Review Panel Biographies

Philip Clarke is an Emeritus Professor of Law at Deakin University, a consultant to the Australian Catholic University and the principal of Corporate Compliance Australia Pty Ltd. Previously he was Deakin University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) (2009-2010), Pro Vice-Chancellor International (2008-2009), Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law (1999-2008) and the inaugural Head of the Deakin Law School (1993-1999). As Deakin University’s Foundation Professor of Law he was instrumental in establishing and developing its law degree program.

Professor Clarke is an Australian lawyer. He has experience of the law reform process through working as the Director of the Western Australian Law reform Commission and as a consultant on competition law to the Asian development Bank. He is a former editor of the Australian Business Law Review and is currently a member of the editorial Panel of the Competition and Consumer Law News. He is also an auditor with the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, chairing the audit of the University of New England in 2009 and Edith Cowan University in 2011. Professor Clarke is a Specialist Member of the Hong Kong Council for accreditation of Academic & Vocational Qualifications and was as a member of the panel that audited the University of Waikato in 2010.

 

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Professor Paula Baron 

Paula Baron is Chair of the Common Law at La Trobe Law and currently serves as Head of School and general editor of Law in Context.  She was previously Dean of the Griffith Faculty of Law in Queensland; and prior to that served as Acting Dean and Pro-Vice Chancellor at Victoria University Wellington, in New Zealand, where she was also the first woman to be appointed professor of law.  Paula holds a PhD from the University of Western Australia and has published in Australia and internationally in legal education, contract law, intellectual property law and law and gender issues and is.  She is one of a handful of legal academics globally writing in the area of psychoanalytic jurisprudence, that is, the interface of psychoanalytic theory and the law.

He is also occupied with work in the not-for-profit sector, within the firm on the Community Investment Committee and assisting with pro bono activities.  Outside the firm, he works with ActionAid Australia and is Deputy Chair of the James Milson Nursing Home & Retirement Village.In over 40 years of practice he handled a wide variety of insurance and reinsurance related issues.  He came to be recognised as one of the leading lawyers in the field.

During that period he was also President of the Law Council of Australia and the Law Society of New South Wales, the founding Chairman of the Australian Insurance Law Association, the inaugural Chairman of the Motor Accidents Authority, and Chairman of the Solicitors Mutual Indemnity Fund.  He was also Chairman of the firm in Australia. 

Professor Maree Sainsbury

Professor Maree Sainsbury is the Head of School of Law & Deputy Dean (Faculty of Business, Government & Law) at the University of Canberra. She has a BA/LLB (Hons), Grad Dip in Legal Practice, PhD (Tas), Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Tasmania and the High Court of Australia.

Maree has over four years experience as a barrister and solicitor. She worked in general practice in Tasmania, mainly in the area of litigation. She also worked with the Australian Government Solicitor in their Commercial Group, Technology and Intellectual Property Branch.

Maree currently teaches in Equity, Advanced Legal Research & Writing & Intellectual Property Law.

Professor Gary Smith was recently appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor, Engagement and International at the University of Western Sydney. He joined the University in November 2010 when he was appointed Executive Dean of the College of Arts. Professor Smith was previously from Deakin University where he was Professor of International Relations, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Education, and Head of the School of International and Political Studies. In addition, Professor Smith was Deakin’s Program Director at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies at the Australian Defence College and recently a Visiting Professor at Renmin University of China.He is author and editor of articles and books on international relations in the Asia-Pacific, global governance and civil society, and on Australian foreign relations. These include:

His current research projects are focused on:

• Australia's regional relations: government, business and society
• Ideas of internationalism in Australia’s approach to the world
• Borders, sovereignty and responsibility in international relations