Professor Rocque Reynolds BA(Sydney), LLM(Sydney), PhD(Sydney) Professor Rocque Reynolds is Dean of Law and Head of School of the Southern Cross University School of Law and Justice. Rocque is a leading authority on administrative law, intellectual property and regulatory theory and her text books in these fields are used throughout Australia. Rocque specialises in regulatory design for food, food security, and agriculture; and intellectual property law with particular reference to plant breeders’ rights, geographical indicators, traditional knowledge, and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. As a lawyer in a large legal firm and independent legal consultant Rocque has advised Australian and international firms and industry bodies on many aspects of food and agricultural regulation to produce focused, industry relevant research. She has been the Chief Investigator on one ARC and two RIRDC research projects. Research Interests Professor Rocque Reynolds is an experienced researcher on the relationship between social policy and law with a particular focus on the role of regulatory authorities in food and agriculture. She has conducted large scale qualitative and quantitative research into the social and legal impact of contract growing in Australian agriculture. Rocque is particularly interested in the regulatory challenges of the decentred state and she has supervised post graduate research into a number of regulatory authorities including the NSW Food Authority, the GM Regulator and the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal.
Journal articles
Red bull gives you wings: patrolling the boundaries of drug foods, Federal Law Review (2011)
In this article I examine the regulation of Red Bull by Food Standards Australia New...
The police logic of balancing the interests in Copyright Law, Public Space: the journal of law and social justice (2010)
This article examines the use of the phrase ‘balancing the interests’ in political debate relating...
Detoxification, displacement and deferral: the democratic failures of GM regulation, Griffith Law Review (2009)
The implied promise of liberal democracies in a state of pluralism is that difference will...
Books
Intellectual property: text and essential cases (with Natalie Stoianoff, Angela Adrian, and Alpana Roy), (2012)
Intellectual Property: Text and Essential Cases continues to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date legal analysis of...
Control of government action: text, cases and commentary (with Robyn Creyke and John McMillan), School of Law and Justice (2009)
Control of Government Action provides comprehensive coverage of the legal controls on government decision-making in...
Book chapters
Law of trafficking in Cambodia, Selling noodles: the traffic in women and children in Cambodia (1996)
Reports, catalogue essays
Fair dinkum: a seed production agreement for the pastures seeds industry, School of Law and Justice (2011)
This RIRDC report contains a draft Seed Production Agreement for the pasture seeds industry which...
Plant breeder's rights and contract growing in the pasture seeds industry: a market in transition, School of Law and Justice (2007)
This report examines the transformation of the Australian pasture seeds industry over the past twenty...