Associate Professor Helen Anderson
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Associate Professors
Associate Professor
LLB(Melb)LLM(Monash)Grad Dip Bus(Acc)(Monash) PhD Monash
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Associate Professor Helen Anderson holds an LLB (Hons) from the University of Melbourne, as well as a Grad Dip Bus (Acc), LLM and PhD from Monash University. She worked in private practice and then for the Legal Aid Commission before becoming an academic in 1989. Her teaching has mainly been in the areas of Business Law and Company Law, although she has also taught Taxation Law and Finance Law. The fair treatment of vulnerable parties has been her abiding research interest: her masters major thesis dealt with parties who rely on published audit opinions, and her doctoral thesis was concerned with creditors in corporate insolvency. She continues this interest with her present work on improving the recovery rights of employees in corporate insolvency (an ARC funded project).
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| Current Research Interests |
Helen's current research interests are the protection of parties who are adversely affected by their relations with companies. At present, she is investigating whether there is scope to amend the Corporations Act to impose more stringent liability on directors for unpaid employee entitlements when a company goes into external administration. It considers legislation which gives the Commissioner of Taxation extensive rights to recover unremitted taxation instalments from directors. This research is a 3 year ARC funded project and commenced at the beginning of 2010.
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Helen is the Honorary General Treasurer of the Australasian Law Teachers Association as well as a member of its Executive. She is also a member of the Insolvency and Reconstruction Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, an academic member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Australia, and a member of the Corporate Law Teachers Association of Australia.
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