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We mourn the passing of one of our distinguished authors, Professor Des Butler, on 25 July 2019.

Des Butler was a Professor of Law at Queensland University of Technology, where he served as Assistant Dean, Research (1997-2002). He was awarded his doctorate in 1996 for his thesis on liability for psychiatric injury, and is the author or co-author of 21 books and numerous articles on topics including media and entertainment law, psychiatric injury caused by negligence, schools and the law and contract law. He was a chief investigator on several Australian Research Council grants on topics including cyberbullying and teachers’ duties to report suspected child abuse. He was an Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow and a Senior Fellow of the United Kingdom Higher Education Academy. He developed technology-based programs for enhancing the learning of law since 1990 and received numerous awards for his work, including an Australian Award for Teaching Excellence, the LexisNexis/Australasian Law Teachers Association Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Teaching of Law (twice) and a Janders Dean/LexisNexis Legal Innovation Index Award.

He will be missed.