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Expect More of Law: The Podcast
Hosted by our Dean of Law, Professor Tania Leiman, "Expect More of Law: The Podcast" celebrates Law at Flinders University with stories from current students, alumni, and industry.
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Flinders Law academic staff are recognised as leaders in their fields both in Australia and around the world. Our academics draw on their industry experience and legal scholarship to deliver innovative courses that prepare graduates for career success.
Flinders Law is committed to the rule of law. Our curriculum is informed by values that support democratic governance by law, fairness in dispute-resolution processes, access to justice (including promotion of community understanding of legal rights and obligations), and equality. To promote an understanding of the processes of deliberative reform, we seek to instil in our students an open and informed attitude towards the role of law and legal institutions in a social context.
Tania Leiman
Professor and Dean of Law
A leader and innovator in legal education, Tania is committed to producing modern law graduates equipped to adapt and thrive in the future job market. “The legal industry is going through a major transformation with the impact of technology fundamentally changing the way legal services are delivered,” she explains. “Flinders Law balances traditional legal teaching with new offerings that provide graduates with the skills to solve future problems at the intersection of law and technology”.
Tania’s current research looks at the legal implications of emerging driverless and mobility technologies. What will such technologies mean for individuals and society? How will we minimise the risks and maximise the opportunities they present? How can the law protect rights and avoid unjust or inequitable outcomes? She is also exploring the impact emerging technologies have on what lawyers do with her research findings shaping the curriculum and content taught at Flinders Law.
Tania is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court of South Australia and the High Court of Australia and holds a current unrestricted practising certificate. She began teaching law at Flinders in 1994 and participates in the legal sub-group member the Australian Driverless Vehicle Initiative [ADVI]’s Policy & Risk Group, and is also a member of the award-winning Flinders Legal Advice Clinic. Tania has been the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including Faculty, Vice Chancellor’s and national Australian Government teaching excellence awards for her work as an individual academic and as part of a clinic legal education team. Tania was appointed Dean of Flinders Law in 2017.
Hossein Esmaeili
Associate Professor
For Hossein, the law is a vital mix of passion, innovation, change and adaptation. His work is inspired by academic freedom and the ability to influence and change law and policy, both locally and internationally. “As a law academic, I address unanswered questions in my legal scholarship, engage with students and broader sections of society,” he explains. “It’s a lifelong journey of learning and growing.”
Hossein teaches real property law, trusts, law of the sea, energy and environmental security and international law. He joined the department in 2005, after seven years teaching at UNSW, the University of New England, and Western Sydney University.
His current research interests include Australian perspectives on international and comparative law particularly with regards to global energy, resources and the environment as well as Islamic and Middle Eastern law.
Hossein has authored, co-authored, and edited five scholarly books, including The Legal Regime of Offshore Oil Rigs in International Law (Ashgate Publisher, 2001) and The Boundaries of Australian Property Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He has published in leading international law journals worldwide. He has been a Co-Rapporteur of a committee of the International Law Association (since 2011) and serves on the editorial boards of a number of law journals in Australia, Asia and Europe.
Margaret Davies
Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor
Margaret’s interest in how the law articulates ideas of social justice in a practical context drew her to a legal teaching career. “I’m interested in the way those ideas develop over time,” she explains. “Law is a key focal point for expressing our collective values and promoting social justice – it has a strong historical basis but is also critical to orderly social change.”
She completed a doctorate in critical legal theory at Sussex University and became a Flinders University Law School foundation staff member in 1992. Since then she has been a visiting scholar at Birkbeck College, Umea University, UBC, University of Kent, Victoria University of Wellington and was Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at Kent University. She was a member of the ARC College of Experts’ Humanities and Creative Arts Panel from 2010 – 2012 (Chair, 2011) and serves on advisory boards for Social and Legal Studies, Feminist Legal Studies, and the Macquarie Law Journal.
Margaret's current research interests include how Western philosophy's founding assumptions dividing human society from its broader context – environment, technology, property, etc. – continue to shape legal concepts today. Her work contributes to meaningful conversations about how law and property can adapt to better reflect our future needs.
Dr James Scheibner
Lecturer
After completing his undergraduate education in computing and law at the University of Tasmania, James undertook a PhD with Professor Dianne Nicol and Associate Professor Jane Nielsen at the Centre of Law and Genetics, with Associate Professor Michael Charleston as a research supervisor. James's thesis focused on the relationships between informal norms and formal intellectual property rights in open source bioinformatics development.
James then completed a two year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Health Ethics and Policy Laboratory in the Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich, headed by Professor Effy Vayena. James worked with the Laboratory for Data Security, headed by Professor Jean-Pierre Hubaux, as well as the Lausanne University Hospital, on the Data Protection and Personalised Health Project. The purpose of this project was to develop a set of privacy enhancing tools for distributed queries on medical data. James conducted the ethical and legal assessment as part of this project.
James's research interests include intellectual property and industrial property law (with a specific focus on software and biotechnology inventions), data protection law and health law. James's research interests also extend to bioethics, institutional economics (such as common pool resource theory) and the application of these fields to these areas of law. James is topic coordinator for Torts and Advanced Legal Research. In addition, James teaches Law in a Digital Age as part of the Flinders University future focused law degree.
Rob Chalmers
Senior Lecturer
Rob brings a varied and extensive professional background to bear in his teaching and aims to give students insights into real practice situations to help prepare them for their futures.
He has worked as a lawyer, educator, manager, company director and commercial advisor across a broad range of fields including defence, agriculture and health. He has special depth in intellectual property, technology and commercialisation and is particularly interested in the interaction between the development of technology, society and regulation.
Simone Daniells
Associate Lecturer
Dedicated Course Mentor for the Juris Doctor
Simone is a qualified lawyer with over 13 years' experience in professional private practice. Her professional experience has included commercial litigation; contract negotiation and drafting; business sales and acquisitions; intellectual property; real property; employment law; corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
In addition to her legal experience, Simone has a strong background in legal and business innovation. She has brought this expertise to her teaching practice in the Bachelor of Laws program by equipping students with problem-solving and collaborative skills using design thinking concepts.
In 2023, Simone was appointed as the Dedicated Course Mentor for the Flinders University Juris Doctor program where she serves as a key interface between academic staff and students, helping our Juris Doctor students stay connected and reach their full potential.
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