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PhD candidates


Helen Anderson (completed July 2005) Monash staff PhD candidature	Directors' liability to creditors: Fairness, consistency and policy.
Leigh Anenson supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Abe Herzberg	Studies in equitable defenses: Understanding the role of equitable estoppel and unclean hands in the post-modern era.
Barnali Banerjee supervisor: Dr Bill Orow	A comparative analysis of the underlying policy drivers, design features and design issues of Australian capital gains tax measures against those adopted in some other commonwealth countries.
Mei-Ling Barkoczy supervisors: Associate Professor Helen Anderson, Associate Professor Vince Morabito	Benchmarking Australia's research & development tax expenditure program against similar programs of some of its ASEAN & OECD neighbours - how effective are Australia's programs?
Stephen Barkoczy (completed August 2002) Monash staff PhD candidature	An analysis and evaluation of Australia's pooled development funds program and related tax concessions from legal perspective.
Mark Bender supervisor: Professor Chris Arup	A study of the use of another's trademark in search engine marketing in Australia.
Catherine Brown supervisor: Professor Rick Krever	Can the non-discrimination article provide the missing link between tax and trade agreements?
Maurice Cashmere supervisor: Professor Rick Krever	A determination of the role of the concept of a business purpose as the basis for applying a legislative general anti-avoidance rule in the area of tax avoidance in Australia by reference to a comparative analysis of the experience of other Anglo jurisdictions.
Hongwei Chen supervisors: Professor Chris Arup, Associate Professor Helen Anderson	Thesis title: Dispute Resolutions of anti-dumping on products from China under WTO framework.
Paula Darvas supervisors: Professor Richard Mitchell, Dr John Howe	Public procurement as an instrument of labour market regulation: A comparative survey (UK, Canada and Australia).
Ken Devos supervisors: Professor Rick Krever, Professor Paul von Nessen, Associate Professor Julie Cassidy	A study of the deterrent effect of penalties and sanctions for taxation offences upon personal taxpayers: implications for taxpayer compliance and development of tax policy.
Franc de Zwart supervisors: Dr George Gilligan, Associate Professor Helen Anderson	The relationship between good governance and sustainability in Australian sport.
Larry di Matteo (completed December 2007) supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen	Modern contract doctrine: Llewellyn's realism and the role of empiricism in reforming contract rules.
Robin Edwards supervisors: Dr Janine Pascoe, Associate Professor Helen Anderson	Certainty of payment and the anonymity of the third party instruments (other than letters of credit), a comparison of the Anglo-Australian approach with civil law countries (France, Italy and Spain).
Andrew Field Monash staff PhD candidature	The Australian rule against bias, and its place in international courts and tribunals.
Wayne Gumley supervisors: Professor Rick Krever, Professor Max King, Professor Richard Cullen	Reconsidering the role of taxation expenditure in Australian agriculture from an environmental perspective.
A.K.M. Atiqul Haque supervisor: Professor Rick Krever	Taxing the hard-to-tax.
Deborah Jarvie supervisor: Professor Rick Krever	Optimizing the balance between alternative forms of governmental tax policy, regulations and decentralized decision-making, for sustainable water management.
Mohan Kaushik supervisor: Dr Bill Orow	International taxation: future of transfer pricing principles in digital age.
Irfan ur Rehman Khan supervisor: Professor Rick Krever	Measuring the tax gap.
Daniel Khoury supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Dr Martin Samy	The effect of the introduction of fringe benefits tax on the remuneration policies of Australian businesses.
Paul Latimer Monash staff PhD candidature	Promoting information in the marketplace for financial services.
Ngoc Minh Thi Le supervisors: Professor John Gilleslpie Associate Professor Helen Anderson	Domestic implementation of world trade organisation's obligation in Vietnam: Customs regulations in comparative perspective.
Toan Chau Ngoc Le supervisors: Professor John Gillespie, Professor Richard Cullen	Land taxation in Vietnam: From then to now.
Vinh Thanh Le supervisors: Professor John Gillespie, Associate Professor Brendan Sweeney	Transplanting competition law into Vietnam.
Phillip Lipton supervisors: Professor Richard Mitchell, Professor Paul von Nessen	Tort liability of corporate groups.
Werner Lotz supervisor: Professor Rick Krever	Changing foreign investment and associated tax policies as a means of bridging the German-Australian investment expectation gap.
Chee Keong Low supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Abe Herzberg	A model for the self certification of independence of directors in Hong Kong.
Ling Feng Mao supervisors: Professor Richard Mitchell, S Conney	Impacts on business environment and implications for multinational companies (MCs) running business in China.
Anusha Munasinghe supervisors: Associate Professor Brendan Sweeney, Andrew Field	Consumer protection laws in the context of e.market to address consumer complaints to resolve disputes.
Vince Morabito (completed May 2002) Monash staff PhD candidature	A critical analysis of certain aspects of class actions in the federal court of Australia.
Don McKenzie supervisors: Associate Professor Anthony Forsyth, Dr Simon Moss	The transformation of Australian federal labour law: what is the future role of the Australian industrial relations commission.
Michael McNamara supervisors: Professor Chris Arup, Associate Professor Helen Anderson	How to both manage and cherish "nature" risk in recreation.
Peter Mellor supervisor: Professor Rick Krever	Regional economic integration and Australian fiscal federalism.
Sandra Miller (completed August 2009) supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Associate Professor Helen Anderson	What has been learned about fiduciary duties, the standard of care, and the need for a remedy for oppressive majority conduct in the limited liability company after a decade of experimentation?
Brian Nelson supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Abe Herzberg	An assessment of legal matters to prevent and deter directors of publicly-traded companies from violating corporate law: a comparative study of regulations in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, Spain and Germany.
Anne O'Rourke supervisors: Professor Richard Mitchell, Professor Christopher Nyland, Associate Professor Anthony Forsyth	Bilateral trade agreements, global business regulations and the rights of human labour.
Janine Pascoe (completed September 2004) Monash staff PhD candidature	Women directors who guarantee company debts: Resolving the conundrum of protection versus liability.
Mark Pizzacalla supervisor: Dr Bill Orow	Policy and conceptual framework of the Australian taxation system in relation to small and medium sized enterprises.
Prachi Sinha supervisor: Professor Rick Krever	A comparative study of the deterrent effect of punitive tax provisions on tax compliance and implications for tax policy in Australia and India.
Aashish Srivastava (completed March 2009) supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Paul Sugden	The lack of acceptance of digital signatures and electronic signatures by Australian businesses.
Carolyn Sutherland supervisors: Professor Richard Mitchell, Associate Professor Anthony Forsyth	Regulating bargaining under work choices.
Mathews Thomas supervisors: Professor Jobn Gillespie	The implications of legal transplantation: Malaysia's look east policy and the proton saga
Ian Tregoning supervisor: Professor Rick Krever	Legal and accounting concepts of goodwill.
Paul von Nessen (completed September 2004) Monash staff PhD candidature	The use of comparative law in Australia.
Antonietta Wong (completed January 2009) supervisors: Professor Richard Cullen, Professor Paul von Nessen	A comparative study of the taxation of business profits including "online profits" in Australia and the Hong Kong special administrative region of the people's republic of China.
Salwa Hana Yussof supervisor: Professor Rick Krever	Factors affecting attitudes towards tax auditing process: A study on tax auditors and tax practitioners in Malaysia.

