Staff Directory Dimity Kingsford Smith
Professor BA (Sydney) LLB (Sydney) LLM (LSE, London)
Contact Details Telephone:  +61 2 9385 2245 Email:  d.kingsfordsmith@unsw.edu.au Office:  Law Building 314

Professor Dimity Kingsford Smith joined the University of New South Wales Law Faculty in January 2005. She was professor of law and Director of the Centre for Law in the Digital Economy at Monash University between 2000-2004. She previously held appointments at the University of Sydney and in the UK at University College London and Warwick University. In 1999 she was a visitor at the London School of Economics law department.

Professor Kingsford Smith teaches in the areas of corporations law and regulation of securities and financial products. She teaches a master of laws course on the regulation of online investing. She supervises a number of postgraduate research students on financial regulation questions. Professor Kingsford Smith serves on the Executive Committee of the Australian Corporate Law Teachers Association, and is a member of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy and the Julius Stone Institute. She holds membership of the US and Canadian Law & Society Associations. In 2006 she was the author of a research report entitled ‘Importing the E-World’ for the Task Force to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada. The Taskforce will publish its final report in late 2006. Prior to contributing to the work of this Task Force, Dimity Kingsford Smith authored policy submissions to the Australian Wallis Committee on the regulation of financial markets, and was a member of the legal committees of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Law Society of New South Wales.

Professor Kingsford Smith’s research and publication is in the areas of corporate and financial regulation and regulatory theory and policy. She is currently the first chief investigator in an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant 2005-08 examining the regulation of online investing. Entitled ‘One Day, We’ll All Invest This Way! Regulating Online Investment’ the project includes leading Australian, US, Canadian and UK researchers. Recent publications include: ‘The Same Yet Different: Australian and US Online Investing Regulation’ University of Toledo Law Review, (2006) 37(2) 461-95; ‘Beyond the Rule of Law? Decentred Regulation in Online Investment’ (2004) 26:3 Law & Policy 439-476; ‘Is Due Diligence Dead? Financial Services Disclosure Under the Financial Services Reform Act 2001’ (2004) 22 Company & Securities Law Journal 128-150; “What is Regulation? A Reply to Julia Black’s ‘Critical Reflections on Regulation’” (2002) 27 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 37-46; Decentred Regulation in Online Investing’ (2001) 19 Company & Securities Law Journal 532-549; ‘Superannuating the Second Sex: Law, Privatisation and Retirement Income’ (2001) 64(4) Modern Law Review 519-42.