Research showcase

The formal and informal regulation of collective labour disputes in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. This interdisciplinary project is funded by a 3-year ARC Discovery Grant.

This project explored the effect of legislative provision for climate mainstreaming on the decisions, policies, and programs of the Victorian Government, and developed a model for enabling effective climate mainstreaming in practice.

This project will assess the effectiveness of the mechanisms used to resolve human rights complaints – conciliation, mediation and litigation – in four Australian jurisdictions.

This PhD project investigates tax evasion in the context of crypto assets.

This project, in collaboration with JobWatch Inc., investigates pregnancy discrimination in Victorian workplaces using qualitative and quantitative research methods.

This research investigates the need for greater cross-border cooperation in the face of increasing financial integration among Asian countries.

This project explores legal and regulatory drivers for corporate net zero pledges and assesses their potential to deliver timely and ambitious emissions reductions in the real world.

This PhD thesis aims to evaluate the adequacy of the current regulatory framework in Australia at addressing discrimination in algorithmic credit scoring.

This project aims to investigate why the current income taxation cannot work in the digital economy and to propose some alternatives.

A move to create an Australian head of state is a symbolic, constitutional, governance and organisational change that raises many questions. How should an Australian head of state be chosen?

Class actions and securities class actions can raise a number of issues where legal and economic questions mix and overlap.

Australians have a formal right to justice and equal treatment before the law, but what does ‘access to justice’ in the civil sphere really mean?

What are the risks, problems, advantages and other issues arising from the developments of digital currencies? Are they 'money' and how are they to be regulated?

Access to justice through the class action mechanism has brought many benefits with relief and compensation obtained by many who would otherwise not be able to afford access to the legal system. The area is fast moving and with courts constantly grappling with new and difficult issues.

How should financial advisers be regulated and how are the best interests of investors best protected?

This project explores the early implementation of Victoria’s Climate Change Act 2017 and assesses its impact and effectiveness in driving emissions reductions and supporting the realisation of the climate change mitigation goals of the international Paris Agreement.

Business car fleets are an effective pathway to increase battery electric vehicles (BEVs), but business site re-charging infrastructure facilities are low.

This research investigates the need for greater cross-border cooperation in the face of increasing financial integration among Asian countries.

This research investigates the need for greater cross-border cooperation in the face of increasing financial integration among Asian countries.

This research will assess Australia's present regulatory framework of work/care supports.

How can public procurement initiatives be designed effectively to promote and secure better working conditions in transnational supply chains?

How did working from home during the pandemic impact on workers with family responsibilities?

Part of a Monash Uni Network of Excellence project on Enhancing Corporate Accountability, this is a comparative study of directors' duty accountability mechanisms.

This project examines how Australian policy-makers can design a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies that can detect money laundering, prevent revenue leakage and protect consumers.

This project examines how judges resolve contested issues in labour law cases by drawing on social science information and/or 'common sense' or intuition.

How can public procurement initiatives be designed effectively to promote and secure better working conditions in transnational supply chains?

Tax authorities are increasingly digitising and automating their taxpayer service interactions, but this raises fundamental questions about accountability.

What role can superannuation funds play in society’s response to climate change?

The Worker Protection Index (WPI) has been developed as a new measure for quantitative cross-national comparison of the strength of worker protection provided by law.

We argue that profit creation runs in the genes of firms, and the conflict of profit genes and Darwinian fitness may be considered for policymaking on tax-avert MNE behaviour.

This PhD project examines how behaviour change of water-users can help address global water crises. It seeks to understand industry's motivations and constraints for adopting water stewardship.

This PhD project explores how companies in Vietnam interpret corruption, unethical business behaviour and global anti-corruption norms.

This PhD project explores the implementation of mandatory sustainable finance regulation in Indonesia and how bank employees interpret its key norms.

This MPhil project focuses on ‘Indirect Sex Discrimination under Australian discrimination law - Assessing the Onus of Proof and the Reasonableness Test’.

Examining the laws governing auditors’ eligibility, particularly the requirement of good character, in ensuring auditors’ effectiveness in Malaysia.

This project focuses on how Malaysian laws (Companies Act 2016, the Capital Market and Services Act 2007 and the Financial Services Act 2013) deal with non-audit services.

Australia was one of the earlier jurisdictions to allow third party litigation funding. It is now one of the earliest jurisdictions to review its operation and to propose a regulatory system.

The rise of artificial intelligence raises new issues for the law in relation to harm caused by algorithms and artificial intelligence. Who will be responsible if things go wrong?

This project considers canon law, tort law, US bankruptcy law, and the Royal Commission as they are applied to cases involving child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

How gaps in the Malaysian regulatory framework allowed billions to be stolen.

How well do our laws protect vulnerable consumers?

The project examines EU proposed legislation to tax digital business models and analyses its legal, political and economic implications.

What is the impact of digital court infrastructure on access to justice? This project considers the support structures necessary to assist those at risk of digital exclusion.

This project draws together international insights from academia, industry and regulators around the theme of innovation and technology in legal education.

