Professor Gillooly is married with three children and originally hales from Sydney. He completed Bachelors degrees in Arts and Laws at the University of Sydney in the 1970s, and then spent the next decade in commercial and criminal practice, first in New South Wales and then in the Northern Territory, where he held posts as varied as the Assistant Crown Prosecutor for the Northern Territory and Secretary of the Law Society.
Moving to Western Australia in 1986, Professor Gillooly began teaching corporate and commercial law in the Business program at what is now Edith Cowan University. During this period, he provided legal advice on a part-time, honorary basis through the WA Legal Aid Commission's Legal Advice Bureau. Professor Gillooly subsequently moved to the Law School at the University of Western Australia, where he was for several years the Co-ordinator of the Parkway Legal Advice Centre and, from 1998 til 2000, Associate Dean of the Faculty. In recent times, he taught Torts and was Chair of the Law School Honours Committee. Whilst at UWA, he also completed his Master of Laws and Doctor of Philosophy degrees (the latter with Distinction), and won several Teaching Awards in Law (most recently in 2004). In 2005, he was nominated by UWA for a National Teaching Award. Professor Gillooly is currently teaching Legal Process at Notre Dame.
In addition to a range of conference papers and articles, Professor Gillooly has produced several books. He edited and contributed to The Law Relating to Corporate Groups (1993) and Securities Over Personalty (1994); and is the sole author of The Law of Defamation in Australia and New Zealand (1998) and The Third Man - Reform of the Australasian Defamation Defences (2004). His current research interests include defamation and media law. |
