International University

Dr Michelle Sanson

Projects

Humanitarian work

Travel

Current to June 2012

Skype:

Michelle.Sanson

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Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Law 2008

‘International

Law and Global Governance: A Normative Systemic Approach’

University of Technology Sydney

Master

of Education in Adult Education (M.Ed) 2006

University of Technology Sydney

Graduate Certificate in Higher Education

(Teaching and Learning) (GCHETL) 2003

University of Technology Sydney

Certificate in Holistic Counselling,

2002

Nature Care

College, St Leonards

Certificate in Life

Coaching, 2002

Nature Care College, St Leonards

Graduate Certificate in Continuing Legal

Practice 1999

University of Technology Sydney

Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours

1999

University

of Technology Sydney

University

of Westminster, London 1997

Exchange student

in law – international student scholarship

Bachelor of Business (Marketing and

Management) with Credit 1994

University of Technology Sydney

Oregon State University, USA 1993Exchange student in business – named on University Honor Roll Employment history

Employer:

University of Western Sydney

Period:

Since January 2009 (current)

Position: Senior Lecturer

Role: Law academic, lecturing in Introduction to Law and

coaching moot teams.

Faculty Administrative Positions :

First Year Coordinator 2009 to date, School Academic Committee 2009 to date

University Involvement : Member,

Expert Advisory Group on the First Year Experience

Other

Involvement : Voluntary assistance, Parramattta Community Justice Clinic, 2010

Employer:

Clayton Utz

Period: Three months consultancy

(April to July 2008)

Position: National Legal Education

Manager

Role: To develop

a national approach to legal education in a national law firm comprising 1800 lawyers. Involved strategic planning, liaison

with partners and staff, developing career attributes framework and national curriculum documents. Also included instigation

of national team meetings, championing of training topics by team members, review of systems for compliance with mandatory

continuing legal education requirements, design of upgrade of the learning management system, and devising and delivering

workshops.

Employer: University of Technology

Sydney

Period: Five years (February 2003 to

April 2008)

Position: Associate Lecturer 2003-4, Lecturer

2005-8

Role: Lecturer

and Subject Coordinator in undergraduate and postgraduate law, including Legal Process and History (LLB), International Commercial

Dispute Resolution (Masters), International Commercial Arbitration (Masters), International Trade Law (Masters), International

Legal Studies (Cross-disciplinary), WTO Law (Masters), International Advocacy and Mooting (LLB), Jessup International Moot

(LLB), Moot (LLB)

Faculty administrative positions: Director of Undergraduate Programs 2004-5; Chair of Undergraduate Programs Committee 2004-5; Chair

of Examination Review Committee 2004; Chair of Results Ratification Ctee 2005; Responsible Academic Officer 2004-5

University involvement: Academic

Member of Residence Management Committee 2004-6, Member of Leadership Group, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre

2007

Other involvement: author of Graduate Attributes workbook; coached UTS moot teams including Jessup 2008 and ELSA Moot on WTO Law 2005,

2006, and 2007; outcomes including best speaker, best memorials, and winner of Pacific Regional Round; contributed to Research

Thesis Workshops, Information & Orientation events

Employer: Life by Design

Period: December 2001 to June 2003

Role: Corporate training in work life balance with clients such as Westpac, negotiation

and drafting of contracts, website development. Editor of 52 Strategies to Work Life Balance, see

http://www.lifebydesign.com.au/public/products/52strategies.html

Employer:

Blake Dawson Waldron

Period: September

1998 to June 2001

Role: Lawyer in Trade and Transport

Group, involved litigation mostly in Federal Court and Supreme Court, negotiation, mediation, arbitration, some contract drafting

Employer:

The Honourable Russell Fox AC QC

Period:

June 1997 to August 1998 (part-time)

Role: Research assistant

for Justice in the 21st Century. Compiled years of research and writings on civil and criminal procedural

reform into structure for book

Professional involvement

Member of International Humanitarian Law Committee, Australian Red Cross, 2011-2

Member of Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators, 2011-2

Editor in Chief of the Legal Education Review 2009-12;

Production Editor 2007-8

Associate Editor of the Legal Education Digest, 2006-12

Member of the Australasian Law Teachers

Association Executive, 2007-12

Co-Director of NSW Centre for Legal Education, 2012; Associate Director 2006-11

Member of Academic Board, Australian International Conservatorim of Music,

2011-2

Member of Academic Board, JMC Academy, 2011-2

Member

of Raffles College of Design and Commerce (RCDC) Council 2007-9; External Mediator since 2007; Chair of Ethics Committee, 2008-10

Chair,

Executive Committee of the Owners Corporation of Strata Plan 63380, 2001-11 (except when overseas)

Academic

Member of NSW Bar Association Professional Conduct Committee 2004-8

Convenor of Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy Interest Group

for Australasian Law Teachers’ Association (ALTA) 2003-7

Professional projects and consulting

Australian

Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) project 'Learning to Think Like A Lawyer with Nickolas James, Rachael Field and Lisa

Westcott 2010-11

Pro bono lawyer, Lawyers Without Borders, Freetown Sierra Leone, December 2009 – January

2010

Conducted a rule of law needs analysis, drafted a country brief, provided continuing legal training to barristers

on resolving international commercial disputes, guest lectures in international trade law at University of Sierra Leone, and

public lectures through the Sierra Leone Institute for International Law. Ongoing involvement in establishing a mooting program

and law clinic.

