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Richard Mitchell

Professor, Business Law and Taxation

  • LLB(Hons) (Melbourne)
  • LLM (Melbourne)
  • MSc (London)
  • Barrister and Solicitor (Vic)

Richard Mitchell has been engaged in labour law teaching and research for more than 30 years.

Educated in labour law and industrial relations at the University of Melbourne and the London School of Economics and Political Science, he was for many years Joint Editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Law, and Director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at the University of Melbourne.

He is associated with the International Industrial Relations Association, the Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, and a consortium of leading international labour law journals. He is also the Vice President of the Australian Labour Law Association.

Professor Mitchell has acted as an adviser to Federal and State governments, and many trade union organisations.

His principal areas of research expertise are in labour market regulation, human resources and employment relationships and comparative labour law systems (particularly in the Asia/Pacific region), and he has published extensively across these areas, and in labour law generally.

Publications

Chapters in Books

Mitchell and O'Donnell*, "Participation, Exchange & Rights & obligations in Labour markets & work relationships" book chapter in "Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation" pp. 505-519, Federation Press, 2006.

Howe*, Johnstone* and Mitchell "Constituting & Regulating the Labour Market for Social & Economic Purposes" book chapter in "Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation" pp. 307-321, Federation Press, 2006.

Contact details

Telephone
+61 3 9903 4041
Email
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Postal address
Department of Business Law and Taxation
PO Box 197
Caulfield East, Vic 3145
AUSTRALIA

Arup and Mitchell "Labour Law as Labour Market Regulation" book chapter in "Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation" pp. 3-18, Federation Press, 2006.

Journal Articles

"Union Shareholder Activism in the Context of Declining Labour Law protection:  four Australian case studies" Corporate Governance 15(1) pp 45-46, 2007 (with K. Anderson, I. Ramsay and S. Marshall).

"Corporate Social Responsibility & the Management of Labour in Two Australian Mining Industry Companies" Corporate Governance 14(1) pp 57-67, 2007 (with M. Jones, and S. Marshall).

"Employee share ownership plans:  Evaluating the role of tax & other factors using two case studies" Australian Business Law Review 35(2) pp 73-92, 2007 (with A. Barnes, T. Josev, J. Lenne, I Ramsay, C. Rider and S. Marshall).

"Enterprise Bargaining, Managerial Prerogative & the Protention of Workers' Rights" International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 22(3), 2006.

*indicates an outside author