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Centre for Commercial Law

The Centre for Commercial Law was established in 1989 as the Taxation and Corporate Research Centre. The Centre can be contacted via CCL@bond.edu.au.
 

The key objectives of the Centre are to:

  • Provide a Centre of excellence for research, teaching, seminars, conferences, colloquia and publications in the area of commercial law.
  • Encourage and organise interaction with Australian and overseas scholars and legal and business practitioners and related professional groups.
  • Initiate and develop transnational and global links for the various programs of the Centre; and aspire to be at the forefront of electronic publishing and blended educational presentation techniques.
     

 The research and publication areas of the Centre are extensive, covering topics such as:

  • Market access issues (goods and services) and trade practices law
  • Corporations law
  • Corporate governance law
  • Mergers and takeovers by foreign owned enterprises
  • Emerging trends and needs in relation to e-commerce law
  • Financial regulations and institutions and banking
  • Uniform labour standards and “comparative advantage”
  • Human rights issues affecting domestic and international commercial laws
  • Environmental, mining and petroleum concerns
  • Implementation of international economic laws and the impact on domestic competition (anti-trust) law
  • Intellectual property issues in commercial law
  • Income taxation, capital gains taxation, GST, international taxation
  • Application of commercial laws to sports and the sports industry
  • Law of franchising
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