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Phillip Lipton

Senior Lecturer, Business Law and Taxation

  • LLB (Melb)
  • BCom (Melb)
  • DepEd (State College of Victoria)
  • LLM (Melb)

Co-author with A. Herzberg of the leading text book Understanding Company Law published by Lawbook Company, Sydney. This book is currently in its twelfth edition published in July 2004.

Co-author with A. Herzberg and P. von Nessen of annual editions since 1995 of Essential Corporations Legislation published by Lawbook Company, Sydney.

Co-author with L. Chapple of Corporate Authority and Dealings with Officers and Agents jointly published by CCH Australia Ltd and Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, Faculty of Law, University of Melbourne 2002.

Course Director of Graduate Business Law Courses, Monash University.

Course Director of various courses conducted by the Company Secretaries Australia since 1991. Since 1999 Melbourne Course Director of the Corporate Governance course. Chair of Corporate Governance Subject Advisory Committee.

Co producer of corporate law website Understanding Company Law www.lipton-herzberg.com.au. This website was the winner of the Tertiary Websites category of the 2001 and 2003 Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing conducted by the Australian Publishers Association.

Co producer of corporate governance website www.australian-corporate-governance.com.au

Author of monographs, book chapters and articles on company law, corporate governance and teaching methodologies in refereed and professional journals.

Contact details

Telephone
+61 3 9903 2194
Email
Email Phillip Lipton
Postal address
Department of Business Law and Taxation
PO Box 197
Caulfield East, Vic 3145
AUSTRALIA

Recent publications

  • Phillip Lipton, "Business Ethics & Corporate Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region" a chapter in "Global Perspectives on Ethics of Corporate Governance", Palgrave MacMillan pp. 117-150, 2006
  • Phillip Lipton and  Paul von Nessen "The Sarbanes Oxley & Corporate Governance:  Must One Size Fit All?" Company & Securities Law Review 2006
  • David Kimber*, Phillip Lipton, Graham O'Neill* "Corporate Governance in Asia Pacific Region: A Selective Reviewz",  Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 43(2), pp. 180-197, 2005.
  • David Kimber*, Phillip Lipton "Corporate Governance and Business Ethics in Asia Pacific" Business & Society 44(2), 178-210, 2005.
  • Phillip Lipton, "Tort Liability of Corporate Groups: Grappling with the Dead Hand of Salomon" Keeping Good Companies 57(4), 213-219, 2005.

*indicates an outside author