Professor John Farrar
Professor of Corporate Governance
Department:
Address: Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road
Auckland
Faculty: Business & Economics
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 Ext. 88935
Email: j.farrar@auckland.ac.nz
Qualifications:
---- Bachelor of Laws (Honours) University of London
---- Doctor of Laws University of London
---- Doctor of Philosophy University of Bristol
---- Master of Laws University of London
Special Interests:
Specialises in Company Law, Corporate Governance and Insolvency
Positions Held:
FromToInstitutionPosition Held
2008 Now University of Auckland Business School Professor of Corporate Governance
2008 2004 University of Waikato Law School Dean
2004 Now Bond University Emeritus Professor of Law
1993 1996 Bond University Acting Vice Chancellor
1985 1988 University of Canterbury Formerly Dean of Law
---- ---- Supreme Courts of Queensland and ACT and High Courts of Australia and New Zealand Barrister
---- ---- University of Melbourne Professorial Fellow
Teaching:
2010 LAWCOMM 709 Corporate Governance
2010 LAWCOMM 743 Fraud and White Collar Crime
Selected Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles
2008 FARRAR, J.,  ‘Salmond and Corporate Theory‘, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, 38, 925.
2008 FARRAR, J.,  ‘The corporate governance of SMEs and unlisted companies‘, New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, 14(4), 213-230.
2007 FARRAR, J.,  ‘Winds of Change Hit the Legal Profession‘, Waikato Law Review, 15, 23.
2006 FARRAR, J.,  ‘Book Review: Legal Reasoning: The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument‘, Waikato Law Review , 14, 145.
2006 FARRAR, J.,  ‘The Radical Transformation of Company Law – Global Trends and Local Initiatives‘, Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law , 33, 1.
2004 FARRAR, J.,  ‘Piercing the Corporate Veil in an Era of Globalisation and International Terrorism and the Emergence of the Lawyer as Gatekeeper and Whistleblower ‘, Bond Law Review, 16(2), 64-95.
Books
2009 FARRAR, J.,  ‘Legal reasoning‘, Thomson Reuters
2008 FARRAR, J.,  ‘Company and Securities Law in New Zealand ‘, Thomson Brookers
2008 FARRAR, J.,  ‘Corporate Governance: Theories, Principles and Practice ‘, Oxford University Press, 3rd ed
Sections in Books
2008 FARRAR, J.,  ‘Codification of Commercial Law‘ In: Finn and Todd (ed.), Law, Liberty, Legislation, LexisNexis
Conference Paper
Feb 2009 FARRAR, J.,  ‘Reasoning by analogy in the law‘, ‘Judicial Reasoning: Art or Science ?’ Conference, Canberra, Australia, 1-18.



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