Dr Greg Taylor

Research Interests

Comparative Law
Constitutional Law
Evidence
Intellectual Property
Legal History

Grants and Commissions

2005-2007: Publications subsidy (Victorian Law Foundation) and research grant (Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria) to support the writing of The Constitution of Victoria

2005: Small Research Grant, Faculty of Law (Publication of Characterisation in Federations: Six Countries Compared)

2004: Small Research Grant, Faculty of Law (Characterisation in German constitutional law)

2001: Small Research Grant, Australian Research Council (The effect of constitutional provisions on private law)

Publications

2008

The Law of the Land: Canada's Receptions of the Torrens System (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History/University of Toronto Press, 2008)

"Is the Torrens System German?" (2008) 29 Journal of Legal History 253

"Refusals of Assent to Bills Passed by Parliament in Germany and Australia" (2008) 36 Federal Law Review 83

"A 'Telephone Exception' to Hearsay?" (2008) 30 Australian Bar Review 318

"Justice Callinan's Conrtibution to the Law of Torts" (2008) 27 University of Queensland Law Journal (forthcoming)

"Upper House Reform in Germany" (2008) 17 Constitutional Forum (forthcoming)

"Subsidiarity in Germany - A Slow Death?" (2008) 6 International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming)

"Parliament's Power to Require the Production of Documents - A Recent Victorian Case" (2008) 13 Deakin Law Review (forthcoming)

Review of Waugh, First Principles: The Melbourne Law School 1857 - 2007 (2008) 30 Australian Bar Review 132

Review of Rabe, Die foderale Entwicklung in Australien und Deutschland: ein Rechtsvergleich (2008) 11 Constitutional Law and Policay Review (forthcoming)

2007

"Bericht - Australien" in Tellenback (ed.), Die Rolle der Ehre im Strafrecht (Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007)

"Two Refusals of Royal Assent in Victoria" (2007) 29 Sydney Law Review   85

"How Did the Torrens System's Get to Canada?" (2007) 29:1 Law Society Review (S.A) 12

"State and Territory Constitutional Law - Still an Important Topic" (2007) 10 Constitutional Law and Policy Review 8

"The Torrens System's Migration to Victoria", (2007) 33 Monash University Law Review 323

Review of Schumer, Die Stellung des Ministerprasidenten in den Bundeslandern im Vergleich (2007) 17 European Business Law Review 1205

Review of Bennett, George Higinbotham: Third Chief Justice of Victoria (2007) 81:7 Law Institute Journal (Victoria) 83

Letter to the Editor of the "Age", 7 March 2007

Expert commentary: "Age", 21 November 2007, p.4

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2007