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Professor Reid Mortensen

Name :	Professor Reid Mortensen
Position :	Professor (Law)
Section :	Faculty of Business 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. He is the author of the standard Australian text in this field, Private International Law in Australia (LexisNexis, 2006), and has published research on international jurisdiction, the transnational enforcement of judgments and choice of law. 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. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Private International Law and Legal Ethics.

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Grants -

$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 book -

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

Most recent journal articles -

'Keim on the Muzzle Rule: A Reply and Joinder', forthcoming in the University of Queensland Law Journal

'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, Routledge (with Francesca Bartlett and Kieran Tranter).

'Introduction', forthcoming in K Tranter, F Bartlett, L Corbin, R Mortensen and M Robertson (eds), Reaffirming Legal Ethics, Routledge (with Kieran Tranter, Francesca Bartlett, Lillian Corbin and Mike Robertson).

'Professional Conduct and Discipline' in College of Law, Queensland Practice Papers - Selected Papers, Volume 2, LexisNexis, 2008, 7-70

'The Practitioner's Relationship with the Client' in College of Law, Queensland Practice Papers - Selected Papers, Volume 2, LexisNexis, 2008, 71-189

'The Practitioner's Relationship with the Court' in College of Law, Queensland Practice Papers - Selected Papers, Volume 2, LexisNexis, 2008, 191-243

'The Practitioner's Relationship with the Public and the Profession' in College of Law, Queensland Practice Papers - Selected Papers, Volume 2, LexisNexis, 2008, 245-283

'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

'Art Expression and the Offended Believer' in Rex Ahdar (ed), Law and Religion, Ashgate, London, 2000, 181-197

'Interpreting a Sacred Landscape: Aboriginal Religion and the Law in Australia in the 1990s', in Ernest Caparros and Louis Christians (eds), La Religion en Droit Comparé à L'aube du 21 Siècle, Bruylant, Brussels, Belgium, 2000, 281-306

Most notable :

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

'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

LAW1202-Law in Context
LAW5502-Advanced Law in Context
LAW5504 Comparative Law and Business

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 18 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Coordinator, Juris Doctor
PhD Supervisor