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• Building bridges as 'Pracademics' in the Melbourne Law Masters

  If you have been wondering whether to enrol in Melbourne Law School's Masters program, this episode is for you. Associate Professor Matthew Bell speaks with the Director of the Melbourne Law Masters program, Professor Andrew Godwin. They not only discuss how the program now spans more than 25 specialist practice areas, from banking to medical law, intellectual property to tax, but also about the benefits that the program's multi-disciplinary, intensive learning classrooms bring to lawyers and non-lawyers looking to take the next step in their careers. As an added bonus, Andrew proves just how many strings he has to his bow by telling us about some of his favourite composers (spoiler alert: Mozart doesn't make the list!)https://law.unimelb.edu.au/study/masters

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• Building an international construction law practice when you come from a land Down Under

  In this episode, Matthew Bell speaks with Julian Bailey in London and Kim Rosenberg in Dubai. Julian and Kim both did their legal training and spent their early years in practice in Australia, and have gone on to be partners in leading international firms and to make very substantial contributions to the international construction law community through their writings, teaching and involvement with leading professional bodies.Julian and Kim reflect on how their early days in Australia prepared them for international practice and how they have built and consolidated their careers. They also share tips for how lawyers keen to do a stint overseas (whether a year or two, or more) can leverage their Australian experience.You can find out more about Julian and Kim via their firm websites:https://www.jonesday.com/en/lawyers/b/julian-baileyhttps://www.freshfields.com/en/find-a-lawyer/r/rosenberg-kim

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• International Taxation – a conversation with Professor Peter Harris

  In this episode, host Miranda Stewart is joined in conversation by Peter Harris, Professor of Tax Law at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Centre for Tax Law. With a career spanning many years working for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and as a consultant for the Financing for Development Unit of the United Nations, assisting countries to develop and implement taxation policies has been central to Peter’s work. At Melbourne Law School, Peter teaches Comparative Corporate Tax into the Melbourne Law Masters. Inside Commercial Law is a podcast of the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law at Melbourne Law School. For more information about the Centre, visit our website: ⁠https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/mccl

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• Taking (Vander)stock: the challenge of road revenue sources in Australia’s clean energy future

  In late 2023, the High Court of Australia struck down the Victorian scheme requiring users of zero and low-emission vehicles (ZLEV) to pay a distance-based charge. It did so on the basis that the scheme imposed a ‘duty of excise’ and therefore impinged on the Commonwealth’s exclusive power under s 90 of the federal Constitution to levy such duties. This has sent the Australian states and territories back to the drawing board in trying to raise money from ZLEV owners to pay their share of road maintenance funding, bearing in mind that the traditional source of such funding is the Commonwealth’s fuel excise. In this episode, Associate Professor Matthew Bell speaks with Professor Miranda Stewart of Melbourne Law School, and Peter Holcombe Henley and Mason Rogers of Clayton Utz about the Court’s decision and its implications. They unpack and explain the decision, noting that it was reached by a bare majority, and explore its implications for Australia’s road revenue and fiscal federalism.    Links:  Zero and Low Emission Vehicle Distance-based Charge Act 2021 (Vic) Vanderstock v Victoria [2023] HCA 30 (18 October 2023) LK Weis, ‘Vanderstock v Victoria: Fiscal Federalism Meets Environmental Constitutionalism?’ (2024) 36(2) Journal of Environmental Law 253 

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• International Taxation in the US - A conversation with Professor David Rosenbloom

  In this episode of Inside Commercial Law, Professor Miranda Stewart is joined by Professor David Rosenbloom, director of the International Tax Program at New York University School of Law. Professor Rosenbloom is a member of Caplin & Drysdale, a law firm he rejoined in 1981 after serving as international tax counsel and director of the Office of International Tax Affairs in the US Department of the Treasury from 1978 to 1981. At Melbourne Law School, David teaches International Tax in the US into the Masters program. Inside Commercial Law is a podcast of the Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law at Melbourne Law School. For more information about the Centre, visit our website: https://law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/mccl

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