ProfessorJean Du Plessis
Professor (Corporate Law)
Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School
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- Professor (Corporate Law)Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School
- +61 3 522 72180 (Work)
- Geelong Waterfront Campus, 1 Gheringhap Street Geelong, Victoria 3220
RESEARCH INTERESTS
* Corporate Law
* Directors' duties and liability
* Corporate Governance
* Comparative corporate law and corporate governance
* Corporate Governance and Integrated Reporting
* Codetermination
* Employee participation at supervisory board level
Knowledge Areas
* Corporate Law
* Directors' duties and liability
* Corporate Governance
* Comparative corporate law and corporate governance
* Corporate Governance and Integrated Reporting
* Codetermination
* Employee participation at supervisory board level
Projects
* The implied social contract to do business, social licence to do business and Social Contract Theory and its application to companies
* Corporate profit distribution: Executive remunerarton, dividends, share buy-backs and non-executive employee remuneration
* The best interests of the corporation, the purpose of the corporation and inclusive capitalism
* Board structures and corporate governance models
* Stakeholder primacy versus shareholder primacy
* Responsible investment and integrated reporting
* Corporate governance and the long term sustainable economic and social interests of the corporation
* Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
* Directors' duties and liability
* Corporate Governance
* Comparative corporate law and corporate governance
* Corporate Governance and Integrated Reporting
* Codetermination
* Employee participation at supervisory board level
Knowledge Areas
* Corporate Law
* Directors' duties and liability
* Corporate Governance
* Comparative corporate law and corporate governance
* Corporate Governance and Integrated Reporting
* Codetermination
* Employee participation at supervisory board level
Projects
* The implied social contract to do business, social licence to do business and Social Contract Theory and its application to companies
* Corporate profit distribution: Executive remunerarton, dividends, share buy-backs and non-executive employee remuneration
* The best interests of the corporation, the purpose of the corporation and inclusive capitalism
* Board structures and corporate governance models
* Stakeholder primacy versus shareholder primacy
* Responsible investment and integrated reporting
* Corporate governance and the long term sustainable economic and social interests of the corporation
* Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
GRANTS
- GRANTMobile financial services: Regulatory responses in Australia, Kenya and South Africa - Edwin Tongoi1 Sep 2016 - 30 Jan 2019People funded by this grant:
- Plessis JD,
- Koker LD,
- Tongoi EAA
- GRANTInternationalisation of German corporate law and corporate governance - Anneliese Maier Research Award1 Mar 2013 - 28 Feb 2018People funded by this grant:
- Plessis JD
- GRANTProvision of legal services to small business in rural and regional Victoria1 Jul 2010 - 8 Feb 2012People funded by this grant:
- Plessis JD,
- Coverdale R,
- Rees A