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Professor Jennifer Hill

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Degrees
BA, (University of Sydney), 1976; LLB (Hons) (University of Sydney), 1979; BCL, (Oxford University), 1981.

Areas of Interest

  • Corporations Law
  • Comparative Corporate Governance
  • Regulation
  • Financial Market Regulation
  • Shareholder Rights
  • Directors’ Duties
  • Executive Compensation
  • Takeovers


Biography

Jennifer Hill is Professor of Corporate Law at Sydney Law School and a Director of the Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law. She writes widely in the field of corporate law and governance, and has taught at several US law schools, including Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, University of Texas and Cornell.

Jennifer’s recent research includes:- (i) a book on international executive compensation (co-edited with Randall S. Thomas, Vanderbilt Law School), entitled Research Handbook on Executive Pay (2012, Edward Elgar); (ii) a co-authored book, E. Ferran, N. Moloney, J.G. Hill, and J.C. Coffee, Jr., The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (2012, Cambridge University Press). Jennifer’s contribution to this book explores the research question of why Australia fared so well in the global financial crisis.

She is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (AAL) and a Research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute. She is a member of the Corporations Law Editorial Board for Cambridge University Press; the Law Council of Australia, Corporations Law Committee; the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC), Legal Sub-Committee; and Advisory Council of the Centre for International Finance and Regulation. In May 2013, she will hold the Foreign Chair at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Publications

Books | Book Chapters | Selected Articles | Conferences, Symposia and Workshops

Books

  • Eilis Ferran, Jennifer Hill, Niamh Moloney, John C. Coffee, Jr, The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (2012, Cambridge University Press).
  • R.P. Austin and Jennifer G. Hill (eds.), The Takeovers Panel (2011, Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law).
  • Randall S. Thomas and Jennifer G. Hill (eds.), Research Handbook on Executive Pay (2012, Edward Elgar: Publishing Ltd).

