Emeritus Professor Tony Foley
Areas of expertise
- Legal Practice, Lawyering And The Legal Profession 180121
Current student projects
Nilanka Goonetillake - panel member
Doctorate
Working conditions of junior lawyers in the legal profession: A case for collective efforts and regulation over noe-liberalism
Past student projects
Doctorate
Helen Mc Gowan, PhD - Supervisor
- Helen's empirical inquiry asked the question 'How do lawyers in small scale regional legal practice recognise and resolve conflicts of interest?'
Marianne Dickie, Doctor of Professional Studies, USQ - Panel
- Marianne's thesis examined an Online Community of Practice designed on Erauts' principles of a 'Supportive Workplace' and enquired into its role in the formation of professional identity.
Honours
- Samantha O'Donnell, Proceeding with Caution: The Inclusion of Domestic Violence Offences in The Crimes (Restorative Justice) Act 2004 (ACT) – (Honours Thesis 2016)
- Alexandra Rose, Circle sentencing and the need to look beyondrecidivism for indicators of success – (Honours Thesis 2015) –awarded with Distinction
- Cassandra Bennett, The feasibility of using Family Group Conferencing in family protectioncased in the NT – (Honours Thesis 2015) – awarded with High Distinction
- Sarah Xin Yi Chua, Restorative Justice and juvenile indigenous offenders (Honours Thesis 2014) – awarded with High Distinction
- Rebecca Petterson, An international comparison of Australia and China as the contractually designated place for private international arbitration of commercial disputes (Honours Thesis 2013) – awarded with High Distinction
- Cathryn Stephens, A word of caution: Police cautioning as juvenile diversion and the need for regulation in the ACT (Honours Thesis 2011) – awarded with High Distinction
- Chen Xu, ‘Which suits are suitable? An analysis of the use of mediation by the ACT Administrative Appeals Tribunal to resolve planning and environmental disputes’ (Honours Thesis 2008) – awarded with Distinction
Summer Scholars
- Amy Dixon, ‘The extent to which court interpreters affect the outcomes of legal hearings', Summer Research Scholar. 2012-2013.
- Sonia Ng, ‘The Applicability of Restorative Justice in Serious Criminal Offending – Should the State draw a line?, Summer Research Scholar. 2010-2011.
Masters
- Stephen Tang, Lawyers transitioning to practice, On Being an Uncertain and Ignorant Lawyer: Embracing the unknown and unknowable in the practice of law (LLM Thesis 2011) –awarded with High Distinction
Research Interns
- Kendall Wegener, Tracing and placing the ACT Law Reform Advisory Council
- Erica Weatherly, Circle courts and the potential for expansion into care and protection in the ACT
- Elizabeth Beard, The less visible crisis: an analysis of the rising incarceration rates of Australian Indigenous women
Publications
- Holmes, V, Foley, T, Webb, J et al. 2021, 'Sexual Harassment & Legal Profession Regulation: Is Strengthening Ethical Culture the Answer?', Law Institute Journal, vol. 95, no. 10.
- Tang, S, Holmes, V & Foley, T 2020, 'Ethical Climate, Job Satisfaction and Wellbeing: Observations from an Empirical Study of New Australian Lawyers', Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, vol. 33, pp. 1035-1068.
- Tang, S, Foley, T & Holmes, V 2020, 'Ethical misconduct by new Australian lawyers: Prevalence and prevention', International Journal of the Legal Profession, DOI: 10.1080/09695958.2020.1765782
- Foley, T 2019, 'Changing institutional culture in the wake of clerical abuse - the essentials of restorative and legal regulation', Contemporary Justice Review, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 171-187.
- Curran, L, Evans, A, Foley, T et al 2019, The adequacy of legal ethics education in Victoria and elsewhere in Australia.
- Holmes, V, Foley, T, Tang, S et al. 2017, 'Regulating Lawyers', Law Institute Journal, vol. 91, no. 05, pp. 24-27pp..
- Holmes, V, Tang, S, Foley, T et al. 2017, 'Australian Legal Practice: Ethical Climate and Ethical Climate Change', in Ron Levy, Molly O'Brien, Simon Rice, Pauline Ridge and Margaret Thornton (ed.), New Directions for Law in Australia: Essays in Contemporary Law Reform, ANU Press, Canberra, pp. 461-471.
- Trevitt, A, Steed, A, Du Moulin, L et al. 2017, 'Leading entrepreneurial e-learning development in legal education: A longitudinal case study of universities as learning organisations', The Learning Organization, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 298-311.
