professor of private law and commercial regulation; visiting fellow, All Souls, Oxford
Dr Elise Bant is Professor of Private Law and Commercial Regulation at the University of Western Australia. She is a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College Oxford for Michaelmas 2025, and excited that this means she has a chance to be involved in Debating Matters Oxford 2025! Her current work focusses on holding corporations to account for fraud and predatory conduct, (think the Post Office Horizon scandal, recently dramatized in ITV’s ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’). Her website gives a snapshot of her novel model of corporate responsibility, which has recently been adopted in Australia’s High Court (the equivalent of the UK Supreme Court). When not battling corporate miscreants, Elise likes ocean swimming, rambling, and spending time in and around beautiful Oxford.