CLARS Video Portal
Watch the video recordings of past CLARS events, conferences and seminars.
2026
CLARS Law and Business Seminar
Expansion of Regulation: New Sectors, New Responsibilities |
CLARS Lunchtime Seminars
Resolving labour disputes in the Philippines: harnessing formal and informal mechanisms | |
Enforcing Corporate Control Law in Taiwan: Lessons from Tatung and Similar Cases | |
Guardians of Truth: Rethinking How We Policy ESG Disclosure Accuracy | |
The Failure of the Fifth Edition of the ASX Governance Code: How the Political Economy, Shareholder Wealth Maximisation and Capital Market Changes Are Shaping Australian Corporate Governance Regulation | |
| What Sort of Person is a Corporation? And Why We Should Care Professor Susan Watson, 10 February 2026 |
2025
CLARS Visiting Scholar Seminar
Dr J Yuvaraj 'The Verification-Value Paradox: A Normative Critique of Gen AI Use in Legal Practice' CLARS Visiting Scholar Seminar, 11 December 2025 In this seminar, Dr Joshua Yuvaraj (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Auckland) examined the phenomenon of automating the administration of law from consequentialist and deontological grounds. |
Bob Baxt AO Panel
2025 Bob Baxt AO Panel on Corporate Reputation
Professor Steven Vaughan, Dean of Law at Monash University, opened the panel, with Professor Jennifer Hill, Director of CLARS, chairing the discussion. |
CLARS Law and Business Seminar Series
CLARS-LSS Seminar: Antisocial Business Models Hosted in collaboration with CLARS and the Monash Law Students Society, Professor Claire A. Hill presented her book Antisocial Business Models, and the concepts of bad business behavior. | |
Specialist Directors In this special Law and Business Seminar, Monash Law visiting scholar Professor Roy Shapira joins CLARS at the Melbourne office of Arnold Bloch Leibler. | |
In whose best interests? Directors' duties in government owned corporations Held on Monday 6 October, this CLARS Law and Business Seminar featured Michael Lishman, Monash Law PhD Candidate and former KWM partner. | |
Doing Business the Alibaba/Ant Way Speaker: Dr Colin Hawes, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney |
CLARS-affiliated webinar: Professor Bryan Horrigan
Corporate Social Responsibility in an Age of Existential Threats Speakers: Professor Bryan Horrigan, the Hon Marilyn Warren AC KC, Professor Simon Wilkie Moderators: Professor Steven Vaughan |
Joint seminar: CLARS, Green Lab
What can Australia learn from Aotearoa New Zealand's experiences with corporate law and climate change? Speakers: Jessica Palairet, Executive Director at Lawyers for Climate Action NZ In (LCANZI); Mark Beaufoy, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons; Mark Baker-Jones, Director, Policy and Regulation, Te Whakahaere; David Barnden, Managing Principal and Director, Equity Generation Lawyers Moderators: Associate Professor Anita Foerester, Director of Green Lab; Dr Steve Kourabas, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow (Monash University European Research Foundation), Deputy Director of CLARS |
CLARS Law and Business Seminar Series
Doing Business the Alibaba/Ant Way Speaker: Dr Colin Hawes, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney |
Joint seminar: CLARS, Monash Digital Law Group and Monash Business School
Digital Platform Regulation Vs. Brussels Effect? Learning From The Brazilian Example Speaker: Professor Nicolo Zingales, Professor of Law at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro |
2024
Celebrating 50-years of the groundbreaking Trade Practices Act 1974
CLARS teamed up with the Monash Digital Lab and the Department of Economics of the Monash Business School to host a historic conference, ‘50 Years of Competition Law and Economics in Australia’. More than 80 attendees gathered at this ‘birthday’ conference, held on 14-15 November at Monash’s Caulfield campus.
Joint seminar: CLARS and hosted by leading law firm, King and Wood Mallesons
Law and sustainable development - MDFI and CLARS joint research seminar
Research seminar series on 'AI regulation'. CLARS co-hosted with Monash Data Futures Institute, chaired by CLARS Faculty member Professor Chris Marsden.
The History of Business Law and Governance
The Workshop on The History of Business Law and Governance was held at Monash Law Chambers in Melbourne. Monash Law's Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS) invited researchers from around the world to share their work on the History of Business Law and Governance. The result was a masterclass for students of law, business and economics with many leads to follow. View Videos below.
