Law School: Events

2024 Domestic and Family Violence Conference
2024-11-06 09:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Sydney Law School, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
In-person event

The University of Sydney is pleased to announce its third conference on domestic and family violence. This one-day conference aims to convene academic researchers and community professionals who are dedicated to enhancing our knowledge of and responses to domestic and family violence.

About the conference

Domestic and family violence is rife in Australia. Concerningly, 1 in 6 women have experienced physical or sexual violence by a current or former partner, and one woman a week is killed (AIHW, 2018).

To address this complex issue, the Sydney Institute of Criminology is organising a one-day conference on domestic and family violence. This event will take place in person at The University of Sydney Camperdown Campus on Wednesday, 6 November.

The conference will bring together a diverse group of people, including those with lived experience, academics, and professionals working in community organisations. We hope to learn from one another’s knowledge and experiences to enhance our understanding of and responses to this urgent national issue. Our aim is to start a dialogue between community organisations and researchers that may lead to mutually beneficial research and practice collaborations.

Wednesday 6 November, 2024

Time: Program will be released closer to the dateVenue: Sydney Law School, Level 1, New Law Building Annexe (F10A), Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney, Camperdown campusCPD points = tbc

Program

Click here to view a copy of the final program (updated 4/11/24).

Registration

Complimentary, however registration is essential.Register here.

This conference is hosted by the University of Sydney Law School.

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence | Lunchtime Event 2024

Please note: Registration for the conference includes the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence lunchtime event.

If you would like to register for the lunchtime event only, register here.

Contact: If you have questions, please email: Associate Professor Helen Paterson: helen.paterson@sydney.edu.au

This conference is hosted by the University of Sydney Law School.

Intersections of Private Law conference
2026-06-25 18:47 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Intersections of Private Law
A biennial colloquium at the University of Sydney Law School.

Intersections of Private Law is a colloquium series that aims to explore the boundaries, overlaps and complementary operation of fields of private law with each other and externally. There is much to be explored and discussed in how different fields of private law interact with each other and with other fields of law, such as criminal law, corporate law and public law. Within one field of private law, there are overlaps and distinctions to be drawn or eradicated, and interdisciplinary perspectives provide another source of intersection. The Intersections of Private Law colloquium series provides an opportunity for scholars from Australia and overseas to explore these and other overlaps and distinctions within and at the boundaries of private law. Speakers include Professors Matthew Dyson (Oxford), Jodi Gardner (Auckland), Donal Nolan (Oxford) and James Penner (NUS).

Registration:

Full conference in-person attendance: $100
Dinner attendance: $99

View the program here.
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5-6 April 2024
Venue: New Law Building (F10), Level 4, Common Room, University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus
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This event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney.

Law & Sustainability Conference
2026-06-25 18:47
SMU-Sydney-HKU Law & Sustainability ConferenceLaw, Sustainability, and Development: Transforming Pathways in the Asia Pacific Region
In-person event
Sydney Law School is delighted to announce that it will host the SMU-Sydney-HKU Law & Sustainability Conference at the University of Sydney on July 11-12, 2024.
About this event
The Asia Pacific region is at a critical point in its pathway to sustainability and faces significant challenges. These include achieving net zero emissions by mid-century, transitioning to cleaner energy in a manner that is just, progressing toward a â€˜circular economy’, ensuring that supply chains remain resilient, and safeguarding human rights.
A significant part of the global supply chain is located in the region, which is growing and urbanising rapidly. Improving access to employment and promoting economic growth, as well as accelerating progress towards responsible consumption and production, are important priorities. Meanwhile climate change and biodiversity loss pose major threats. Addressing these concerns will require rethinking development pathways, and embracing transformative change.
The United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offer a framework for addressing economic, social, and environmental sustainability challenges. These goals include eliminating hunger and extreme poverty, reducing diseases, reducing inequality, improving water management and energy, and tackling climate change urgently. Progress on all 17 goals is â€˜alarmingly slow’, however, according to the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP, 2024). Without significant progress, the SDGs will not be achieved until 2062: some 32 years behind schedule.
View the program here.
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Thursday 11 – Friday 12 July 2024
Venue:Â New Law Building (F10), University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus)
Room to be confirmed

RegistrationÂ

General Attendee fullÂ conference fee (2 day attendance): $200
Student/Alumni full conference fee (2 day attendance): $140
1 day attendance: $120
Speaker attendance: (2 day attendance): $140
Dinner ticket: (Thursday 11 July): $80

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This event is proudly presented by the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law, Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney.

