Ms Rachel Bradshaw ~ Lecturer

 

Rachel Bradshaw is a Law Lecturer and First Year Coordinator for Law at the College of Business, Law and Governance at JCU Cairns.  Rachel has a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from James Cook University and a Master of Laws Degree from Queensland University of Technology.  Her research area is intellectual property law. 

 

Teaching

• LA1101: Legal Institutions and Processes (Level 1; CNS)
• LA1105: Contract Law 1 (Level 1; CNS & TSV)
• LA1106: Contract Law 2 (Level 1; CNS & TSV)
• LA4045: Intellectual Property Law (Level 4; TSV)

Interests

Research

• Intellectual Property Law; Legal Education

Awards

• 2012 - JCU Award for Excellence in the category of Learning and Teaching for commitment to continuous improvement in student experience and retention in the First Year Law Program.
• 2011 - JCU Faculty Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for exceptional guidance extended to students navigating their first year of Law, through pastoral care based on knowing and understanding students' learning needs.
• 2008 - JCU Citation for outstanding contribution to student learning (joint recipient with Mandy Shircore and Dominique Thiriet) for approaches to assessment feedback and learning support that foster independent learning.

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Journal Articles

• Bradshaw R (2013) The use and misuse of DNA profiles in Australia. Australian Bar Review, 37 (1). pp. 17-39
• Galloway K, Shircore M, Corbett-Jarvis N and Bradshaw R (2012) Using sustainability to inform renewal of the LLB foundation curriculum: knowledge skills and attitudes for the future. Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal, 12 (1). pp. 1-20
• Galloway K, Bradshaw R, Dunbar N and Fellows J (2011) Approaches to student support in the first year of law school. Legal Education Review, 21 (1-2). pp. 235-249
• Bradshaw R (2010) Experimental use exemption: a necessary expansion in Australian patent law. Australian Intellectual Property Journal, 21 (3). pp. 134-147
• Galloway K and Bradshaw R (2010) Responding to changed parameters of the law student: a reflection on pastoral care in the law school. Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, 3 (1 and 2). pp. 101-112

Book Chapters

• Collins P, Corbett-Jarvis N, Galloway K, Schillmoller A, Shircore M, Thiriet D and Bradshaw R (2014) Renewal of the LLB transition curriculum for the new quality regime. In: The First-Year Law Experience: a new beginning. Halstead Press, Canberra, ACT, pp. 130-145

Other research outputs

• Bradshaw R (2013) International patent law: an imbalance of competing interests? Abstracts from Australia New Zealand Law and History Society Conference. 25-27 November 2013, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Bradshaw R (2008) Delivering justice for Darfur: is the ICC simply a significant step in the right direction? Australasian Law Teachers Association 63rd Annual Conference: the law, the environment, Indigenous peoples: climate for change?. In: 2008 Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference: the law, the environment, Indigenous peoples: climate for change?, 6-9 July 2008, Cairns, QLD, Australia
• Havemann P and Bradshaw R (2008) Introducing conceptual and contextual literacy for first year LLB students. Australasian Law Teachers Association 63rd Annual Conference: the law, the environment, Indigenous peoples: climate for change?. In: 2008 Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference: the law, the environment, Indigenous peoples: climate for change?, 6-9 July 2008, Cairns, QLD, Australia