Let's Talk About Corporations: A New Series of Boardroom Conversations 2023
2023-02-02 17:00 - 18:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Law Lounge, Level 1
Let’s Talk About Corporations: A New Series of Boardroom Conversations 2023
Hybrid Event
Launch Event
Join us as we launch â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’: A New Series of Boardroom Conversations 2023, featuring a keynote address byÂ Professor Rod Sims AOÂ (Crawford School of Public Police, Australian National University). This new seminar series is a collaboration between academics at the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland and will provide a unique forum for academia, industry, and regulatory agencies to come together to explore current trends in corporate accountability and regulation.
The seminar series will consider the myriad forms of modern corporate wrongdoing and investigate current trends in corporate accountability and regulation, such as the shift from individual to corporate responsibility, the emergence of hybrid civil penalties, and the growing focus on â€˜soft law’ and CSG/ESG norms in redefining corporate culture and practice. It will also identifies new and emerging regulatory mechanisms and strategies to prevent and remediate harms caused by corporations. The seminars and workshops in the series will provide a forum to explore these trends and challenge perspectives in a closed invitation-only format by leading academics, practitioners and policy makers. Through this dialogue – bringing together principled and pragmatic perspectives – the series aims to inform research, share insights, and promote better informed public policy and debate about how we understand the nature of responsive regulation of the â€˜body corporate’ in the early decades of the 21st century.
We look forward to welcoming you to the launch, and to your continued involvement in the seminar series throughout 2023.
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Thursday 2 February, 2023
Time:Â 5-6.30pm (Keynote address from 5-5.45pm, followed by a cocktail reception)
Venue:Â New Law Building (F10), Law Lounge, Level 1, University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus)
This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

2023 George Winterton Memorial Lecture
2023-02-17 17:30 - 18:45 | Supreme Court of NSW
2023 George Winterton Memorial Lecture: Judicial review of legislative and executive action – acceptance and resentment – lessons from a comparative perspective.
Speaker:Â The Honourable Susan Kiefel AC, Chief Justice of Australia

In-person event
The George Winterton Memorial Lecture was established to commemorate the outstanding and lasting contribution of Professor George Winterton to constitutional law scholarship and teaching.
About the Lecture
The 2023 Winterton Lecture examines the reaction to recent decisions of the courts of the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Australia in controversial matters from the governments of the day and politicians. Historically, there has been a general acceptance of the need for judicial review and the role of the courts in undertaking it. It enquires whether there is evident change in the acceptance of the decisions of the courts as authoritative and whether there may be other impacts on the courts. Immediately following the Lecture, there will be a reception in the Foyer of the Banco Court at which the 5th edition of Winterton’s Australian Federal Constitutional Law will be launched by the Hon A S Bell, Chief Justice of New South Wales.
About the Speaker
Susan Mary Kiefel ACÂ was appointed Chief Justice of Australia on 30 June 2017. Her Honour was educated in Queensland and received an LLM from the University of Cambridge. She became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1993 and of the Federal Court in 1994. She has served as part-time Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission (2003-2007) and held a commission as Justice of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island from 2004.
She is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge; a Doctor of the University of Griffith University; an LLD (honoris causa) from the Universities of Queensland and Adelaide; an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn; an Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Hong Kong, and a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. In 2011, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia.
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Date: Friday 17 February 2023
Time: 5.30-6.45pm AEDT (Registration from 5pm, cocktail reception to follow lecture at 6.45pm together with the launch of the 5th Edition of Winterton’s Australia Federal Constitutional Law.)
Venue: Banco Court, Supreme Court of New South WalesÂ ,184 Phillip Street, Sydney.
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George Winterton Memorial Fund
Friends and colleagues of the late Professor George Winterton are invited to make a gift to the Memorial Fund named in his honour. Gifts to the Fund will support activities at Sydney Law School in the area of Constitutional Law in memory of Professor Winterton and the continuation of his work. For further information or to make your gift, please contactÂ Professor Peter Gerangelos, Convenor of the Winterton Memorial Fund and Winterton Lecture Series onÂ peter.gerangelos@sydney.edu.au.

This lecture is proudly hosted by The University of Sydney Law School and The University of Western Australia Law School.

