School of Law: Law School Staff - Suzanne Corcoran

Suzanne Corcoran
Dipl Filos(Madrid), BA(CUA, Wash DC), MA (Penn), JD (Ford, NY)

Emeritus Professor

Suzanne joined the Law School in 1997 from the University of Adelaide, where she had taught since 1984. During that time, she also spent periods of research residency at various universities overseas and at the Law programme at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Australian National University in Canberra. She served as an external member of the Flinders Law School Board for several years and has approximately 20 years of experience as a practising lawyer, both in the USA and in South Australia. Her principal area of teaching and research is corporate law, in particular questions of corporate governance but also including the legal history of corporations and other private law institutions. Having been educated in the United States and Europe, she has a natural interest in comparative law and has taught courses on comparative corporate law and international securities and investment law. Her publications focus on the theory and practice of corporate law and the history of corporations in Australia and Britain. She has contributed to the Laws of Australia (Law Book Company) and Halsburys Laws of Australia (Butterworths) and made substantial contributions to other specialised corporate law works, in particular, Butterworths’ Australian Corporations Law and Securities Regulation in Australia and New Zealand. She has also published in the British Journal of Legal History and is the editor of the Australian Journal of Legal History. She has received a number of Australian Research Council grants and recently completed a Research Affiliateship in the Reshaping Australian Institutions: Towards and Beyond 2001 Project at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra. Suzanne retired at the end of 2003 and was honoured by the University through appointment as an Emeritus Professor.