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Dr. Hannah Harris is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University. Her research area is transnational law and corporate regulation. Her current work includes analysis of legislative responses to transnational challenges, including illegal logging and modern slavery, and the impact of foreign bribery enforcement action on corporate compliance policies and practices. A key theme in her research is the way in which power dynamics and diverse values and interests shape regulatory regimes and impact the effectiveness of these regimes across diverse jurisdictions. The interplay between legal, social, political, and economic dynamics is at the heart of her approach to legal research. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of New South Wales, awarded on 6 June 2016 for her thesis titled 'The Global Anti-Corruption Regime'. Her research interests include corporate compliance and regulation, corporate social responsibility and law, corruption and bribery, transnational policing and law enforcement, transnational crime, governance and regulatory theory, comparative law, and socio-legal research.

Prior to her current appointment, Dr. Harris was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Law Markets and Regulation from June 2018 to August 2019, a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney from 2017 to 2018, a Senior Research Analyst at Capital Markets CRC Limited from January 2016 to December 2016, and Product Development Lead at Wickford Analytics from 2016 to 2018. She authored the book The Global Anti-Corruption Regime – The Case of Papua New Guinea (Routledge, 2019), which examines the evolution of a global anti-corruption regime and the challenges in its implementation and enforcement. Key publications include 'Agrivoltaics: planning and property law challenges in combining renewable energy and agriculture' in Environmental and Planning Law Journal (2024), 'Analysing the impact of the failure to prevent Bribery offence on corporate compliance reporting in the United Kingdom – towards a better model of corporate accountability?' in Griffith Law Review (2024), 'Financing environmental crime: financial sector complicity in global deforestation and opportunities for regulatory intervention' (2024), 'Enhancing integrity in the implementation of FATF recommendations: robust governance frameworks to combat financial crime in an age of intergovernmental rulemaking' (2024), and 'Law enforcement at the forest-finance nexus in Papua New Guinea: leveraging tools against financial crime in defence of the environment' (2025). Dr. Harris has given invited talks such as 'The Commonwealth Fraud and Corruption Control Framework - Overview and Impact' (19 March 2024), 'The Challenges and Good Practices in Prevention of Corruption' (8 December 2022), and 'Corruption and Anti-Corruption Reforms in the Pacific Islands' (2022).