Visiting teaching academics
Each year, UQ Law is pleased to welcome several leading academic and professional visitors to the school.
Our visitors are selected for their expertise and/or established research profiles. Students are encouraged to take advantage of their presence in the school by enrolling in the courses listed below.
Ms Anne-Marie Rice
Anne-Marie Rice is a director of Rice Dispute Resolution and the principal mediator at Rice Mediations. With 20 years experience in Family Law, she is an accredited specialist in family law, a nationally accredited mediator and a registered FDRP and Arbitrator. Since 2012 Anne-Marie has been routinely recognised by her peers as one of Queensland’s best family lawyers and family law mediators.
The 2018 WLAQ Leneen Ford AC Woman Lawyer of the Year, Anne-Marie has been an executive member of some of Queensland’s and Australia’s leading legal organisations including the QLS Practice Management and Specialist Accreditation Committees and The Family Law Practitioners Association of Qld. She is the current Qld Solicitor representative on the Executive of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.
Anne-Marie is committed to dispute resolution without recourse to trial and regularly trains practitioners around the country in mediation, arbitration and collaborative practice (a model in which she has consistently worked for over 10 years). 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.
Anne-Marie regularly presents at local, national and international conferences and, as well as writing for both academic and industry publications on topics related to Family Law, Dispute Resolution and “Positive Problem Solving”, she is a consultant author to the CCH’s Family Law Service and the Master Family Law Guide.
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.
Dr James Munro
James Munro has worked as a lawyer at the World Trade Organization on international trade litigation at both the panel and appellate stages. He has also practised in the fields of international trade and investment law for the Australian Government, including advising on the compatibility of major policy reforms with international economic law, as well as on free trade agreements and serving as negotiator and legal counsel on various major trade and environment treaty negotiations. As the principal legal counsel to Australia’s Anti-Dumping Commission, James ran the practice advising on investigations into allegations of unfair international trade. James has published a number of peer-reviewed contributions on subjects relating to international trade and investment law, and holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne in this field.
Dr James Munro will be teaching LAWS7853 Law of the World Trade Organisation
Honorary Professor Gary Campbell
Professor Gary Campbell, FHEA, is an Honorary Professor with The University of Queensland and has practised law for over 30 years. He has a solid background in energy and resources law, international business law and commercial dispute resolution.
Gary worked for Feez Ruthning (now Allens) in Australia and as a partner/solicitor in the top tier law firms Denton Wilde Sapte (Dentons), Vinson & Elkins and Clifford Chance in London. Gary is ranked as a leading practitioner in the Legal 500 (UK).
Gary previously taught at the University of Melbourne, at the University of Technology Sydney and at the UQ Business School. Gary has a Masters in Law from The University of Sydney.
Honorary Professor Gary Campbell is certified by Advance HE as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, in recognition of his professional practice, impact and leadership in teaching and learning through his sessional academic career contributions at University undergraduate and post graduate levels.
Honorary Professor Gary Campbell will be teaching LAWS7028 International Commercial Dispute Resolution
Honorary Professor William MacNeil
Professor William MacNeil, FAAL, is an Honorary Professor of Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. A former dean of law at both Southern Cross University and the Griffith Law School, he held professorial chairs at each – notably as the inaugural The Honourable John Dowd Chair in Law at SCU – as well as academic appointments at Victoria University (Melbourne), the University of Hong Kong and the London School of Economics.
Trained in both literature (Toronto) and law (Dalhousie, London, Columbia), his most recent book, Novel Judgements; Legal Theory as Fiction, won the Penny Pether Prize for Scholarship in Law, Literature and the Humanities. He is a founding editor of the book series, Edinburgh Critical Studies in Law, Literature and the Humanities, the Co-Managing Editor of Polemos: A Journal of Law, Literature and Culture and Senior Editorial Consultant for Legalities: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Law and Society.
He has held visiting appointments at Amherst, Birkbeck London, Helsinki, Hong Kong Shue Yan, IDC Herzliya, Ljubljana, McGill, Erasmus Rotterdam, Sydney, Texas at Austin, and Tsinghua. Professor MacNeil is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a former Chair of the Council of Australian Law Deans.
