Employee share ownership plans: Current practice and regulatory reform
Chief Investigators
The chief investigators for this project are:
Professor Richard Mitchell
Professor Ian Ramsay
Associate Professor Ann O’Connell
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Richard Mitchell has been engaged in labour law teaching and research for more than 30 years. He studied labour law and industrial relations at The University of Melbourne and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Law and was Director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law from 1994 to 2004. He is presently an editor of the Monographs on Australian Labour Law Series and Vice-President of the Australian Labour Law Association. Among his areas of specialisation are labour law systems in the Asia Pacific Region, the legal regulation of labour markets and the role of law in the construction of employment systems. In addition to holding the position of Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Richard is also a Professor in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University.
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Ian Ramsay is the Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law in the Faculty of Law at The University of Melbourne, Australia, where he is Director of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. He has practised law with firms in New York and Sydney. He is a member of the Takeovers Panel (which is the main forum for resolving takeover disputes); member of the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (which is the Federal Government’s main corporate law reform advisory body); member of the Federal Government’s Auditors and Liquidators Disciplinary Board and member of the National Law Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Corporations Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia. In February 2006 Ian was appointed to the Audit Quality Review Board. The role of the Board is to review those systems, established by the major audit firms, which are intended to ensure they meet independence and quality standards in relation to their audits of listed companies. Former positions Ian has held include head of the Federal Government inquiry on auditor independence and member of the International Federation of Accountants taskforce on rebuilding confidence in financial reporting. Ian has published extensively on corporate law issues both internationally and in Australia. His most recent book, published in 2005, is Company Directors: Principles of Law and Corporate Governance co-authored with Justice Robert Austin and Professor Harold Ford.
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Ann is an Associate Professor at the Law School. She is also Special Counsel, Allens, Arthur Robinson, Solicitors. Ann lectures in taxation at the undergraduate and postgraduate level and also teaches courses in securities regulation. At the postgraduate level, she teaches Regulation of Securities Offerings, Taxation of Remuneration, Taxation of Superannuation and Capital Gains Tax - Problems in Practice. She is co-author of Income Tax: Text, Materials and Essential Cases (Federation Press), now in its 6th edition. She has also written on taxation of superannuation, taxation of charities and on capital gains tax issues. She also works in the Tax department of Allens, Arthur Robinson and is a member of the Advisory Panel to the Board of Taxation.
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