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Dr Martin Allcock

Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 2211
Email: m.allcock@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
Room: JO2.310  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8668-0531

Dr Martin Allcock is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business and Law.

Availability

By appointment

Current teaching

  • Torts I
  • Torts II
  • Jurisprudence
  • Family Law
  • Commercial Practice

Background

Dr Martin Allcock is a Senior Lecturer within the law school at Edith Cowan University, where he teaches a number of subjects including LAW1117 Torts I, LAW1218 Torts II, LAW2345 Jurisprudence, LAW4607 Family Law and LAW4620 Commercial Practice. He is also a member of the ECU Human Research Ethics Committee Low Risk Sub-committee. Martin has published scholarly articles in a number of highly-ranked journals in the areas of the philosophy of law and theory of tort. He is also co-author of Remedies Cases and Materials in Australian Private Law published by Cambridge University Press, along with Professor Katy Barnett (Melbourne Law School) and Mr Ken Yin (ECU School of Business and Law).

Martin has a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Behavioural Science from La Trobe University in Victoria, and a PhD from Queensland University of Technology. Martin’s PhD thesis, entitled A Principled and Pragmatic Approach to Cases of Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury Based on Corrective Justice and Kantian Right, was nominated for an Outstanding Thesis Award. On recommendation from his thesis examiners, Martin is currently working on preparing his thesis for publication as a book.

Prior to entering academia, Martin commenced his articles of clerkship with Mullins Handcock Barristers and Solicitors in Perth in 2006. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia in 2007, and practiced in commercial insurance matters, primarily relating to workers’ compensation matters. In 2008, he moved to the Northern Suburbs Community Legal Centre to practice family law, primarily assisting clients with domestic violence issues. In 2011, Martin commenced working at Edith Cowan University as a full-time academic, where he has coordinated and taught numerous units within the law program.

Research areas and interests

  • Private law theory
  • Family law

Publications/ Work Submitted/ Work in Progress

  • Martin Allcock, Simon Allison, Anna Bunn, and Mandy Shircore, Tort Law Principles (Thomson Reuters, expected date of publication January 2024)
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Liability for Injuries Caused by Autonomously-Driven Vehicles – A Comment on Matters of Principle and Policy’ (Tort Law Review– accepted for publication March 2024, expected date of publication September 2024)
  • Martin Allcock, A Principled Approach to Cases of Pure Mental Harm (manuscript - forthcoming)
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Liability for Injuries Caused by Autonomously-Driven Vehicles – A Kantian Lesson in Moral Responsibility for Harm’ (article - forthcoming)
  • James Carpenter, Robert Cunningham, and Martin Allcock, 'Worker Oversight on Corporate Boards: Codetermination as a Method to Mitigate the Risks of Director Misconduct in Australia' (article - forthcoming)
  • Janie Plant and Martin Allcock, 'Protecting Victims of Domestic Violence from Homicide: The Case for GPS Monitored Violence Restraining Orders' (article - forthcoming
  • Katy Barnett, Ken Yin and Martin Allcock, Remedies in Australian Private Law: Cases and Materials (Cambridge University Press, manuscript – forthcoming - expected date of publication late 2022
  • Martin Allcock, ‘An Examination of the Influence of International Treaties on Developments in Australian Family Law’ (2022) University of Western Australia Law Review (article - expected publication date June 2022
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Corrective Justice and the Law Relating to Damages for Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury: A Principled Explanation for the “Close and Loving Relationship” Consideration (2020) 27 Journal of Law and Medicine 998 (ERA “A” ranked journal).
  • Martin Allcock, ‘A Corrective Justice Justification for Considering the Response of the Hypothetical Person of an “Ordinary Level of Susceptibility” When Assessing Reasonable Foreseeability in Cases Involving Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury’ (2019) 26 Tort Law Review 60 (ABDC “A” ranked journal).
  • Martin Allcock, A Principled and Pragmatic Approach to Cases of Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury Based on Corrective Justice and Kantian Right (PhD Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018).
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Pure Psychiatric Injury Pursuant to the Civil Liability Legislation: An(other) Economic Perspective’ (2018) 25 Journal of Law and Medicine 814 (ERA “A” ranked journal).
  • Martin Allcock, ‘In Defence of Weinrib’s and Beever’s Interpretive Theories of Negligence’ (2017) 24(1) Torts Law Journal 125 (ABDC “A” ranked journal).
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Corrective Justice and Kantian Right as a Mechanism to Reconcile “Substantially Clashing Interests” in Cases of Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury’ (2015) 40 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 17 (ERA “A” ranked journal).

