Legitimate companies occasionally find themselves doing business with criminals, wittingly or unwittingly. Past decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion in the array of criminal law and regulatory rules that govern such entanglements. These rules raise fundamental questions about commerce and society, such as: when can someone be excluded from day-to-day commercial interactions? Where is the boundary between legitimate surveillance of suspicious transactions and financial privacy?

The Australian National University (ANU) College of Law is proud to announce the appointment of Associate Professor Anthony Hopkins as an Acting Judge of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Supreme Court. 

This event is about legality and resistance; global culture and local knowledge; film-making as ways of doing and undoing law. It features two presentations and a panel discussion presenting exciting new work about representations of law in contemporary cinema from Latin America.

Since the United States’ Global Magnitsky Act came into force in 2016, multiple countries, including Australia, have expanded their sanctions regimes to include individuals accused of corruption. Now, a landmark study led by Dr Anton Moiseienko evaluates the regime’s impact with novel results.