This paper analyzes the literature on industrial citizenship and unpacks its meaning through a process of categorisation. These categories are, aspirational citizenship, explanatory citizenship, welfare citizenship and global citizenship. The writings of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Harold Lasky,...

A decade ago, leading arbitration institutions and practitioners responded to growing concerns about burgeoning costs and delays in international commercial arbitration ("ICA") partly through some considerable changes to Arbitration Rules. Nowadays, however, disquiet has re-emerged especially...

Under the auspices of the World Bank, "Doing Business" reports have been issued in relation to business activity in economies around the world in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. The Reports focus on business regulation by looking at regulations that enhance and constrain business activity. In order...

This article examines an attempt by the Australian Government in 2011-12 to restrict the import into Australia of timber products logged illegally in foreign states. The Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill pursues Australia’s interests in environmental protection (including sustainability,...

This article assesses Australia’s approach to the development and implementation of international law addressing transnational and domestic terrorism. It first considers Australia’s engagement with treaties dealing with terrorism since the 1960s to the present, and earlier efforts by the...

The paper considers 'Counterterrorism in the United Kingdom' with reference to events in 2017. While exit from Europe dominated British politics during 2017, the UK’s terrorism landscape grew closer to that of continental Europe because of several mass-casualty terrorist attacks that were very...

This article analyses the treatment of fiscally transparent entities (partnerships, trusts, check-the-box entities, etc) and their income under Australian tax treaties after the commencement of the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and...

The RCF case raises a number of issues in relation to the principles in the OECD Partnership Report on the application of tax treaties to hybrid entities. The judgments do not finally settle the status of those principles in Australia but they point more to approval of the principles than...

This paper outlines the historical evolution of Australia's foreign direct investment (FDI) regulation generally, under national law and more recently bilateral investment treaties (BITs) or investment chapters of free trade agreements (FTAs). This sets the stage for closer analysis of the...

As in some developing countries and more recently some developed countries worldwide and in the Asian region, Australia has faced significant internal opposition and public debate especially over treaty-based investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). As outlined in Part II(1), concerns have...