Anne Ardagh 
BA(Dist)(Wisc), JurisDr(San Fran), Member State Bar of California
Position: Associate Professor
Office Location:
Room: 216
Building : 28
Mailing Address :
School of Accounting
Charles Sturt University
Locked Bag 588
WAGGA WAGGA NSW 2678
Telephone: +61 2 6933 512
Fax: +61 2 6933 2790
Email: aardagh@csu.edu.au
Brief Biography
Anne graduated with Distinction with a four year degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and subsequently completed a Juris Doctor Degree at the University of San Francisco. She is a Member of the State Bar of California, and has had experience in the United States, Canada and Australia in the fields of Librarianship, Public Utilities, Neighbourhood Legal Assistance, Counselling and Family Law, Mediation and Dispute Resolution, facilitation and management consulting and law lecturing.
She designed theCharles Sturt University’s Dispute Resolution program, a distance learning program which comprises a Graduate Certificate, a Graduate Diploma and a Masters degree, and has written extensive learning materials on mediation and dispute resolution.
Anne is an accredited and experienced mediator who has supervised a panel of mediators for the Community Justice Centre in Wagga Wagga. She oversaw the pilot program for Community Youth Conferencing in Wagga in 1996-98. She has been a Community Justice Centre mediator since 1994.
She is also on the panel for the New South Wales Legal Aid Commission’s Family Law Conferencing program and has held ministerial appointments to the Health Conciliation Registry (New South Wales) since 2003. She is a registered family dispute resolution practitioner with the Commonwealth Attorney General and is accredited to the National Mediation Accreditation Standard..
Research Focus
Dispute Resolution
Commercial Law
International Business
Administrative Law
Teaching Responsibilities
LAW200 Commercial Activities Law
LAW260 Administrative Law
LAW395 Electronic Commerce and the Law
LAW503 Australian Administrative Law
LAW511 Commercial Law 1
LAW517 Mediation: Processes and Uses
Administrative Responsibilities
Disciplinary Head, Law
Probationary Review Committee
Course Advisor, CSU Dispute Resolution programs
Professional Activities
Reviewer for QUT Law and Justice Journal
Mentor, coach, peer appraiser and trainer for the Community Justice Centres, Department of Attorney General, NSW, as well as a member of a Professional Reference Group and Training Group for Community Justice Centres (2001-2007)
Mediator and Conciliator
Consultancies
Numerous consultancies or facilitations involving the public and private sector on mediation and conflict resolution processes and training, eg University, CRS Australia, RAAF (Canberra), Wagga Wagga City Council, Riverina Institute of TAFE, Riverina Theatre Company, Wangaratta District Base Hospital, Temora Shire Council.
Selected Publications
Books
Ardagh, A.V. (2006) Business Law Study Manual. LexisNexis Butterworths.
Ardagh, A.V. (2006) Administrative Law, Thomson/LBC, 3 rd edition.
Ardagh, A.V. (2004) Administrative Law. (Student Companion), Lexis Nexis, 5 th edition.
Ardagh, A.V. (2001) Business Law of Australia Workbook, Workbook for Business Law of Australia, 10th edition by R.B. Vermeesch & K.E. Lindgren, Butterworths.
Ardagh, A.V. (2001) Business Law, Butterworths (Q & A series).
Ardagh, A.V. ( 1999 ) Administrative Law , LBC Information Services, 2nd edition. (General Editor, the Hon Mr Justice Young.)
Ardagh, A.V. (1999) Administrative Law (Student Companion), Butterworths, 4th edition.
Ardagh, A.V. (1998) Business Law of Australia Workbook, Workbook for Business Law of Australia, 9th edition by R.B. Vermeesch & K.E. Lindgren, Butterworths.
Ardagh, A.V. (1998) Teacher’s Manual to accompany Business Law of Australia Workbook, 9th edition, Butterworths.
Ardagh, A.V. (1997) Administrative Law (Student Companion), Butterworths, 3rd edition.
Ardagh, A.V. (1995) Business Law of Australia Workbook, Workbook for Business Law of Australia, 8th edition by R. Vermeesch & K.E. Lindgren, Butterworths.
Ardagh, A.V. (1995) Teacher’s Manual to accompany Business law of Australia Workbook. 8th edition, Butterworths.
Ardagh, A.V. (1994) Administrative Law (Student Companion), Butterworths, 2nd edition.
Ardagh, A.V. (1994) Business Law of Australia Workbook, Workbook for Business Law of Australia, 7th edition by K.V. Vermeesch & K.E. Lindgren, Butterworths.
Ardagh, A.V. (1993) Administrative Law (part of a series edited by The Hon. Mr Justice Young), Law Book Company.
Ardagh, A.V. (1989) Administrative Law (Student Companion), Butterworths.
Book Chapters
Ardagh, A.V. (2009) "Freedom of Information in Australia: A Comparative and Criticial Assessment" article in Chapter 3, Administrative Law, 6th edition by Roger Douglas, Federation Press. This article was published in the 1st edition 1993; republished in the 2nd edition 1996, 3rd edition 1999,4th edition 2002 and 5th edition 2006.
Ardagh, A.V. (2007) “Intellectual property Protection and the WTO TRIPS Agreement: Finding a Global Balance for Development as part of the Doha Round”, Ch 11 Engagement & Change: exploring Management, Economic and Finance Implications of a Globalising Environment edited by PP Basu, G O’Neill and A Travaglione. Australian Academic Press, Brisbane.