The Ross Parsons Tax Lecture - Professor Graeme Cooper
2023-03-08 17:30 - 20:30
The Ross Parsons Tax Lecture
Income Taxation: An Institution in Decay – Still
In 1986, on the eve of his retirement from Sydney Law School, Ross Parsons published a famous paper giving his caustic assessment of the body of law which had occupied so much of his professional life. Also on the eve of his retirement, Professor Graeme Cooper revisits that paper. Was Parsons right? Has anything changed in the last 30 years? Are things actually getting worse?
Professor Graeme Cooper
Graeme Cooper is retiring as Professor of Taxation Law at the University of Sydney after 31 years’ teaching in the Law School. He was formerly Professor of Taxation Law at Melbourne Law School, has been a visiting professor at Harvard, NYU, Virginia, Tilburg and KU Leuven, and also taught at Osgoode Hall and the University of British Columbia.
He has published extensively in Australia and overseas. His work has been cited by the High Court and Federal Court, and influenced the introduction of several legislative reforms.
He has worked on tax assistance projects for the United Nations, the World Bank, ASEAN, the IMF, the OECD and several foreign governments. In Australia, he has been engaged by Australian Treasury, the Australian Taxation Office, Australian National Audit Office and the Board of Taxation, and been consulted by community organisations including ACOSS, the Central Land Council, the Environmental Defender’s Office and the ALP.
He has worked in private practice as a consultant for Freehills since 1992 – first, for Greenwoods & Freehills, and now for Herbert Smith Freehills.
Rescheduled: Wednesday 8 March 2023
Cost:Â Free
Time: 5.30pm registration for 5.45-7pm lecture, followed by a cocktail reception until 8.30pm.
Location: Nelson Meers Foundation Auditorium, Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, Camperdown.
Register here – this event is now full (register to be placed on a wait list)
This event is hosted by the Ross Parsons Centre at The University of Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Small business restructuring: The US experience
2023-03-21 08:00 - 09:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Small business restructuring: The US experience
Online event
This webinar will consider the SME restructuring reforms introduced in 2020 in SubChapter V of Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code. The presenter will examine how the recent reforms have performed and compare this experience with other small business restructuring provisions under Chapter 11. The session will also discuss the Australian experience with SME restructuring.
Speakers
Presenter: Prof Brook Gotberg (Francis R. Kirkham Professor of Law, Brigham Young University, Utah USA)
Professor Gotberg teaches Bankruptcy, Contracts, Secured Transactions and other commercial law subjects at BYU Law in the United States. Professor Gotberg’s scholarship focuses primarily on debtor and creditor relations, both in and out of bankruptcy. She has published articles on the impact of bankruptcy provisions on small and medium-sized enterprises, the treatment of preferential transfers in the bankruptcy code, and more generally on the laws and policies shaping business reorganization in the United States.
Commentator: Mark Robinson (dVT Group)
Mark has over 25 years experience in turnaround and insolvency, strategy, operations and risk management. Mark is a registered liquidator and registered bankruptcy trustee and is a former president of ARITA and former president of INSOL International.
Chair: Dr Jason Harris (Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School)
Tuesday 21 March, 8am AEDT

This event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney.

CBA and Crown Casino: Tales of Risk Governance Failures
2023-04-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
Let’s Talk About Corporations: CBA and Crown Casino: Tales of Risk Governance Failures
In-person event
In this presentation Dr Vicky Comino reflects on the regulatory treatment of the CBA and Crown Casino and examines the challenges of addressing financial crime in corporate settings. She uses the investigations into the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Crown Casino as case studies to consider the link between organisational culture, wrongdoing and regulatory treatment with a view to drawing out lessons for regulators and other sectors beyond banking and gaming.
Mr Jamie Kelly joins Dr Comino to reflect on what â€˜good’ risk governance looks like, drawing on global regulatory experiences in risk culture, compliance and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF).
About the speakers
Dr Vicky Comino
Dr Vicky CominoÂ has enjoyed a long career as an academic in the Law School at the University of Queensland. Vicky teaches corporate law and is recognized as a leading corporate law scholar. Her book,Â Australia’s â€˜Company Law Watchdog’: ASIC and Corporate Regulation, published in 2015 is the definitive text on corporate regulation in Australia. She is regularly sought out for media comment, to present at conferences and invitedÂ to make submissions and provide input through involvement in consultation processes to government on key law reform initiatives.Â Her work has also beenÂ cited by the courts (eg, in the notorious James Hardie litigation which determined in the High Court of Australia) and in government reports (eg, the Final Report of the recent Banking Royal Commission), demonstrating her ability to produce research with real world impact.
Before joining the academy, Vicky practiced as a solicitor in a top-tier legal firm in Brisbane. She has maintained her professional links with the legal profession and with industry, including serving on the Executive (since 2012) and as Chair (since 2016)Â of a major Queensland Law Society Committee for the accreditation of Business Law Specialists.
Jamie Kelly
Jamie specialises in Compliance and Conduct risk management in EY’s Financial Services Consulting practice in Australia. Jamie brings a depth of insight and lived experience to support organisations in achieving sustainable compliance and fair customer outcomes. Jamie has deep practitioner knowledge of risk management, including frameworks, risk appetite, governance, policies and procedures, risk taxonomy, obligations, monitoring/surveillance, as well as supporting technology.Â He is experienced in navigating complex regulatory change and substantial regulatory interactions both domestically and internationally, including responding to Enforceable Undertakings. Prior to EY, Jamie was Chief Compliance Officer at Westpac, with responsibilities for compliance, conduct and financial crime.Â Jamie also spent a decade in Singapore, where he was the Global Head of Legal and Compliance Standard Chartered Bank.Â Jamie started his career as a lawyer at Freehills. Jamie holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Law (Hons).
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
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Thursday 13 April, 2023
Time: 6-7.30pm AEST (Seminar from 6-7pm, with drinks and canapes to follow)
Venue: TBA
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