Book Chapters

  • "Why Did Australia Fare So Well In The Global Financial Crisis?" in E Ferran, N Moloney, J G Hill, and J C Coffee, Jr., The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, (2012, Cambridge University Press) 203-300 (Full text: SSRN)
  • “The Architecture of Corporate Governance in Australia: Corporate Governance – National Report: Australia” in Klaus J. Hopt (ed.), Comparative Corporate Governance (forthcoming 2012, Cambridge University Press). (Full text: SSRN)
  • “Directors’ Duties in the Common Law World” in A. Paolini (ed.), Research Handbook on Directors’ Duties (forthcoming 2012, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd).
  • “Regulating Executive Remuneration After the Global Financial Crisis: Common Law Perspectives” in Randall S. Thomas and Jennifer G. Hill (eds.), Research Handbook on Executive Pay (2012, Edward Elgar: Edward Elgar: Cheltenham UK and Northampton USA), Chapter 11, 219-240 (Full text: SSRN)
  • Introduction” in R.P. Austin and Jennifer G. Hill (eds.), The Takeovers Panel (2011, Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law) 11-15
  • ‘Recent Developments in Directors’ Duties in the Common Law World’, in M Lubrano di Scorpaniello (ed), Corporate Governance Models and the Liability of Directors and Managers (2010, FrancoAngeli: Italy), 19-48
  • ‘Takeovers, Poison Pills and Protectionism in Corporate Governance’ in S Grundmann, B Haar & H Merkt et al (eds), Festschrift für Klaus J. Hopt zum 70. Geburtstag am 24. August 2010, De Gruyter: Berlin (2010) 795-815 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘New Trends in the Regulation of Executive Compensation’, in Austin and Bilski (eds), Directors in Troubled Times (2009, Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law), 100 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Comparative Corporate Governance and Russia – Coming Full Circle’ in C. Vidya (ed), Corporate Governance: Policy Perspectives, Amicus Books, Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India (2007) (reprinted with permission), 129 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Evolving ‘Rules of the Game’ in Corporate Governance Reform’ in J O’Brien (ed) Private Equity, Corporate Governance and the Dynamics of Capital Market Regulation Imperial College Press (2007), 29 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Corporate Scandals Across the Globe: Regulating the Role of the Director’ in G Ferrarini, K J Hopt, J Winter & E Wymeersch (eds), Reforming Company and Takeover Law in Europe, Oxford University Press: Oxford UK, (2004), 225.
  • ‘Comparative Corporate Governance and Russia - Coming full circle’ in G Doeker-Mach & K A Ziegert (eds), Law and Legal Culture in Comparative Perspective, Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart (2004) 394 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Comparative Corporate Governance and Russia – Coming Fulle Circle’ in G Doeker-Mach & K A Ziegert (eds), Law Legal Culture and Politics in the Twenty First Century – Essays in honour of Alice Erh-Soon Tay, Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart (2004), 153 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Corporate Governance and the Role of the Employee’ in G Patmore & P Golan (eds), Partnership at Work: The Challenge of Employee Democracy: Labor Law Essays, Pluto Press: Sydney, (2003), 110
  • ‘Corporate Criminal Liability in Australia: An Evolving Corporate Governance Technique?’ in C Low (ed), Corporate Governance: An Asia-Pacific critique, Sweet & Maxwell: Asia, (2002), 567 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Public Beginnings, Private Ends - Should Corporate Law Privilege the Interests of Shareholders?’ in F McMillan (ed), International Corporate Law, Hart Publishing: Oxford, UK, (2000), 17 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Changes in the Role of the Shareholder’ in Grantham & Rickett (eds), Corporate Personality in the 20th Century, Hart Publishing: Oxford, UK, (1998), 175
  • ‘Criminal Liability of Corporations - Australia’ in Doelder and Tiedemann (eds), La Criminalisation du Comportement Collectif: Criminal Liability of Corporations (Kluwer Law International, The Hague/London/Boston, 1996), 71 (co-authored with R Harmer).
  • ‘The Accountability of Management Under Enterprise Bargaining Law’, in Ronfeldt and McCallum (eds), Enterprise Bargaining, Trade Unions and the Law (Federation Press, Sydney, 1995), 208
  • ‘Institutional Investment in Australia: Theory and Evidence’ in Walker and Fisse (eds), Securities Regulation in Australia and New Zealand (Oxford University Press, Oxford/ Auckland, 1994), 289 (co-authored with I Ramsay) (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘The Criminal Liability of Enterprises’. Part VA1 in Tay and Leung (eds), Australian Law and Legal Thinking in the 1990s (University of Sydney, Faculty of Law, 1994), 494 (co-authored with R Harmer).
  • ‘Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance in Australia’ in Baums, Buxbaum and Hopt (eds), Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance (Walter de Gruyter & Co, Berlin/New York, 1994), 583 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘The Juridical Person in Law and Comparative Law’ in Tay (ed), Australian Law and Legal Thinking Between the Decades (University of Sydney, Faculty of Law, 1990), 25.
  • ‘Preference Shares’ in Austin and Vann (eds), The Law of Public Company Finance (Law Book Company, Sydney 1986), 139

Selected Articles

  • 'Centro and the Monitoring Board – Legal Duties versus Aspirational Ideals in Corporate Governance ' (2012) 35(1) University of New South Wales Law Journal 341-359 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Comparing CEO Employment Contract Provisions: Differences between Australia and the United States’ (2011) 64(2) Vanderbilt Law Review (with Professor Ron Masulis and Professor Randall Thomas) 559-608 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘The Rising Tension Between Shareholder and Director Power in the Common Law World’ (2010) 18 Corporate Governance: An International Review 344-359 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Then and Now: Professor Berle and the Unpredictable Shareholder’ (2010) 33 Seattle University Law Review 1005-1023 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Subverting Shareholder Rights: Lessons from News Corp's Migration to Delware’ (2010) 63 Vanderbit Law Review 1-51 (Full text: SSRN) [Reprinted (2010) 52 Corporate Practice Commentator 55]
  • ‘Regulatory Show and Tell: Lessons from International Statutory Regimes’ Delaware Journal of Corporate Law (2008) 33 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 819-843 (Symposium Issue – The Delaware General Corporation Law for the 21st Century) (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Evolving ‘Rules of the Game’ in Corporate Governance Reform’ (2008) 1 International Journal of Corporate Governance 28 (inaugural issue) (reprinted with permission) (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Regulating Executive Remuneration: International Developments in the Post-Scandal Era’ (2006) ICFAI Journal of Corporate and Securities Law (reprinted with permission) (Full text: SSRN) [used by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) in formulating new standards on executive remuneration].
  • ‘Regulating Executive Remuneration: International Developments in the Post-Scandal Era’ (2006) 3 European Company Law 64 (Netherlands) (Full text: SSRN) [used by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) in formulating new standards on executive remuneration].
  • ‘The Persistent Debate about Convergence in Comparative Corporate Governance’ (2005) 27 Sydney Law Review 743 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Regulatory Responses to Global Corporate Scandals’ (2005) 23 Wisconsin International Law Journal 368 (Full text: SSRN)
  • 'Corporate Criminal Liability in Australia: An Evolving Corporate Governance Technique?' [2003] Journal of Business Law 1 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Introduction - Comparative Corporate Governance and Takeovers’ (2002) 24 Sydney Law Review 319.
  • ‘Corporate Governance and Executive Remuneration: Rediscovering Managerial Positional Conflict’ (2002) 25 University of New South Wales Law Journal 294 (Special issue on Corporate Governance) (with Professor Charles M. Yablon) (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Back to the Future? Bigshop 2 and Defensive Tactics in Takeovers' (2002) 20 Company and Securities LJ 126 (Full text: SSRN)
  • 'Theory and Practice in Takeover Law - Further Reflections on Pinnacle No 8’ (2001) 19 Company Securities LJ 391 (with J. Kriewaldt) (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Visions and Revisions of the Shareholder’ (2000) 48 American Journal of Comparative Law 39 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Timing Corporate Disclosures to Maximize Performance Based Remuneration: A Case of Misaligned Incentives?’ (2000) 35 Wake Forest Law Review 83 (with C.M. Yablon) (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Regulatory Rooms in Australian Corporate Law’ (1999) 25 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 556 (with J. Bird) (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Deconstructing Sunbeam - Contemporary Issues in Corporate Governance' (1999) 67 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1099. [cited by the Delaware Court of Chancery in In re the Coleman Company, Inc., Shareholders Litigation, 750 A. 2d 1202 (Del. Ch. 1999]
  • 'Deconstructing Sunbeam - Contemporary Issues in Corporate Governance’ (1999) 17 Company & Securities LJ 288 (reprinted in Australia with permission) (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Prohibiting Bribery of Foreign Public Officials - Implications for Corporate Criminal Liability’ (1998) 16 Company & Securities LJ 384 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Public Beginnings, Private Ends - Should Corporate Law Privilege the Interests of Shareholders?’ (1998) 9 Australian Journal of Corporate Law 21 (Full text:SSRN)
  • ‘Director and Executive Remuneration: A corporate governance or a shareholder/management issue’ (1997) 1 Reward Management Bulletin 84.
  • ‘Corporate Groups, Creditor Protection and Cross Guarantees: Australian Perspectives’ (Selected as one of the year's top 10 corporate and securities articles in the annual poll of North American corporate law professors and reprinted in the Corporate Practice Commentator - (1996) 38 Corporate Practice Commentator 381) (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘What Reward Have Ye? Disclosure of Director and Executive Remuneration in Australia’ (1996) 14 Company and Securities Law Journal 232 (Full text: SSRN) [The recommendations in this article, which gained the support of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporation and Securities, were influential in bringing about reform of remuneration disclosure under the Company Law Review Act 1998. The article has also been cited in the Australian Productivity Commission Inquiry Report, Executive Remuneration in Australia, December 2009].
  • ‘At the Frontiers of Labour Law and Corporate Law: Enterprise Bargaining, Corporations and Employees’ (1995) 23 Federal Law Review 204 (Full text: SSRN)
  • ‘Corporate Groups, Creditor Protection and Cross Guarantees - Australian Perspectives’ (1995) 24 Canadian Business Law Journal 321 (Full text: SSRN)
  • 'Corporate Rights and Accountability - The Implications of Environment Protection Authority v Caltex Refining Co Pty Ltd ' (1995) 7 Corporate and Business Law Journal (Special Issue - Corporate Theory), 127
  • 'Inspection of Corporate Books and Documents by Company Directors' (1995) 13 Company and Securities Law Journal 462

