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 …
Development of the Common Law by Analogy to Statute
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Development of the common law by analogy to statute In-person event In recent decades the importance of statute within Australian law has increased enormously. Legislation has proliferated in size, number and scope; and many of these statutes contain underlying policies, values and ideas which the common law is …
2020 Parsons Lecture in Commercial Law: ‘Negotiating Damages’ in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom’
CANCELLED – 2020 Parsons Lecture in Commercial Law: ‘Negotiating Damages’ in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom’ Distinguished Speaker: Professor Andrew Burrows, QC *Unfortunately Professor Burrows has had to cancel his Australian visit and commitments, as government requirements for visitors to self-isolate for 14 days makes the visit impracticable. We hope to host …
Law & Business Downtown Seminar: Sustainable Finance: Pandora’s Box?
Law & Business Downtown Seminar: Sustainable Finance: Pandora’s Box? Speaker: Jan Job (JJ) de Vries Robbé, Dutch Development Bank FMO Someone new to the financial markets might be forgiven to think that Sustainable Finance has always been a key part of it. These days every self-respecting bank, financial institution and fund manager has a …