WEBINAR: Blockchain and company law: an EU perspective
WEBINAR: Blockchain and company law: an EU perspective This free webinar will discuss EU Directive 2017/828 on long-term shareholder engagement, with a particular focus on and its transposition into Spanish law. The webinar will explore the potential advantages of applying blockchain technology to securities holdings systems and voting at general meetings. The provisions of the …
JSI Seminar: Democracy and the Administrative State
JSI Seminar Series: Democracy and the Administrative State Speaker: Professor Edward L. Rubin, Vanderbilt University Theories of democracy are abundant, and becoming more so, but none seem to incorporate the administrative nature of the modern state. Either they ignore it, which makes the theory a form of alternative history, akin to science fiction, or they …
Fintech, Consumer Right, and Cross-Border Regulations in China and Australia
Fintech, Consumer Right, and Cross-Border Regulations in China and Australia The rapid growth of the Fintech industry, commonly referred as ‘Internet finance’, poses great challenges to financial regulatory authorities in China and Australia. The Chinese government has shifted from a wait-and-see strategy to a whack-a-mole game, imposed strict Internet finance regulation, and enhanced consumer …
Protectors of Predators or Prey: Bystanders and Upstanders amid Sexual Crimes
Protectors of Predators or Prey: Bystanders and Upstanders Amid Sexual Crimes Speaker: Zachary D. Kaufman, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Houston Law Center In the wake of widespread revelations about sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, Larry Nassar, and others, the United States is reckoning with the past and …
“Coyote, the Cannibal Boy and the Corporation” – Exploring the Place of Indigenous Laws in the Contemporary Economy
“Coyote, the Cannibal Boy and the Corporation” – Exploring the Place of Indigenous Laws in the Contemporary Economy Speaker: Professor Rebecca Johnson, Associate Director of the Indigenous Law Research Unit at the University of Victoria, Canada In the past decade, Canadian discussions about the status of Indigenous Legal Orders have shifted from questions such …
JSI Seminar Series: Strong Constitutional Courts
JSI Seminar: Strong Constitutional Courts Speaker: Professor Rosalind Dixon, UNSW ‘Strong constitutional courts’ are courts that exercise ‘strong ‘powers of judicial review in enforcing constitutional constraints – but that are also effective in enforcing those constraints. Institutional strength of this kind, the paper argues, is also the product of both the external political environment …
Gender-based crimes in the Khmer Rouge period: Justice and Healing
Gender-based crimes in the Khmer Rouge period: Justice and Healing In this public lecture, Cambodian psychotherapist Yim Sotheary will reflect on working with survivors of Khmer-Rouge era sexual and gender-based crimes. She will be introduced by SSEAC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Rosemary Grey (Sydney Law School), whose research focuses on the prosecution of war crimes, …
Sentencing Law Reform in Germany: Public Opinion, Principle and the Lessons to be Drawn from Other Jurisdictions
Sentencing Law Reform in Germany: Public Opinion, Principle and the Lessons to be Drawn from Other Jurisdictions Speaker: Professor Elisa Hoven, University of Leipzig In her presentation, Professor Hoven will address sentencing law and practice in Germany. She will outline the shortcomings of the current law and their effects on the practice of the …
Challenges and opportunities for Asia-Pacific international arbitration – symposium
Challenges and opportunities for Asia-Pacific international arbitration – symposium Building on Reyes & Gu (eds), The Developing World of Arbitration: A Comparative Study of Arbitration Reform in the Asia-Pacific (Hart, 2018), this symposium examines more recent challenges for international commercial arbitration (ICA), especially the proliferation of international commercial courts, the 2018 UN Convention on enforcement …
Future crime problems and security solutions – How to anticipate them and what to do about them
Future crime problems and security solutions – How to anticipate them and what to do about them Speaker: Emeritus Professor Paul Ekblom, University of Arts London Crime is changing at an accelerating pace, and security is struggling to keep up. While this challenge is most marked in the cyber domain, it is true also …