Barrie Hansen is a Juris Doctor (Honours) graduate of Bond University Law School in Australia. The author is currently enrolled in an LLM program with focus on Energy and Resource law. The author has also received a Practitioners Diploma from the Australian College of Law. Professor John Farrar, renowned Corporate Governance author and lecturer, has agreed to supervise the author's PhD/SJD on the "Shadow Banking System", a term first employed in 2007 by Bill Gross, the Founder of PIMCO. Research is currently underway. The author does significant pro bono work for aboriginal groups in Australia, and has been an advocate of self-determination as a key 'erga omnes' human rights principle. The author was the pro bono legal and political affairs advisor to the Government of South Sudan in the year leading up to their Independence Referendum in January of 2011.
Articles
LEHMAN BROTHERS: THE FAILURE OF THE LEGAL GATEKEEPER, University of Auckland, Center for Corporate Governance (2010)
A sham transaction was defined in Snook v London & West Riding Investments [1967] 2...
Presentations
REGULATORY ANALYSIS AND RESPONSE TO POTENTIAL COAL SEAM GAS GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION IN QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA, Senate Inquiry in to Potential CSG Contamination of Queensland Groundwater (2011)
The coal seam gas (coalbed methane) industry in Australia is practically in its infancy, but...
SOUTHERN SUDAN SELF-DETERMINATION PRIVATE MEMBERS MOTION 2010, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2010)
In 2010 I was introduced to a young man, Lual Jok Alaak, who was then...
Unpublished Papers
LEGAL ANALYSIS OF PETROLEUM INVESTMENT IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT ZONE: SOUTHERN SUDAN, ExpressO (2010)
The "resource curse" is a term that was coined to describe the problems that inevitably...
ANALYSIS OF THE 2010 SEC -- DELL INC ACCOUNTING FRAUD SETTLEMENT, White Collar Crime (2010)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? “Who shall guard the guards?” Juvenal, Satires
The rule of law...
Other
TO BE FOREWARNED IS TO BE FOREARMED (2012)
Praemonitus praemunitus is a Latin expression which translates as, "Forewarned is forearmed". The expression was...
COMMON LAW McKENZIE FRIEND - THE LAY ADVOCATE (2011)
Ancient Roman poet, Publius Ovidius Naso, known to most college graduates as Ovid, said, “Happy...