James Gilchrist Stewart

Dr. James Gilchrist Stewart

Senior Lecturer

Details

  • College: Graduate School of Business & Law
  • Department: Graduate School of Business & Law
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • james.stewart@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Dr James Gilchrist Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in law at the RMIT University Graduate School of Business and Law.

James researches in legal theory and teaches into jurisprudence and private law subjects.

James is Treasurer of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia.

Research fields

  • 480403 Law and humanities
  • 4806 Private law and civil obligations
  • 480410 Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation

Academic positions

  • Law and Political Economy Visiting Faculty Fellow
  • Yale University
  • Law School
  • New Haven, United States
  • 14 Oct 2024 – Present
  • Treasurer
  • Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia
  • , Australia
  • 2020 – Present

Supervisor projects

  • Criminalised Women: A jurisprudential analysis of the need for a specialised womens list and a plan for how it must be achieved
  • 20 Nov 2023
  • Giving proper consideration to human rights in mental health decision making
  • 12 Oct 2023

Teaching interests

Contract Law (LLB and JD)
Jurisprudence (JD)
Enterprise Law: Designing Legal Solutions (LLB)

Torts (LLB)

Research interests

Legal Theory
Legal History
Private Law
Emerging Technologies and Law
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