Ardagh, A.V. (2005) Chapter 22, “Supply of Goods and Services” in Business Law of Australia by R Vermeesch and K.E. Lindgren, 11 th edition. LexisNexis Butterworths.
Ardagh, A.V. & Cumes, G. “Lawyers and Mediation” reprinted in Dispute Resolution in Australia; Cases, Commentary and Materials by D. Spencer and T Altobelli, Thomson Law Book Co, 2005, p 29-33.
Ardagh, A.V. “Transformative Mediation: the Opportunity and the Challenge” reprinted in Dispute Resolution in Australia; Cases, Commentary and Materials by D Spencer and T Altobelli, Thomson Law Book Co. 2005, p.142-144.
Ardagh, A.V. (2001) "Supply of Goods and Services", a 35,000 word chapter in Business Law of Australia, 10 th edition by R. Vermeesch and K.E. Lindgren, Butterworths, p 690-756.
Conference/Journal papers:
Ardagh, A (2008) ‘Re-positioning the legal profession in ADR Services: The place of collaborative law in the New Family Law System in Australia’ 8(1) Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal 238.
Ardagh, A (2008) ‘Collaborative Law: is it really ADR’? 10 th National Mediation Conference, Perth, 9-12 September.
Ardagh, A and Cumes, G (2007) ‘Lawyers post-ADR: mediation and collaborative law’ 10(2) ADR Bulletin 30 (Special issue: Frontiers of ADR – selection from current research).
Ardagh, A. (2007). ‘Lawyers and collaborative law.’ National Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Council ( NADRAC), Research forum, 13-14 July.
Ardagh, A and Cumes, G (2007) ‘The Legal Profession post-ADR: From mediation to collaborative law’, 18 (4) Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal 205.
Ardagh, A. (2006) ‘Community Mediation: Community Justice; the role of Community Justice Centres’. Paper presented to the 8 th National Mediation Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, May.
Ardagh, A. (2004). ‘Conflict, globalisation, needs and security’. 15 (4) Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal 230.
Ardagh, A (2002) ‘Globalisation and Conflict: Global Integration or disintegration?’ “Beyond Boundaries: Challenges of Leadership, Innovation, Integration, and Technology”, Global Business and Technology Association International Conference Rome, Italy 25-29 June (double blind’ refereed and published as part of the Conference Proceedings).
Ardagh, A (1999) Transformative mediation: the promise and the challenge’. 2 ADR Bulletin 1, May/June.
Ardagh, A.V. & Cumes, G. (1998) ‘Lawyers and mediation: beyond the adversarial system?’ 9 Australian Dispute Resolution Journal, 1, 72-80.
Cumes, G. & Ardagh, A. (1998) “Social Justice and Social Transformation in Dispute Resolution” presentation at the Social Justice/Social Judgement: questions of value and contemporary Australian society Conference, UWS Nepean, April.
Ardagh, A.V. & Cumes, G. (1997) “Lawyers and mediation”. International Law Conference: Beyond the adversarial system: changing roles and skills for courts, tribunals and practitioners” 10-11 July. National Institute for Law Ethics and Public Affairs and the Australian Law Reform Commission, Brisbane.
Ardagh, A.V. & Cumes, G. (1997) “Community mediation: A real alternative” at 10th Annual Conference of the International Association for Conflict Management. Bonn, Germany.
Ardagh, A.V. & Cumes, G. (1997) “Community justice: Sustaining the community” at AASR (Australian Association of Social Research, Conference Sustainability and Social Research. (Published as part of the proceedings, AASR 97, pp. 141-148.)
Ardagh, A.V. & Cumes, G. (1997) “Youth conferencing schemes: Some ethical dimensions for police”. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics, October 1996.
Ardagh, A.V. (1996) “Contrasting models of youth conferencing”. Paper presented at the Crime and Justice in Regional Australia Conference, Wagga Wagga, June.
Ardagh, A.V. (1996) Youth conferencing contrasting models; a comparison of Community Youth Conferencing with Wagga Police Family Conferencing. Paper presented at “Crime & Justice in Regional Australia” Conference, June 1996. (Riverina Papers in Commerce).
Ardagh, A.V. (1994) Dispute Resolution: the alternatives for Commercial Law, national and international. (Riverina Papers in Commerce).
Research Project Supervision
Interests include:
Law
Dispute Resolution
Mediation
Craig Latham, PhD
Australian Taxation of Ecommerce (Graduated May 2008)
Yuki Shimizu, BBus (Hons)
In Pursuit of Legitimacy: The case of a multinational corporation in Burma (Graduated April 2008)
Brian Couper, PhD
The Notion
of Unconscionability Under the Trade Practices Act, 1974 (Cth): The Role of Natural Law.
Grants and Awards
OPEL Research Grant 2008: An evaluation of collaborative law in Australia: A case study of an ACT collaborative practitioners group.
Teaching Awards
1994 Faculty of Commerce, Charles Sturt University Teaching Award
1991 Nominated as Charles Sturt University's exemplary teacher. Summary of law teaching techniques was chosen to represent CSU in a booklet issued at the Australian Vice Chancellor's Symposium on the Quality of Teaching in Higher Education Institutions.
1988 Commendation awarded by NSW TAFE for best statewide performance by Company Law students in their final examination which was externally set and externally marked.