Guest

lecturer, Viadrina European University, Germany, November – December 2008.

Teaching intensive electives International

Commercial Negotiation and Dispute Resolution and International Trade and Financial Law

Neutral Trial Observation in Namibia, Lawyers

Without Borders, February to April 2008.

Work on the Caprivi High Treason trial in Windhoek Prison.

Research on African experience

of the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System, July to October 2006: interviews with trade ministry officials

in sixteen countries plus NGOs and at WTO in Geneva

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

(UNCITRAL), Vienna, January to April 2000: research work on international commercial arbitration, cross-border insolvency,

comparative legislative analysis, transport law

Other (voluntary) contribution

Volunteer, Confident Children Out of Conflict, Juba South Sudan, 2011.

Worked with street children on the weekend while working at the UN during the week

‘Living Memory’

Project – providing individuals living in poverty, and as refugees, with a family photo to serve as a living memory.

Includes to date: approximately 250 families in a township outside Cape Town, 2006, Karenni Refugee Camp in Thailand on Burmese

border, 2009, and shanty area of Freetown 2010.

Volunteer, SOS Childrens Villages, Windhoek Namibia,

2008. Produced video for fundraising and awareness, http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=P5jItVERbRk

Editor, Homeshare International newsletter, 2006 to date

Chair,

Homeshare NSW Advisory Committee to the Benevolent Society of NSW, 1997 to 2007; now ‘Friends of Homeshare’

Volunteer,

Friends Orphanage School Uganda, November 2003

Volunteer English Teacher, Sershul Monastery Tibet,

September-October 2002

Volunteer judge, Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot 2001

Volunteer judge,

University of New South Wales Contract Law moot, 2001

Arbitrator at the Willem c Vis moot on International

Trade Law in Vienna, 2000

Convenor, Homeshare Steering Committee NSW 1997, Victoria 1998

Achievements

College of Business Award 2011 with Dr Susan Armstrong 'For aligned, holistic and multidimensional

strategies that encourage engagement and enhance the transition of first year law students grounded on "best practices"

in transition pedagogy'

Commendation for UTS Teaching Award 2005

Volunteer Award with Benevolent Society of NSW 2001

Olympic Torch Bearer 2000

Achievement

nomination for Young Australian of the Year Award 2000

Admitted to practise in the High Court of Australia

1999

Admitted to practise in the New South Wales Supreme Court 1999

Alumni Achievement

Award for contribution to the University 1999

Dean’s Special Award for Outstanding Service to the

Law Faculty 1998

Corrs Chambers Westgarth prize in International Trade Law 1997

Duke of Edinburgh

Gold Award 1996; Bronze Award 1987

Publications

Pending

Sanson, M and Armstrong, S. ‘Holistic Approaches

to Academic and Social Transition to Law School’ in Wolff, L and Nicolae, M. First Year Experience in Law School:

A New Beginning? (in press, Federation Press, 2012)

Published

Sanson, M.

Statutory Interpretation, Oxford University Press (2012)

Sanson, M. 'Humanitarian Intervention:

Time for Change', Transnational Governance: Emerging Models of Global Legal Regulation, Chapter 9, Ashgate (2012)

Armstrong, S and Sanson, M. ‘From Confusion to Confidence: Transitioning

to Law School’ (2012) 12(1) QUT Law and Justice Journal 21

Rana, R and Sanson, M. International

Commercial Arbitration, Thomson Legal and Regulatory (2011)

Sanson, M. Anthony,

T. and Warwick, D. Connecting With Law, Oxford University Press (2nd ed 2010)

Ireland, J. Rogers, P. and Sanson, M. 'Virtual Moot Court: A Pilot

Study' (2010) 3(1&2), Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association 1.

Sanson, M. ‘Facilitating Access to Dispute Settlement for African Members of the World

Trade Organization’ (2009) 2 Indian Journal of International Economic Law 1.

Sanson, M, Ireland,

J.I, and Rogers, P. ‘Fake It Till You Make It’: Using Second Life to Teach Practical Legal Skills’ (2009)

2 Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association 245.

Sanson, M. Anthony, T. and Warwick,

D. Connecting With Law, Oxford University Press 2009.

Sanson, M. International Law and Global Governance,

Cameron May, London, 2008.

Sanson, M. ‘The Role of Justice in Compliance Theory’ (2008) 4 Compliance

and Regulatory Journal 41.