2023
Sustainable Capitalism and the Corporation | |
Professor Susan Watson Dean, University of Auckland Business School | Professor Alexander Sajnovits Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany |
Professor Michael Schillig The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London | Professor Pierre-Henri Conac Max Planck Institute Luxembourg |
Professor Mathias Siems European University Institute (EUI) | Professor Cynthia Williams Indiana University Maurer School of Law |
Professor Liam Smith Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI) Director, BehaviourWorks Australia | Dr Dionysia Katelouzou The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London |
Dr Tim Bowley and Professor Jennifer Hill, Monash Law Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS) | Professor Giovanni Strampelli Bocconi University |
Professor Geert Van Calster Leuven Centre for Global Governance | Dr Jonathan Hardman University of Edinburgh Law School |
Dr Anat Keller The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London | Dr Tim Bowley, Monash Law Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS) |
Professor Brian Broughman Vanderbilt Law School | Professor George Barker University of Auckland, Australian National University and LECA |
Dr Megan Bowman The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London | Professor Morgan Ricks Vanderbilt Law School |
Professor Blanaid Clarke Trinity College Dublin | Associate Professor Gaia Balp Bocconi University |
Professor Roberto Barontini Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa | Dr Billie Lythberg and Dr Lynn Buckley University of Auckland |
| Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock (Literally) CLARS Law and Business Seminar 29 May 2023 Speaker: Professor Andrew A. Schwartz, Professor of Law at the | |
Everything You Need to Know About Islamic Finance and Banking Speaker: Mohamed ‘Arafa, SJD, Professor of Law Alexandria University Faculty of Law (Egypt) Adjunct Professor of Law and the Clarke Initiative Visiting Scholar, Cornell Law School Visitor-in-Law and the ELEOS Justice Visiting Scholar, Monash University Faculty of Law | |
| Strategies for Women on Boards CLARS Law and Business Seminar, 23 February 2023 Speaker: Cindy A. Schipani, Merwin H. Waterman Collegiate Professor of Business Administration and Professor |
2022
| Bob Baxt AO Annual Address in Corporate and Commercial Law 19 October 2022 Speaker: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, University of Oxford | |
| Competition law in a changing economy and rise of the digital era: Roundtable with four chairs of the ACCC, past and present Speakers: Allan Fels, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne (ACCC Chair, 1995 – 2003), Graeme Samuel, Professor, Monash Business School (ACCC Chair, 2003 – 2011), Rod Sims, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU (ACCC Chair, 2011 – 2022), and Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair of ACCC |  |
| Why Privacy MattersCLARS Law and Business Seminar, 1 September 2022 Speaker: Neil M. Richards, Koch Distinguished Professor in Law, Washington University | |
| The Long Term Effects of Short Selling and Negative Activism Speaker: Frank Partnoy, Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law | |
| Researching Tort Law in Australia: Emerging Voices, Fresh Perspectives CLARS Law and Business Seminar, 11 July 2022 Panellists: Claudio Michelon, Professor, University of Edinburgh | |
| The Corporate Governance Machine Speaker: Dorothy S. Lund, Associate Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law, University of Southern California. | |
| Algorithmic Collusion and the Law Speaker: Associate Professor Rob Nicholls University of New South Wales (UNSW) Business School | |
| Global Shareholder Stewardship: Complexity Revealed Speakers: Dr Dionysia Katelouzou, King's College London, and A/Prof Dan W. Puchniak, National University of Singapore | |
2021
Business Judgement and Director's Accountability Speaker: Professor Joan Loughrey, Law, University of Leeds | |
The Coming Shift in Shareholder Activism: From "Firm-Specific" to "Systematic Risk" Proxy Campaigns (and How to Enable Them) | |
The New Oil and Gas Governance Speaker: Hannah Wiseman, Professor of Law; Professor and Wilson Faculty Fellow in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; and Co-funded Faculty – Institutes of Energy and the Environment at Penn State—University Park. For more information on other Virtual Visiting Scholars visit the webpage here | |
The Lives of the Law Speaker: Ruth Higgins SC | |
The Dynamics of Shareholder Dispersion and Control in Australia Speaker: Hannah Wiseman, Professor of Law; Professor and Wilson Faculty Fellow in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; and Co-funded Faculty – Institutes of Energy and the Environment at Penn State—University Park. For more information on other Virtual Visiting Scholars visit the webpage here | |
