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Ms Pauline Collins


Name : Ms Pauline Collins
Position : Senior Lecturer (Law)
Section : Faculty of Business and Law
School of Law
Office : Q415
Location : Toowoomba Campus
Phone : +61 7 4631 2613
Extension : 2613
E-mail :
Qualifications : LLB Adelaide
BVisArt, GDipProfComm USQ
LLM Qld


Professional Memberships
Downs and South Western Queensland Law Association
International Law Association (Australian Branch)
Australasian Law Teachers Association
International Law Association Non-State Actors Committee Member

Professional Affiliations
National Tertiary Education Union

Research Interests
International & Comparative Law
Mediation: ADR
Military Law

Recent Research Outcomes
Three most recent :
P Collins 2012 ‘Student Reflections on the benefits of studying ADR to provide experience of non-adversarial practice’ Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal 23(3) 204.
Hart, Caroline and Hammer, Sara and Collins, Pauline and Chardon, Toni (2011) The Real Deal: using authentic assessment to promote student engagement in the first and second years of a regional law program. Legal Education Review, 21 (1). 97-121.
T Brackin, P Collins, S Hammer C Hart, 2010 ‘Criterion Referenced Assessment as a form of Feedback: student and staff perception in the initial stages of a new law degree’. International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning Volume 6, Issue 3, December, 2011
P Collins, T Brackin, C Hart, 2010 ‘The rocky rhetoric and hard reality: the Academic’s dilemma surrounding assessment’ Legal Education Review Vol 20 no 1& 2, December 2010 157.
Collins, Pauline (2010) Inclusive team assessment of off-campus and on-campus first law students using instantaneous communication technology. Law Teacher, 44 (3). pp. 307-333. ISSN 0306-9400
Collins, Pauline (2010) Mediators' authentic presence: ways of knowing our primitive selves. Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal , 21 (2). pp. 85-96. ISSN 1034-3059
Visiting Scholar 2008 Kent Law School, Kent University Canterbury UK.
Education, employment, and everything: the triple layers of a woman's life, ed, M Albion & P Collins. Toowoomba, Qld. USQ Women's Network Inc., 2007
Most notable :
Who's Who Queensland 2008
Collins, P, 2009 ‘What is Good for the Goose Should Be Good for the Gander: The Operation of the Rome Statute in the Australian Context’ 32(1) UNSW Law Journal

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs
LAW1202 Law in Context
Law2206 Legal Conflict Resolution

Teaching Experience
Tertiary : 167 years

Administrative Responsibilities
2nd Year Law Student Coordinator, Bachelor of Laws