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Professor Sharon Christensen - Gadens Professor in Property Law |
Gadens Professor in Property LawLLB (Hons), LLM (QUT Contact: Room: C718 (Gardens Point campus) Sharon Christensen is currently the Gadens Professor in Property Law and teaches in the Law School. Prior to joining the Faculty in 1991 she worked in the national firm, Clayton Utz in the areas of property and commercial law. She was the Assistant Dean Teaching and Learning within the Faculty from 1999-2001 and was appointed the Deputy Director (Law) in the Information Security Institute at QUT in September 2004. Professor Christensen's main research interests include property law (especially land contracts, leasing and body corporate law), consumer protection law and contract. Her books include Christensen and Duncan, Professional Liability in Property Transactions, 2004 Federation Press; Christensen, Dixon, Duncan and Jones, Land Contracts in Queensland, Federation Press, 2004; Willmott, Christensen and Butler, Contract Law, Oxford University Press, 2005, 2n ed and Christensen and Duncan, Sale of Businesses in Australia, Federation Press, 1997. She has authored three looseleaf services - Body Corporate Law and Practice, Law Book Co, Sydney 1999 (co-authored with A Wallace) since 1999; Land Titles Law and Practice, LBC Information Services Sydney since 1997, (co-authored with A Wallace and W Dixon) and Conveyancing in Queensland, LBC Information Services Sydney since 1996. She is currently the Queensland editor for the Australian Property Law Bulletin. She has written numerous articles particularly in the areas of electronic contacting, consumer protection, leasing and property law. She is active within the legal profession and has been a member of the Property Law and Practice Section of the Queensland Law Society since 1996 and was appointed to the Specialist Accreditation Panel for Property Law in 2002. In 1996-1997 she was a member of the Department of Natural Resources Ministerial Land Infrastructure and Services Advisory Council in relation to the drafting of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 and in 1999, was engaged as a consultant by the Department of Natural Resources (together with Ms A Wallace) to review the operation of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997. She was also a part time member of the Commercial and Consumer Tribunal from 2001 - 2004. Professor Christensen is currently a co-convener of a working group in conjunction with the Registrar of Titles, Queensland, to investigate and facilitate the introduction of electronic conveyancing to Queensland. Units currently taught:
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