Ms Tabatha Pettitt - Researcher Profile

Tabatha Pettitt

Address

Department of Business Law and Taxation
Monash University, Clayton

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 32163

Email: Tabatha.Pettitt@monash.edu


Biography

Tabatha Pettitt is a lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation. 


She is qualified as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia.

Prior to joining Monash in 2008, Tabatha worked in private practice for five years, specialising in family law. She also worked at the University of Melbourne as a research fellow, undertaking research on the corporatisation of ports in Australia.

Tabatha was a member of the Council of the Law Institute of Victoria from 2004 to 2005, and is currently an elected member of the International Association of Maritime Economists.

She is completing her PhD at Macquarie University, on the effectiveness of corporatisation legislation governing port corporations in Australia.

Her research interests include port legislation and policy, transport policy and legislation, privatisation, and government-owned corporations in Australia and overseas.

Keywords

Corporations Law, Port Law and Policy, Corporate Governance, Comparative Law

Qualifications

BACHELOR OF LAWS
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1999
CERTIFICATE OF PRACTICAL TRAINING
Institution: Leo Cussen Institute
Year awarded: 1999
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Institution: Monash University
Year awarded: 1997

Publications

Journal Articles

Pettitt, T., 2007, Will a national port regulator solve congestion problems in Australian ports?, Maritime Policy and Management: An International Journal of Shipping and Port Research, vol 34, issue 2, Taylor & Francis Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 121-130.

Everett, S., Pettitt, T., 2006, Effective corporatization of ports is a function of effective legislation: Legal issues in the existing paradigm, Maritime Policy and Management: An International Journal of Shipping and Port Research, vol 33, issue 3, Taylor & Francis Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 219-232.

Conference Proceedings

Pettitt, T., 2009, The politics of port competition: The case of New South Wales port reform, 2009 Annual IAME Conference Proceedings, 24-26 June 2009, International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), http://www.iame2009.org, pp. 1-13.

Pettitt, T., 2008, The ports of Queensland: Why the change in their corporatised management structure?, Proceedings of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME) 2008 Annual Conference, 2 April 2008 to 4 April 2008, University of Plymouth, UK, pp. 1-10.

Everett, S., Weston, R., Pettitt, T., 2007, Beyond corporatisation: Newly emerging trends in Australian and New Zealand ports, Proceedings of the International Association of Maritime Economists Annual Conference 2007: Challenges and Trends in Shipping: Markets, Investments and Policies, 4 July 2007 to 6 July 2007, ALBA Graduate Business School, Greece, pp. 1-15.

Pettitt, T., 2007, The corporatisation of ports: Scenes from Australia, Proceedings of the International Association of Maritime Economists Annual Conference 2007: Challenges and Trends in Shipping: Markets, Investments and Policies, 4 July 2007 to 6 July 2007, ALBA Graduate Business School, Greece, pp. 1-16.

Pettitt, T., 2006, Is there room for an Australian national port regulator?, Proceeding of the IAME 2006 Conference: Ports, Shipping, Infrastructure and Supply Chains: Critical Issues, 12 July 2006 to 14 July 2006, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-11.