Contemporary Australian Corporate Law

By:   Stephen Bottomley (Australian National University Canberra), Kath Hall, Peta Spender (Australian National University, Canberra), Beth Nosworthy (University of Adelaide)
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   3rd Revised edition
Weight:   1.378kg
ISBN:   9781009448215
ISBN 10:   1009448218
Pages:   814
Publication Date:   25 September 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Stephen Bottomley has been researching and teaching corporate law for over thirty-five years. He has taught undergraduate courses in corporate law, takeovers and securities markets law, and postgraduate courses in corporate governance and government corporations. He is a distinguished scholar with the following affiliations: Life Member of the Society of Corporate Law Academics (formerly the Corporate Law Teachers Association of Australia and New Zealand) Life Member of the Australasian Law Academics Association; and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. From 2013-2017 he was Dean of the Australian National University College of Law. In 2020 he received the Lifetime Achievement Legal Research Medal in the Australian Legal Research Awards. Kath Hall has been researching and teaching corporate law for nearly twenty years. She has taught undergraduate courses on corporate law, and postgraduate courses on corporate governance, and transnational anti-corruption law. Her research reflects a strong theoretical and practical understanding of the complexities involved in regulating global corporations and transnational corruption. In 2013, she was awarded an Australian National University College of Law Award for Excellence in Teaching and in 2014 a Vice-Chancellors Commendation for Teaching Excellence. In 2012-2014 she was a non-residential Fellow at Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, and between 2016-2019 she was a lead researcher on a large empirical project investigating positive organizational responses to whistleblowing. Kath was also the Deputy Director, ANU Transnational Research Institute on Corruption (2016-2019) and member, International Bar Association Anti-Corruption Committee (2012-2016). Peta Spender has been researching and teaching corporate law for many decades and has taught courses in corporate law, financial markets law, takeovers, corporate governance and litigation. She is the co-author of a leading Australian casebook on litigation. Peta was a founding Presidential Member of the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal and is currently a Senior Member in the Regulatory List of the Administrative Review Tribunal. She is a Life Member of the Society of Corporate Law Academics and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Over the years, Peta has served as Acting Dean, Deputy Dean and Head of School of the ANU College of Law at the Australian National University.