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Dr Nicky Jones

Name :	Dr Nicky Jones
Position :	Lecturer (Law)
Section :	Faculty of Business School of Law
Office :	A524
Location :	Springfield Campus
Phone :	61 7 3470 4525
Extension :	4525
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA(Hons), LLB(Hons) Qld GDipLegPrac Collaw PhD Qld

Professional Memberships

Queensland Law Society
Women Lawyers' Association of Queensland
Australian Law Teachers' Association
French-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Zonta International

Professional Affiliations

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

Research Interests

Human rights law, international law (especially freedom of religion), European Union law, French law and culture, law and religion, Australian law and politics, consumer law, legal professional ethics.

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

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'Lawyers, Language and Legal Professional Standards: Legal Services Commissioner v Turley [2008] LPT 4', University of Queensland Law Journal (accepted for publication on 13 November 2009)

'To Give and To Receive: The Australian Government's Proposed Electoral Finance Reforms' (co-authored with Associate Professor Anthony Gray), University of Tasmania Law Review (accepted for publication on 27 October 2009)

'Beneath the Veil: Muslim Girls and the Islamic Headscarf in Secular France', Macquarie Law Journal 2009 (accepted for publication on 7 October 2009)

'Religious Freedom in a Secular Society: the case of the Islamic headscarf in France', Conference 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)

'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:

'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 March 2003

Grants:

USQ Early Career Researcher Programme grant (12 June 2009) - 'The law in relation to expired gift vouchers: when the gift has stopped giving'

Book reviews:

Holmes, D, Integral Europe: Fast-Capitalism, Multiculturalism, Neofascism in (2003) 49(1) Australian Journal of Politics and History 151-152

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

LAW2204: Torts B / LAW5604: Advanced Torts B (co-teaching with Mr Craig Burgess across Toowoomba and Springfield campuses)
LAW3204: Property Law B / LAW5704: Advanced Property Law B (co-teaching with Dr Rachel Baird on Springfield campus and Mr Liam Scott on Toowoomba campus)

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 6 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Co-convenor, USQ School of Law Research Seminar Series 2009