Emeritus Professor Stephen Bottomley
BA LLB (Hons) (Macq.), LLM (UNSW)
Professor of Commercial Law, ANU College of Law
ANU College of Law
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6125 4125
Areas of expertise
- Corporations And Associations Law 180109
- Law And Society 180119
- Legal Theory, Jurisprudence And Legal Interpretation 180122
Research interests
Corporate governance; government business enterprises; law and regulation; legislative process.
Biography
Stephen Bottomley is Professor of Commercial Law and former Dean (2013-2017) at the ANU College of Law at the Australian National University. He joined the Law School in 1988. His main area of research interest is corporate governance. He has taught postgraduate and undergraduate courses in corporate and takeovers law, and corporate governance.
His book The Constitutional Corporation: Rethinking Corporate Governance (2007, Ashgate Publishing, UK) was awarded the 2008 Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize by the UK Socio-Legal Association for the most outstanding piece of socio-legal scholarship. He is the co-author of Law in Context (Federation Press), now in its 4th edition.
Researcher's projects
Current projects:
Shareholder Responsibility - a doctrinal and jurisprudential analysis of the proposition that shareholders should be treated as 'responsible agents' in corporate governance arrangements.
Publications
- Bottomley, S 2020, 'Corporate law, complexity and cartography', Australian Journal of Corporate Law, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 142-160.
- Bottomley, S 2019, 'Rethinking the Law on Shareholder-Initiated Resolutions at Company General Meetings', Melbourne University Law Review, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 93-132.
- Bottomley, S 2018, 'Being a Law Dean: Aspiration and Reality', in James Stellios (ed.), Encounters with Constitutional Interpretation and Legal Education: Essays in Honour of Michael Coper, The Federation Press, Annandale Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 162-166.
- Bottomley, S, Hall, K, Spender, P et al 2017, Contemporary Australian Corporate Law, Cambridge University Press, Port Melbourne.
- Bottomley, S 2016, 'What is corporate law? An Australian perspective', in Roman Tomasic (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Corporate Law, Routledge, London and New York, pp. 49-63pp.
- Bottomley, S & Bronitt, S 2012, Law in Context (4th ed), The Federation Press, Annandale, NSW, Australia.
- Bottomley, S 2011, 'The Notional Legislator: The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's Role as a Law-Maker', Federal Law Review, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-32.
- Bottomley, S & Forsyth, A 2007, 'The new corporate law: corporate social responsibility and employees' interests', in D McBarnet, A Voiculescu, T Campbell (ed.), The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 307-335.
- Bottomley, S 2007, The Constitutional Corporation: Rethinking Corporate Governance, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot UK.
- Bottomley, S & Bronitt, S 2006, Law in Context (3rd ed), Federation Press, Sydney Australia.
- Bottomley, S 2005, 'Governance and accountability: a legal approach to auditing', in Tom Campbell and Keith Houghton (ed.), Ethics and Auditing, ANU ePress, Canberra, pp. 3-24.
- Corcoran, S & Bottomley, S, eds, 2005, Interpreting Statutes, The Federation Press, Sydney NSW.
- Bottomley, S 2005, 'A Framework for Understanding the Interpretation of Corporate Law in Australia', in Suzanne Corcoran and Stephen Bottomley (ed.), Interpreting Statutes, The Federation Press, Sydney NSW, pp. 147-165.
- Corbett, A & Bottomley, S 2004, 'Regulating Corporate governance', in Christine Parker, Colin Scott, Nicola Lacey and John Braithwaite (ed.), Regulating Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 60-81.
- Spender, P & Bottomley, S 2004, 'How to do things with Contractarianism: Michael Whincops Contribution to Corporate Law Scholarship', Griffith Law Review, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 9-24.
- Bottomley, S 2003, 'Where did the law go? The delegation of Australian corporate regulation', Australian Journal of Corporate Law, vol. 15, pp. 105-118.
- Bottomley, S 2003, 'Book Review: The Prosecution of Corporations by Jonathan Clough and Carmel Mulhern', Melbourne University Law Review, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 627-633.
- Bottomley, S 2003, 'The Relative Importance of the Statutory Derivative Action in Australia', in Fiona Macmillan (ed.), International Corporate Law Annual, Volume 2, Hart Publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 141-166.
- Bottomley, S 2003, 'Comments on Stearns, Horrigan and Zifcak', in Michael J Whincop (ed.), From Bureaucracy to Business Enterprise Legal and policy issues in the transformation of government services, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Great Britain, pp. 191-196.
- Bottomley, S 2003, The Role of Shareholders Meetings in Improving Corporate Governance, Australian National University, Canberra.
- Bottomley, S 2002, 'Corporations and Human Rights', in Stephen Bottomley and David Kinley (ed.), Commercial Law and Human Rights, Dartmouth Publishing Company Ltd, Aldershot, UK, pp. 47-68.
- Bottomley, S, Tomasic, R & McQueen, R 2002, Corporations Law In Australia (2nd ed), The Federation Press, Sydney.
- Bottomley, S & Kinley, D, eds, 2002, Commercial Law and Human Rights, Dartmouth Publishing Company Ltd, Aldershot, UK.
- Bottomley, S 2001, 'Corporations law', in Blackshield (ed.), Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 155-156.
- Bottomley, S 2001, 'Government Business Enterprises and Public Accountability through Parliament', in G. Lindell & R. Bennett (ed.), Parliament: The Vision in Hindsight, The Federation Press, Leichhardt, NSW, pp. 383-418.
- Bottomley, S 1999, 'Directing the Directors-Assumptions about the Effectiveness of Corporate Law', Australian Economic History Review, vol. 39, pp. 239-257.
- Bottomley, S 1999, 'The Birds, the Beasts and the Bat: Developing a Constitutionalist Theory of Corporate Regulation', Federal Law Review, vol. 27, pp. 243-264.
- Bottomley, S 1999, 'Company Law in Japan', in Roman Tomasic (ed.), Company Law in East Asia, Dartmouth Publishing Company Ltd, Hants, England, pp. 39-74.
- Bottomley, S 1999, Book Review: Reinventing Aristocracy: The Constitutional Reformation of Corporate Governance, by Andrew Fraser, unknown.
- Spender, P & Bottomley, S, eds, 1999, 100 years of Salomon (Special issue of Federal Law Review), 27 (2).
