Bryan Horrigan

Bryan Horrigan was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was educated at St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace (Brisbane) and the University of Queensland (BA, LLB), where he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.[1] He was subsequently awarded a D. Phil. in Law from University College, Oxford.

Horrigan worked with law firm Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR), first as a senior associate from 1991 to 1994, then as a consultant since 1995.[2] In 1995, he also became an associate professor at Queensland University of Technology.[3] In July 2000, he became a professor in the School of Law at the University of Canberra, as well as the director of the National Centre for Corporate Law and Policy Research[4] and deputy director of the National Institute for Governance,[4] until 2005.

In 2005, Horrigan joined the Division of Law at Macquarie University as professor as well as its associate dean for research.[4] He was co-director of the cross-disciplinary Centre for Comparative Law, History, and Governance,[5] holding publicly funded research grants on corporate governance in the public sector as well as internationalisation of Australian law and adjudication. Horrigan left Macquarie's Division of Law in 2008. He has been a visiting academic at the Wharton Business School in Philadelphia.[6]

Horrigan has contributed papers to many publications and authored three books. His published research has been cited in judgments, reports, or speeches by judges and other public officials, parliamentary committees, regulatory bodies (including the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC)'s 2005 Discussion Paper on Corporate Social Responsibility), academics, and legal practitioners.