Andrew Field

Senior Lecturer
Director of Teaching
Department of Business Law and Taxation

• BA(Hons) (Monash)
• LLM (Monash)
• Grad Cert Higher Ed (Monash)
• Barrister and Solicitor (Vic)
• Barrister-at-Law (Vic)

Prior to joining the staff at Monash, Andrew was practising full-time as a Member of the Victorian Bar and, prior to that, served as a Judge's Associate.

Andrew is currently on extended leave from Monash University.

Teaching

Andrew teaches in the areas of International Trade and Commercial Law and Commercial Law generally. He teaches at the Clayton and Caulfield campuses in both the undergraduate and postgraduate programs. He has also taught courses in International Trade Law in Hong Kong.

In recognition of his teaching accomplishments, Andrew was one of the Department of Business Law and Taxation’s staff members awarded the 2003 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Team-based Educational Development, and in 2007 he was awarded a Dean’s Commendation for Excellence in Teaching.

Research

Andrew's research interests include public and private international law, electronic commerce and the law of the internet and commercial law generally.

Recent publications

Chapters in Books, etc (B1)

• "Legislation, Electronic Commerce and the Common Law: The Growing Legislative Framework, How it Compares Internationally and its Failings in Australia", Chapter 7, The Economics of E-Commerce, (London, 2003), 134 - 150.

Refereed Articles (C1)

• "There must be a better way: Personal injuries compensation since the 'Crisis in Insurance'", (2008) 13(1) Deakin Law Review, 67-98;
• "Clarifying lines of communication: Telstra v the Commonwealth", (2008) 82 Law Institute Journal, 38-41;
• "Against the Grain – The ripple effect of the Cole Inquiry", (2007) 81(3) Law Institute Journal 38-41 (co authored with Toan Le).
• "International Air Carriage, the Montreal Convention and the injuries for which there is no compensation", (2006) 12 Canterbury Law Review 237-252.
• "Roots of Corruption", (2006) 2(2) Monash Business Review 20-24.
• "Final Approach: Air travel DVT claims and the High Court ruling in Povey v Qantas", (2006) 80(3) Law Institute Journal 50-53.
• "Air travel, accidents and injuries: why the new Montreal Convention is already outdated", (2005) 28 Dalhousie Law Journal 69-97.
• " 'Turbulence ahead' : Some difficulties for plaintiffs with air carriers’ liability for death and injury under Australian law", (2005) 13 Torts Law Journal 62 - 87.
• "Produce the body: the heritage of habeas corpus", (2005) 79(5) Law Institute Journal 54-57.
• "The Agency of Innovation: Subject Websites, Their Perceived Value and Student Performance", 2004 14(2) Legal Education Review 127-152.
• "Humanitarian Intervention and the War in Iraq: Why Was it Always an After-thought?" (2004) 16(2) Bond Law Review 5 - 39.
• "International Air Travel and “Accidents": Qantas v Povey and the Warsaw Convention (2004) 78(6) Law Institute Journal 46-49.
• "Having your cake and eating it too: Section 52 of the Trade Practices Act and contributory negligence", (2003) 77(5) Law Institute Journal 28-31.
• "Confirming the Parting of the Ways: The Law of Bias and the Automatic Disqualification Rule in England and Australia", (2001) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 388-409.
• "Bias and Banks – and disqualifying judges for the shares they hold in them", (2001) 16 Australian Banking and Finance Law Bulletin 102 - 106.
• "Catching the Tasmanian Salmon Laws: How a decade of changing world trade law has tackled environmental protection", (2000) 19 University of Tasmania Law Review, 236-279.
• "The Legality of Humanitarian Intervention and the Use of Force in the Absence of United Nations Authority", (2000) 26 Monash University Law Review, 339-361.
• "The Bias Principle and its Applicability to International Commercial Arbitrations conducted in Australia", (1999) 10 Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal 246 - 256.

Articles in non-refereed journals

• "Economy Class Syndrome", (2006) New Zealand Law Journal 289.
• "Australian Study of Student Use of Course Web Site", (2003) 10(2) Spring 2003 The Law Teacher 10-11.
• "Lawyers and Literature: The Unequal Struggle", (2002) 76(9) Law Institute Journal 56-58.
• "Etridge's Case: A Prescription to revisit Yerkey, Garcia and the Married Woman's Equity?", (2002) 76(7) Law Institute Journal 50-54.
• "The law of bias revisited (and clarified by the High Court)", (2001) 75(7) Law Institute Journal 64- 69.
• "Facilitating electronic commerce: The Electronic Transactions (Victoria) Act 2000 and ‘click- wrap’ agreements", (2000) 74(10) Law Institute Journal 73-75.
• "Electronic Commerce: Encouragement from Canberra", (2000) 74 (5) Law Institute Journal 54-57.
• "Electronic Commerce: Who is doing what to put Australian Business online?", (1999) 73 (4) Law Institute Journal. 56 - 62.
• "The Integrity of Deliberating Juries", (1998) 72 (8) Law Institute Journal 67 - 69.
• "Who is Justice?", (1997) 71 (12) Law Institute Journal 26 - 27.
• "Just how serious is section 93: A re-evaluation of Humphries v. Poljak", (1997) 71 (9) Law Institute Journal 34 - 35