Kate Waterford’s (LLM ’17) journey into the legal profession featured many winding roads and destinations across various parts of the world. Ultimately, her curiosity about the world and the human stories in it sparked a passion to figure out ways to make the communities she was involved in better places.
Diversity in the workplace has been a hot topic in recent years, generating wide-ranging discussions about its implications for law, regulations and policies.
More than a dozen alumnae from The Australian National University (ANU) College of Law have been named as finalists in the 2022 Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards.
Among the outstanding alumnae recognised for their work in the legal profession is Jorgie Gorman (BA/LLB/GDLP '05), who was named as a finalist in the In-House Lawyer of the Year category.
Adam Smith famously argued that the pursuit of private interests by individuals in markets would produce a common good – that private vices could produce public virtues. This can be set against an alternative tradition in which the market has been a corrupting influence, and which has seen the role of government as that of repressing or controlling those private vices or passions.
A team of law students from The Australian National University (ANU) has won a prestigious national insurance law mooting competition after overcoming the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in the grand final.
The Private Law Research Group at the ANU College of Law is hosting a discussion of the book 'Shareholder Protection in Close Corporations' (Cambridge University Press, 2022) with author Alan Koh and discussants, Prof. Pamela Hanrahan and Prof. Martin Gelter will comment on the book.
About the book:
When companies cause harm to the environment, inflict injury on workers, or commit financial fraud, we're used to seeing directors, managers, advisers or regulators come under scrutiny. By contrast, shareholders have been relatively safe from criticism or condemnation in the eyes of the law and conventional morality.
Are shareholders passive agents whose interests start and end with dividends, or do they have a responsibility to drive ‘principled profit’ in the context of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues?
A new textbook co-authored by two scholars from The Australian National University (ANU) College of Law aims to provide students with the essential knowledge and skills in contract law to succeed in their studies and professional practice.