Dr Natalie Cujes
Senior Lecturer

Dr Natalie Cujes

UNSW Canberra
School of Business

Dr Natalie Cujes is a legal academic within the School of Business at UNSW, Canberra.

Professional and Teaching Experience

Natalie lectures in Business Law, Contract Law (Commercial Acumen) and Legal Risk Management at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels within the School of Business. She has also taught at other academic institutions in the areas of Business Law, Contracts, Litigation and Competition and Consumer Law.

Immediately prior to joining the School of Business on a full-time basis, Natalie was a Registrar of the Federal Court of Australia and of the then Federal Magistrates Court of Australia, appointments she held for almost a decade. She was also Secretary of the former Professional Conduct Board of the ACT Law Society for a number of years. Natalie has served as an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Federal Litigation and Dispute Resolution Section of the Law Council of Australia and serves as an appointed member of the Law Council's Federal Court Liaison Committee, the Federal Circuit and Family Court Liaison Committee and the Australian Consumer Law Committee. Natalie is admitted as a Barrister-at-Law of the Supreme Court of NSW, and as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of Australia and of the Supreme Courts of the ACT and Victoria. In addition to her teaching role, Natalie practises law as Special Counsel (Litigation) with a law firm and holds an appointment as an Adjunct Associate Professor with a School of Law.

Natalie's main research area is the business of federal courts and how to resolve civil disputes brought before them as cost-effectively, expeditiously and efficiently as possible. To this end, her book, Litigation in the Federal Court (LexisNexis, 2015), studies the 'overarching purpose' of civil litigation in the Federal Court of Australia. Natalie's PhD thesis concerned the impact on procedural justice of case transfers by the Federal Court to the Federal Magistrates Court.


Areas of academic and research interest

  • Business law
  • Competition and consumer law (trade practices)
  • Contract law
  • Legal risk management
  • The business of federal courts, particularly the Federal Court of Australia and the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
  • Litigation and dispute resolution
  • Court administration and judicial decision-making

Awards and Recognitions

  • Senior Fellow, Advance HE (UK)
  • UNSW Scientia Education Fellow 2018-2022
  • Honorary Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, University of Canberra
  • Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence in Teaching Award – Unit Satisfaction Survey Recognition Award, University of Canberra, 2009.
  • Peace Research Vacation Scholarship, Australian National University, 1991/92.
Phone
+61 2 5114 5684
Location
Building 27, Room 307, School of Business, UNSW Canberra
  • Books | 2019
    2019, Annotated Federal Court Legislation and Rules, LexisNexis Butterworths, Australia
    Books | 2016
    Cujes NC; Cremean D; Lindgren KE, 2016, Annotated Federal Court Legislation and Rules, 2nd, LexisNexis, Australia
    Books | 2015
    Cujes N, 2015, Litigation in the Federal Court: Promoting the Overarching Purpose, First, LexisNexis Butterworths, Chatswood NSW
    Books | 2012
    LexisNexis ; Cujes N; Ahmed I, 2012, LexisNexis Annotated Acts: Annotated Federal Court Legislation and Rules, First, 2013, LexisNexis Butterworths, Australia
  • Other | 2023
    2023, Federal Court Rules in LexisNexis Practice & Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis, Australia,
    Other | 2020
    Lindgren K (ed.), 2020, Federal Circuit Court Rules in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths, Australia,
    Other | 2020
    Lindgren K (ed.), 2020, Federal Court Rules in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths, Australia,
    Other | 2020
    2020, Federal Circuit Court Rules in LexisNexis Practice & Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia,
    Other | 2018
    Lindgren K (ed.), 2018, Federal Circuit Court Rules in Lexis Nexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths, Australia,
    Other | 2018
    Lindgren K (ed.), 2018, Federal Circuit Court Rules in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths, Australia,
    Other | 2017
    Lindgren K (ed.), 2017, Federal Circuit Court Rules in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths, Australia,
    Other | 2017
    Lindgren K (ed.), 2017, Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia: Federal Circuit Court of Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths, Australia,
    Other | 2016
    Lindgren K (ed.), 2016, Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia - Federal Court Rules, LexisNexis, Australia,
    Other | 2015
    Lindgren KE (ed.), 2015, Federal Court - Principal Legislation in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis, Australia,
    Other | 2014
    Lindgren KE (ed.), 2014, Federal Court - Principal Legislation in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis, Australia,
    Other | 2014
    Lindgren KE (ed.), 2014, Federal Court - Principal Legislation in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis, Australia,
    Other | 2014
    Lindgren KE (ed.), 2014, Federal Court - Principal Legislation in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis, Australia,
    Theses / Dissertations | 2013
    Cujes , 2013, Mere procedure? Federal Court case transfers to the Federal Magistrates Court and the hidden side of access to justice law reform in Australia., University of Wollongong
    Other | 2013
    Lindgren KE (ed.), 2013, Federal Court Rules 2011 in LexisNexis Practice & Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths, Australia,
    Other | 2013
    Lindgren KE (ed.), 2013, Federal Court Rules 2011 in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia,
    Other | 2013
    Lindgren KE (ed.), 2013, Federal Court Rules 2011 in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis, Australia,
    Other | 2013
    Lindgren KE (ed.), 2013, Federal Court Rules 2011 in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis, Australia,
    Other | 2013
    Lindgren KE (ed.), 2013, Federal Court Rules 2011 in LexisNexis Practice and Procedure High Court and Federal Court of Australia, LexisNexis, Australia,

My Teaching

ZBUS2101  Business Law

ZBUS8310  Commercial Skills in the Public Sector (Contract Law)

ZBUS3101  Legal Aspects of Risk Management