Ms Cornelia Koch

Biography/ Background

After completing a German undergraduate law degree (First State Law Exam) at the University of Wuerzburg and a period in private legal practice, Cornelia Koch pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Queensland where she obtained a Master of Comparative Law and a Juris Doctor degree. Subsequently, she commenced doctoral studies on the topic 'A Judge-Made Bill of Rights: Can the European Court of Justice Serve as a Model for Australia?'. This project is still ongoing, with completion envisaged in 2010. Cornelia was a part-time Tutorial Fellow at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland. She joined the Law School at the University of Adelaide as a full-time academic in 2002. Cornelia is admitted to legal practice in Queenland and the ACT. She is also a Research Scholar of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at the University of Queensland and a member of the Convening Committee of the South Australian Chapter of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law. Cornelia has won a number of research grants and held awards for postgraduate studies from Germany and Australia. Her work has been published in Europe, the USA and Australia.

Qualifications

Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen (First State Law Exam), Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany

Master of Comparative Law (MCL) and Juris Doctor (JD), The University of Queensland, Australia

Barrister of the Supreme Court of Queensland

Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of the ACT

Enrolled on the High Court list of practitioners

Awards & Achievements

Teaching Awards

2009     Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

for the Development of a Suite of Law Courses Designed to Facilitate Student Learning of Legal Theory by Immersion in Simulated Legal Practice

            (Team Award with Anne Hewitt, Andrew Ligertwood, Margaret Castles and Matthew Stubbs)

 

2008     Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in Team Teaching

2008     The Executive Dean of the Professions Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Undergraduate Teaching) (Team Teaching)

2007     Runner-Up for The Executive Dean of the Professions Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Undergraduate Teaching) (Team Teaching)

2006     Nominee for Stephen Cole the Elder Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Undergraduate Teaching) (Individual Teacher)

Prizes and Scholarships 

2004                 Graduate School Research Travel Award

The University of Queensland

2001 – 2004      International Postgraduate Research Scholarship

The University of Queensland

2001 – 2004      The University of Queensland International Postgraduate

Research Scholarship

1998                 Postgraduate Scholarship (Stipendium für Graduierte)

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

 

 

Teaching Interests

Evidence and Advocacy
Comparative Law
European Union Law
Constitutional Law

Research Interests

European Union Law
Constitutional Law
Comparative Law
Comparative Constitutional Law
Human Rights
The Judicial Role

Publications

Books

Australian Constitutional Law: Commentary and Cases, Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2007 (with Suri Ratnapala, Thomas John and Vanitha Karean)

Edited Volume

Festschrift for Justice Bradley Selway, (2007) 28 Adelaide Law Review (Special Edition), (Guest Editor with John Williams, Laura Grenfell, Matthew Stubbs, Rachael Gray, Michael Wait, Clement MacIntyre)

Journal Articles

'The Ballot Behind Bars After Roach: Why Disenfranchise Prisoners?' (2008) 33 Alternative Law Journal 220 (with Lisa Hill)

'Locus Standi of Private Applicants Under the EU Constitution: Preserving Gaps in the Protection of Individuals' Right to an Effective Remedy' (2005) 30 European Law Review 511

'The Doctrine of Supremacy of European Community Law as a Condition Precedent for the Doctrine of Direct Effect' (2005) 9 International Trade and Business Law Review 201

'Commission of the European Communities v Jego-Quere & Cie SA' (2004) 98 American Journal of International Law 814

Conference and Seminar Presentations

'The Future of the Quasi-Federalist Project in the European Union - "The (Constitutional) Treaty is Dead. Long Live the (Lisbon) Treaty!"' presented at 'The Europe that Is, Was and Will Be' Conference, Contemporary Europe Research Centre, The University of Melbourne, 9 November 2009

'Reflections on the External Affairs Power in Light of Pape', Seminar of the SA Chapter of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law on 'Pape v Commissioner of Taxation (Cth): a 'Stimulating' Decision of the High Court', Adelaide, 19 October 2009, part of a panel of presenters with John Williams, Gabrielle Appleby and Stephen McDonald

'Classroom Crucifixes, Teacher Headscarves, Faith Healers and More: the German Experience of Religious Freedom under a Bill of Rights', Cultural and Religious Freedom under a Bill of Rights, Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion, Canberra, 13 - 15 August 2009 

'The Ballot Behind Bars: Roach v Electoral Commissioner' (with Lisa Hill), Seminar of the SA Chapter of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law, Adelaide, 31 July 2008

'The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Honourable Justice Callinan in the Freedom of Political Communication Cases', Seminar of the SA Chapter of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law on 'The Constitutional Jurisprudence of the Honourable Justice Callinan', Adelaide, 9 August 2007, part of a panel of presenters with John Gava, Stephen McDonald and Michael Wait

'The European Court of Justice - a Loose Cannon? An Examination of the Court's Methodology in the Protection of Fundamental Rights', New Europe, New Governance, New Worlds? Conference, Monash European and EU Centre, Melbourne, 12-14 April 2007

'Is s 51(xx) Limited to the Regulation of the External Relationships of Constitutional Corporations?', joint seminar of the SA Chapter of the Australian Association of Constitutional Law and the Australian Labour Law Association on 'The Work Choices Case', Adelaide, 12 December 2006, part of a panel of presenters with Rosemary Owens, John Williams and Greg Parker

'Methods of Protection: Fundamental Rights in the European Court of Justice and the High Court of Australia,' New Researchers, New Research Conference, Law School, University of Adelaide, 30 Sept - 1 Oct 2004

'Bringing the European Union Closer to its Citizens? The Convention on the Future of Europe and the New European Constitution', 21st Annual Australian Law and Society Conference, Law School, University of Newcastle, 8-10 December 2003

'The Courts in a Changing World: Judicial Protection of Human Rights in the European Court of Justice and the High Court of Australia', 5th Annual Postgraduate Conference, Law School, University of Sydney, 31 Oct-1 Nov 2003

'The Doctrine of Supremacy of European Community Law as a Condition Precedent for the Doctrine of Direct Effect', Second Annual PhD Colloquium, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, 3 May 2002

Full-Text Links:

For full-text links to some of these publications see http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/author?author=Koch,+C

Professional Associations

Member, Europe Focus Group, International Law Section, Law Council of Australia

Member, Australian Association of Constitutional Law

Member, International Association of Constitutional Law

Member of the Convening Committee, South Australian Chapter, Australian Association of Constitutional Law

Member, Human Rights Coalition, Adelaide

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 10 Nov 2009