Let's Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate law
2023-05-18 12:00 - 13:00
Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate law
Online event
In this seminar, Kerry Abadee will consider proposals for the reform of the regulatory architecture including the Hayne Royal Commission’s proposal for a new federal civil law enforcement body for corporate law.
About the speakers
Kerry Abadee
Kerry is a graduate of Macquarie University (Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (Honours)) and The University of Sydney (Master of Laws). She worked as a legal practitioner in private practice in the field of commercial litigation for more than 20 years and then for several years in enforcement as a senior manager at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.Â Kerry is a doctoral candidate in the Sydney Law School at The University of Sydney where she is researching corporate regulation and teaches corporate law.
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
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Thursday 18 May, 2023
Time: 12-1pm AEST
Location:Â Online webinar via Zoom
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee's corporate insolvency inquiry
2023-05-24 17:30 - 19:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry
Hybrid event
This event will discuss the submissions made to the Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry that is due to release its report at the end of May. The speakers will consider the range of submissions made to the inquiry and discuss potential future law reform in insolvency law.
Speakers
Professor Jason HarrisÂ (Sydney Law School)
Michael MurrayÂ (Murrays Legal)
Chair: Lindsay PowersÂ (Minter Ellison)
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Wednesday 24 May, 2023
Time: 5.30-7pm
Venue:Â The University of Sydney Law School, Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD points:Â 1.5
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This event is proudly co-presented by the Association of Independent Insolvency Practitioners (AIIP) and theÂ Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation LawÂ at Sydney Law School.

Let's Talk About Corporations: Rethinking accessorial liability in corporate law
2023-06-15 12:00 - 13:00
Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking accessorial liability in corporate law
Online event
This lunchtime webinar will discuss a paper by Dr Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law at Sydney Law School, that considers accessorial liability in corporate law for civil and criminal breaches of theÂ Corporations Act 2001Â (Cth). A review of recent cases will be undertaken with suggestions on how persons working within corporations can minimise the risk of accessorial liability.
About the speakers
Professor Jason Harris
Professor Jason Harris teaches and researches in the areas of Corporate Law, Insolvency Law, Commercial Law and Contracts. His research is focused on the public and private regulation of financially distressed companies, including debt restructuring, voluntary administration, corporate governance and directors’ duties during financial distress and the regulation of corporate groups. Jason’s research is frequently cited in Supreme Court and Federal Court decisions and has been cited in the High Court of Australia as well as in Commonwealth parliamentary committees and by academic works in Australia and internationally. Jason is an active participant in law reform initiatives through his policy work with theÂ Governance Institute of Australia, theÂ Australian Institute of Company DirectorsÂ and the Corporations and Insolvency Committees of theÂ Law Council of Australia. Jason has served on a number of editorial boards including for theÂ Australian Journal of Corporate Law, theÂ Australian Law JournalÂ and theÂ Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice. Jason is a former president of the Corporate Law Teachers’ Association and has previously held academic positions at UNSW, the ANU and UTS and has had visiting academic roles with Universities in England, Canada and the United States.
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
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Thursday 15 June, 2023
Time: 12-1pm AEST
Location:Â Online webinar via Zoom
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review
2023-07-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review
In-person event
This 24-nation review of social enterprise law analyzes data developed by a team of academics and practitioners with deep expertise regarding jurisdictions on six continents. Each responded to the authors’ detailed questionnaire inquiring into the relevant jurisdiction’s legal treatment of entities using business methods to achieve social good. After first identifying the key role of political, cultural and legal baselines in determining the space for and legal treatment of social enterprises, the paper explores the myriad specialized forms and certifications that have been developed to identify firms around the world as social enterprises.
Legal forms are offered exclusively by governments and relevant to a single jurisdiction, while certifications may or may not be public or jurisdiction-specific. Comparing these tools offers guidance to policymakers keen to continue evolving specialized social enterprise forms and certifications across jurisdictions. It also reveals how these identifiers for social enterprise are being used to incentivize the pursuit of social good using business methods. The assurances of trustworthiness provided by distribution constraints and regulatory oversight appear critical to support public subsidization or privileging of social enterprise. Without these protections in place, public incentives for social enterprise are largely absent
About the speaker
Dana Brakman Reiser holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she also served as Vice Dean. She teaches courses in Corporations, Nonprofit Law, Social Enterprise, Property, and Trusts and Estates. A globally recognized expert in the law at the intersection of business and charity, her work on the law of social enterprises – firms that pursue profits for owners and social good – defined the field. She has also written extensively on law and finance for philanthropic organizations and on sustainable investing.
She is a member of the American Law Institute and was an Associate Reporter for its project on the Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations, as well as a past-Chair of the Section on Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law of the American Association of Law Schools and a former member of the executive board of its Section on Business Law. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School.
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Monday 31 July, 2023
Time:Â 1-2pm
Venue:Â The University of Sydney Law School, Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD points:Â 1
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This event is proudly presented by theÂ Ross Parsons CentreÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

