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The Use of Public Warning Notices By the Australian Securities and Investments Commission – Should the Law Be Reformed?

26 September 2024

Lloyd Freeburn

Ian Ramsay

Innovation, Disruption and Consumer Harm in the Buy-Now-Pay-Later Industry

The Dynamics of Shareholder Concentration and Control in Australia

14 November 2023

Jenifer Varzaly

Funeral Insurance and Consumer Harm: Recent Reforms in Australia

In 2019, more than 700,000 Australians held a funeral insurance policy. Funeral insurance offers a cash benefit, usually between $5,000 and $15,000, to the policyholder’s beneficiaries to cover the costs...

Combatting Regulatory Capture: Australia’s New Financial Regulator Assessment Authority—A Regulator to Regulate the Regulator

In a previous article, published in the Federal Law Review, we discussed regulatory capture and evidence that Australia’s Twin Peaks regulators, ASIC and APRA, had succumbed to such...

Artificial Intelligence Systems as Inventors?

The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be deemed an inventor under patent law has been litigated world-wide. Previously, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia,...

AI as an Inventor: What We Can Learn from the Australian DABUS Case

Let me begin with a disclaimer. I am no expert in Australian law. However, it seems to me that the Australian Federal Court (FCA) has made a series of missteps...

30 September 2021

Eva Janečková

Corporations and Modern Slavery: Are We There yet?

Given the increased involvement of corporations in a wide array of activities and practices across the globe, the corporate overregulation through a plethora of legal obligations at both national and...

2 September 2021

Samar Ashour

Reconceptualising patentee rights by the HCA: Australian contract law to the rescue

For years, the extent of patent rights of a patentee after sale of a patented product has been the subject of much judicial debate. This is especially so as the...

21 December 2020

Samar Ashour

The Duality of Disclosure Law Enforcement in Australia

Disclosure laws aim to ensure the reduction of information asymmetries and the accuracy of share prices, but their success is predicated on enforcement. My recently published article (also...

23 September 2020

Jenifer Varzaly

The Use of Public Warning Notices By the Australian Securities and Investments Commission – Should the Law Be Reformed?

Innovation, Disruption and Consumer Harm in the Buy-Now-Pay-Later Industry

The Dynamics of Shareholder Concentration and Control in Australia

Funeral Insurance and Consumer Harm: Recent Reforms in Australia

Combatting Regulatory Capture: Australia’s New Financial Regulator Assessment Authority—A Regulator to Regulate the Regulator

Artificial Intelligence Systems as Inventors?

AI as an Inventor: What We Can Learn from the Australian DABUS Case

Corporations and Modern Slavery: Are We There yet?

Reconceptualising patentee rights by the HCA: Australian contract law to the rescue

The Duality of Disclosure Law Enforcement in Australia

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