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DR CHRISTINE PARKER



Contact Details

Organization: Law
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & READER
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Homepage: http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/staff/Christine%20Parker
Work: +61 3 834 41093
Room: 0755
Level: 07
Building: Law Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Lawyers' Ethics Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulations of Lawyers Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
Business Regulation - Enforcement and Compliance Australia, United States of America, Canada
Corporate Social Responsibility Australia, United States of America, Canada

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
Denmark University of Aarhus Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts (honours) The University of Queensland 31-Dec-1991
Bachelor of Laws (Honours) The University of Queensland 31-Dec-1992
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 31-Dec-1997

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Meta-Regulation & Regulation of Law Chief Investigator AUST NATIONAL UNIVERSITY Discovery Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2003
Litigation and Liability as Regulation to Reduce Tobacco Related Harm: Making the Polluter Pay for the Harm Tobacco Causes Chief Investigator CANCER COUNCIL VICTORIA,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2006
The Impact of ACCC Enforcement Action: Evaluating the explanatory and normative power of responsive regulation and responsive law Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2006
A cancer on our economy? An empirical interdisciplinary study of the criminalisation of serious cartel conduct in Australia Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • How much does it hurt? How Australian businesses think about the costs and gains of compliance and noncompliance with the Trade Practices Act
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Melbourne University Law Review
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 554-608
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  • Keeping it in-house: Ethics in the relationship between large law firm lawyers and the corporate clients through the eyes of in-house counsel
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Legal Ethics
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 201-229
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  • The ethical infrastructure of legal practice in larger law firms: Values, policy and behaviour
    Year: 2008
    Journal: University of New South Wales Law Journal
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 158-188
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  • The pluralization of regulation
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Theoretical Inquiries in Law
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 349-369
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  • To what extent do third parties influence business compliance?
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Law and Society
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 309-340
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Major Reference Works

  • The New Oxford Companion to Law:Legal profession: competition, consumer protection and regulation
    Year: 2008
    Reference Work Title: The New Oxford Companion to Law
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Reports

  • Assessing the impact of management-based regulation on NSW incorporated legal practices
    Year: 2008
    Customer: Office of the New South Wales Legal Services Commissioner
    Publisher: Melbourne Law School(Melbourne)
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  • Self-regulation and the not-for-profit sector
    Year: 2008
    Customer: State Services Authority Victoria
    Publisher: State Services Authority Victoria(Victoria)
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Publications in 2007

Books

Book Chapters

  • Meta-regulation: legal accountability for corporate social responsibility
    Year: 2007
    Book: The New Corporate Accountability
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • A bang or a whimper? The impact of ACCC unconscionable conduct enforcement
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Trade Practices Law Journal
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 139-162
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  • The possibilities and dangers of 'open' self-regulation
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Compliance & Regulatory Journal
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 14-18
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  • What do Australian businesses think of the ACCC, and does it really matter?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Federal Law Review
    Volume: 35
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 187-239
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Do Businesses Take Compliance Systems Seriously? An Empirical Study of the Implementation of Trade Practices Compliance Systems in Australia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Melbourne University Law Review
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 441-494
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  • The "Compliance" Trap: The Moral Message in Responsive Regulatory Enforcement
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Law & Society Review
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 591-622
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Reports

  • The ACCC Enforcement and Compliance Project: Assessment of the Impact of ACCC Regulatory Enforcement Action in Unconscionable Conduct Cases
    Year: 2006
    Publisher: Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, Faculty of Law(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Christian ethics in legal practice: Connecting faith and practice
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Interface
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 23-34
    Publisher: Australian Theological Forum(Hindmarsh)
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Reports

  • The ACCC enforcement and compliance survey: Report of preliminary findings
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Australian National University(Canberra)
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Publications in 2004

Books

  • Regulating law
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Book Chapters

  • Conclusion
    Year: 2004
    Book: Regulating Law
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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  • Introduction
    Year: 2004
    Book: Regulating law
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(New York)
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Journal Articles

  • A critical morality for lawyers: Four approaches to lawyers' ethics
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Monash University Law Review
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 49-74
    Publisher: Faculty of Law, Monash University(Clayton)
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  • Law firms incorporated: How incorporation could and should make law firms more ethically responsible
    Year: 2004
    Journal: University of Queensland Law Journal
    Volume: 23
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 347-380
    Publisher: University of Queensland(St Lucia)
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  • Restorative justice in business regulation? The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's use of enforceable undertakings
    Year: 2004
    Journal: The Modern Law Review
    Volume: 67
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 209-246
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Is there a reliable way to evaluate organisational compliance programs?
    Year: 2004
    Event name: Current Issues in Regulation: Enforcement and Compliance
    Conference Publication: Regulation: Enforcement and compliance
    Issue: 57
    Page numbers: 106-118
    Publisher: Australian Institute of Criminology(Canberra)
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Reports

  • ACCC enforcement and compliance project: The impact of ACCC enforcement activity in cartel cases
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy, ANU(Canberra)
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  • ACCC enforcement and compliance project: Working paper on ACCC compliance education and liaison strategies
    Year: 2004
    Publisher: Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy, ANU(Canberra)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Aspects of regulatory reform in the legal profession: Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands
    Year: 2003
    Journal: International Journal of the Legal Profession
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 237-267
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  • Introduction: Auditing in regulatory perspective
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Law & Policy
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 179-184
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Regulator-required corporate compliance program audits
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Law & Policy
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 221-244
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Major Reference Works

  • Regulation:The Oxford handbook of legal studies
    Year: 2003
    Reference Work Title: Regulation
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Reports

  • Compliance and enforcement project: preliminary research report
    Year: 2003
    Publisher: Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy, ANU(Canberra)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • The Open Corporation: Effective Self-Regulation and Democracy.
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge(Cambridge)
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Book Chapters

  • Corporate governance and sexual harassment
    Year: 2002
    Book: Commercial Law and Human Rights
    Publisher: Ashgate(Aldershot)
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  • Regulating Self-Regulation: The ACCC, ASIC, Competition Policy, and Corporate Regulation.
    Year: 2002
    Book: Economic Governance and Institutional Dynamics.
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(Oxford)
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Journal Articles

  • Is There a Duty to Implement a Corporate Compliance System in Australian Law?
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Business Law Review
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 273-293
    Publisher: L B C Information Services
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  • Regulation of the Ethics of Australian Legal Practice: Autonomy and Responsiveness.
    Year: 2002
    Journal: University of New South Wales Law Journal
    Volume: 25
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 676-703
    Publisher: Star Printery
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • The Open Corporation: Evaluation of Corporate Self-Regulation of Responsibility.
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 2002 IIPE Biennial Conference
    Conference Publication: The Open Corporation.
    Page numbers: 1-24
    Publisher: International Institute of Public Ethics(Brisbane)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • What do they learn when they learn legal ethics?
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Legal Education Review
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 1&2
    Page numbers: 175-205
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Major Reference Works

  • The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia:Leeth v The Commonwealth
    Year: 2001
    Reference Work Title: The Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia
    Publisher: Oxford University Press(South Melbourne)
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