Associate Professor
Kelly Purser

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Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law


Personal details

Positions

Associate Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Law

Keywords

Capacity Assessment, Decision-Making, Wills, Testamentary Capacity, Enduring Powers of Attorney, Elder Law, Elder Abuse, Estate Planning, Equity and Trusts, ACHLR

Research field

Law, Other Law and Legal Studies

Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Qualifications

  • PhD (University of New England)
  • Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) (University of New England)

Professional memberships and associations


  • Queensland Law Society (QLS)
  • QLS Succession Law Committee
  • QLS Elder Law Committee
  • Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
  • Australasian Law Teachers Association
  • Formerly admitted to practice as a legal practitioner, Queensland and New South Wales (2004)

Teaching

Units Taught - Currently Undergraduate

  • LLB346 Succession
  • LLB205 Equity and Trusts
  • LLH473 Independent Research Project

Units Taught - Previously Undergraduate

  • LLB103 Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • LLB303 Evidence

Masters

  • LWN195 Elder Law
  • LWN083 Estate Planning

Publications

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Supervision

Current supervisions

  • Dissociative survivors of child sexual abuse: obstacles to accessing civil law remedies
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Ben Mathews
  • Disentitling conduct and human rights: a critical analysis of the role of elder abuse in dispute resolution of family provision applications
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Tina Cockburn
  • Could Conducting Criminal Investigations Into Elder Financial Abuse Within a Human Rights Framework Improve The Criminal Justice Response for Victims of Abuse?
    PhD, Associate Supervisor
    Other supervisors: Professor Tina Cockburn