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Professor Reid Mortensen

Name :	Professor Reid Mortensen
Position :	Head of School (Law)
Section :	Faculty of Business and Law School of Law
Office :	Q434
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 2713
Extension :	2713
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BCom(Hons), LLB(Hons), PhD Qld

Professional Memberships

Australasian Law Teachers Association
Queensland Law Society
Ethics Committee, Queensland Law Society
Rule Review Committee, Queensland Law Society
Downs & South West Queensland Law Association

Research Interests

Professor Mortensen's research and publication is in the fields of lawyers' ethics and international and comparative law. In lawyers' ethics, his work centres on philosophies of virtue, and his writings have addressed their relationship with moral and legal theories of care, religious perspectives on legal practice, lawyers' character, the reform of the legal profession in Queensland and the management of client money. Professor Mortensen's work in international and comparative law concentrates on private international law. With Richard Garnett and Mary Keyes, he is the author of the standard Australian text in this field, Private International Law in Australia (2nd ed, LexisNexis, 2011), and has published research on international jurisdiction, the transnational enforcement of judgments and choice of law. A particular focus of Professor Mortensen's resarch is the use of private international law in trans-Tasman economic integration. Recent work in choice of tort law and renvoi has appeared in the Journal of Private International Law and the International and Comparative Law Quarterly.

Professor Mortensen is General Editor of Legal Ethics, a Hart Publishing (Oxford) journal. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Private International Law.

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Grants -

$133,000. Rethinking Law Curriculum: Developing Strategies to Prepare Law Graduates for Practice in Rural and Regional Australia, Australian Learning and Teaching Council (2011) (with Amanda Kennedy, Theresa Smith-Ruig [UNE], Caroline Hart [USQ], Jennifer Nielsen [SCU], Trish Mundy [Griffith], Richard Coverdale, Claire Macken [Deakin]).

$47,000. Sustaining Regional Legal Practice: The Conveyancing Reservation, Legal Practitioners Interest on Trust Accounts Fund (Queensland Government), 2008-9 (with Kevin McDougall and Mark Byrne)

Most recent books -

Private International Law in Australia, Lexis Nexis, 2nd ed, Sydney, 2011 (lxxii; 582) (with Richard Garnett and Mary Keyes)

Managing Client Money: Lawyers' Trust Accounts in Queensland, LexisNexis, Sydney, 2011 (ix, 175)

Alternative Perspectives on Legal Ethics: Reimagining the Profession, Routledge, Oxford, 2010 (x, 294) [with Francesca Bartlett and Kieran Tranter (eds)] (33%).

Reaffirming Legal Ethics: Taking Stock and New Ideas, Routledge, Oxford, 2010 (x, 228) [with K Tranter, F Bartlett, L Corbin and M Robertson (eds)].

Private International Law in Australia, Lexis-Nexis, Sydney, 2006 (lx; 516).

Most recent journal articles -

'Woodhouse Reprised: Accident Compensation and Trans-Tasman Integration', forthcoming in Journal of Private International Law

'The Australia and New Zealand Jurisdiction and Judgments Scheme: A Common Law Judicial Area' (2011) 16 Zeitschrift Für Zivilprozess International 369-403 (with Oliver Knoefel)

'A Trans-Tasman Judicial Area: Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments in the Single Economic Market' (2011) 16 Canterbury Law Review 61-97

'Bush Lawyers in New South Wales and Queensland: A Spatial Analysis' (2011) 16(1) Deakin Law Review 75-109 (with Kevin McDougall)

'The Queensland Solicitors' Conveyancing Reservation: Past and Future Development – Part II' (2010) 29(2)University of Queensland Law Journal 245-261 (with Mark Byrne)

'Keim on the Muzzle Rule: A Reply and Joinder' (2009) 28(2) University of Queensland Law Journal 332-341

'The Queensland Solicitors' Conveyancing Reservation: Past and Future Development – Part I' (2009) 28(2) University of Queensland Law Journal 254-275 (with Mark Byrne)

'Special Editors' Introduction' (2009) 28(2) University of Queensland Law Journal (with Francesca Bartlett and Mike Robertson)

'The Hague and the Ditch: The Trans-Tasman Judicial Area and the Choice of Court Convention' (2009) 5(2) Journal of Private International Law 213-242

'Integrity in Legal Practice: A Report from the Third International Legal Ethics Conference, Gold Coast, Australia' (2009) 12(1) Legal Ethics 100-106 (with Francesca Bartlett)

'The Lawyer as Parent: Sympathy, Care and Character in Lawyers' Ethics' (2009) 12(1) Legal Ethics 1-34

'The Ethical Infrastructure of Legal Practice in Larger Law Firms: Values, Policy and Behaviour' (2008) 31(1) University of New South Wales Law Journal 158-188 (with Christine Parker, Adrian Evans, Linda Haller and Suzanne Le Mire)

'A Common Law Cocoon: Australia and the Rome II Regulation' (2008) 9 Yearbook of Private International Law 203-222

'The Unfinished Experiment: A Report on Religious Freedom in Australia' (2007) 21 Emory International Law Review 167-203

'Homing Devices in Choice of Tort Law: Australian British and Canadian Approaches' (2006) 55 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 839-878

'"Troublesome and Obscure": The Renewal of Renvoi in Australia' (2006) 2 Journal of Private International Law 1-26

Most recent book chapters -

'Introduction', forthcoming in F Bartlett, R Mortensen and K Tranter (eds), Alternative Perspectives on Legal Ethics: Reimagining the Profession, Routledge, Oxford, 2010, 1-10 (with Francesca Bartlett and Kieran Tranter) (33%).

'Introduction', in K Tranter, F Bartlett, L Corbin, R Mortensen and M Robertson (eds), Reaffirming Legal Ethics: Taking Stock and New Ideas,

Most notable :

Private International Law in Australia, Lexis Nexis, 2nd ed, Sydney, 2011 (lxxii; 582) (with Richard Garnett and Mary Keyes)

'Homing Devices in Choice of Tort Law: Australian British and Canadian Approaches' (2006) 55 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 839-878

'"Troublesome and Obscure": The Renewal of Renvoi in Australia' (2006) 2 Journal of Private International Law 1-26

'Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts' (2005) 27(2) Sydney Law Review 289-322

'Solicitors' Will-Making Duties' (2002) 26 Melbourne University Law Review 60-87

'A Voyage in God's Canoe: Law and Religion in Melanesia', in Richard O'Dair and Andrew Lewis (eds), Law and Religion: Current Legal Issues 2001, Volume 4, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 509-28

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

LAW3210-Theories of Law
LAW3463-Private International Law

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 22 years

Administrative Responsibilities

General Editor, Legal Ethics (Hart Publishing, Oxford)

Director, Research and Higher Degrees, School of Law
Member, Human Research Ethics Committee
PhD Supervisor