TC Beirne School of Law - University of Queensland

Associate Professor Graeme Orr
2008. Funding for Monograph of the
Law Governing Parliamentary Elections
and Political Parties in Australia, Law
Foundation of South Australia Grants,
$10 000.
2009. Dollars and Democracy: The
Dynamics of Australian Political Finance
and its Regulation, ARC Discovery Grant
$130,000, University of Melbourne, (UQ a
collaborating partner).
Mr Paul O’Shea
2008. Simplification of Pre-contractual
Disclosure in Consumer Credit, Ministerial
Council for Consumer Affairs, $136,000.
Associate Professor Andreas Schloenhardt
2008. Protecting Foreign Workers
in Queensland’s Sex Industry, Legal
Practitioner Interest on Trust Accounts
Fund, $34,500.
2008. Organised Crime Legislation in the
Asia Pacific Region, Australian Institute of
Criminology Research Grant, $13,168.10.
2008. Organised Crime in Australia and
the Asia Pacific Region, Australian Federal
Police Research Grant, $8,472.
Professor Brad Sherman
2008. Promoting Plant Innovation in
Australia: Maximising the Benefits of
Intellectual Property for Australian
Agriculture, ARC Discovery Grant,
$306,000.
2008 – 2009 UQ Internal Grants
Associate Professor Nicholas Aroney
2008. Diversity and Unity in Federal
Countries: The Case of Australia, The
Forum of Federations, Ottowa, Canada,
$2,000.
Dr Peter Billings
2008. A Critical Examination of the
Emergency Response in the NT
With Particular Reference to Income
Management/Welfare Quarantining in the
NT and Queensland, $7,000.
2009. Protecting Civil Liberties and
Fundamental Freedoms in Queensland:
Next Steps on the Path to a Safe, Just
and Supportive Society, $3,500.
Dr Jonathan Crowe
2008. The Ethical Foundations of Law,
$14,825.
Dr Jonathan Crowe and Dr Lisa Toohey
2008. Empirical Challenges to Legal
Theory: A Pilot Study, $4,300.
Associate Professor Heather Douglas
2008. Criminal Law Recognition of
Indigenous Customary Law in Australia,
$4,090.
2008. An Exploration of Legal
Responses to Family Violence,
Breakdown and Homelessness:
Enhancing Outcomes for Children at
Risk and their Families, $15,000.
2009. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
(FASD) and the Criminal Law, $4,694.
Dr Craig Forrest
2008. World Archaeological Congress
Participation and Presentation, $3,787.
Dr David Hamer
2008. Alternative Approaches to
Causation of Shaken Baby Syndrome
(‘SBS’): Biomechanics and Confessions,
$6,000.
Dr David Morrison
2008. Determination of Key Factors
Around Near–bankrupt Debtors and
Financial Literacy Components, $4,682.
Associate Professor Graeme Orr
2008. Campaign Finance in International
Perspective, $1,244.
Associate Professor Graeme and
Dr Andrew Johnston
2009. Trading Corporations’ – Corporate
Theory, Constitutional Definition and
Pragmatic Implications, $2,223.
Associate Professor Kerrie Sadiq
2009. An Investigation into Australia’s
Tax Expenditures Policy: The History,
Assessment and Reporting of Tax
Expenditures’, $6,000.
Associate Professor Andreas Schloenhardt
2008. Trafficking in Persons in Australia
and Canada: A Comparative Analysis,
$5,388.
2009. Trafficking in Wildlife and Flora in
Australia and the Asia Pacific Region,
$1,500.
Dr Shane Sullivan
2008. Refocusing Research from English
to Australian Legal History, $12,000.
Dr Tamara Walsh
2008. Welfare Overpayment: Cases
Prosecuted Through the AAT Compared
with those Pursued in the Criminal
Courts, $2,872.
2009. Homelessness and the Law (Book),
$5,750.
Website:
www.law.uq.edu.au/law-research-grantsprizes
Dr David Hamer
RESEARCH
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