Prof Vicki Waye

Research Interests

Civil justice Civil Law and Procedure Law in context Legal practice, lawyering and the legal profession

Teaching Strengths

Interactive learning
Constructive alignment with graduate qualities

Prof Vicki Waye

Dean Students, BAL

Office of Business and Law

College of Business and Law

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Professor Waye is Dean of Law: Justice and Society.  From 2017 - 2022 Professor Waye was Chair of the Academic Board of the University of South Australia and from 2010 - 2015 was the Dean of Teaching and Learning at the University of South Australia Business School (incorporating Business and Law). 
Professor Waye holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB, Hons), a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice, a Master of Laws (LLM) and a PhD from the University of Sydney. She is a member of the Judicial Development Committee (SA), which provides professional development programs for judges and magistrates of the South Australian Courts, a member of the Law Council of Australia,  a member of the executive of the Australasian branch of the International Wine Lawyers Association and a member of the International Association of Procedural Law.
Professor Waye's teaching expertise includes Arbitration Law (both national and international), Evidence and Procedure, Corporate Law, Contract Law and Wine Law. Throughout her teaching career, Professor Waye has demonstrated her commitment to effective student-centred learning and applying innovative teaching methodologies.
Professor Waye has a prodigious and varied research record, reflecting the globalized state of commerce and the legal profession, and incorporating international and comparative elements. However, Professor Waye focusses on two main fields - firstly, systems of justice, including ways that access to justice is affected by matters such as litigation funding and mechanisms of collective redress, and secondly, the global food and wine trade. Professor Waye has published over 50 academic and legal journal articles and book chapters and presented her research to conferences in Australia and overseas.
Professor Waye is a member of the Centre for Markets, Values and Inclusion - University of South Australia - Research - University of South Australia (unisa.edu.au)

  • Professor Waye’s research interests are rich and varied. Reflecting the globalised state of commerce and the legal profession, Professor Waye’s research incorporates international and comparative elements, and spans subject matter such as multilateral and bilateral treaties affecting the wine industry, comparisons between the Australian and United States’ systems of criminal procedure, matters affecting access to justice in England, Australia and the United States, and rights attendant upon dissolution of corporations in England, Australia and the United States. Much of Professor Waye’s research has been process oriented, that is concerned with the efficacy of legal process. Professor Waye’s current research examines the trading of legal claims.In addition Professor Waye has recently been heavily involved in the publication of a book on Global Wine Regulation.

Date Position Institution name
2020 - 2025 Dean of Law University of South Australia
2017 - 2022 Chair of Academic Board University of South Australia
2010 - 2015 Dean: Teaching and Learning Business and Law University of South Australia

Date Institution name Country Title
2005 - 2006 University of Sydney Australia PhD
1986 - 1987 University of Adelaide Australia Master of Laws
1983 - 1983 South Australian Institute of Technology Australia Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice
1979 - 1982 University of Adelaide Australia LLB (Hons)

