Professor Razeen Sappideen

Professor, School of Law

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JSD, LLM Columbia, LLM Pennsylvania, LLM(Hons) Syd, LLB(Hons) Ceylon

Career Profile

Professor Razeen Sappideen joined UWS as Foundation Professor of Law in 1994, and was for some time Dean of Law. Professor Sappideen holds the LLM (Hons) Syd, LLM (Pennsylvania) in Tax Law, LLM (Columbia) in Corporations Law, and the JSD (Columbia) in the area of Acquisitions and Mergers Law. He also completed the Law and Economics Program for University Professors by Emory University 1985, and the Managing Transactions and Legal Riskk in a Global Economy by American University 1988.

He is admitted as a Solicitor and has been a Consultant to several leading Law and Accounting firms. He was a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College and the Faculty of Laws Cambridge University in 2009/2010, Oxford University 2010-2011, and the Tun Ismail distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Malaya.

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Interests

Learning,Teaching and Research Interests

Professor Sappideen's main areas of teaching, research, and higher degree research supervision are in the areas of international banking and finance, corporations law, comparative corporate governance, international trade law (WT0), international business transaction law, law and economics and legal theory. 

Engagement Interests

Parramatta and Greater Western Sydney law societies.

Editorial Board Membership

  • Sometime Editorial Board Member, Macquarie University Law Journals
  • Editorial Board Member, Frontiers of Law in China (Springer)  
  • Editorial Board Member, The Law Review (Sweet and Maxwell Asia)
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law
  • Referee for Australian and International Law Journals and Reviews, and examiner for PhD dissertions.

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Publications

Research Monographs

  • The Taxation Commissioner’s Discretionary Power under the income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1973 (being in partial fulfilment of the LLM degree at the University of Sydney, 1974).
  • The Treatment of Corporate Loss Carryovers in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia: A General Framework for Comparison (being in partial fulfilment of the LLM degree at the University of Pennsylvania, 1976).
  • Some perspectives on the Regulation of Corporate Takeovers (Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the LLM degree at Columbia University, 1982).
  • The Regulation of Corporate Acquisitions: Some Selected Aspects (Dissertation submitted for the degree of Juridicae Scientiae Doctoris at Columbia University, 1987).

Books

  • Australian Income Taxation of Companies and Company Distributions (Butterworths, 1979). [234pp¸]
  • Co-author, Cases and Material on Corporations and Associations (Butterworths, 4th ed.). [672pp¸]

 Refereed Articles published in AUSTRALIA

  • Some Aspects of Revenue Law, being Chapter XV of a book Law for the People , Penguin, 1976.
  • Continuity of Beneficial Shareholding in Relation to Loss Companies, Vol 5 Australian Tax Review (1976), 176-185.
  • The Relevance of Fixed Gross Sums in the Assessment of Annuities, Vol 6 Australian Tax Review (1977), 93-104.
  • Extending Corporate Loss Deductions to Parent-Subsidiary and Common Parent Corporations under the Australian Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1976, Vol 10 University of Queensland Law Journal (1977), 102-126.
  • The Control of the Commissioner’s Discretionary Power under the Australian Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1974, Vol 13 University of Western Australian Law Review (1978), 135-149.
  • Judicial Legislation and the Rationalisation of Section 260 of the Australian Income Tax Assessment Act 1936, Vol 8 Federal Law Review (1978), 319-345.
  • Sections 99 and 99A of the Income Tax Assessment Act - Their Past and Present Role and a Suggested Future Role, Vol 3 University of New South Wales Law Journal (1978), 267-275.
  • Partnerships and the Section 36A(2) Election, Vol 7 Australian Tax Review (1979), 130-133.
  • The Residence of Natural Persons, Vol 8 Australian Tax Review (1979), 138-143.
  • Income Assignment, being Chapter 13 in Australian Taxation: Principles and Practice (Longmans, 1986), 228-241.
  • Securities Market Efficiency Reconsidered, University of Tasmania Law Review (1988), 1-58.
  • Tax Based Financing Transactions, Vol 6 Queensland University of Technology Journal (1990), 1-12.
  • The Use of Accounting Models, Statistical Models and Securities Market Prices to predict Corporate Failure and the Case for Continuing Fiduciary Obligations to Corporate Creditors, Vol 3(2) Bond University Law Review (1991), 209-241.
  • Protecting Debenture-holder Interests: A Delicate Art, Vol 4, Corporate and Business Law Journal (1991), 36-62.
  • Economics, Law, and Business Ethics: Some Reflections, Vol 25 Australian Business Law Review (1997), 422-432.
  • Observations on the Australia-China Free Trade Agreement negotiation process (with Ling Ling He) 38(4) Australian Business Law Review (2010) 257-264.
  • Corporate Governance and the Surrogates of Managerial Performance 34(i) 2011 University of New South Wales Law Journal 136-158.
  • Investor - State Arbitration; The Roadmap from the Multilateral Agreement on invetment to the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, Vol 40(2) Federal Law Review 207-226 (with Ling Ling He)
  • Dumping and Anti-Dumping Measures, being chapter 7 in Carr et al (ed5), International Trade Law and the WTO (Federal Press, April 2013)