- Tito Wheatland, F, Rice, S & Foley, T 2016, Final Report into the Guardianship and Management of Property Act 1991 (Guardianship Report).
- Foley, T & Tang, S, 2016, 'On being, not just thinking like, a lawyer: connections between uncertainty, ignorance and wellbeing', in Rachel Field, James Duffy, Colin James (ed.), Promoting law student and lawyer well-being in Australia and beyond, Routledge, Oxon, United Kingdom.
- Rowe, M, Foley, T, Tang, S, Holmes, V 2016, Being Well in the Law - a guide for lawyers, The Law Society of New South Wales, New South Wales.
- Foley, T, Holmes, V, Tang, S et al. 2015, 'Helping Junior Lawyers Thrive', Law Institute Journal, vol. 89, no. 9, pp. 44-47.
- Foley, T 2015, 'Institutional responses to child sexual abuse: how a moral conversation with its lawyers might contribute to cultural change in a faith-based institution', Legal Ethics, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 164-181.
- Chua, S & Foley, T 2015, 'Implementing Restorative Justice to Address Indigenous Youth Recidivism and Over-incarceration in the ACT: Navigating Law Reform Dynamics', Australian Indigenous Law Review, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 138-152.
- Tang, S & Foley, T 2014, 'The Practice of Law and the Intolerance of Certainty', University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 1198-1225.
- Foley, T 2014, Developing Restorative Justice Jurisprudence Rethinking Responses to Criminal Wrongdoing, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Farnham, UK and Burlington, USA.
- Curran, L & Foley, A 2014, 'Integrating Two Measures of Quality Practice into Clinical and Practical Legal Education Assessment: Good client interviewing and effective community legal education', International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 69-92.
- Foley, T 2013, 'Are retributive aims achievable in a restorative justice setting?', Journal of Judicial Administration, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 130-137.
- Foley, T 2013, 'The effect of courtroom behaviour on the welbeing of lawyers new to practice', Workplace Review, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 19-22.
- Foley, A, Rowe, M, Holmes, V, Tang, S 2012, 'Teaching professionalism in legal clinic - what new practitioners say is important', International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, vol. 17, pp. 5-22.
- Holmes, V, Foley, A, Tang, S, Rowe, M 2012, 'Practising Professionalism: Observations from an Empirical Study of New Australian Lawyers', Legal Ethics, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 29-56.
- Foley, T, Holmes, V, Rowe, M et al. 2011, A Puppy Lawyer is Not Just for Christmas: Helping new lawyers successfully make the transition to professional practice.
- Trevitt, A, Foley, T & Steed, A 2009, 'Curriculum (re)development 'on the job' in higher education: benefits of a collaborative and interactive framework supporting educational innovation', International Journal of Innovation in Education, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 35-50.
- Foley, T 2007, 'Environmental Conflict Resolution: Relational and Environmental Attentiveness as Measures of Success', Conflict Resolution Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 485-504.
- Foley, T 2006, 'Lawyers and Interpreters: Different client, different culture', Interpreting: International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 97-104.
- Foley, T 2005, 'The Justice of Restorative Justice Programs', International Network for Research on Restorative Justice and the Centre for Restorative Justice Conference 2005, Australian National University, Canberra, p. 1.
- Foley, T & Tamsitt, G 2005, 'Mentoring New Lawyers for Professional Legal Practice', Australasian Professional Legal Education Council Conference 2005, Australasian Professional Legal Education Council, Melbourne, p. 1.
- Foley, T 2005, 'You want justice with that? The Quality of Justice in Restorative Conferencing', Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Social Psychology Meets Law and Justice Conference, Australian National University, Canberra.
- Foley, A 2005, 'Environmental Dispute Resolution - producing outcomes that are environmentally fair', Australian Law Teachers Association Conference 2005, ed. The University of Waikato, Australasian Law Teachers Association, Lindfield, NSW, pp. 25-26.
- Foley, A, Harrison, J, Holmes, V et al 2005, 'Capacity of a Clinical Program to provide 'Minor Assistance' within the Structure of a Legal aid Commission', International Journal of Clinical Legal Education Conference 2005, Monash University, Melbourne, pp. 1-20.
- Foley, T 2002, 'Developing Electronic Discussion-Based Learning Clinical Legal Education', Newcastle Law Review, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 39-49.
- Foley, T 2002, 'Negotiating Resource Agreements: Lessons from ILUAs', Environmental and Planning Law Journal, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 267-275.
- Foley, T 2002, 'Environmental Negotiation: Finding Shared Interests in Forest Use Conflict', Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 98-112.
