Visiting teaching academics

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.

Dr Paul O'Shea

A solicitor for 30 years, Paul O’Shea is the principal of O’Shea Lawyers specialising in commercial and consumer law. Dr O’Shea was a Senior Lecturer at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland. He is the author of Credit, Consumers and the Law published by Routledge of London which describes him as “One of Australia’s leading researchers in consumer law.” He  is the current author of the title “Mortgages and Securities” for Halsbury’s Laws of Australia and The Legal Environment of Business (Thomson Reuters, 2006) and numerous articles and book chapters on commercial and consumer law including a chapter on “Regulatory Consistency and Powers” in Consumer Law and Policy in Australia and New Zealand (Federation Press, 2014). He has also taught at Griffith University, Monash-Mt Eliza Business School in Melbourne and in Singapore, Brunei, Thailand and the Shanghai Institute for Foreign Trade in China. His project Simplification of Disclosure in Consumer Credit: Empirical Research and Redesign was the largest and most comprehensive experimental study into pre-contractual disclosure ever conducted in Australia. Its recommendations were the basis for reforms in the National Consumer Credit Protection Amendment (Home Loans and Credit Cards) Act 2011. His publications have been cited with approval in judgments of three state supreme courts. 
He has conducted some of the leading cases in consumer credit law as well as advised governments, consumer groups, external dispute resolution schemes and industry on consumer credit and financial services law. He is a member of the Investment, Life Insurance and Stockbroking Panel of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority and both the Banking and Finance and Competition and Consumer Law Committees of the Queensland Law Society.

Dr Paul O'Shea will be teaching LAWS5136 Commercial 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

Ms Fiona Candy

Fiona Candy is a professional support lawyer in White & Case’s Paris office providing additional support for the Paris and international arbitration practice. Prior to joining White & Case, Fiona worked at a Magic Circle firm as Knowledge Management Lawyer for their Arbitration group, after having worked there as a lawyer for several years in international arbitration. Fiona has over the past years also been working in the area of ESG and, in particular, climate change. She monitors legal and market developments in this field and assists in reporting on these to clients as well as internally. Fiona more generally supports the Firm’s ESG & Sustainability Specialty Practice and Climate Change Disputes focus group.

Ms Fiona Candy will be teaching LAWS7725 Current Issues in Legal Practice - Topic: ESG, Business and the Law

Ms Allana Docking

Allana Docking is the ESG and Sustainability Business Development Lead at global law firm White & Case, based in Hong Kong. Originally from Adelaide, she has fifteen years of experience in senior roles, focused on business development and strategy, in Hong Kong, the UK and Australia. While at White & Case in London and Hong Kong, Allana has worked closely with teams of lawyers in the energy, infrastructure, mining and metals and smart cities groups and now focuses her time on ESG, with environmental, business and human rights, climate change disputes, energy transition, sustainable finance and public company advisory lawyers. She is particularly interested in contributing to the work needed to curb climate change and modern slavery and embed strong ESG principles and metrics in business. Allana is a member of the Firm’s Responsible Business Committee and plays an active role in the Hong Kong Pro Bono and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee. She is a mentor with FT Women in Business Asia Forum and the Asian University for Women and an advisory board member of a social enterprise, focused on global supply chain labour compliance.

Ms Allana Docking will be teaching LAWS7725 Current Issues in Legal Practice - Topic: ESG, Business and the Law

Mr Paul Tracey

Paul Tracey is admitted as a solicitor in NSW, Queensland and Victoria and is called as a barrister of The Middle Temple. He is also a member ad eundem of Lincoln’s Inn and The Inner Temple.

He has also been called as an advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey and is admitted as  a solicitor with higher rights of audience in England and Wales.

He has practised in London, Jersey (the Channel Islands) and Sydney specialising in trusts and succession disputes and trusts and succession advice and structuring.

He also has extensive experience in commercial fraud and asset tracing litigation and all aspects of company law including breaches of directors’ duties, shareholder disputes and claims arising out of corporate insolvency, particularly in respect of recovery of corporate assets or losses from former directors and third parties.  

He is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).

Paul holds Master of Laws degrees from each of the Queensland University of Technology, the University of Queensland, and the University of London. He has previously lectured in trusts and equity at the University of Sydney and has presented on aspects of international trust litigation for STEP in Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney and the Association of Contentious Trust and Probate Specialists in London.

He also has experience in commercial arbitration and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Member of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators.

Mr Paul Tracey will be teaching LAWS5130 Succession Law and LAWS7721 Advanced Law of Trusts and Trustees

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