Juliette Overland LLB (Hons 1 (QUT) PhD Candidate (ANU) Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia Lecturer Department of Business Law Division of Law Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia Room 420 in Building W3A Telephone: +61 (0)2 9850 7069 Facsimile: +61 (0)2 9850 9952 Email: juliette.overland@law.mq.edu.au

Areas of Interest

• Insider Trading
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Corporate Governance
• Corporate Crime

Background

Juliette joined Macquarie University in January 2004, having previously practised as a corporate and commercial lawyer for more than 10 years. Juliette has worked as a senior lawyer at leading Australian law firms Mallesons Stephen Jaques and Gilbert & Tobin, and as Australian legal counsel for the global technology company Cisco Systems, Inc. She has extensive practical experience in all aspects of corporate and commercial law.

Juliette lectures in the business law undergraduate program in BUSL301: Corporations Law and in the LLB program in LAW406: Business Organisations

She is married with two small children.

Publications

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

• "Liability for Insider Trading: Learning Lessons from Australia" (2008) International Journal of Private Law - accepted for publication.
• "Towards Better Deterrence of Securities Fraud: Consistency in Sentencing Insider Traders" (2008) Macquarie Journal of Business Law - accepted for publication.
• "Corporate Social Responsibility in Context: the Case for Compulsory Sustainability Disclosure for Listed Public Companies in Australia" (2007) 4 Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law, 1-22
• "Back to the Future? The Impact of Financial Services Reform on Insider Trading in Australia" (2007) 4 Macquarie Journal of Business Law, 179-195
• “Editorial: Globalisation and the Quest for Social and Environmental Justice: The Relevance of International Law in an Evolving World Order” (2007) Macquarie Law Journal (co-authored) – to be published in 2007
• “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Assessing Recent Developments in the Fight Against Insider Trading” (2006) 24 Company & Securities Law Journal 207-222
• “There Was Movement at the Station for the Word had Passed Around: How does a Company Possess Inside Information under Australian Insider Trading Laws?” (2006) 3 Macquarie Journal of Business Law 241–257
• “Book review: The Law of Insider Trading in Australia” (2006) 24 Company and Securities Law Journal 65-66
• “The Future of Insider Trading in Australia: What did Rene Rivkin Teach Us?" (2005) 10 Deakin Law Review 708-730

Book Chapters

• "The Future of Insider Trading in Australia" in Insider Trading: Regulatory Perspectives edited by C Vidya, ICFAI University Press (2007) 131-158

Articles in Professional Journals:

• "Sustainability Disclosure and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Australian Experience" (2008)4 FSR Forum 7-11.
• "ASIC v Citigroup: Insider Trading" (2007) 15 Australian Corporate News, 9 August 2007, 1-5
• "ASIC v Citigroup: Fiduciary Duties and Conflicts of Interest" (2007) 16 Australian Corporate News, 23 August 2007, 1-5
• “Good Corporate Citizenship” (2007) 6 Australian Corporate News, 29 March 2007, 6-10
• “Validity of Electronic Transactions under the Electronic Transactions Act” (1999) 3 Telemedia 2, 25
• “Post 1997: Competition Rules” (1996) 127 Communications Update 4
• “Telstra’s Privatisation: What Will Really Happen?” (1996) Australian Communications, October 47-48 (co-authored)

Articles in Newspapers and Magazines:

• “Citi case shows need for reform”, The Australian, Business Section, 7 April 2006, 23
• “Insider trading law and the Steve Vizard case” (2005) Macquarie University News, September issue, 14

Law Reform and Policy Submissions:

• Submission to the Commonwealth Treasury on its 2 March 2007 Insider Trading Position and Consultation Paper, 20 April 2007
• Submission to the Australian Stock Exchange on its 2 November 2006 ASX Corporate Governance Council’s Explanatory Paper and Exposure Draft on the Principles of Good Corporate Governance and Best Practice Recommendations, 9 February 2007
• Submission to the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee on its November 2005 Corporate Social Responsibility Discussion Paper, 1 March 2006

Editorial Work:

• Co-convenor of the Division of Law's 2006 Seminar Series based on the theme "Globalisation and the Quest for Social and Environmental Justice: The Relevance of International Law in an Involving World Order"
• Co-editor of a special 2007 issue of the Macquarie Law Journal based on the theme of the 2006 seminar series

Conferences and Presentations:

• "Through the Looking Glass: The Latest Developments in Insider Trading Regulation" at the 2008 Financial Services Reform Conference, Sydney on 18 July 2008
• "An Autopsy for ASIC: The Ongoing Impact of the Citigroup Insider Trading Decision" at UTS, Sydney on 5 June 2008
• “Corporate Governance, Insider Trading and Conflicts of Interest”, at the Macquarie Forum 2007 lecture series, jointly hosted by the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and the Macquarie University Division of Law, 29 May 2007
• “Financial Services Reform and Insider Trading: We Know Where We've Been But Do We Know Where We're Going ”, at the Financial Services Reform Third Anniversary – Where Next? Conference, jointly hosted by the Macquarie University Department of Business Law, the Monash University Department of Business Law and Taxation, and the Taxation Law and Policy Research Institute, 13 July 2007
• “Insider Trading: Issues in Practice”, continuing legal education seminar at Gilbert & Tobin lawyers, Sydney, 31 August 2006

Research Grants

• Macquarie University 2008 Research Development Grant of $38,500 for the project "Toward Better Regulation of Insider Trading: Protecting Australia's Securities Markets Through Corporate Governance Compliance"
  
• Macquarie University New Staff 2006 Research Grant of $10,217 for the project "Sentencing Insider Traders and Safeguarding Australia's Securities Markets"

Research Centre Membership

• Macquarie University Centre for Comparative Law, History and Governance
• Division of Law International and Comparative Law and Governance Research Cluster
• Division of Law Sustainable Business Research Cluster

Community Engagement

• Live television interview on the Sky News Business Program concerning developments in insider trading and the Citigroup litigation, 31 March 2006

Other Research Activity

• Current PhD Candidate of the Australian National University - thesis entitled "Corporate Liability and Responsibility for Insider Trading in Australia"

Modified 1 April 2008
 

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