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Academic Staff and AssociatesThe following academics in the Law School are members of the Centre: The following people are Associates of the Centre:
Ian Ramsay is the Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law in the Law School at The University of Melbourne where he is Director of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. He has practised law with the firms Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney. Other positions Ian currently holds or has previously held include:
Ian has published extensively on corporate law issues both internationally and in Australia. His books include Ford's Principles of Corporations Law - which is Australia's leading corporate law book - (co-author, 13th edition, 2007); Commercial Applications of Company Law (co-author, 9th edition, 2008); Varieties of Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Employees (co-editor, 2008); Commercial Applications of Company Law in Singapore (co-author, 2nd edition, 2006); Commercial Applications of Company Law in New Zealand, (co-author, 2nd edition, 2005); Company Directors: Principles of Law and Corporate Governance (co-author, 2005) Experts' Reports in Corporate Transactions (co-author, 2003); Key Developments in Corporate Law and Trusts Law: Essays in Honour of Professor Harold Ford (editor, 2002); Commercial Applications of Company Law in Malaysia (co-author 2002); Company Directors' Liability for Insolvent Trading (editor, 2000); Securities Regulation in Australia and New Zealand (co-editor, 1998); The Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Act Explained (co-author 2000); The New Corporations Law (co-author, 1998); Corporate Governance and the Duties of Company Directors (editor, 1997); and Education and the Law (co-author, 1996). In addition, he has published approximately 140 research reports, book chapters and journal articles. His publications have been cited by the High Court of Australia, the Federal Court of Australia, the Courts of Appeal of the Supreme Courts of New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia, as well as by the Supreme Courts of Queensland and South Australia. Ian is one of Australia's most successful academic lawyers in terms of competitive research grants. Ian is a respected commentator in the media on corporate governance and corporate law. He is regularly interviewed in the financial press and has been interviewed for international newspapers including the New York Times. His research has been reported in international newspapers including the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. Ian has been interviewed on major TV programs such as the 7.30 Report and Lateline, as well as radio programs including the Law Report and various current affairs programs.
Paul Ali is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law. He rejoined the Faculty in February 2006. Before becoming an academic, Paul worked as a finance lawyer in [top] Hellen Blue is a graduate in Law and Arts from the University of Western Australia. After graduation, she taught Business Law in Western Australia. She joined The University of Melbourne in 1998. She teaches Corporate Law. Hellen organises the seminar and conference program for the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation.
Pamela Hanrahan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law. She joined the academic staff of The University of Melbourne as a Senior Lecturer in February 1997, having previously practised corporate law and securities law as a Senior Associate with Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks in Melbourne. She holds Honours degrees in Arts and Law from The University of Melbourne and a Master of Law degree from Case Western Reserve University, Ohio USA. In 2005 Pamela completed an SJD at The University of Melbourne. Pamela teaches Corporations Law at the undergraduate level in both the Law and Commerce faculties, and Regulation of Collective Investments as part of the Law School's graduate program. Her research interests include management accountability in corporations and public unit trusts, securities law and derivatives regulation.
John received a PhD in law from the University of Melbourne in 2004 for his thesis ‘Government Promotion of Job Creation in Australia: Regulatory Objectives, Instruments and Law’. He also holds undergraduate degrees in Law and Arts from Monash University, and an LLM (Summa Cum Laude) from Temple University in Philadelphia, USA. John is also a member of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law. Prior to commencing an academic career, John worked in private legal practice, and also as a researcher for public policy and advocacy organisations in Washington DC.
Cally Jordan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law. She joined the Faculty in 2007. She has degrees in both civil law and common law (LLB/BCL McGill University; DEA Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)) and has practiced in Canada, New York, California and Hong Kong. She spent several years in the New York office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton practicing international finance. She was previously an Associate Professor at the University of Florida where she taught International Securities Regulation and Corporations. Cally has worked with the World Bank as an advisor on corporate governance, corporate law and capital markets in a number of countries (Indonesia, Vietnam, Tunisia, China, Chile, Korea, Slovakia, Armenia, Macedonia, Lithuania, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania). Between 1991 and 1996, she was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at McGill University and member of the Institute of Comparative and Private Law. She has taught as an adjunct at the University of Melbourne, Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada. She is a frequent speaker on corporate governance, capital markets and corporate law. She is the author of proposals for the reform of Hong Kong companies law and spent nearly five years living in Asia.