Papers presented at scholarly conferences:

  • Martin Allcock, ‘Liability for Injuries Caused by Autonomously-Driven Vehicles – A Kantian Lesson in Moral Responsibility for Harm’ (Paper presented at Torts Workshop, Centre for Commercial and Regulatory Studies (CLARS), Faculty of Law, Monash University, 11 July 2022)
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Liability for Injuries Caused by Autonomously-Driven Vehicles – A Kantian Lesson in Moral Responsibility for Harm’ (Paper presented at Private and Commercial Law Research Cluster Annual Conference 2021: Civil Wrongs, University of Western Australia, 10 December 2021)
  • Ken Yin and Martin Allcock, ‘Meta-Syllogistic Analysis of the Law of Negligence: Towards an Approach to Teaching the Duty of Care in Novel Duty of Care Situations That is More Understandable to Law Students' (Paper presented at the Australasian Law Academics Association Conference, The University of Sydney Law School and University of Technology Sydney Law Faculty, 4-6 July 2021)
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Liability for Injuries Caused by Autonomously-Driven Vehicles – A Kantian Lesson in Moral Responsibility for Harm’ (Paper presented at the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) Turkish Section, International Webinar, ‘Philosophy and Law in Times of Crisis’, 8-9 April 2021).
  • Martin Allcock, ‘A Principled Approach to Liability for Injuries Caused by Autonomously-Driven Vehicles’ (Paper presented at the Law, Technology, and Labour Governance Symposium, Curtin University, 13 March 2020)
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Pure Psychiatric Injury Pursuant to the Civil Liability Legislation: An(other) Economic Perspective’ (Paper presented at the Annual conference of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, University of Milan, 19-21 December 2019)
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Using Popular Culture as a Teaching Strategy to Improve Student Engagement and Interest in the Teaching of Jurisprudence’ (Paper presented at the WA Teachers of Law Conference, Edith Cowan University, 25 September 2018)
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Corrective Justice and Kantian Right as a Mechanism to Reconcile “Substantially Clashing Interests” in Cases of Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury’ (Paper presented at the Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership Graduate Student Conference, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada, 22-24 June 2018)
  • Martin Allcock, ‘A Corrective Justice Justification for the Normal Fortitude Rule in Cases Involving Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury’ (Paper presented at the Australian Association of Legal Philosophy Annual Conference at the University of Auckland Law School, 14-16 July 2017)
  • Martin Allcock, ‘In Defence of Weinrib’s and Beever’s Corrective Justice Theories of Negligence’ (Paper presented at the Australian Association of Legal Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Melbourne Law School, 22-24 July 2016)
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Corrective Justice and Kantian Right as a Mechanism to Reconcile “Substantially Clashing Interests” in Cases of Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury’ (Paper presented at the World Congress of the International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Washington DC, 27-31 July 2015)
  • Martin Allcock, ‘Corrective Justice and Kantian Right as a Mechanism to Reconcile “Substantially Clashing Interests” in Cases of Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury’ (Paper presented at the Obligations Group Conference, University of Melbourne Law School, 4-5 December 2014)
  • University Postgraduate Award – University of Western Australia 2006
  • Mentoring in Teaching and Learning Award – Edith Cowan University 2016
  • Nominated for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award – Queensland University of Technology 2018
  • Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy
  • Admitted as a Legal Practitioner of the Supreme Court of Western Australian 2007
  • Editorial Board member Torts Law Journal

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland University of Technology, 2018.
  • Bachelor of Behavioural Science, La Trobe University, 2006.
  • Bachelor of Laws with Honours, La Trobe University, 2006.

Research Outputs

Journal Articles

  • Allcock, M. (2022). An Examination of the Influence of International Treaties on Developments in Australian Family Law. University of Western Australia Law Review, 49(2), 1-45. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworks2022-2026/1238.

Journal Articles

  • Allcock, M., Yin, K. (2021). The Application of Syllogism as a Pedagogical Tool in Teaching Duty of Care. Journal of the Australasian Law Academics Association, 13/14(1), 12-28. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/11969.

Journal Articles

  • Allcock, M. (2020). Corrective Justice and the Law Relating to Damages for Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury: A Principled Explanation for the “Close and Loving Relationship” Consideration. Journal of Law and Medicine, 27(4), 998-1020.

Journal Articles

  • Allcock, M. (2019). A Corrective Justice Justification for Considering the Response of the Hypothetical Person of an “Ordinary Level of Susceptibility” when Assessing Reasonable Foreseeability in Cases involving Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury. Tort Law Review, 26(2), 60-82. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/ecuworkspost2013/6666.

Journal Articles

Journal Articles

  • Allcock, M. (2017). In Defence of Weinrib’s and Beever’s Interpretive Theories of Negligence. Torts Law Journal, 24(2017), 125-147.

Journal Articles

  • Allcock, M. (2015). Corrective Justice and Kantian Right as a Mechanism to Reconcile 'Substantially Clashing Interests’ in Cases of Negligently Inflicted Psychiatric Injury. Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, 40(2015), 17-65.
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