Andrew Dahdal
- Title: Mr
- Position: Lecturer - Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance
- Qualifications: B Com (Ec)/LLB (Hons) (Macq) Grad. Dip. Leg. Prac. PhD Candidate UNSW
Contact Details
- Ph: (61-2) 9850 8615
- Email Andrew Dahdal
- Fax: (+61-2) 9850 8497
- Room: 317, building: E4A
Areas of Expertise
- Contract Law
- Constitutional Law
- Commercial Law
Profile
Andrew Dahdal has a background in law and a keen interest in commercial law particularly the law of contracts and constitutional law. Andrew teaches business and corporations law and also writes in both areas. Andrew is currently doing a PhD at The University of New South Wales. The topic of the PhD draws on Andrew's various interests.
Professional Certifications:
- Professional Certificate of Legal Practice with College of Law
Education
- Bachelor of Laws/ Bachelor of Commerce (hons): Economics (Macquarie University)
Research grants
- Outside Study Leave 2009
Current projects
Working papers on SSRN:
- "'Targeted Killings': Problems with the Approach of the Israeli High Court of Justice" Macquarie Law Working Paper No. 2007-18
Andrew Dahdal - Logical and Legal Relevance under the Uniform Evidence Law: The Recognition of 'Natural Logic'
Macquarie Law Working Paper No. 2007-20
Andrew Dahdal
Research areas
Research Interests
- Commercial aspects of Constitutional Law
- Corporations Law
Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
- 'The Dissolution of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs): An Australian Case Study of the Political Costs Involved' (2010) 1 (1) International Review of Business Research Papers 1-12.
- 'Characterising the Action In Rem in Australia - Recent Perspectives' (2009) (40) (2) Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 271-290 (Co-authored with Professor Peter Gillies)
- 'The Applicability of International Law to the Middle East: Understanding the Views of Julius Stone' (2008) (10) University of Notre Dame Australia Law Review 57-80
- 'Directions to Convict' (2007) 31 (5) Australian Criminal Law Journal 295-306 (Co-authored with Professor Peter Gillies)
- 'Waiver of a right to arbitrate by resort to litigation, in the context of international commercial arbitration' (2007) 73 (4) Arbitration 361-372 (Co-authored with Professor Peter Gillies)
- 'The Admissibility of Expert Economic Evidence in Judicial Review' (2006) 3 Macquarie Journal of Business Law 63-77
Professional Publications
- FOFA Legislation: A Brief Overview, BUTTERWORTHS CORPORATION LAW BULLETIN, 2012.
- The Survival of Fiduciary Obligations despite the Death of a Commercial Opportunity: The case of Omnilab Media, BUTTERWORTHS CORPORATION LAW BULLETIN, 2012.
- Powers of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal to prevent the publication by ASIC of banning orders, BUTTERWORTHS CORPORATION LAW BULLETIN, Bulletin 2, 2010, 4-6
- A Matter of Discretion? The Discretionary Powers of the Commissioner Explored
INSIDE TAX, issue 20, 2009 (co-authored with Nidal Danoun) - Confusing or Just Complex: Financial Products and Disclosure in the Global Financial Crisis
FINANCIAL FALLOUT (A Special Report on the Financial Crisis), 22-25, 2008 - Statutory Demands: When a Dispute is not a Dispute (reprint)
INSIDE TAX, issue 16, 2008. 18-20. - Statutory Demands: When a Dispute is not a Dispute
BUTTERWORTHS CORPORATION LAW BULLETIN, Bulletin 20, 2008. 10-13. - Financial Services Banning Orders: The Case of David Tweed
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE NEWS, issue 16, 2008 - Financial Product Advice: s766B (1) - The case of computer forecasting software
BUTTERWORTHS CORPORATION LAW BULLETIN, Bulletin 13, 2008. 9-12. - Is Justice Delayed Justice Denied?
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE NEWS, Issue 11, 2008. 1- 4. - Can Declared Dividends be Validly Setoff against a Company Subject to a Deed of Company Arrangement?
