Publications
(i) Books
Family Law: Processes, Practices and Pressures (co-editor with S.Parker), (2003) Hart Publishing, Oxford
Land Law: Themes and Perspectives (co-editor with S.Bright), (1998) OUP, Oxford
Cohabitants (with S.Parker) (1995) FT Law & Tax, London, 254pp + xxv + Index
Trusts Law: Text and Materials 2nd ed (1994) Butterworths, London, Law in Context, 712pp + xxxix + Index (by G.Moffat, credited as junior author with J.Bean)
Law and the Family 2nd edition (1992) Butterworths, London, 528pp + Index + tables
Law and the Family (1989) Butterworths, London, 389pp + Index + tables
Nuclear weapons, the peace movement and the law, co-edited with M.Ruete, A.Paliwala and S.Picciotto (1986) Macmillan, London, 251pp + Index + tables
(ii) Reports, monographs, etc
Children’s Contact Services: Expectations and experience, (Sheehan, G and Carson, R with Fehlberg, B, Hunter, R, Tomison, A, Ip, R and Dewar,J) (AIFS, Griffith University, University of Melbourne and Attorney-General’s Department, 2005)
Litigants in Person in the Family Court of Australia, Family Court of Australia Research Report No.20 (March 2000)
Parenting, planning and partnership: A study of the impact of the Family Law Reform Act 1995, Family Law Research Unit Working Paper No.3, March 1999 (with S.Parker)
Superannuation and divorce in Australia, Australian Institute of Family Studies Working Paper No.18 (with G.Sheehan and J.Hughes) (AIFS, May 1999)
The impact of changes to legal aid in Queensland, 1993-1998 (with J.Giddings and S.Parker) (FLPA/QLS Consultancy, 1998)
Reducing discretion in family law, Family Law Research Unit Working Paper No.1, July 1997
(iii) Chapters in books or edited collections
‘Family Property’ in P.Cane and J.Conaghan (eds) The New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP, Oxford, 2008), p.447.
‘Moving on: The challenge for children’s contact services in Australia’ (with G.Sheehan and R.Carson) in M.Maclean (ed) Parenting after Partnering : containing conflict after separation (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2007), Ch.11
‘Imputed trusts and family breakdown’ in G.Moffat (with G.Bean and J.Dewar), Trusts Law: Text and Materials 4th ed (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005), Ch.12
‘Regulating families’ in C.Parker, Scott, C, Lacey, N and Braithwaite, J (eds), Regulating Law (OUP, Oxford and New York, 2004), Ch.4
‘Families’ in P.Cane and M.Tushnet (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Legal Studies (OUP, Oxford and New York, 2003), Ch.20
‘Introduction’ (with S.Parker) in J.Dewar and S.Parker (eds), Family Law: Processes, Practices and Pressures (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2003), pp.1-5
'Imputed trusts and family disputes: A tale of two jurisdictions’ in K.Sin (ed) Legal Explorations: Essays in honour of Professor Michael Chesterman (Federation Press, Sydney, 2003), Ch.4
‘English Family Law since WW2: From status to chaos’ (with S.Parker) in S.Katz, J.Eekelaar and M.Maclean (eds), Cross-currents: Family Law in England and the United States since World War 2 (OUP, Oxford and New York, 2000), Ch.6
‘Making family law new?: Property and superannuation reform in Australia’ in M.Maclean (ed), Making Law for Families (Onati International Series in Law and Society (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2000), Ch.4
‘Indigenous children in Australian law’ in J.Murphy (ed), Ethnic minorities and family law (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2000), Ch.6
‘Imputed trusts and family breakdown’ in G.Moffat, Trusts Law: Text and Materials, 3rd ed (Butterworths, London, 1999), Ch.12
‘Reducing discretion in family law’ in J.Eekelaar and T.Nhlapo (eds), The Changing Family: Family Forms and Family Law (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 1998), Ch.14
‘Introduction’ (with S.Bright) in S.Bright and J.Dewar (eds), Land Law: Themes and Perspectives (OUP, Oxford, 1998) pp.1-12
‘Land, law and the family home’ in S.Bright and J.Dewar (eds), Land Law: Themes and Perspectives (1998) OUP, Ch.13
'Policy issues in Law and the Family', in G.Wilson (ed) Frontiers of Legal Scholarship: Twenty Five Years of Warwick Law School (1995) Chancery Law Publishing, Ch. 5