This interdisciplinary project explores the impact of international trade law on domestic policy, regulatory actors and regulatory institutions in Australia.

This project explores how certain Southeast Asian countries can harness their potentials to achieve sustainable development.

We examine China’s social credit system and argue that the new governance mode underlying the CSC relies on the fuzzy notion of "trust".

What are the climate change consequences of international trade?

This project examines developments in Australian arbitration law over the last 10 years.

How effective are new laws in Victoria at promoting substantive equality?

"Weak" to "strong" sustainability: protesting for environmental justice in Vietnam.

The mobility effect: uncovering bias function within parental decision-making related to smartphone purchases.

This project examines the various ideas/concepts of labour as a socially and legally regulated concept since the beginning of stratified/hierarchical civilised states.

This project examines the various methodologies used in examining labour law – including traditional/doctrinal analysis and empirical legal research.

Australians have a formal right to justice and equal treatment before the law, but what does ‘access to justice’ in the civil sphere really mean?

A move to create an Australian head of state is a symbolic, constitutional, governance and organisational change that raises many questions. How should an Australian head of state be chosen?

We argue that profit creation runs in the genes of firms, and the conflict of profit genes and Darwinian fitness may be considered for policymaking on tax-avert MNE behaviour.

Part of a Monash Uni Network of Excellence project on Enhancing Corporate Accountability, this is a comparative study of directors' duty accountability mechanisms.

Examining the laws governing auditors’ eligibility, particularly the requirement of good character, in ensuring auditors’ effectiveness in Malaysia.

Access to justice through the class action mechanism has brought many benefits with relief and compensation obtained by many who would otherwise not be able to afford access to the legal system. The area is fast moving and with courts constantly grappling with new and difficult issues.

How well do our laws protect vulnerable consumers?

How gaps in the Malaysian regulatory framework allowed billions to be stolen.

This project considers canon law, tort law, US bankruptcy law, and the Royal Commission as they are applied to cases involving child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

The rise of artificial intelligence raises new issues for the law in relation to harm caused by algorithms and artificial intelligence. Who will be responsible if things go wrong?

Class actions and securities class actions can raise a number of issues where legal and economic questions mix and overlap.

This project focuses on how Malaysian laws (Companies Act 2016, the Capital Market and Services Act 2007 and the Financial Services Act 2013) deal with non-audit services.

How should financial advisers be regulated and how are the best interests of investors best protected?

What are the risks, problems, advantages and other issues arising from the developments of digital currencies? Are they 'money' and how are they to be regulated?

Australia was one of the earlier jurisdictions to allow third party litigation funding. It is now one of the earliest jurisdictions to review its operation and to propose a regulatory system.

This research will assess Australia's present regulatory framework of work/care supports.

A move to create an Australian head of state is a symbolic, constitutional, governance and organisational change that raises many questions. How should an Australian head of state be chosen?

This research investigates the need for greater cross-border cooperation in the face of increasing financial integration among Asian countries.

How did working from home during the pandemic impact on workers with family responsibilities?

This project examines the various ideas/concepts of labour as a socially and legally regulated concept since the beginning of stratified/hierarchical civilised states.

This project will assess the effectiveness of the mechanisms used to resolve human rights complaints – conciliation, mediation and litigation – in four Australian jurisdictions.

This MPhil project focuses on ‘Indirect Sex Discrimination under Australian discrimination law - Assessing the Onus of Proof and the Reasonableness Test’.

How effective are new laws in Victoria at promoting substantive equality?

This project examines how judges resolve contested issues in labour law cases by drawing on social science information and/or 'common sense' or intuition.

The formal and informal regulation of collective labour disputes in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. This interdisciplinary project is funded by a 3-year ARC Discovery Grant.

This project examines the various methodologies used in examining labour law – including traditional/doctrinal analysis and empirical legal research.

This research investigates the need for greater cross-border cooperation in the face of increasing financial integration among Asian countries.

This project, in collaboration with JobWatch Inc., investigates pregnancy discrimination in Victorian workplaces using qualitative and quantitative research methods.

How can public procurement initiatives be designed effectively to promote and secure better working conditions in transnational supply chains?

The Worker Protection Index (WPI) has been developed as a new measure for quantitative cross-national comparison of the strength of worker protection provided by law.

This research investigates the need for greater cross-border cooperation in the face of increasing financial integration among Asian countries.

This PhD project explores how companies in Vietnam interpret corruption, unethical business behaviour and global anti-corruption norms.

We examine China’s social credit system and argue that the new governance mode underlying the CSC relies on the fuzzy notion of "trust".

This project explores how certain Southeast Asian countries can harness their potentials to achieve sustainable development.

Examining the laws governing auditors’ eligibility, particularly the requirement of good character, in ensuring auditors’ effectiveness in Malaysia.

"Weak" to "strong" sustainability: protesting for environmental justice in Vietnam.

This PhD project examines how behaviour change of water-users can help address global water crises. It seeks to understand industry's motivations and constraints for adopting water stewardship.

How gaps in the Malaysian regulatory framework allowed billions to be stolen.

