Paul Redmond

Paul Redmond joined UTS Faculty of Law in 2006 as the inaugural Sir Gerard Brennan Professor after serving for many years a professor in the Faculty of Law at UNSW (where he also served as Dean of the Faculty from 1996 to 2002). He is an Emeritus Professor of the University of New South Wales.

At UTS, Professor Redmond will take a leadership role in assisting the Faculty to develop a research profile to match its strong reputation as a provider of high quality legal education that is responsive to the needs of legal practice.

His areas of expertise include companies and securities law, corporate governance, corporate responsibility including international corporate responsibility for human rights observance and legal education.

Professor Redmond is a member of the Centre for Corporate Governance, and his current research activities include the measure of company interests and the legal scope of accommodation that may be extended to non-shareholder stakeholder interests; corporate responsibility for negative social impacts of business operations whose internalization is not legally mandated; the legitimate scope and significance of the corporate social responsibility movement; the mechanisms, existing and potential, under international human rights law and corporate practice for extending the reach of human rights standards to non-state actors such as corporations; corporation in society: the evolving compact between business and society, and its significance for corporate law.

He is also supervising research students in the areas of corruption as a human rights issue; the role of letters of comfort in international banking practice�; human rights responsibilities in foreign company mining operations in developing countries; and the impact of international law upon corporate behaviour. He has been a member of a number of professional bodies concerned with corporate law reform and development, including the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia. Professor Redmond is a member of the Editorial Committee of International Corporate Law (United Kingdom) and the Australian Journal of Corporate Law.

While his principal research interests are in corporate and securities law, Paul also has a research and professional interest in legal education, professional responsibility and in the application of human rights standards to business. He is Chair of the Diplomacy Training Program - a regional human rights training body, was a founding member of National Pro Bono Resource Centre and has participated in a number of national and international initiatives in legal education.

In 2001, Professor Redmond co-authored a significant report on the reform of legal education and training in Hong Kong. He is an Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.