'Imputed trusts and family breakdown', in G.Moffat (with J.Bean and J.Dewar), Trusts Law: Text and materials (2nd ed, 1994) Butterworths, Ch.12
'Concepts, Coherence and Content of Family Law' in P.Birks (ed) Examining the Law Syllabus: Beyond the core (1993) OUP, Ch.15
'Fathers in law?: The case of AID' in R.Lee and D.Morgan (eds) Birthright: Law and ethics at the beginnings of life (1989) Routledge, Ch.7
Chapters 12 and 13 of Trusts Law: Text and Materials by G.Moffat and M.Chesterman (1988) Weidenfeld and Nicholson
'Grasping the legal nettle: Towards an understanding of law and peace' (with M.Ruete) in Dewar,J et al (eds) Nuclear weapons, the peace movement and the law (1986) Macmillan, Ch.4
(iv) Articles in refereed journals
H.Rhoades, G.Sheehan and J.Dewar, 'Developing a consistent message about children's care needs across the family law system', (2013) 27 Australian Journal of Family Law, 191-219
‘Can the centre hold?: Reflections on two decades of family law reform in Australia’ (2010) 24 Australian Journal of Family Law 139-149 (also published in (2010) 22 Child and Family Law Quarterly 377-386)
‘Divergent Expectations and Experience: An Empirical Study of the Use Children’s Contact Services in Australia’, G.Sheehan, R.Carson, B.Fehlberg, R.Hunter, A.Tomison, R.IP and J.Dewar, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 2007 21(3):275-309
‘Self-representing litigants: A Queensland perspective' (with B.Jerrard and F.Bowd) (2002) 23 The Queensland Lawyer 65-77
‘Family law and its discontents’ (2000) 14 International Journal of Law and the Family 59-85
‘Property and superannuation reform in Australia: A danger averted or an opportunity missed?’ [2000] 1 Irish Journal of Family Law 2-5
'The impact of the new Part VII Family Law Act 1975' (with S.Parker) (1999) 13 Australian Journal of Family Law 96 - 116
‘The impact of legal aid changes on the practice of Family Law’ (with J.Giddings and S.Parker) (1999) 13 Australian Journal of Family Law 33
'Being expected to do more with less: Criminal law legal aid in Queensland' (with J.Giddings and S.Parker) (1999) 23 Criminal Law Journal 69
‘The normal chaos of family law’ (1998) 61 Modern Law Review 467-485
‘Indigenous children and family law’ (1997) 19 Adelaide Law Review 217-230
‘Reducing discretion in family law’ (1997) 11 Australian Journal of Family Law 309-326
‘Variations on a theme: Child Law reform in Australia’ (with R.Bailey-Harris), (1997) 9 Child and Family Law Quarterly 149-164
‘Family, law and theory’ (1996) 16 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 725-736
‘Twins or distant cousins?: A comparison of the Children Act 1989 (UK) and the Family Law Reform Act 1995 (Cth)’ (1996) 10 Australian Journal of Family Law 18-34
'The courts and local authority autonomy' (1995) 7 Child and Family Law Quarterly 15-25
'Licences and land law: An alternative view' (1986) 49 Modern Law Review 741-756
'Financial provision reformed: An abdication of responsibility?' [1986] Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 96-103
'Transsexualism and marriage' (1986) 15 Kingston Law Review 58-71
'Reforming financial provision: The alternatives' (1984) Journal of Social Welfare Law 1-13
(v) Shorter pieces in refereed journals
‘Out of the Maze: The Family Law Pathways Advisory Group’ (2002) Australian Journal of Family Law (reprinted in Family Matters Autumn 2002 issue, pp.74-5)
‘Developments and events: The Family Law Act 1996 (UK)’ (1996) 10 Australian Journal of Family Law 175-6
'Local authorities, ouster orders and the inherent jurisdiction' (1995) 7 Journal of Child Law 64-8
'When joint tenants part' (1992) 108 Law Quarterly Review 375-7
'Re R' (with S.Parker) (1992) Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 143-4
'Re H' (1991) Journal of Social Welfare Law 153-5
'Re Ricardo plc' (1990) Journal of Business Law 63-4
'Promises, promises' (1984) 47 Modern Law Review 735-7
(vi) Articles etc in non-refereed journals
‘Question 21 and the Teaching-Research Nexus’, Campus Review 1.7.08, pp.6-7
‘Legislative change’, in B.Smyth, Richardson, R and Soriano,G Proceedings of the International Forum on Family Relationships in Transition (AIFS, 2006), pp.37-9
‘Importance of partnerships’, Campus Review 14.12.05, pp.6 & 11
Numerous case notes in Family Law between 1993 and 1995.
