Mr Phillip Lipton - Researcher Profile

Phillip Lipton

Address

Department of Business Law and Taxation
Monash University, Caulfield

Contact Details

Tel: +61 3 990 32194

Email: Phillip.Lipton@monash.edu


Biography


Phillip Lipton is a senior lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation.

Phillip joined the Department of Business Law and Taxation as a senior lecturer in July 2005, and is currently the course director of the Master of Business Law. Prior to joining Monash, he was an associate professor at RMIT in the School of Accounting and Law.

He is a co-author with A. Herzberg and M. Welsh of the leading textbook Understanding Company Law (Thomson Reuters), which is currently in its 16th edition. He is also co-producer of the award winning corporate law website Understanding Company Law.

Phillip is the chair of Company Secretaries Australia Corporate Governance Subject Advisory Committee.

His research and supervision interests include: legal history, in particular company law history; company law and corporate governance.

Keywords

Corporate law, corporate governance, legal history

Qualifications

LAWS
Institution: University of Melbourne
Year awarded: 1995
LAW
Institution: University of Melbourne
Year awarded: 1973
COMMERCE
Institution: University of Melbourne
Year awarded: 1973
DIPLOMA EDUCATION
Institution: State College of Victoria Hawthorn
Year awarded: 1973

Publications

Books

Lipton, P., Herzberg, A., Welsh, M.A., 2010, Understanding Company Law, Lawbook Co, Pyrmont NSW Australia.

Lipton, P., Herzberg, A., 2008, Understanding Company Law, Lawbook Co, Pyrmont NSW Australia.

Lipton, P., Herzberg, A., 2006, Understanding Company Law, Lawbook Co, Pyrmont NSW Australia.

Lipton, P., Herzberg, A., 2004, Understanding Company Law, Lawbook Co, Pyrmont NSW Australia.

Lipton, P., Herzberg, A., 2003, Understanding Company Law, Lawbook Co, Pyrmont NSW Australia.

Chapple, L., Lipton, P., 2002, Corporate Authority and Dealings with Officers and Agents, CCH Australia and Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Vic Australia.

Lipton, P., Herzberg, A., Von Nessen, P., 2002, Essential Corporations Legislation, LBC Information Services, Pyrmont NSW Australia.

Lipton, P., Herzberg, A., Von Nessen, P., 2001, Essential Corporations Legislation, LBC Information Services, Pyrmont NSW Australia.

Lipton, P., Herzberg, A., Von Nessen, P. (eds), 1999, Essential Corporations Legislation, LBC Information Services, Sydney NSW Australia.

Herzberg, A., Lipton, P., 1999, Understanding Company Law, LBC Information Services, Sydney NSW Australia.

Herzberg, A., Lipton, P., Von Nessen, P. (eds), 1998, Essential Corporations Legislation, LBC Information Services, Sydney NSW Australia.

Herzberg, A., Lipton, P., 1998, Understanding Company Law, LBC Information Services, Sydney NSW Australia.

Book Chapters

Kimber, D., Lipton, P., 2006, Business ethics and corporate governance in the Asia-Pacific region, in Global Perspectives on Ethics of Corporate Governance, eds GJ (Deon) Rossouw and Alejo Jose G Sison, Palgrave Macmillan, New York USA, pp. 117-150.

Von Nessen, P., Lipton, P., 2006, The Sarbanes Oxley Act and corporate governance: must one size fit all?, in Company and Securities Law Review, eds -, UIBE Press, Beijing China, pp. 233-249.

Herzberg, A., Lipton, P., Jones, D., 2005, Pathways to a constructivist approach to teaching and learning corporate law, in E-learning in the University: Some Constructionist Perspectives, eds Gayle Morris and Gloria Latham, RMIT University Press, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-11.

Lipton, P., 2002, The practice of corporate governance in Australia: regulation, disclosure and case studies, in Corporate Governance: An Asia-Pacific Critique, eds L C Keong, Sweet and Maxwell Asia, Hong Kong, pp. 105-158.

Journal Articles

Lipton, P., 2007, A history of company law in colonial Australia: Economic development and legal evolution, Melbourne University Law Review [P], vol 31, issue 3, Melbourne University Law Review Association Inc, The University of Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 805-836.

Kimber, D., Lipton, P., 2005, Corporate governance and business ethics in the Asia-Pacific region, Business & Society, vol 44, issue 2, Sage Publications, Inc, USA, pp. 178-210.

Kimber, D., Lipton, P., O'Neill, G., 2005, Corporate governance in the Asia Pacific region: a selective review of developments in Australia, China, India and Singapore, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, vol 43, issue 2, Sage Publications Ltd, UK, pp. 180-197.

Lipton, P., 2005, Tort liability of corporate groups: grappling with the dead hand of Salomon, Keeping Good Companies, vol 57, issue 4, Chartered Secretaries Australia Ltd, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 213-219.

Conference Proceedings

Herzberg, A., Lipton, P., 2008, 'Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten', 2008 National Proceedings of the 2008 Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Annual Conference, 12 August 2008 to 16 August 2008, Academy of Legal Studies in Business, http://www.alsb.org/proceedings.htm, pp. 1-9.

Lipton, P., 2007, The transplant of company law institutions in colonial Australia: Economic development and legal evolution, Proceedings of the Corporate Law Teachers Association 17th Annual Conference - Corporate Law and Corporate Governance: Stocktaking on Compliance and Enforcement, 04 February 2007 to 06 February 2007, Corporate Law Teachers Association, Melbourne Vic Australia, pp. 1-33.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:
(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).
Thesis Title:
A model for the self certification of independence for directors.
Supervisors:
Herzberg, A (Main), Lipton, P (Associate).