{"id":10949,"date":"2018-07-12T18:31:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T08:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/?p=10949"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:13:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:13:25","slug":"the-australian-law-journal-announces-expanded-section-editor-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/2018\/07\/12\/the-australian-law-journal-announces-expanded-section-editor-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Australian Law Journal announces expanded Section Editor panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thomson Reuters is delighted to announce the launch of two topical and timely new sections,\u00c2\u00a0“Class Actions”<\/strong> and “Technology and the Law”<\/strong><\/a>, as well as the addition of new Section Editors on the\u00c2\u00a0Australian Law Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Hon Justice Michael B Lee<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0heads the new section for “Class Actions”<\/strong>. His Honour graduated from the University of Sydney and began his career at Corrs Chambers Westgarth in 1989. He rose through the ranks and later became a senior litigation partner and national practice group leader before being called to the New South Wales Bar in 2002, taking silk in 2011. Justice Lee was appointed a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia on 27 March 2017.<\/p>\n

Justice Lee has been involved in high profile cases involving building and construction disputes, insurance cases, employment law and workplace safety, as well as a number of pro bono and public interest cases. His areas of interest include commercial law, equity, class actions, administrative law, public interest law, commissions and public inquiries, industrial prosecutions, and banking and finance.<\/p>\n

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Assoc Prof Lyria Bennett Moses, UNSW Sydney<\/p><\/div>\n

Associate Professor Lyria Bennett Moses<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0is one of the co-editors of the new section entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Technology and the Law\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Lyria is Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at UNSW Sydney. Her research explores issues around the relationship between technology and law, including the types of legal issues that arise as technology changes, how these issues are addressed in Australia and other jurisdictions, the application of standard legal categories such as property in new socio-technical contexts, the use of technologically-specific and sui generis legal rules, and the problems of treating \u00e2\u20ac\u0153technology\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as an object of regulation. Lyria is currently a Key Researcher and Project Leader on the Data to Decisions CRC, exploring legal and policy issues surrounding the use of data and data analytics for law enforcement and national security. She is also Lead of the UNSW Grand Challenge on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Living with 21st Century Technology\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and a PLuS Alliance Fellow.<\/p>\n

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Anna Collyer, Allens<\/p><\/div>\n

Working alongside Lyria as co-Editor is\u00c2\u00a0Anna Collyer<\/strong>, who has been a partner of Allens for 17 years and is currently Allens’ Head of Innovation and a member of the firm’s executive committee.<\/p>\n

Anna’s practice has focused on the electricity sector for over 20 years and has followed the evolution of that sector from initial reforms in the early 1990s to the transformation it is currently experiencing.\u00c2\u00a0 She has worked on policy and reform for Government and key market institutions, as well as advising industry and major energy users on significant projects and transactions, with particular expertise in relation to renewable energy.<\/p>\n

In her role as Head of Innovation, Anna leads a multi-disciplinary team working collaboratively to experiment, test and refine new technologies and processes to meet clients’ changing business needs.\u00c2\u00a0 Anna has driven initiatives in design thinking, co-creation and client collaboration across the firm, bringing technology and change into the spotlight for lawyers and leaders alike.<\/p>\n

John Kettle<\/strong> is the new Section Editor of the “Competition and Consumer Law”<\/strong> column, previously managed by the late Professor Robert Baxt AO<\/a>.<\/p>\n

John is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin (LL.B) and Oxford University (BCL).\u00c2\u00a0 He is admitted to practice in Ireland, England and Wales, and now Australia. He is a former chair of the International Bar Association\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Public Law Committee, and Vice-Chair of the Irish Law Society\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s EU & International Affairs Committee. John is now the head of international and competition at McCullough Robertson working out of Brisbane and Sydney, and sits on several not-for-profit boards in Australia, including the Queensland Futures Institute\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Energy Committee.<\/p>\n

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John Kettle, McCullough Robertson Lawyers<\/p><\/div>\n

He practised in Ireland and the EU from 1993 until his relocation to Australia in 2013 with his Brisbane lawyer wife, Susan Frisby.\u00c2\u00a0 In Ireland, John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s practice focused on competition and regulated markets, particularly on merger control, State aid, abuse of dominance and behavioural issues in all sectors but with a particular engagement in network and regulated industries, specifically telecoms, broadcasting, towers, transport, electricity and gas, and technology.<\/p>\n

In Australia, his work in the competition sector includes merger control, supply chains, and dealing with inquiries\/investigations into various sectors including red meat, dairy, horticulture and energy.\u00c2\u00a0 John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clients have included Government, regulators, multinationals, PE firms, hedge funds and financial institutions. He has more than 20 years\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 experience in major transactional and project work with a nationally significant practice in competition law, merger control, energy (gas and electricity), utilities, regulated industries, resources, technology, media & telecommunications, transport, agribusiness, intellectual property, life sciences and administrative law.<\/p>\n

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Associate Professor Jason Harris, UTS<\/p><\/div>\n

The new\u00c2\u00a0“Corporations and Securities”<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Section Editor is\u00c2\u00a0Associate Professor <\/strong>Jason Harris<\/strong>, carrying on the legacy of the late Professor Baxt. Jason teaches company law and insolvency law at the UTS Faculty of Law after his role at the Australian Government Solicitor. He is the leader of the Faculty’s Corporate, Commercial and Tax research network, and is also a co-editor of the “Insolvency Law and Management” section in the\u00c2\u00a0Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Jason completed his BA LLB at the University of Western Sydney (now Western Sydney University) in 2000 and his LLM from the Australian National University in 2006. He entered academia in 2002 after a short period working in legal publishing and for the Australian Government Solicitors. Jason has taught law and business students at ANU, UNSW and WSU before starting at UTS in 2007. He is the program head for the ARITA Advanced Certification course, offered by the UTS Faculty of Law.<\/p>\n

An active researcher in company law, insolvency law, debt restructuring, secured transactions and corporate law, Jason has published 13 books and over 90 articles in scholarly and professional journals. Some of the books which he has co-authored are Keay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Insolvency: Personal and Corporate Law and Practice <\/em>(10th<\/sup> ed)<\/a> with Michael Murray and Insolvency Law: Commentary and Materials<\/em> (1st<\/sup> ed)<\/a> with Michael Gronow and Helen Anderson, published by Thomson Reuters, and Annotated Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth)\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>(3rd<\/sup> ed) with Nicholas Mirzai, published by Wolters Kluwer CCH.<\/p>\n

Thomson Reuters and the ALJ extend a warm welcome to our new Section Editors and look forward to their future contributions in these rapidly evolving areas of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian Law Journal is delighted to announce the launch of two new sections,\u00c2\u00a0“Class Actions” (headed by The Hon Justice Michael B Lee) and “Technology and the Law” (co-edited by Associate Professor Lyria Bennett Moses and Anna Collyer), as well as the appointment of John Kettle for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Competition and Consumer Law\u00e2\u20ac\u009d section, and Associate Professor Jason Harris as the new \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Corporations and Securities\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Section Editor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,38],"tags":[178,12114,7351,12115,979,9746,4345,12116,12117,12118,12119,12120],"class_list":["post-10949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-australian-law-journal","category-journals","tag-alj","tag-anna-collyer","tag-associate-professor-jason-harris","tag-associate-professor-lyria-bennett-moses","tag-class-actions","tag-competition-and-consumer-law-section","tag-corporations-and-securities","tag-john-kettle","tag-justice-michael-lee","tag-new-section","tag-new-section-editors","tag-technology-and-the-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.thomsonreuters.com.au\/journals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}