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE NEWS, Issue 21, 2007. 6-10. - Dishonesty Offences under the Corporations Act
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE NEWS, Issue 19, 2007 - Constitutionality of Corporations Provisions Settled in High Court Decisions
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE NEWS, Issue 13, 2007. 1-4. - Sanctions in Corporate Law
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE NEWS, Issue 10, 2007. 1-5. - The Conflict over Conflict of Interest: s914A (1) (aa)
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE NEWS, Issue 7, 2007 - Corporations Amendment (Takeovers) Bill 2007
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE NEWS, Issue 5, 2007 - Corporations Amendment Bill (No 2)
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE NEWS, Issue 4, 2007. 2-5. - Financial Service Providers and EDR Schemes
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE NEWS, Issue 4, 2007. - Sons of Gwalia: High Courts Decision
AUSTRALIAN CORPORATE NEWS, Issue 3, 2007. 1-5.
Editorials
- 1'Sony Bill Williams and the NRL Salary Cap: Restraint of Trade' NRL News, August 2nd 2008 < http://www.nrlnews.com/2008/08/02/nrl-salary-cap-restraint-of-trade/ >
Books
- Focus: Corporations Law 3rd Ed. (2009) (Published by LexisNexis Butterworths)(Co-authored with Associate Professor Colin Anderson, Jennifer Dickfos, Margaret Hyland and Marina Nehme)
Edited volumes
- Financial Services Reform 3rd Anniversary 2007 Conference Proceedings.
Book Chapters
- ‘Company Law in China’ in Patricia Blazey and Dr Kaywah Chan (eds) The Chinese Commercial Legal System (2008) (Co-authored with Peter Gillies and Natalie Stoianoff)
- ‘Banking Law in China’ in Patricia Blazey and Dr Kaywah Chan (eds) The Chinese Commercial Legal System (2008)
- ‘Defamation Law’ in Peter Gillies and Niloufer Selvadurai, Marketing Law (2008)
- 'Natural Justice' and the Migration Litigation Reform Act 2005 (Cth) in R Satyanarayana (ed), Natural Justice: Expanding Horizons (2008)
Conferences and Presentations
- 'History in Constitutional Construction' presented to the UNSW HDR Student Jamboree, 6th March, 2012, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- 'The Constitutionality of Paper Money Under the Australian Constitution' presented to the Inaugural Australian Mises Seminar 2011, 25-26th November, 2011, Union, Universities and Schools Club (UUSC), located at 25 Bent Street, Sydney, Australia.
- 'Defining 'Banking' under the Constitution' presented to the Sydney Law School Postgraduate Conference 2010, October 29th 2010, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
- 'The Constitutionality of 'Paper Money' under the Australian Constitution' presented to the 2010 Gilbert + Tobin Centre Conference on Public Law, 12-13 July 2010, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
- 'The Dissolution of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs): An Australian Case Study of the Political Costs Involved' presented to the 12th International Business Research Conference: Research for Rethinking, April 8-9th April 2010, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- 'Business Defamation in Australia: The Case of 2UE v Chesterton' presented to the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) 6th Annual Conference on Law, July 20-23 2009, Athens, Greece.
- 'The Applicability of International Law to the Middle East: Understanding the Views of Julius Stone' presented to the Julius Stone Centenary Conference, July 7th 2007, The University of Sydney, 173-175 Phillip Street, Sydney, Australia.
- 'Waiver of a Right to Arbitrate by Resort to Litigation, in the Context of International Commercial Arbitration' presented to the International Trade Law Conference (ITLC), Istanbul, Turkey, May, 2007.
Student information
- Load: PhD Student Part Time
- Principal supervisor: Professor Theunis Roux
- Associate supervisor: Professor Peter Gillies
- Date of submission: 01/07/2013
- Thesis title: History and the Interpretation of the Banking Power
- Abstract: The thesis looks at how history can be used in constitutional interpretation with a particular focus on how an understanding of history can enhance our understanding of the scope and meaning of s51 (xiii) of the Australian Constitution ('the banking power'). The thesis argues that a purely textual approach to constitutional interpretation can unintentionally deplete the significance of constitutional provisions and uses the banking power as a case in point to support this claim.

