Core expertise
- Corporate law
- Corporate regulation
- Enforcement
- Compliance
Biography
Michelle Welsh is a professor and a co-director of the Workplace and Corporate Law Research Group in the Department of Business Law and Taxation.
Michelle undertakes research and supervision in the area of corporate law, corporate regulation, enforcement and compliance.
Michelle has published her research in leading Australian corporate law journals and a number of international journals. Michelle's PhD thesis, concerning Civil Penalties under the Corporations Act was awarded the Melbourne University Law Faculty prize for the top PhD thesis in 2009. In 2013 Michelle was awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher. She is a chief investigator on an ARC Discovery Project with colleagues from the Melbourne Law School on a project entitled Phoenix Activity: Regulating Fraudulent Use of the Corporate Form' (2014-2016).
