Events
1. The Native Title Act 25 Years On
Date: Tuesday 13 November
Venue: RMIT City Campus, Building 80, Level 1, Lecture/Cinema room 2
Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Tickets: FREE event – registration essential here
You are warmly invited to attend the Bundyi Girri Seminar Series with Guest Speaker Professor Michael Lavarch.
2018 marks the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Native Title Act. Since that time, the Aboriginal land estate has grown to touch on some 40% of the Australian landmass over which some form of Aboriginal or Torres Strait right or title is held by various First Nations peoples. Yet Aboriginal people remain the most economically and socially disadvantaged in the nation.
In this special guest lecture Professor Michael Lavarch, Emeritus Professor of Law at QUT, will reflect on the Native Title regime, its achievements and disappointments and canvass the future developments on the issue of compensation for validation of past titles in light of the recent High Court hearing in Griffiths v The Northern Territory.
What is the Seminar Series?
The Bundyi Girri Seminar Series aims to bring together a broad range of the RMIT community and members of the Victorian community to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, histories and cultures, to ignite conversation around relevant issues and to spark change.
2. Technological Innovation in Corporate Financing: Regulatory Challenges for the Fintech Era
Date: Monday 12 November 2018
Time: 9:00am
Venue: Monash Law Chambers, 555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Tickets: Student price $80 / Full price $420 Buy tickets here
Over the past few years technical innovations in the financial sphere have transformed the way we “do” finance and the economic opportunities that this offers.
The “Fintech” transformation of the traditional financial sector has offered both opportunities and presented challenges for those engaged in the financial sector, those who rely on the financial sector to undertake economic endeavours and regulators that have been tasked with the increasingly complex oversight of financial activity since the crisis.
Learn more about this Fintech symposium.
Topics to be discussed include:
- Expansion of peer-to-peer and equity crowdfunding as a source of funding for start-ups and small-to-medium enterprises.
- Use of blockchain technology for the purposes of fundraising, for instance, through ICOs.
- Other technological financing innovations that are emerging and how these are promoting economic growth and development.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Prof. the Hon. Marilyn Warren AC QC, Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow, Office of the VC & President, Monash University [Opening Address]
- Luca Enriques, Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law, Oxford University [Keynote]
- John Price, Commissioner, ASIC, member of Council of Financial Regulators and sponsor of ASIC’s innovation hub
- Stan Roche, Senior Adviser – Financial Services and FinTech, International Operations, Austrade
- Steve Kourabas, Lecturer, Monash University Law School
3. Monash Law Breakfast: Investor Choice in Global Security Markets
Monash Faculty of Law is proud to be hosting Luca Enriques, Allen & Overy Professor of Corporate Law, Oxford University to present on the issue of investor choice in global security markets.
Hear about Professor Enriques’ recent paper, which forms part of the first phase of the New Special Study of the Securities Markets Project, explores how globalisation has affected the operation of securities markets and the challenges this poses for their regulation.
Date: Wednesday 14 November 2018
Time: 7:30 am – 8:30 am