Professor Christine Parker

Overview

Christine Parker is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. She is also a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society (ADM+S), and Director of Research Capability for Melbourne Law School.

Professor Parker has a long career teaching and researching in regulatory studies and lawyers’ ethics. Her socio-legal research has made important contributions to the politics, ethics and democratic governance of regulation in a range of areas including competition and consumer protection law, the food system, the legal profession, ecological regulation and the digital economy, platform governance and AI.

Professor Parker’s books include The Open Corporation: Business Self-Regulation and Democracy; Explaining Compliance: Business Responses to Regulation, and influential social critique and text, Inside Lawyers’ Ethics.

She has supervised 20 higher degree by research students to successful completion and has taught legal ethics, corporate governance, corporate regulation and corporate social responsibility, animal law, and food law and policy.

Professor Christine Parker has previously held positions at Griffith University, University of New South Wales, the Australian National University and Monash University. She holds a BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from The University of Queensland and a PhD from the Australian National University.