Staff profile

Dr Ann Wardrop

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Law School

Martin Building 259, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA LLB Grad Dip Fin Law PhD (MELB) Barrister & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria

Area of study

Law

Brief Profile

Ann Wardrop is a Senior Lecturer in Law and a member of the editorial board of the journal Law in Context.  She is a member of the Law School's Research Committee and co-convenor of the Law School Colloquium Series.  Ann's research interests are primarily in the areas of banking and finance law and regulation. Ann's work in regulation is currently focussed  on regulation of the Australian payments system and utility regulation. Her work in utility regulation has concentrated on the regulation of insolvent investor-owned utilities, with particular reference to the transport and electricity industry.  Ann has published in Australian and international journals and has held visiting positions in the United Kingdom and Europe. Ann is is admitted to practise as a Barrister and Solicitor in Victoria and has wide experience practising in banking and finance law. 

Teaching Units

  • Banking and Finance Law Law3BFL
  • Finance Law  LST2FLA
  • Law of Equity and Trusts Law3EQT

 

Recent Publications

  • 'Not Ordinary Trading Companies': Common Law Responses to Insolvent Utilities in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States' (2011) 40 Common Law World Review 278-306.
  • 'Mapping the Regulatory Space of Credit and Debit Card Regulation in Australia', paper presented at the Australiasian Law Teachers' Association Conference, the University of Auckland, 4 July - 7 July 2010
  • 'Speaking softly and carrying a big stick: The Reserve Bank of Australia and the Payment Wars in Australia, seminar paper La Trobe University, 14 October,  2010.
  • 'Regulatory Responses to the Financial Crisis: Australia's Deposit and Wholesale Guarantee' seminar paper presented at University of Southern Denmark, Odense 3 December 2009
  • Oxford Dictionary of Australian Law, Oxford Press, 2009, Banking and Finance Law
  • The Regulation of Essential Service Insolvencies and the Public Interest: Case Studies of Australia's Electricity Industry and Melbourne's Public Transport Industry (2008) (PhD thesis, University of Melbourne)
  • Payments System Reform in Australia: Central Bank Regulation of Credit and Debit Card Interchange Fees, Access Regimes and Card Association Rules' (2006) 21 Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation 535-547
  • 'Systemic Privatisations and the Failure to 'Shrink the State' (2005) 34 Common Law World Review 336-362
  • 'Credit Card Regulation, Interchange Fees and the Meaning of "Payment System" in Australia' (2004) Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation 68-80
  • Systemic Privatisations and Models for Regulation of Insolvent Infrastructure Industries (2003) paper presented at the The University of Melbourne, 24 October 2003, Faculty of Law.
  • 'Electronic Payment Systems and Electronic Banking' in Patrick Quirk and Jay Forder's Electronic Commerce and the Law, (2003, 2nd ed) 114-145 (wiith Olujoke Akindemowo) 
  • 'Competition, Regulation and the California Electricity Market (2002) Law in Context, 141-171
  • The rhetoric of the market: insolvency and political risk for project financiers in new deregulated markets (2002) paper presented at University of Melbourne, August
  • Dispatches from the Front: Essential Services Insolvencies in the UK and UK (2001) paper presented at University of Melbourne, October
  • 'Investor-Owned Utilities in Financial Distress: Re-Organization Options and the Public Interest', (2000) 21 University of Queensland Law Journal, 41-66
  • ‘The Dual Personality of Money and the Legal Nature of Foreign Exchange Transactions Settled by Wire Transfer’ Banking and Finance Law Review 15 (1): 61-109, 1999