Parsons

Name: Let’s Talk About Corporations: From Monopoly to Lego: Building a more competitive economy from the ground up
Start: 2025-03-19T17:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-03-19T18:30:00+11:00
Location: Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building, Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney, Camperdown campus

July 2023
July 31, 2023 @ 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative reviewIn-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 […]
August 2023
August 29, 2023 @ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATO

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATOOnline 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 […]
October 2023
October 3, 2023 @ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Law Reform & The PPSA: Why We Should Delete s 267 and Corporations Act s 588FL

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Law Reform & The PPSA: Why We Should Delete s 267 andÂ Corporations ActÂ s 588FLOnline 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 […]
November 2023
November 8, 2023 @ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Comparing Australia’s insolvent trading regime with New Zealand’s reckless trading regime

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Comparing Australia’s insolvent trading regime with New Zealand’s reckless trading regimeOnline 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 […]
November 28, 2023 @ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Navigating the Consumer Data Right: A Business Perspective

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Navigating the Consumer Data Right: A Business PerspectiveOnline 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 […]
November 29, 2023 @ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | AI and Contracting: An EU Perspective

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | AI and Contracting: An EU PerspectiveOnline 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 […]
February 2024
February 8, 2024 @ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

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

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 AustraliaIn-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 […]
March 2024
March 14, 2024 @ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Restructuring Reform in Europe: The Italian Experience

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Restructuring Reform in Europe: The Italian ExperienceOnline 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 […]
September 2024
September 2, 2024 @ 1:00 AM – 2:00 PM

A new explanation of China’s patenting phenomenon with a focus on the patenting of traditional medical knowledge

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

A new explanation of China’s patenting phenomenon with a focus on the patenting of traditional medical knowledgeIn-person event This seminar will present how Dr Ben Hopper’s thesis explains why people are getting patents over traditional medical knowledge in a way that differs from (and adds to) the usual explanations for China’s â€œpatent boomâ€. These â€œusual […]
November 2024
November 13, 2024 @ 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

The changing landscape of EU competition law – Competition law as an instrument of protectionist policy

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

This seminar will discuss recent developments in European competition law. Speakers Speaker: Professor Dubravka Akšamović, Faculty of Law Osijek, Croatia Commentator: Prof. Yane Svetiev, Sydney Law School Chair: Prof Jason Harris, Sydney Law School Wednesday 13 November, 2024 Time: 6.30-7.30pm Venue: Sydney Law School, Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Camperdown Campus CPD points = 1 Register […]
February 2025
February 3 @ 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

The next chapter of IBC: Innovations and expectations for India’s insolvency framework

New Law Building (F10)

In-person event This seminar will discuss developments in India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 over the past year, including creditor recoveries of over $40 billion and major real estate resolutions that have safeguarded homebuyer interests and facilitated the completion of stalled projects, supported by innovative frameworks like the ‘Reverse CIRP’. The seminar will also discuss […]
March 2025
March 19 @ 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Let’s Talk About Corporations: From Monopoly to Lego: Building a more competitive economy from the ground up

Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building, Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney, Camperdown campus

In-person event In his 2023 launch of Let’s Talk About Corporations (a series of boardroom conversations organised by the Sydney Law School and the University of Queensland Law School), the former Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Professor Rod Sims AO called for a revitalisation and reform of competition law and policy in […]

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