Contact Details
p: +61 2 9514 3251
f: +61 2 9514 3400
Location
Faculty of Law
Cnr Quay St & Ultimo Road
Haymarket NSW 2007
Room# CM05B.02.11
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Mailing Address
UTS:LAW
P.O. Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
AUSTRALIA
Areas of Expertise
› Commercial Law
› Legal Education
› Jurisprudence
Current Teaching
70105 Legal Research
70217 Criminal Law
70318 Personal Property
Academic Profile
Francis Johns joined the Faculty in 2004, having taught on a sessional basis the previous two years.
Francis has been the academic co-ordinator for the subjects Legal Research and Personal Property and is currently taking an active role in the Faculty's curriculum review. He is also undertaking postgraduate study in higher education teaching and learning.
Prior to teaching at UTS, Francis worked for Butterworths Legal Publishers. While at Butterworths, he variously edited Halsbury's Laws of Australia; managed the commissioning department; and managed the Lexis.com market for Australia and New Zealand.
Current Research Activities
Comparative law survey of court rules in relation to citation of unreported judgments.
Higher education teaching and learning.
Pending Publications
LSF grant 2006 (with L. Taylor and S. Carr-Gregg): commission and edit commercial law text; establish commercial law newsletter
Chapter, "Qualitative Legal Research Methodology" (with Ian Dobinson to be published in 2007)