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• Law of Torts
• Law of Contracts
• Commercial and Consumer Contracts
• Constitutional Law
• Professional Conduct (Ethics and Liability)
• Marketing Law

• ‘The limits on the human right to water’ (2011) 16(2) Australian Journal of Human Rights 109 – 133

• ‘Shifting ground:  Alcohol liability and the normative content of tort law in Australia’ (2010) 5 (8) International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 223-238 http://iji.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.88/prod.1227.

• ‘Dispute Resolution in Rural and Regional Victoria’ (with Frances Gibson) (2010) 21 Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal 111

• 'Emerging Consumer Credit Issues for Older Australians' (with Frances Gibson)(2008) 12 University of Western Sydney Law Review 73-102 

• ‘Sustainable rural water delivery: balancing resource and social sustainability’ (2008) 12 Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy 59 – 85

• ‘The contested product of a university education’ (2008) 30 Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 41 - 52

•  ‘The law of negligence in a ‘risk society’– calculating ideas of reasonable risk’ (2007) 16 Griffith Law Review 172-191

•  ‘When a Stranger Calls: guidelines for legal services on websites, phone or e-mail’, [2006] LAWASIA Journal 29-46 (with Frances Gibson)

•  ‘Sausage rolls and sports fields: the debate over voluntary student unionism in Australia’ (2006) 18 Education and the Law 161-176

• ‘Is there any clear idea of a university?’ (2006) 28 Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 147-158

• ‘Liability in negligence of water authorities for contaminated water’ (2005) 10 The Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy 39-80

• Claims against a university: The role of administrative review in Australia and the United Kingdom (2005) 17 Education and the Law 23-41

• ‘Private rights to water in Victoria: Farm Dams and the MDBC Cap’ (2004) 9 The Australasian Journal of Natural Resources Law and Policy, 229 – 253

• ‘Academic Freedom as Insubordination’ (2003) 15 Education and the Law 249 – 262

• ‘Suing the Alma Mater: what loss has been suffered?’ (2001) 13 Education and the Law 319 – 333

• ‘Traders of the Lost Ark - lectures and liability’ (2001) 13 Education and the Law 127 - 140

• ‘Issues of University Governance and Management Giving Rise to Legal Liability’ (2001) 23 Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 49 - 61

• ‘The Role of Public Policy in Determining an Educator's Duty of Care’ (2001) 6 Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law and Education 63 - 78

• 'The relationship between the student and the university' (1998) 3 Australia and New Zealand Journal of Law & Education 28

• 'The application of the consumer protection provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) to universities' (1996) 12 QUT Law Journal 176 (as Francine Rorke)

Refereed Book Chapters

• 'Basin Clawbacks - reducing allocation and the right to water' in C A Brebbia and V Popov (eds) Water Resources Management IV (2011) 803-812
• Paying the price: nationalisation of private property or restoring the commons? in C A Brebbia and E Beriatos (eds) Sustainable Development and Planning V (2011) 573-582
• ‘Academic freedom and the ethics of marketing education’  in Purnendu Tripathi, Siran Mukerji (eds), Cases on Innovations in Educational Marketing - Transnational and Technological Strategies 2011 
• Compensation for regulation of water use - a comparative constitutional perspective’, in David Grinlinton, Prue Taylor (eds) Property Rights and Sustainability: The Evolution of Property Rights to Meet Ecological Challenges Brill Academic Publishers 2011
• ‘Climate change and irrigation water delivery – substantive constraints on social learning’ in J Martin, M Rogers and C Winter (eds) Climate Change in Regional Australia: Social Learning and Adaptation VURRN Press 2009
• ‘Conceptions of knowledge and the modern university’ in Ian Morley and Mira Crouch (eds), Knowledge as Value Rodopi 2008 43 – 61

Refereed Conference Presentations

• ‘Getting to Yes: Clearing the Way for Agreement in Water Reform.’ In P. Dalziel (Ed.) Building Sustainable Growth in SMEs: Refereed Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association International. Lincoln University: AERU Research Unit, 2007, ISBN 978-0-909042-87-5, pp. 191-206
•  ‘Water as heritage’ presented at the 2006 ANZRSAI Conference (Australia & New Zealand Regional Science Association International) Beechworth, Victoria, 26 – 29 September 2006 Theme: Heritage and Regional Development published in the proceedings of the conference
•  Dissonance and Distrust: Recurring Issues in Regional Settlement and Water Resources Development The Australian Sociological Association Conference 2004 December 8-11, 2004 Beechworth

Unrefereed Books

•  Australian Business Law Workbook 2011 CCH Australia Ltd (online) and the Australian Business Law Teachers' Manual 2005 - 2011 CCH Australia Ltd (online)
  

Recent Conferences

• Implementation of the human right to water: comparative approaches, Implementation of the human right to water in the west, University of Salem, Oregon, US 2-3 February 2011
• Basin Clawbacks: reducing allocation and the right to water, Water Resources Management, Riverside, California, US, 23-25 May 2011
• Food bowls and dust bowls: irrigated food production in arid Australia, Food and Environment, New Forest UK, 21-23 June 2011 
• Concepts of sovereignty and international trade, WG Hart Legal Workshop, London UK 28-30 June 2011
• Paying the price: nationalisation of private property or restoring the commons? 5th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning 12-14 July 2011
• Water and the law, politics and morality of displacement Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas 15.3.10 - 18.3.10
•  Marketing, risk management and academic freedom in the modern university published in the proceedings of the conference of the Canadian Association for the Practical Study of Law in Education Calgary, Alberta, 25.4.10 - 27.4.10
•  ‘Justice and the law in environmental discourse’ 8th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 29.6.10 - 2.7.10
• Water rights and water wrongs: balancing the interests of the individual and the state in water allocation  Water + Energy in Changing Climates September 26-29, 2010, Pittsburgh, PA
•  Water Pressure: Staff Colloquium, Environmental and Natural Resources Law Program, Lewis and Clark School of Law 21.9.10
•  Saving Water: rationalisation of irrigation infrastructure - the Australian experience 2010 Land Grant and Sea Grant National Water Conference Hilton Head, South Carolina 21.2.10 - 25.2.10
•  Water and life in an arid continent published in the proceedings of the UCOWR/NIWR Annual Conference Hydrofutures:  Water Science, Technology and Communities 13.7.10 - 15.7.10
•  ‘I don’t know where our water is going’ [poster] Water for Food, Lincoln, Nebraska 2.5.10 - 5.5.10
•  The future of irrigated agriculture in Australia: picking winners and leaving losers? Published in the proceedings of the 10th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Business Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio Hotel Honolulu 21.5.10 - 30.5.10