School of Law: Law School Staff - Andrew Stewart
Andrew Stewart
BA, BCL(Oxford)
Professor
After teaching at the University of Adelaide (1982-1986) and the University of Sydney (1987-1991), Andrew joined Flinders as a foundation staff member in December 1991. In 1994 he was appointed to a chair and served as Dean of Law until the end of 1997. He was the Convenor of the Committee of Australian Law Deans in 1997 and in that capacity helped to develop a proposal for national regulation of professional legal education, assisted the Australian Law Reform Commission in its review of the adversarial system, and lobbied the federal government on a wide range of issues affecting legal education. He has served as President of the Australasian Law Teachers Association and the Industrial Relations Society of South Australia, and has also been a member of the Council of the Law Society of South Australia. In 2001 he was appointed by the federal government to the Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys. Andrew's main interests lie in labour law and industrial relations, on which he is one of Australia's leading experts. He has also taught and researched in the fields of contract law and intellectual property. He is a legal consultant with the law firm Piper Alderman, and has also performed work for a wide range of other bodies, including the International Labour Organisation, Commonwealth and State governments, the Australian National Audit Office and various trade unions and employers.
His major publications include Labour Law (4th ed, Federation Press, 2005, with Breen Creighton); Intellectual Property in Australia (3rd ed, Butterworths, 2004, with Jill McKeough and Philip Griffith); and an account of Australian contract law (with John Carter) for the International Encyclopaedia of Laws published by Kluwer. His most recent book, co-authored with George Williams, is Work Choices: What the High Court Said (Federation Press, 2007).
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