Visiting teaching academics

Ms Anne-Marie Rice

Anne-Marie Rice is an award-winning solicitor and mediator.  She is recognised as a leader in the field of mediation and alternate dispute resolution nationally.  A Senior Judicial Registrar and Executive Director of Registrar Practice and Operations at the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, Anne-Marie is responsible for the development and implementation of the dispute resolution processes in Australia’s busiest courts.

With over 25 years’ experience Anne-Marie has been an accredited specialist in family law, and is a nationally accredited mediator. She is trained as a FDRP and has  been routinely recognised by her peers as one of Queensland’s best family lawyers and mediators.   She is a current member of the Attorney General’s Family Law Council – a group charged with providing the government with recommendations about the development of family law policy in Australia.

A WLAQ Leneen Forde AC Woman Lawyer of the Year, Anne-Marie has also been an executive member of some of Queensland’s and Australia’s leading legal organisations including the QLS Practice Management and Specialist Accreditation Committees, the Family Law Practitioners Association of Qld and the Executive of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.  Anne-Marie is currently a member of the QLS AI in the Courts and Dispute Resolution working group.

Anne-Marie has long committed to dispute resolution without recourse to trial and regularly presents to practitioners around the country on topics including mediation, arbitration and collaborative. Her focus is on the practical application of a “positive approach” to problem solving and her engaging presentations invite audiences to embrace the concept that conflict can be resolved without combat.  She taught the Family Law subject at UQ for 5 years prior to her appointment at the FCFCOA and has taught the popular post-grad Mediation and Conflict Resolution subject since 2020. In 2025 she revived the Undergraduate Alternative Dispute Resolution subject and enjoys encouraging students to think practically about how their legal skills might positively impact the parties they will work with and for in the future.

Ms Anne-Marie Rice will be teaching LAWS7851 Mediation and Conflict Management.

Mr Ben Gardiner KC

Mr Ben Gardiner KC is a barrister specialising in intellectual property law.  His practice includes the full scope of intellectual property disputes: patents, copyright, trade marks, designs, passing off/breach of the Australian Consumer Law and breach of confidence.  He has appeared on behalf of, and advised, clients across a range of industries including pharmaceuticals, medical, mining, fast moving consumer goods, fashion, gaming, information technology and primary industries.  He appears regularly before the Federal Court of Australia, including the Full Court, and IP Australia (Australian Patents Office and Australian Trade Marks Office). 

Before joining the Bar, Ben was associate to the Honourable Michael Black AC, who was then the Chief Justice of the Federal Court.  Prior to that, he was a practising pharmacist.

Ben has degrees in pharmacy, business and law and completed post-graduate studies in law (BCL) at the University of Oxford in 2005.

Mr Ben Gardiner will be teaching LAWS5206 Copyright Law.

Adjunct Professor John McKenna KC

Barrister; President, University of Queensland Law Alumni Association; Fellow, Australian Academy of Law; Chairman, Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for the State of Queensland; Chair, Consultative Council of Australasian Law Reporting;  Member, Supreme Court Library Committee; Hon National Secretary, Association of Rhodes Scholars in Australia; Supreme Court of Queensland: A Concise History (2012, UQP).

Adjunct Professor John McKenna KC will be teaching LAWS7778 Advanced Civil Litigation

Mr Kent Blore

Mr Kent Blore will be teaching LAWS7722 Current Issues in Public Law - Topic: Protecting Human Rights in the Public Sector

Ms Kathryn McMillan KC

Ms Kathryn McMillan will be teaching LAWS7722 Current Issues in Public Law - Topic: Protecting Human Rights in the Public Sector

Mr Dylan McKimmie

Mr Dylan McKimmie will be teaching LAWS7868 International Commercial Arbitration Law

Ms Anne-Marie Rice

Anne-Marie Rice is an award-winning solicitor and mediator.  She is recognised as a leader in the field of mediation and alternate dispute resolution nationally.  A Senior Judicial Registrar and Executive Director of Registrar Practice and Operations at the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, Anne-Marie is responsible for the development and implementation of the dispute resolution processes in Australia’s busiest courts.

With over 25 years’ experience Anne-Marie has been an accredited specialist in family law, and is a nationally accredited mediator. She is trained as a FDRP and has  been routinely recognised by her peers as one of Queensland’s best family lawyers

Dr Serge Loode

Dr Serge Loode combines academic teaching and research experience with a deep understanding of conflict resolution and peacebuilding practice. Originally from Germany, Serge worked as a civil law lawyer before developing his conflict resolution and peacebuilding practice. At university Serge teaches academic courses in Mediation, Negotiation and Theories of Conflict Resolution. He is also a mediator and restorative practitioner with the Neighbourhood Justice Centre in Melbourne and a mediator, trainer and assessor with the Department of Justice and Attorney-General in Queensland. Serge is a founder and Director of Peace and Conflict Studies Institute Australia (PaCSIA).

Serge is a highly experienced facilitator, conflict coach, conflict resolution trainer and assessor, as well as a nationally accredited mediator under the Australian Mediator and Dispute Resolution Accreditation System (AMDRAS). Serge mediates court-referred personal safety intervention order disputes, workplace disputes, commercial disputes and neighbourhood disputes and designs processes for large-scale community conflicts. He has worked with a variety of clients, including local and state government, police, military, businesses, primary and secondary schools and community groups. 

In 2013 he facilitated an 8-months dialogue and planning process involving Australian South Sea Islanders and Aboriginal and Settler Peoples of Scenic Rim in South East Queensland which led to the 2013 commemoration of the arrival of the first South Sea Islanders on plantations in Queensland.

Internationally Serge has worked on conflict resolution, peacebuilding and development issues with people from the Philippines, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, Bhutan, Thailand, Myanmar, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Kenya and South Sudan. Since 2017 he has led PaCSIA’s work in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea which has supported the internationally recognised referendum on Bougainville’s future political status of 2019, and which has reached over 105,000 Bougainvilleans through the use of facilitated public dialogue.

Dr Serge Loode will be teaching LAWS7841 Theories in Dispute Resolution

Adjunct Professor Jonathan Fulcher

Adjunct Professor Jonathan Fulcher is one of Australia's leading native title and cultural heritage lawyers, and applies his extensive resources, native title and cultural heritage experience to mining, oil and gas transactions, infrastructure developments, joint venture arrangements, and asset and share sales and acquisitions across Australia and internationally.

Adjunct Professor Jonathan Fulcher will be teaching LAWS7805 Natural Resources Law.