Selected Conferences, Symposia and Workshops

  • "Commentary - Better Governance of Financial Institutions", New Thinking in Financial Regulation, Cambridge University, November 2012.
  • "Why Did Australia Fare So Well in the Global Financial Crisis?", University College London, November 2012.
  • "Takeovers and Poison Pills in Asia", 21st Century Commercial Law Forum: Twelfth International Symposium 2012, Tsinghua University, Beijing, October 2012.
  • “Australia, Regulation and the GFC”, presented at Distinguished Professorial Seminar, University of Wollongong Law School, 21 September 2012.
  • “Takeovers and Defensive Mechanisms in Asia”, presented at Joint University of Hawaii and University of Sydney Conference on Commercial Law Reform in Asia, Sydney, 3-4 August 2012.
  • “Executive Compensation”, presented at Vanderbilt/NALSAR/ISB Law and Business Conference, Hyderabad, India, May 2012.
  • Panellist, Plenary Session on "Taxation, Governance and Ownership Structures in Europe", European Integration in Swedish Economic Research, 14th Annual Conference on European Integration, May 2012.
  • "Banks and the GFC: Tax or Regulation" (joint presentation with John Vella), Joint Oxford/Sydney Conference, Sydney, March 2012.
  • “Does Regulation Work? The Role of Regulation and the GFC”, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Legal & Enforcement Conference, March 2012.
  • Panellist, “Turbulent Times and the International Regulatory Response”; Commentator, “Offshore Developments, Onshore Opportunities”, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Summer School, Building Resilience in Turbulent Times, Sydney, 20-21 February 2012.
  • 'State of Executive Contracts and Executive Pay' presented at 19th Annual Labour Law Conference, Sydney, 1 August 2011
  • 'International Executive Compensation – Australia' presented at Conference on Current Issues Affecting International Business Activity, Beijing (2011).
  • 'Executive Ethics in a Post-Crisis World', presented at Conference on Corporate Governance and Business Ethics in a Post-Crisis World, University of Notre Dame (2011).
  • 'Invited panelist, 'Current Areas of Research Focus' (with Farrar, J and Ramsay, I), 20th Anniversary Corporate Law Teachers Association (CLTA) Conference, Brisbane (2011).
  • Invited participant and moderator, Conference on Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance, Genoa, Italy (2011).
  • Australian National Reporter - Corporate Governance International Academy of Comparative Law, ‘The Architecture of Corporate Governance in Australia’, 18th Congress on Comparative Law, Washington (2010) (Full Text: SSRN)
  • ‘Negotiating Dichotomies in Corporate Governance: Comparative Law Perspectives on Takeovers and Takeover Defences’, 2nd NUS-Sydney Law School Symposium, National University of Singapore (2010).
  • ‘Enforcement’, Conference on Financial Regulation and Supervision in the New Financial Architecture conference, Sicily (University of Gent, University of Genoa, Max Planck Institute, Hamburg) (2010).
  • ‘Comparing CEO Employment Contract Provisions: Differences between Australia and the US’, Executive Compensation: Rewarding Success or Promoting Excess, Vanderbilt Law Review Symposium on Executive Remuneration (2010) (with Professor Ron Masulis and Professor Randall Thomas).
  • Workshop presentation, ‘Regulating Executive Remuneration in the Post-Financial Crisis Era’, Lectures on Law and Economics, University of Hamburg (2010).
  • ‘Then and Now: Professor Berle and the Unpredictable Shareholder', Symposium: In Berle’s Footsteps, University of Seattle (2009).
  • ‘Recent Developments in Australian and UK Directors’ Duties’, Conference on Corporate Governance Models and the Liability of Directors, Università degli Studi del Sannio, Italy (2009).
  • Invited speaker, Australian Davos Connection Retreat, Hayman Island, Australia (2009).
  • 'New Trends in the Regulation of Executive Compensation' presented at Supreme Court Annual Corporate Law Conference: Directors in Troubled Times, Supreme Court of NSW (2009).
  • 'The Art of Waiving: Selective Regulation in Comparative Corporate Governance' presented at Rights, Regulation and Responsibility: Australian and Singaporean Perspectives Law Research Symposium, University of Sydney (2009).
  • 'A Comparison of US and Australian Executive Remuneration Contracts' Workshop on International Executive Remuneration, Cambridge (2009).
  • Workshop presentation on 'Subverting Shareholder Rights: Lessons from News Corp’s Migration to Delaware' presented at Centre for the Corporate and Commercial Law Seminar Series, Cambridge University Law School (2009).
  • 'Selective Regulation: Lessons from the News Corp Waivers', Global Law Workshop, Duke Law School (2009).
  • 'Contemporary Issues Concerning Schemes of Arrangement in Australia', Conference on Corporate Restructuring: Theory and Practice, Tsinghua Law School, Beijing, China (2008).
  • Distinguished Guest Speaker in Commercial and Enterprise Laws series, ‘The US Shareholder Empowerment Debate and the Lessons of News Corp’s Move from Australia to Delaware’, National Taiwan University College of Law (NTU College of Law), Taipai, Taiwan (2008).
  • Public seminar, 'News Corp’s Exodus to Delaware: Lessons for US and Australian Corporate Lawyers', Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law, Sydney Law School (2008).
