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Flinders law academic staff are recognised as leaders in their fields both in Australia and around the world. Our academics draw on their industry experience and legal scholarship to deliver innovative courses that prepare graduates for career success.
Tania Leiman
Associate Professor and Dean of Law
LLB (Adel), GDLP (SAIT), GCE(HE) (Flinders)
A leader and innovator in legal education, Tania is committed to producing modern law graduates equipped to adapt and thrive in the future job market. “The legal industry is going through a major transformation with the impact of technology fundamentally changing the way legal services are delivered,” she explains. “Flinders Law balances traditional legal teaching with new offerings that provide graduates with the skills to solve future problems at the intersection of law and technology”.
Tania’s current research looks at the legal implications of emerging driverless and mobility technologies. What will such technologies mean for individuals and society? How will we minimise the risks and maximise the opportunities they present? How can the law protect rights and avoid unjust or inequitable outcomes? She is also exploring the impact emerging technologies have on what lawyers do with her research findings shaping the curriculum and content taught at Flinders Law.
Tania is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the Supreme Court of South Australia and the High Court of Australia and holds a current unrestricted practising certificate. She began teaching law at Flinders in 1994 and is also co-founder of Flinders Blockchain Alliance, participates in the legal sub-group member the Australian Driverless Vehicle Initiative [ADVI]’s Policy & Risk Group and is a member of the award-winning Flinders Legal Advice Clinic. Tania has been the recipient of multiple teaching awards, including Faculty, Vice Chancellor’s and national Australian Government teaching excellence awards for her work as an individual academic and as part of a clinic legal education team. Tania was appointed Dean of Flinders Law in 2017.
Hossein Esmaeili
Associate Professor
LLB (UT); MA (TMU); LLM (UNSW); PhD (UNSW)
For Hossein, the law is a vital mix of passion, innovation, change and adaptation. His work is inspired by academic freedom and the ability to influence and change law and policy, both locally and internationally. “As a law academic, I address unanswered questions in my legal scholarship, engage with students and broader sections of society,” he explains. “It’s a lifelong journey of learning and growing.”
Hossein teaches real property law, trusts, law of the sea, energy and environmental security and international law. He joined the department in 2005, after seven years teaching at UNSW, the University of New England, and Western Sydney University.
His current research interests include Australian perspectives on international and comparative law particularly with regards to global energy, resources and the environment as well as Islamic and Middle Eastern law.
Hossein has authored, co-authored, and edited five scholarly books, including The Legal Regime of Offshore Oil Rigs in International Law (Ashgate Publisher, 2001) and The Boundaries of Australian Property Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He has published in leading international law journals worldwide. He has been a Co-Rapporteur of a committee of the International Law Association (since 2011) and serves on the editorial boards of a number of law journals in Australia, Asia and Europe.
Margaret Davies
Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor
Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Australian Academy of Law
BA Hons, LLB Hons (Adel); MA (Critical Theory, Sussex); DPhil (Legal and Critical Theory, Sussex)
Margaret’s interest in how the law articulates ideas of social justice in a practical context drew her to a legal teaching career. “I’m interested in the way those ideas develop over time,” she explains. “Law is a key focal point for expressing our collective values and promoting social justice – it has a strong historical basis but is also critical to orderly social change.”
She completed a doctorate in critical legal theory at Sussex University and became a Flinders University Law School foundation staff member in 1992. Since then she has been a visiting scholar at Birkbeck College, Umea University, UBC, University of Kent, Victoria University of Wellington and was Leverhulme Visiting Professorship at Kent University. She was a member of the ARC College of Experts’ Humanities and Creative Arts Panel from 2010 – 2012 (Chair, 2011) and serves on advisory boards for Social and Legal Studies, Feminist Legal Studies, and the Macquarie Law Journal.
Margaret's current research interests include how Western philosophy's founding assumptions dividing human society from its broader context – environment, technology, property, etc. – continue to shape legal concepts today. Her work contributes to meaningful conversations about how law and property can adapt to better reflect our future needs.
Notable Alumni
Flinders Law leads to Rhodes Scholarship
Law graduate Jordan Gifford-Moore is settling into campus life at the University of Oxford as South Australia’s 2017 Rhodes Scholar, having received one of the world’s most prestigious scholarships.
Raising the bar on native title
Flinders law graduate Michael Pagsanjan has become Young SA Lawyer of the Year. Law Society of South Australia president Mr Tim Mellor says Mr Pagsanjan “is regarded throughout the profession as a committed, skilled, professional and passionate lawyer with the utmost ethical integrity”.
Off to Oxford for law crusader
Flinders Honours law and international relations graduate Riana Cermak is off to Oxford University to study postgraduate civil law. She is keen to expand her research on laws and policies that benefit society and promote international responsible business practices.
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