ProfessorJean Du Plessis

Member, Australian Corporate Law Teachers Association (ACLTA)

Senior Editor, 'Corporate Governance, Corporate Responsibilities and Law' of the Company and Securities Law Journal

Anneliese Maier Research Award from the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, EUR250,000, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, 2013-2018

Alexander von Humboldt Research Scholarships Fellowships, 1996, 2003 and 2010

Medallion Award, President of the Corporate Law Teachers Association (CLTA), 2010.

Recent conference papers and public lectures

5 July 2021: Bayreuth Faculty of Law, Shareholder primacy versus employee democracy: Is there something fundamentally wrong with our corporate law and corporate governance model?, University of Bayreuth, Germany

15 April 2021: FLUIDROCK and Stellenbosch Graduate Institute, Worker Participation in Boardrooms, South Africa

12 February 2021: Bayreuth Faculty of Law, Contemporary Corporate Governance Perspectives: Reporting on non-financial matters and the rise and fall of shareholder primacy, Germany

27 July 2020: Deakin Law School eSeminar, The best interests of the corporation and the best interests of stakeholders: Are we entering a new era of Codetermination and Employee Democracy after the COVID-19 crisis?, Australia

9 June 2020: VicBar Seminar, The race is on again: Shareholder versus Stakeholder Primacy - a New Era for Codetermination and Employee Democracy after the COVID-19 crisis?, Melbourne, Australia

2 March 2020: University of Sydney, Ross Parsons Corporate Law Lecture, The Purpose of the Corporation Redefined: Recent Developments in Australia and the US, Sydney, Australia

24-25 January 2019: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Corporate Culture, Steinhoff and Carillion Case Studies and Australian Banking Commissions Interim Report", Comparative Corporate Governance Conference 2019, Singapore

4-5 February 2019: "Myths about underlying theories and principles of corporate law and other ways of recognising the interests of all stakeholders", 2019 Annual CLTA Conference, Auckland, New Zealand

December 2018: Series of Lectures and Seminars in China: Wuhan and Shanghai, China

7-8 December 2018: International Commercial Law Center, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics (SUFE): World Trends in Contemporary Corporate Governance: Evolution for Business and the Way Forward Chinese State-owned enterprise governance as a focus, Shanghai, China

19 October 2018: Alexander von Humblodt Foundation, "Corporate Governance Codes: Self-determined, but are they fit for purpose?", After Dinner Presentation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Annual Colloquium, Bonn, Germany

21-22 September 2017: International Commercial Law Center, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics (SUFE), "The Corporation in a Changing World: Directors statutory duty to act in the best 'long-term' interests of the corporation", Shanghai, China

September 2017: Series of Lectures and Seminars in Hong Kong to audiences and students: Hong Kong Institute of Company Directors; Hong Kong Institute of Company Secretaries; CPA, Hong Kong and Law Society of HK, Hong Kong

Head of the Deakin Law School, Deakin University, 2000-2003

Recipient of the Anneliese Maier Reseach Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2013-2018)

Professor of Law at the Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg) and Deakin University (1991 - current)

One of 8 Members asked to form an International Reference Group to assist the South African Government with its Corporate Law Reform Program (2004-2008)