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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 Melbourne 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, 14th edition, 2010); Law, Corporate Governance and Partnerships at Work: A Study of Australian Regulatory Style and Business Practice (co-author 2011); The Takeovers Panel and Takeovers Regulation in Australia (editor, 2010); Commercial Applications of Company Law (co-author, 13th edition, 2012); Commercial Applications of Company Law in New Zealand, (co-author, 3rd edition, 2009); Varieties of Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Employees (co-editor, 2008); Commercial Applications of Company Law in Singapore (co-author,4th edition, 2011); Commercial Applications of Company Law in Malaysia (co-author, 3rd edition, 2008); 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); 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, Ian has published approximately 150 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, Queensland and Western Australia, as well as by the Full Court of the Supreme Court of South Australia. Ian is well known for his policy related research which has been undertaken for the Australian Government, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, the Australian Law Reform Commission and other organisations. This research has resulted in important regulatory changes. 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.
Dr Paul Ali is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Law School. Before becoming an academic, Paul worked as a finance lawyer in
[top] Hellen Blue is an Associate Director of the Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation. She joined Melbourne Law School and the Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation in 1998. Hellen is responsible for the Centre’s seminar and conference program. She has taught Corporate Law. Andrew Godwin Andrew Godwin is a Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne Law School and Associate Director (Asian Commercial Law) of the Asian Law Centre. He is also Director of the Graduate Program in Banking and Finance Law at the Melbourne Law School. Prior to joining the Law School in 2006, Andrew was in private practice for 15 years, 10 of which were spent in Shanghai where he was a partner of a major international law firm. During his time in practice, Andrew acted for commercial and investment banks in a wide range of finance transactions, including secured lending, structured finance, derivatives and debt restructuring. He was also actively involved with financial institutions and multinational companies in the area of cross-border merger and acquisition projects and investment funds management. His research interests include securities regulation, Chinese law, property law, financial and insolvency law and professional training.
Dr Pamela Hanrahan is one of Australia's leading authorities on securities and financial services law. She has extensive experience in corporate law and regulation and was formerly the Australian Securities and Investment Commission's Regional Commissioner for Queensland. Dr Hanrahan has published widely in areas of financial services regulation, funds management law, and corporations and securities law. She is author of Managed Investments Law & Practice (CCH, 1999, 2012), which is the leading Australian text on the law of managed investment schemes, and of Funds Management in Australia: Officers' Duties and Liabilities (LexisNexis, 2007). She is co-author of the Australian, Singaporean, Malaysian and New Zealand editions of Commercial Applications of Company Law (CCH, 2000, 2012) and, with Professor Bob Baxt AO and Justice Ashley Black, of Securities and Financial Services Law (LexisNexis, 2012).
Dr Hanrahan holds Honours degrees in Arts and Law from the The University of Melbourne, a Masters degree (with Honors) from Case Western Reserve University, and a Doctorate of Juridical Science from The University of Melbourne. She is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, a member of the Corporations Committee of the Law Council of Australia and a member of the CAMAC legal sub-committee on managed investments. Her primary research interests are in the role of legislation in financial regulation, enforcement theory, and the governance of regulatory institutions.
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 Melbourne Law School. She joined the Law School 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 practised law in Canada, New York, California and Hong Kong. She spent several years in the New York office of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton practising 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 a 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 Corporate Law at the Melbourne Law School. 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 is Director of the Law School's Asian Law Centre. 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.
Ann is a Professor in the Melbourne Law School. She holds a BA(Hons), LLB(Hons) and an LLM by thesis from the University of Melbourne. Her honours thesis was on the role of the regulator in relation to corporate takeovers. She is currently Co-Director of the Tax Group but has always been interested in the overlap between tax and corporate law. In addition to teaching Tax, she also teaches Regulation of Securities Offerings and Regulation of Securities Markets in the Masters program. Ann has recently completed an ARC funded project on employee share ownership (with Professor Ian Ramsay) and is currently working on a project entitled “Defining, regulating and taxing Not-For-Profits in the 21st century”.
Ann is Special Counsel to the Mergers and Acquisition group at Allens Arthur Robinson.
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 has worked as a Senior Associate in the Financial Services Group at Blake Dawson Waldron. Stacey has taught Insolvency Law, Law and Society in Japan and other subjects offered by the Law School and 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. Stacey has a part time appointment in the Law School and she also works in the private sector. 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 corporate 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). She is also the author of the chapter titled 'Voluntary Associations' in Halsbury's Law of Australia. Sally has taught Corporate Law. 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.
Geof Stapledon is Manager, Governance at BHP Billiton. Geof joined the Melbourne Law School in 1995. He was appointed Professor of Law in 2005 and a Professorial Fellow in 2008 when he took up his position at BHP Billiton. 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. 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 Melbourne Law School, Susan taught Corporate Law for several years. Susan was the lead author of Corporations Law in Principle (Law Book Co, 7th ed, 2005), together with colleagues Helen Bird and Sally Sievers. As part of the In Principle Series, the book was awarded a prize for the best Tertiary Book Series at the Australian 10th Annual Excellence in Educational Publishing Awards. Melinda Shiell Melinda Shiell is the Administrator and Project Officer for the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. She joined the Centre in October 2011. Prior to her commencement at the Law School, Melinda completed her Master of Laws (JD) at Monash University and was admitted to practice in August 2011. She previously managed editorial legal affairs at The Age newspaper. |
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