Faculty of Law

Research Centres

Commercial Law Centre

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The Commercial Law Centre was established in 1989 as the Taxation and Corporate Research Centre.

The key objectives of the Centre are to:

  • Provide a centre of excellence for research, teaching, conferences, seminars and publications in the area of commercial law.
  • Encourage and organise visits by Australian and overseas scholars and legal and business practitioners and related professional groups.

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