Professor Roman Tomasic

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Professor Tomasic has been successful in winning research funds from funding bodies such as the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Criminology Research Council (CRC), AusAiD, the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust (UK). His current research is examining the governance practices of Chinese State Owned Enterprises.

Professor Tomasic's research interests have a strong empirical dimension and broadly involve theoretical and policy issues in Australian, British and East Asian corporate and commercial law. His funded research projects have highlighted many of these research interests.

(i) INSIDER TRADING/ Insider Dealing - originally funded by a Criminology Research Council grant;

(ii) COMPANY TAKEOVERS and the Takeover Process - originally funded as an Australian Research Grants Scheme Large project;

(iii) TAX COMPLIANCE and the role of tax advisers - originally funded as a Criminology Research Council project.

(iv) DIRECTORS' DUTIES and Corporate Governance in Australia and China. The Australian research into the top 100 companies was funded in 1989 by an Australian Research Council Large Grant and led by Roman Tomasic and Stephen Bottomley; Research into corporate governance in China's top 100 companies was funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant in 2002 and involved Roman Tomasic, Neil Andrews, Jane Fu and Yuwa Wei.

(v) INSOLVENCY LAW IN EAST ASIA: this research was funded by an Australian Research Council Large grant in 1994 and saw field work in six Asian jurisdictions in a project thta involved Roman Tomasic, Peter Little, Kam Kamarul and Kui Hua Wang.

(vi) INSTITUTIONAL SHAREHOLDERS: A project on the role of institutional shareholders in corproate governance was funded by an ARC Collaborative Research Grant in 1996 and involved Roman Tomasic and Geof Nicoll.

(vii) ECONOMIC LAW REFORM IN CHINA: In 1996 AusAid also funded a comparative law project on the Reform of the Economic Laws of China involving Australia and China; Professor Tomasic was the Australian director of this project and Professor Wang Weiguo of CUPL was the China project director.

(vii) CORPORATE GOVERNANCE in Post-WTO ENTRY CHINA: a grant of $140,000 was received in 2003 from the Australian Government for a collaborative corporate governance project with three Beijing-based universities involving workshops in China and Australia; a conference volume (Corporate Governance - Challenges for China) was published in Beijing by Law Press.

(viii) STAKEHOLDERS AND GATEKEEPERS IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: This three country project was funded by the Chinese Academcy of Social Sciences (CASS), the British Academcy in the UK and by the equivalent funding body in Germany. The project involved workshops being held in the UK, Germany and China. The CASS report on the Beijing corporate governance workshop can be found at: http://www.iolaw.org.cn/showNews.asp?id=26987 . This is in addition to the report on the workshop in the China Daily at: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-05/19/content_12542617.htm.

(ix) TIPPING POINTS AND THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: The Leverhulme Trust in the UK allocated 1.7 million sterling to the wider project of which 150,000 pounds was allocated to the work package led by Professor Tomasic dealing with legal issues in the recent financial crisis. For a VIDEO on some recent research from this Durham University tipping point project see further: http://videos.videopress.com/tAcVvGnE/ihrr-tipping-points-financial-resilience-2_fmt1.ogv.

For more information on the Leverhulme Trust-funded tipping point financial crisis project see further at: http://tippingpointsblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/restoring-trust-in-order-to-increase-market-resilience4.pdf.