Ms Liesel Spencer
ASSOCIATE LECTURER,
School of Law
Personal
Qualifications
- BALAWS University of Western Sydney
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- School of Law
Contact
| Email: | L.Spencer@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 3773 |
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| Location: | 22.1.67 Campbelltown |
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Biography
Liesel Spencer joined the School of Law at UWS in 2007. Prior to joining the school, she spent two years as a sessional law lecturer with UWS, the University of Sydney, and the University of Wollongong. Her working history also includes positions in legal publishing with Law Book Company (now Thompson), as a commercial litigation paralegal, and in journalism. Her current scholarship is in the intersection between the local government law, public health law and urban planning disciplines. She is writing a PhD thesis on the use of local government law for sustainable public health. She also publishes in the area of legal education, on the use of exemplars and on motivating law students to engage in reading.
This information has been contributed by Ms Spencer.
Interests
- Integrating permaculture principles into planning law
- Local government law; public health law; urban planning law; permaculture and law.
Awards
- Lecturer of the Year, Campbelltown Campus (LSA) 2011-10-01
Publications
Chapters in Books
- Newlyn, D. and Spencer, L. (2012), 'Vodcasting in tandem with annotated exemplars to improve student performance', Canadian Legal Education Annual Review = Revue de l'Enseignement du Droit au Canada, Thomson Reuters Canada 9780779850303.
Journal Articles
- Spencer, L. and Newlyn, D. (2013), 'Using exemplars to communicate criteria and standards and improve students' performance in assessment', Ubiquitous Learning: an International Journal, 12.
- Spencer, L. (2012), 'Motivating law students to 'do the reading' before class : appropriate extrinsic and intrinsic motivational tools', Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association (JALTA), .
- Spencer, L. (2012), 'Integrating food security into local government law, policy and planning : using local government legal structures to build community resilience to food insecurity', Food Studies, .
- Newlyn, D., Juriansz, J. and Spencer, L. (2012), 'Using exemplars to improve student performance in a contracts law research essay', International Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 12.
- Newlyn, D. and Spencer, L. (2010), 'Improving Student Performance in Interdisciplinary Law Unit Assessment by Providing Annotated Exemplars', Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, 9.
- Newlyn, D. and Spencer, L. (2009), 'Using Exemplars in an Interdisciplinary Law Unit: Listening to the student's voices', Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, 13.
- Newlyn, D. and Spencer, L. (2008), 'Intertester Reliability: Reporting on Assessment Methods in Interdisciplinary Units', JALTA - Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, 19.
Research
Intersection between local government law, public health, and urban planning.
Permaculture and urban planning law, food security, agroecology in urban context.
Urban form, housing type, housing affordabilty and public health - intersections with planning law.
Motivation, extrinsic and intrinsic, to encourage law students to complete set reading prior to class.
Use of exemplars to communicate criteria and standards and improve student performance in assessment.
This information has been contributed by Ms Spencer.
