Monash Law School Foundation

The Monash Law School Foundation was established in 1990 with the main object of enhancing the quality of teaching and research within Monash Law.

The Monash Law School Foundation Lecture Series was also established in 1990 as part of the Foundation's activities. Its aim is to promote teaching and research within the Faculty and to assist in the development of a closer and continuing working relationship between the Faculty and the legal and business community.

Lectures are usually conducted in the evenings at the premises of various Melbourne law firms.

Previous speakers and topics include:

The Honourable Sir Anthony Mason, former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia ("Law and Economics")
Professor Allan Fels, Chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ("The Future of Competition and Prices Policy" and "The Role of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in National Competition Policy")
Mr Don Argus, Managing Director, National Australia Bank ("Banking in the 1990s" and "The Wallis Inquiry and Banking")
The Honourable Daryl Williams QC AM MP ("Judicial Independence")
The Honourable Mrs Jan Wade, Attorney-General of Victoria ("The Politics of Law")
Mr David Krasnostein, Chief General Counsel, National Australia Bank ("Surviving the Asian Legal Challenge: Australian Lawyers Search for a Regional Role"
Professor Michael Bridge, head of the Law School at the University of Nottingham, ("Construction of Commercial Contracts").
The Honourable Joe Hockey, Federal Minister for Financial Services & Regulation, ("Competition Policy and Consumer Sovereignty").
The Honourable Justice John Phillips, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria
Professor Berna Collier, Director, Centre for Commercial and Property Law at the Queensland University of Technology, ("Recent Legal and Practical Developments on Guarantees and Solicitors Certificates")

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