The TC Beirne School of Law Distinguished Visiting Fellowship is an annual scheme, commenced in 2009, which is designed to provide leading legal scholars of international standing with the opportunity to visit the University of Queensland to conduct research in their field of choice. Successful applicants will have an established research record of an international standard within their field. During their stay, they will participate in the intellectual life of the school and will contribute a paper to the School’s Research Seminar series. There are otherwise few formal responsibilities and participation in any of the School’s teaching programmes is optional.
Successful applicants are allocated an office, computing facilities and full access to the School’s library and research resources. Some assistance with the costs of travel to and from the University of Queensland and accommodation is also available.
For further information of the scheme, please click here, or contact Kit Barker, Director of Research, TC Beirne School of Law, at k.barker@law.uq.edu.au.
An application form can be downloaded here .
Applications for visits commencing in the year 2010 are open and should be received no later than 1st December 2009.
TC Beirne School of Law Distinguished Visiting Fellows 2009
Celia Wells graduated from Warwick University in 1971 and took a Masters in Law at London University in 1973. She held posts at Newcastle upon Tyne, Cardiff and Durham Universities before joining Bristol as Professor of Criminal Law in January 2009. She was awarded the OBE for services to legal education in 2006 and was President of the Society of Legal Scholars of Great Britain and Ireland in 2006-7. She was Chair of the law panel for RAE 2008 (Research Assessment Exercise) and is a member of the Bar Standards Board Education and Training Committee.
Celia’s research is mainly in criminal law with a particular specialism in corporate criminal liability. She is the author of Corporations and Criminal Responsibility (2nd edition OUP 2001) and of Reconstructing Criminal Law (with Nicola Lacey and Oliver Quick, 4th edition in press, Cambridge University Press). She has provided expert advice on corporate criminal responsibility to a number of national and international bodies including: OECD Bribery Convention Working Group; the CPS in relation to the Ladbroke Grove rail crash; Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee Inquiry into the Draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill (2005); and the International Commission of Jurists’ Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes (2006). The evidence she gave to the Joint Scrutiny Committee on the draft Bribery Bill 2009 led to a recommendation to tighten the corporate provisions.
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Keith D. Ewing is Professor of Public Law at King's College London and co-author of two of Britain's leading textbooks in constitutional and administrative law, and labour law. Ewing was educated at Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities, and worked at both (Edinburgh University 1978 – 1982, Cambridge University (1982 –1989), before being appointed as Professor of Public Law at King’s College in 1989. He is a frequent visitor to Australia, and has held visiting appointments at UWA, Melbourne, Monash and Sydney universities; he has also held visiting positions in several Canadian universities.
Ewing is recognised as a leading scholar in public law and labour law, including the law relating to political parties and election campaigns. His most recent work relates to reforming labour law to strengthen trade union freedom, constitutional reform, relating to public participation in the political process, and the status of social and economic rights. He works closely with trade unions in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, and is President of the Institute of Employment Rights (a trade union funded think tank), and Vice President of the International Centre for Trade Union Rights.
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