Honorary Professor William MacNeil will be teaching LAWS5182 Special Topic A - Topic: Law and Literature
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
Ms Anne-Marie Rice
Anne-Marie Rice is a director of Rice Dispute Resolution and the principal mediator at Rice Mediations. With 20 years experience in Family Law, she is an accredited specialist in family law, a nationally accredited mediator and a registered FDRP and Arbitrator. Since 2012 Anne-Marie has been routinely recognised by her peers as one of Queensland’s best family lawyers and family law mediators.
The 2018 WLAQ Leneen Ford AC Woman Lawyer of the Year, Anne-Marie has been an executive member of some of Queensland’s and Australia’s leading legal organisations including the QLS Practice Management and Specialist Accreditation Committees and The Family Law Practitioners Association of Qld. She is the current Qld Solicitor representative on the Executive of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.
Anne-Marie is committed to dispute resolution without recourse to trial and regularly trains practitioners around the country in mediation, arbitration and collaborative practice (a model in which she has consistently worked for over 10 years). 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.
Anne-Marie regularly presents at local, national and international conferences and, as well as writing for both academic and industry publications on topics related to Family Law, Dispute Resolution and “Positive Problem Solving”, she is a consultant author to the CCH’s Family Law Service and the Master Family Law Guide.
Ms Anne-Marie Rice will be teaching LAWS7851 Mediation and Conflict Management.
Ms Sarah Holland
Sarah Holland is a Barrister at the Queensland Bar. She has a broad commercial practice with a particular interest in defamation and media law.
She is the Co-Editor of the Queensland Reports and she is responsible for producing the weekly Queensland Law Reporter. She holds a BA/LLB (hons) from UQ and she was awarded an LLM (1st class) from the University of Dublin, Trinity College.
She has taken on various academic roles over the years including as course coordinator of Planning Law at UQ. She is also an Adjunct Lecturer in advocacy at the College of Law.
Prior to being called to the Bar she was Associate to the Honourable Susan Crennan AC QC in the Federal Court at Melbourne and she has worked internationally and in Australia.
Ms Sarah Holland will be teaching LAWS5127 Media Law.
Dr Serge Loode
Serge is a practitioner, trainer and academic working in conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Originally from Germany, Serge worked as a civil law lawyer before developing his conflict resolution practice. He has an LLM degree in Dispute Management Law and a PhD in Social Science, both from the University of Queensland.
At university Serge teaches academic courses in Mediation, Negotiation and Theories of Conflict Resolution.
Serge is an experienced facilitator, conflict resolution trainer and assessor, as well as a nationally accredited mediator under the National Mediator Accreditation System (NMAS). Serge conducts workshops for understanding conflict, negotiation & mediation skills, group facilitation, intercultural conflict resolution and leadership and teamwork. He also facilitates dialogue and strategic planning workshops. Serge has mediated workplace disputes and community conflicts and has worked with a variety of clients, including local and state government, businesses, primary and secondary schools and community groups. He regularly trains mediators and conciliators from a number of Queensland government agencies and councils.
Serge’s facilitation methods focus on building relationships across difference, managing uncertainty and understanding complexity. He uses methods like Creative Dialogue & Design (CDD), World Café Conversations, Open Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, Action Research and other innovative facilitation and analysis methods.
Internationally Serge has worked on conflict resolution, peacebuilding and development issues with people from the Philippines, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, South and South-East Asia and with participants from various African countries.
Dr Serge Loode will be teaching LAWS7841 Theories in Dispute Resolution
Mr Samuel Walpole
Samuel Walpole is a barrister practising in commercial, regulatory and public law. He has a particular interest in Admiralty and maritime, administrative, corporate and civil regulation, corporate and white collar crime, equity and trusts, financial services, insolvency and information law matters.
Samuel was previously an Associate to the Hon Chief Justice Allsop AO of the Federal Court of Australia and to the Hon Justice Philippides of the Queensland Court of Appeal. He also worked at the Australian Law Reform Commission in the areas of Corporate Crime and Financial Services Regulation.
Samuel holds Bachelors of Arts and Laws (First Class Honours) degrees from the University of Queensland, from which he graduated as Law Valedictorian and with the University Medal in Law. He subsequently read for the Bachelor of Civil Law at Wadham College, Oxford as an Oxford-Hackney Scholar, graduating with Distinction.