Call for abstracts: Intersections of Private Law
2026-06-25 18:47
Call for abstracts: Intersections of Private Law
A biennial colloquium at the University of Sydney Law School.

Sydney Law School is pleased to announce the third Intersections of Private Law Colloquium to be held in-person on 5-6 April 2024. We are delighted to invite you to submit an abstract for the Colloquium.
Last held in 2019 before the pandemic, Intersections of Private Law is a colloquium series that aims to explore the boundaries, overlaps and complementary operation of fields of private law with each other and externally. There is much to be explored and discussed in how different fields of private law interact with each other – for example, contract law with tort or equitable principles, tort with unjust enrichment – and with other fields of law, such as criminal law, corporate law and public law. Even within one field of private law, there are overlaps and distinctions to be drawn or eradicated – for example, in tort law, trespass and nuisance, intentional wrongdoing and negligence. Interdisciplinary perspectives provide another source of intersection. The Intersections of Private Law colloquium series provides an opportunity for scholars from Australia and overseas to explore these and other overlaps and distinctions within and at the boundaries of private law.
The following invited speakers will participate in the Colloquium:

Matthew Dyson, Professor of Civil and Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford;
Jodi Gardner, Brian Coote Chair in Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland;
Donal Nolan, Professor of Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

Abstracts should be submitted by email to intersectionsofprivatelaw@gmail.com. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words long. The due date for abstracts is 5 February 2024, although earlier submissions are welcome. Submissions from early career researchers and full drafts are warmly encouraged.
We will send notification of acceptance no later than 19 February 2024. We are happy to distribute any full drafts that we receive two weeks before the Colloquium.
There will be a small registration fee for confirmed participants to cover catering costs. There is a separate modest price for the colloquium dinner, which will be held on 5 April 2024.
Yours sincerely
Organisers of the third Intersections of Private Law Colloquium

This event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney.

2024 SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference
2026-06-25 18:47 | New Law Building (F10)
2024 SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference
In-person event
The annual SCIL Year in Review conference will host a number of exciting panels covering major developments in international law in 2023.
Our keynote is the newly-appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism, Professor Ben Saul,Â who will discuss the appointment and the major issues arising in relation to the position.
The conference will include a literary lunch featuring James Bradley (author of Ghost Species, Clade, and the upcoming Deep Water) in conversation with Michaela Kalowski (interviewer and curator).
In addition to the regular panel on international law cases in Australian courts, and Australia’s role in international court cases, we will have special sessions on:

the Law of the Sea in 2023 – including presentations on the ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, and new developments on seabed mining and offshore renewable energy
Private International Law in 2023, including presentations on the London Steamship v Kingdom of Spain case
International law and developments in technology in 2023.

View the program here.
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Friday 23 February 2024
Venue: New Law Building (F10), University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus)
Room to be confirmed

Registration

Full-fee: $100
Non-USYD student/concession: $50

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About the literary lunch
James Bradley is a writer and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field, The Resurrectionist, CladeÂ and Ghost Species, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and The Penguin Book of the Ocean. His essays and articles have appeared in The Monthly, The Guardian, Sydney Review of Books, Griffith Review, Meanjin, the Weekend AustralianÂ and the Sydney Morning Herald. In 2012 he won the Pascall Prize for Australia’s Critic of the Year, and he has been shortlisted twice for the Bragg Prize for Science Writing and nominated for a Walkley Award. He lives in Sydney. His new book Deep Water, out on April 3, explores how the ocean has shaped and sustained life on Earth from the beginning of time. Weaving together science, history and personal experience, it offers vital new ways of understanding not just humanity’s relationship with the planet, but our past – and perhaps most importantly, our future.
Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer, moderator & curator for writers and ideas festivals. Highlight interviews include Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Michelle de Kretser, & Stan Grant. She’s the curator ofÂ Big Weekend of Books,Â ABC RN’s on-air writers’ festival that takes place in mid June and is now in its fifth year.
She also produces and hosts a monthly books conversation event for Petersham Bowling Club called Readers. Michaela has conducted radio interviews and presented programs across ABC radio and is currently a co-host of The Bookshelf. She’s co-presenter & co-writer of a two-part podcast for ABC RN, tracing part of her family’s history, called Laya’s Way Home.

This event is hosted by theÂ Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

Restoration Law and Finance Conference: Legal and Financial Obstacles to Rehabilitation, Rehydration and Regeneration of Land and Water and Options for Reform
2026-06-25 18:47 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Restoration Law and Finance Conference: Legal and Financial Obstacles to Rehabilitation, Rehydration and Regeneration of Land and Water and Options for Reform
In-person event

The Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law at Sydney Law School invites you to Australia’s inaugural â€˜Restoration Law and Finance Conference’ on Thursday and Friday, 7 & 8Â December 2023.
The Australian Federal Government has committed to â€˜preventing, halting and reversing the loss of nature’ by signing up to The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, publishing the Nature Positive Plan (2022) and introducing the Nature Market Repair Bill (2023). As stated in the recently released Independent Review of the NSW Biodiversity Act 2016, chaired by Ken Henry, it is time to move â€˜beyond biodiversity conservation to a â€œnature positiveâ€ framing that emphasises the need to repair past damage and to take urgent action to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, putting nature on a path to recovery, so that thriving ecosystems can support future generations’.
To achieve this, legal and financial barriers to restoration need to be addressed urgently.
Through a series of keynotes, presentations and panel discussions, the conference will bring together a diverse range of speakers, including Indigenous experts, lawyers, investors, restoration practitioners and government officials to discuss the legal and financial barriers to restoring nature across a range of land tenures, and workable solutions to address these issues. Federal initiatives for nature positive repair are unlikely to succeed unless these challenges are confronted head on.
Speakers include: Dr Justine Bell-James (Associate Professor, University of Queensland Law School); Dr Gerry Bates (University of Sydney); Dr Louise Camenzuli (Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth); Dr Emma Carmody (Restore Blue); Rohan Clarke (Regen Farmers Mutual); Raeleen Draper (Senior Natural Environment Project Officer (Blue Heart), Sunshine Coast Council); Veda FitzSimonsÂ (Associate Director, Pollination); Carolyn Hall (CEO and Managing Director, The Mulloon Institute);Â Dr Ken HenryÂ (Economist, Non-Executive Director of the Australian Securities Exchange, Cape York Partnership and Accounting for Nature Ltd.); Fiachra Kearney (Forever Wild); Stella Kondylas (The Nature Conservancy); Jock Mackenzie (EarthWatch); Grantley Smith (Restore Blue); Heidi Mippy (Noongar and This-Man-Warriyangka woman, Curtin University); Associate Professor Brad Moggridge (University of Canberra);Â Stephen Murphy (Conservation Partners); Claire Smith (Partner, Clayton Utz);Â Professor Ben Richardson (University of Tasmania Law School); James Trezise (Biodiversity Conservation Council); Laura Waterford (Director, Pollination);Â Cassandra Stevens (Director, Kullilli Bulloo River Aboriginal Corporation)

View the program and read speaker bios here (Updated 7 December 2023)

Thursday 7 – Friday 8 December 2023
Venue:Â Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10), University of Sydney, Camperdown campus

This event is hosted by the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL) at Sydney Law School and is proudly supported by Mills Oakley.

ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address and Panel Discussions: Legal accelerants for climate action: taking stock for COP28
2026-06-25 18:47 | Law Lounge, Level 1
ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address and Panel Discussions: LegalÂ accelerantsÂ for climate action: taking stock for COP28
In-person event
Climate action is more urgent than ever. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached its highest point in at least two million years, and climate change is causing widespread, and unequal, adverse impacts on nature and people (IPCC, 2023) .Â In order to limit global warming to 1.5Â°C above pre-industrial levels and prevent the worst impacts, developed countries must reach net zero by 2040, and emerging economies by 2050. Despite this, current policies will lead to a 2.8Â°C temperature rise by 2100.Â In a time when we should be accelerating our efforts, we backslide.Â
In November, leaders will gather at COP28 for the first global stocktake of the Paris Agreement. The process for preparing the next cycle of Nationally Determined Contributions will also be launched.Â
This event will bring together leading researchers and professionals ahead of the COP to provide insights on how to conceptualise, develop and implement legal and governance tools to accelerate deep decarbonisation, adaptation and address loss and damage, on a whole of economy basis. Against the backdrop of the UN’s 2023 Acceleration Agenda, experts will discuss the various dimensions of legal acceleration to ensure a more equitable transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient global economy.
The 2023 ACCEL Distinguished Address will be delivered by Dr Ian Fry, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change. Dr Fry will discuss important human rights and justice dimensions of the UN’s Acceleration Agenda, including the need to integrate human rights standards and principles into accelerated climate action.Â
The Distinguished Address will be supported by a series of panels in which leading experts will discuss the role and potential of legal accelerants in the context of climate finance, climate litigation, law and nature and the law of the sea. Speakers include Frances Anggadi (University of Wollongong), David Barnden (Equity Generation Lawyers), Gareth Bryant (University of Sydney), Zoe Bush (Environmental Defenders Office), Emma Carmody (Restore Blue),Â Arjuna Dibley (Sustainable Finance Hub, University of Melbourne), Dominique Hogan-Doran SC (5 Wentworth), Tim Stephens (University of Sydney), Zoe Whitton (Pollination) andÂ Rachel Walmsley (Environmental Defenders’ Office).
Draft schedule
8.30amÂ Registration
9.00am:Â Welcome and opening remarks
9.15am: Legal acceleration and the role of climate litigation
Speakers:Â Dominique Hogan-Doran SC (5 Wentworth),Â David Barnden (Equity Generation Lawyers) andÂ Zoe Bush (Environmental Defenders Office)
10.30am: Morning tea
11amÂ Climate finance and accelerated climate action
Speakers:Â Arjuna Dibley (Sustainable Finance Hub, University of Melbourne),Â Gareth Bryant (University of Sydney) and Kate Owens (ACCEL)
12.30pmÂ Lunch
1.30pmÂ Â Nature restoration and the acceleration agenda
Speakers: Gerry Bates (University of Sydney),Â Emma Carmody (Restore Blue),Â Rachel Walmsley (Environmental Defenders’ Office), Rachel Killean (Chair, University of Sydney)
3.00pmÂ Afternoon tea
3.30pmÂ Climate change and the Law of the Sea
Speakers: Ian Fry (Special Rapporteur), Tim Stephens (University of Sydney),Â Â Frances Anggadi (University of Wollongong) and Chester Brown (Chair, University of Sydney)â€‚â€‚
5.00pmÂ Cocktail reception
5.30pmÂ 2023 ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address: Human rights, climate justice and the UN Acceleration Agenda
Registration – now open

FullÂ day: $100
Panel DiscussionsÂ only: $70
2023 ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address: $40

Student rates

Full day: $50
Panel Discussions only: $35
2023 ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address: $20

Tuesday 31 October 2023
Venue:Â Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)

This event is hosted by the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL) at Sydney Law School.

2023 Domestic and Family Violence Conference
2026-06-25 18:47 | Sydney Law School, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
Domestic and Family Violence Conference
This conference will be held on 9 November at The University of Sydney Law School
A one day conference of academic researchers and community professionals who are working to improve our understanding of and responses to Domestic and Family Violence. This conference has been initiated by the Sydney Institute of Criminology, and is additionally supported by the University of Sydney Law School; the School of Psychology, the Women at Sydney Network; Diversity and Inclusion; and Social Work and Policy Studies.

About the conference
Domestic and family violence is rife in Australia. Concerningly, 1 in 6 women have experienced physical or sexual violence by a current or former partner, and one woman a week is killed (AIHW, 2018).
To address this complex issue, the Sydney Institute of Criminology is organising a one-day conference on domestic and family violence. This event will take place in person on Gadigal Land at The University of Sydney Camperdown Campus on Thursday, 9 November.
The conference will bring together a diverse group of people, including academics, professionals working in community organisations, and those with lived experience. It is hoped that we will be able to learn from one another’s knowledge and experiences to enhance our understanding of and responses to this urgent national issue. Our aim is to start a dialogue between community organisations and researchers that may lead to mutually beneficial research collaborations.
Venue
Sydney Law School, New Law Building Annexe – Level 1
The University of Sydney

Program
View the latest program here (updated 31 October 2023)

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Please note that by registering to this event, you will also be registered to attend 16 Days of Activism â€” Lunchtime Event.

