DEAKIN LAW SCHOOL RESEARCH REPORT (No 3 of 2015)

1 Recent publications

Since the last research report the following publications have been reported:

Pieter Badenhorst, ‘Towards and Old School Theory on (New) Rights to Minerals’ in De Jure Gentium et Civili - Festscrift in honour of Eltjo Schrage, Carnelley M, Hoctor S, & Mukheibir A (Editors) (2014) 119-143.

Christoph Antons and Reto M. Hilty (eds), Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region, MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Vol. 24, Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer, 2015 (438 pp). Chapters written in this book by Christoph are:

·  Christoph Antons and Reto M. Hilty, ‘Introduction: IP and the Asia-Pacific ‘Spaghetti Bowl’ of Free Trade Agreements’, pp. 1-23

·  Christoph Antons and Dilan Thampapillai, ‘An Overview of Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region with a Particular Focus on Intellectual Property’, pp. 27-53

Mirko Bagaric, ‘Australian Criminal Law Defences’, in Reed and Bohlander (eds), General Defences in Criminal Law: Domestic and Comparative Perspectives (Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014), 185-196.

2 Research Funding

The research funding model for staff for 2015 is expected to be finalised by the Faculty shortly. Further details will be provided in the next research report.

3 Forthcoming Seminars

Private Law & Medical Jurisprudence Seminars

Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 5pm

Dr Carol Newlands: ‘Medical Panels: Forged by statute, refined by judicial review’.

Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Sharon Erbacher: ‘The deficiencies of the statutory purpose approach to resolving claims by wrongdoing plaintiffs’.

Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Dr Luca Siliquini-Cinelli & Dr Hutchison (South Africa): ‘Specific Performance’.

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Dr Gabrielle Wolf: Topic to be confirmed.

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Prof Dan Hunter: Topic to be confirmed.

4 Other Matters

PhD Opportunity: PhD candidate in European Private Law: University of Amsterdam

The Faculty of Law is offering a position for a PhD researcher in European Private Law. The opening is for a position at the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), one of the centres of excellence of the University of Amsterdam.

Mirko Bagaric

29 January 2015

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