Geoff Holland

Lecturer

BA in Comm (Media Arts), LLB (Hons), Grad Cert Legal Practice (UTS), LLM (UNSW), Barrister of the Supreme Court of NSW and the High Court of Australia

Academic Profile

Geoff Holland commenced teaching at UTS in 2003 in both the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science (where he teaches Media Information and the Law and the Regulation of the Media to media production and journalism students).

Geoff holds degrees in Media Arts and Law, and is currently completing postgraduate studies in Law. He has been a member of the Editorial Board of the UTS Law Review (2003- 2006) and was Co-Editor of  Volume 5 of the Review, "The Public Right to Know". He is currently a member of the Review's Academic Advisory Committee and is a member of the board of Public Space: The Journal of Law and Social Justice.

Prior to joining UTS, Geoff worked in criminal law policy development, in corporate publishing, and for a national media network.

Current Research Activities

Qld Dept of Justice LPTIF Grant: The Queensland Impaired Competence Planning Pilot Project, with Prof. Patrick Keyzer (Bond) and Prof. Terry Carney (USyd)

The criminalisation of copyright law

Regulatory controls on acts of speech

Freedom of association as a constitutional right in Australia

Institutionalised homophobia in Australia

Academic freedom in Australia

Recent Publications & Conference Papers

"The soft Underbelly of Contempt Laws", UTS:LAW Research Series Seminar, May 2008

"Drawing the Line - Balancing Religious Vilification Laws and Freedom of Speech" UTSLR 8 (2006)

Submission to HREOC National Inquiry into Discrimination against People in Same-Sex Relationships: Financial and Work-Related Entitlements and Benefits, June 2006 (available at http://hreoc.gov.au/samesex/submissions.html)

"Defamation and the Internet - Did the High Court get it Right?", UTS LSS The Full Bench, June 2006.

"Case Note - Sony v Stevens", UTS LSS The Full Bench, June 2006.

"Science or Security: The future of the free flow of scientific information in the age of terror.", 16 JLIS 551 (2005)

"Gay and Lesbian Rights in Australia", UTS:LAW Research Series Seminar, October 2005

"Academic Freedom in Australia", UTS LSS The Full Bench, October 2005

Panel member, Teaching Media Law, Communications and Media Law Conference, Melbourne, December 2005

"Institutionalised Homophobia", UTS:LAW Research Series Seminar, September 2005

"The Rights of the Unborn Child in Criminal Law", UTS:LAW Research Series Seminar, September 2005

Co-Convenor, Intellectual Property Interest Group, ALTA Conference, 2004