will Australia benefit from better legal protection from GIs?'
22 March 2019	Seminar Ontario Ombudsman, Mr. Paul Dube Hosted by the Canadian Law, Policy & Practice Team	'Accountability in Administration and Human Rights'
3 December 2018	Twilight Seminar Professor Daniel H. Foote	'Lawyers in Every Corner of Society?: A Progress Report. View Seminar.
7 November 2018	Twilight Seminar Professor Lee Bygrave	'Taming Algorithms: The Probable Impact of EU Data Privacy Law on Automated Decision Making'. View Seminar.
24 September 2018	Twilight Seminar Neil Sahota/ Lawcadia/ Professor Margaret Thornton Hosted by the Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLE)	'Uberising Law: the Transformation of Law and Legal Practice'. View Seminar.

Higher Degrees by Research

We offer three HDR programs in the Faculty of Law:

Current HDR students

Atkinson, Violet	Azzopardi, Rebecca	Barnes, Carol
	Bonin, Lisa	Carrigan, Amanda
Crowley, Joseph	Du, Zejun	Feng, Jinheng
Fletcher, Kylie	Goff, Christopher	Harman, Joseph
Yuxing, He	Ivanova, Lyudmila	Jones, Lance
Krakat, Michael	Larkin, Dani	Le, Thao
Li, Feiyue	Mark, Nathan	Nand, Simrata
Nakano, Kana	O'Brien, Sophia	Parsons, Louise
Shabrokh, Daniel	Wilson, Christopher	Yasin, Tarisa

The Pursuit of HDR Study

Interested in a higher degree by research?
If you're interested in studying a higher degree by research in the Faculty of Law, watch this youtube video with some of our current students and supervisors.

European Union and Bond University GI Colloquium

EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development Mr. Phil Hogan and Professor William van Caenegem (Faculty of Law, Bond University)

On 12 February 2019, Professor William van Caenegem hosted a colloquium in collaboration with the EU Delegation in Australia and the Centre for Commercial Law, concerning Geographical Indications of Origin. The keynote speaker was Phil Hogan, the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development of the EU. He emphasised the success of registered food GIs (such as feta, parmesan, stilton, Scotch whiskey) to support rural communities with unique character in the production and promotion of value-added food products. The Commissioner was joined by academics, wine and whisky producers, and a King Island Council representative to discuss the merits of GIs, particularly in light of the importance of the topic in the current FTA negotiations between the EU and Australia.

The event attracted considerable press attention. To read about this event, click on the following: