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Dr Vanitha Sundra-Karean

Name :	Dr Vanitha Sundra-Karean
Position :	Senior Lecturer (Law)
Section :	Faculty of Business and Law School of Law
Office :	A524
Location :	Springfield Campus
Phone :	61 7 3470 4518
Extension :	4518
E-mail :
Qualifications :	LLB(Hons) London LLM Malaya PhD Qld

Professional Affiliations

Member - Australian Labour Law Association

Member - Malaysian Society for Labour & Social Security Law

Research Interests

Comparative Employment Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
Comparative Administrative Law

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS:

•Sundra-Karean V, Employment Law and Theory – A Malaysian Focus With A Comparative Perspective, Current Law Journal, Kuala Lumpur, 2012

•Ratnapala S, John T, Karean V, Koch C, Australian Constitutional Law: Commentary and Cases, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 2006

•Sundra Karean V, ‘The Malaysian SME: Human Capital and Employment Norms’ in Ndubisi NO & Saleh AS (eds) Small & Medium Enterprises(SMEs): Malaysian & Global Perspectives, Prentice Hall Pearson, 2006

Most notable :

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Sundra-Karean V & Syed Ahmad S S, ‘The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility and Soft Law options in the protection of Migrant Workers’ Interests’ 40 (2012) Asian Journal of Social Science 509 - 523

• Sundra-Karean V, ‘In Defense of Soft Law and Public-Private Initiatives: A Means to an End? - The Malaysian Case’ (2011) Vol.12(2) Theoretical Inquiries in Law 465

• Sundra Karean V, ‘Charting New Horizons in Procedural Fairness and Substantive Fairness in Individual Employment Law’ [2007] 6 Malayan Law Journal i

• Sundra Karean V, ‘The Constitutional Right to Livelihood as a Developing Field in Malaysian Labour Jurisprudence’ [2007] 5 Malayan Law Journal lxxxviii

• Sundra Karean V, ‘The Malaysian Constitution and Its Identity Crisis: Secular or Theocratic?’ [2006] LAWASIA Journal 47

• Sundra Karean V, ‘Can the “Right to Life” include the “Right to Livelihood”?’ [2005] Law Review 42

• Sundra Karean V, ‘The Constitutional Protection of the Right to Livelihood in Malaysia: A Reality or Mere Fallacy?’ (2003) 11 Asia Pacific Law Review 23

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Nov 2012 Australian Labour Law Association 6th Biennial National Conference, Canberra
Paper - Common Law versus Statutory Regulation of Individual Labour Rights in Australia: How is the public interest best served?

Nov 2010 23rd LAWASIA Conference, New Delhi:
Paper – Labour Law Reform in Malaysia – Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalized Environment

June 2010 Roundtable Conference on ‘Mapping the Hard Law/Soft Law Terrain: Labour & Environmental Protection in Corporate Codes and Public-Private Initiatives’ at the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, Buchmann Faculty of Law, University of Tel Aviv, Israel:
Paper – In Defence of Soft Law & Public-Private Initiatives for Labour Law-A Means to an End?

Jan 2010 Malaysian Bar Employment Law Conference, Kuala Lumpur:
Paper - Industrial Adjudication – Reforms and the Future of Industrial Tribunals in Malaysia: A Perspective for Individual Labour

Sept 2009 International Society for Labour and Social Security Law XIX World Congress, Sydney:
Paper - Labour’s Voice in Corporate Governance – The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in Generating Change at the Malaysian Workplace

Sept 2004 New Researchers, New Research Conference, Adelaide Law School:
Paper – 'Towards a New Labour Law’

BOOK REVIEWS:

•Book Review: Constituting Democracy: Law, Globalism and South Africa’s Political Reconstruction, Klug H, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000 in Proctor (Queensland Law Society) Vol.21 No.5 June 2001, 38 -39

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

LAW3205 Equity
LAW5705 Advanced Equity
LAW3442 Workplace Law

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 22 years