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Professor Roman Tomasic is a Professor of Law in Justice and Society at the University of South Australia. His teaching and research focuses mainly on Australian and comparative corporate and commercial law. He has worked in law schools in universities in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Hong Kong and remains a Visiting Professor of Company Law at the Durham Law School in the UK. He is also an Emeritus Professor of the University of Canberra.
He holds Doctorates from the University of New South Wales (PhD) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (SJD). He also holds undergraduate qualifications in Law from the University of Sydney and has been admitted as a Solicitor by the Supreme Court of New South... Read more
About me
Professor Roman Tomasic is a Professor of Law in Justice and Society at the University of South Australia. His teaching and research focuses mainly on Australian and comparative corporate and commercial law. He has worked in law schools in universities in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States and Hong Kong and remains a Visiting Professor of Company Law at the Durham Law School in the UK. He is also an Emeritus Professor of the University of Canberra.
He holds Doctorates from the University of New South Wales (PhD) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (SJD). He also holds undergraduate qualifications in Law from the University of Sydney and has been admitted as a Solicitor by the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Professor Tomasic has been an active member of the Corporate Law Teachers Association since its inception and has served at its president. He has also served as the Chair of the Australasian Law Teachers Association; he is also a Member and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. He has undertaken consulting work in Australia and internationally; this has included international consultancies with the World Bank, the OECD and GTZ, as well as domestic consultancies with the Australian law Reform Commission and the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Australian Parliament.
He has extensive international teaching, research and consultancy experience in areas of commercial and corporate law, with a particular interest in comparative and international dimensions of law.
Professor Tomasic has successfully supervised PhD students in Australia and the United Kingdom. Many of these have been international students. He is especially interested in supervising students in areas such as (i) Comparative Corporate Governance; (ii) International and Comparative Insolvency Law and Financial Regulation; (iii) The Legal Control of Takeovers, Mergers and Corporate Reorganisations; (iv) Legal Aspects of the Global Financial Crisis. (v) The Legal Regulation of Securities Markets; (vi) Corporate Crime and Corporate Social Responsibility; (vi) The Global Financial Crisis and Banking Regulation; (vii) Corporate Law Theory, and related legal areas.
About me
Member and Fellow, Australian Academy of Law
Member, Corporate Law Teachers Association
Life Member, Australasian Law Teachers Association
Member, Business Law Section, Law Council of Australia
About me
Doctor of Juridical Science University of Wisconsin-Madison
Doctor of Philosophy The University of New South Wales
Master of Arts The University of Sydney
Bachelor of Laws The University of Sydney
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 -... Read more
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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2018 |
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2018 |
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2018 |
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2017 |
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2017 |
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2016 |
1
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2014 |
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2014 |
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2013 |
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2013 |
Open access
2
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2013 |
1
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2013 |
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2012 |
4
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2012 |
32
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2011 |
Open access
5
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2010 |
1
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2010 |
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2010 |
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2020 |
1
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2019 |
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2019 |
Open access
5
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2018 |
Open access
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2018 |
4
3
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2017 |
1
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2017 |
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2017 |
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2016 |
Open access
1
1
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2016 |
Open access
3
3
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2015 |
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2015 |
5
3
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2015 |
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2015 |
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2014 |
2
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2014 |
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2014 |
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2013 |
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2012 |
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2012 |
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2011 |
Open access
5
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2011 |
Open access
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2011 |
32
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2011 |
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2011 |
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2010 |
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2009 |
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2009 |
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2009 |
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2008 |
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2013 |
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Research
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.
UNITED KINGDOM – Durham University, Vising Professor of Company Law (2012-current)
CHINA- World Bank consultancy on training of bankruptcy judges in China (2013)
AUSTRALIA - General Editor of Australian Journal of Corporate Law (until 2016)
AUSTRALIA - Chair and Executive Committee Member of Australasian Law Teachers Association (2013-2016)
AUSTRALIA- Australia-China Business Council
AUSTRALIA- Business Law Section, Law Council of Australia
AUSTRALIA- Invited to become Member and Fellow of Australian Academy of Law (2016)
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Bond University | AUSTRALIA |
CareSuper | AUSTRALIA |
Deakin University | AUSTRALIA |
Durham University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Monash University | AUSTRALIA |
University of Canberra | AUSTRALIA |
University of Leeds | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Technology MARA | MALAYSIA |
Victoria University | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Editorial Board MemberAustralian Journal of Corporate Law |
2018 |
FellowAustralian Academy of Law |
2018 |
Visiting Professor of Company LawDurham University |
2018 |
Editorial Board MemberAustralian Journal of Corporate Law |
2017 |
FellowAustralian Academy of Law |
2017 |
Visiting Professor of Company LawDurham University |
2017 |
Chair and Executive Committee MemberAustralasian Law Teachers Association |
2016 |
General EditorAustralian Journal of Corporate Law |
2016 |
Invited Member and FellowAustralian Academy of Law |
2016 |
Life MemberAustralasian Law Teachers Association |
2016 |
MemberAustralia-China Business Council |
2016 |
MemberCorporate Law Teachers Association |
2016 |
Member of Business Law SectionLaw Council of Australia |
2016 |
Visiting Professor of Company LawDurham University |
2016 |
Chair and Executive Committee MemberAustralasian Law Teachers Association |
2015 |
Visiting Professor of Company LawDurham University |
2015 |
Chair and Executive Committee MemberAustralasian Law Teachers Association |
2014 |
Visiting Professor of Company LawDurham University |
2014 |
Chair and Executive Committee MemberAustralasian Law Teachers Association |
2013 |
Consultancy on training of Bankruptcy Judges in ChinaWorld Bank |
2013 |
Visiting Professor of Company LawDurham University |
2013 |
Visiting Professor of Company LawDurham University |
2012 |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Crime prevention and reduction in Australia: What do we know and how do we get there? | Current |
Defence Procurement: Dealing with a Monopsony | Current |
Regulation in the information age in Australia: from the boardroom to the courtroom | Completed |
The law and practice of tax audits in Indonesia - the obstacles to tax compliance in a developing country | Completed |