Rocco Loiacono
" Lecturer"
School of Law
Curtin University
Australia
Biography
Dr Loiacono is a Lecturer in the Curtin Law School, where he teaches in the areas of property law, business law and taxation law. After graduating with a combined Law and Languages (Honours) degree, he worked for ten years as a lawyer, most of those in the commercial property department at national law firm Clayton Utz. Dr Loiacono received the award of his PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2014. The area of research of the thesis is the difficulties associated with the translation of treaties across different legal systems, in particular, between common law and civil law.
Research Interest
property law, business law and taxation law
Publications
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Mortimer, C., and R. C. Loiacono. 2015. "The use of extrinsic materials by the Courts in the interpretation of taxation legislation." The Tax Specialist 19 (2): 86-90.
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Loiacono, R. C. 2016. "The translation of proper names in legal translation: A study of the translation of the bilateral agreements between Australia and Italy." Rome, Italy: Rome: Aracne Editrice.
