Contact Details
p: +61 2 9514 3404
f: +61 2 9514 3400
e: Louise.Greentree@uts.edu.au
Location
Faculty of Law
Cnr Quay St & Ultimo Road
Haymarket NSW 2007
Room# CM05B.04.12
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Mailing Address
UTS:LAW
P.O. Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
AUSTRALIA
Areas of Expertise
› Pre-Admission skills and training, particularly in relation to Dispute Resolution and Collaborative Practice.
› Ecclesiastical Law and dispute resolution processes (with particular reference to Anglican Church in Australia)
› Collaborative Practice
› Restorative Practices
› Family Systems Theory and its application to organisational conflict
› Conflict resolution process design, particularly in respect of voluntary organisations
› Public and private conflict transformation processes
Current Teaching
75415 Professional Conduct 1
75416 Professional Conduct 2
78012 Managing the Resolution of Public Arena Disputes
78022 Restorative Justice Processes
79771 Dispute Resolution
78027 Organisational Conflict Resolution
Academic Profile
After 21 years in private practice as a solicitor (including 17 years as a partner of a Sydney City firm of solicitors), Louise Greentree joined the College of Law. While there, she designed, wrote and presented a national training course for representatives of children in Family Court proceedings, and a 'train the trainers' course for Judges and Registrars of the Family Court, child experts and senior family lawyers.
Louise moved to UTS as a foundation member of the Practical Legal Training (PLT) program teaching team. Over the years, she has taught in most areas of that program, as well as designing and coordinating the Stage 2 program and subjects Advocacy, Legal Skills and Professional Awareness and Legal Accounting (Professional Conduct 1).
Louise's research interests have developed into areas of dispute resolution - with a particular focus on collaborative practice; restorative practices; the application of family systems theory in organisational conflict; and dispute resolution systems design. She is a part-time candidate for a PhD, researching conflict resolution processes in the Anglican Church of Australia and is developing a consultancy on intervention processes for the resolution of parish conflicts.
Louise has trained as a mediator and arbitrator and as a facilitator of restorative conferences. She is also undertaking part-time studies at the Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia USA in Conflict Transformation. Louise has designed subjects which she now teaches in the dispute resolution stream of the Faculty's postgraduate law program.
Current Research Activities
PhD Research: "Conflict resolution in the Anglican Church of Australia with case studies"
Submissions to the Synod Committee on Improving Parish Dispute Resolution Processes, Anglican Church of Australia Diocese of Melbourne, March 2006 and continuing.
Recent Publications and Conference Papers
"Real Practice: teaching and modeling restorative practices for law students to develop personal integrity and professional ethics", APLEC Conference Hobart, Nov 2004
"A restorative approach to preparing law students for ethical practice: designing subject teaching and student disciplinary processes using restorative practices within a Law Faculty to teach and model standards of personal integrity and professional ethics", Legal Ethics Conference, University of Canterbury, NZ, Jan 2005
"Conversion: the overlooked and under-rated element of restorative practices?", International Institute of Restorative Practices Conference, Penrith, Feb 2005
"Finding the Victim in the Offender", International Institute of Restorative Practices Conference, Manchester, Nov 2005
"Devaluing the Priesthood: changing the role and removing protection, justice and fair process from the 'workplace' of the parish priest of the Anglican Church of Australia", Law Religion and Social Change Conference, ANU, May 2006
"A shame about shame: examining the several concepts of 'shame' as elements of restorative processes", International Institute of Restorative Practices Conference, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Oct 2006