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Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS)
The Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS) at Monash University Law School facilitates innovative research in commercial law, corporate governance and regulation. The Centre includes select Monash University academics and postgraduate students, as well as visiting scholars and research partners from around the world. The Centre promotes discussion and dissemination of commercial and corporate law research through scholarly publications, seminars and conferences, and actively engages with the legal and business communities, policy makers, and regulators.
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Algorithmic collusion and competition law
Recently CLARS and The Centre for Global Business (CGB), Monash Business School co-hosted an Inter-faculty Competition Law and Economics Seminar presented by Associate Professor Rob Nicholls of the University of New South Wales who spoke on the issue of a relatively new challenge for Australian competition policy: the use of algorithmic pricing, where sellers employ artificial intelligence that autonomously learns to adjust prices.
Click on the above link for the video recording
Researching Tort Law in Australia: Emerging Voices, Fresh Perspectives
CLARS member Dr Nick Sinanis hosted a scholarly round-table workshop at Monash Law Chambers. The workshop coincided with the Edinburgh University Law Professor, Claudio Michelon's visit to Australia.
Click on the link above for more about the event
Spotlight
New Unit, Commercial Equity, to be Taught by The Hon Geoffrey Nettle AC QC
CLARS is delighted to announce the introduction of an exciting new unit, Commercial Equity (LAW5445).
Commercial Equity explores the evolution of certain core equitable doctrines most relevant to commercial practice from their early recognition up to recent decisions of the High Court of Australia.
The unit will be taught by the Hon Geoffrey Nettle AC QC, former Justice of the High Court of Australia, together with Mr Angus Willoughby, member of the Victorian Bar, and Dr Nick Sinanis, Lecturer at the Monash Law Faculty.
The unit will commence on Wednesday the 7th of September 2022 and will run for 12 consecutive weeks. It will consist of 1 x 2-hour seminars every Wednesday from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at Monash Law Chambers in the Melbourne CBD.
What's a Director To Do?: Directors' Duties in Times of COVID
The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on many areas of corporate law, including directors' duties. This seminar will explore the English law treatment of directors’ duties in relation to payments to creditors during the pandemic.
English law regulates directors’ duties in relation to the order in which creditors are paid through a complex bundle of judge-made and statutory rules. Some, but not all, of these rules were suspended during the COVID-19 pandemic; at the same time, other parts of the COVID-19 corporate relief package could plausibly have been expected to influence the order in which directors were likely to discharge creditor claims.
In this session, Professor Kristin van Zwieten will present work-in-progress with Professor Sarah Paterson (London School of Economics) on directors’ duties under English law during the pandemic, in particular in relation to the treatment of factual preferences, and what lessons might be learnt from this about the future development of directors’ duties in insolvency.
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Register for the event now. Click on the link above.
Optus Data Breach Brings Privacy (and Privacy Law Reform) to Centre Stage - Professor Neil Richards on "Why Privacy Matters"
The recent Optus data breach has brought not sharp focus the fact that privacy matters. To find out why, watch our recent Law & Business seminar by Professor Neil Richards. Professor Richards is the Koch Distinguished Professor in Law at Washington University and one of the world's leading experts in privacy law, information law and freedom of expression.
In this seminar on "Why Privacy Matters", Professor Richards examines why privacy is by no means dead in the modern era and deserves to be protected. He is joined in the discussion by Commentator, Professor Chris Marsden, who is the Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Technology and the Law at Monash Law School.
This seminar (and other great addresses in the CLARS Law & Business Seminar Program are available on the CLARS Video Portal at https://www.monash.edu/law/research/excellence/clars/news-events/video-portal