Professor Vince Morabito

Department of Business Law and Taxation

He is also the co-author of four books:

• In the Name of National Security - The Legal Dimensions
• Class Actions in Victoria - Time For A New Approach
• Australian Taxation Law (9th ed)
• Core Tax Legislation and Study Guide (first 3 editions).

Vince was awarded by Monash University, in October 2002, the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy for his thesis, An Analysis of Certain Aspects of Class Actions in the Federal Court of Australia.

Vince has been interviewed, on various legal issues, on the ABC TV's 7.30 Report and various programs on the ABC Radio and by the Australian Financial Review, the Business Review Weekly, the Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. A report on class actions co-authored by Vince in 1995, at the request of the Victorian Attorney-General's Law Reform Advisory Council, resulted, in November 2000, in the introduction by the Victorian Parliament of a new and comprehensive legal regime governing Victorian class actions.

Vince was the editor of the Journal of Australian Taxation, one of Australia's leading refereed tax journals for 6 years from 2001 to 2006.

Teaching

Vince is teaching in the areas of income tax, tax policy and constitutional issues, tax administration and practice.

Research

Vince's areas of expertise include class actions, income tax, tax policy, tax administration, constitutional law, criminal law, national security law and judicial administration.

Some of Vince's publications have been cited by:

• Courts, including British Columbia's Court of Appeal, the High Court of Australia, the New South Wales Court of Appeal and the Full Federal Court of Australia;
• overseas law reform commissions, including the Manitoba Law Reform Commission, the Alberta Law Reform Institute, the Law Reform Commission of Ireland and the South African Law Commission;
• the Australian Law Reform Commission; and the Victorian Law Reform Commission
• overseas and local scholars.

Recent publications

Journal Articles

• Vince Morabito, "Class Actions Instituted only for the Benefit of the Clients of the Class Representative's Solicitors", Sydney Law Review, University of Sydney, 29:1, 5-41, 2007
• Vince Morabito, "An Australian Perspective on Class Action Settlements", Modern Law Review, Blackwell Publishing, 69:3, 347-382, 2006.
• Vince Morabito, "Judicial Responses to Class Action Settlements That Provide no Benefits to Some Class Members", Monash University Law Review, 32:1, 2006.
• Vince Morabito, "Statutory Limitation Periods and the Traditional Representative Action Procedure", Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, Oxford University Law School, 5:1, 113-139, 2005.
• Vince Morabito, "The Federal Court of Australia's Power to Terminate Properly Instituted Class Actions", Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Osgoode Hall Law School, 42:3, 473-513, 2004.
• Vince Morabito, "Defendant Class Actions and the Right to Opt Out: Lessons for Canada from the United States", Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, Duke University Law School, 14:2, 197-248, 2004.
• Vince Morabito, "Standing to Sue and Multiple Defendant Class Actions in Australia, Canada and the United States", Alberta Law Review, University of Alberta Law School, 41:2, 295-333, 2003.
• Vince Morabito, "Judicial Supervision of Individual Settlements with Class Members in Australia, Canada and the United States", Texas International Law Journal, University of Texas Law School, 38:4, 663-727, 2003.