Robin Bowley

Robin Bowley's principal fields of teaching and research are in Corporate Law and Insurance Law. Robin’s current research projects focus on corporate and financial services regulation, the responsibilities of financial services intermediaries, and insurance responses to maritime security and terrorism risks.

From 2005 to 2011 he was a Lawyer with ASIC – where he was involved in numerous investigations into possible contraventions of the Corporations Act (2001) and related legislation – including continuous disclosure, insider trading, market manipulation, breaches of directors duties and insolvent trading.

Robin’s obtained his PhD in Law from the University of Wollongong in 2014. His thesis, which evaluated international legal responses to the risk of maritime terrorism, was ranked second out of 14 dissertations internationally in the 2014 “Best PhD Thesis in the Field of Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Studies”, conducted annually by the Terrorism Research Initiative.

He is actively involved in professional bodies including the Australian Insurance Law Association (as a member of the NSW Council) and the Governance Institute of Australia (as a member of the Corporate and Legal Issues Committee). He is a contributing author to a number of legal publications – including the Butterworths Corporations Law Bulletin, Australian Corporations Law Principles and Practice and Australian Consumer Credit Law published by LexisNexis, and Robsons Annotated Corporations Legislation published by Thomson Reuters.

DEGREES

• PhD
  University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
• LLM
  University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• LLB
  University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• BA (Honours)
  UNSW, Australia
  
• Grad Dip Applied Finance & Investment
  FINSIA, Australia
  
• Grad Dip Applied Corporate Governance
  Chartered Secretaries Australia, Australia
• Grad Cert Higher Education Teaching & Learning
  University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia