Jennifer Hill
Visiting Professor of Law - Spring 2008
Office: Rm. 240
Phone: 615-343-7123
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: jennifer.hill@vanderbilt.edu
Education
BCL Oxford University
LLB, BA Sydney
Research Interests
Comparative corporate law and governance
Biography
Jennifer Hill is widely recognized as one of the world's leading scholars of comparative corporate law. She has written in the areas of corporate law and governance, and her scholarship is published in prominent international journals and books. Professor Hill is currently engaged in comparative research on US and Australian executive remuneration contracts with Vanderbilt colleagues Randall Thomas and Ronald Masulis, funded by the Australian Research Council. She is also a member of a European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Legal Scholar Network, which is part of a consortium that was recently awarded a European Commission contract to study ownership and control in EU listed companies. Professor Hill is a member of the Corporations Law Committee of the Law Council of Australia and serves on the Legal Sub-Committee to the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC), which advises the Australian Federal Government on corporate law reform. She is Professor of Corporate Law at University of Sydney Law School, and has served as a visiting professor of law on the faculties of the University of Texas, the University of Virginia and Cornell University, and been a visiting scholar at Duke University. At Vanderbilt, she will teach Corporations.
Representative Publications
“Regulating Executive Remuneration: International Developments in the Post-Scandal Era,” 3 European Company Law 64 (Netherlands 2006) (Reprinted in ICFAI Journal of Corporate and Securities Law (2006)
“The Persistent Debate About Convergence in Comparative Corporate Governance,” 27 Sydney Law Review 743 (2005)
“Regulatory Responses to Global Corporate Scandals,” 23 Wisconsin International Law Journal 368 (2005)
"Corporate Scandals Across the Globe: Regulating the Role of the Director," in Reforming Company and Takeover Law in Europe 225 (Ferrarini, Hopt, Winter and Wymeersch, eds., Oxford University Press, 2004)
"Comparative Corporate Governance and Coming Full Circle," in Law and Legal Culture in Comparative Perspective 394 (Doeker-Macht and Ziegert, eds., Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2004)
“Corporate Criminal Liability in Australia: An Evolving Corporate Governance Technique?” 1 Journal of Business Law 1 (2003)
“Corporate Governance and the Role of the Employee” in Partnership at Work: The Challenge of Employee Democracy: Labor Essays 2003 110 (Patmore and Gollan, eds., Pluto Press, Australia, 2003).
"Corporate Criminal Liability in Australia: An Evolving Corporate Governance Technique?” in Corporate Governance: An Asia-Pacific Critique 567 (Low, ed., Sweet & Maxwell, Asia, 2002)
