Dr Rupert Johnson

Senior Lecturer

Email: Rupert.Johnson@nd.edu.au
Phone: 9433 0727

• Biography

  Dr Rupert Johnson is a National Deputy Head of the School of Law and Business at The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle campus.  Dr Johnson is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and the High Court of Australia. Prior to joining the University in 2020, Dr Johnson was a member of academic staff at Edith Cowan University, where he also served as the School of Business and Law’s first Associate Dean of Law.

  Dr Johnson is a specialist subtitle author in real property law for the Australian law encyclopaedia The Laws of Australia published by Thomson Reuters. Dr Johnson’s doctoral thesis Private Property Rights and the State. A Study of Regard and Increasing Disregard in Western Australia: 1829-2016 was completed as part of his Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) candidature at The University of Western Australia in 2017.

  Dr Johnson has enjoyed a long association with the Northern Suburbs Community Legal Centre (Inc) where he continues to serve as a board of management member.

• Teaching areas

  • Property Law
  • Remedies
  • Trusts

• HDR and Honours Supervision

  • Property law
  • Torts
  • Trust

• Research Interests and Current Projects

  Dr Johnson has a particular interest in the relationship between the State and private property rights.

  Dr Johnson is presently contributing to a new text on real property law in Western Australia.

• Journal articles

  • Natalie K Skead, Shane L Rogers, W Rupert Johnson, 'The role of place, people and perception in law student well-being', International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 73 (2020) 101631.
  • W Rupert Johnson 'Pesticides, Disease, Causal Uncertainty and Standards of Proof: An Introduction to the Impact of Causal Uncertainty on Incapacitated Workers Seeking Compensation in Australia', (2018) 35 EPLJ 408.
  • W Rupert Johnson, 'The Mozambique Rule and the (Non) Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Western Australia over Foreign Land' (2003) 31 UW Austl. L. Rev. 266.

• Encyclopaedia subtitles

  • W Rupert Johnson, John Mugambwa, Westlaw AU, The Laws of Australia (at 1 April, 2023), 28 Real Property, ‘28.7 Landlord and Tenant’.
  • W Rupert Johnson, John Mugambwa, Westlaw AU, The Laws of Australia (at 1 June 2021, 28 Real Property, ’28.13 Easements’.
  • John Mugambwa, W Rupert Johnson, Westlaw AU, The Laws of Australia (at 1 January 2020), 28 Real Property, ’28.18 Sale of Land’.
  • W Rupert Johnson, John Mugambwa, Westlaw AU, The Laws of Australia (at 2000), 28 Real Property, ’28.13 Easements’.

• Dictionary entries

  Contributor (torts), Australian Law Dictionary (1st ed, 2010, Oxford University Press)

• Professional affiliations

  • Human Research Ethics Committee, UNDA
  • Associate member of The Law Society of Western Australia.
  • Member Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society.

• Community and industry engagement

  • Dr Johnson is a board of management member of the Northern Suburbs Community Legal Centre (Inc)
  • Dr Johnson is a member of The Royal Western Australian Historical Society (Inc)

• Awards

  • 2014 Edith Cowan University Vice Chancellor’s Staff Award- Service to Students
  • 2008 Edith Cowan University Vice Chancellor’s Staff Award- ‘Engagement in Teaching and Learning’, The Law and Justice Team.