Unravelling Corporate Fraud Conference: 22 February 2024 at HFW, Perth & Online
Unravelling Corporate Fraud presents and debates the research findings and recommendations of Professor Bant’s Australian Research Council grant project into corporate responsibility. Five panel sessions involving eminent experts in the field will unpick the conditions and laws that have enabled corporations committing commercial fraud to evade effective regulation. These include uncertainty and apathy over the nature and reform of corporate culture, the practical failure of existing attribution models to adapt to the reality of modern corporate actors, and the role of legal counsel. The conference will examine and test Bant’s novel model of corporate responsibility entitled ‘Systems Intentionality’, which aims to provide a principled and practical way forward for common law jurisdictions. The conference will also shed light on how this model can support the new darlings of corporate liability reform, the ‘Failure to Prevent’ offences. It offers a unique opportunity for all stakeholders, across the corporate and legal fields of practice, to understand the ethical, practical and legal implications of this dynamic research.
In person registrations will be strictly limited and will attract 5 CPD point for full day attendance. Remote participation is welcome, however only WA participants will attract CPD points. CPD points for other jurisdictions may be available depending on local requirements. A certificate of attendance can be issued on request. This conference is run on a not-for-profit basis, all unspent registration funds being donated for the research activities of the University of Western Australia Law School.
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Launch of THE CULPABLE CORPORATE MIND: 1 June 2023 at University Club of WA
The Culpable Corporate Mind (Hart Publishing, Oxford 2023) was launched on Thursday 1 June 2023 at the University Club of WA by the Hon. Justice Gordon of the High Court of Australia, followed by a panel discussion with Mr Joseph Longo, Chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, alongside a range of eminent contributors to the collection. The recording of the launch is available here.
University of Western Australia Private and Commercial Law Research Cluster/Chinese University of Hong Kong Obligations Lab Asia joint event: seminar by Professor Elise Bant – ‘Systems Intentionality’: revolution and evolution in corporate regulation – March 24, 2022, 1pm – 2pm AWST
A new model of ‘systems intentionality’ provides a ground-breaking method for identifying, and proving, culpable corporate mental states. Drawing on a range of existing legal, moral and organisational theories, and the insights of criminal and civil law reforms, this presentation explains the key features of the model, its advantages over existing models of corporate attribution, and how it would apply in a range of high-profile cases of corporate wrongdoing. The model provides powerful reasons for courts, regulators and directors to attend closely to the design, implementation and audit of corporate systems, policies and practices, as critical to issues of compliance and liability.
1 CPD point (substantive law) available.
Booking is essential and Teams link will be send after registration.
UWA Law School Online CPD Series – ‘Systems Intentionality’: revolution and evolution in corporate regulation – Wed, 09 February 2022, 1pm – 2pm AWST
A new model of ‘systems intentionality’ provides a ground-breaking method for identifying, and proving, culpable corporate mental states. Drawing on a range of existing legal, moral and organisational theories, and the insights of criminal and civil law reforms, this presentation explains the key features of the model, its advantages over existing models of corporate attribution, and how it would apply in a range of high-profile cases of corporate wrongdoing. The model provides powerful reasons for courts, regulators and directors to attend closely to the design, implementation and audit of corporate systems, policies and practices, as critical to issues of compliance and liability.
Presented by Professor Elise Bant
Booking is essential
Corporations: Artful and Artificial Dodgers of the Law -18 June 2021
This talk explains a revolutionary new approach that draws on the work of philosophers, law reform and courts to lay bare the culpable corporate mind. Simple and powerful, it provides an answer to the artful excuses offered by corporations that, up till now, have allowed many to dodge their responsibilities for serious wrongdoing. Hosted by SymbioticA, an artistic laboratory at UWA dedicated to the research, learning, critique and hands-on engagement with the life sciences.
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Culpable Corporate Minds Workshop – 13-15 December 2021
A blended events, with both in-person and online contributors, and hosted at UWA. This workshop delves into four themes:
1) Models of the Corporate Mind, 2)Unpacking Corporate Mindsets, 3) Corporate Culpability Applied, and 4) Corporate Culpability in Context
Private and Commercial Law Conference 2021 – 10-11 December
Professor Bant presents related content at this conference.
Joint Launch of Misleading Silence and Unravelling Corporate Fraud 04 March 2021
Two important new contributions to the law regulating serious commercial misconduct were launched on March 4th, 2021 by Justice James Edelman of the High Court of Australia.
Misleading Silence (Hart Publishing, Oxford 2020), edited by Professors Elise Bant and Jeannie Paterson, brings together the insights of leading scholars on the spectrum, boundaries and roles of the private law norms and principles that seek to prevent, deter and remedy misleading conduct.
The event also marked the launch of Professor Bant’s Future Fellowship FT190100457 on ‘Unravelling Corporate Fraud’. Drawing on lessons from the misleading conduct project, it aims to develop a new model for understanding and proving the elusive corporate state of mind. This is critical to holding large and complex corporations to account for serious commercial misconduct in modern commerce.
18 February 2021
unravellingcorporatefraud.com 