The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Professor Edmund Wright
Preferred name: Ted
School: School of Law
Commenced with Institution: 21-FEB-2000
Personal URL:

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Professor Edmund Wright;Assoc. Prof Manfred Ellinghaus 2007 2 Australian Research Council Project - Discovery Projects Models of contract law: are broad principles better than detailed rules?   124000  
Professor Edmund Wright;Assoc. Prof Manfred Ellinghaus 2006 1 University of Newcastle Project - Near Miss Regulating contracts: are broad principles better than detailed rules?   20000  
Professor Edmund Wright 2004 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant The Common Law of Contracts as a World Force in Two Ages of Revolution, 7-8 June 2004, England   2400  
Professor Edmund Wright;Ms Deirdre Howard 2004 1 Motor Accidents Authority of NSW Project - Research Grant Study of User Group Perceptions of Motor Accident Assessment Services (MAS) and the Claims Assessment and Resolution Service (CARS)   445708  
Professor Edmund Wright;Dr Angela Melville;Dr Jonathan Adams 2004 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Lawyers perceptions of professional negligence: A tale of two standards.   5000  
Professor Edmund Wright;Dr Angela Melville 2004 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Changes to regional legal services: transforming the bread and butter.   8000  
Professor Edmund Wright 2004 1 University of Newcastle Visit(or)/Exchange - Visitor Grant Visit of Prof Lester Brickman 23/02/04 to 31/05/04   5225  
Professor Edmund Wright 2003 1 University of Newcastle Conference - Conference Establishment Grant 21st Annual Law and Society Conference   2946  
Dr Angela Melville;Professor Edmund Wright;Assoc. Prof Stephen Tomsen 2003 1 University of Newcastle Project - Project Grant Citizenship, risk and responsibility: press constructions of tort litigation claims and outcomes in New South Wales   5000  
Professor Edmund Wright 2001 2 Motor Accidents Authority of NSW Project - Consultancy Evaluation of the Motor Accidents Compensation Act, 1999.   329819  
Professor Edmund Wright 2001 3 Australian Research Council Collaborative - SPIRT Grant (Shared) Australian and German Civil Litigation - A Comparative and Empirical Analysis.   67699  
Professor Edmund Wright 2001 1 University of Newcastle Travel - Travel Grant Academy of Social Sciences Workshop: litigation past and present University of Adelaide 22-23 September 2001   1106  
Professor Edmund Wright 2001 1 Australian Research Council Collaborative - SPIRT Grant (Shared) Models of Contract Law - an empirical evalutation of their utility.   14191  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Law) Principal Supervisor Transsexualism and the Law - Difference versus Disorder
PhD (Law) Principal Supervisor The "Claims" Area of Construction Disputes
PhD (Psychology - Science) Principal Supervisor Cognitive Mechanisms of Broad Principles and Specific Rules in Contract Law
M Philosophy (Law) Sole Supervisor The Nature of a 'Business' - an Examination of the Notion of 'Business' in Australian Taxation Law, and of the Related Term 'Adventure in the Nature of Trade'

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
Masters 0.500
PhD 0.950

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
M Laws LL.M [R] 2005 The Settlement of Family Law Disputes Before the Courts in Papua New Guinea: Is There a Need for Reform?

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Wright Edmund Walker, ’National trends in personal injury litigation: Before and after 'Ipp'’, Torts Law Journal, 14 233-267 (2006) [C1]

Ellinghaus M P, Wright Edmund Walker, ’The Common Law of Contracts: Are Broad Principles Better Than Detailed Rules? An Empirical Investigation’, Texas Wesleyan Law Review, 11 399-420 (2005) [C2]

Book

Ellinghaus Manfred Paul, Wright Edmund Walker, Karras Maria, Models of Contract Law : an empirical evaluation of their utility, Themis Press, Sydney, 153 (2005) [A1]

Wright Edmund Walker, Ann Eyland, Maria Karras, Natalina Nheu, Case Management Reform: An Evaluation of the District Court of NSW and County Court of Victoria 1996 Reforms, Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales, Sydney, 1-181 (2003) [A2]

Sage Caroline Mary, Wright Edmund Walker, Morris C, Case management reform: a study of the federal court's individual docket system, Law and Justice Foundation of NSW, Sydney, 210 (2002) [A2]

Wright Edmund Walker, Eyland A, Nheu N, Legal Aid for Committals: An evaluation of the impact of the centralised committals Scheme, Law and Justice Foundation of New South Wales, Sydney, 93 (2001) [A2]

Chapter in Book

Wright Edmund Walker, Melville Angela Lee, ’Hey, but who's counting? The metrics and politics of trends in civil litigation’, Litigation: Past and Present, UNSW Press, Sydney, 96-121 (2004) [B1]

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