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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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Recent CLARS Seminar Examines the Resurgence of Retail Investment
On 9 July 2021, Monash Law School’s Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS) held a webinar titled, The 21st Century Berle & Means Corporation: A Revolution in Retail Investing. Click on the link above read more and to view the video recording of the event
Criminal Cartel Jury Trials in Australia: An Inauspicious Beginning
After a 12-week jury trial, the case of CDPP v The Country Care Group Pty Ltd, has ended with acquittals for the named company as well as its Managing Director and a former employee. The failure to secure convictions in this case – Australia’s first jury trial case and the first contested cartel case since Australia adopted a cartel offence in 2009 – is a significant and awkward defeat for the ACCC, which investigated the matter and supported the CDPP’s prosecution effort. To read more on this piece by Dr Mel Marquis click on the link above
Spotlight
Yee-Fui Ng Awarded Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship at NYU for Project on Digital Government Decision making
CLARS congratulates Centre Member, Dr Yee-Fui Ng, who has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship at New York University. As a Fulbright Scholar, Yee-Fui will undertake research at New York University’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, focussing on the Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project. She will investigate successful policies in the United States and identify optimal and rights-protective strategies for regulating automated government decision-making in Australia. Her project will contribute significantly to the accountability, efficiency and robustness of automated government decision-making, which is integral to Australia’s system of administrative justice.
Daniel Fitzpatrick receives Scholar-in-Residence award at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars in Washington DC
CLARS congratulates Centre Member and former Director, Professor Daniel Fitzpatrick, who has been awarded a prestigious Scholar-in-Residence at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International scholars in Washington DC. Daniel will undertake research on a project entitled Tipping Points: Land Tenure and Climate Mobility in Situations of Fragility, Conflict and Violence. Funded by Congressional Charter, and situated at 1 Pennsylvania Avenue, the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars has been ranked in the Top 10 of global research and policy centres. Daniel’s work at the Wilson Centre builds on his Future Fellowship scholarship on land tenure, climate change and disaster risk management in the Global South. Daniel’s most recent book – Law, Property and Disasters: Adaptive Perspective from the Global South – is now available from Routledge Press
Critical Junctures/Critical perspectives – a call for new voices in tax reform
CLARS member Dr Kathryn James hosted this online symposium in July. The event opened up discussion of tax reform to new voices and new perspectives that can challenge the status quo. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended societies worldwide. It has exposed the consequences of economic stratification with the poor and marginalised disproportionately bearing the economic impact of the pandemic, the consequences of lockdown responses and the burden of disease. In Australia, the bipartisan political response has paired massive government spending with declining revenue which will ultimately require fundamental tax reform. With taxation a primary means of addressing wealth and income inequality in a political system that is tied to a market-based economy, the stakes are high. The symposium offered the opportunity for scholars from diverse disciplines to respond to the issues. Click on the link above for more information.