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PhD Program Co-ordinator
Department of Business Law and Taxation
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PhD candidates

Monash staff PhD candidature

supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Abe Herzberg

supervisor: Dr Bill Orow

supervisors: Associate Professor Helen Anderson, Associate Professor Vince Morabito

Monash staff PhD candidature

supervisor: Professor Chris Arup

supervisor: Professor Rick Krever

supervisor: Professor Rick Krever

supervisors: Professor Chris Arup, Associate Professor Helen Anderson

supervisors: Professor Richard Mitchell, Dr John Howe

supervisors: Professor Rick Krever, Professor Paul von Nessen, Associate Professor Julie Cassidy

supervisors: Dr George Gilligan, Associate Professor Helen Anderson

supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen

supervisors: Dr Janine Pascoe, Associate Professor Helen Anderson

Monash staff PhD candidature

supervisors: Professor Rick Krever, Professor Max King, Professor Richard Cullen

supervisor: Professor Rick Krever

supervisor: Professor Rick Krever

supervisor: Dr Bill Orow

supervisor: Professor Rick Krever

supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Dr Martin Samy

Monash staff PhD candidature

supervisors: Professor John Gilleslpie Associate Professor Helen Anderson

supervisors: Professor John Gillespie, Professor Richard Cullen

supervisors: Professor John Gillespie, Associate Professor Brendan Sweeney

supervisors: Professor Richard Mitchell, Professor Paul von Nessen

supervisor: Professor Rick Krever

supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Abe Herzberg

supervisors: Professor Richard Mitchell, S Conney

supervisors: Associate Professor Brendan Sweeney, Andrew Field

Monash staff PhD candidature

supervisors: Associate Professor Anthony Forsyth, Dr Simon Moss

supervisors: Professor Chris Arup, Associate Professor Helen Anderson

supervisor: Professor Rick Krever

supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Associate Professor Helen Anderson

supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Abe Herzberg

supervisors: Professor Richard Mitchell, Professor Christopher Nyland, Associate Professor Anthony Forsyth

Monash staff PhD candidature

supervisor: Dr Bill Orow

supervisor: Professor Rick Krever

supervisors: Professor Paul von Nessen, Paul Sugden

supervisors: Professor Richard Mitchell, Associate Professor Anthony Forsyth

supervisors: Professor Jobn Gillespie

supervisor: Professor Rick Krever

Monash staff PhD candidature

supervisors: Professor Richard Cullen, Professor Paul von Nessen

supervisor: Professor Rick Krever

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supervisors: Professor John Gilleslpie
Associate Professor Helen Anderson