Professor Mark Stoney

LLB UTas LLM
Head of School

Contact Information

Tel:

+61 (0)8 6304 5135

Fax:

+61 (0)8 6304 5406

Email:

m.stoney@ecu.edu.au

Campus:

Joondalup

Building:

2

Room:

2.315

Availability:

Joondalup: Thursday 9am-1pm

Other times by arrangement

Current Teaching:

LAW2215 Cyber Law

LAW3101 Insolvency Law

LAW4120 Legal Environment for e-Commerce

Background

History:

Mark Stoney is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court and has extensive teaching experience in many areas of law. He is the course co-ordinator of Business Law, Justice and Policing within the School and has held various management positions within the School over many years. Mark has won numerous teaching and learning awards at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels including the 2002, 2003 and 2004 Faculty of Business and Law Teaching Excellence Award, the 2005 Dean's Excellence Award for and the 2001 Vice Chancellor's Excellence in Teaching Award. Mark is also the chair of the University's Human Research Ethics Committee.

Specialisation:

E-Commerce (Internet) related law, intellectual property,corporations and insolvency law

Research and Publications

Research Interest:

Internet and e-commerce law related issues (particularly the area of jurisdiction); insolvency related issues (particularly the area of statutory demands and applications to set aside statutory demands)

Current Research Area:

The legal implications of Universities adopting the Turnitin program

Refereed Journal Articles:

Stoney M. “Borrower Companies Approaching Insolvency – The Potential Liability of a de-facto director” Insolvency Law Journal Vol 8 No 4, Dec 2000

Stoney M “Applications to Set Aside Statutory Demands – Has Division 3 of Part 5.4 Achieved its stated objectives?” Insolvency Law Journal Vol 8 No 2, June 2000

Stoney, M and Stoney, S “Dual protection offered to computer programs – why the move towards patenting” (in-press – to be published in Logistics Information Management Journal)

Stoney, M and Stoney, S “The problems of jurisdiction to e-commerce – some suggested strategies” (in-press – to be published in Logistics Information Management Journal)

Conference Papers:

Stoney M & Stoney S. “Metatags and key words – Their use and misuse in E-Commerce” 1st International W-eb Conference, Perth 2000

Stoney M & Maj P. “ISP's and the new censorship laws – fair, feasible or futile?” ECU Bit 2000 Censorship and the Cyber Society, Perth 2000

Stoney M & Hutchinson W. “Information warfare and developing nations: opportunities and threats” Bitworld, Mexico City 2000

Stoney M & Stoney S. “Securing E-Commerce Business Methods – What are the choices” 2nd International W-eb Conference, Perth 2001

Stoney M. “Jurisdiction – How does it affect e-commerce – Strategies for virtual organizations” 2nd International W-eb Conference, Perth 2001

Stoney M & Stoney S. “Free protection for the owners of original computer programs – is it worth anything?” 2nd International W-eb Conference, Perth 2001

Hutchinson W & Stoney M. “The Implications of the United Kingdom Terrorism Act on Cyberspace” IS World, Dublin 2001

Conference Papers in Proceeding:

Stoney, M & Stoney, S “The problems in IT supply contracts – some suggested strategies’ – 3rd International W-eb Conference 2002 ‘E-Conomy – from here to where?’ Perth WA , Nov 2002

Stoney, M & Stoney, S “The protection of raw data within information databases – real or illusory?” – 3rd International W-eb Conference
2002 ‘E-Conomy – from here to where?’ Perth WA , Nov 2002