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Ian Ramsay

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Law
Corporate Law
Corporate Governance
Directors Duties
Shareholders Rights
Financial Regulation
Consumer Protection
Insolvency
Enforcement
Law Reform
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Ian Ramsay

 
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Primary Interest
Corporate Law
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Projects

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Negotiated enforcement: Regulatory power and corporate misconduct

This project aims to map and critically analyse the shift towards negotiated enforcement in response to corporate misconduct in the financia..

2019 - 2022
Completed
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Harmful financial products: analysis of their impact and regulation

Analysis of the impact and regulation of harmful financial products. This project will investigate financial products that can harm disadvan..

2016 - 2022
Completed
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Financial exclusion, poor insurer practices and consumer protection

This project aims to study financial exclusion and variations in access to general insurance, as well as insurer practices in selling insura..

2018 - 2022
Completed
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Harmful financial products: analysis of their impact and regulation

This project will investigate financial products that can harm disadvantaged and vulnerable consumers. It will use empirical research (surve..

2016 - 2021
Completed
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Evaluating Australian personal insolvency laws in the context of changing demographics and increasing financial stress

This project will study how Australians respond to financial stress within the context of Australian personal insolvency laws. A better unde..

2013 - 2018
Completed
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Evaluating Australian personal insolvency laws in the context of changing demographics and increasing financial stress

This project will study how Australians respond to financial stress within the context of Australian personal insolvency laws. A better unde..

2013 - 2018
Completed
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Phoenix Activity: Regulating Fraudulent Use of the Corporate Form

Fraudulent phoenix activity is of great concern to Australian policymakers. It occurs where there is the deliberate liquidation of a company..

2014 - 2018
Completed
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The legal and social dimensions of financial hardship in Australia: Implications for legal, regulatory and policy frameworks

Financial hardship, the reduced ability to meet monetary obligations because of loss of employment, illness or disaster, is an increasing pr..

2014 - 2018
Completed
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Financial Regulation in Asia – A New Model for Regional Cooperation

2013 - 2017
Completed
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An analysis of penalties under ASIC administered legislation

2014 - 2016
Completed

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Projects

Project Types

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Research Grant

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Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

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The Failed Attempt to Enact Benefit Company Legislation in Australia and the Rise of B Corps

Ian Ramsay, Mihika Upadhyaya

Book Chapter  |  2023

AbstractAustralia is an unusual case study in terms of the history of benefit company legislation. Unlike the history in some othe..

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The arduous work of making claims in the wake of disaster: Perspectives from policyholders

Evgenia Bourova, Ian Ramsay, Paul Ali

Journal article  |  2022  |  GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH

With its promise of protection and peace of mind, insurance ownership is a key component of Australia’s national strategy to manag..

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Enforcement Action by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in Relation to Financial Adviser Misconduct

Ian Ramsay, Miranda Webster

Journal article  |  2022  |  COMPANY AND SECURITIES LAW JOURNAL

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Australia’s Product Intervention Power and Protection from Consumer Harm: An Evaluation

Lucinda O'Brien, Ian Ramsay, Paul Ali

Journal article  |  2022  |  SSRN Electronic Journal

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Financial crisis management under the Twin Peaks model of financial regulation: Australia and the UK compared

Andrew Godwin, Steve Kourabas, Ian Ramsay

Book Chapter  |  2021

This chapter explores the operation of the Twin Peaks model of financial regulation in the context of financial crisis management ..

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AN ANALYSIS OF ESG SHAREHOLDER RESOLUTIONS IN AUSTRALIA

Lloyd Freeburn, Ian Ramsay

Journal article  |  2021  |  UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES LAW JOURNAL

This article analyses the recent significant increase in number, prominence and impact of shareholder resolutions focused on envir..

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Twin Peaks, Macroprudential Regulation and Systemic Financial Stability

Andrew Godwin, Steve Kourabas, Ian Ramsay

Book Chapter  |  2021

As the Global Financial Crisis has demonstrated, any complex system is vulnerable to fragility without purpose and vigilance. The ..

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Twin Peaks in Australia: The Never-Ending Trek?

