School of Law
University of New England
2020 Kirby Seminar series
Via Webinar Monday 14 December 2020 at 12 noon AEDT
If interested and to obtain a link, please register for this Kirby Seminar at:
https://une-au.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ytXfc_LMTrKNoDrOj91YhQ
The Rise of Global Lawyering- The Influence of Law Schools, New Technologies and Large Law Firms
Professor Roman Tomasic, Uni SA Justice and Society
In this Kirby seminar, Professor Roman Tomasic will present the argument that globalization has created a new legal order in which lawyers will need to operate effectively as legal natives. It is likely to have a major effect upon the law firms that service the legal needs of major corporate clients as well as other global actors.
Globalization will also have consequential effects on law schools and encourage them to provide suitably trained lawyers to work in the newly emerging networked world. Globalization is driven
by technological innovation and advances in international communication; at the same time, global professional and corporate networks have challenged the dominance of the law of the sovereign state. This will transform the nature of the legal profession and will lead larger law firms to adopt many of the business structures and goals of their internationally active corporatized clients.
Traditional legal values are challenged as larger law firms move to reshape long-standing professional codes of conduct and internal practices. Law schools are drawn into this process of globalization, with legal education being rapidly transformed, a process accelerated by parallel technological changes affecting legal education and legal practice.
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.
Roman holds Doctorates from the University of New South Wales (PhD) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (SJD), as well as undergraduate qualifications in Law from the University of Sydney. He is a Solicitor Supreme Court of New South Wales.
Roman has been an active member of the Corporate Law Teachers Association since its inception and has served as 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.
If interested and to obtain a link, please register for this Kirby Seminar at:
https://une-au.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ytXfc_LMTrKNoDrOj91YhQ
