Peta Spender
Biographic Data
| ID | 7509300 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peta Spender |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peta |
| FAMILY NAME | Spender |
| SIGNATURE | SPENDER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | ANU Law School, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Constructing legal personhood
Legal personality – its nature and function – has become a topic of renewed interest. In particular, there is increasing interest in extending existing categories of legal personality. While contemporary discussion of legal personality is directed at comparably novel ends, aspects of the discussion are familiar, mirroring broader patterns of thought evident in historical treatments of the subject. Most familiar of all is the pronounced conceptual…
Weapons of Mass Dispassion
This lecture honours Michael Whincop's work by examining the controversy surrounding attempts by the James Hardie Group in 2004 to isolate its liability in tort to sufferers of asbestos disease. The lecture explores the absence of passion and compassion in corporate law, explains how it deflects moral claims and scrutinises the James Hardie imbroglio in a wider institutional and philosophical context
How to Do Things with Contractarianism
This article explores three aspects of Michael Whincop’s much larger contribution to the analysis of corporate law in Australia. Although Michael approached corporate law from the perspective of law and economics scholarship, his use of the contractarian paradigm showed a deeper understanding of economics and its application to corporate law than is usually found in the literature. We begin by looking at Michael’s analysis of intra-corporate rela…
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How to Do Things with Contractarianism
This article explores three aspects of Michael Whincop’s much larger contribution to the analysis of corporate law in Australia. Although Michael approached corporate law from the perspective of law and economics scholarship, his use of the contractarian paradigm showed a deeper understanding of economics and its application to corporate law than is usually found in the literature. We begin by looking at Michael’s analysis of intra-corporate rela…
Weapons of Mass Dispassion
This lecture honours Michael Whincop's work by examining the controversy surrounding attempts by the James Hardie Group in 2004 to isolate its liability in tort to sufferers of asbestos disease. The lecture explores the absence of passion and compassion in corporate law, explains how it deflects moral claims and scrutinises the James Hardie imbroglio in a wider institutional and philosophical context
Constructing legal personhood
Legal personality – its nature and function – has become a topic of renewed interest. In particular, there is increasing interest in extending existing categories of legal personality. While contemporary discussion of legal personality is directed at comparably novel ends, aspects of the discussion are familiar, mirroring broader patterns of thought evident in historical treatments of the subject. Most familiar of all is the pronounced conceptual…
Corporate Law and Human Rights (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Legal principles and applications (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Corporation (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Publishing (2 works)