Let's Talk About Corporations: AI risks in the financial sector: consequences for companies and directors
2023-08-16 17:00 - 19:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Let’s Talk About Corporations: AI risks in the financial sector: consequences for companies and directors
In-person event
In this seminar, we will be discussing the use of machine learning (ML) and AI technologies to offer personalised products to consumers and exploring the legal and ethical risks for financial sector companies that potentially arise out of the use of ML and AI in this context.
About the speakers
Susan Bennett (Principal of Sibenco Legal & Advisory, Founder & Executive Director of InfoGovANZ, PhD Candidate, The University of Sydney Law School)

Susan’s focus is driving best practice holistic governance solutions aligning data, information, privacy and records with technology and regulatory compliance to achieve organisational goals. Â Recognised for her global thought leadership in information governance, Susan hasÂ deep commercial expertise on which she draws to work with cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams to add value and deliver outcomes on major projects and objectives.Â Susan advises on information and data governance frameworks and policies, including cross-border data privacy and regulatory compliance, as well as acting in internal investigations and regulatory inquiries.
Susan holds a Master of Laws (Syd) and a Master of Business Administration (AGSM), and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional – Europe (CIPP/E). Â She is in the final stage of completing a PhD thesis on Privacy and Data Protection: the role of meta-regulation and information governance.Â Susan is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia (FGIA), a member of the Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN), and a member of the EDRM Global Advisory Board.
Dr Zofia Bednarz (Lecturer, The University of Sydney)
Zofia is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, where she teaches and researches in the area of commercial and corporate law. She is also an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Zofia’s current research focuses on the use of new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, by financial firms and the implications it has for provision of financial services to consumers. She has published her research in leading international and Australian journals, and regularly contributes to government consultation processes on law reform and comments for the media. Zofia has got a PhD in commercial law from the University of Malaga, Spain, and has qualified as a lawyer (abogada) in Spain.
The Honourable Justice Michael Lee
Justice Michael Bryan Joshua Lee was born in Perth but was raised in Sydney. After graduating in arts (political science) and later in law from the University of Sydney, he commenced work as a solicitor in 1989 with a firm that later became one of Australia’s largest national partnerships. He was made a senior associate of the firm in 1992 and was appointed its youngest partner, in 1995. He eventually became a senior litigation partner and national practice group leader before coming to the New South Wales Bar in 2002.
While at the Bar, his Honour was involved in a number of high profile cases ranging from building and construction disputes, insurance cases and employment law and workplace safety prosecutions; additionally, he was briefed as leading counsel in a number of the most significant commercial actions in Australia.
Justice Lee was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia in 2017 and is also an Additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. His Honour deals with matters at both first instance and on appeal. He is also a National Coordinating Judge in the Federal Court’s Commercial and Corporations National Practice Area and also of the defamation work of the Court.
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
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Wednesday 16 August, 2023
Time: 5-7pm AEST (Registrations from 5pm with the panel discussion to start at 5:30pm, followed by drinks and canapes.)
Location: University of Sydney, Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown Campus
CPD points:Â 1.5 points
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATO
2023-08-29 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATO
Online event
The Australian Taxation Office is a creditor in almost three out of every four company insolvencies. Legislation in 1993 removed the last of what were seen as rights that elevated the ATO to the status of priority creditor. Yet it continues to enjoy rights that other creditors do not have.
In this Webinar, Adjunct Associate Professor Lindsay Powers will explain these rights and how they impact the corporate insolvency process. He will be joined by experienced insolvency lawyer and MinterEllison partner Michael Hughes who will discuss the findings and recommendations of the recent Parliamentary Joint Committee Report on Corporate Insolvency in Australia in relation to the ATO as a creditor.
Speakers

Lindsay PowersÂ (Senior Legal Consultant MinterEllison and Adjunct Associate Professor Sydney Law School)
Michael HughesÂ (Partner, MinterEllison)

Chair: Dr Jason HarrisÂ (Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School)
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Tuesday 29 August
Time: 6pm
Venue: Online webinar
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2023: The responsibility of shareholders
2023-09-26 17:30 - 19:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2023: The responsibility of shareholders
In-person event

