David Goodwin

• Arbitrators & Mediators
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Professor David Goodwin practices as a commercial Barrister specialising in transport law, international trade law, corporate governance and alternative dispute resolution.

Since 2015 he has combined a part-time practice at the Victorian Bar with an academic career. He is currently Dean of the Nottingham University Business School in Malaysia (since May 2023). In previous academic roles he was an Associate Professor and Head of Industry & External Engagement for the Business and Law Schools of Victoria University (2019-23), MBA director of RMIT University (2016-19) and Director of RMIT’s Juris Doctor program (2015-16).

Professor Goodwin is a past President of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (2019-21). In June 2023 he was appointed a Titulary Member of the Antwerp-based Comité Maritime International, the umbrella association of the world’s national maritime law associations.

He is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), and a member of the arbitration panel of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand. In 2022 he was appointed to New South Wales Government Arbitration Panels constituted under the Mining Act and Petroleum (Onshore) Act. He is also a member of the Victorian Magistrates’ Court List of External Mediators and a Nationally Accredited Mediator in Australia.

Professor Goodwin signed the Bar Roll in 2010 after a business career of more than two decades, working initially as a corporate lawyer with the BHP Group before progressing into senior executive roles with publicly listed companies. This included periods as Vice President Corporate Affairs for the global shipping company Neptune Orient Lines of Singapore (2005-10), Executive Vice President Corporate Affairs for Bluescope Steel (2000-05), General Manager External Affairs for OneSteel (1998-2000) and as Legal Manager, then General Manager New Zealand of the Australian National Line (1989-94).

His current research interests concern alternative dispute resolution, maritime law, regulatory frameworks for ports, legal history, entrepreneurship and social procurement.

Recent publications include:

• Goodwin D & Reynolds P, “Congregational Religious Trusts in Victoria’s Churches of Christ” (2023) 3 Australian Journal of Law and Religion 52.
• Goodwin D & Bronson P, “Interviewing Veterans of Australia’s Offshore Oil and Gas Industry” (2023) Studies in Oral History, Issue 45.
• Lou C, Natoli R, Goodwin D, Bok B, Fang Z & Peng Z, “A Systematic Literature Review of Research on Social Procurement in the Construction and Infrastructure Sector: Barriers, Enablers and Strategies” (2023) Sustainability, 15, 12964.
• Natoli R, Lou C & Goodwin D, “Addressing Barriers to Social Procurement Implementation in the Construction and Transportation Industries: An Ecosystem Perspective” (2023) Sustainability, 15, 11347.
• Goodwin D, “Melbourne’s Birrarung: The Missed Opportunity for Collaborative Urban River Governance” (2022) 16 Australian Accounting Business and Finance Journal.
• Goodwin D, “The Contest of Rights and Interests in the Context of Australia’s Economic Torts” – article published in Bloomsbury book Essays on Comparative Indian and Australian Constitutional Law, March 2020
• Goodwin D, “Justification Defences under the Economic Torts” (2019) 26 Tort Law Review 143.
• Shelley A and Goodwin D, “Optimizing Learning Outcomes Through Social Co-Creation of New Knowledge in Real-Life Client Challenges” (2018) 1 (2) Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching 13.
• Goodwin D, Banking on the House: Freight Forwarder Bills of Lading and the CRO Case (2018) 32 Australian and New Zealand Maritime Law Journal 10
• Goodwin D, Lawyers, Gunns and Money: An Australian Perspective on Environmental Campaigns and the Economic Torts (2016) 23 Torts Law Journal 230.
• Goodwin D, Exempting Environmental Protection Boycotts from Competition Laws: Should Purpose or Public Benefit be the Test? (2015) 23 Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law 260.
• Douglas K and Goodwin D, Artistry in Mediator Practice: Reflections from Mediators (2015) 26 Australian Dispute Resolution Journal 137.

Credentials:
Member, Magistrates’ Court of Victoria, Melbourne Single List of External Mediators, from 2011
President, Maritime Law Association of Australia, and New Zealand, 2019 to 2021

Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK), from 2009
Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, from 2009
Panel Member, Arbitration Panel of the Maritime Law Association of Australia, and New Zealand, from 2009

Panel Member, NSW Government Arbitration Panels constituted under the Mining Act and Petroleum (Onshore) Act, from 2022.

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