Academic Staff
Macquarie Law School
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW, 2109
Australia
tel: +61-2-9850 7303
fax: +61-2-9850 7686
email: bryan.horrigan@law.mq.edu.au
location: W3A 510
Professor Bryan Horrigan
BA, LLB (Qld), DPhil (Oxon)
Associate Dean (Research)
Teaching Responsibilities 2008
LAW436 Modern Corporate Governance
Research Interests:
Select areas of international, business, and governmental law, policy, and practice, including:
International and Comparative Law and Regulation
Comparative corporate governance; Comparative business regulation;
Comparative human rights-protection; Human rights and bills of rights; Comparative
theories of law and legal reasoning; Anglo-American legal reasoning; Internationalisation
of domestic law and policy
Business Law and Regulation
Corporate governance; Corporate social responsibility; Unfair, unconscionable,
and bad faith business conduct; Trade practices and competition policy;
Corporate guarantees; Native title’s commercial implications
Governmental Law and Regulation
Governmental liability and immunity; Governmental trade practices liability;
Legislative scrutiny of bills; Australian High Court decision-making; Australian
judicial reasoning; Native title’s public policy implications
Recent Publications:
Corporate Governance and Responsibility in the 21st Century: International, Anglo-American, and Australasian Perspectives on Corporate Governance in the Post-Enron Era (forthcoming)
Adventures in Law and Justice: Exploring Big Legal Questions in Everyday Life, UNSW Press, 2003
‘Comparative Corporate Governance Developments – Key Ongoing Challenges from Anglo-American Perspectives’, in S. Tully (ed), The Handbook on Corporate Legal Responsibility, 2005, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, Cheltenham, UK
‘Improving Legislative Scrutiny of Proposed Laws to Enhance Basic Rights, Parliamentary Democracy, and the Quality of Law-Making’, in J. Goldsworthy, T. Campbell, and A. Stone (eds), Protecting Human Rights in Australia: Past, Present, and Future, Ashgate, Aldershot, UK (2005, forthcoming)
‘The Expansion of Fairness-Based Business Regulation – Unconscionability, Good Faith, and the Law’s Informed Conscience’ (2004) 32 Australian Business Law Review 159
My papers can also be accessed on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) [Download]