Abe Herzberg

• BEc (Monash)
• LLB (Monash)
• DipComLaw (Monash)
• Barrister-at-law (Victoria and High Court) Law

Formerly a partner in a suburban law firm, Abe is a member of the Victorian Bar. Abe teaches in the area of company law, business law, finance law and corporate governance. He has published numerous articles particularly in relation to directors' duties and corporate insolvency law. He is the co-author of a leading corporate law textbook, Understanding Company Law, the 11th edition of which was published in 2003.

Abe also has an interest in the integration of internet resources into teaching corporate law and developed an innovative corporate law website, http://www.lipton-herzberg.com.au. This website received the 2001 Australian Award for Excellence in Education Publishing - Tertiary Website Category.

He is a course director of the Company Secretarial Practice & Meetings course conducted by Chartered Secretaries Australia.

Research

Abe's principal research interests deal with corporate law, particularly corporate insolvency law.

Recent publications

• Abe Herzberg, Phillip Lipton and Deborah Jones, "Pathways to a Constructionist Approach to Teaching and Learning Corporate Law", RMIT University Press, 1-11, 2005
• Phillip Lipton and Abe Herzberg, "Understanding Company Law", 11th ed, Lawbook Co, Sydney, 778 pp, 2003 (ISBN 0 455 21901 X)
• Phillip Lipton, Abe Herzberg and Paul von Nessen "Essential Corporations Legislation", 2002 ed, Lawbook Co, Sydney, 935 pp, 2002 (ISBN 0 455 21852 8)
• Abe Herzberg, "Why are there so few insolvent trading cases?", Chapter 6 of Ramsay, IM (ed), Company Directors' Liability for Insolvent Trading, CCH Australia Ltd and Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne, 148-166, 2000
• Abe Herzberg and Phillip Lipton (RMIT) "The Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Act 1999" published on Lipton-Herzberg website http://www.lipton-herzberg.com.au/
• Abe Herzberg, "The First Section 588G Case" (1998) 6 Current Commercial Law 14-20
• Abe Herzberg, "Why are there so few insolvent trading cases?" (1998) 6 Insolvency Law Journal 77-89

Recent conference presentations

• Abe Herzberg, Phillip Lipton (RMIT) and Deborah Jones (RMIT), "Pathways to a Constructivist Approach to Teaching and Learning Corporate Law via the Internet 2001 - 3rd AustLII Conference on Computerisation of Law via the Internet, 29-30 November 2001, University of Technology Sydney
• Phillip Lipton (RMIT) and Abe Herzberg, "Using the Internet in Teaching Corporate Law" Corporate Law Teachers Association annual conference, Victoria University, Feb 2001.
• Abe Herzberg,-"Australian Corporate Law Reform: The 1990s - A Decade of Change" Pacific South-West Academy of Legal Studies in Business annual conference, February 1999, Palm Springs, Ca USA
• Abe Herzberg,-"Is section 588G of the Corporations Law a Paper Tiger?" Corporate Law Teachers Association conference, Flinders University, February 1998