Andrew Godwin, Ian Ramsay, Andrew Schmulow

Book Chapter  |  2021

This chapter explores the Twin Peaks legal and regulatory framework in Australia, the challenges that have arisen in areas such as..

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Is There Underenforcement of Corporate Criminal Law? An Analysis of Prosecutions under the ASIC Act and Corporations Act: 2009-2018

George Gilligan, Ian Ramsay

Journal article  |  2021  |  COMPANY AND SECURITIES LAW JOURNAL

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An Analysis of ASIC Enforcement against Auditors and Liquidators

Ian Ramsay, Miranda Webster

Journal article  |  2021  |  COMPANY AND SECURITIES LAW JOURNAL

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Commercial Law
Justice and the Law
Other Law and Legal Studies
Law in Context
Human Resources and Industrial Relations
International and Comparative Law
Banking, Finance and Investment
Legal Systems
Public Law
Sociology

News

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How 'bad credit' lender Cigno has dodged ASIC's grasp

Lucinda O'Brien, Ian Ramsay, Paul Ali

Cigno is exactly the sort of business the Australian Securities and Investments Commission had in mind when it asked for stronger powers to..

August 4, 2022
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AGL said no to a $5 billion bid, but it isn't over – here's how takeover bids work

Ian Ramsay

Australian companies are being taken over like never before. On Saturday February 19 a consortium involving tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Br..

February 27, 2022
conversation Article
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Australian companies are facing more climate-focused ESG resolutions than ever before, and they are paying quiet dividends

Ian Ramsay, Lloyd Freeburn

In 2020, for the first time in Australia, more than half the shareholders of a public company voted in support of a climate change resoluti..

November 7, 2021
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A rushed move to virtual AGMs would disempower shareholders

Ian Ramsay, Lloyd Freeburn

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg appears to have backed down. An extraordinarily rushed timetable that would have allowed investors and others ..

November 2, 2020
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A blow to the heart of the City of Light

Peter McPhee AM

People all over Australia were aghast Tuesday morning at the news that Notre Dame de Paris was ablaze. The cathedral has been at the heart ..

April 16, 2019
pursuit Article
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What 1,100 Australians told us about the experience of living with debt they can't repay

Evgenia Bourova, Ian Ramsay, Paul Ali

Two thirds of Australian adults feel financially insecure. Almost one in two have less than three months’ income saved, and almost one in t..

February 25, 2019
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Low income, no assets, large credit-card debt: why more older Australians are declaring bankruptcy

Ian Ramsay, Lev Bromberg, Paul Ali

Bankruptcy is affecting more and more older people. About 2,400 of the almost 17,000 new bankruptcies in Australia in 2017-18 were aged ..

January 23, 2019
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Debt agreements and how to avoid unnecessary debt traps

Vivien Chen, Ian Ramsay, Lucinda O'Brien

Debt agreements are the fastest growing form of personal insolvency in Australia. They were designed to offer debtors a low-cost way to mak..

October 19, 2017
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Here's what must be done to detect, disrupt and deter phoenix activity in Australia

Helen Anderson, Ian Ramsay, Jasper Hedges, Michelle Welsh

To stamp out illegal phoenix activity, directors should be required to have identification numbers. And, if they’ve had many corporate fail..

February 23, 2017
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How insider traders dodge jail on geography

Ian Ramsay, George Gilligan, Lev Bromberg

Remember NAB banker Lukas Kamay and Australian Bureau of Statistics analyst Christopher Hill, who were sentenced to jail for pocketing $..

December 2, 2016
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2023

Officer of the Order of Australia

2022

Australian Legal Research Awards Lifetime Achievement Medal

Council of Australian Law Deans
2021

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus

University of Melbourne
2019

Medal Accepted and Issued

UoM Service Recognition 25 Year Bronze Medal
2018

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor

University of Melbourne
2019

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

2016

FAAL - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary Supervisor

Law

Member

New York Bar

Lawyer

Supreme Court of New South Wales

Education

Master of Laws

Harvard University

Bachelor of Arts

Macquarie University

Bachelor of Laws

Macquarie University

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