Professor Christine Parker

Editorial Boards

2010 Assisted Neil Gunningham with review of new Compliance Framework for the Victoria Environmental Protection Authority.

2009 Appointed as independent expert to the Enforceable Undertakings Panel of the Victoria Environmental Protection Authority.

2009 Consultant to Restorative Justice and Workplace Death project organised by the Creative Ministries Network (part of the Uniting Church of Australia) to review final report.

2008 Consultancy for UTS Law Faculty on the teaching of legal ethics pervasively through the law degree. (I refused payment for this and did it on a pro bono basis.)

2007 Consultant on how open self-regulation could apply to the not-for-profit sector, for the State Services Authority, Victoria, Review of Not-for-Profit Regulation.

2005 Consultant to WorkCover Victoria on development of policy for enforceable undertakings.

2002 Consultant to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (NSW) on the new licensing regime for electricity and gas with the introduction of full retail competition.

1998-1999 Consultant to the Regulatory Reform Project of the Public Management Service (PUMA) of the OECD on regulatory compliance.

Grants and Commissions

2009-2011 Chief Investigator on successful ARC Discovery Project for "A Cancer on our Economy? An Empirical Interdisciplinary Study of the Criminalisation of Serious Cartel Conduct in Australia" with Caron Beaton-Wells (Project Leader; Melbourne Law School), Fiona Haines (Criminology, University of Melbourne) and David Round (Economics, University of South Australia). ($340 000 over 3 years.)

2008 Faculty Small Grant - "Exploratory Study of Incorporation and Listing of Larger Law Firms in Australia, and their Ethical Implications". ($5000)

2006-2011 ARC Australian Research Fellowship and Discovery Project funding for "The Impact of ACCC Enforcement" with PI Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen (Political Science, University of Aarhus). ($70 000 per annum for 5 years.)

2004 Member of successful ARC Network Bid for GovNet. ($1.5 million over 5 years.)

2003-2005 Chief Investigator on successful ARC Discovery Grant for "Meta-Regulation and the Regulation of Law" with Prof John Braithwaite (Project Leader; RegNet, ANU), Colin Scott (then Law, LSE) and Prof Nicola Lacey (Law, LSE). ($191 451 over 3 years.)

1998-1999 UNSW Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship to study corporate compliance systems, corporate citizenship and regulatory policy. (Salary plus $20 000 research funding.)

1999-2000 Two ARC Small Research Grants to study corporate compliance systems, corporate citizenship and regulatory policy. ($7000 in 1999, $11 209 in 2000).

1994-1996 Australian Postgraduate Award to study the regulatory reform of the legal profession and its relation to access to justice at the Australian National University.

Publications

2012

Christine Parker, John Howe, 'Ruggie's diplomatic project and its missing regulatory infrastructure' in Radu Mares (ed), The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Foundations and Implementation, (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012) 273-301

2011

Edited Books

C. Parker  & V Nielsen (eds) Explaining Compliance: Business Responses to Regulation, Edward Elgar Publications, Cheltenham, 2011, in press.

Book Chapters

C. Parker & S. Gilad, ‘Internal Corporate Compliance Management Systems: Structure, Culture and Agency' in C. Parker & V. Nielsen (eds), Explaining Compliance: Business Responses to Regulation (Edward Elgar Publications, 2011, forthcoming).

C. Parker, ‘Criminalisation and Compliance: The Gap between Rhetoric and Reality' in Caron Beaton-Wells & Ariel Ezrachi (eds), Criminalising Cartels: Critical Studies of an International Regulatory Movement (Hart Publishing, 2011).

Scholarly Journal Articles

C. Parker and L. Haller, ‘Inside Running: Internal Complaints Management Practice and Regulation in the Legal Profession' (2011, forthcoming) Monash University Law Review.

C. Parker & D. Ruschena, ‘The Pressures of Billable Hours: Lessons from a Survey of Billing Practices Inside Law Firms' (2011, forthcoming) St Thomas Law Review.

C. Parker & V. Nielsen, ‘The Fels Effect: The Impact of Business Opinions of the ACCC' (2011) 20(1) Griffith Law Review 91-126.

C. Parker & V. Nielsen, ‘Deterrence and the Impact of Calculative Thinking on Business Compliance with Regulation' (2011) 56(2) The Antitrust Bulletin 377-426.

C. Parker & L. Aitken, ‘The Queensland ‘Workplace Culture Check': Learning from Reflection on Ethics inside Law Firms' (2011) 24(2) Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 399-441.

Reports and Working Papers

C. Beaton-Wells, C. Parker, F. Haines & C. Platania-Phung, 'The Cartel Project: Report on a surtey of the Australian public regarding anti-cartel law and enforcement' (Melbourne Law School Cartel Project, 2011).

Selected other publications

C. Parker, ‘A Newly Published Classic on the Ethics and Sociology of Corporate Lawyers' Work' (Review of Robert E. Rosen, Lawyers in Corporate Decision-Making (Quid Pro Books, 2010)) (1 June 2011) JOTWELL: Legal Profession.

Selected list of publications, including those prior to 2011