Ms Susan Priest

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Position

Assistant Professor

 

Acting Convenor of LLB Program and JD Program

 

Qualifications

  • BA/ LLB (Macquarie)
  • Grad Dip Legal Practice (ANU)
  • Grad Dip Educational Studies (UTS)
  • Dip Teach (Newcastle)
  • Legal Practitioner ACT
  • Currently completing PhD (Law) Maquarie University

Teaching

  • Legal Systems
  • Legal Methods and Skills
  • Unit Convenor of Legal Research Project electives
  • Unit Convenor of JD Dissertation Honours elective

Research Interests

 

Susan has a special interest in cross-disciplinary research, especially law and history.  Her current projects include the methodologies of writing legal history and the application of the legal process in some early Australian case law.

  • Human Rights Issues
  • Legal Education
  • Australian Legal and Constitutional History
  • Judicial Biography
  • Womens Issues

Past Professional Experience

 

Susan has worked in the professional areas of both education and legal practice.  She is an experienced researcher particularly in the fields of legal history, womens issues, human rights and some aspects of public law.

 

 

Publications

 

Priest S and Williams G, 'Women and Public Law' in Easteal P (ed) Women and the Law in Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths (2010)

 

Easteal P and Priest S, 'Employment Discrimination Complaints at the ACT Human Rights Office: Players, Process, Legal Principles and Outcome'. Contempory Issues in Law, Volume 8 Issue 1, 2006/2007, Page 62.

 

Easteal P, Cheung C and Priest S, ' Too Many Candles on the Birthday Cake: Age Discrimination, Work and the Law' (2007) 1 QUT Journal of Law and Justice, 93 to 107.

 

Blackshield, Coper and Williams (ed), The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, (2001,OUP). Contributions include: 'Bank Nationalisation Case' (1948) with Professor George Williams, 'Irish Envoys Case' (1923) with Troy Simpson, 'Jehovah's Witnesses Case' (1943) with Professor George Williams, 'Strike of 1905'.

 

Key Conference Presentations

 

'Employment Discrimination Complaints at the ACT Human Rights Office: Players, Process, Legal Principles and Outcomes'. 23rd Australiasian Law & Society Conference, Wollongong University 2006.

 

'Australia's Early High Court, The Fourth Commonwealth Attorney-General and the Strike of 1905'. 18th British Legal History Conference, University of Oxford, 2007.