In 1911, Justice Louis Brandeis argued that:
â€˜â€¦there is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. It is entirely contraryâ€¦to what ought to be our whole attitude towards investments, that the person who has a chance for profit by going into an enterprise â€¦ should have the chance of gain without any responsibility’.
This lecture asks whether, over a century later, it is now time to revisit that proposition. The lecture will consider whether shareholders should bear responsibility for the actions of the companies in which they hold shares. If so, is that just a moral responsibility, or can it also have a legal dimension? And, if legal, should the law simply facilitate greater shareholder responsibility, or should it be mandated?
About the speaker
Emeritus Professor Stephen Bottomley (ANU College of Law)
Emeritus Professor of Commercial Law, Stephen Bottomley is an expert in corporate law with particular emphasis on corporate governance. His main areas of research interest are corporate governance, and law and regulation. He has also published in the areas of corporate theory, corporate regulation and government-owned enterprises.
His 2008 book,Â The Constitutional Corporation: Rethinking Corporate GovernanceÂ was awarded the Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize for outstanding piece of socio-legal scholarship in the same year. Amongst his publications, Stephen is the co-author ofÂ Contemporary Australian Corporate LawÂ (2018, Cambridge University Press),Â Law in ContextÂ (2011, 4th edn, Federation Press), andÂ Directing the Top 500 – Corporate Governance and Accountability in Australian CompaniesÂ (1993, Allen and Unwin). Stephen’s articleÂ â€œThe Notional Legislator: The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Role as a Law-Makerâ€Â (2011)Â 39 Federal Law Review 1, was awarded the 2011 Zines Prize for Excellence in Legal Research.
In 2021 Stephen was awarded the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Legal Research Medal in the 2020 Australian Legal Research Awards.
Stephen was Dean of the ANU College of Law from 2013 to 2017, prior to which he held positions as Head of School and Deputy Dean in the College.
Stephen is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a former President of the Corporate Law Teachers Association (now the Society of Corporate Law Academics).
Commentator: Rebecca Lim (Strategic Consultant, Gilbert + Tobin and Practitioner-in-Residence, Sydney Law School)
Rebecca is a strategic consultant at G&T in Sydney particularly in the areas of financial services, digital, ESG and Board advisory services. Rebecca was the General Counsel for Westpac for 10 years and worked in a variety of senior roles within with the Westpac Group for 20 years.
Chair: Dr Jason HarrisÂ (Professor of Corporate Law and Director of the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law, Sydney Law School)

Tuesday 26 September, 2023
Time:Â 5.30-7pm
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10)

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation LawÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Law Reform & The PPSA: Why We Should Delete s 267 and Corporations Act s 588FL
2023-10-03 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Law Reform & The PPSA: Why We Should Delete s 267 andÂ Corporations ActÂ s 588FL
Online event
The Government’s response to the Statutory Review of the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (â€˜PPSA’) has been released, including an Exposure Draft containing its proposed amendments. We are currently within an eight-week consultation period closing on 17 November 2023, which makes this an opportune time to discuss reforms to improve the operation of the PPSA.
This seminar concerns s 267 of the PPSA and s 588FL of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), which are termed the â€˜vesting provisions’. The former provides that an unperfected security interest â€˜vests in the grantor’ upon the occurrence of specified events indicating the grantor’s insolvency. The latter provides that, where a security interest is perfected only by registration and the grantor is a company, that security interest â€˜vests in the company’ upon the occurrence of specified events indicating the company’s insolvency if the registration time is outside one of several time periods. Much of the debate concerning these provisions thus-far has focused on s 588FL due to its more stringent timing requirements, and there seemed to be consensus that this provision is unnecessary and should be deleted. Surprisingly however, the Government proposed retaining it in its recent response to the Statutory Review of the PPSA.
In this seminar I will take a step back from the debate specifically concerning s 588FL, and consider the broader question of what the vesting provisions seek to achieve in the first place. First, I will identify their commercial significance by considering when they lead to different outcomes than those which would occur anyway under other provisions of the PPSA. Secondly, I will identify the purported policy objectives underlying the vesting provisions, and argue that none of these sufficiently explain their operation. Thirdly, I will identify the costs of retaining these provisions, and argue that these cannot be satisfactorily addressed through more discrete amendments to their scope. This leads me to conclude that, while it may at first appear to be a radical solution, we should delete both s 267 and s 588FL.
About the speakers
Adam Waldman
Adam WaldmanÂ is the Colin Phegan Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. His field of research is commercial law, with a particular focus on theÂ Personal Property Securities Act 2009Â (Cth) (â€˜PPSA’) and, more generally, on the relationship between statute and the general law. Adam is also a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney Law School, and his ongoing doctoral research examines the interaction between equity and the PPSA through the lens of the notion of unconscionability.
Adam teaches in Equity, Introduction to Property and Commercial Law, Torts and Contracts II, and Legal Reasoning. He is also a lecturer for the Legal Profession Admission Board’s Diploma in Law, where he lectures on personal property in Commercial Transactions.
Adam has previously worked at a boutique law firm, as a research assistant to counsel in chambers and as a research assistant to a former Supreme Court judge. He has also worked as a researcher at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, in the areas of insolvency, corporations law, and banking and financial law.
Commentator: Tony Ryan (Consultant, Ashurst)
Tony Ryan is a consultant in the restructuring, insolvency and special situations practice of Ashurst’s Sydney Office. Tony advises on all aspects of corporate insolvency and restructuring law, including voluntary administration, deeds of company arrangement, schemes of arrangement, receivership and liquidations and has been involved in a number of significant cross-border matters including acting as lead partner on the liquidation of MF Global, a major global financial services and derivatives broker group and one of the largest and most complicated bankruptcies in corporate history, and the liquidation of HIH Insurance Limited, a major insurance company with assets worldwide and the largest corporate insolvency in Australia. Tony is the NSW co-chair of the Insolvency and Restructuring Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council. Tony also lectures in insolvency and corporate finance law for Sydney Law School.
Chair: Dr Jason Harris (Professor of Corporate Law and Director of the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School)

