Kate Galloway

BEcon, LLB (UQ), LLM by research (QUT) Solicitor (Qld) Lecturer, Law Cairns Campus

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Biography

After completing her articles and her admission as a solicitor in 1992, Kate practised as a solicitor between 1992 and 2004 in private practice in both Brisbane and Cairns, in property and commercial law. Her primary areas of practice included commercial and retail leasing, commercial conveyancing and stamp duties. She acted for clients in major development projects including early multi-use developments in South East Queensland, and one of the first layered subdivisions under the Body Corporate and Community Management Act. Kate was also responsible for her firm’s knowledge management including development of precedent systems, research, client and staff seminars on topical legal issues and junior professional staff training and mentoring. After leaving private practice, Kate practised for two years in a native title representative body.

Since arriving in Cairns in 1992, Kate has been involved in community legal centres and other community-based organisations. She was part of the steering committee which secured funding to establish the North Queensland Women’s Legal Service in 1995-96. She was a member of the Queensland Legal Educators Conference Working Group for 2009.

Kate has taught at JCU as lecturer and tutor since early 2004 in land law, contract law, ethics, legal institutions and processes, law society and change, legal research, writing and analysis and public international law. She is a regular contributor to Uniprep, Freshstart and law related O-Week sessions for students.

Kate been the First Year Experience Coordinator for Cairns campus since 2008, and in 2009 was appointed the Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Law. She is winner of a 2009 Australian Learning and Teaching Council citation for outstanding contribution to student learning and in 2009 was also awarded a JCU Inclusive Practice Acknowledgement Award. In 2010 Kate became a member of the Queensland Law Society Equalising Opportunity in the Law Committee.

Teaching Interests

• Land Law

• First Year Program

• Public International Law
  

Main Areas of Research

• Property Law

• Applied Legal Theory

• Teaching & Learning

Current Research Projects

• Flexible Learning in the School of Law(2008-10) leading School of Law project to identify Law School academic staff and student perceptions of flexible learning, and to develop a meaningful framework within which to facilitate development of flexible tertiary curricula. Funded by JCU special initiatives grant.

• Walking Forward Together(2009-2010) leading Faculty project to embed the university's reconciliation principles within my Faculty's programs - through engagement of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. Funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations through a JCU curriculum refresh grant.

• Refresh of Law School Curriculum(2009-2010) part of project team to develop a systematic approach to curriculum development in the School of Law.

• Assessment with Web 2.0(2009-2010) - surveying student learning experiences with web 2.0 tools in the School of law.

• Peer Assisted Learning in Law (2010) with Rachel Bradshaw, developing and evaluating a pilot peer assisted learning program.

• Challenging the Powerpoint Paradigm (Learning)(2010) - a comparative study of student learning experiences with 'traditional' Powerpoints and a more creative, design-based approach, to develop an evidence-based approach to the use of powerpoint in student learning and subject design (collaborative).

Publications

Chris Davies, Kate Galloway, ‘The Story of Seventeen Tasmanians: The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre and Repatriation from the Natural History Museum’ (2008) Newcastle Law Review (in print)

Kristy Richardson, Kate Galloway, ‘Severing a Joint Tenancy: A Queensland Analysis’ (2009) 16 Australian Property Law Journal 245

Kate Galloway, ‘Statutory Modification of Contract Law in Queensland: A New Equilibrium or Entrenching the Old Power Order?’ (2008) 15 JCU Law Review 67

Kate Galloway, ‘Person and Thing: A Look at the Law’s Dilemma over Personhood vs Property’ (2008) 2 The Verdict 2

Kate Galloway, ‘Legislating Conscience into Contract: How the Property Agents and Motor Dealers Act 2000 Affects our Understanding of Contract Law in Queensland Residential Land Sales’ (December 2007-January 2008) 21 Commercial Law Quarterly 3

Conference Papers/Seminars

Kate Galloway ‘Experiences and Perspectives of New Methods of Teaching and Learning in Law’ a paper presented to students and faculty of the Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, 4 January 2010

Kate Galloway ‘Practising in Native Title: The Lawyer as God, But What About Country?’ a paper presented at the Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference, Sydney, 5-8 July 2009

Kate Galloway ‘The Internet as God: Analysing Assessment in Web 2.0’ a paper presented at the Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference, Sydney, 5-8 July 2009

Kate Galloway ‘Til Death Us Do Part’ a paper presented at the Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference, Cairns, 7-9 July 2008

Kate Galloway ‘Marking the Boundaries Between the Person and the Thing: The Law’s Ongoing Dilemma over Personhood vs Property’ a paper presented at the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand International Conference, 29-30 November, 2007

Kate Galloway and Tim McGrath ‘Joint Tenancy and the Trustee in Bankruptcy’ a paper presented at the Australian Taxation Office National Debt Litigation Conference, Melbourne, July 2007

Kate Galloway ‘Is Native Title Law Destroying Native Title?’ a paper given as part of the JCU Native Title Studies Centre Seminar Series, April 2006