A specialist in international business law has stepped into the role of Dean of Murdoch University’s Law School .

Professor Gabriël A. Moens came to Murdoch from the University of Notre Dame Australia where he was Professor of Law and Head, Graduate School of Law.

He is Editor of International Trade and Business Law Review. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of American Journal of Jurisprudence and other scholarly journals and is a Membre Titulaire of the International Academy of Comparative Law, Paris. He is also a Fellow (FCIArb) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London .

Professor Moens has taught extensively and undertaken research in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Australia, Thailand, Nepal, Singapore and the United States in a number of fields including Constitutional Law, International Commercial Law, International Arbitration Law, European Union Law, and Comparative Law.

Professor Moens has served as Garrick Professor of Law and Director of the Australian Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law at the University of Queensland. He is a past winner of a University of Queensland Excellence in Teaching Award.

In 1999, he also won the Australian Award for University Teaching in Law and Legal Studies.

Professor Moens holds degrees from the University of Leuven in Belgium, Northwestern University in Chicago, the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland.

Professor Moens was initially attracted to Murdoch Law School because of its state-of-the-art Freehills Electronic Moot Court. Professor Moens intends to increase opportunities for students to participate in mooting competitions and to avail themselves of new technologies offered by the School. He will also enhance the international reputation of the Law School by developing international programs, which will benefit the student body, the legal and business communities, and the University.

"Professor Moens's extensive experience and demonstrated success in the building of international linkages and programmes will greatly benefit the University, the staff and students of the Law School ,” said Professor Arnold Depickere, Executive Dean of the Division of Arts.

He added that "Professor Moens is a first rate scholar and teacher whose international reputation weighed heavily in his appointment to the Deanship of the Law School ."