Administrative Law

Dr Phil Evans

Dr Evans is a Professor and former Dean of  the School of Law at Murdoch University, and Director of the Western Australian Institute of Dispute Management. He is also the principal of PJ Evans and Associates Lawyers Arbitrators Adjudicators and Seminar Presenters. A graded arbitrator, he is also an accredited mediator and registered adjudicator under the Construction Contracts Act 2004 (WA). He holds a current legal practice certificate. In addition to his university work, Professor Evans conducts regular continuing professional development programs and in-house training in the areas of contract law, trade practices law, administrative law, statute law, dispute resolution, construction law, and arbitration.

Before leaving to practice law full time with a national law firm in 1998, Dr Evans was the Head of the Department of Construction Management at Curtin University. In 2001 he joined the College of Law at the University of Notre Dame, where he was Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Law, Director of the Graduate Law Programs, and the Course Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Building and Construction Law. At Notre Dame, he received Vice Chancellor’s Awards in Teaching Excellence every year since their inception in 2005. He has lectured extensively in Contract Law, Torts Law, Trade Practices Law, Intellectual Property Law, Evidence, Project Management, Construction Contracts, Construction Claims and Dispute Resolution in the Construction Industry. He was also a regular presenter in the University of Adelaide Professional Certificate in Arbitration course.

In addition to his extensive university teaching experience, Professor Evans has had a long involvement in Adult Legal Education as a regular presenter in the Murdoch University Professional Training Program in Arbitration Law and Practice, the University of Western Australia Extension programs in Law, the Queensland Department of Main Roads, the Chifley Business School Centre for Pavement Engineering Education Programs, and the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators.