2011: NEW ZEALAND GOVERNANCE CENTRE CONFERENCE

28 October, 2011 at the University of Auckland

The New Zealand Governance Centre is holding a conference on 28 October 2011 at the University of Auckland Business School. Click here for further information.


2012: FELLOWSHIPS

Applications are open for overseas academic and
professional researchers working in taxation,
business law and related disciplines
at the University of New South Wales

In 2012 the School of Taxation and Business Law (TBL) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, will offer several Atax Research Fellowships to international academics and professionals keen to further their research in the fields of taxation, business law and related disciplines. Each Fellowship is valued at up to A$7,500.

In 2012 the School of Taxation and Business Law (TBL) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, will offer several Atax Research Fellowships to international academics and professionals keen to further their research in the fields of taxation, business law and related disciplines.

Each Fellowship is valued at up to A$7,500.

Research Fellows normally spend four weeks working at TBL on a mutually agreed area of research. During their stay, Fellows are involved in the following activities:

  • producing at least one research paper on taxation or business law, in collaboration with TBL academic(s), to be published in a refereed journal with due acknowledgement of the Fellowship;
  • conducting a TBL research seminar for interested members of the broader tax/business law research community; and
  • participating in TBL collegial activities during the period of the Fellowship.

TBL will provide office space and computer equipment at its campus in Sydney, Australia. Fellows will be responsible for organising their own travel and accommodation arrangements. The preferred timing for successful applicants to undertake the Fellowship is August • October 2012, but other times of the year may also be possible.

Selection

Selection is based on the applicant's research proposal and on their ability to contribute to the TBL research profile. A track record in collaborating with TBL academics will be considered as an advantage.

Application

Applications are invited from overseas academic and professional researchers working in taxation, business law and related disciplines from around the world. To apply, applicants must send by email

  1. a letter of application, indicating the area they wish to research under the Fellowship and their preferred timing to undertake the Fellowship, and
  2. a current curriculum vitae.

Applications should be sent to:

Associate Professor Binh Tran-Nam,
Research Fellowship Convenor School of Taxation & Business Law
UNSW, Sydney NSW 2052
Australia

Email: b.tran-nam@unsw.edu.au

Applications to undertake the Research Fellowship in 2012 must be received by 25 November 2011. Successful applicants will be notified by 31 December 2011 and undertake the Fellowship in 2012.

Further information For further information about the Research Fellowship, please contact Associate Professor Binh Tran-Nam by phone on +61(2)9385 9561 or by email b.tran-nam@unsw.edu.au

* TBL was formed on 1 January 2011 as a result of the amalgamation of Atax (Australian School of Taxation) and BLAT (School of Business Law and Taxation) at UNSW.


2011: 2011 INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CONFERENCE

Sydney Corporate Governance and Value Creation
14-15 December 2011
Hosted by the University of Technology

This is an interdisciplinary conference for management accounting, finance and law researchers and practitioners.

Corporate Governance essentially is about accountability and strategic direction. For too long corporate governance has been conceived as one dimensional focus upon monitoring, compliance and regulation. The contributiono f corporate governance to value creation is an important field for research inquiry.

For full event details go to: http://www.ccg.uts.edu.au


2011: ANNUAL BUSINESS LAW THOUGHT LEADERSHIP LECTURE

28 July 2011 - Professor Bob Baxt AO

Is the time right to reform the law governing the duties of public company directors and non-executive directors in particular?

Professor Baxt assessed the thrust of recent comments by Mr Tony D'Aloisio in which he inferred that the law increasing burdens imposed on directors, especially non-executive directors of public companies, needed to be revisited. Whilst the Commonwealth and certain State governments are starting to consider how to reform the law to limit the use of strict liability and the reversal of onus of proof regimes, as recommended by the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee (CAMAC) and the Council of Australian Governments (CoAG), these initial reforms have not gone far enough in Professor Baxt's view. In this lecture, Professor Baxt outlines proposals for reforms in the broad area of corporate law, as well as changes to statutes relying on the use of strict liability/reversal of onus of proof regimes. These proposals will include the possible implementation of a wider statutory business judgment rule.


2011: Michael Whincop Memorial Lecture

The Griffith Law School

The Michael Whincop Memorial Lecture series was inaugurated in 2004 to honour the contribution that the late Professor Michael Whincop made to the development of legal scholarship. The lecture aims to celebrate Michael’s commitment to research excellence and innovation.

In the 2011 Michael Whincop Memorial Lecture, Dr Andrew Johnston will argue that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) must be understood as the process by which corporations identify and correct the costs their operations impose on society. See the attached flyer for more details.


2011: CLTA Annual Conference

20th Anniversary Conference - 6-8 February 2011

The 20th anniversary conference was held on 6-8 February 2011 and was hosted by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) School of Law. The theme was Future Directions for Corporate Law: Where are we now and where do we go from here?

The year 2011 marks twenty years since the first Corporate Law Teachers' Association conference was held.  The occasion was a celebration of the achievements of the Association over that time. In Australia, 2011 also marked twenty years since the commencement of the Corporations Law on 1 January 1991. Over this time frame there have been significant corporate law developments in New Zealand and other Asian and Pacific countries as well. Many of us will identify changes that have occurred in the past twenty years in respect of the legal, social and economic fabric of society.

 

OTHER MEMBER INFORMATION

CLTA - ALTC Exchange

As promised I have set up a Corporate Law Teachers Association Group on the ALTC Exchange. The address of the group appears below.

Join here. To join this group, enter the registration code 7C5471-6852 on the page linked above.

You have to be a member of the Exchange to join the group and so you will be required to register for the exchange first. Once that is done please join the group as instructed above. So far there is nothing up there – but feel free to upload files/blog/post notices etc.

The idea is that this will work like a Corporate Law Professor's Blog. Feel free to invite other colleagues to join. I have made the group page public so anyone with an interest in Corporate Law Teaching can join.

Sincerely, Vicki Waye

 

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