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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
Having your cake and eating it too – managing conflicts and related party issues in the creation of SEEK Investments
Arnold Bloch Leibler is running a corporate law lecture series with CLARS. These lectures will provide Monash Law students with insights as to how corporate law principles play out in the commercial world.
The first in this series being hosted on 9 May is presented by ABL partner, Jonathan Wenig and lawyer Michelle Ainsworth. Click on the link above for more
Spotlight
Monash Law School students come runners up in Vis international mooting competition
Our Monash Law students have once again proven their legal prowess by scoring an array of awards, and advancing far into the finals rounds — including as grand finalists and first runners up in the Vis East moot, and in the top 5% of teams participating in the Vis moot.
Monash University was represented in the Vis Moot this year by LLB Honours students, under the coaching of CLARS academic member Dr Drossos Stamboulakis. Click on the link above to read more.
Global Shareholder Stewardship: Complexity Revealed
Shareholder stewardship has become a global phenomenon in less than 20 years. It has been touted as a mechanism to prevent the next financial crisis and an antidote for climate change.
Recently we hosted Dr Dionysia Katelouzou, King's College London, and
A/Prof Dan W. Puchniak, National University of Singapore who spoke at our first 2022 Law and Business Seminar on what may be the most important global corporate governance movement of our time.
Recording is available now. Click on the link above.
Exemplary Damages – The Critical Historical Perspective
CLARS member Nick Sinanis has been formally awarded his PhD from University College London. Nick's thesis explores the roots of common law practice of juries awarding punitive monetary awards in tort actions. Read a summary of his thesis at the link above.