Ms Suzanne Le Mire

Biography/ Background

Suzanne Le Mire joined the Law School in 2008 as a lecturer. She previously taught in the School of Commerce at the University of Adelaide and the Faculty of Law at Monash University. Suzanne's research interests include corporate governance, professional ethics and regulation, and regulatory theory. She is currently working on a PhD which examines the role of non-executive directors of large publicly-traded corporations.

Teaching Interests

Corporate Law and Legal Ethics.

Professional Associations

Member, Corporate Law Teachers Association. Member, Law Institute of Victoria.
Member, Australian Corporate Lawyers Association. Member, Monash Governance Research Group.

Qualifications

BA, University of Adelaide
LLB( Hons), University of Adelaide
GDLP, South Australia Institute of Technology

Barrister and Solicitor Supreme Court of South Australia

Barrister and Solicitor High Court of Australia

Research Interests

Suzanne's research interests fall into two main areas:

1. Corporate law, governance, and ethics;
2. The legal profession, its regulation, and ethics.

Publications

Refereed:

Striking off: Criminal Lawyers and Disclosure of their Convictions (2005) 79 Australian Law Journal 461-468.

Non-Executive Directors: Problem or Solution?(2006) 2(3) Monash Business Review 14, (with Katherine Hall).

Document Destruction and Corporate Culture: A Victorian Initiative (2006)19(3) Australian Journal of Corporate Law 304.

The Case Study: James Hardie and its Implications for the Teaching of Ethics, forthcoming, Special Edition of Alternative Law Journal, 2006.

Conference Papers:

Unreasonable Expectations of Independent Directors, presented at CLTA, Sydney, February, 2005, published online at http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~parsons/CLTA/AbstractsandPapers.htm#lemire (accessed 16/05/05).

The Case Study: James Hardie and its Implications for the Teaching of Ethics, presented at Flowers in the Desert Conference: Clinical Legal Education, Ethical Awareness and Community Service, Melbourne, July, 2005.

The Independent Director: The Regulatory Technique that Unifies the Theorists, presented at PhD Symposium, University of Sydney, 25th-26th November, 2005.

Document Destruction and Corporate Culture: A Victorian Initiative, presented at the Corporate Law Teachers Association Conference, Brisbane, February, 2006.

The Embedded Regulator: The Independent Director in the Line of Fire, Frontiers of Regulation: Assessing Scholarly Debates and Policy Challenges, University of Bath, UK, September 2006.

The Great White Hope: The Independent Director as a Mechanism for Controlling Corporate Behaviour, Corporate Responsibility Research Conference Dublin, September 2006

Other Presentations:

Should Lawyers try to give Corporations Ethical Advice? Staff Seminar, Monash University, Faculty of Law, 26th May, 2005.

The Corporation, the Lawyers, its Scheme and their Ethics, Leo Cussens Institute, Melbourne, 5th August, 2005.

The Independent Director: Board Composition in the Shadow of the State? HDR Reporting Seminar, Monash University, Faculty of Law, 31st August, 2005.

Costs Agreements: Just One Word?, presented at the Launch of the Legal Profession Act, Monash University City Campus, 12th December 2005.

Managerialism and Legal Practice, Leo Cussens Institute, Melbourne, August, 2006.

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 4 Mar 2008