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Research supervisors in Business Law and Taxation
Research interests
- corporate law, particularly directors’ liabilities to creditors
- corporate social responsibility
- fairness in corporate law
Thesis topics of current and previous PhD students
- How to both manage and cherish "nature" risk in recreation.
- Domestic Implementation of World Trade Organisation's Obligation in Vietnam: Customs Regulations in Comparative Perspective.
- Certainty of Payment and the Autonomy of third party payment instruments (other than letters of credit), a comparison of the Anglo-Australian approach with civil law countries (France, Italy & Spain).
- The relationship between good governance and sustainability in Australian sport.
- Benchmarking Australia's research & development expenditure program against similar programs of some of its ASEAN & OECD neighbours - how effective are Australia's programs?
Research interests
- business law
- communications law
- criminology, especially corporate accountability
- human rights law
- indigenous issues
- information technology law
- third world social and economic development issues
Research interests
- intellectual property
- international trade law
- trade in services
- trade practices law
- labour law
Thesis topics of current and previous PhD students
- Dispute Resolutions of anti-dumping on products from China under WTO framework.
- How to both manage and cherish "nature" risk in recreation
Research interests
- consumer protection and competition law
- intellectual property
- IT law
- legal teaching
- property and planning law
Research interests
- Asian legal systems
- business law in the Peoples' Republic of China
- corporations law and corporate governance, particularly in Asian jurisdictions
- international law and corporate social responsibility
Thesis of current PhD student
- Anti-trust law in the People's Republic of China.
Research interests
- commercial law
- electronic commerce and the law of the internet
- public and private international law
Thesis topics of current and previous PhD students
- Consumer protection laws in the context of E.Market to address consumer complaints to resolve disputes.
Research interests
- dispute resolution
- developing models for partnership-oriented workplace relations systems in the Australian context
- employment and workplace law with a particular focus on collective bargaining
- trade unions and other forms of employee representation
- the intersection between labour law and corporate law
Thesis topics of current PhD students
- Bilateral trade agreements, global business regulations and the rights of human labour.
- Regulating bargaining under Work Choices.
- The transformation of Australian Federal Labour Law: what is the future role of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
Research interests
- corruption
- organised crime
- regulatory theory and practice, especially in relation to the financial services sector
- white-collar crime
Thesis topics of current and previous PhD students
- A small matter of regulation - the emerging interface of nanotechnology and regulation.
- The non-executive director: beyond independence.
- The relationship between good governance and sustainability in Australian sport.
Research interests
- comparative commercial law, especially questions concerning legal globalisation and the transplantation of laws
- law and development issues in developing East Asia
- regulatory theory
Thesis topics of current and previous PhD students
- Transplanting Competition Law into Vietnam
- Comparing commercial law reform in China and Vietnam.
- Developing an evaluative model for prescribed powers of revenue administration in developing countries.
- Predicting legal transplantation: domestic implementation of the WTO customs regime in Vietnam.
- Regulating securities markets for development: a case study of corporate disclosure in Bangladesh.
- Transplanting the rule of law through WTO-oriented law reform.
- Domestic implementation of World Trade Organisation's obligation in Vietnam: customs regulations in comparative perspective.
Research interests
- corporate law, particularly directors duties
- corporate governance, particularly regulation of executive remuneration
- corporate insolvency law
Thesis topics of current and previous PhD students
- Studies in Equitable Defenses: Understanding the Role of Equitable Estoppel and Unclean Hands in the Post-Modern Era.
- An assessment of the mechanisms intended to reduce violations of corporate law by non-executive and executive directors of publicly traded companies.
- A model for the self certification of directors' independence in Hong Kong.
- Minority shareholder protection in Malaysia.
Research interests
- administrative law
- business Law, trade practices and consumer protection
- child labour
- corporations law
- electronic commerce
- human rights
- information technology law
- intellectual property law
- Islamic banking
- promissory estoppel
- torts law
- workplace law
Research interests
Thesis topics of current and previous PhD students
- A comparative study of the deterrent effect of punitive tax provisions on tax compliance and implications for tax policy in Australia and India.
- Reconsidering the Role of Taxation Expenditure in Australian Agriculture from an Environmental Perspective.
- 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-jurisdiction.
- A comparison of the legal and accounting concepts of goodwill.
- An international study of the deterrent effect of penalties and sanctions for taxation offences and the implications for taxpayer compliance and development of tax policy.
