Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock

Corrs, Chambers Westgarth

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking StockIn-person event ‘Crowd-sourced funding’ is a new form of online venture capital stock market, open to all investors—retail and wholesale—that was only legally authorised in Australia five years ago. It’s like Kickstarter, except the backer gets a share in the […]

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 […]

Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2023: The responsibility of shareholders

Law Foyer, Level 2

Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2023: The responsibility of shareholdersIn-person event   In 1911, Justice Louis Brandeis argued that: ‘…there is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. It is entirely contrary…to what ought to be our whole attitude towards investments, that the person who has a chance for profit by going into […]

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 and Corporations Act s 588FLOnline event The Government’s response to the Statutory Review of the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (‘PPSA’) has been released, including an Exposure Draft containing its proposed amendments. We are currently within an […]

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 […]

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 (‘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 […]

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 Rodríguez de […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2024:The significant origins of the modern corporation

Law Foyer, Level 2

Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2024:The significant origins of the modern corporation In-person event It is a truth (almost) universally acknowledged that the modern corporation is a separate legal entity from its shareholders. But what does it mean when we describe a corporation as an entity and how separate is the company really from its […]

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Responders Lab sessions

Sydney Law School, Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)

Responders Lab sessions In-person event Sydney Law School and Insight Exchange invite you to participate in a Responders Lab session, supported by the Sydney Policy Lab. The Responders Lab is designed to support you in exploring and building on your understanding of domestic, family and sexualised violence, and how this influences what you might notice, […]

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