Sanson, M The Deadline (fiction), Lulu Online Publishing, 2008.

Sanson,

M. ‘Resolution of Proceedings without hearing’ and ‘Evidence and Procedure (NZ) Act 1994 (Cth)’, NSW

Civil Practice and Procedure, Thomsons, 2006-10.

Sanson, M. ‘The Effectiveness of the WTO Dispute

Settlement System’, Ten Years of WTO Dispute Settlement: Australian Perspectives, Commonwealth of Australia,

2006, 89.

Sanson, M. ‘GATT, WTO’, ‘Trade Forms, Organizational, and Legal Institutions’,

in History of World Trade Since 1450, Macmillan Reference USA, 2006.

Sanson, M. ‘Thinking Like

a Lawyer’, Academics’ Forum, International Bar Association Conference Newsletter, 2006.

Sanson, M. and Taylor,

L. ‘Graduate attributes – should law students have them?’, Academics’ Forum, International Bar Association

Conference Newsletter, 2006.

Sanson, M Essential

International Trade Law, Cavendish Publishing Ltd, 2nd ed 2005.

Sanson, M. and Young, A. ‘Trade,

Aid and Arbitrate: The Globalization of Western Law’ (2005) 59(4) Australian Journal of International Affairs

561.

Sanson, M Essential International Trade Law, Cavendish Publishing Ltd, 2002.

Speaking

'Recent Developments in Statutory Interpretation', Continuing Legal Education, Ashurst, Sydney, March 2012

'Academic Autonomy and Balance', Academia Conference, Sydney, July 2011

'Libya: Signalling a New Era in Humanitarian

Intervention?', ALTA Conference, Brisbane, July 2011

'Holistic Approaches to Academic and Social Transition

to Law School', Plenary Address at Bond Conference on First Year Experience, Gold Coast, July 2011

'Developing Oral Advocacy Skills in Second Life: A

Mooting Pilot', with Paul Rogers and Jennifer Ireland, ALTA Conference, Auckland, July 2010

'Aligning

Expectations in First Year Law', with Susan Armstrong, ALTA Conference, Auckland, July 2010

'Divide &

Conquer': Optimal Approaches to First Year Coordination in Law, ALTA Conference, Auckland, July 2010

'Resolving

International Commercial Disputes', CLE Seminar, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 13 January 2010

'World Trade

Organization and Africa', Public Lecture, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 15 January 2010

Global Governance in the

21st Century: Prospects and Possibilities' Public Lecture, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 22 January 2010

‘Africa and the WTO’, UTS, guest lecture by invitation November 2009

'Fake it till you make it': Using Second Life

to Teach Practical Legal Skills', with Paul Rogers and Jennifer Ireland, ALTA Conference, Sydney, July 2009

'Einstein and Freud Correspondence 1931-1932: A Lost Opportunity in International Law and Global Governance?', ALTA

Conference, Sydney, July 2009

'Preparing tomorrow's lawyers today: graduate attributes in first year law',

First Year in Higher Education Conference, Townsville, June 2009

‘The

African Experience’, Occasional Speaker at Warrane College, UNSW, 23 September 2008

‘Challenges

in Implementing Human Rights Treaties: A Namibian Case Study’, ALTA Conference, Cairns July 2008

‘Continuing

Professional Development: Is there a Role for Academics?’, ALTA Conference, Cairns July 2008

‘The Sovereignty

Paradox’, New Worlds, New Sovereignties Conference Melbourne June 2008

‘Piloting the use of the

YouTube genre as teaching aids in law’, UTS Teaching and Learning Forum, Sydney, 15 November 2007

‘Protecting

civil societies: International assistance and intervention’, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Conference, 4 October 2007

‘The Role of Civil Society in Global Governance’, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Seminar Series, International

Perspectives, September 2007

‘Africa and the WTO’ UTS Law Faculty Staff Seminar Series, Sydney,

August 2007

‘Piloting the use of the YouTube genre as teaching aids in law’, Legal Education Interest

Group, ALTA Conference, Perth, July 2007

‘The International Legal System: an Unruly Horse?’, International Law

Interest Group, ALTA Conference, Perth, July 2007

‘The African Experience of the WTO Dispute Settlement

System’, International Law Interest Group, ALTA Conference, July 2007

‘Africa and the WTO’,

ELSA WTO Moot Academic Conference, Adelaide, April 2007

‘Graduate Attributes Means More Than Just Skills’,

ALTA Conference, 2006

Other

Solicitor

holding current unrestricted practising certificate, admitted in Supreme Court of New South Wales and High Court of Australia

since 1998

Practice Management Course for principal legal practitioner, College of Law October 2009

Working

proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Media Player, Movie Maker, Second Life, use of online databases

and internet search engines

Travels: Asia-Pacific, Africa, Europe, United States (56 countries in total)

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