‘What to cover - and how - in a cohabitation agreement’ (1995) August Family Law Practitioner 20-1 (with S.Parker)
‘Cohabitation agreements - do they work?’ (1995) June/July Family Law Practitioner 20-1 (with S.Parker)
'Ouster orders for the protection of children: What is the law?' (1994) 7 Practitioner's Child Law Bulletin 45
'The Children Act 1989: Some themes from the case law' (1994) 7 Practitioner's Child Law Bulletin 20
'A mortgage advance?' Family Law Practitioner (December 1993/January 1994 issue), 20
'Give and take in the family home' (1993) Family Law 231
'An outline of the Child Support Act 1991' (1993) 6 Practitioners Child Law Bulletin 21
'Child support: Calculating net income' (1993) 6 Practitioners Child Law Bulletin 16
'Family law reform in the UK: Going down under?' (with R.Parry) (1991) 6 Australian Family Lawyer 1
'Cohabitees: Contributions and consideration' (1982) 12 Family Law 158
(vii) Reviews
J.Eekelaar and M.Maclean, The Parental Obligation and G.Davies et al, Child support in action both in (1999) 13 Australian Journal of Family Law 83 and 87
H.Finlay, R.Bailey-Harris and M.Otlowski, Australian Family Law (5th ed) (1998) Australian Journal of Family Law 90
W.Twining, Blackstone’s Tower and Le Brun and Johnstone’s The Quiet Revolution (1995) 15 Legal Studies 455
Andrew Bainham, Children: The modern law (1994) 6 Journal of Child Law 95
Family Law Matters by K.O'Donovan, SPTL Reporter, Winter 1993, 31
Children's welfare and the law: The limits of legal intervention by M.King and J.Trowell, (1993) 5 Journal of Child Law 144
James Brundage's Law, Sex and Christian Society in Mediaeval Europe (1993) 22 Anglo-American Law Review, 141
'The family home', (1984) 47 Modern Law Review, 118
(viii) Conference papers presented
‘Can the centre hold?: Reflections on two decades of family law reform in Australia’, March 2010, Opening address to the Agenda-Setting Workshop on Family, Regulation and Society, Nuffield Foundation, London
‘Superannuation splitting on divorce in Australia: An evaluation of post-reform practice and settlement outcomes’, Law and Society in the 21st Century, Berlin, July 2007 (co-authored with Grania Sheehan and April Chrzanowski, paper delivered by G.Sheehan)
‘The changed relationship between policy and pedagogy – The implications for engaging students’, paper delivered at the 8th Pacific Rim Conference on the First Year Experience, Griffith University, Gold Coast, July 2006 (written with Leesa Wheelahan and Gillian Collom)
‘Taking the law out of family law?: Current issues in Australian Family Law’, paper presented to the Miller du Toit/University of the Western Cape Family Law Conference, ‘New directions in family law – 10 years of democracy’, Cape Town, South Africa, April 2004 (invited keynote speaker)
‘Hard cases make bad law?: The case for reform of s.79’, paper presented to the Queensland Family Law Practitioners’ Association Annual Residential, August 2002, Marina Mirage, Gold Coast (invited keynote speaker)
‘Response to Justice Jerrard’, paper delivered at the Family Court of Australia Judges’ Conference, July 2002, Brisbane (invited keynote speaker)
‘Litigants in person’ (with B.Jerrard and F.Bowd), paper presented to Qld Supreme Court Judges’ Annual Conference, March 2002, Brisbane (invited keynote speaker)
‘Contributions outside marriage’, Keynote address to the 10th National Family Law Conference, March 2002, Melbourne (invited keynote speaker)
