| 3 July 2007
Time: 1.00-2.00 pm
Venue: Clayfield room, A134, Monash Caulfield Campus
Guest speaker: Dr Dan Ostas, Professor of Legal Studies, University of Oklahoma
(>> download presentation) (pdf, 203kb)
Professor Ostas is widely published on the topics of corporate responsibility and business ethics. He has a J.D. (law degree) and Ph.D. (in economics), both from Indiana University. A past Editor-in-Chief of the American Business Law Journal, he currently holds the Harlow Chair in Business Ethics at the University of Oklahoma.
Professor Ostas has won numerous awards for his scholarly works and has received more than a dozen awards for excellence in teaching.
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 (L-R) Wayne Gumley, Phillip Lipton, Dan Ostas and Paul von Nessen
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| His international experience includes a semester as a visiting professor at Queens University, College of Law, Belfast. He also worked with the World Bank in Eastern Europe and has lectured at the University of Lodz, in Poland.
In 2005, he was named the “Best Instructor” by the MBA students at Oklahoma’s Price College of Business.
Professor Ostas presented an informal seminar on the relationship between corporate executives’ social and legal duties. This will include discussion on corporate social responsibility, whether mere compliance with laws is necessarily sufficient and whether willful evasion of the law may be justified in some circumstances
If this particular educational activity is relevant to your immediate or long term needs in relation to your professional development and practice of the law, then you should claim one unit for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included.
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