Year Citation
2025 Waye, V., Chamberlain, N., & Morabito, V. (2025). How to address the regulation of third-party litigation funding of class actions?. The Law Quarterly Review, 141, 131-157.
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2024 Waye, V. C., Snowden, C., Knowler, J., Zito, P., Burton, J., & McIntyre, J. (2024). Is mandatory disclosure an effective panacea for buyer beware?. Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, 16(3), 218-236.
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2023 Waye, V. C., Rocca, L., Veneziani, M., Helliar, C., & Suryawathy, I. G. A. (2023). Policy, regulation, and institutional approaches to digital innovation in the wine sector: a cross-country comparison. British Food Journal, 125(5), 1854-1873.
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2023 Teng, B. W. J., Coggins, J., Rameezdeen, R., Waye, V., & Ma, T. (2023). Statutory payment trusts in the Australian construction industry - Is it time to stop "kicking the can down the road"?. Insolvency Law Journal, 31(1), 23-45.
2023 Waye, V. (2023). Class action wars. Journal of Civil Litigation and Practice, 11(2), 34-52.
2022 Crevar, M., Ireland, C., Waye, V., Corsi, A., & Esterman, A. (2022). Exploring Australian and New Zealand wine and alcohol labelling standards in relation to nutrition, ingredients and health warnings. Jus Vini, 5(1), 9-62.
2021 Waye, V., & Duffy, M. (2021). The fate of class action common fund orders: the policy, procedural and constitutional issues of a legislative revival. University of Queensland Law Journal, 40(2), 215-255.
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2021 Olijnyk, A., Waye, V., McIntyre, J., Knowler, J., Snowden, C., Martini, B., . . . Palmer, J. (2021). Maximising the Pivot to Online Courts: Digital Transformation, Not Mere Digitisation. Journal of Judicial Administration, 30(3), 126-152.
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2020 Waye, V., & Coggins, J. (2020). Squeezing out the market for lemons: the case for extending unfair contract terms regulation in the commercial context. Journal of Contract Law, 36(3), 230-254.
2020 Waye, V., Bogomolov, T., & Pich, A. (2020). Consumer perceptions of online legal service providers. ANU Journal of Law and Technology, 1(2), 43-71.
2019 Waye, V. (2019). Australia's approach to trade mark dilution: why champagne ice-cream can be marketed in the antipodes. Jus vini: journal of wine & spirits law, 2(1), 1-28.
2019 Waye, V. (2019). Regtech: a new frontier in legal scholarship. Adelaide law review, 40(1), 363-386.
2019 Waye, V. (2019). Blockchain and Food Provenance. Renmin University Law Review, 2018(3), 104-131.
2019 Tucker, B. P., Waye, V., & Freeman, S. (2019). The use and usefulness of academic research: an EMBA perspective. International journal of management education, 17(3), 1-18.
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2018 Waye, V., & Morabito, V. (2018). When pragmatism leads to unintended consequences: a critique of Australia's unique closed class regime. Theoretical inquiries in law, 19(1), 303-332.
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2018 Waye, V. C. (2018). The initiation and operations phase of the litigation funder - class action law firm relationship: an Australian perspective. International journal of law and management, 60(2), 595-626.
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2018 Waye, V. (2018). Advantages and disadvantages of class action litigation (and its alternatives). New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 24(2), 109-131.
2018 Waye, V., Verreynne, M. L., & Knowler, J. (2018). Innovation in the Australian legal profession. International journal of the legal profession, 25(2), 213-242.
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2017 Morabito, V., & Waye, V. (2017). Seeing past the US bogey: lessons from Australia on the funding of class actions. Civil justice quarterly, 36(2), 213-243.
2016 Waye, V., & Stern, S. (2016). The next steps forward for protecting Australia's wine regions. Monash university law review, 42(2), 458-496.
2016 Waye, V. (2016). How will disruptive innovation affect the legal profession?. Bulletin, Law Society of South Australia, 38(5), 22-24.
2016 Waye, V. (2016). Mandatory mediation in Australia's civil justice system. Common law world review, 45(2-3), 214-235.
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2016 Waye, V. (2016). Regulatory coherence and pathways towards global wine regulation. Journal of world trade, 50(3), 497-531.
2015 Waye, V. (2015). Guarding online terroir: are gTLDs a threat?. European intellectual property review, 37(9), 575-587.
2014 Waye, V. (2014). Litigation risk transfer and law firm financial arrangements. Legal ethics, 17(1), 107-131.
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2013 Faulkner, M., Aziz, M., Waye, V., & Smith, E. (2013). Exploring ways that ePortfolios can support the progressive development of graduate qualities and professional competencies. Higher Education Research and Development, 32(6), 871-887.
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2012 Waye, V., & Faulkner, M. E. (2012). Embedding e-portfolios in a law program: lessons from an Australian Law School. Journal of legal education, 61(4), 560-584.
2012 Waye, V., & Morabito, V. (2012). Collective forms of consumer redress: financial ombudsman service case study. Journal of corporate law studies, 12(1), 1-31.
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2011 Morabito, V., & Waye, V. (2011). Reining in litigation entrepreneurs: a New Zealand proposal. New Zealand law review, 2011(2), 323-362.
2011 Waye, V., & Xiong, P. (2011). The relationship between mediation and judicial proceedings in China. Asian journal of comparative law, 6(1, article no. 2), 1-33.
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2010 Waye, V. C., & Xiao, P. (2010). The law carbon approaches of the Australian winery. China wine news, 4(19), 616.
2010 Waye, V. C., & Son, C. (2010). Regulating the Australian water market. Journal of environmental law, 22(3), 431-459.
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2010 Waye, V. C., & Marcus, P. (2010). Australia and the United States : two common criminal justice systems uncommonly at odds. Part 2. Tulane journal of international and comparative law, 18(2), 335-401.
2010 Waye, V. C. (2010). Wine market reform: a tale of two markets and their legal interaction. University of Queensland law journal, 29(2), 211-244.
2009 Waye, V. C. (2009). Who are judges writing for?. University of Western Australia law review, 34(2), 274-299.
2009 Waye, V. C., & Morabito, V. (2009). The dawning of the age of the litigation entrepreneur. Civil justice quarterly, 28(3), 389-433.
2008 Waye, V. C. (2008). Carbon footprints, food miles and the Australian wine industry. Melbourne Journal of International Law, 9(1), 271-300.
2007 Waye, V. C. (2007). Conflicts of Interest between claimholders, lawyers and litigation entrepreneurs. Bond law review.
2005 Waye, V. C. (2005). Assessing multilateral vs. bilateral agreements and geographic indications through international food and wine. Currents: International trade law journal.
2004 Waye, V. C., & Marcus, P. (2004). Australia and the United States: Two common criminal justice systems uncommonly at odds. Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law.
2003 Waye, V. C. (2003). Judicial fact-finding : trial by judge alone in serious criminal cases. Melbourne University Law Review.

