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Vivien Chen

Assoc Professor

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5290-1922

Accepting PhD Students

2000 …2026

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Biography

Vivien has a PhD from Monash University and a law degree with honours from the Australian National University. Her PhD research investigates systemic weaknesses in the Malaysian corporate regulatory framework. She was awarded the best paper prize at the Corporate Law Teachers Association conference in 2013 and 2018, and graduate student article award by the Asian Law and Society Association in 2018. In 2021, she received a commendation from the Dean for excellence in research as an early career researcher. She currently teaches corporate governance and corporations law at the Department of Business Law and Taxation and has also taught commercial law.

Vivien is part of the Economic Abuse Reference Group's business and tax working group. She is Co-Director of the Asian Corporate Law Forum and is part of several Australian and international collaborations. Vivien has been a visiting research fellow at the National University of Singapore, honorary research fellow at Melbourne Law School, and research associate, University of Oxford China Centre. She has previously held an academic position overseas and worked as a legal practitioner. Her publications include articles on Australian and Malaysian corporations law, gender, debt, and financial abuse. She regularly contributes to corporate governance and business law blogs, and to law reform initiatives.

Education/Academic qualification

PhD (Monash)

LLM (Malaya)

BA (Asian Studies), LLB (Hons) (Australian National University)

External positions

Research Associate, University of Oxford China Centre

2020 → 2022

Honorary Research Fellow, Harmful Financial Products Project, University of Melbourne

2019 → 2024

Research area keywords

  • Corporations law, financial abuse, debt, gender, consumer credit

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  2. SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  3. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  4. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  5. SDG 13 - Climate Action
    SDG 13 Climate Action
  6. SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
    SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years

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