About SCoLA
The Society of Corporate Law Academics – formerly known as the Corporate Law Teachers Association (CLTA) – was established in 1994 by scholars of corporate law. The Society seeks to represent the voices of the various corporate law scholars in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region.
SCoLA’S GOALS
The goals of SCoLA include:
Advancing corporate law teaching, research and scholarship
Promoting collaboration, cooperation and exchange of ideas between corporate law scholars in the region
Promoting active cooperation between corporate law teachers and universities
Promoting cooperation with professional legal associations and law reform agencies
Hosting an annual conference to highlight current developments in corporate law scholarship
SCoLA’s LOGO
A competition was held in 2008 for the design of the CLTA logo. Entrants provided their design ideas along with an explanation. The winner, Whitney Smarz, submitted the following statement defining her logo:
“The design of my logo presents itself as professional and structured, justifying CLTA’s primary goal of advancing corporate teaching and research. The logo symbolises unity and knowledge, and is an abstraction of a scholar (the black figure) teaching the students law (green figures). Green is known to represent knowledge, and this logo depicts the passing on of knowledge to a new generation. Additionally, placing the figures in a circular shape resembles the globe, and the meeting of other scholars around the world. Also, it appears that the figures are in an embracing pose, symbolising the acceptance of knowledge and growth.”
The logo symbol of knowledge and teaching has been embedded in the new SCoLA name and logo following the change of name of the association in 2021. This embedding symbolises the continuity of the association under both its CLTA and SCoLA names.