Year Citation
2023 Xiao, P., & Waye, V. (2023). The digital food economy, from food regulation to data governance. In M. Roberts (Ed.), Source details - Title: Research Handbook on International Food Law (pp. 471-497). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2021 Waye, V. (2021). Controls in the Australian wine sector. In T. Georgopoulos (Ed.), Source details - Title: Administrative controls in the wine sector (pp. 1-31). France: Mare & Martin.
2019 Waye, V. (2019). Enforcement of a global code of conduct on TNC's operations. In M. M. Rahim (Ed.), Source details - Title: Code of conduct on transnational corporations: challenges and opportunities (pp. 131-153). Switzerland: Springer.
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2017 Waye, V., & Morabito, V. (2017). Financial arrangements with litigation funders and law firms in Australian class actions. In W. H. Boom (Ed.), Source details - Title: Litigation, costs, funding and behaviour: implications for the law (pp. 164-208). US: Routledge.
2013 Harvey, M., & Waye, V. (2013). Introduction and overview - Global wine regulation. In M. Harvey, & V. Waye (Eds.), Source details - Title: Global wine regulation (pp. 1-6). Australia: Thomson Reuters.
2013 Waye, V. C. (2013). International trade law, climate change and carbon footprinting. In G. Wells (Ed.), Source details - Title: Sustainable business: theory and practice of business under sustainability principles (pp. 251-267). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2013 Waye, V. C. (2013). Water and wine. In M. Harvey, & V. Waye (Eds.), Source details - Title: Global wine regulation (pp. 119-138). Australia: Thomson Reuters.
2013 Waye, V. C. (2013). Wine and health. In M. Harvey, & V. Waye (Eds.), Source details - Title: Global wine regulation (pp. 163-187). Australia: Thomson Reuters.
2013 Waye, V. C. (2013). The regulation of winemaking. In M. Harvey, & V. Waye (Eds.), Source details - Title: Global wine regulation (pp. 63-94). Australia: Thomson Reuters.
2013 Omond, J., & Waye, V. (2013). Labelling: Australian and United Kingdom perspectives. In M. Harvey, & V. Waye (Eds.), Source details - Title: Global Wine Regulation (1st ed. ed., pp. 189-227). Australia: Thomson Reuters.
2011 Waye, V. C. (2011). E-Portfolios and legal professional attributes. In Source details - Title: Excellence and innovation in legal education (pp. 239-268). Australia: LexisNexis Butterworths.
2001 Waye, V. C., Golvan, G., O'Sullivan, P., & Phipps, M. (2001). Pre-hearing processes for formal hearings. In V. Waye (Ed.), Source details - Title: A guide to arbitration practice in Australia (pp. 323-353). Australia: Adelaide University and Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia.
2001 Waye, V. C. (2001). Arbitrability, jurisdiction and misconduct. In V. Waye (Ed.), Source details - Title: A guide to arbitration practice in Australia (pp. 179-216). Australia: Adelaide University and Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia.
2001 Waye, V. C. (2001). The Australian legal system. In V. Waye (Ed.), Source details - Title: A guide to arbitration practice in Australia (pp. 1-21). Australia: Adelaide University and Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia.

