His practice has been largely in the areas of banking law, domestic and international income and capital taxation, goods and services tax, partnership law, property law, trusts and wills.
However, for non-hybrid biotech crops, such as transgenic soybeans, seed companies use intellectual property law and tangible property common law, each expressed in contracts, to forbid farmers from saving seed.
The principles of homesteading and squatter's rights predate formal property laws; to a large degree, modern property law formalizes and expands these simple ideas.