Professor Christine Parker is a Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. She obtained her BA (Hons) and LLB (Hons) from The University of Queensland and her PhD from the Australian National University. Parker has held academic positions at several leading institutions, including Griffith University, the University of New South Wales, the Australian National University, and Monash University, prior to her current role at Melbourne Law School.

Parker's research focuses on lawyers’ ethics, regulatory studies, and corporate accountability, encompassing socio-legal investigations into the politics, ethics, and democratic governance of regulation. Her work addresses competition and consumer protection law, the food system including the use of animals for food, the legal profession, environmental and health and safety regulation, and the social and ecological regulation of the digital economy. She serves as a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making and Society. Key publications include The Open Corporation: Effective Self-Regulation and Democracy (2002), Explaining Compliance: Business Responses to Regulation (2011), and Inside Lawyers’ Ethics. Her scholarship has been cited more than 7,000 times. Parker pioneered the teaching of animal law and food law and policy at Melbourne Law School, has supervised approximately 20 higher degree by research students to successful completion, and currently supervises PhD candidates in animal law and welfare regulation, corporate governance and regulation, and environmental and public health policy in the food system. She contributes to the governance of the Australian Animal Law Teachers and Researchers Association and the International Association of Legal Ethics, and sits on advisory committees for several international socio-legal journals.

Professional Email: christine.parker@unimelb.edu.au