Ms Jenifer Varzaly

Biography/ Background

Jenifer is a Corporate and Commercial Law Lecturer at The University of Adelaide Business School. She graduated with honours from Law and was the 2008 recipient of The Hon. Justice Margaret Nyland Prize for the Most Meritorious Student in the Master of Laws degree. Her academic background also involves a Commerce degree majoring in Management and Accounting.

Jenifer has completed her Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice and is admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor. Before entering academia, she gained industry experience in business consulting and internal auditing as well as in legal practice. She undertook internships with two international law firms and also consulted to a number of Barristers in South Australia on commercial law matters.

Jenifer additionally gained overseas legal and research experience, completing the CSP program in Amsterdam through Columbia University and winning the prestigious International CV Prize, and achieving research experience as a visitor at Stanford University.

Jenifer continued her international focus in 2010, as a visiting academic at Columbia University to further her PhD research and legal scholarship.

Qualifications

BCom (Management)(Accounting), LLB (Honours), GDLP, LLM (top graduate), CSP (US Law, Columbia University).

Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia.

Awards & Achievements

Winner of the International Contract Law Moot Competition at the Columbia University CSP Program in Amsterdam, 2007.

Winner of the prestigious International CV Prize at the Columbia Univeristy CSP Program in Amsterdam, 2007.

Winner of The Hon. Justice Margaret Nyland Prize for the Most Meritorious Student in the Master of Laws, 2008.

Winner of the Fred McDougall Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2009.

Winner of the Best Paper Award for the Business Law session of the 6th Annual Applied Business and Entrepreneurship Association International (ABEAI) Conference held in the USA, 2009.

Nominated for The Young Australian of the Year Awards, 2010.

Invited to join The Premier's Women's Directory for women who have shown leadership potential, 2010.

Winner of the Best Presenter Award at The Management, Finance and Accounting Research Conference held in the USA, 2011.

Teaching Interests

Jenifer teaches Corporate Law (Australian and Singaporean expertise), Commercial Law, and Legal Aspects of International Business at the Undergraduate and Masters level; she also lectures Comparative Law to LLM, MCL and Masters of Business Law students. Her teaching experience has been gained at the Adelaide campus as well as through the off-shore programs run in KL, Malaysia and Singapore.

Kuala Lumpur- Lecturing Commercial Law.

Singapore- Lecturing Commercial Law and Singapore Corporate Law to Masters Students.

Adelaide- Lecturing expertise gained in Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Legal Aspects of International Business, Comparative Law.

Publications

Journal Articles

Predatory Pricing: A doubtful outlook for recoupment (2008) The Law Society of South Australia: Bulletin. Volume 30, Issue 9.

Do directors’ duties in Australia provide adequate scope for risk-taking? An examination of the current law and defence reform proposals (2008) Monash Business Review. Volume 4, Issue 3.

Predatory pricing reforms foreshadowed (2008) Commercial Law Quarterly. Volume 22, Issue 3.

Innovating Corporate Governance Teaching through Online Scenario-Based Learning (2009) International Review of Business Research papers. Voume 5, Issue 3. Jenifer Varzaly and Judi Baron.

Extending the Commercial Reach of Charitable Institutions- The High Court Case of Word Investments Ltd. (2009) Asia-Pacific Tax Bulletin. Volume 15, Issue 3. Jenifer Varzaly and Sylvia Papadimitriou.

Directors' Duties Developments in Economically Uncertain Times (2009) The Law Society of South Australia: Bulletin. Volume 31, Issue 11.

Australia: The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (2009) Asia-Pacific Tax Bulletin. Volume 15, Issue 6. Jenifer Varzaly and Sylvia Papadimitriou.

Australian developments in consequential loss (2010) The Company Lawyer. Volume 30, Issue 1.

Judicial Reconsideration of the Nature of Directors' Duties in Australia (2010) International Company and Commercial Law Review. Volume 21, Issue 2. Jenifer Varzaly and Sylvia Papadimitriou.

The Vital Link Between Legal Education and Practice (2010) The Law Society of South Australia: Bulletin. Volume 32, Issue 6.

Directors' Duties Developments: Insights from ASIC v Rich (2010) The Law Society of South Australia: Bulletin. Volume 32, Issue 7.

Implications from the Increase in Regional Trade Agreements: Aid or Impediment to Multilateral Trade Liberalization? (2011) Journal of Business and Economics. Volume 2, Issue 4.

The Important Role of Practical Legal Education (2011) The Law Society of South Australia: Bulletin. Volume 33, Issue 6.

A Comparison of the Business Judgment Rule in Australia and the US (2011) International Journal of Arts and Sciences. Volume 4, Issue 7.

The Future of Regional and Multilateral Trade Agreements (2011) The Business Review, Cambridge. Volume 17, Issue 1.

Conference Papers

The Future of Corporate Governance (2008) 9th International Business Research Conference. Jenifer Varzaly and Judi Baron.

Human Rights and the enforcement issue (2008) Conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Implications from the increase in Regional Trade Agreements: Aid or Impediment to Multilateral Trade Liberalization? (2009) 6th Annual Applied Business and Entrepreneurship Association International (ABEAI) Conference. USA. (Session chair).

Director Defences: A Comparison of the Business Judgment Rule in Australia and the US (2010) IJAS International Conference. Rome, Italy.

The Future of Regional and Multilateral Trade Agreements (2011) The Management, Finance & Accounting Research Conference. USA. (Session chair).

Protecting the Authority of Directors: An Empirical Analysis of the Statutory Business Judgment Rule (2011) The Asian Law and Economics Association Annual Conference. The University of Hong Kong. (Session chair).

Text Book Research Involvement

Researcher developing case studies & providing academic research for Sheppard, T. (2007) The Writing on the Wall, John Wiley & Sons, management textbook. See acknowledgements section page x.

Pearson Australia Business Law textbook review advisor. Review and advice on new business law text proposal, 2009.

Editor and review research for Chapter 18 and Appendix B (commercial law chapters) of Quester, Neal & Pettigrew (2010) Consumer Behaviour, McGraw Hill, marketing textbook.

Professional Associations

Member of The Law Society of South Australia

Member of The Women's Legal Service of South Australia

Member of The Australian Financial Review Business Leaders Panel

Member of The Premier's Women's Directory for Board Appointment

Professional Interests

Non-executive Director & Legal Advisor, Board of Directors, YMCA South Australia

The Law Society of South Australia, Corporate Law Committee Member

The Women's Legal Service of South Australia, Volunteer Legal Adviser

Consultant to Barristers, predominantly in commercial law matters

Project-based business consulting work

AIESEC function Keynote Speaker on the topic of International Business and Trade, 2009.

AIESEC function Keynote Speaker on the topic of Human Rights, 2009.

Speech on Directors' Duty developments to the Law Society of South Australia Corporate, Commercial and Tax Committee, December 2009.

AIESEC Mentorship Program volunteer mentor, 2010.

In her professional capacity, Jenifer acts as research adviser and consultant in the area of corporate law and commercial litigation to Mark Hoffmann QC.

Community Engagement

National Tree Day Community Representative and Volunteer, 2006-2011 and ongoing.

Volunteer Facilitator for South Australian Youth Mentoring Program, 2007-2010.

Member of Tennis South Australia.

Volunteer for the Heart Foundation, 2007 and 2009.

Clean-Up Australia Day Community Volunteer, 2010-2011 and ongoing.

Trees Please conservation group Volunteer, 2010-2011.

Member of YMCA South Australia.

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 14 Sep 2011