Mark Thomas - School of Law

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Lecturer

BA (Hons) UQ, LLB (Hons) QUT

Contact:

Room: C730 (Gardens Point campus)
Tel: (07) 313 85199
Fax: (07) 313 84253
Email: m.thomas@qut.edu.au

Mark Thomas commenced his position as associate lecturer in late 1999. He completed a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 1998 and soon after commenced PhD studies in feminist epistemology and sentencing theory and practice. His Arts degree was in English literature with graduation occurring in 1976.

Prior to his position at the QUT Faculty of Law, Mark was a labour economist with the Commonwealth Government. In this role, he provided specialist economic advice to the Minister for Employment regarding labour market and occupational labour markets for skilled occupations, and later developed econometric modelling for the Queensland economy in support of those analyses.

Mark carries out community service as a volunteer at the Caxton Legal Centre, working mainly on crime and family matters and from 1999 became a member of the management committee for the Centre.

Units currently taught:

• LWB139 Select Issues in Torts
• LWB331 Administrative Law
• LWB333 Theories of Law

Research Interests:

• Criminal law
• Sentencing theory
• Intellectual property
• Jurisprudence (especially feminist epistemology)