Rate My Professor Simon Allison

Dr Simon Allison serves as an Associate Lecturer in the Curtin Law School at Curtin University, a position he has held since 2022. He earned his PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, Queens' College, in 2020, with a thesis titled "The Use of Force by Non-State Actors on the High Seas: Public and Private Responses." Additionally, he holds an MPhil in Law from the University of Western Australia (2015), where his dissertation was "Salvage Companies and Protection of the Marine Environment: Time to Pay the Piper?," an LLB (Hons), and a BEc, both from UWA. Before entering academia full-time, Allison worked as a Legal Research Consultant and Author since 2012 and held roles in policy development at Western Australian State and Australian Commonwealth government levels. He also completed an internship at the International Maritime Organization in 2015, researching maritime security, piracy, and privately contracted armed security personnel.

Allison's research specializations include shipping and admiralty law, arbitration, tort law, insurance law, public and private international law (including arbitration and conflict of laws), domestic conflict of laws, applied contract law, legal history, and underwriting and liability insurance. His key publications feature "Liability for False Imprisonment and Judicial Immunity in Australia’s Federal Court System" (Cambridge Law Journal, 2024, with John Minas), "Breaking the Hague-Visby Rules' Silence on Choice of Law and Forum Clauses" (Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2024, with Shane Herbst), "Running on Empty: Australian State Fiscal Powers after Vanderstock" (Australian Business Law Review, 2024, with Shane Herbst and John Minas), "Knowing Me, Knowing You: What’s the Matter with Section 21(1)(b) of the Insurance Contracts Act 1984 (Cth)?" (Insurance Law Journal, 2023), "Party Crashers: Issues in Identifying Parties and Others Bound by Arbitration Agreements" (Arbitration International, 2022, with Kanaga Dharmananda), and "Incorporating Arbitration Clauses: The Sacrifice of Consistency at the Altar of Experience" (Arbitration International, 2014, with Kanaga Dharmananda SC). Among his honors are the Cambridge Australia Poynton Scholarship (2014), Queens' College Research Grant, Australian Postgraduate Award (2013), Jean Rogerson Honours Studentship (2012), Thomson Reuters Prize in Contract Law (2011), and UWA Book Prize for International Commercial Arbitration (2012).