The formal and informal regulation of collective labour disputes in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. This interdisciplinary project is funded by a 3-year ARC Discovery Grant.

This project focuses on how Malaysian laws (Companies Act 2016, the Capital Market and Services Act 2007 and the Financial Services Act 2013) deal with non-audit services.

This PhD project explores the implementation of mandatory sustainable finance regulation in Indonesia and how bank employees interpret its key norms.

The Worker Protection Index (WPI) has been developed as a new measure for quantitative cross-national comparison of the strength of worker protection provided by law.

Business car fleets are an effective pathway to increase battery electric vehicles (BEVs), but business site re-charging infrastructure facilities are low.

This project explored the effect of legislative provision for climate mainstreaming on the decisions, policies, and programs of the Victorian Government, and developed a model for enabling effective climate mainstreaming in practice.

"Weak" to "strong" sustainability: protesting for environmental justice in Vietnam.

This PhD project examines how behaviour change of water-users can help address global water crises. It seeks to understand industry's motivations and constraints for adopting water stewardship.

What role can superannuation funds play in society’s response to climate change?

This project explores legal and regulatory drivers for corporate net zero pledges and assesses their potential to deliver timely and ambitious emissions reductions in the real world.

This PhD project explores the implementation of mandatory sustainable finance regulation in Indonesia and how bank employees interpret its key norms.

What are the climate change consequences of international trade?

This project explores the early implementation of Victoria’s Climate Change Act 2017 and assesses its impact and effectiveness in driving emissions reductions and supporting the realisation of the climate change mitigation goals of the international Paris Agreement.

This research investigates the need for greater cross-border cooperation in the face of increasing financial integration among Asian countries.

This project explores how certain Southeast Asian countries can harness their potentials to achieve sustainable development.

How can public procurement initiatives be designed effectively to promote and secure better working conditions in transnational supply chains?

This project examines developments in Australian arbitration law over the last 10 years.

What are the climate change consequences of international trade?

This interdisciplinary project explores the impact of international trade law on domestic policy, regulatory actors and regulatory institutions in Australia.

What is the impact of digital court infrastructure on access to justice? This project considers the support structures necessary to assist those at risk of digital exclusion.

We examine China’s social credit system and argue that the new governance mode underlying the CSC relies on the fuzzy notion of "trust".

This project aims to investigate why the current income taxation cannot work in the digital economy and to propose some alternatives.

This project examines how Australian policy-makers can design a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies that can detect money laundering, prevent revenue leakage and protect consumers.

This project explores how certain Southeast Asian countries can harness their potentials to achieve sustainable development.

The project examines EU proposed legislation to tax digital business models and analyses its legal, political and economic implications.

The rise of artificial intelligence raises new issues for the law in relation to harm caused by algorithms and artificial intelligence. Who will be responsible if things go wrong?

This project draws together international insights from academia, industry and regulators around the theme of innovation and technology in legal education.

The mobility effect: uncovering bias function within parental decision-making related to smartphone purchases.

What are the risks, problems, advantages and other issues arising from the developments of digital currencies? Are they 'money' and how are they to be regulated?

Tax authorities are increasingly digitising and automating their taxpayer service interactions, but this raises fundamental questions about accountability.

This PhD project investigates tax evasion in the context of crypto assets.

What is the impact of digital court infrastructure on access to justice? This project considers the support structures necessary to assist those at risk of digital exclusion.

This PhD project explores how companies in Vietnam interpret corruption, unethical business behaviour and global anti-corruption norms.

Australians have a formal right to justice and equal treatment before the law, but what does ‘access to justice’ in the civil sphere really mean?

Access to justice through the class action mechanism has brought many benefits with relief and compensation obtained by many who would otherwise not be able to afford access to the legal system. The area is fast moving and with courts constantly grappling with new and difficult issues.

"Weak" to "strong" sustainability: protesting for environmental justice in Vietnam.

This PhD thesis aims to evaluate the adequacy of the current regulatory framework in Australia at addressing discrimination in algorithmic credit scoring.

How well do our laws protect vulnerable consumers?

This PhD project examines how behaviour change of water-users can help address global water crises. It seeks to understand industry's motivations and constraints for adopting water stewardship.

How effective are new laws in Victoria at promoting substantive equality?

How gaps in the Malaysian regulatory framework allowed billions to be stolen.

The formal and informal regulation of collective labour disputes in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. This interdisciplinary project is funded by a 3-year ARC Discovery Grant.

This project considers canon law, tort law, US bankruptcy law, and the Royal Commission as they are applied to cases involving child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

The mobility effect: uncovering bias function within parental decision-making related to smartphone purchases.

This project, in collaboration with JobWatch Inc., investigates pregnancy discrimination in Victorian workplaces using qualitative and quantitative research methods.

How can public procurement initiatives be designed effectively to promote and secure better working conditions in transnational supply chains?

This PhD project explores the implementation of mandatory sustainable finance regulation in Indonesia and how bank employees interpret its key norms.

The Worker Protection Index (WPI) has been developed as a new measure for quantitative cross-national comparison of the strength of worker protection provided by law.