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UTS:LAW Professional Development (CLE/CDP)

International Corporate Governance

Potential Participants:

  • Legal practitioners
  • Legal Clerks
  • Advocates
  • Professionals interested in International Corporate Governance

Course & Dates:

These courses deal with topics of central importance to the governance of the large, especially the publicly-held, business corporation. As a field of study, corporate governance deals with the rules, relationships, systems and processes within a corporation by which authority is allocated and it's exercise reviewed and controlled. Corporate governance provides a framework which shapes the dealings and relationships between directors, managers, shareholders and others with a stake in the corporation's success.

Saturday 6th Dec - The evolution of corporate governance, its central concerns and the resulting current mixture of law, quasi-prescriptive practice and social norm; comparative perspectives on international developments.

Saturday 13th Dec - The corporate objective and corporate responsibility, including the human rights  dimension of corporate activity and the place of business ethics in corporate governance.

Sunday 14th Dec -  Strengthening the function and operation of the board of directors, including the function of director and officer liability rules in shaping director and manager conduct and issues in the determination of executive remuneration.

Saturday 20th Dec -  The roles of shareholders (especially institutional investors) and professional gatekeepers in corporate governance.

Presenters:

Paul Redmond joined UTS in 2006 as the inaugural Sir Gerard Brennan Professor after serving for many years a professor in the Faculty of Law at UNSW. He is an Emeritus Professor of the University of New South Wales. He has been a member of a number of professional bodies including the Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia. Professor Redmond is a member of the Editorial Committee of International Corporate Law (UK) and the Australian Journal of Corporate Law.

He is Chair of the Diplomacy Training Program - a regional human rights training body, was a founding member of National Pro Bono Resource Centre and has participated in a number of national and international initiatives in legal education. He is also an Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Venue:

  • UTS:LAW, 1-59 Quay Street, Haymarket NSW 2000

Cost:

  • $425 incl GST  per session or
  • $1595 incl GST  for all sessions
  • 10% discount for Alumni

CLE/CPD

1 CLE/CPD point = 1 hour of participation


Registration:

Further information and enrolment details are available
via the International Corporate Governance [PDF] brochure.


Further information:

For further information on this course please contact:

Professional Development Unit
Ph: +61 2 9514 3793 or 3085
Fax: +61 2 9514 3112
Email: pdu.law@uts.edu.au