Professor Carolyn Sappideen

Professor, School of Law

LLM(Hons) Syd, LLB Melb Contact details

• Career Profile
• Awards and Recognition
• Interests
• Publications

Career Profile

Carolyn Sappideen joined UWS School of Law in 1996. Previously she was Deputy Dean at the University of Queensland. She was Chair of the School of Law, University of Western Sydney for the period 1998 to 2006. In 2007 she resumed the position as Professor of Law.  She is currently the UWS staff representative on the Board of Trustees.  She has a special interest in Elder Law. The School introduced the first elective in Elder Law in Australia in 1999. This has formed the basis of a growing expertise in Elder Law in which the School provides consultancy, training and research.

Awards and Recognition

• Law & Justice Foundation Grant Guarantees by Older Persons
• Law & Justice Foundation Grant - Pro Bono Students Australia
• CAUT Grant for Innovative Teaching of Contracts Law

Interests

Learning and Teaching Interests

Professor Sappideen has teaching interests in Torts Law, Property Law and Medical Malpractice Law. She was a joint recipient of a CAUT grant for the innovative teaching of Contracts Law involving transactional learning. She has also supervised higher degree students, the most recent being in the areas of: Liability for Electrical Accidents; Torts: Economic Loss; Medical Malpractice Law: Medical Misadventure; Surrogacy & the Family, Elder Law: Contested Wills.

Research Interests

Professor Sappideen has research interests in Torts, Property and Medical Malpractice Law. She also has expertise in Liability for Electrical Accidents and a special interest in Elder Law.

Engagement Interests

Professor Sappideen oversees the UWS Pro Bono Students Australia (PBSA) program. This program involves law students undertaking law related projects for community and non-profit organizations. The Scheme is modelled on the very successful Canadian Pro Bono Students program. UWS School of Law has undertaken to pilot this program on behalf of the National Pro Bono Resource Centre. The resources for this program are available to other law programs that may be interested. Current projects include a very successful Sudanese Community Court Support Scheme at Blacktown local court.

Publications

BOOKS

Torts, Commentary and Materials (ThomsonReuters)

5^th ed  1981,  Morison, Phegan & Sappideen
6^th ed 1985, Morison, Phegan & Sappideen
7^th ed 1988,  Morison, Phegan & Sappideen
8^th ed, 1993,  Morison & Sappideen
9^th ed, 2006 Sappideen, Vines, Grant & Watson
10^th ed, 2009 Sappideen, Vines, Grant & Watso

Reprint 2010

The Perpetuities Act 1984 (Law Book Co) 1986, Sappideen & Butt.

Cases & Materials on Real Property (Law Book Co) Sappideen, Stein, Butt & Certoma

1^st ed 1980 
2^nd ed 1985
3^rd ed 1989

The Law of Employment

1^st ed 1978 Macken, McCarry & Sappideen
2^nd ed 1983
3^rd ed 1990
4^th ed 1997
5^th ed 2002

Macken’s Law of Employment
6^th ed 2008, Sappideen, O’Grady & Warburton

Statutory Conditions of Employment, McCarry & Sappideen, 1980 Butterworths

Liability for Electrical Accidents, 1995 Sappideen & Stillman

RECENT ARTICLES
Bolam in Australia – More Bark than Bite”  2010 UNSWLJ  (forthcoming)

“Families and Intergenerational Transfers: Changing The Old Order”  (2008) 31(3) UNSWLJ 788.

“The Electricity Supply Industry: Shifting Risk by Outsourcing”,  (2009) 6(1) Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering” 81.