Pamela Hanrahan

Pamela Hanrahan (born 24 May 1965) is an Australian lawyer, author, and media commentator on corporate law and financial services regulation in Australia.

Education
Pamela Fay Hanrahan was born 24 May 1965 in Melbourne Australia and educated at Loreto Mandeville Hall and Presbyterian Ladies’ College Melbourne where she was MacFarland Scholar (Dux of School) in 1982. She attended the University of Melbourne and CWRU Law School.

Career
Hanrahan began her legal career with Allens (then Arthur Robinson & Hedderwicks) in 1989. In 2004, she was appointed as an associate professor of the Melbourne Law School. In 2008 – 2011 she was a senior executive of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission including serving as ASIC Regional Commissioner for Queensland in 2010-11. In 2013-2015 she was the Registrar of Community Housing for New South Wales. In 2015 - 2023, she was Professor of Commercial Law and Regulation in the UNSW Business School and in 2024 she was appointed an Emerita Professor of the University of New South Wales. In 2017 she was a member of the ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce. In 2018 she was an adviser to the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry.

She was elected as a member of the executive of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia in 2017 and became Chair of the Business Law Section in 2023.

Publications
Hanrahan's books on Australian corporate law and financial services regulation include:


 * Securities and Financial Services Law (jointly) (10th ed LexisNexis Australia 2021)
 * Corporate Governance (jointly) (LexisNexis Australia, 2017)
 * Managed Investments Law and Practice (CCH Australia, 1999-2023)
 * Funds Management in Australia: Officers’ Duties and Liabilities (LexisNexis Australia, 2009)
 * Commercial Applications of Company Law (jointly) (Oxford University Press, 23rd ed 2022)
 * Commercial Applications of Company Law in Malaysia (jointly) (3rd ed 2008)
 * Commercial Applications of Company Law in New Zealand (jointly) (5th ed 2015)
 * Commercial Applications of Company Law in Singapore (jointly) (5th ed 2015)
 * Contemporary Issues in Corporate and Competition Law: Essays in Honour of Professor Robert Baxt AO (joint editor) (LexisNexis Australia, 2018)