‘Is law good for families?’, Keynote Address to the UQ Family Centre Annual Research Conference, February 22nd 2002, Lennon’s Hotel, Brisbane (invited keynote speaker)
‘Superannuation reform in Australia’, invited paper presented to the World Congress on Families, Youth and the Rights of the Child, Bath, September 2001 (invited speaker)
Member of panel on ‘Is everything super – Savings over the life-cycle’ at the Inaugural National Women’s Conference, Canberra, August 2001 (invited speaker)
Member of panel on SRLs at Family Court’s 25th Anniversary Conference, Sydney, July 2001 (invited speaker)
‘Litigants in person – A survival Guide’, paper presented to the District Court of Queensland Judges’ Annual Seminar, April 2001 (invited speaker)
‘Litigants in person – Implications for theory and practice’, paper delivered at the 10th Law and Society Conference, Brisbane, 6th December 2000
‘Litigants in person in the Family Court of Australia’, paper delivered at the 10th World Conference of the International Society of Family Law, Brisbane, 10th July 2000
‘Litigants in person in the Family Court of Australia’, paper delivered at Family Court Judges’ Conference, Double Bay, 7th July 2000 (invited keynote speaker)
‘Family violence and property distribution – Where now?’, paper delivered at the 9th National Family Law Conference, Sydney, 6th July 2000
Panel member, ‘Family Dispute Resolution - Pathways to the future’, 5th National Mediation Conference, Brisbane, 17th May 2000
‘Research issues in Family Law’, paper delivered at the Family Law Practitioners Association Residential, Royal Pines, 28th April 2000 (invited keynote speaker)
‘Domestic violence and children’s issues in the Family Court’, paper delivered at ‘Beyond the barriers: Improving legal responses to domestic violence’, Grand Mercure Hotel, Gold Coast, 23rd September 1999
‘Making family law new?: Property and superannuation reform in Australia’, paper delivered at ‘Family, Politics and Law Workshop 3’, International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, May 1999
‘Legal ideology and policy’, paper delivered at workshop entitled ‘Cross-currents: Family Law in England and the United States since World War 2’, Pembroke College, Oxford, March 1999 (NYU/OU Institute of Law in a Global Society) (co-written with S.Parker)
‘A super divorce?’, AIFS 6th National Research Conference, Melbourne, November 1998 (with G.Sheehan and J.Hughes)
‘The impact of legal aid changes’, Family Court 3rd National Conference, Melbourne, October 1998 (with J.Giddings and S.Parker)
‘Family Law in Australia: Past, present and future’, written paper presented to the Reunion Mundial Extraordinaria: “Veinte Anos de Derecho Familiar”, University of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, October 1997
‘Researching the impact of Part VII FLA 1975’, paper given at the Family Law Teachers’ Workshop, Sydney, October 1997
‘Aboriginal children and family law’, paper given to the ALTA Indigenous Peoples and the Law Interest Group, Sydney, October 1997
‘Discretion and social change in family law’, paper delivered at the International Society of Family Law 9th Annual conference, Durban, South Africa, July 1997
‘The work of the Family Law Research Unit’, presentation to the Family Law Practitioners Association of Queensland, Sanctuary Cove Residential, June 1997.
