Bryan Horrigan

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Name Bryan Horrigan


Born 1962 (age 53–54) Sydney, Queensland, Australia Occupation Dean of the Faculty of Law at Monash University Books Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century: Debates, Models and Practices Across Government, Law and Business Education University of Oxford, University of Queensland

Leave No One Behind - Professor Bryan Horrigan, Dean, Monash Law School

Professor Bryan Horrigan is an Australian legal academic. His expertise is in commercial law, corporate social responsibility and government contracts. Professor Horrigan currently holds the Louis Waller Chair of Law and is the Associate Dean (Research) at Monash University. He also works as a consultant to law firms and governments. On 8 October 2012, it was announced Professor Horrigan would succeed Professor Arie Freiberg as Dean of the Faculty of Law at Monash University in January, 2013.

Education

Bryan Horrigan was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was educated at St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace (Brisbane) and the University of Queensland (BA, LLB), where he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. He was subsequently awarded a D. Phil. in Law from University College, Oxford.

Professional career

Horrigan worked with law firm Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR), first as a senior associate from 1991 to 1994, then as a consultant since 1995. In 1995, he also became an associate professor at Queensland University of Technology. In July 2000, he became a professor in the School of Law at the University of Canberra, as well as the director of the National Centre for Corporate Law and Policy Research and deputy director of the National Institute for Governance, until 2005.

In 2005, Horrigan joined the Division of Law at Macquarie University as professor as well as its associate dean for research. He was co-director of the cross-disciplinary Centre for Comparative Law, History, and Governance, holding publicly funded research grants on corporate governance in the public sector as well as internationalisation of Australian law and adjudication. Horrigan left Macquarie's Division of Law in 2008. He has been a visiting academic at the Wharton Business School in Philadelphia.

Horrigan has contributed papers to many publications and authored three books. His published research has been cited in judgments, reports, or speeches by judges and other public officials, parliamentary committees, regulatory bodies (including the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC)'s 2005 Discussion Paper on Corporate Social Responsibility), academics, and legal practitioners.

Contributor

Horrigan has contributed chapters to the following academic and professional texts:

1994. Enforcing Securities

1994. Foreign Investment in Australia

1995. Equity: Issues and Trends

1996. Interpreting Constitutions

1997. Commercial Implications of Native Title

1998. Government Law and Policy: Commercial Aspects (ed., contrib.)

1999. Corporatisation and Privatisation in Australia

1999. Guarantees and Solicitors' Certificates

2001. Human Rights and Commercial Law

2002. Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia

2003. From Bureaucracy to Business Enterprise

2005. Handbook of Corporate Legal Responsibility

Author

Horrigan's books include:

2000. Horrors' Hints: Helpful Hints on the Theory and Practice of Legal Research and Analysis for Students, Academics and PractitionersFaculty of Law, Kelvin Grove, Qld.: Queensland University of Technology, ISBN 978-1-86435-474-4 (pbk.)

2003. Adventures in Law and Justice: Exploring Big Legal Questions in Everyday LifeLaw at Large, Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, ISBN 978-0-86840-572-8 (pbk.), "a down-to-earth explanation of topical and newsworthy law-and-justice dilemmas".

2008. Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century: Debates, Models and Practices Across Government, Law and BusinessCheltenham, UK & Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, ISBN 978-1-84542-956-0 (hbk.), ISBN 978-1-84720-835-4 (pbk.)

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