The UNSW Law Journal Thematic Edition 32(2) Saving the System: Law and Regulation after the Credit Crunch, produced by Thematic Editor Julia Roy,  will be launched on 19 October 2009 by the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG. The launch will be held will be held on 19 October 2009 at the UNSW CBD Campus, Level 6, 1 O'Connell Street, Sydney, in conjunction with our Premier Sponsor, Freehills, beginning at 6:30 pm.

To attend the event, please contact the Law Journal at law.journal@unsw.edu.au.

The 2009 Thematic Issue takes a broad approach to examining this timely issue. The causes of the current financial crises are widely known, but poorly understood. The myriad bailout plans are controversial, and their success uncertain. Moreover, preventing such crises in future will depend not on these safety nets, but on developing better regulatory and supervisory mechanisms that may signal a resurgence of faith in good government.

Contributors to this edition assess the objectives and ramifications of the key principles for reform identified by the G20 summit declaration action plan - strengthening transparency and accountability, enhancing sound regulation, promoting integrity in financial markets, reinforcing international cooperation and reforming international financial institutions.

Contributors include:

Michael Kirby, Former Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996-2009); President of the Institute of Arbitrators & Mediators Australia (2009-); Honorary Visiting Professor, University of New South Wales: ‘Foreword: Welcome to the Real World.’

Michael Legg, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales and Consultant, Clayton Utz, with

Jason Harris Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney: ‘How the American Dream became a Global Nightmare: An Analysis of the Causes of the Global Financial Crisis’.

Cynthia A. Williams, Osler Chair in Business Law, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto, Canada and Professor of Law, the University of Illinois College of Law, with

Frank Jan De Graff, Professor of International Business at Hanze University of Applied Sciences: ‘The Intellectual Foundations of the Global Financial Crisis: Analysis and Proposals for Reform’.

Ankoor Jain, B.Com/LL.B University of New South Wales with

Cally Jordan, Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School; Visiting Professor, Duke University Law School: ‘Diversity and Resilience:  Lessons from the Financial Crisis’.

Janis Sarra, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia Faculty of Law: ‘Dancing the Derivative Deux Pas, The Financial Crisis and Lessons for Corporate Governance’.        

Douglas Arner, Director, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, Director, LLM (Corporate and Financial Law) Programme and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong, with

Michael W. Taylor, Adviser to the Governor, Central Bank of Bahrain; formerly Head of Banking Policy, Hong Kong Monetary Authority; Senior Economist, International Monetary Fund; Reader in Financial Regulation, ICMA Centre, University of Reading: ‘The Global Financial Crisis and the Financial Stability Board: Hardening the Soft Law of International Financial Regulation?’.        

Dimity Kingsford Smith, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales: ‘Regulating Investment Risk: Individuals and the Global Financial Crisis’. Dimity Kingsford Smith, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales: ‘Regulating Risk: Individuals and the Global Financial Crisis’.        

Andrew Godwin, Senior Lecturer at the Melbourne Law School and Associate Director (Asian Commercial Law) of the Asian Law Centre, The University of Melbourne: ‘The Lehman Minibonds Crisis in Hong Kong: Lessons for Plain Language Risk Disclosure’.

Scott Hickie, Policy Advisor to Ian Cohen MLC and Jubilee Australia, postgraduate student at the Macquarie University Centre of Environmental Law (MUCEL): ‘The Export Credit Renaissance: Challenges for Ecologically Sustainable Development in the Global Economic Crisis’.        

Ross Buckley, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law,0020University of New South Wales; Fellow, Asian Institute of International Financial Law, University of Hong Kong: ‘Debt-for-development Exchanges: An Innovative Response to the Global Financial Crisis’.

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