Dr
Michelle Worthington
Lecturer
BA/LLB (ANU), LLM (ANU), PhD (ANU)

Appointments

  • Lecturer, ANU College of Law

Significant research publications

  • Michelle Worthington and Peta Spender, 'Constructing Legal Personhood: Corporate Law's Legacy' Griffith Law Review (forthcoming)
  • MM Worthington, 'The Corporation as a Constructed Ethical Agent: Monism, Pluralism and Options for Reform' (2017) 32(2) Australian Journal of Corporate Law 91

Research biography

My work centres on the design of ethics and the ethics of design. In my current research I am focussed on the ethics of the for-profit corporation. I argue that the for-profit corporation exhibits a constructed ethical agency - that it is the device itself, rather than the humans associated with it, that drives corporate decision making. Using insights gleaned from ethical theory, I suggest a range of design modifications aimed at promoting more richly responsible decision making on the part of the corporation.

Consultancies

  • Law for Humans - a student wellbeing and educational initiative established in 2016 and run as a collaboration with Ms Justine Poon, also of ANU College of Law

Current courses

YearCourse codeCourse name
2023

LAWS1201

Class #5202

Foundations of Australian Law
2023

LAWS6101

Class #5530

Foundations of Australian Law

Previous courses

YearCourse codeCourse name
2021

LAWS1201

Class #5269

Foundations of Australian Law
2021

LAWS6101

Class #5704

Foundations of Australian Law
2021

LAWS6203

Class #2710

Corporations Law
2021

LAWS2203

Class #2213

Corporations Law

Past courses

  • Corporations Law
  • Lawyers, Justice and Ethics
  • Foundations of Australian Law
  • Equity and Trusts
  • Torts Law
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Research themes

Law & Society
Legal Education
Legal Theory
Private Law
Regulatory Law and Policy

Contacts

michelle.worthington@anu.edu.au
ANU College of Law, Bld 5, Fellows Rd, Acton ACT 2600