Tuesday 3 October, 6-7pm AEST
CPD points:Â 1
This event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney.

Let's Talk About Corporations | "Bid-rigging", cartel regulation, and public procurement: a comparative perspective from Switzerland
2023-10-12 12:00 - 13:00
Let’s Talk About Corporations | â€œBid-riggingâ€, cartel regulation, and public procurement: a comparative perspective from Switzerland
Online event
This seminar provides aÂ comparative perspective on cartel regulation, focused on theÂ Swiss framework.Â The presentation providesÂ a brief overview of the effects that cartels can have on competition,Â followed by a careful examination of theÂ different legislative measures the Swiss legal system has taken to tackle cartels, enriched with current examplesÂ from practice. The focus lies on cartels that areÂ formedÂ in the context of public procurement proceduresÂ -Â so-called â€œbid-riggingâ€.
About the speakers
Leandra Diem
Leandra Diem holds a master’s degree in law, which she obtained from the Universities of Lucerne (Switzerland) and Paris Nanterre (France). After an internship at the Swiss Competition Commission and the commercial court of Bern (Switzerland), she is now a Research Assistant and PhD Candidate of the University of Lucerne (Switzerland). Her research focuses on Public Economic Law, especially on Antitrust and Public Procurement Law. Her doctoral research focuses on bid-rigging from a public procurement law perspective. She is currently a visiting research scholar at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, where she is examining comparative aspects of law.
Discussant: Dr Barbora Jedlickova
Dr BarboraÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â is a Senior Lecturer and Fellows of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law and the Australian Centre for Private Law in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland in Australia. She is a member of theÂ Law Council of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Committee. DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â holds degrees from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom (PhD in Law, 2012; and LL.M. with Commendation in InternationalÂ Competition Law and Policy, 2007) and from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic (Master Degree in Law and Legal Studies, 2004).
DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â specialises in competition lawÂ with principal research interests in competition-law theories, competition law in the digital economy and comparative competition law. Her research has focused on various topics, including cartels, anticompetitive agreements and AI, exclusionary conduct, vertical restraints, bargaining power, and economic and jurisprudential theories and arguments in competition law. Her research also includes the analysis of specific markets with distinctive issues, such the grocery retail market and the pharmaceutical market. She has published both internationally and nationally.Â DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â has been a visiting scholar at the University of Iowa, Boston University and the Court of Justice of the European Union. She has been an Australian reporter for the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) for five international LIDC projects. She has served asÂ an Editor of the Oceania Column of Competition Policy International (2019-2023) andÂ as a General Editor of theÂ LAWASIA JournalÂ (2014).
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
Find out more about the series.
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Thursday 12 October, 2023
Time: 1-2pm AEDT
Location:Â Online webinar via Zoom
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

**CANCELLED** Let's Talk About Corporations | Monetary sanctions against corporations: options for reform
2023-11-08 13:00 - 14:00
**This event has been cancelled.**
Let’s Talk About Corporations | Monetary sanctions against corporations: options for reform
Hybrid event
Monetary sanctions are the main method of punishing corporations for breaching the law. They are a mainstay of enforcement in many areas, including competition and consumer law, securities and investment law, environment law, bribery and corruption, privacy, and money-laundering. In this presentation, Professor Brent Fisse and Dr Radha Ivory examine the utility of these sanctions, with particular focus on the ALRC recommendations in the Final Report on corporate criminal liability (2020) and the escalation of maximum penalties under the Treasury Laws Amendment (More Competition, Better Prices) Act 2022 (Cth).
About the speakers
Professor Brent FisseÂ
Brent Fisse is the principal of 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.
He is the co-author (with Caron Beaton-Wells) ofÂ Australian Cartel RegulationÂ (2011) and the author of various books and papers on competition law and corporate regulation.
Dr Radha IvoryÂ
Dr Radha Ivory is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Queensland, Australia (UQ), where she teaches company law and researches the transnational regulation of corruption and corporate crime. Radha’s work has been published by leading university presses and with leading law journals. Her current projects include studies of efforts to reform economic crime laws, including the international rules on corporate settlements in foreign bribery cases.
Chair: Dr BarboraÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡
Dr BarboraÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â is a Senior Lecturer and Fellow of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law and the Australian Centre for Private Law in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland in Australia. DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â specialises in competition lawÂ with principal research interests in competition-law theories, competition law in the digital economy and comparative competition law. She has published both internationally and nationally, and hasÂ been a visiting scholar at the University of Iowa, Boston University and the Court of Justice of the European Union. She has also been an Australian reporter for the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) for five international LIDC projects and has served asÂ an Editor of the Oceania Column of Competition Policy International (2019-2023) andÂ as a General Editor of theÂ LAWASIA JournalÂ (2014).Â DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â is a member of theÂ Law Council of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Committee.
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
Find out more about the series.
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Wednesday 8 November, 2023
Time: 1-2pm AEDT (12-1pm AEST)
In-person venue: Law School Board Room (W353), Level 3, Forgan Smith Building, The University of Queensland, St Lucia
Online:Â Zoom
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Comparing Australia's insolvent trading regime with New Zealand's reckless trading regime
2023-11-08 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Comparing Australia’s insolvent trading regime with New Zealand’s reckless trading regime
Online event
This webinar will discuss the current state of insolvent trading law reform in Australia and contrast this with the reckless trading in New Zealand by discussing the recent NZSC decision in Yan v Mainzeal Property and Construction Ltd (in liq) [2023] NZSC 113.
Speakers

