Various explanations have been advanced for why shareholder protection looks the way that it does. These explanations include varieties of capitalism, legal origins and various configurations of social interests. When compared with the United States and the United Kingdom, Australian corporate...

This new book, published by Ashgate, examines how businesses manage their labour systems, and particularly how they manage the complex interaction of various factors which give rise to instances of ‘partnership' style relations between businesses and their employees. The book draws from the...

This paper presents an analysis of the inter-relationship between employment promotion policies in Australia and labour law. Surveying recent trends in policy, it identifies the role that law has played in employment promotion in the past twenty years. It then examines the relationship between...

Labour law has overwhelmingly been concerned with the standard contract of employment. This chapter explores a research agenda for labour law scholarship to engage with forms of non-standard work. It does so through three prisms: the mode of labour market participation; the nature of the...