The tensions between platforms and their workers can be better understood by studying the mutual expectations of both parties.
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An employment law expert explains why it’s time CEOs had to follow the same rules and harassment policies as every other employee.
A record number of immigrant children are being detained in the US. Here’s what you need to know.
The Achilles’ heel of law technologies: training. Only 10% of such initiatives are aimed at law students, so how should this issue be managed to win the AI race?
Comic contracts can meet all the requirements for contracts to be legally binding.
Consumer law requires legal agreements to be transparent – so how does this apply to complicated terms and conditions we’re expected to read?
Law presumes that commercial contracts are intended to be legally binding, even where computers play a part in the bargain.
Most Australians don’t read terms and conditions or other contracts, so lawyers are experimenting with comics, graphics and other ways to make them more understandable.
Public sector corruption is a major challenge to doing business in Africa and players are mostly ill-equipped to deal with it. Business schools can teach the skills to tackle it.
Across Canada and around the world, thousands of students are paying cash for good grades - in tests, essays and even PhD theses. On Oct. 18, 2017, universities globally are fighting back.
South African business can beat back the toxic ‘white monopoly capital’ title by doing things differently and not by shouting from roof tops.
Thousands of people were caught in an online prank where they unknowingly agreed to clean public loos, because they didn’t read the small-print. But then again, who does?
While retirement villages aren’t regulated like an insurance company, their contracts are essentially insurance policies. This puts the risk on retirees.
Breach of a psychological contract in the workplace can irreparably damage relationships and produce a number of undesirable outcomes.
We spend most of our waking hours at work, but are we really ourselves when we step through the door?
Consider, for a moment, these two statements from the “Ultimate Guide to Understanding Blockchain Smart Contracts” on a well known Blockchain website: 1) Traditional Contracts “Traditional physical contracts…
Gig workers need to be aware of their contract terms and band together in order to maintain their working rights and pay.
Customers who make purchases under pressure don’t use the usual 10-day cooling-off period given under law, new research finds.
The law assumes franchisees do their financial and legal homework when it comes to signing up to a chain, but research shows franchisees are often overconfident and ignorant of the risks.
Hart and Holmström changed the way we think about corporate governance.
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Director, Master of Business Administration Program (MBA); Co-Director, Better Consumption Lab, Deakin University
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Professor in International Commercial Law, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Docteur en droit international, Auteurs historiques The Conversation France
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Associate Professor in Law, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor of Commercial Law, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor, Business School, UNSW
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Professor and Research Chair, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies, Macquarie University
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, Melbourne; and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Lecturer, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Strategy & IB, University of Bath
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Chair in Finance, University of Sheffield