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Pamela Hanrahan

Pamela Hanrahan

Australian legal academic

Professor Pamela Hanrahan (born 24 May 1965) is Professor of Commercial Law and Regulation at the UNSW Business School in Sydney.[1][2] She is an academic lawyer, author, and media commentator on corporate law and financial services regulation in Australia.[3][failed verification]

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Early life and education

Pamela Fay Hanrahan was born 24 May 1965 in Melbourne Australia.[2] She was educated at Loreto Mandeville Hall and Presbyterian Ladies’ College Melbourne where she was MacFarland Scholar (Dux of School) in 1982.[4][5] She matriculated to the University of Melbourne and in 1989 was graduated Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Bachelor of Laws with Honours. She was a member of Newman College from 1983 to 1986.[2][6] She graduated Master of Laws (Honors) from CWRU Law School in 1995 and Doctor of Juridical Science from Melbourne Law School in 2006.[2]

Career

Hanrahan began her legal career with Allens (then Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks) in 1989. In 2004, she was appointed as an associate professor of the Melbourne Law School.[2] In 2008 – 2011 she was a senior executive of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission including serving as ASIC Regional Commissioner for Queensland in 2010-11 and as a member of the ASIC Audit Committee and ASIC Technology Governance Board.[1][2][7] In 2013-2015 she was the Registrar of Community Housing for New South Wales. In 2015, she was appointed as Professor of Commercial Law and Regulation in the UNSW Business School.[2] In 2017 she was a member of the ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce.[8] In 2018 she was an adviser to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.[3]

Boards and appointments

Hanrahan was appointed as a non-executive director of Landcom in 2018 and Deputy Chair of Landcom in 2022.[9][10]

She was elected as a member of the executive of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia in 2017 and became deputy chair in 2021.[11]

She was appointed as a member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors in 2019.[12]

Publications

Hanrahan has published numerous articles and books on Australian corporate law and financial services regulation which include:

  • Securities and Financial Services Law (jointly) (10th edition 2021)  
  • Corporate Governance (jointly) (2017)  
  • Managed Investments Law and Practice (1999-)  
  • Funds Management in Australia: Officers’ Duties and Liabilities (2009)
  • Commercial Applications of Company Law (jointly) (23rd edition 2022)  
  • Commercial Applications of Company Law in Malaysia (jointly) (3rd edition 2008)
  • Commercial Applications of Company Law in New Zealand (jointly) (5th edition 2015)
  • Commercial Applications of Company Law in Singapore (jointly) (5th edition 2015)
  • Contemporary Issues in Corporate and Competition Law: Essays in Honour of Professor Robert Baxt AO (joint editor) (2018)

References

  1. [1]
    "Professor Pamela Hanrahan - Business School - School of Management & Governance". University of New South Wales. 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Who's Who in Business in Australia". 2022.
  3. [3]
    Vickovich, Aleks (2020). "Hayne adviser blasts Frydenberg's FAR proposal". Australian Financial Review.
  4. [4]
    Directory of Past Pupils of Loreto Mandeville Hall 1996 p 111
  5. [5]
    "Presbyterian Ladies' College Melbourne Directory of Old Collegians". Presbyterian Ladies’ College Melbourne. 2000: 52. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. [6]
    Newman College Magazine 1986  
  7. [7]
    "Australian Securities and Investments Commission Annual Report 2010-11".
  8. [8]
    "The Treasury ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce Report". Australian Government Department of Treasury. 2017.
  9. [9]
    Landcom Annual Report 2020-21
  10. [10]
    Board of Directors Landcom retrieved 9 April 2022
  11. [11]
    Law Council of Australia BLS News 25 November 2021
  12. [12]
    "National Committees". Australian Institute of Company Directors. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
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