CLARS Welcomes New Members and Affiliates
The Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies (CLARS) is pleased to announce that three new colleagues have joined the Centre.
L-R: Professor Michael Mintrom, Dr Elizabeth Sheargold, Honorary Professor Brent Fisse
New Members
Dr Elizabeth Sheargold
Dr Elizabeth Sheargold is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law. Her research is primarily in the field of international economic law, with a particular interest in the intersection between international trade and investment agreements and environmental policy, including climate policy and natural resource management. In addition, she is currently working on a project funded by the Department of Defence titled Australia and Weaponised Trade: Threats and Responses.
New Affiliates
Professor Michael Mintrom
Professor Michael Mintrom is a Professor of Public Policy in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University. He also serves as the Director of Better Governance and Policy, a cross-university research initiative. He began his career as an economic analyst in the New Zealand Treasury. In his various academic roles, spanning three countries, Michael has contributed to the literature on policy design and policy advocacy. He has written extensively on regulation. His current research on regulation considers effective means to create public value through effective adoption of RegTech by regulatory agencies. He has also been collaborating with Monash designers and roboticists to consider appropriate regulation to guide the growing presence of robots in public spaces. As well as being an Affiliate of CLARS, Michael is an Affiliate of the Monash Date Futures Institute and a Fellow of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
Honorary Professor Brent Fisse
Honorary Professor Brent Fisse runs his own competition and consumer law practice (Brent Fisse Lawyers, Sydney). He was a partner of Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney from 1995-2003. He is a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on competition law and policy in Pacific Island economies including Fiji and PNG. Brent is an honorary professor of law at the University of Sydney. His publications include Australian Cartel Regulation (CUP, 2011) ((with Caron Beaton-Wells) and Corporations, Crime and Accountability (CUP, 1993) (with John Braithwaite), and “Australian Cartel Law: Recent Developments” (2023) Australian Business Law Review (forthcoming).
To read more about our members, affiliates, and PhD candidates, visit the CLARS People page.
Posted 12 June 2023