Profile

Position: Professor of Law, University of Sydney

Overseas appointments

  • Visiting Professor, Cambridge University, 2005
  • Inns of Court Fellow, London, 2001
  • Visiting Professor, University of Bristol (UK) 1986, 1992, 1996
  • Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University (USA) 1992
  • Visiting Fellow, Nottingham University (UK) 1982

    Editorial roles

  • Editor, "Property and Conveyancing" column, Australian Law Journal (1987 to date)
  • Editor, "Sale of Land" volumes, Australian Encyclopedia of Forms and Precedents
  • Editor, Law Book Co Practical Forms and Precedents

    Relevant experience

  • Founding Director, Centre for Plain Legal Language, University of Sydney
  • Past President of Clarity (an international plain legal language organisation)
  • Lecturer and author in land law, and in plain language legal drafting
  • Consultant to Australian Government on land law aspects of native title legislation
  • Consultant to New South Wales Law Reform Commission on various reforms to property law
  • Consultant to Mallesons Stephen Jaques, solicitors, in property law and legal drafting
  • Papers delivered at conferences in Australia,United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, United States of America, on the topics of plain language legal drafting, land law, p; native title.
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