Associate Professor John Howe is Director of the Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law at the Melbourne Law School. His research interests include regulatory theory, corporate accountability and labour law, and he teaches in the areas of corporations law, administrative law and labour law. John is also a member of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. John has written extensively on various mechanisms of labour regulation, and the intersection between state-based regulation and corporate governance. John is co-editor of the book Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation published by Federation Press in 2006, and his book Regulating for Job Creation was published by Federation Press in late 2008.
Prior to commencing an academic career, John worked in private legal practice, and also as a researcher for public policy and advocacy organisations in Washington DC. John is Secretary of the Australian Labour Law Association, and is Editor of the Reports Section of the Australian Journal of Labour Law.
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John's research interests lie in the general areas of labour law, regulatory theory and corporate accountability. He is particularly interested in the capacity of pluralist regulatory systems to facilitate the achievement of social justice objectives.
His current research includes an investigation of whether State Governments in Australia promote or facilitate labour relations practices through 'light touch' forms of regulation such as financial subsidies or incentives offered to corporations, public procurement programs, and facilitated 'self-regulation' such as voluntary codes of practice.
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