Year Citation
2022 Helliar, C., Waye, V., Veneziani, M., Suryawathy, A., Bradrania, R., & Rocca, L. (2022). Seven steps to technological innovation: the case of the Australian and Italian wine industry. Australia: CIMA.
2021 Waye, V. (2021). Submission on class actions and litigation funding issues paper. New Zealand: New Zealand Government.
2021 Waye, V. (2021). Submission on Corporations Amendment (Improving Outcomes for Litigation Funding Participants) Bill 2021. Australia: Parliament of Australia.
2020 Waye, V. (2020). Submission on litigation funding and the class action industry. Australia: University of South Australia.
2020 Mcintyre, J., Waye, V., Knowler, J., Snowden, C., Martini, B., Deegan, G., . . . Palmer, J. (2020). Discussion paper: an online dispute resolution solution for residential tenancy bond disputes. Australia: University of South Australia.
2020 McIntyre, J., Waye, V. C., Knowler, J., Snowden, C., Martini, B., Deegan, G., . . . Palmer, J. (2020). Final Report: An Online Residential Tenancy Bond System for SA. Australia: University of South Australia.
2017 Waye, V. (2017). Submission to Victorian Law Reform Commission on access to justice - litigation funding and group proceedings. Australia: Victorian Law Reform Commission.
2011 Aziz, S. M., Waye, V. C., Faulkner, M. E., Andre, C. A., Smith, E. J., & Fielke, J. M. (2011). Exploring ways to articulate the developmental progression of UniSA GQs against academic standards and professional requirements. Adelaide, South Australia: UniSA Press.

  • Review of Form 1 Vendor's Statement - Section 7 Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Act 1994 (SA), SA Attorney General's Department, 01/04/2021 - 31/03/2022

  • Blockchain and AI in the Italian and Australian wine industry, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants - Research Grant, 01/02/2020 - 30/06/2021

Courses I teach

  • LAWS 2041 Legal Analytics and Research (2025)
  • LAWS 4003 Evidence (2025)
  • LAWS 2041 Legal Analytics and Research (2024)
  • LAWS 4003 Evidence (2024)
  • SCJUS 90004 Parliamentary Law, Practice and Procedure SC (2024)

Programs I'm associated with

  • IGBP - Graduate Diploma in Project Management
  • IMAM - Master of Applied Project Management
  • DMMA - Master of Business Administration

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 Principal Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr James Mcdowell
2022 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Andres Sifuentes Chamochumbi
2020 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr MICHAEL JAMES GRANT
2019 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Milana Crevar
2018 Principal Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Lisa Cooper
2018 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Helder Filipe Serra Cardeira
2018 Principal Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Tony Scott Taubman

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2007 - 2013 External Supervisor Finding the Fiduciary: Recognition of the Director-Shareholder Relationship in Closely Held Companies Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time APrf Beth Nosworthy

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2010 - ongoing Member Executive Committee Australasian Chapter, International Wine Lawyers Association Australia

Date Role Membership Country
2020 - ongoing Council Law Society of South Australia Inc -
2015 - ongoing Member International Association of Procedural Law -

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2017 - ongoing Member Jus Vini Editorial Board University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne France

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