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Professor Mike Robertson

Name :	Professor Mike Robertson
Position :	Head of School (Law)
Section :	Faculty of Business School of Law
Office :	Q433
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	61 7 4631 5591
Extension :	5591
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA, LLB Natal GCertHigherEd Griffith LLM Natal LLM Warwick PhD Griffith

Professional Memberships

Member of the Council of Australian Law Deans; Member of the Ethics Committee of the Queensland Law Society

Research Interests

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

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Michael Robertson, “Neutral Partisanship and Australian Legal Representation” (2009) University of Queensland Law Journal (forthcoming).

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.

Most notable :

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

Other notable publications:

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

Head of the School of Law, University of Southern Queensland