Rate My Professor Rohan Price

Dr. Rohan Price serves as a Lecturer in the Discipline of Law within the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts at Southern Cross University. He earned his PhD from the University of New England in 2013, an LLM from the University of Tasmania in 2001, and a BA/LLB from the University of Tasmania in 1994. His extensive academic career spans multiple institutions. Since 2015, he has been Lecturer in Law at Southern Cross University. Previously, he held positions as Lecturer-at-Law and Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania from 2010 to 2014, Visiting Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong from 2008 to 2010, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School in the School of Law at Edith Cowan University from 2004 to 2008, Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of New England from 1999 to 2004, and Tutor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania from 1995 to 1998. Price is a Fellow of the Centre for Colonialism and its Aftermath at the University of Tasmania and a Member of the Hong Kong Archives Society.

Price's research specializations include colonialism and settler colonialism, Nietzschean and Heideggerian philosophy, colonial occupation in Southeast Asia, Australian massacres and invasion, the Tasmanian Black War, resistance in colonial and communist China, organic food safety regulation in the Asia Pacific, employment law, contract law, torts, and equity. He is recognised as a world-leading scholar of Nietzsche and Heidegger philosophy studies applied in history. Key publications encompass the book 'Principles of Employment Law' (4th Edition, 2012, co-authored with Jennifer Nielsen), 'Going Native: The Passions of Philip Jacks' (2016), and 'Being in the Colonies: Singapore, Western Australia and Hong Kong' (forthcoming 2026). Notable articles include 'Chinese immigration law and policy: a case of "change your direction, or end up where you are heading"?' (2013, co-authored with Guobin Zhu), 'Making Japan pay for its East Asian occupations (1941-1945): a new modality for international law?' (2013), and contributions to 'Regulatory Issues in Organic Food Safety in the Asia Pacific' (2020). He teaches Jurisprudence at Southern Cross University.