Credit, Consumers and the Law

About the Author

Karen Fairweather is an Associate Lecturer at the TC Beirne School of Law, the University of Queensland. Prior to this she was a lecturer at Durham University in the UK. She has taught contract law, trusts, legal history and civil remedies. She has a particular interest in the history of consumer credit law and has published widely on historical aspects of consumer credit as well as on contemporary developments in the field.

Paul O’Shea was a Senior Lecturer at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland and is now principal solicitor and director of O’Shea Lawyers. He is one of Australia’s leading researchers in consumer law, particularly consumer credit law. He has taught consumer and commercial law at universities in Australia and throughout Asia and has published extensively in this field. His research has been cited in superior court decisions and by the Australian Commonwealth Treasury in support of legislation regulating consumer credit.

Ross Grantham is a Professor of Commercial Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, the University of Queensland and the Director of the Australian Centre for Private Law. He is the author of a number of monographs, casebooks, and numerous scholarly journal articles, and has co-edited four collections of essays. He is a member of the editorial boards of The Company Lawyer and the Journal of Corporate Law Studies and is the Australian editor of the Journal of Business Law. He was Dean of Law and Head of School at the TC Beirne School of Law between 2007 and 2012, having been Deputy Head of School 2005–2006, and Director of Research 2004–2005.