ProfessorJean Du Plessis

Professor (Corporate Law)

Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School

  • 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)

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Mobile financial services: Regulatory responses in Australia, Kenya and South Africa - Edwin Tongoi
    1 Sep 2016 - 30 Jan 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Plessis JD,
    • Koker LD,
    • Tongoi EAA
    Data to Decisions CRC - $45,000.00
  • GRANT
    Internationalisation of German corporate law and corporate governance - Anneliese Maier Research Award
    1 Mar 2013 - 28 Feb 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Plessis JD
    Anneliese Maier Research Award - $261,777.20
  • GRANT
    Provision of legal services to small business in rural and regional Victoria
    1 Jul 2010 - 8 Feb 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Plessis JD,
    • Coverdale R,
    • Rees A
    LSB Legal Services Board - Grants Program - Research - 2009-PG006 - $46,143.00