Dr Jason HarrisÂ (Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School)
Mark WellardÂ (Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University)
Natasha McHattanÂ (Lawyer & Consultant in Insolvency, Restructuring & Commercial Disputes)

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Wednesday 8 November
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Online webinar
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Navigating the Consumer Data Right: A Business Perspective
2023-11-28 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Navigating the Consumer Data Right: A Business Perspective
Online event
The introduction of the Consumer Data Right (â€˜CDR’) in Australia in 2019 heralds a new era in data governance, with profound implications for businesses across various sectors. This world-leading initiative holds the potential to inject much-needed competition into key sectors of the economy and reinvigorate a waning commercial morality. However, like most transformative innovations, it is not without its challenges. One pressing concern is the need to safeguard consumer data rigorously, without imposing regulatory burdens that might discourage new market entrants. The impact of CDR on businesses is multi-faceted, depending on whether a business assumes the role of â€˜a consumer’, â€˜a data holder’, or â€˜a data recipient’ (accredited or not). This webinar explores the complex landscape of the CDR from a business perspective, shedding light on the challenges and opportunities that arise for entities engaged in this transformative journey.
Speakers

Presenter: Dr Natalia Jevglevskaja, Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
Commentator: Alysia Abeyratne, Senior Manager, Digital Policy, DD&A | National Australia Bank Limited
Chair: Dr Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School

About the presenter
Natalia is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Justice of the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney, Australia) and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. As a member of the Australian Research Council Laureate ProjectÂ â€˜The Financial Data Revolution: Seizing the Benefits, Controlling the Risks’, she looks at how data and technology are transforming financial services in Australia and abroad and what measures may be required in the area of data and technology governance to facilitate innovation in finance. Natalia’s research on the Consumer Data Right (â€˜CDR’) can be accessedÂ here. The most recent analysis of the CDR and its potential impact on similar regimes evolving worldwide may soon be found in a monograph with Routledge (Anton Didenko, Natalia Jevglevskaja and Ross Buckley,Â Customer Data Sharing Frameworks: Twelve Lessons for the WorldÂ (2024, forthcoming)).
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Tuesday 28 November
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Online webinar
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.

John Emerson Oration and CLAANZ Annual Lecture: Statutory Eucalypts in the Law of Charity
2023-11-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
John Emerson Oration and CLAANZ Annual Lecture: Statutory Eucalypts in the Law of Charity
Hybrid event
The Law Council of Australia Legal Practice Section’s Charities and Not-for-Profit Committee, the Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (CLAANZ) and the University of Sydney Law School will host the fourth John Emerson Oration and CLAANZ Annual Lecture in Sydney on 29 November 2023. The Oration will be delivered by the Hon Justice Mark Leeming, New South Wales Court of Appeal and Challis Lecturer in Equity Sydney Law School, on â€˜Statutory Eucalypts in the Law of Charity’. The address will focus on the often hidden interaction between statute law and equity as it relates to the law of charity.
About the John Emerson OrationÂ

The John Emerson Oration is in honour of John Emerson AM. John has retired from Herbert Smith Freehills, where he was a partner for almost four decades. John is a Member of the Order of Australia for services to law and to the community, particularly through the provision of advice to charities and not-for-profit organisations and the development of public administration reform to encourage philanthropy in Australia.

About the CLAANZ Annual Lecture

In promoting its objective of charity law education, CLAANZ holds an Annual Public Lecture, which is open to anyone with an interest in charity law and the not-for-profit sector. The Annual Lecture addresses key, contemporary legal issues in the charity and not-for-profit sectors in Australia and New Zealand.

