Francesco De Zwart

Dr Francesco de Zwart is a Senior Lecturer at Adelaide Law School at the University of Adelaide. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1993 and worked as a solicitor for Arthur Robinson and Hedderwicks (now Allens). He primarily worked in the general corporate and banking and finance areas. He has published in journals such as the Monash University Law Review and the Australian Journal of Corporate Law. He has taught business law and corporate law to...See more

Dr Francesco de Zwart is a Senior Lecturer at Adelaide Law School at the University of Adelaide. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1993 and worked as a solicitor for Arthur Robinson and Hedderwicks (now Allens). He primarily worked in the general corporate and banking and finance areas. He has published in journals such as the Monash University Law Review and the Australian Journal of Corporate Law. He has taught business law and corporate law to non-law students for many years at the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University. He joined the Business School at the University of Adelaide in 2012. At Adelaide Law School he teaches Foundations of Law to first-year students and, to later year students, Equity. He is First Year Coordinator of the LLB Program at Adelaide Law School and teaches governance subjects in the Law Master's Program. He is the Lawyer Member of the University of Adelaide Human Research Ethics Committee. His original governance model was published in the 2015 book Enhancing Firm Sustainability Through Governance, The Relational Corporate Governance Approach. He is a member of the Subject Advisory Committee for the Applied Corporate Law subject at the Governance Institute of Australia. He is the Director of the Relational Corporate Governance Model Project adapting and applying his original model to the governance and supervision of major banks in Australia. See less