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Professor Mike Robertson

Name :	Professor Mike Robertson
Position :	Acting Director (Professional Conduct) Public Interest Disclosure Co-ordinator
Section :	Office of the Vice-Chancellor
Office :	B205
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4687 5859
Extension :	5859
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA, LLB Natal GCertHigherEd Griffith LLM Natal LLM Warwick PhD Griffith

Research Interests

Lawyers' professional and ethical practice and responsibilities; Lawyer-client relations; Citizens' access to and use of legal services; University legal education.

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

M Lawler, J Giddings & M Robertson, "Opportunities and Limitations in the Provision of Self-help Legal Resources to Citizens in Need", (2012) 30 Windsor Yearbook on Access to Justice, 185-231.

Michael Robertson, “Embedding ‘Ethics’ in Law Degrees”, in Sally Kift, Michelle Sanson, Jill Cowley and Penelope Watson (eds) Excellence and Innovation in Legal Education (2011) Lexis Nexis Butterworths Chatswood, 99-117.

Robertson M, L Corbin, K Tranter and F Bartlett (eds), The Ethics Project in Legal Education, Routledge, England, 2011

K Tranter, F Bartlett, L Corbin, R Mortensen and M Robertson (eds), Reaffirming Legal Ethics: Taking Stock and New Ideas, Routledge, United Kingdom, 2010

Most notable :

Michael Robertson is a recipient of an ARC Discovery Grant (with Jeff Giddings), an ongoing project.

Other notable publications:

Michael Robertson, “Providing Ethics Learning Opportunities throughout the Legal Curriculum” (2009) 12(1) Legal Ethics, 59-76.

Merran Lawler, Jeff Giddings and Michael Robertson, “‘Maybe a Solicitor Needs to Know that Sort of Thing But I Don’t’: User Perspectives on the Utility of Legal Self-Help Resources” in A Buck, P Pleasance and N Balmer, Reaching Further: Innovation, Access and Quality in Legal Services (2009) Legal Services Commission, TSO, Norwich.

Michael Robertson and Kieran Tranter, “Grounding Legal Ethics Learning in Social Scientific Studies of Lawyers at Work” (2006) 9 Legal Ethics 210-228.

Michael Robertson, “Challenges in the Design of Legal Ethics Learning Systems: An Educational Perspective” (2005) 8 Legal Ethics 222-239.

Michael Robertson and Lillian Corbin, “To enable or relieve? Specialist lawyers’ perceptions of client involvement in legal service delivery” (2005) 12 (1) International Journal of the Legal Profession 121-143.

J Giddings and M K Robertson, ‘Large Scale Map or the A-Z?: The Place of Self Help Services in Legal Aid’ (2003) 30 (1) British Journal of Law and Society 102-119

J Giddings and M K Robertson, ‘”Lay people, for God’s sake! Surely I should be dealing with lawyers?” Towards an assessment of self-help legal services in Australia’ (2002) 11 (2) Griffith Law Review 436.

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 25 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Previously Head of the School of Law