New Directions for Law in Australia

New Directions for Law in Australia

Author: Ron Levy

Publisher: ANU Press

Published: 2017-09-22

Total Pages: 677

ISBN-13: 1760461423

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For reasons of effectiveness, efficiency and equity, Australian law reform should be planned carefully. Academics can and should take the lead in this process. This book collects over 50 discrete law reform recommendations, encapsulated in short, digestible essays written by leading Australian scholars. It emerges from a major conference held at The Australian National University in 2016, which featured intensive discussion among participants from government, practice and the academy. The book is intended to serve as a national focal point for Australian legal innovation. It is divided into six main parts: commercial and corporate law, criminal law and evidence, environmental law, private law, public law, and legal practice and legal education. In addition, Indigenous perspectives on law reform are embedded throughout each part. This collective work—the first of its kind—will be of value to policy makers, media, law reform agencies, academics, practitioners and the judiciary. It provides a bird’s eye view of the current state and the future of law reform in Australia.


Keeping Pace with Change: Fintech and the Evolution of Commercial Law

Keeping Pace with Change: Fintech and the Evolution of Commercial Law

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2022-01-27

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 1616358750

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This note explores the interactions between new technologies with key areas of commercial law and potential legal changes to respond to new developments in technology and businesses. Inspired by the Bali Fintech Agenda, this note argues that country authorities need to closely examine the adequacy of their legal frameworks to accommodate the use of new technologies and implement necessary legal reform so as to reap the benefits of fintech while mitigating risks. Given the cross-border nature of new technologies, international cooperation among all relevant stakeholders is critical. The note is structured as follows: Section II describes the relations between technology, business, and law, Section III discusses the nature and functions of commercial law; Section IV provides a brief overview of developments in fintech; Section V examines the interaction between technology and commercial law; and Section VI concludes with a preliminary agenda for legal reform to accommodate the use of new technologies.


Making Commercial Law

Making Commercial Law

Author: Ross Cranston

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 9780198260813

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Edited by eminent banking law scholar Ross Cranston, this is a collection of essays written in honor of Roy Goode, the Norton Rose Professor of English Law at Oxford and highly esteemed commercial law scholar. The contributors, an international group of distinguished commercial lawyers, address topics including international contracts and sales, credit and security, and commercial arbitration. Making Commercial Law is a truly international collection that will be of great interest to scholars of commercial law worldwide, and to practitioners working in the areas of finance and international banking.