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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 Fisse 

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) of Australian Cartel Regulation (2011) and the author of various books and papers on competition law and corporate regulation.

Dr Radha Ivory 

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 Barbora Jedličková

Dr Barbora Jedličková 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. Dr Jedličková specialises in competition law 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 has 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 as an Editor of the Oceania Column of Competition Policy International (2019-2023) and as a General Editor of the LAWASIA Journal (2014). Dr Jedličková is a member of the Law Council of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Committee.

‘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: 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.