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Professor Andrew Stewart

Telephone +61 8 8313 4445
Position John Bray Professor of Law
Email andrew.stewart@adelaide.edu.au
Fax +61 8 8313 4344
Building Ligertwood Building
Floor/Room 2 24
Campus North Terrace
Org Unit Law School

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Biography/ Background

Andrew's main interests lie in employment law and workplace relations, contract law and intellectual property. His most recent publications include the fourth edition of his popular text  Stewart's Guide to Employment Law and Parental Leave: A User-Friendly Guide (with Erin McCarthy and Elise Jenkin). He is also the co-author of leading texts, Labour Law (with Breen Creighton) and Intellectual Property in Australia (with Philip Griffith and Judith Bannister).

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 and to a wide range of other organisations. He has recently worked with colleague Rosemary Owens on Australia's first major report on unpaid work experience, commissioned by the Fair Work Ombudsman and entitled Experience or Exploitation?

Andrew is the President of the Australian Labour Law Association, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and Editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Law. He has previously been Deputy Dean at Adelaide Law School, 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.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) in Jurisprudence, BCL (Oxon)

Teaching Interests

Employment/workplace law
Contracts

Research Interests

Employment law and workplace relations
Contracts
Intellectual property

Publications

Recent publications (since 2010) include:

BOOKS

Stewart's Guide to Employment Law, 4th ed, Federation Press, Sydney, 2013

Parental Leave: A User-Friendly Guide (with Erin McCarthy and Elise Jenkin), Lawbook Co, 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

REPORTS

Experience or Exploitation? The Nature, Prevalence and Regulation of Unpaid Work Experience, Internships and Trial Periods in Australia (with Rosemary Owens), Fair Work Ombudsman, Melbourne, 2013

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Illegality and Public Policy” in J L R Davis (ed), Contract: General Principles, 2nd ed, Thomson Reuters, Sydney, 2012, pp 197–249

“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

ARTICLES

“The Reach of Labour Regulation: Tackling Sham Contracting” (with Cameron Roles) Australian Journal of Labour Law, vol 25 no 3 (September 2012), pp 258-283

“Economic Globalization and Convergence in Labor Market Regulation: An Empirical Assessment” (with Peter Gahan, Richard Mitchell, Sean Cooney and Brian Cooper) (2012) 60 American Journal of Comparative Law 703

“What’s Wrong with the Australian Law of Contract?” (2012) 29 Journal of Contract Law 74

“Australian Labour Law in Transition: The Impact of the Fair Work Act” (2012) 37 New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations 3

“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

Professional Associations

Australian 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, 2009-2012)

Expertise for Media Contact

CategoriesEmployment and IR
Expertiseemployment law; industrial law; workplace relations; industrial relations
Mobile0437 383413

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 2 Apr 2013

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