Vivien teaches Legal Ethics in the ANU 's Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice. Prior to joining ANU, Vivien worked as a litigation solicitor in private and government practice, a government legal policy officer, the Registrar of the NT Supreme Court, the NT Registrar of Probates, the NT Deputy Coroner and a Judicial Registrar of the NT Magistrates' Court. She has been a member of the Social Security Appeals Tribunal. She is currently a member of the ACT Law Society Complaints Committee and the Research Ethics Committee of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Experience
2008–present
Senior Lecturer , ANU College of Law
Education
2006
RMIT University , M.Soc.Sci (Int'l Developt.)
1983
University of Melbourne, BA/LLB (Hons)
Publications
2012
Applied Ethics for Lawyers' in P. Bowden (ed) Applied Ethics.Strengthening Ethical Practices (2012) with Tom Campbell ANU,
2012
Practising Professionalism: Observations from an Empirical Study of New Australian Lawyers' Legal Ethics, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2012 ; with Tony Foley, Stephen Tang, Margie Rowe, ANU ,
2011
Our Common Future: The Imperative for Contextual Ethics in a Connected World'; F. Bartlett, R. Mortensen. K Tranter (ed) Alternative Perspectives on Lawyers and Legal Ethics. Reimagining the Profession; Routledge (Research in Legal Ethics series) (2011) with Simon Rice ANU,
2008
'The Power of Rationalisation to Influence Lawyers' Decisions to Act Unethically' 11 Legal Ethics 2; 137; with Kath Hall, ANU,