Dr Michelle Worthington

Lecturer
BA/LLB (ANU), LLM (ANU), PhD (ANU)
+61 2 6125 1071
Room 5.3.22

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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

Recent news

23
Jun
2022
Jennifer Darmody
Several years after graduating from ANU, Jennifer Darmody (LLB/BFin ’15) was working as a solicitor at a top-tier law firm when she made the decision to sign with an Australian women’s road cycling team and pursue life as an athlete instead.
15
Nov
2021
The Responsible Shareholder
A new book by Emeritus Professor Stephen Bottomley FAAL calls for shareholders to be made more legally and morally accountable in companies' decision-making structures.
14
Feb
2019
Japanese students and scholars on the roof of Australia's Parliament House
Aoyama Gakuin and Ritsumeikan Universities
19
Dec
2012
ANU College of Law

Eight ANU College of Law staff members were awarded for their excellent contribution to teaching in 2012.

In the Media

1
Mar
2021
Michelle Worthington interviewed by The Canberra Classroom podcast

Past events

10
Oct
2022
Demystifying law careers
5.30PM to 7.00PM Panel discussion

Join the ANU College of Law for the Demystifying Law Careers series as we explore careers in corporate and commercial law

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

Conference papers & presentations

 

 

Current courses

Year Course code Course name
2023 LAWS1201
Class #5202
Foundations of Australian Law
2023 LAWS6101
Class #5530
Foundations of Australian Law

Previous courses

Year Course code Course 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

Publications

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