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.
Antisocial Business Models unpacks what makes business behavior "bad." Business behavior is bad if it causes harm to customers, employees, other significant constituencies, or the broader society. The book examines the most egregious examples alongside more contested cases. Both are contrasted with idealized business models, in which the parties have sufficient information and capacity and are not contracting under duress or other like circumstances, and (unlike the for-profit school example above) any third-party effects do not create third-party burdenficiaries. Notwithstanding society’s continuing efforts to address antisocial business models, they remain a significant problem – one that may very well be exacerbated by the advent of Big Tech and its associated challenges.
As well as unpacking the concept of bad business behavior and defining antisocial business models, the book seeks to explore where there’s consensus and where consensus is lacking – to give us a better vocabulary for understanding our differences, and perhaps a bridge at least to more productive conversations, if not to greater consensus. To that end, the book considers what sorts of solutions might be most effective: some combination of “hard law,” “soft law,” structural and societal changes in business models, practices, and norms, and how these might be effectuated.
Event Details
CLARS-LSS Seminar: Antisocial Business Models
Presented at Monash University Law Chambers, Melbourne by Monash University.
Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025
Time: 5pm - 6:30pm
Keynote speaker
Professor Claire A. Hill
Professor Claire A. Hill holds the James L. Krusemark Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She is the founding director of the Law School’s Institute for Law and Rationality, the associate director of its Institute for Law and Economics, an affiliated faculty member of the University’s Center for Cognitive Sciences and its Center for Political Psychology, and a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin. Professor Hill is a member of the American Law Institute and an associate reporter on its Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations project.
Professor Hill has published numerous articles and book chapters in journals and books in the U.S. and Europe, and has co-edited several volumes, in the fields of corporate governance, structured finance, rating agencies, contract theory, law and language, and behavioral economics, including on the role of culture, personality and identity in banks and other organizations.
Professor Hill’s book (with Richard Painter), Better Banks, Better Bankers: Promoting Good Business Through Contractual Commitment, was published by University of Chicago Press in the fall of 2015. She has also co-written a textbook on Mergers & Acquisitions (with Brian Quinn and Steven Davidoff Solomon), published by West; a fourth edition is forthcoming in 2027. Her edited volume, co-edited with Alexandra Andhov and Saule Omarova, Hidden Fallacies in Corporate Law and Financial Regulation (Hart) was published in 2025.
Commentator
Dylan Glatz
Dylan Glatz is a final year Juris Doctor student at Monash University with an interest in corporate governance scholarship. Throughout 2025 he has served as the Postgraduate Director of the Monash Law Students’ Society, and enjoyed the benefit of Prof. Jennifer Hill’s teaching whilst on exchange at Monash’s Prato campus. In the latter half of 2025, he has also completed an independent research project that reconsiders the statutory reliance defence to breaches of director’s duties, altogether critiquing the doctrinal basis for court’s interpretation of s 189 Corporations Act. Dylan is grateful and excited to be co-chairing this event, offering a special thank you to Prof. Jennifer Hill for her leadership and support.
Chair
Professor Jennifer Hill, CLARS Director, Faculty of Law, Monash University
Professor Jennifer Hill is the Inaugural Bob Baxt AO Chair of Corporate and Commercial Law and Director of CLARS. Her scholarship on comparative corporate law and governance is widely cited in judicial decisions and academic literature in Australia, the United States, Europe and Asia. Jennifer has received several ARC Discovery grants and held visiting teaching and research positions at leading international institutions, including Cambridge University; Cornell; NYU; University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University. She is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Finance and EU Law (EUSFiL), University of Genoa, Italy. She is also a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law.
