Ian is a Professor at the UWA Law School where he teaches in Taxation, Corporations and Not-for-profit Law, as well as researching at the intersection between Not-for-profit Law, Tax, Trusts and Corporate Governance. Ian has a number of years’ experience as a practitioner advising on not-for-profit tax issues and on resource and energy industry tax issues. He also has practical experience in the regulatory and governance issues faced by not-for-profits, having been a not-for-profit board member, including chairperson, for over 5 years and having worked as an in-house lawyer at the University of Western Australia.

• Law School Member, University Data Management Committee
• Law School Member, University Early to Mid Career Researcher Network Advisory Group
• UWA Law School Research Committee Member
• Chair, Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand
• Board member, Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research Inc
• Co-Editor, Third Sector Review journal
• Co-convenor, Not-for-profits UWA

Characterising organisational purpose

Understanding governance as loyalty to a purpose

Legal restraints on charity reserves & accessing charity reserves in crises

Philanthropic intermediaries - timing dimensions

Legal Issues for Not-for-profit Entities LAWS5813
Corporations Law LAWS5104
Income Taxation Law LAWS5132
Resources Taxation LAWS5239
Taxation Law LAWS3222

Accumulation of reserves by Not-for-profits
Charity and trusts law and Indigenous economic development
Development of analytical tools to review native title asset management structures
The intersection between not-for-profit law and tax and corporate governance