Overseas Publications

Canada
  • Continuity of Business as an Alternative Requirement for Loss Carryovers: The United States, United Kingdom, Canadian and Australian Codes Compared, Vol 8, Manitoba Law Journal (1977), 417-444.
Hong Kong
  • Free Trade Agreements and the US-China-Australia realtionship in the Asia Pacific Region, 21 (2) Asia Pacific Law Review (June 2013) forthcoming
Netherlands
  • Harmonising International Commercial Law through Codification, Vol 40 (3) Journal of World Trade (2006), 425-451.
  • Some Reflections on China's WTO Accession commitments and their observance, forthcoming 43(4) Journal of World Trade Law, (August 2009), with Ling-Ling He.
  • Investor - State Arbitration under Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreements; Finding Rhythm in Inconsistent Drumbeats, Vol 47(1) Journal of World Trade Forthoming Feb 2013 with Ling Ling He
 Singapore
  • The Paradox of Securities Markets Efficiency, 2009 (1) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 80-108
  • Focusing on Corporate Short-termism forthcomng 2011(2) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 412-431 
 Switzerland
  • Dispute Settlement under FreeTrade Agreements: The proposed Australia - China free trade agreement, 12(4) 2011 Journal of World Investment and Trade, 581-602.
United Kingdom
  • Evaluating Class Participation: Some Reflections on the University of New South Wales and Macquarie University Experience, Vol 16 The Law Teacher, (1982), 179-194.
  • Fiduciary Obligations to Corporate Creditors, (1991) The Journal of Business Law, 365-398.
  • Ownership of the Large Corporation: Why Clothe the Emperor? Vol 7 The King’s College Law Journal (1996), 27-54.
  • Cross Border electronic funds transfers through large value transfer systems and the persistence of risk, (2003) The Journal of Business Law, 584-602.
  • The Regulation of Credit, Market, and Operational Risk Management under the Basel Accords, (2004) The Journal of Business Law, 59-93.
  • International Commercial Letters of Credit: Balancing the rights of Buyers and sellers in Insolvency, (2006) The Journal of Business Law, 133-156
  • Bank Credit Card Charges and the Interest Free Period: Balancing Equity and Efficiency, 18(2) The King’s College Law Journal, (2007), 119-145.
  • The Payment System in China, (2008) (3) Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 168-174 (with Ling-Ling He)
  • Explaining Securities market efficiency, 3(3) Capital Markets Law Journal (2008) 1-17.
  • Property rights, Human rights, and the new International Trade Regime, 14 The International Journal of Human Rights, 14(7) 2010, 1-18.
United States
  • Takeover Bids and Target Shareholder Protection: The Regulatory Framework in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, Journal of Comparative Business and Capital Market Law (USA) Vol 8(3), September 1986, 281-317.
  • Motivations of Offeror Company Directors in Corporate Acquisitions, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Business Law Vol 9(1) January 1987, 67-106.
  • Imputation of the Corporate and Personal Income Tax: Is it chasing one’s tail? Vol 15, American Journal of Tax Policy, (1998), 167-204.  

Publications for the period 2006 - continuing

2006
  • Harmonising International Commercial Law through Codification, Vol 40 (3) Journal of World Trade (2006), 425-451.
  • International Commercial Letters of Credit: Balancing the rights of Buyers and sellers in Insolvency, (2006) The Journal of Business Law, 133-156.
2007
  • Bank Credit Card Charges and the Interest Free Period: Balancing Equity and Efficiency, 18(2) The King’s College Law Journal, (2007), 119-145.
2008
  • The Payment System in China, (2008) (3) Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, 168-174 (with Ling-Ling He).
  • Explaining Securities market efficiency, 3(3) Capital Markets Law Journal (2008) 326-342.
2009
  • Reflections on China's WTO Accession commitments and their observance, 43(4) Journal of World Trade Law, (August 2009), with Ling-Ling He.
  • The Paradox of Securities Markets Efficiency, 2009 (1) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 80-108.
2010

  • Property rights, Human rights, and the new International Trade Regime, 14 The International Journal of Human Rights, 14(7) (2010) 1-18.

  • Observations on the Australia-China Free Trade negotiation process (with Ling Ling He) 38(4) 2010 Australian Business Law Review, 257-264.

2011
  • Corporate Governance and the Surrogates of Managerial Performance 34(i)  2011 University of New South Wales Law Journal, 136-158.
  • Dispute Settlement under FreeTrade Agreements 12(4) 2011 The Journal of World Investment and Trade 581-602 (2011) with Ling-Ling He.
  • Focusing on corporate Short-Termism 2011(2) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 412-431
2012
  • Mapping Anti-Dumping Disputes from 1995 to 2011,13(1) (2012) Journal of World Investment and Trade, 125-143
  • Investor - State Arbitration; The Roadmap from the Multilateral Agreement on Investment to the Trans-Pacfic Partnership Agreement, vol 40(2) (2013) Federal Law Review, 207-226 (with Ling Ling He)
2013
  • Investor- State Arbitration under Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreeemnts; Finding Rhyth in inconsistent drum beats, Vol 47(1)(2013) Journal of World Trade, 215-242 (with Ling Ling He)
  • Dumping and Anti-Dumping Measures, being chapter 7 in Carr et al (ed5), International Trade Law and the WTO (Federal Press, April 2013)
  • Free Trade Agreements and the US-China-Australia realtionship in the Asia Pacific Region, 21 (2) Asia Pacific Law Review (June 2013) forthcoming

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