{"id":1734,"date":"2016-08-03T13:50:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T03:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2016-08-03T13:50:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T03:50:55","slug":"register-now-for-the-upcoming-personal-insolvency-conference-at-qut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2016\/08\/03\/register-now-for-the-upcoming-personal-insolvency-conference-at-qut\/","title":{"rendered":"Register Now for the Upcoming Personal Insolvency Conference at QUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.qut.edu.au\/__data\/assets\/image\/0004\/517783\/varieties\/323x215.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/personalinsolvencyconference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Personal Insolvency Conference<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, \u00a07-9 September 2016<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qut.edu.au\/research\/our-research\/institutes-centres-and-research-groups\/commercial-and-property-law-research-centre\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Commercial and Property Law Research Centre<\/span><\/a><\/span> at the QUT Faculty of Law in Brisbane is hosting a 2016 international conference on personal insolvency, <em><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/personalinsolvencyconference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\">\u2018A Fresh Look at Fresh Start: The Human Dimension to Bankruptcy.\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/em><b> <\/b>\u00a0An early bird registration fee is available until 15 August 2016.\u00a0<!--more-->While the current focus in much insolvency scholarship or commentary is upon salvaging economic value for large businesses facing financial collapse, the harsh reality is that many more people experience financial stress as over-indebted consumers or &#8216;owners&#8217; of micro\/small\/medium sized enterprises.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The conference will provide a forum for scholars, practitioners and policy-makers to discuss and present on the human experience of bankruptcy and will be opened by Justice Greenwood of the Federal Court of Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0Keynote speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>Professor Jay L. Westbrook<\/strong><em>, Benno C. Schmidt Chair of Business Law, The University of Texas at\u00a0 Austin<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Iain Ramsay<\/strong>, <em>Professor of Law, University of Kent<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>David Bergman<\/strong>, <em>National Manager of Insolvency and Trustee Services, Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fiona Guthrie<\/strong>, Chief <em>Executive Director, Financial Counselling Australia<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Should you wish to attend, day registration is available or you may wish to purchase full registration which can be shared <span lang=\"EN-US\">e.g. Thursday by one staff member and Friday by another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Visit the <span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"http:\/\/personalinsolvencyconference.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Personal Insolvency Conference website<\/span><\/a><\/span> for further information or follow the Centre on <span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPLRCQUT\" target=\"_blank\"><span lang=\"EN-AU\">Twitter <\/span><\/a><\/span>for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Insolvency Conference Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, \u00a07-9 September 2016 The Commercial and Property Law Research Centre at the QUT Faculty of Law in Brisbane is hosting a 2016 international conference on personal insolvency, \u2018A Fresh Look at Fresh Start: The Human Dimension to Bankruptcy.\u2019 \u00a0An early bird registration fee is available until<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[14062,15180],"class_list":{"0":"post-1734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-news","8":"tag-cplrc","9":"tag-personalinsolvencyconference"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1736,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}