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 10 years and having worked as an in-house lawyer at the University of Western Australia.

• Deputy Head of Law School - Community and Engagement
• Law School Member, University Employability & Careers Development Committee
• Chair, Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand
• Board member, Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research Inc
• Convenor, Not-for-profit Researchers' Network (Australia and New Zealand)
• Co-convenor, Not-for-profits UWA

Ian worked as a lawyer at Ashurst Australia (formerly Blake Dawson) from 2003 to 2018, specialising in Tax. Prior to joining the Law School, Ian also undertook sessional lecturing at Murdoch University in Tax and has worked as part of the University of Western Australia's Legal Services Team.

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