LLB (Hons)(Melb) JD (Chicago) Mary Hiscock, Emeritus Professor of the Law Faculty, spent many years teaching at Bond University and at the University of Melbourne. Her career has also been interspersed with visiting appointments in Europe, Asia and North America. Internationally she has represented Australia on numerous occasions at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). For many years she was a consultant to the Asian Development Bank and is an Expert Adviser to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Professor Hiscock continues to be a member of several Editorial Boards including the Australian Journal of Asian Law and of the Melbourne Journal of International Law and is the immediate past Chair of the International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia and a past President of the Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law.
Articles
Cross-border online consumer dispute resolution, Contemporary Asia Arbitration (2011)
The rapid increase in the number of low cost cross-border electronic consumer transactions of the...
The emerging legal concept of investment, Penn state international law review (2009)
The context of this paper is the current range of investment regulation regimes in Asia,...
The international criminal court - What it means to Australia., Law papers (2002)
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For several hundred years, it has been a basic rule of our legal system...
The International Criminal Court: What it means to Australia, The National Legal Eagle (2002)
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For several hundred years, it has been a basic role of our legal...
Shipwrecks, asylum seekers, and the rule of law: The Tampa case, The National Legal Eagle (2001)
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On 26 August 2001, a small Indonesian vessel, dangerously overloaded, was in imminent...
Books
The internationalisation of law: Legislating, decision-making, practice and education (with William Van Caenegem), William Van Caenegem (2010)
This insightful book explores the acute challenges presented by the ‘internationalisation’ of law, a trend...
Contributions to Books
Epilogue (with William van Caenegem), The internationalisation of law: Legislating, decision-making, practice and education (2010)
Two events were selected by the faculty of law at Bond University to celebrate its...
The internationalisation of law: Introductory and personal thoughts for the Symposium, The internationalisation of law: Legislating, decision-making, practice and education (2010)
Extract: My thesis is that internationalisation of law, at least in this country, is not...