Samuel is an Adjunct Fellow at the University of Queensland, where he lectures in the postgraduate Commercial Equity Course. He has published in a number of domestic and international journals, including the Law Quarterly Review, Sydney Law Review, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Australian Journal of Corporate Law, Australian Journal of Administrative Law, Company and Securities Law Journal, Public Law, Public Law Review and Trusts & Trustees. With two colleagues, he is also presently editing a collection of essays entitled The Law of Civil Penalties, to be published in 2023.
Samuel is also a Director of the UQ Law Alumni Association, and a Fellow of the Australian Centre for Private Law.
Mr Samuel Walpole will be teaching LAWS7835 Commercial Equity Litigation
Ms Rosanne Meurling
Ms Rosanne Meurling is a special counsel at Allens in Brisbane. Ms Meurling has a particular interest in planning and environmental law.
Ms Meurling is an experienced lawyer with over 30 years' experience. Ms Meurling advises clients about all aspects of planning and environmental law, land valuation and compensation law and heritage law. She is one of the original authors of Thomson's Planning and Development Queensland.
Ms Meurling is also an active member of various industry organisations including the Property Council of Australia and the Queensland Environmental Law Association. Ms Meurling is also a member of the Planning and Environment Law Committee of the Queensland Law Society.
Ms Meurling holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Queensland and a Master of Laws from the Queensland University of Technology.
Ms Meurling is an Honorary Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia.
Ms Rosanne Meurling will be teaching LAWS5131 Planning and Development 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 LAWS7709 Interpretation of Statutes and Instrument.
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.
Dr William Isdale
Dr William Isdale is a barrister at Callinan Chambers in Brisbane, and an Adjunct Fellow of the UQ Law School. He has a broad commercial and public law practice.
Prior to being called to the Bar, William worked as an Associate at MinterEllison, and as a Senior Legal Officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission. Previously he has served as an Associate to the Hon. Justice Dowsett AM on the Federal Court of Australia, and before that to Commissioner Graeme Neate AM on the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission and Industrial Court of Queensland.
William holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Queensland, a LLM in International Financial and Commercial Law from King’s College London, and a PhD in Law from the University of Queensland.
He was the recipient of the Holt Prize in 2021 for his PhD thesis, which has since been published as a book by The Federation Press (https://federationpress.com.au/product/compensation-for-native-title/). His book is broadly on the topic of native title compensation, but addresses issues relating to compulsory acquisition law, statutory construction, torts relating to property, remedies, and constitutional law. His supervisors were the Hon. Justice Andrew Greenwood of the Federal Court of Australia and Dr Jonathan Fulcher.
William has been a weekly contributor to the Queensland Law Reporter, publishing in excess of 250 case notes with that publication. He has also been a contributor to the Australian Law Reports, and to the LexisNexis Native Title Service. He has published a number of academic articles on both private and public law issues in refereed journals and in other outlets.
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Dr William Isdale will be teaching LAWS7805 Natural Resources Law.
Ms Anne-Marie Rice
Anne-Marie Rice is a director of Rice Dispute Resolution and the principal mediator at Rice Mediations. With 20 years experience in Family Law, she is an accredited specialist in family law, a nationally accredited mediator and a registered FDRP and Arbitrator. Since 2012 Anne-Marie has been routinely recognised by her peers as one of Queensland’s best family lawyers and family law mediators.
The 2018 WLAQ Leneen Ford AC Woman Lawyer of the Year, Anne-Marie has been an executive member of some of Queensland’s and Australia’s leading legal organisations including the QLS Practice Management and Specialist Accreditation Committees and The Family Law Practitioners Association of Qld. She is the current Qld Solicitor representative on the Executive of the Family Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.
Anne-Marie is committed to dispute resolution without recourse to trial and regularly trains practitioners around the country in mediation, arbitration and collaborative practice (a model in which she has consistently worked for over 10 years). 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.
Anne-Marie regularly presents at local, national and international conferences and, as well as writing for both academic and industry publications on topics related to Family Law, Dispute Resolution and “Positive Problem Solving”, she is a consultant author to the CCH’s Family Law Service and the Master Family Law Guide.
Ms Anne-Marie Rice will be teaching LAWS5212 Alternative Dispute Resolution.
