Dr
Michelle Worthington
Lecturer
BA/LLB (ANU), LLM (ANU), PhD (ANU)
Appointments
Significant research publications
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
Current courses
Year | Course code | Course name |
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2023 | Class #5202 | Foundations of Australian Law |
2023 | Class #5530 | Foundations of Australian Law |
Previous courses
Year | Course code | Course name |
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2021 | Class #5269 | Foundations of Australian Law |
2021 | Class #5704 | Foundations of Australian Law |
2021 | Class #2710 | Corporations Law |
2021 | Class #2213 | Corporations Law |
Past courses

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