Christine Parker
Associate Professor Christine Parker
Associate Professor and Reader in the Law Faculty at University of Melbourne, Australian Research Council Australian Research Fellow.
Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
T +61 3 8344 1093; F +61 3 9347 2392
c.parker@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Christine Parker is Associate Professor and Reader at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne where she also holds an Australian Research Fellowship. She teaches undergraduate courses in legal ethics, and postgraduate courses in regulatory enforcement and compliance.
Dr Parker has conducted extensive empirical research and published widely on internal corporate compliance systems and on regulatory enforcement against business, and also on lawyers' ethics including ethics in large and commercialised law firms. Her books include The Open Corporation: Self-Regulation and Corporate Citizenship (published by Cambridge University Press in 2002) and Inside Lawyers Ethics (with Adrian Evans, published by Cambridge in 2007).
Associate Professor Parker is regularly asked to speak at conferences and seminars aimed at lawyers, compliance practitioners, and regulators. She is General Editor of the journal, Legal Ethics and co-chair of the US Law and Society Association's Collaborative Research Network on Regulatory Governance.
See Associate Professor Parker's Academic Profile
See Associate Professor Parker's research project 'The Australian Competition and Consumer Protection Commission Enforcement and Compliance Project'
A selection of Associate Professor Parker's publications relevant to this project includes:
- Is anyone out there listening? (2009) 17 Trade Practices Law Journal 106-122 (with Vibeke Nielsen)
- The two faces of lawyers: professional ethics and business compliance with regulation (2009) Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (forthcoming) (with Rob Rosen and Vibeke Nielsen)
- Corporate compliance systems: Could they make any difference? (2009) 41 Administration & Society 3-37 (with Vibeke Nielsen)
- The Pluralization of Business Regulation (2008) 9 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 350-3
- How much does it hurt? How Australian businesses think about the costs and gains of compliance with the Trade Practices Act (2008) 32 Melbourne University Law Review 554-608 (with Vibeke Nielsen)
- To what extent do third parties influence business compliance? (2008) 35 Journal of Law & Society 309-340 (with Vibeke Nielsen)
- What do Australian businesses really think of the ACCC and does it matter? (2007) 35 Federal Law Review 187-239 (with Vibeke Nielsen)
- A bang or a whimper? The impact of ACCC unconscionable conduct enforcement (2007) 15 Trade Practices Law Journal 139-162 (with Michelle Sharpe )
- Do businesses take compliance systems seriously? An empirical study of implementationof trade practices compliance systems in Australia (2006) 30 Melbourne University Law Review 441-494 (with Vibeke Nielsen)
- The 'compliance' trap: The moral message in responsive regulatory enforcement (2006) 40(3) Law & Society Review 591-622
- Restorative Justice in Business Regulation? The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's Use of Enforceable Undertakings (2004) 67(2) Modern Law Review 209-246
- Regulator-required corporate compliance program audits (2003) 25(3) Law and Policy 221-224