News

• Seminar
  
  The Supreme Court of Victoria Inaugural Commercial Law Conference - Current Issues in Commercial Law
  (12 November 2009)
  
  The James Hardie Case - A Timely Reminder to Consider Your D&O Cover and Deeds of Indemnity, Insurance and Access
  (Sydney 5 November 2009, Melbourne 11 November 2009)
  
  
• New grants
  
  - In October 2009 Associate Professor Paul Ali and Professor Ian Ramsay were awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant for a project titled "Safeguarding the Financial Well-Being of Australians by Improving Financial Literacy: Implications for Consumer Protection Laws"
  
  - In October 2009, Professor Ian Ramsay together with Professor Richard Mitchell, Associate Professor Sean Cooney and Associate Professor Peter Gahan were awarded an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant for a project titled "Legal Origins: The Impact of Different Legal Systems on the Regulation of the Business Enterprise in the Asia-Pacific Region"
  
  - In October 2009, Professor Ian Ramsay and Associate Professor Asjeet Lamba (of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce) were awarded a grant by the Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies for a project titled “The Costs of Corporate Litigation in Australia”
  
  - In January 2009, the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation was awarded a grant by the Victoria Law Foundation for a project titled “The impact of variable rate home loan early termination fees on low income vulnerable home-owners”. 
   

• Appointments
  
  - In 2009, Professor Ian Ramsay was reappointed to the Takeovers Panel.
  
  - In 2009, Professor Ian Ramsay was appointed to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission External Advisory Panel.

   - In 2008, Professor Ian Ramsay was appointed an expert advisor to the Parliament of Victoria Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee.

• New book
  
  - Varieties of Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Employees 
   
• Latest research reports
  
  - Diversity and Resilience: Lessons from the Financial Crisis
  
  - Personal Insolvency in Australia: An Increasingly Middle Class Phenomenon
  
  - The Cost of Corporate Litigation in Australia: A Research Note
  
  - Stakeholders and Directors' Duties: Law, Theory and Evidence
  
  - Broad-Based Employee Share Ownership in Australian Listed Companies: Survey Report
  
  - Trends in Personal Insolvency in Australia
  
  - Forgiving a Director's Breach of Duty: A Review of Recent Decisions
  
  - A Report on Enforceable Undertakings Accepted by ASIC from 1998 to 2008
  
  - Should Australia Replace Section 181 of the Corporations Act  2001 (Cth) With Wording Similar to Section 172 of the Companies Act 2006 (UK)?
  
  - Corporate Governance and Workplace Partnerships Case Studies
  
  - Employee Share Ownership in Unlisted Entities: Objectives, Current Practices and Regulatory Reform
  
  - Directors' Liabilities - Navigating the Maze
  
  - Which Courts Deliver Most Corporate Law Judgments? A Research Note
  
  - Fiduciary Duty and the Market: Private Law and the Public Good
  
  - Improving the Process of Change in Australian Financial Sector Regulation
  
  - ASIC v Citigroup: Investment Banks, Conflicts of Interest and Chinese Walls
  
  - Corporate Governance and Emerging Markets: Lessons From the Field
  
  - Corporate Regulators in Australia (1961- 2000):  From Companies' Registrars to the  Australian Securities and Investments Commission
  
  - Peering Over the Ethical Precipice: Incorporation, Listing and the Ethical Responsibilities of Law Firms
  
   - Family Resemblances: The Family Controlled Company in Asia
  
  -  Unlovely and Unloved: Corporate Law Reform's Progeny
  
  - Why do Employees Participate in Employee Share Plans - A Conceptual Framework
   
• Media commentary
  
  - Centre members media comments on current issues
   
• Latest books 
  
  - Commercial Applications of Company Law (10th edition, 2009)
    (by Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan, Professor Ian Ramsay and Professor Geof   
    Stapledon)
  
  - Varieties of Capitalism, Corporate Governance and Employees (2008) 
    (edited by Shelley Marshall, Richard Mitchell and Ian Ramsay)
  
  - Expansion and Diversification in Securitization (2008)
    (edited by Paul Ali and Jan Job de Vries Robbe)
  
  - Commercial Applications of Company Law in Singapore (3rd edition, 2008) 
    (by Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan, Professor Ian Ramsay, Professor Geof 
    Stapledon, Victor Yeo)
  
  - Commercial Applications of Company Law in Malaysia (3rd edition, 2008) 
    (by Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan, Professor Ian Ramsay, Professor Geof 
    Stapledon, Aiman Nariman Sulaiman and Aishah Bidin)    
     
  - Securities and Financial Services Law (7th edition, 2008)
    (by Professor Robert Baxt, Ashley Black and Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan)
  
  - The Credit Derivatives Handbook: Global Perspectives, Innovations, and Market Drivers  
    (2008) 
    (edited by Paul Ali and Greg Gregoriou)
   
  - Insider Trading: Global Developments and Analysis (2008)
    (edited by Paul Ali and Greg Gregoriou)
  
  - Secured Finance Transactions: Key Assets and Emerging Markets (2007)
     (edited by Paul Ali)
  
  - Funds Management in Australia: Officers' Duties and Liabilities (2007)  
    (by Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan)
  
  - Ford's Principles of Corporations Law (13th edition, 2007)
    (by Justice Robert Austin and Professor Ian Ramsay)
   
  - Inside Lawyers' Ethics (2007)
    (by Adrian Evans and Christine Parker)
   
• New corporate law judgments  
   
• Recent seminars and conferences