- Business purpose tests in general anti-avoidance rules.
- Characterisation of foreign entities for tax purposes.
- Interjurisdictional allocation of multinational banking income.
- Legal professional privilege for tax advisors.
- Optimising the balance between alternative forms of governmental tax policy, regulations and decentralized decision-making, for sustainable water management
- Tax policy and distributive justice - a GST case study.
- Taxation of branches of international banks: towards a multilateral tax treaty.
- The effectiveness of Liechtenstein entities to minimise Australian income tax.
- The interaction between tax treaties and e-commerce re-examined.
Research interests
- financial services regulation
- regulatory roles of ASIC and ASX
- the conduct of financial services including licensing, suspension, cancellation and banning
- whistleblowing, including whistleblowing in the financial services sector
Research interests
- corporate governance including comparative aspects, history and regulatory issues
- corporate groups and limited liability
- corporate law, especially directors' duties
- corporate law history and corporate authority and authority of a company's officers and agents
Research interests
- comparative labour law systems (with special focus on Asian labour law)
- corporate governance and the management of labour
- industrial relations
- labour law
- regulation of labour markets
- the regulation of bargaining systems, legal theory and labour law
Thesis topics of current and previous PhD students
- Regulating Bargaining Under Work Choices.
- Bilateral Trade Agreements, Global Business Regulations and the Rights of Human Labour.
- Tort Liability of Corporate Groups.
- Public procurement as an instrument of labour market regulation: A comparative survey (UK, Canada and Australia).
- An analysis of the precarious nature of casual employment
- Grievance procedures in the settlement of industrial disputes
- International framework agreements for the conduct of international industrial bargaining
- Legal and institutional processes for regulating industrial agreements in Australian labour law
- Republican theory as the basis for understanding the principles of contract law
- Rights of employees to be consulted in relation to business restructuring
- The historical development of Australian corporate law
- The role of government in regulating for job creation
- Trade union theory in the context of Australian compulsory arbitration
Research interests
- class actions
- compensation for crime victims
- constitutional law
- freedom of information
- judicial accountability
- legal dimensions of national security
- personal liability of company directors for corporate tax-related liabilities and offences
- rights under the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act 1977 (Cth)
- statutes of limitations
- tax administration
Thesis of current PhD student
- Benchmarking Australia's research and development expenditure program against similar programs of some of its ASEAN & OECD neighbours - how effective are Australia's programs?
Research interests
- taxation, focusing on anti-avoidance and finance
Thesis topics of current PhD students
- International taxation: future of transfer pricing principles in digital age.
- Policy and conceptual framework of the Australian taxation system in relation to small and medium sized enterprises.
Research interests
- business ethics
- commercial law
- contract law
- legal education
Research interests
- banking and finance law, particularly the law relating to guarantees
- corporate law, particularly corporate governance and law reform issues in Malaysia
Thesis of current PhD student
- Autonomy of payment instruments.
- 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).
Research interests
- intellectual property law remedies and laws of the internet
Thesis topic of current PhD student
- An analysis of the lack of acceptance of digital signatures in Australia.
Research interests
- competition law particularly the internationalisation of competition rules
- consumer protection
Thesis topic of current PhD student
- Consumer Protection Laws in the context of E.Market to address consumer complaints to resolve disputes.
- Transplanting Competition Law into Vietnam.
Research interests
- comparative law and United States law
- corporate law
- financial services law (particularly managed investment schemes)
Thesis topics of current and previous PhD students
- The Effect of the Introduction of Fringe Benefits Tax on the Remuneration Policies of Australian Business.
- Studies in Equitable Defenses: Understanding the Role of Equitable Estoppel and Unclean Hands in the Post-Modern Era.
- A comparative study of the taxation of business profits including 'online' profits in Australia and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China.
- A model for the self certification of directors' independence in Hong Kong.
- 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.
- An assessment of legal measures to prevent and deter directors of publicly-traded companies from violating corporate law: a comparative study of regulations in Australia, Canada the UK and USA, France, Spain and Germany.
- Corporate authority and dealings with officers and agents.
- Modern contract doctrine: Llewellyn's realism and the role of empiricism in reforming contract rules.
- The lack of acceptance of digital signatures and electronic signatures.
- Tort liability of corporate groups.
- 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?
Research interests
- corporate law and corporate regulation, particularly ASIC's use of the civil and administrative penalty regimes
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