Staff profile

Dr Christopher Corns

Associate Professor

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Law School

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA(Hons)(Melb); LLB (Melb); LLM (Mon); Phd (Mon); Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Area of study

Law

Brief Profile

Chris has been teaching law at La Trobe university since the creation of the Law School in 1994 and assisted with the design of a number of law subjects. He has practised at the Victorian Bar as a criminal barrister on a part time and full time basis from 1994 until 2001. His specialist areas of teaching and research are are criminal justice, criminal procedure and evidence. Chris is the co-author (with Dr Steven Tudor) of a new text  Criminal Investigation and Procedure: The Law in Victoria published in June 2009 by Law Book Co-Thomson Reuters, and has published over forty articles on law related matters and has been the editor of special editions of the journal Law in Context on several occasions. Chris was appointed Associate Professor in 2010.

Teaching Units

  • LAWCJU Criminal Justice
  • LAWCPE Criminal Procedure and Evidence
  • LAWCAS Communication and Advocacy
  • LAWFSL Forensic Science and the Law

Consulting

By appointment

Recent Publications

Criminal Process and Investigation co-authored with Dr Steven Tudor. To be published June 2009 by Thomson Law Book Co.

Criminal Appeals 1908 to 2008, Special edition of Law in Context (2008).

Anatomy of Long Criminal Trials, Report, Australian Institute of Judicial Administration (1997)

Reshaping the Judiciary, Special edition of Law in Context (2001)

"Mercy Killings: some criminal Prosecution aspects' in Ptersen K and Freckelton I (eds) Contoversies in Health Law (1999)

 

"Interrogating nationals abroad: some jurisdictional issues; Criminal Law Review (2008)

"Retrial of acquitted persons: Time for reform of the double jeopardy rule" (2003) 27: 2 Criminal Law Journal