‘The normal chaos of family law’, paper delivered to the Postmodern Legal Theory Interest Group, University of Hong Kong, April 1997 and given as a staff seminar, University of New South Wales, September 1997
‘Reducing discretion in family law’, paper delivered at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, April 1997
‘Smoothing the transition?: Children and divorce after the FLRA 1995’, AIFS 5th Family Research Conference, Family Research: Pathways to Policy, Brisbane, November 1996
‘Recent developments in English Family Law’, ALTA conference, La Trobe University, Melbourne, October 1995
‘Deconstruction and legal theory’ (with A.Barron), CLC Conference, University of Kent (UK), September 1986
(ix) Research grants obtained
ARC Discovery grant, 2011-2014, $250k: ‘Making children’s needs knowable to law’ (2nd CI to H.Rhoades)
ARC Discovery grant, 2004-6, $360,000: ‘Superannuation and divorce’ (2nd CI to Dr Grania Sheehan)
ARC Network seed funding for proposed Families, Law and Social Policy Network, $30k (Network convenor)
Funding obtained for creation of a Centre for Families, Law and Social Policy – PVC funding of $50,000
Griffith University Research Grant, $20,000: ‘Superannuation and divorce’ (with G.Sheehan)
Griffith University Research Development Grant, $15,000: ‘The new subject of legal aid’ (with R.Hunter and J.Giddings)
ARC SPIRT grant, 2001-3, $400,000: ‘Child contact centres: Expectation and experience’ (1st Chief Investigator, with R.Hunter, B.Fehlberg and G.Sheehan)
Griffith University Infrastructure Grant, 1999, $32,000 (to fund activities of the Family Law Research Unit)
ARC SPIRT grant, 1998-2000, $320,000: ‘The impact of norm form on legal negotiation’ (2nd Chief Investigator, with S.Parker, S.Bottomley and T.Wright/Justice Research Centre)
ARC Large grant, 1998-2000, $120,000: ‘Tactics, ethics and justice in family law’ (2nd Chief Investigator, with S.Parker)
ARC Small grant, 1997, $18,000: ‘Parenting, planning and partnership: A study of the impact of the FLRA 1995’ (1st Chief Investigator with S.Parker); $5,000 extension for 1998
Griffith University NCGSS grant, 1997, $14,000: ‘Reducing discretion: A study of the impact of the Family Law Reform (No.2) Act 1997’ (with S.Parker)
(x) Consultancies
July 2000 – July 2002, Consultant to Self-representing litigants project, Family Court of Australia
May – September 2000, Evaluation of in-house PDR services, Attorney-General’s Department, $96,000 (with R.Hunter, J.Giddings and T.Wright)
February - July 1999, Litigants in person in the Family Court, Family Court of Australia: $13,000
May-July 1998, Australian Institute of Family Studies, Consultant to the Divorce Transition project on superannuation aspects: $5,000
March-June 1998, Queensland Law Society and Family Law Practitioners Association, ‘The impact of changes to legal aid in Queensland’: $19,900 (with S.Parker and J.Giddings)
(xi) Law reform activities
Chair, Family Law Council 2001-4
Member, Family Law Council 1998-2001
Member, Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Family Law Pathways Advisory Group, 2000-1
(xii) Continuing Professional Development activities
‘Part VII FLA 1975: Recent developments’, LAAMS seminar, Brisbane, 16th September 1999
‘Erosion of contributions; Lump sum spousal maintenance’, FLPA Annual Residential, Coolum, July 1999
‘The status of unregistered child support liabilities’, Caxton Legal Centre Child Support Seminar, Brisbane, October 1998
‘Current property practice: Recent developments under s.79’, Family Law Practitioners’ Association Annual Residential Conference, Twin Waters, Maroochydore, July 1998
In-house seminars for Allen & Overy, Solicitors, and Farrer & Co, Solicitors
Regular contributor to the Family Law programme for T.E.N's Lawyers' Education Channel (a video-based Continuing Professional Development service for solicitors)
'Who plans for the child?', talk given to Family and Care Judges of the Nottingham and Oxford Circuit, 22nd February 1993, Nottingham Crown and County Court
'Matrimonial and child law update', Oxford University Continuing Professional Development Seminar, 2nd April 1993
'The Child Support Act and the courts', Paper given to the Oxfordshire Solicitors Family Law Association, Wolfson College, Oxford, 27th September 1994
'The courts and local authority autonomy', Paper given as part of a CPD seminar entitled 'Protecting children: The Children Act in 1994', held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 30th September 1994
(xiii) Visits, etc
Invited lecturer and speaker at Universities of Palermo and Bologna, Italy, and Queens University, Belfast, May 2000
Distinguished visitor, University of Hong Kong, April 1997
(xiv) Media
Often interviewed by TV, radio or print media on family law issues, including appearances on the ABC’s The Law Report, Life Matters and The 7.30 Report, and articles or quotes in Campus Review, Higher Education Supplement and Financial review.
(xv) Professional development activities undertaken
AICD Company Directors’ Course (September 2010)
Fairfax Ethical Leadership Program, Melbourne Business School (2010-2011)
Cranlana Program (2009)
AVCC Senior Leadership Program (2007)