Professor Christine Parker

Professor
BA (1st Class Hons)(1991), Bachelor of Laws (1st Class Hons) (1992) , PhD in Law (1997) ,

Professional Profile

Prof Christine Parker conducts socio-legal research on business responses to legal regulation and social responsibilities, the impact of regulatory enforcement on business, internal corporate responsibility systems, lawyers' ethics and the regulation of lawyers. She teaches legal ethics and regulatory enforcement and compliance.

Professor Parker has held a number of major academic research grants in her areas of research and also does research work and policy advice on a consultancy basis for government and regulatory agencies. Her current projects include research in the areas of the United Nation's Respect, Protect and Remedy Framework for business and human rights, competition and consumer protection regulation and compliance, including the new criminal anti-cartel offence, environmental regulation, ethical cultures inside law firms and research with Consumer Affairs Victoria on compliance strategies for real estate agents and conveynacers.

 Her books include Explaining Compliance: Business Responses to Regulation (co-edited with Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen, Edward Elgar, forthcoming), The Open Corporation: Self-Regulation and Corporate Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 2002), Regulating Law (co-edited, Oxford University Press, 2004), and Inside Lawyers' Ethics (co-authored with Adrian Evans, Cambridge University Press, 2007). She has also published widely in socio-legal journals and law reviews.

 She is editor of the journal, Legal Ethics, and is on the editorial boards of Law and Policy and Regulation and Governance. She is also co-chair of the Law and Society Association's Collaborative Research Network for Regulatory Governance.

Areas of Expertise

Legal Ethics
Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct
Dispute Resolution and Legal Ethics
Law, Lawyers & Society
Legal research
Regulatory Enforcement and Corporate Compliance
Enforcing Competition Law
Financial Services Risk Management and Compliance
Corporate Self-Regulation and Compliance: Theory and Practice
Corporate Law
Business Associations