Professor Charles Sampford graduated top of his class in Politics, Philosophy and Law from Melbourne University before combining those disciplines in his Oxford DPhil in 1986. He moved to Griffith as Foundation Dean and Professor of Law at Griffith University in 1991. Since 2004 he has been Director of the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (a joint initiative of the United Nations University, Griffith, QUT, ANU, OP Jindal University (Delhi) and the Centre for Asian integrity (Manila).
He is President of the International Institute for Public Ethics and he is Convenor of the Global Integrity Summit which held its first meeting in September.
He has published 124 articles and essays and completed 30 books and edited collections. These includes interdisciplinary work on the ethics and governance of corporations, professions, public agencies and international organisations - as well as issues of multi-level governance such as the Global Financial Crisis.
Charles has been consulted by business, government, and various parliaments – including the principal legal advisor to the Queensland Scrutiny of Legislation Committee (1995-2002). He is also a barrister and a director of two SMEs.
Experience
2004–present
Foundation Professor of Law and Research Professor in Ethics, Griffith University
1994–present
Foundation Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (a joint initiative of UNU, Griffith, ANU, QUT and Jindal)
1998–present
Chairman, Sampford and Staff, Pty Ltd
1994–2010
Convenor, ARC Governance Research Network, Griffith University
1999–2004
Foundation Director, ARC Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University
2000–2001
Senior Fulbright Fellow, Harvard University
1997–1998
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, St Johns College, Oxford
1994–1998
Director, National Institute for Law, Ethics and Public Affairs, Griffith University
1991–1994
Foundation Dean of Law, Griffith University
1990–1991
Deputy Director and Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues, Melbourne University
1990–1990
Acting Director, Centre for Philosophy and Public Issues, Melbourne University
Education
1986
Oxford University, DPhil
1979
Melbourne University, Bachelor of Laws with 1st class hons and Supreme Court Prize
1976
Melbourne University, Bachelor of Arts with 1st class hons in Politics and Philosophy
Publications
2006
Retrospectivity and the Rule of Law, OUP, Oxford
2002
Encouraging Ethics and Challenging Corruption: Public Sector Ethics in theory and practice , (with Noel Preston) Federation Press
1998
New Foundations of Legal Education, (with Goldring and Simmonds) Cavendish
1989
The Disorder of Law: a critique of legal theory, , Basil Blackwell, Oxford