  • Public address, 'The Shifting Balance of Power Between Shareholders and the Board: News Corp's Exodus from Delaware and Other Antipodean Tales', Hong Kong (2008).
  • Briefing to senior Hong Kong corporate regulators 'Dialogue with the Regulators' (hosted by Hong Kong Companies Registrar) (2008).
    Public address, 'The Shareholder Empowerment Debate: Lessons from News Corp's Exodus to Delaware', Asian Institute of International Finance Law Seminar, University of Hong Kong (2008).
  • Invited workshop, 'The Shareholder Empowerment Debate: Lessons from News Corp's Exodus to Delaware', William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii (2008).
  • 'What We Can Learn from Other Statutory Schemes', Conference The Delaware General Corporation Law for the 21st Century, Widener University (2008).
  • Commentator, ‘The EU Shareholder Rights Directive’, Conference on Shareholder Rights, Shareholder Voting and Corporate Performance, University of Amsterdam, Vanderbilt Law School and University of Cagliari, Sardinia (2008).
  • Workshop, ‘The Shifting Balance of Power Between Shareholders and Management: Comparative Corporate Governance Perspectives’, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland Research Seminar Series (2007).
  • ‘Evolving ‘Rules of the Game’ in Corporate Governance Reform’, ESRC/GOVNET Workshop, The Dynamics of Capital Market Governance, Australian National University, Canberra (2007).
  • Invited workshop, ‘Shareholders versus Managers: News Corp’s Exodus to Delaware and Other Antipodean Tales’, Emory University Law School, Atlanta (2007).
  • Public address, 'The Anglo-American Model Post-Enron', Financial Structure and Corporate Governance: Comparative Approaches, Seminar in celebration of the 35th Anniversary of Hong Kong University Faculty of Law and the 5th Anniversary of AIIFL, (2005).
  • 'The Shifting Balance of Power Between Shareholders and Managers in International Regulatory Reform', Wisconsin International Law Journal 2005 Annual Symposium on Economic Globalization and Corporate Governance, University of Wisconsin, Madison, (2005).
  • 'The Shifting Balance of Power Between Shareholders and Managers in International Regulatory Reform', Workshop, Duke University, School of Law (2005).
  • 'Corporate Law Economic Program (Audit Reform and Corporate Disclosure) Act 2004', Federal Court of Australia, Corporations Law Panel, Sydney (2004).
  • Invited speaker, 'Corporate Governance', Australian Federal Court Judges' Workshop, Sydney (2004).
  • 'Corporate Scandals Across the Globe: Implications for Corporate Governance', Conference on A Modern Regulatory Framework for Company and Takeover Law in Europe, Max Planck Institute conference, Sicily (2003).
  • Workshop, 'Corporate Scandals Across the Globe: Implications for Corporate Governance', Duke University School of Law (2003).
  • Workshop, 'Corporate Scandals Across the Globe: Implications for Corporate Governance', Vanderbilt University Law School (2003).
  • Workshop, 'Corporate Collapse in Australia: Issues in Comparative Corporate Governance and Regulation', Heyman Center on Corporate Governance, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York (2003).
  • 'Corporate Governance and the Board of Directors: An Australian Perspective', Conference on Developments in Corporate Governance, University of Naples Frederico II, Italy (2002).
    Workshop, ‘The Continuing Legacy of Sunbeam for Corporate Governance', Chinese University of Hong Kong (2001).
  • 'Timing Corporate Disclosures to Maximize Performance - Based Remuneration - A Case of Misaligned Incentives?' ,14th Annual Business Law Symposium on Executive Compensation, Wake Forest University School of Law (with Professor Charles.M. Yablon) (2000).
  • 'Deconstructing Sunbeam - Contemporary Issues in Corporate Governance', University of Cincinnati Twelfth Annual Corporate Law Symposium on Developments in Business Entity and Securities Law (1999).
  • Australian National Reporter on ‘Corporate Governance’, International Academy of Comparative Law, 15th International Congress on Comparative Law, Bristol, England (with J. Bird).
  • Public address, 'Contemporary Governance in Corporate Law', Research Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences Visiting Speakers Series, University of Sydney (1998).
  • Workshop, 'Reconceiving the Role of Shareholders and Employees in Corporate Governance - Lessons from Sunbeam and the Australian Waterfront Dispute', Heyman Center on Corporate Governance, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, (1998).
  • 'Changes in the Role of the Shareholder', Conference on A Centenary Celebration of Salomon v Salomon, Research Centre for Business Law, University of Auckland, NZ (1997).
  • Australian National Reporter on ‘The Criminal Liability of Enterprises’, International Academy of Comparative Law, 14th International Congress of Comparative Law, Athens, Greece (1994).
  • Workshop, 'Protecting Minority Shareholders - Some Developments Across Time and Jurisdictions', Brooklyn Law School, New York (1994).
  • Invited Participant, International Workshop on Institutional Investors and Corporate Governance, Osnabruck, Germany (1992).
  • Commentator on ‘Corporate Groups’, International Workshop on Corporate Control and Accountability, University of Warwick, England (1991).
  • Australian National Reporter, 'The Juridical Person in Law and Comparative Law', International Academy of Comparative Law, 13th International Congress of Comparative Law, Montreal, Canada (1990).