How Much Do Investors Care About Social Responsibility? Speaker: Scott Hirst, Associate Professor of Law, Boston University | |
The 21st Century Berle and Means Corporation: A Revolution in Retail Investing Panellists: Professor Jill E. Fisch, Penn Law; Professor David H. Webber, Boston University School of Law; Professor Christina M. Sautter, LSU Law School; Dr Sergio Gramitto, Monash Business Law and Taxation; Dr Steve Kourabas, Monash University Faculty of Law and Deputy Director, CLARS. | |
So why would you want to be a banking lawyer? Speaker: Yu Zhang, Managing Associate, Banking and Finance Law Practice Group, Allens | |
Should Australia Permit Dual Class Listings? Speaker: Marc Moore, Professor of Corporate/Financial Law, UCL Faculty of Laws | |
The Google/Fitbit Merger: Where Do We Stand Speaker: Associate Professor Zhijun Chen, Economics, Monash Business School | |
The Rise of Passive/Index Investing in the Context of Climate Change Speaker: Anna Christie, Assistant Professor of Banking, Corporate and Financial Law, University of Edinburgh Law School and Research Associate at the University of Cambridge Centre for Business Research. For more information on other Virtual Visiting Scholars visit the webpage here | |
The Role of Law in Chinese investments in Brazil Speaker: Fabio Morosini, Professor of Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul School of Law, Porto Alegre. For more information on other Virtual Visiting Scholars visit the webpage here | |
Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 Chair: The Hon Justice John Middleton, Judge of the Federal Court of Australia and President of the Competition Tribunal | |
Resisting the Return to Managerialism Speaker: Randall Thomas, John S. Beasley II Chair in Law and Business Director, Law and Business Program, Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management |
2020
| Model Defamation Provision Amendments 2020 – much needed reform or missed opportunity? Chair: The Hon Justice Michael Wheelahan, Judge, Federal Court of Australia | |
| Insolvency Law in Times of COVID Speaker: Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez, Assistant Professor of Law at Singapore Management University. For more information on other Virtual Visiting Scholars visit the webpage here | |
| Global Stewardship in Practice Speaker: Dr Hans-Christoph Hirt, Executive Director and Board Member of Hermes EOS | |
| Towards a legal conception of the global value chain: Lead firm duties, liability and review of trade practices Speaker: Anna Beckers, Assistant Professor of Private Law and Legal Methodology at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. For more information on other Virtual Visiting Scholars visit the webpage here | |
| So you’ve (almost) finished law school… what next? Speaker: Alice Zhou, Lawyer and recent Oxford University BCL graduate | |
| Managing Management Buyouts Speaker: Professor Andrew Tuch, Washington University, School of Law | |
| Destabilized Property: Property Law in the Sharing Economy Speaker: Shelly Kreiczer-Levy, Professor of Law, College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel. For more information on other Virtual Visiting Scholars visit the webpage here | |
| To what extent courts can look behind legal structures to commercial realities in determining the disputes before them? Speaker: Professor The Hon Marilyn Warren AC QC | |
| Role and Effectiveness of ASIC v the SEC Speaker: Dr Zehra G. Kavame Eroglu, Director of the Master of Professional Accounting and Law, Deakin Law School | |
| Corporations and Climate Change Roundtable discussion with Noel Hutley, Barrister; Megan Flynn, | |
| A Trumpwork Orange - fair use and international copyright claims Speaker: Hugh Atkin, Barrister | |
| From Surviving to Thriving, Navigating the Journey from Law School to Legal Practice Speaker: Bob Santamaria, recently retired ANZ Group General Counsel and former Partner at Allens | |
| The COVID-19 Crisis and Its Aftermath: Corporate Governance Implications and Policy Challenges Panel 1: ‘The differential health, economic and financial effects of the COVID-19 crisis’ Panel 2: ‘The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on boards of directors and regulators’ Session host: Professor Jennifer Hill, Bob Baxt AO Chair, Monash Law and Director, CLARS | |
| The Emergence of 'Comply or Explain' As a Global Model for Corporate Governance Codes Speaker: Professor Iain MacNeil, Alexander Stone Chair of Commercial Law, University of Glasgow | |
| Embracing Independent Directors in East Asia Speaker: Professor Kon Sik Kim, Seoul National University |