17 March 2006

University of Canberra appoints new head of law

University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor, Professor Roger Dean is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Murray Raff as Head of the University's School of Law.

Professor Raff, who will take up the post in July, is currently Head of Victoria University's School of Law and Director of Victoria University's Comparative Commercial Law Research Unit . Prior to this he worked in the Law Schools at Monash University and University of Melbourne.

Professor Raff's main fields are Environmental and Planning Law, Administrative Law, Property Law and Comparative Legal Method. His 1989 article on Law and the Greenhouse Effect was one of the first legal papers published anywhere on this topic. H e previously held a position with the Law Reform Commission of Victoria, working on the Land Law reference to reform Victoria's Torrens system.

Among Professor Raff's many publications are articles on environmental impact assessment, the history of planning law, the environmental dimensions of the concept of property, and national competition. Professor Raff's work, as guest researcher at the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law in Hamburg, has recently been published as a book by Kluwer Law under the title 'Private Property and Environmental Responsibility - A Comparative Study of German Real Property Law '.

Professor Raff is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and has worked in legal practice with commercial law firms, mainly in the fields of property, securities and environmental issues concerning them. He is now the Honorary Chair of the Environment Defenders Office, a community legal service specialising in Environmental and Planning Law issues and contributes a chapter on Environmental Law to the annual Law Handbook published by the Fitzroy Legal Service.

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