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Professor Andrew Stewart
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Andrew's main interests lie in employment law and workplace relations, contract law and intellectual property. His most recent publications include Parental Leave: A User-Friendly Guide (with Erin McCarthy and Elise Jenkin) and an edited collection of articles for the Journal of Industrial Relations on the new agency Fair Work Australia. He has also complted new editions of his popular texts, Labour Law (with Breen Creighton), Intellectual Property in Australia (with Philip Griffith and Judith Bannister) and Stewart's Guide to Employment Law. Besides working as a consultant with the national law firm Piper Alderman, Andrew has provided expert advice to the International Labour Organisation, to Federal and State governments in Australia, to the Auditor-General of South Australia and to a wide range of other organisations. He has played a prominent role in the public debate over workplace reforms, and has spoken and written widely about their implications for businesses, workers and unions. Andrew is the President of the Australian Labour Law Association, Deputy Dean at Adelaide Law School, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. He has previously been Chair of the Committee of Australian Law Deans and President of the Industrial Relations Society of South Australia. Before taking up his current post he worked at the University of Sydney and at Flinders University, where he was Dean of Law from 1994-1997. QualificationsBA (Hons) in Jurisprudence, BCL (Oxon) Teaching InterestsEmployment/workplace law
Research InterestsEmployment law and workplace relations
PublicationsRecent publications include: BOOKS
Parental Leave: A User-Friendly Guide (with Erin McCarthy and Elise Jenkin), Lawbook Co, Sydney, 2012 Stewart's Guide to Employment Law, 3rd ed, Federation Press, Sydney, 2011 Labour Law (with Breen Creighton), 5th ed, Federation Press, Sydney, 2010 Intellectual Property in Australia (with Philip Griffith and Judith Bannister), 4th ed, LexisNexis, Sydney, 2010 Fair Work: The New Workplace Laws and the Work Choices Legacy (co-edited with Anthony Forsyth), Federation Press, Sydney, 2009 Understanding Independent Contractors (with Piper Alderman), CCH Australia, Sydney, 2007 Work Choices: What the High Court Said (with George Williams), Federation Press, Sydney, 2007 BOOK CHAPTERS "Regulating Youth Work: Lessons from Australia and the United Kingdom" (with Natalie van der Waarden) in R Price, P McDonald, J Bailey and B Pini (eds), Young People and Work, Ashgate, Farnham, 2011 "Labour Law in Transition: From Work Choices to Fair Work" in P Sadler (ed), Contemporary Issues in Law & Policy, Applied Law & Policy, Perth, 2010 "Industrial Relations" in J Spoehr (ed), State of South Australia: From Crisis to Prosperity?, Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2009 "Testing the Boundaries: Towards a National System of Labour Regulation" in A Forysth and A Stewart (eds), Fair Work: The New Workplace Laws and the Work Choices Legacy, Federation Press, Sydney, 2009 ARTICLES "Fair Work Australia: The Commission Reborn?" (2011) 53 Journal of Industrial Relations 563 "The Evolution of Labor Law in New Zealand: A Comparative Study of New Zealand, Australia and Five Other Countries" (with Gordon Anderson, Peter Gahan and Richard Mitchell) (2011) 33 Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 137 "Good Faith: A Necessary Element in Australian Employment Law?" (2011) 32 Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 521 "Employees and Indemnities" (with Beth Nosworthy) (2011) 27 Journal of Contract Law 18 "A New Dawn for Pay Equity? Developing an Equal Remuneration Principle under the Fair Work Act" (with Meg Smith) (2010) 23 Australian Journal of Labour Law 152 "The Evolution of Labour Law in Australia: Measuring the Change" (with Richard Mitchell, Peter Gahan, Sean Cooney and Shelley Marshall) (2010) 23 Australian Journal of Labour Law 61 "Choice of Law and the Enforcement of Post-Employment Restraints in Australia" (with Janey Greene) (2010) 31 Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 305
"A Question of Balance: Labour's New Vision for Workplace Regulation" (2009) 22 Australian Journal of Labour Law 3 Professional AssociationsAustralian Academy of Law National Tertiary Education Union Research Associate, National Institute of Labour Studies, Flinders University Industrial Relations Society of South Australia (President, 2001-03) International Industrial Relations Association Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand Australian Labour Law Association (President, 2009-) Associate, Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law, University of Melbourne Overseas Correspondent, Committee on International Studies of the National Academy of Arbitrators (North America) Law Society of South Australia (Industrial Relations Committee, 2009-) Expertise for Media Contact
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