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Prof Justin O'Brien
PhD, MPhil, MA (QU, Belfast)
BA (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Contact:
Room: C308 (Gardens Point campus)
Tel: (07) 3138 1080
Fax: (07) 3138 1161
Email: justin.obrien@qut.edu.au
Initially embarking on a career in news journalism with the BBC, in 2002 Professor O'Brien moved into the academic arena as Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Governance at Queens University, Belfast. Two years later he was a Senior Lecturer and by 2004 was appointed Course Director, LLM Corporate Governance and Public Policy, at the School of Law. In August 2006, he accepted a position as Professor of Corporate Governance in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre) within the Australian National University. Professor O'Brien has just relocated to Brisbane to embark on a joint QUT research position with the Faculty of Business and the Faculty of Law. Professor O'Brien holds a Visiting Professorship at the School of Law, University of Glasgow and is a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.
Teaching Interests
- Corporate Governance
- Public Policy and the Market
- Law of Business Organisations
Research Interests:
- Corporate Integrity
- Corporate Governance: Theories, Practice and Principles
- Dynamics of Financial Regulation
- Private Equity and Securitisation
- Business and Professional Ethics
- Regulation of Capital Markets
Select Publications
- O'Brien, J. 2009. Engineering a Financial Bloodbath: How Securitisation Destroyed the Legitimacy of Financial Capitalism, Imperial College Press: London.
- O’Brien, J, 2007. Redesigning Financial Regulation: The Politics of Enforcement, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester.
- O’Brien, J. 2005. ‘The Politics of Enforcement, Eliot Spitzer, State-Federal Relations and the Redesign of Financial Regulation,’ Publius The Journal of Federalism 35 (Summer) 439-66.
- O'Brien, J. 2006. ‘Securing Corporate Accountability: The Efficacy and Pitfalls of Pre-Trial Diversion,’ Australian Journal of Corporate Law 19 (2): 161-81.
- O'Brien. J. 2003. Wall Street on Trial: A Corrupted State? Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
- O'Brien, J. 2005. ‘Trading at the Frontier: Global Markets. Regulatory Enforcement and the Dynamics of Corporate Crime,’ Australian Journal of Corporate Law 18 (3): 201-219.
- O'Brien, J. 2002. The Modern Prince: Charles J Haughey and the Quest for Power. Dublin: Merlin Publishing.
- O'Brien, J. 2005. Killing Finucane: Murder in Defence of the Realm. Dublin Gill&Macmillan.
- O'Brien, J. 2006. ‘Ethics and Corporate Governance: Banking on Scandal,’ International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics 2 (1): 83-96.
- O'Brien, J. 2000. The Arms Trial. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
Full list of Professor O'Brien's publications
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