Juggling multiple hats: Kate’s work toward community service title

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.

New book pieces together the complex diversity ‘jigsaw’ in corporations title

Diversity in the workplace has been a hot topic in recent years, generating wide-ranging discussions about its implications for law, regulations and policies.

ANU Law alumna Jorgie Gorman joins others shortlisted in 2022 Women in Law awards title

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.

Private Vices and Public Virtues: Market Misconduct and the Limits of the Criminal Law title

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.

ANU students turn in premium performance to win AILA Insurance Law Moot title

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. 

Shareholder Protection in Close Corporations: Book discussion title

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.

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New book rethinks shareholder rights and duties beyond the bottom line title

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?

ANU contract law scholars co-author new textbook title

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.

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