School of Law

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My name is James Goudkamp. I'm Wollongong Law faculty graduate. I was a member of staff in Wollongong for a brief period after graduating from Wollongong and now I live and work in Oxford and I'm a member of the Oxford Law Faculty now.

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Many of the best teachers that I have been able to learn from work at Wollongong still regularly get in touch with them play. Still get to come back to Australia regularly come to Wollongong. Whenever I'm back in Australia I still got a formal connection with the Law School, I will along, which is great. Means a lot to me. I go there once a year and speak to the students in Wollongong and offer to speak with them by Skype to help them with their career plans. Some of them are interested in post-grad study and I enjoy doing that.

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I'm principally interested in an area of law called Tort Law. What law is mainly concerned with rights and obligations that private individuals owe to each other. It encompasses things like the law of defamation. It encompasses accidents that happen at work or on the roads. It's an expansive area.

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I attended Wollongong college in 1998. Great preparation for embarking on University. I felt a significant head start in many ways over my peers at law school because of the things that I was exposed to at the college. Spent five years studying for a combined degree in Science and Law in Wollongong. After finishing that work in Wollongong I worked for a year for a judge in Australia and that was a bit of a launching pad for basically postgrad study overseas. I always wanted to go and study overseas. I didn't necessarily see myself staying overseas. This is the way things have worked out though and I've been very happy and very lucky. There's been a lot of luck involved. I'm very content with how things worked out.

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