About the speaker
The Hon Justice Mark Leeming
The Hon Justice Mark LeemingÂ has served as a Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales since 2013. He has been Challis Lecturer in Equity at the University of Sydney since 2004, and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Equity and the Australian Bar Review. He is the co-author of two leading practitioner texts and a casebook on equity and trusts, and has published widely in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law, equity, trusts and legal history, including his recent book, Common Law, Equity and Statute: A Complex Entangled SystemÂ (2023).
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Wednesday 29 November, 2023
Time: 5-7pm (drinks and canapes from 5-5.30pm)
Location: University of Sydney, Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Aennex, Eastern Avenue, Camperdown, NSW
Cost:Â Â Â $50Â in person & $25 onlineÂ (free for University of Sydney staff and for students at all institutions)
Student registration:Â If you are a student, please email law.events@sydney.edu.au to receive a discount code.
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This event is proudly co-presented by University of Sydney Law School, The Legal Practice Section’s Charities and Not-for-Profit Committee, and the Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (CLAANZ).

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | AI and Contracting: An EU Perspective
2023-11-29 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | AI and Contracting: An EU Perspective
Online event
This webinar will discuss the use of artificial intelligence systems in commercial contracting. This is a joint event by the Ross Parsons Centre and the Automated Decision-Making and Society Centre, both of Sydney Law School.
Speakers

Professor Teresa RodrÃguez de las Heras Ballell
Sir Roy Goode Scholar at UNIDROIT, Rome, 2021-2022
Profesora Titular de Derecho Mercantil / Professor of Commercial Law
Departamento de Derecho Privado
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
A/Prof Jorge Feliu Rey
Departamento de Derecho Privado
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Chair: Dr Jason Harris,Â Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School

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Wednesday 29 November
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Online webinar
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insider Trading, Fiduciary Relationships, and Market Integrity: A Comparative Consideration of Insider Laws of United States and Australia
2024-02-08 18:00 - 19:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insider Trading, Fiduciary Relationships, and Market Integrity: A Comparative Consideration of Insider Laws of United States and Australia
In-person event
There are a variety of distinctions that exist between the Australian and US laws prohibiting insider trading. While insider trading is prohibited in Australia under an express statutory prohibition, a broad anti-fraud provision in the US has been interpreted by courts to prohibit insider trading. Australian insider trading laws are based on the concept of an â€œinformation connectionâ€ rather than a â€œperson connectionâ€, so that any person who possesses information that they know or ought reasonably to know is inside information is prohibited from trading or procuring trading in relevant financial products, or from communicating or â€œtippingâ€ that information to another person likely to do so, in order to protect market integrity.
However, in the US, such conduct is only illegal if it constitutes securities fraud, meaning essentially that the trader or tipper has breached a fiduciary duty of disclosure owed either to the source of the information or to the shareholders of the securities issuer. The differing treatment of â€œtippersâ€ and â€œtippeesâ€ in these two jurisdictions are discussed, the varying factors that are emphasised when determining the severity of the conduct of engaging in trading or tipping are considered. The comparative relevance of the existence of a fiduciary or other close relationship both for liability to arise and as a possible aggravating factor in sentencing convicted insider traders is also addressed.

Speakers
Professor Donna M. Nagy, Indiana University Maurer School of Lawâ€”Bloomington
Professor Donna M. Nagy (BA Vassar College, JD NYU School of Law) is Executive Associate Dean and C Ben Dutton Professor of Business Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law.Â She teaches and writes in the areas of securities litigation, securities regulation, and corporations. She has written extensively on the selective disclosure of government information; government officials and financial conflicts of interest; and insider trading and fiduciary principles. Prior to commencing her academic career, Donna was an associate at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in Washington, D.C., specialising in securities enforcement and litigation.
Associate Professor Juliette Overland, University of Sydney Business School
Associate Professor Juliette Overland (LLB (Hons I) (QUT), PhD (ANU)) of the University of Sydney Business School, researches and teaches in the area of corporate law, particularly the regulation of securities markets, insider trading, and corporate crime. Juliette’s research examines issues concerning corporate liability for insider trading, the effectiveness of insider trading regulation, and the relationship between corporate governance and insider trading. In addition to her experience as an academic, Juliette has extensive practical experience as a corporate lawyer, having worked in leading Australian law firms and as the Australian legal counsel for a global technology company.
Chair: Professor Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law and Director of the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School
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Thursday 8 February 2024
Time:Â 6-7pm
Venue: The University of Sydney, Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD Points:Â 1
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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This event is proudly presented by theÂ Ross Parsons CentreÂ at Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Restructuring Reform in Europe: The Italian Experience
2024-03-14 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Restructuring Reform in Europe: The Italian Experience
Online event
This webinar will discuss recent reforms in the European Union and reflect on how those reforms have been implemented in Italy. It will provide an overview of Italian insolvency and restructuring laws, with a particular focus on reforms focussed on SMEs.
Speakers

Dr Irene Pollastro, Research Fellow, University of Turin
Chair: Dr Jason Harris,Â Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School

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Thursday 14 March
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Online webinar
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.
