Rate My Professor Tabatha Pettitt

Dr Tabatha Pettitt serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University's Monash Business School, where she has been appointed since 2008. She holds qualifications as a barrister and solicitor admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia. Before her academic career at Monash, she practiced law for five years in private practice, focusing on family law matters. Pettitt also worked as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne, conducting in-depth research into the corporatisation of Australian ports. Her professional engagements include serving on the Council of the Law Institute of Victoria from 2004 to 2005, and she is presently an elected member of the International Association of Maritime Economists. Pettitt is a valued member of the Corporate Law, Organisation and Litigation Research Group within her department.

Her academic interests center on port legislation and policy, transport policy and legislation, privatisation processes, and the operations of government-owned corporations both in Australia and internationally. In teaching, she specializes in corporations law, port law and policy, corporate governance, and comparative law. Currently pursuing her PhD at Macquarie University, Pettitt's thesis investigates the effectiveness of corporatisation legislation as it applies to port corporations in Australia. Among her notable scholarly contributions are the journal article 'Will a national port regulator solve congestion problems in Australian ports?' published in 2007 in Maritime Policy and Management (volume 34, issue 2, pages 121-130), which has received 9 citations according to Scopus. Other significant publications include 'The politics of port competition: The case of New South Wales port reform' (2009), 'The ports of Queensland: Why the change in their corporatised management structure?' edited by Teng-Fei Wang (2008), 'Beyond corporatisation: Newly emerging trends in Australian and New Zealand ports' co-authored with Sophia Everett and Rae Weston (2007), and 'The corporatisation of ports: Scenes from Australia' (2007). With a total of seven research outputs primarily from 2006 to 2009, her work addresses critical issues in maritime economics and regulatory policy.