Associate Professor Damien Considine

Position in Faculty
Associate Professor

Deputy Chair of Academic Senate
Member: University Education Committee
Member: Senate Standing Committee

Degrees Held
BA LLB NSW, LLM Syd, Solicitor and Attorney NSW and High Court

Publications on RIS

Research Areas
Corporate law, The structure of business, legal education.

Professional Activities
Damien previously held the positions of Sub-Dean and Associate Dean in the Faculty. He currently provides legal advice to numerous community organisations in the Illawarra.

Damien was a solicitor in Sydney for some years prior to joining the University. He practised in the area of Criminal Law.

Other:
1993 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
1995 Ethel Hayton Trophy for Community Service
1997 Co-convenor (with Assoc Prof Robin Handley) of the 2nd National Legal Skills Conference
1998 Organiser, Law Faculty Client Interviewing Competition
1998/1999 Sub-Dean
1999 Honorary Life Membership UniCentre Ltd
2000 Onwards Associate Dean
2000/2001 Acting Dean
2000 Convenor Australasian Corporate Law Teachers Association Conference

Publications

• "Small Business: The Forgotten Client", (1998) 15 (1) Journal of Professional Legal Education 1 (with Robin Handley)
  
• "Introducing Clients into the Law School Curriculum", Legal Forum Vol 8 No. 3 (1996) 46 (with Robin Handley).
  
• "Introducing a Client-Centred Focus into the Law School Curriculum", (1996) Vol 7 No. 2 Legal Education Review 1 (with Robin Handley).
  
• "The Real Barriers to the Regulation of Corporate Groups", (1994) Vol 3 No 1 Asia Pacific Law Review 1.
  
• "The Mythology of Corporations and Corporate Groups", (1994) 4 Australian Journal of Corporate Law 215.
  
• "Corporate Groups: The Dilemma of Inherent Conflict", (1994) Vol 46 No 10 Corporate Management
  
• "The Loose Cannon Syndrome: The University as Business and Students as Consumers", (1994) Vol. 37 (No. 1) The Australian Universities' Review 439.

Recent conference papers include:

• The Tangled Web We Lawyers Weave, Do We Our Clients So Deceive: An Analysis of Small Buisness, Corporations and Lawyers, Proceedings of the 100th Anniversary of Salomon's Case Conference, Australian National University, 25th/26th September 1997
  
• Small Business: The Forgotten Client, Proceedings of the Annual Australasian Professional Legal Education Conference, Brisbane, September 7-9, 1997
  

Teaching Commitments
LLB 302 Law of Business Organisations; LLB 222 Perspectives on Law.