Dr Lisa Spagnolo - Researcher Profile

Biography

Lisa has an LLB with First Class Honours, and is a Supreme Court Prize winner. She has been awarded Best Speaker in the Governor-General's Moot, and has a long association with the Vis Commercial Arbitration moot in Vienna and Hong Kong, both as a student (awarded Honourable Mention as an advocate) and as a guest arbitrator.

She practised with Minter Ellison as a commercial litigator, particularly in the area of banking and insolvency. Lisa is a PhD candidate.  Her thesis is on international sales and law and she is currently an Assistant Lecturer in Property Law.

A selection of Ms Spagnolo's publications is available to download at:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=552938

 

 

Research & Supervision Interests

Arbitration

Commercial and consumer contracts

Debentures

Good faith

Insolvency law

International commercial law

International private law

Pre contract liability

Property law

Restitution

Torts

Qualifications

PHD

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2012

BACHELOR OF LAWS (HONS)

Institution: Deakin University

Year awarded: 2000

BACHELOR OF COMMERCE

Institution: Deakin University

Year awarded: 1995

Publications

Books

Schwenzer, I., Spagnolo, L. (eds), 2012, State of Play: The 3rd Annual MAA Schlechtriem CISG Conference, Eleven International Publishing, The Netherlands.

Schwenzer, I., Spagnolo, L. (eds), 2011, Towards Uniformity: the 2nd Annual MAA Schlechtriem CISG Conference, Eleven International Publishing, The Netherlands.

Book Chapters

Spagnolo, L., 2011, Iura novit curia and the CISG: resolution of the faux procedural black hole, in Towards Uniformity: the 2nd Annual MAA Schlechtriem CISG Conference, eds Ingeborg Schwenzer and Lisa Spagnolo, Eleven International, The Netherlands, pp. 181-221.

Spagnolo, L., 2005, Legal pitfalls for family businesses: when should the alarm bells start ringing?, in Managing the Family Business, eds Linda Glassop and Dianne Waddell, Heidelberg Press, Heidelberg Vic Australia, pp. 105-129.

Journal Articles

Spagnolo, L., 2010, Green eggs and ham: the CISG, path dependence, and the behavioural economics of lawyers' choices of law in international sales contracts, Journal of Private International Law [P], vol 6, issue 2, Hart Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK, pp. 417-464.

Spagnolo, L., 2009, A Glimpse Through the Kaleidoscope: Choices of Law and the CISG (Kaleidoscope Part I), The Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration [P, vol 13, issue 1, Moot Alumni Association, Vienna Austria, pp. 135-156.

Spagnolo, L., 2009, Rats in the kaleidoscope: Rationality, irrationality and the economics & psychology of opting in and out of the CISG (Kaleidoscope part II), The Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration [P, vol 13, issue 1, Moot Alumni Association, Vienna Australa, pp. 157-178.

Spagnolo, L., 2009, The Last Outpost: Automatic CISG Opt Outs, Misapplications and the Costs of Ignoring the Vienna Sales Convention for Australian Lawyers, Melbourne Journal of International Law [P], vol 10, issue 1, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne Victoria, pp. 141-216.

Spagnolo, L., 2007, Opening Pandora's Box: Good Faith and Precontractual Liability in the CISG, Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, vol 21, issue 2, Temple University James E Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, pp. 261-310.

Other

Horrigan, B.T., Laryea, E.T., Spagnolo, L., 2012, "Reviewing Australia's contract law: A time for change?', Submission in response to Federal Attorney General Discussion Paper ' Improving Australia's Law and Justice Framework: A discussion paper to explore the scope for reforming Australian contract law, Australian Government, Attorney General's website - Submissions to the Review of Australian Contract Law.

Teaching Commitment

Property B (LAW3402)

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Impact of the New Saudi Arbitration Laws in Australia.

Supervisors:

Waincymer, J (Main), Spagnolo, L (Associate).