The BLS Report Podcast

About The BLS Report Podcast

BLS Report, a series of podcasts available created by the Business Law Section, covering topics of interest arising in our fields or practice. This series is in commemoration of the late Professor Robert (‘Bob’) Baxt. Bob Baxt was the father of the BLS. In 1980, he was one of the signatories to the submission to the Law Council to establish the BLS and played a key role in its initial organisation and subsequent development. He was BLS chair from 2001 to 2003, a member of our executive for more than 30 years right up until his passing in March 2018, and whose presence we still feel at our executive meetings as he was a mentor to so many of us. Bob in fact served on three BLS committees, chairing two of them. He practiced and published extensively in the fields of trade practices, corporate law and taxation law, and had a longstanding commitment to legal education. He was Dean of Law at Monash University from 1980 to 1988, and later a professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, Chairman of the Law Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and the founder and general editor of the Australian Business Law Review and the Company and Securities Law Journal.

Publisher

The Business Law Section

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Dec 2020

Latest episode

16 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

28 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   16 Sept 2026

   The BLS Report Episode Twenty-seven: Notes on a scandal

   Corporate scandals persistently resist regulatory efforts to prevent them. What makes scandals happen? In this episode, BLS Executive members Pamela Hanrahan and John Keeves are in conversation with visiting Gourlay Professor Thomas Roulet from Cambridge Judge Business School about how competing norms and incentives shape behaviour in financial and professional services. Twenty years on from the GFC, are we sleepwalking into the next crisis?

2. 

   28 Jun 2026

   The BLS Report Episode Twenty-six: Understanding the 2026 tax reforms

   In this episode, we explore the key tax measures announced in the May 2026 budget and what they mean for commercial lawyers and their clients. Pamela Hanrahan and John Keeves are joined by experts Toby Eggleston and Peter Dunn to unpack the technical changes and their practical implications. The discussion considers the impact on investment decisions, private capital markets and high‑growth businesses, as well as the polic process that shaped the reforms.

3. 

   13 May 2026

   The BLS Report Episode Twenty-five: Regulation and innovation

   The relationship between regulation and innovation has always been complicated. Regulation that assumes one way of doing things can stifle innovation; conversely regulation struggles to keep up with rapid technological change. In this episode, Executive members Pamela Hanrahan and John Keeves unpack that relationship with the 2026 Trinity College visiting Gourlay Professor in business ethics, Professor Gerry George from the International Medical University in Malaysia and the Georgetown Entrepreneurship Initiative at Georgetown University in the USA.

Podcast Authority Score: 22 / 100

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Quality

32

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

27

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