Kath Hall joined the College of Law in January 2008. She is an experienced legal academic, having worked for over 10 years in Universities in Australia and overseas. Her main areas of interest and publications are corporate law, corporate governance, and the psychology of decision making. Since 2005 Kath has been working on her doctorate on the Psychology of Corporate Misbehavior at the Australian National University. Kath has also lived and worked in London, Hong Kong, Mongolia and Indonesia.

 Recent Publications include

• Legislation and Statutory Interpretation, 2009, 2nd ed, LexisNexis, Butterworths (with Claire Macken)
• “The Power of Rationalization to Influence Lawyers Decisions to Act Unethically” (2008) 11 (2) Legal Ethics 137 (With V Holmes, ANU)
• “Why Good Intentions Are Often Not Enough: Psychology, Ethical Blindness and Legal Decision-Making” forthcoming chapter in Reaffirming Legal Ethics: Taking Stock and New Ideas, Edited by Reid Mortensen, Michael Robertson, Lillian Corbin, Francesca Bartlett and Kieran Tranter, 2009, Routledge.
• "Looking Beneath the Surface: The Impact of Psychology on Corporate Decision Making" (2007) 49 Managerial Law 93;
• “The Pathology of Corporate Law” (2006) 19 Australian Journal of Corporate Law 268;
• “Corporate Liars: Do We Really Understand the Process of Dishonesty” in Acquaah-Gaisie (ed) Enhancing Corporate Accountability- Prospects and Challenges, Monash University, 2006;
• “Regulating Corporate Dishonesty: Why Psychology Matters” (2006) 58 Keeping Good Companies 216 reprinted in The Independent Financial Review, 30 August 2006, Fairfax Media, New Zealand;
• “Independent Directors: Problem or Solution” (2006) 2 Monash Business Review 14 (with S Le Mire).