Associate Professor Joanna Bird
Profile
Degrees
BA LLB (Hons) Sydney BCL (Hons) Oxf
Courses Taught
- Regulation: theory and practice
- Regulation of retail financial services and products
Areas of Interest
- Regulation
- Financial services
- Consumer protection
- Corporate law
Brief Biographical Detail
Joanna Bird joins the faculty from the Australian and Securities Investment Commission, where she was head of Strategic Policy, the area of ASIC responsible for major policy and law reform projects. At ASIC Joanna worked on projects as diverse as financial market regulation, cross-border financial services, reform of auditor regulation, training of financial service providers, and enforcement law reform.
Before joining ASIC in 2001, Joanna was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. She has also worked as a solicitor in private legal practice in litigation, banking and finance. Joanna holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws (University Medal and First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Civil Laws (First Class Honours) from the University of Oxford. Joanna is interested in retail financial services and regulatory theory and practice and in 2010 Joanna will be teaching postgraduate courses drawn from her extensive expertise in these areas.
Publications
Book Chapters | Journal Articles | Conference Papers | Professional Seminars | Submissions | Consultancies
- Bird, J, ‘Conflict of Laws’ in S Hedley and M Halliwell (eds), The Law of Restitution, Butterworths: London (2002) Chapter 22
- Bird, J, ‘Choice of Law’ in FD Rose (ed), Restitution and the Conflict of Laws, Mansfield Press: Oxford (1995) Chapter 3
- Bird, J, 'Regulating the Regulators: Accountability of Australian Regulators' (2011) 35(3) Melbourne University Law Review (forthcoming)
- Bird, J, 'ASIC’s Role as Intervener: When Should the Regulator Intervene in Private Litigation?' (2010) 28(7) Company and Securities Law Journal 460-474
- Bird, J, ’The Duty of Care and the CLERP Reforms’ (1999) 17 Company and Securities LJ 141
- Bird, J, ‘Regulatory Rooms in Australian Corporations Law’ (with Jennifer Hill) (1999) 25 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 555
- Bird, J, ‘Choice of Law and Restitution of Benefits Conferred under a Void Contract’ (1997) LMCLQ 182
- Bird, J, ‘Choice of Law Rule for Priority Disputes in relation to Shares’ (1996) LMCLQ 57
- Bird, J, ‘Restitution’s Uncertain Progress’ (1995) LMCLQ 308
- Bird, J, ‘Bribes, Restitution and the Conflict of Laws’ (1995) LMCLQ 198
- Bird, J, 'Regulators: Accountable to Stakeholders or a Law unto themselves?' presented as an invited speaker at the plenary session of the 28th Banking and Financial Services Law Conference, 5 August 2011
- Bird, J, 'The FoFA reforms – an update' presented as an invited speaker at the plenary session of the ASIC Summer School 2011, 22 February 2011
- Bird, J, 'ASIC’s role as Intervener' presented as an invited speaker at the Corporations Workshop 2010, 1 August 2010
- Bird, J, 'The Future of Financial Advice', 7 October 2010
- Joint Consumer Submission on the Draft Future of Financial Advice Bill – Tranche 1, 16 September 2011
- Joint Consumer Submission on the Draft Future of Financial Advice Bill – Tranche 2, 26 October 2011
- 2010-2011, AIPEG funded consultant to Bapepam-LK, Indonesian Capital Markets and Non-bank Financial Institutions Regulator
