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Paul Latimer

Associate Professor, Business Law and Taxation

 

  • BA (UNSW)
  • DipEd (UNSW)
  • LLB, LLM (Sydney)
  • Barrister (NSW), Barrister and Solicitor (Vic)

Paul came to tertiary teaching from the legal profession where he was a law clerk.

During periods of study leave, he has been on secondment to the then National Companies and Securities Commission, the Attorney General's Department in Canberra and the then Australian Securities Commission (now ASIC).

Paul was previously Head of the Department of Business Law and Taxation (1997-1999) and Deputy Head of the Department (1999-2002).

Paul has been a visiting scholar in business law and securities regulation at Columbia University in New York; New York University; University of Cambridge (Wolfson College); Laval University in Canada, the University of Nice in France and the University of Montreal; a visiting fellow at the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation at the University of Melbourne and a visiting professor in the Law Schools at Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium; the University of Malaya and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Teaching

Paul teaches stock exchange and derivatives law in the undergraduate programs and financial services regulation in honours and masters courses.

Research

He researches and publishes in the areas of business law and financial services/securities regulation, and regularly speaks at conferences. His annually published textbook Australian Business Law, now in its 27th annual edition (2008 ed), is widely prescribed in business law courses in Australian universities. Paul is the convenor of the Annual Financial Services Research Conference with Macquarie University, run annually in July since 2006.

Paul Latimer; Department of Business Law and Taxation

Contact details

Telephone
+61 3 9905 2379
Email
Email Paul Latimer
Postal address
Department of Business Law and Taxation
Monash University
Clayton, Vic 3800
AUSTRALIA
Paul is currently researching legal aspects of whistleblowing as part of an ARC funded project based at Griffith Law School (2005-2007).  He is also researching his PhD in the area of financial services regulation.

Publications