Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock In-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 …
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry
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 …
Unpicking torts: Elements, standing requirements and conditions of actionability
Unpicking torts: Elements, standing requirements and conditions of actionability In-person event There is a fashion for thinking about torts in terms of recipes: as causes of action made up of a fixed set of ingredients. It is fashion that has adherents in both judicial and juristic circles. Typically, the things that a plaintiff must …
Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual Causes
Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual Causes In-person event Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and King & Wood Mallesons are proud to be presenting a seminar with Professor Jane Stapleton. The Law School welcomes the appointment of Professor Jane Stapleton as Honorary Professor of the University of Sydney. About the seminar In response to …
Private International Law and Voices of Children
Private International Law and Voices of Children Online event When making decisions, adults should think about how their decisions will affect children. Recent years have witnessed, in private international law cases and legislation, the protection of children is increasingly mingled with gender, indigenous issues, refugees, violence, war, surrogacy technology, etc. This is evidenced by the …
Is Sustainable Finance nothing more than “Woke Capitalism”?
Is Sustainable Finance nothing more than “Woke Capitalism”? In-person event Investor and regulator concerns about companies’ mismanagement of climate and nature risks are now a prominent feature of the economic and legal landscape. Companies have been increasingly committing themselves to an ESG agenda – making commitments on environment, social and governance factors. In the United …
JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experience
JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experience In-person event U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously maintained that “the life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.” Holmes statement suggests an antecedent question: what is the life of the law? This essay construes …
JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts
JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts In-person event In Judgment SU-151/2020 the Constitutional Court of Colombia rendered its decision on a constitutional complaint of a group of journalists. They claim that in certain criminal cases concerning possible corruption by government officials, prosecutors and judges were unsatisfyingly prohibiting the press to attend public …
Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking accessorial liability in corporate law
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 the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). A review of recent cases will be undertaken …
Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate law
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 …