Between constraint and empowerment: International investment law and good governance in developing countries
In this seminar, Josef Ostřanský will discuss selected aspects of a comparative socio-legal research project on the impacts of investment treaties and arbitration on national governance. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in four states – Argentina, Czech Republic, India and Mexico, he will present novel findings about and conceptualisations of the interaction between the international investment law regime and national governance.
From recovery capital to justice capital
This seminar provides an overview of a strengths-based approach to involvement with the criminal justice system, at both an individual and an institutional level, assessing resources accessible to support rehabilitation.
Tax transparency: A panacea to curb aggressive tax planning?
In the aftermath of the 2007/08 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) the aggressive tax planning by multi-national corporations (MNCs) has been in the spotlight. “Tax transparency” is seen by the OECD, governments and tax authorities as a potential countermeasure to curb such planning. Seven years after the OECD rolled out its BEPS Project (i.e. Base-Erosion and Profit-Shifting) in 2013, of which “transparency” is one of the pillars, the question is: “Are we perhaps expecting too much from tax transparency?”
This mid-term review seminar will consider the impact of the shift to greater tax transparency on the corporate tax behaviour of MNCs operating in Australia and examine whether or not tax transparency can realistically be the panacea to get MNCs to pay their “fair share” of taxes in the jurisdictions in which they operate.
Special Criminology Seminar Featuring Professor David Best and Claire Seppings
The ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods and the School of Regulations (CRMS) and Global Governance (RegNet) are co-hosting a special seminar featuring Professor David Best and Claire Seppings. At this seminar Professor Best will present on ‘Strengths-based approaches to building justice capital in prisons’ and Claire Seppings on ‘Straight talking: Preliminary findings from a peer mentoring trial’
A different kind of weapon?: Rethinking force, nonviolence, and the protection of civilians in violent conflict
This mid-term review seminar provides a work-in-progress overview of Felicity Gray’s PhD research on the use of nonviolent actions for the protection of civilians in violent conflicts. Felicity will present an overview of her completed field work (with a particular focus on the South Sudan case study), initial observations and analysis from the data and map out how the analysis and writing phase will proceed.
