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Dr Nicky Jones

Name :	Dr Nicky Jones
Position :	Lecturer (Law)
Section :	Faculty of Business and Law School of Law
Office :	A508
Location :	Springfield Campus
Phone :	+61 7 3470 4525
Extension :	4525
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA(Hons) Qld BFrLang&Lit Orleans LLB(Hons) Qld GDipLegPrac Collaw PhD Qld

Languages

Language	Accredited Translator	Proficiency Levels *N/A = not available
		Speaking	Reading	Writing
FRA	Yes	3	3	3

Professional Memberships

Queensland Law Society
International Law and Relations Committee, QLS
Australian Lawyers for Human Rights
Women Lawyers' Association of Queensland
Australasian Law Teachers' Association

Professional Affiliations

JP(Qual)
NAATI Level 3 Translator (French-English)

Research Interests

International law, secularism and religious freedom, European Union law, politics and consumer law.

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

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'"With a little help from a friend": Self-represented litigants, payment and legal profession regulation' (2013) 33 Queensland Lawyer 52

'Justice Must Be Seen to be Done: Organisational Justice and the Headscarf and Burqa Laws in France' (2012) 17(2) International Journal of Organisational Behaviour 18

'Religious Freedom in a Secular Society: the case of the Islamic headscarf in France' in P Babie & N Rochow (eds), Freedom of Religion under Bills of Rights (2012) University of Adelaide Press: Adelaide, 216-238

'Gift Vouchers and Expiry Dates: When the Gift Stops Giving' (2009) 9(2) Queensland University of Technology Law & Justice Journal 213

'Lawyers, Language and Legal Professional Standards: Legal Services Commissioner v Turley [2008] LPT 4' (2009) 28(2) University of Queensland Law Journal 353

'To Give and To Receive: The Australian Government's Proposed Electoral Finance Reforms' (co-authored with Associate Professor Anthony Gray) (2009) 28(2) University of Tasmania Law Review 182

'Beneath the Veil: Muslim Girls and Islamic Headscarves in Secular France' (2009) 9 Macquarie Law Journal 47

'Confusion in a virtual world', The Courier-Mail, 18 November 2008

'Black deaths stain our history', The Courier-Mail, 12 September 2007

'L'état de la laïcité en France: après l'affaire du foulard' (2007) 140 Modern Language Teachers' Association Quarterly 23

'Constitutive Regulation of the Firm: Occupational Health and Safety, Dismissal, Discrimination and Sexual Harassment' (co-authored with Professor Richard Johnstone) in C Arup et al (eds), Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation (2006) Federation Press: Sydney, 483-502

'The State of Secularism: The New Law and the Affair of the Islamic Headscarf in France' (2005) 8 Theology and Law: Partners or Protagonists? 70

'Keeping the faith: secularism, Muslim schoolgirls and the Islamic headscarf in France' (2004) 13 Human Rights Defender 4

'Wrongs and Rights: The Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Australia' (2003) Indigenous Rights in the Commonwealth Project, University of London, United Kingdom / University of Queensland, Australia

'Having faith in the republic', Weekend Australian Financial Review, 23-28 December 2003

'The Rights Thing To Do?: Towards an Australian Bill of Rights' (2002) 11(2) Human Rights Defender 17-22

'Unveiling the future for Afghan women', The Courier-Mail, 20 December 2001

Conferences and seminars:

'Justice must be seen to be done: organisational justice and Islamic headscarf and burqa laws in France' (2011), Paper presented at the Building Business Communities: Justice, Performance and Change Creating a Sustainable Scholarly Community Colloquium, Faculty of Business and Law, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, 9 November 2011.

'Religious Freedom in a Secular Society: the case of the Islamic headscarf in France' (2009), Paper presented at the Cultural and Religious Freedom under a Bill of Rights Conference, Old Parliament House, Canberra, 13-15 August 2009 (accepted for publication)

'Unveiling Secularism: the Islamic headscarf and the French Law', Public seminar presented to the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, 7 September 2004

'"Affair of the Islamic headscarf": French case studies', Paper presented at Managing Muslim-Christian Relations: Educational Policy Options for Promoting Interfaith Harmony, Muslim-Christian International Colloquium, University of Melbourne, 11-13 February 2004

'Poverty and Indigenous Rights in Australia', Paper presented at the Indigenous peoples and socio-economic rights expert workshop, Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, United Kingdom, 20-21

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

LAW3443: Public International Law
LAW3202: Administrative Law
LAW5702: Advanced Administrative Law
LAW3405: Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Law

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 7 years