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Dr Sonya Willis is a lecturer at Macquarie Law School, director of Postgraduate Law Programs and director of the Corporate and Commercial Law major. Sonya researches and teaches primarily in civil procedure and private international law. Sonya completed her PhD in Law at the University of Sydney on the interaction between case management, justice and procedural fairness in civil litigation. Sonya was also a university medallist in law at UTS and holds a masters of law from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney. Sonya has maintained a NSW Practicing Certificate for over 20 years and was a taxation specialist at an international accounting firm and a senior associate in commercial dispute resolution at Blake Dawson (now Ashurst) prior to becoming an academic. Sonya is the author of Civil Procedure published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. Sonya is also an editor of the Legal Education Review.
Research interests
Civil Procedure; Procedural fairness and its effect on court process; Civil litigant vulnerability; Civil and Commercial Litigation; Alternate Dispute Resolution; Private International Law; International Commercial Arbitration and other means of private international dispute resolution; Conflicts of law; International Commercial Litigation; and Legal Education.
Teaching
LAWS398 Civil and Criminal Procedure LLB (Co-Convenor)
LAWS813 Civil and Criminal Procedure JD (Co-convenor)
LAW 898 International Commercial LAW JD/MITCL/LLM (Convenor)
LAWS530 Jessup International Law Mooting Competition (Co-convenor)
LAW 550 Litigation LLB (Convenor 2016-17)
Research student supervision
I am available to supervise higher degree research candidates in civil procedure, commercial litigation, international commercial arbitration, international commercial law, conflicts of law and dispute settlement.
Current Supervisions
Rhys Manley, Thesis Title, 'Liberalisation of Trade in the Era of Increasing Supervision of the Financial System: A Model for Promoting Financial Stability and Inclusion' (PhD).
Community engagement
Primary Ethics Teacher (2011-present)
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Research Outputs 2006 2019
Case managing strategic litigation and international forum shopping
Willis, S., 21 Feb 2019, Civil Justice Research Conference 2019 - programme. Macquarie University, 1 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference abstract › Research
private law
case management
international law
management decision
transaction
Could civil case management benefit from a litigant vulnerability assessment scheme?
Willis, S., 2018, In : Journal of Civil Litigation and Practice. 7, 3, p. 94-104 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Vulnerability
Justice
Cultural Differences
Workload
Self-representation
The case for case management: justice, efficiency and procedural fairness in Australian civil procedure
Willis, S., 1 Feb 2018, (Unpublished)Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis › Research
case management
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justice
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Why the Family Court is worth fighting for
Dominello, F., Willis, S. & Hanna, S., 11 Jun 2018, In : Inside story.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research
Open Access
family court
Assessing assessment: is an unexamined life the inevitable future of law schools?
Willis, S., 4 Dec 2017. 1 p.Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Research
Activities 2008 2019
Civil Justice Research Conference 2019
Sonya Willis (Organiser)21 Feb 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
Could judicial case management benefit from a litigant capability/vulnerability index?
Sonya Willis (Speaker)14 Feb 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Macquarie law journal (Journal)
Sonya Willis (Editor)2018
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
The why, how and whether of assessing vulnerability in an institutional context
Sonya Willis (Speaker)23 Nov 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Victims, survivors, innocents? Exploring the mobilisation of vulnerability in policy and law 2018
Sonya Willis (Organiser), Adele Garnier (Organiser), Teresa Somes (Organiser), Francesca Dominello (Organiser)23 Nov 2018
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...