Professor Nick James
Professor Nick James has been the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law at Bond University since 2014. He is a former commercial lawyer and has been practising as a legal academic since 1996. He is a successful leader and innovator and is passionate about legal education and the role of law schools in modern society. His areas of teaching expertise include law in context, legal theory, animal law, business law, and company law. He has won numerous awards for his teaching, including a National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, and he is the author of several leading textbooks. He has written numerous journal articles, book chapters and conference papers in the areas of legal education, critical legal theory, disruption of the legal services sector and the impacts of climate change. Professor James is Co-Director of the Bond University Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLE), Co-Chair of the Council of Australian Law Deans (CALD), and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.