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Professor Frank Bates

Name: Frank Bates
Position: Professor
School/Unit: Law
Telephone: +61 2 492 15054
Room: MC177 (Callaghan)
E-mail: Frank.Bates@newcastle.edu.au
Qualifications

LLM (Sheff), MACE

Other Details:

Chair of the Editorial Board of the Newcastle Law Review. State Editor of the Criminal Law Review. Member of the Editorial Board of the Asia Pacific Law Review. Author of numerous books, articles and reports on law and related matters published throughout the world. Has been a Law Reform Commissioner for Tasmania, a member of the Family Law Council and a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the United States.

Research Interests:

Recent Publications


'On the Mat and Up the Wall' (2005) XLIX (10) Quadrant 44.

‘There was Movement at the [Family Law] Station – Australian Family Law in 2004’ in The International Survey of Family Law (Ed. Bainham, Jordan Publishing, Bristol) 59
 
‘Family Law Reform in Australia: A Fractured Continuum’ (2006) 6 (1/2) European
        Journal of Law Reform 209

‘Cave Jurisdictionem – Recent Cases on Family Law and Conflicts in Australia’
(2006) 27 Liverpool Law Review 233.

“More Abduction cases from Australia: An Inevitable Development” (2006) 14 Asia Pacific Law Review 123.

‘“…From Frost and Foreign Wind” – Some International aspects of Australian Family Law’ (2006) 39 Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 405.

‘Anti-Suit Injunctions and Forum Conveniens in Australian Family Law Proceedings’ [2006] International Family Law 88

 ‘Finance and Facilitations – Australian Family Law in 2005’ in The Annual Survey of Family Law (Ed. Atkin, Jordan Publishing, Bristol) 23.

‘Balancing Interests in Australian Family Property Law – Is All Really for the Best?’ In Family Law: Balancing Interests and Pursuing Priorities’ (ed Wardle and Williams, William S Hein and Co. Inc, Buffalo, New York) 647.


‘Encoding Similar Facts – Has It Been Worth the Effort?’ An Australian Experience’ (2007) 16 Caribbean Law Review 59.

‘“Out of Everywhere into Here” – The Disparate Bases of Children’s Rights in Australia’ (2007) 15 Asia Pacific Law Review 235.

‘The Child Abduction Convention: Troubles in Australia’ [2007] International Family Law 24.

‘Dylan Thomas and the Idea of Law’ (2007) VIII (3) Down Under Milk Wood 13.