Research Grants

  • "Regulation and Reforms to Enhance Financial Stability in the Post-GFC Era" (joint project), Center for International Finance and Regulation
  • Literature Review - Legal Issues Relating to Financial Market Regulation, Centre for International Finance and Regulation
  • Legal Scholarship Support Fund, "Financial Market Regualtion in the Age of 'Forced Capitalism' and the Global Financial Crisis"
  • Australian Research Council, Discovery Grant, ‘The Subversion of Contemporary Performance-Based Pay - A Comparative Australian-US Study’ (2006) (with Professor Randall Thomas, Vanderbilt University School of Law and Professor Ronald W. Masulis, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University).
  • Legal Scholarship Support Fund, ‘The Shifting Balance of Power Between Corporate Management and Shareholders’ (2005).
  • Legal Scholarship Support Fund, ‘The Effect of Hedging on Performance-Based Pay Incentives’ (2003).
  • Legal Scholarship Support Fund, ‘Comparative Corporate Governance in the Era of Corporate Collapse’ (2003)
  • Sesqui R & D Research Grant, ‘Managerial Accountability and the Continuous Disclosure Regime’ (2002)
  • Sesqui R & D Research Grant, ‘Strategic Risk-Shifting and Performance-Based Pay’ (2001)
  • Legal Scholarship Support Fund, ‘Executive Remuneration and Incentives’ (2000)
  • ARC Grant, ‘Legal and Regulatory Implications of the ‘Good Corporate Citizen’ Model’ (with Joanna Bird) (1999).
  • ARC Grant, ‘Corporate Theory and the Problem of Executive Remuneration’ (with Professor Charles M. Yablon) (1998).
  • ARC Grant, ‘Regulation and Taxation of Institutional Investment in Companies’ (with Professor Richard Vann) (1996-1998).