Associate Professor Marina Nehme

Marina Nehme is an Associate Professor the School of Private and Commercial Law in the Faculty of Law and Justice at the University of New South Wales.

She is recognised internationally for her substantial body of work on negotiated settlements, known as enforceable undertakings. Her articles on this topic have provided insight into how this sanction is used by corporate and environmental regulators, filling an important gap in the literature and providing policy makers with the tools needed to perfect regulatory reliance on this sanction. Marina has also written reports on the use of enforceable undertakings and product intervention orders to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and Treasury.

Further, her research on crowd equity funding has led to invitations to present evidence to the Commonwealth Senate Economics Legislation Committee and the Commonwealth Treasury regarding crowd equity funding legislation.

Lastly, Marina has written a number of papers on Indigenous corporations in Australia. She has actively participation in the consultation on amending to the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth) with the National Australian Indigenous Agency. Marina is actively been involved in Law reforms and has made submissions to a range of inquiries in the area of corporate regulation, financial services, Indigenous corporations and law firm. Her latest funded work was attached to the NSW Law Society Future of Law and Innovation within the Profession  project where she completed with Dr Felicity Bell a report entitled: The Future of Legal Service Delivery.

Marina is also a very passionate educator and she has published a range of papers on the scholarship of learning and teaching. She has further received a number of teaching awards including in 2011 a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. She is also currently a UNSW Scientia Education Fellow.

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