Ms Elen Seymour
Deputy Dean - School of Law,
Dean's Unit - School of Law
Senior Lecturer,
School of Law
Senior Lecturer,
School of Law
Biography
Elen currently holds the positions of Deputy Dean and Deputy Provost at Parramatta South Campus, with a recent appointment as the Interim Dean of Law from September to December 2023. She is also recognized as a Fellow of the Tax Institute.
With a double degree in Arts and Law from the University of Sydney, Elen has dedicated over twenty years to the field of taxation. She launched her career at the Australian Taxation Office through their Graduate Program and quickly rose to join the International Tax team in Sydney. Her focus areas included transfer pricing and audits, particularly within the Transfer Pricing Record Review and the High Wealth Individual Trust review teams.
Her expertise led to her recruitment by PricewaterhouseCoopers in Sydney as a tax consultant, specializing in audit defense within the Transfer Pricing team. Elen's journey with PricewaterhouseCoopers took her internationally to Ottawa, Canada, where she excelled as a Senior Associate addressing Transfer Pricing issues, collaborating on projects in Montreal and Toronto.
Elen returned to academia in Australia as a sessional lecturer at the University of Western Sydney and Wollongong University in 2003, teaching tax and commercial law at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Alongside her teaching, she pursued a Masters of Law focusing on tax and administrative law at the University of Sydney, completing it in 2008.
Her academic career progressed when she took on a full-time role as a Lecturer in Taxation Law and Financial Services at the School of Law in 2010, advancing to Senior Lecturer by 2018.
Elen's leadership continued to evolve as she became Director Academic Program in the School of Law in July 2017, Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in 2020, Deputy Dean in May 2022, and ultimately, Interim Dean in September 2023.
Elen's research, mirroring the breadth of her professional journey, is unified by a commitment to accessibility, diversity, and inclusion. Her work addresses better regulation and taxation of charities, harnesses technology and social media to improve accessibility and inclusivity of legal education, and advocates for academic integrity as a foundation of an inclusive higher education system.
This information has been contributed by Ms Seymour.
Qualifications
- LLM University of Sydney
- LLB University of Sydney
- BA University of Sydney
Professional Memberships
- Australasian Academic Integrity Network (2022 - 2023)
- Australasian Tax Teachers Association (2011)
- Taxation Institute of Australia (2013 - 2015)
- Australian Law Teachers Association (2010 - 2012)
- Australian Charity Law Association (2015 - 2015)
Awards
- School of Law Leadership Award 2021-12-01
Interests
- Higher Education
- Legal Education
- Tax Administration
- Taxation Law,
- Taxation of Charities
- social media
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit - School of Law
- School of Law
- School of Law
Contact
| Email: | E.Seymour@westernsydney.edu.au |
|---|---|
| Phone: | (02) 4620 3647 & 9259 |
| Mobile: | |
| Location: | 22.1.71 Campbelltown |
PLEASE NOTE: obtaining information from this Directory must be for the legitimate purposes of doing business with and within Western Sydney University, and must not be used for unsolicited bulk e-mailing (spamming) or similar purposes.
Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- 200019 Revenue Law, 2012
- 200186 Advanced Taxation Law, 2008
- 200187 Taxation Law, 2012
- 200814 Commercial Transactions Law, 2014
- 200869 Principles of Taxation, 2015
- 200872 Contemporary Issues in Taxation, 2017
- 201007 Revenue Law Industry Placement, 2018
- AC808A Taxation Planning and Implications, 2006
- D1005 Introduction To Law, 2013
- LW805A Capital Gains Tax, 2007
Publications
Chapters in Books
- McPherson, J., Noakes, S., Seymour, E. and Lynch, J. (2023), 'Connecting generic academic integrity modules to professional integrity through curriculum design', Academic Quality and Integrity in the New Higher Education Digital Environment: A Global Perspective, Chandos Publishing 9780323954235.
- Seymour, E. (2019), 'Taxation : strategies for financial planners', Financial Planning in Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths 9780409349047.
- Seymour, E. (2017), 'Taxation : strategies for financial planners', Financial Planning in Australia, LexisNexis Butterworths 9780409342536.
- Seymour, E. (2015), 'Tax strategies', Financial Planning in Australia: Advice and Wealth Management, LexisNexis Butterworths 9780409339376.
- Seymour, E. (2015), 'Taxation : an overview for financial planners', Financial Planning in Australia: Advice and Wealth Management, LexisNexis Butterworths 9780409339376.
- Seymour, E. (2009), 'Taxation - overview and income; deductions, offsets and other taxes and bringing it all together: tax planning', Financial Planning in Australia, Lexis Nexis Butterworths 9780409325607.
Journal Articles
- Martin, F., Barker, S., Nehme, M. and Seymour, E. (2017), 'The rise and fall (?) of two Charities Commissions : how common law countries can learn from the experiences in New Zealand and Australia', New Zealand Universities Law Review, vol 27, no 4B .
- Seymour, E. (2016), 'Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission update', Alternative Law Journal, vol 41, no 1 , pp 66 - 66.
- Seymour, E. and Nehme, M. (2015), 'The ACNC, the Senate, the Commission of Audit and the not-for-profit sector', University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol 38, no 3 , pp 1186 - 1214.
- Seymour, E. (2013), 'Social media and the tax practice', Taxation in Australia, vol 47, no 7 , pp 434 - 437.
- Spencer, L. and Seymour, E. (2013), 'Reading law : motivating digital natives to ?do the reading'', Legal Education Review, vol 23, no 1 , pp 177 - 200.
- Seymour, E. (2012), 'The not-for-profit sector in the 21st century', Alternative Law Journal, vol 37, no 4 , pp 277 - 278.
- Seymour, E. (2010), 'The Henry Review and charitable purpose : workable solutions or another band-aid?', Journal of the Australasian Law Teachers Association, vol 3, no 1&2 , pp 127 - 138.
Conference Papers
- Seymour, E. (2013), 'Tax and social media networking', Tasmania State Convention: Tax and Social Media Networking, Launceston, Tasmania.