Jurgen Kurtz graduated in Law (Hons) and Arts from The University of Melbourne in 1993. He completed his articles of clerkship at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in 1994 and practised in corporate law until 1999. He was appointed a consultant in corporate law to Mallesons in 2000. He has taught Corporations Law at the undergraduate level in both the Law and Commerce Faculties. Jurgen completed his LLM by research thesis at The University of Melbourne. His main research interest is in international efforts to liberalise domestic investment laws and the impact of those efforts on the regulation of transnational corporations.
Tim Lindsey is a graduate of The University of Melbourne Law School and has a doctorate in Indonesian Studies. He teaches Insolvency Law and also Indonesian Law, Malaysian Law and Islamic and Traditional Customary Law. He researches and teaches in Indonesian. His books include Law and Society in Indonesia and How Companies Work.
Dr Parker is an Associate Professor and Reader at the University of Melbourne. In 1999, Oxford University Press published her first book Just Lawyers: Regulation and Access to Justice. In 2002, Cambridge University Press published Dr Parker's second book titled The Open Corporation: Self Regulation and Corporate Citizenship. She teaches subjects dealing with ethics and professional conduct in the legal profession as well as company law and a graduate subject dealing with corporate compliance issues. She is currently leading a major research project (in collaboration with the Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy at the Australian National University and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) evaluating the compliance impact of ACCC enforcement activity.
Geof Stapledon joined the Law School at The University of Melbourne in 1995. He was appointed Professor of Law in 2005 and he currently has a part time appointment in the Faculty of Law. In June 2005 Geof was appointed Managing Director of ISS Australia, which is the regional headquarters of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) - the world's largest proxy voting and corporate governance adviser. ISS Australia was established in mid-2005 when ISS acquired Proxy Australia, a Melbourne-based proxy voting and governance research firm that Geof co-founded.
Stacey Steele joined the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation in 2005. She joined the Asian Law Centre in 1997 as a research associate and was appointed Associate Director (Japan) for the Asian Law Centre in January 2002. Stacey holds degrees from the University of Queensland (BA (Jap)), Monash University (MA (Jap)) and the University of Melbourne (LLB (Hons) and LLM (by thesis)) and works as a Senior Associate in the Financial Services Group at Blake Dawson Waldron. Stacey teaches Insolvency Law, Law and Society in Japan and in graduate subjects offered by the Law School and recently published a translation of the Law Relating to Recognition and Assistance for Foreign Insolvency Proceedings for the Ministry of Justice, Japan. Her research interests are in the areas of Japanese insolvency law, law reform and the Japanese legal system.
[top] Associates of the Centre Sally Sievers (BA, LLB (Melb); LLM (Monash) is an Associate of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. She was previously a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Monash University. Her main research interests are corporations law, especially directors' duties and non-profit associations. She is the author of Associations and Clubs Law in Australia and New Zealand (2nd ed, 1996) and co-author of Corporations Law in Principle (7th ed, 2005). Sally has taught Corporations Law in the JD and LLB programs and Corporate Law to students undertaking the Bachelor of Commerce degree. Sally is also a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria She was a member of the Corporations Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia.
Andrew White is an Associate Professor of Law in the Singapore Management University School of Law. Andrew’s primary research focus is on Asian and Islamic law, including especially Islamic commercial law (Fiqh al-Muamalat) in Asia and commercial law reform in developing countries. Andrew has extensive experience as a consultant in areas of commercial law reform, including Shar?'ah/Fiqh al-Muamalat and other areas of commercial law in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Susan Woodward (LLB (Hons)(Melb) Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria) is an Associate of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. She taught at the University of Melbourne Law School until 2004. Prior to joining The University of Melbourne, Susan practised in commercial law both in Australia and London. She also worked as in-house legal counsel for the Australian Industry Development Corporation. At the University, Susan taught Corporations Law for several years. Susan is the lead author of Corporations Law in Principle (Law Book Co 7th ed 2005), together with colleagues Helen Bird and Sally Sievers. It is accompanied by on-line Teaching Resources and, as part of the In Principle Series, was awarded a prize for the best Tertiary Book Series at the Australian 10th Annual Excellence in Educational Publishing Awards.
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