Associate Professor Pamela O'Connor

Research Interests

Administrative Law and Regulation
Property Law
Tribunals

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

Qualified to supervise PhD; M Phil; LLM; and LLB Hons.
Three Honours projects and one 6 credit point research project.

Grants and Commissions

2012-2016: CRC Water Sensitive Cities, project team leader: Project: "Better Regulation for Water Sensitive (Cities).

2010-2012: ARC Discovery Grant DP1094061- "An Integrated Regime for a Sustainable Carbon Cycle" with S Christensen, D Fisher, W Duncan and N Durrant.

2007-2010: ARC Discovery Grant DP0771825 - "An Insitutional Framework to Facilitate Sustainable and Integrated Natural, Cultural and Built Resources Governance" with S Christensen, D Fisher, and W Duncan.

2006-2007: Administrative Review Council - " Better Practice Guides."

2005-2006: Council of Australasian Tribunals Inc. - "Development of COAT Practice Manual for Tribunals" with B McSherry, B Potter, I Freckelton, and P Sallmann.

2000: Monash SIF Teaching Grant - to develop Online Courses in Tribunal Procedures with E Gaze.

1998-2000: ARC Large Grant -"National Uniformity of Property Laws" with M Neave and S McCallum.

Publications

2011

O'Connor, P, ‘The Changing Paradigm of Property Right and the Framing of Regulation as a "Taking" (2011) 36 Mon LR 50-79

O'Connor, P., 'Careful What You Wish For: Positive Freehold Covenants, Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 2011, 191-207.

Christensen, S., Durrant, N., O'Connor, P., Phillips, A., 2011, Regulating greenhouse gas emissions from coal mining activities in the context of climate change., Environmental and Planning Law Journal [P], vol 28, issue 6, Thomson Reuters, Sydney, pp. 381-415.

Pamela O'Connor, ‘Regulating by Covenant: Is it Sustainable?' in P Carruthers, S Mascher and N Skead (eds) Property and Sustainability: Selected Essays (Thomson Reuters, 2011) 127-43.

Pamela O'Connor, 'Convenants as Regulation' (2011) 1 Property Law Review 145-59

Christensen S, Duncan WD & O'Connor P, Regulating for Sustainability - Property Issues, March 2011 (http://eprints.qut.edu.au/41637/1/1193-QUT_SustainPropertyW.pdf

Selected list of publications, including those prior to 2011