ACU Researcher

Associate Professor Patrick Quirk

Associate Professor
St Thomas More Law School in Faculty of Law and Business

Areas of expertise: equity and trusts; law and religion; us uniform commercial code; electronic commerce

Phone: +613 9953 3774

Email: Patrick.Quirk@acu.edu.au

Location: ACU Brisbane Campus

HDR Supervisor accreditation status: HDR Supervisor (Provisional)

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3333-300X

ORCID link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3333-300X

Patrick Quirk is Associate Professor at Australian Catholic University Melbourne Campus, and a former tenured Associate Professor and Academic Dean at Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida, USA. He holds degrees in law and arts from the University of Queensland, as well as a Master of Civil Laws (Magister Legum) from the University of Tübingen, Germany, which he completed by coursework and thesis (in German). He took his PhD from the University of Adelaide.

Following graduation, he was admitted to the Queensland Bar and later practised as a solicitor at a large firm in Sydney, NSW. Patrick has also taught at Bond University Law School and the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America (CUA) in Washington, D.C. He teaches and writes on various commercial and civil law areas, including the U.S. Uniform Commercial Code, the law of electronic commerce, and law & religion.

Patrick has taught or given presentations in many countries including Italy, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Germany, the United States, and Poland as part of CUA's summer program in Krakow.

Patrick is also a scholar-in-residence at St Mary's College at the University of Melbourne.

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Select publications

• The equity of exoneration and figments of the trustee's imagination. (with D Morrison) 31(4) Insolvency Law Journal 223 (2024)

• The solicitor's equitable lien: An update: "Candey Ltd v Crumpler" 32(2) Insolvency Law Journal 119 (2024)

• Register your security interest or face the consequences: Re Holdco Pty Ltd (Administrators Appointed) (No 2) 29(2) Insolvency Law Journal 225 (2021)

• Lost Commas: Clarifying the Doctrine of the Last Antecedent - Finding a Better Way 28 Insolvency Law Journal 95 (2020)

• An Australian Conundrum: Genomic Technology, Data, and the COVIDSafe App (with Dr D Morrison) 33 Pace Int'l L. Rev. 43 (2020)

• Protecting Religious Freedom and Conscience: What Australia Might Learn from Germany 43 Fordham International Law Journal 163 (2019)

• When My Opt-out is Your Trigger: Oderberg's Argument with the Religious Freedom Sincerity Test 11(2) Faulkner Law Review 161 (2019)

• The Undefined Remains Unprotected: Tensions Between Conscience and the Law in Germany by way of Joseph Isensee, 27(1) Tulane Journal of International & Comparative Law 55 (2018)

• Quirk, Patrick and Rothchild, John A. (2018) Consumer protection and the internet. In In G. Howells, I. Ramsay and T. Wilhelmsson (Ed.). Handbook of Research on International Consumer Law pp. 308 - 339 Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Cover me: The economy is on fire (The German Pfandbrief) 2010 (11) German Law Journal 1323.

• Stop 'sliming' your liquid assets: Security over deposit accounts - US Perspectives 35(1) Adelaide Law Review 129 (2014)

• Recent Projects

Projects

• Legal Panel: Civil Law Protections of Religious Liberty Globally for Catholic Schools. Sponsored by the University of Notre Dame (USA), the Australian Catholic University and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame Global Gateway facility in Rome, 2022.

• The future of freedom in healthcare, Australian Catholic Bioethics Conference (2019)

Awards

• Australian Banking Law Association Research Prize for article on Electronic Transactions Tax Collection (first prize shared with Professor Duncan Bentley) Sydney, NSW Australia, AU (1998)

• Australian German Association Goethe Fellowship: Berlin, Germany, DE

• DAAD one year scholarship LLM (Magister Legum)

Appointments and Affiliations

• Scholar-in-residence at St Mary's College at the University of Melbourne.

• Director, Mary Glowrey Heritage Ltd

• Fellowship of Catholic Scholars (USA)

• DAAD Alumni

Editorial roles

• CCH Electronic Commerce & Law Newsletter (1990s)

International journal review panels

• Reviewer for Issues in Law & Medicine (USA). Issues in Law & Medicine is a peer reviewed medical and legal professional journal published semi-annually. Founded in 1985, ILM is published by the National Legal Center for the Medically Dependent & Disabled, Inc.

Public engagement

• Submission: Joint Select Committee on the Anti-Discrimination Amendment (Religious Freedoms and Equality) Bill 2020 NSW Parliament