Biographical entry

Maher, Laurence W

Occupation
Barrister, Lecturer and Solicitor

Chronology

1989 - 1994
Period of employment at the MLS

Additional Notes

Bacame Associate Professor during his employment at the MLS.
He taught Administrative Law, Legal Process, Media Law and Torts.

Publications

Books

  • Goldring, John, Maher, Laurence W & McKeough, Jill, Consumer protection law, 4th edn, Federation Press, Sydney, 1993, 458 pp. Details

Book Sections

  • Maher, Laurence W, 'Media regulation: Licensing and self-regulation', in Media law, Leo Cussen Institute, Melbourne, 1990. Details

Edited Books

  • Mendelsohn, Oliver & Maher, Laurence (ed.), Courts, Tribunals and New Approaches to Justice, A special edition of Law in context, 12 (2) 1994., La Trobe University Press, Bundoora, 1994, 156 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Maher, Laurence W, 'Media and broadcasting law: Broadcasting licences - 'fit and proper person'', Australian Business Law Review, vol. 18, no. 6, 1990, pp. 415-419. Details
  • Maher, Laurence W, 'Sounds Dreadful: Broadcasting Regulation, Communism and the Early Cold War Period in Australia', Melbourne University Law Review, vol. 18, 1991, p. 368. Details
  • Maher, Laurence W, 'Media and broadcasting law: Print Media Ownership - The Continuing Saga', Australian Business Law Review, vol. 20, no. 2, 1992, pp. 183-185. Details
  • Maher, Laurence W, 'The Use and Abuse of Sedition', vol. 14, no. 3, 1992, pp. 287-316. Details
  • Maher, Laurence W, 'The Lapstone Experiment and the Beginnings of ASIO', Labour History, no. 64, 1993, pp. 103-118. Details
  • Maher, Laurence W, 'Tales of the Overt and the Covert: Judges and Politics in Early Cold War Australia', Federal Law Review, vol. 21, no. 2, 1993, pp. 151-201. Details
  • Maher, Laurence W, 'Nicholas J Mullany and Peter R Handford, Tort Liability for Psychiatric Damage: The Law of 'Nervous Shock' [Book review]', vol. 19, no. 1, 1993, pp. 244-245. Details
  • Maher, Laurence W, 'Migration Act Visitor Entry Controls and Free Speech: The Case of David Irving', Sydney Law Review, vol. 16, no. 3, 1994, pp. 358-393. Details
  • Maher, Laurence W, 'Dissent, Disloyalty and Disaffection: Australia's Last Cold War Sedition Case', Adelaide Law Review, vol. 16, no. 1, 1994, pp. 1-77. Details
  • Maher, Laurence W, 'The Australian Experiment in Merits Review Tribunals Courts', Law in Context: A Socio-Legal Journal, vol. 12, Special issue, 1994, pp. 73-105. Details
  • Mendelsohn, Oliver & Maher, Laurence, 'Courts, Tribunals and New Approaches to Justice: Chapter I: Introduction', Law in Context: A Socio-Legal Journal, vol. 12, Special issue, 1994, pp. 1-8. Details