Contact: If you have questions, please email: Associate Professor Helen Paterson: helen.paterson@sydney.edu.au
This conference is hosted by the University ofÂ Sydney Law School.

Digital vulnerability: Vulnerable individuals and remote access technologies in justice
2026-06-25 18:47
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series:
Digital vulnerability: Vulnerable individuals and remote access technologies in justice
Ethics & professional responsibility
Professional skills
Practice Management
CPD Points: 1.5
About
This seminar will focus on the use of remote access technologies, such as audiovisual links, when working with vulnerable individuals in the justice system, and the developing concept of â€˜digital vulnerability’. The seminar will draw on Dr McKay’s current Australian Research Council (â€˜ARC’) funded research and examine the multiple layers of vulnerability that individuals may experience while involved in legal matters. It will present preliminary findings from initial fieldwork interviews with lawyers and judicial officers that reveal critical perspectives on the impacts of digitalisation on vulnerable people in the justice system. While the research project and findings centre on the criminal justice system, many of the issues are equally relevant to legal practitioners working with vulnerable people in civil matters.
Presenter
Dr Carolyn McKay is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School where she teaches Criminal Law, Civil & Criminal Procedure and Digital Criminology. She is CoDirector of the Sydney Institute of Criminology.
Carolyn is recognised for her research into technologies in justice, specifically her empirical research into prisoners’ experiences of accessing justice from a custodial situation by audio visual links, published in her monograph,The Pixelated Prisoner: Prison video links, court â€˜appearance’ and the justice matrix (2018)Â Routledge. During the period July 2021 – June 2024, Carolyn will undertake her ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) ‘The Digital Criminal Justice Project: Vulnerability and the Digital Subject’.
Carolyn serves on the NSW Bar Association Innovation & Technology Committee and served on the 2019 NSW Law Society Legal Technologies Committee. She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford 2019 and for 3 months at the OÃ±ati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain 2013-14. Carolyn has previously consulted on anti-dumping trade disputes and indirect taxation, working in both Sydney and Tokyo, and she also has a digital media/visual arts practice.

This webinar will be released on Thursday 29 June, 2023.
Find out more about the series.

Vulnerable witness advocacy
2026-06-25 18:47
2023-24 Criminal Law CPD Series:
Vulnerable witness advocacy
Professional skills
Ethics & professional responsibility
CPD Points: 1.5
About
This seminar will discuss the definition of a vulnerable witness in theÂ Criminal Procedure ActÂ 1986Â (NSW) and the provisions in the Act that allow for the use of pre-recorded evidence and provide for other alternative means of giving evidence. The seminar will particularly consider the way a complainant’s evidence is adduced in the Child Sexual Assault Program operating in some NSW courts. There will also be some discussion ofÂ Evidence ActÂ 1995Â (NSW) provisions that may be relevant to the evidence of a vulnerable witness. Finally, the seminar will cover relevant provisions of theÂ Equality before the Law Bench BookÂ and some findings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Presenter
Philip Hogan is a Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) (â€˜ODPP’). He was appointed to this office in 2018, having served as a Crown Prosecutor since 2010. Before that, Philip spent 13 years at the NSW Bar, practising from Samuel Griffiths Chambers. He appears regularly in serious criminal proceedings in the Supreme Court of NSW and the District Court of NSW.

This webinar will be released on Thursday 25 May, 2023.
Find out more about the series.

Non-consensual sexual offence law reform in Western Australia
2026-06-25 18:47
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series:
Non-consensual sexual offence law reform in Western Australia
Substantive Law
CPD Points: 1.5
About
The Attorney-General of Western Australia has asked that State’s Law Reform Commission to review Western Australia’s sexual offence laws. On 23 December 2022, the Commission published a Discussion Paper that deals with, among other things, the law relating to sexual consent and the operation of honest and reasonable mistake of fact in non-consensual sexual offence proceedings. This seminar will consider the various reform options. It will particularly focus on how the law should define â€˜consent’; vitiating circumstances such as mistakes and threats; and the circumstances in which the honest and reasonable mistake of fact excuse should be available to a person accused of non-consensual sexual offending. There will be some discussion of recent law reform activity in this area in other Australian jurisdictions – most notably, New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.
Presenter
Dr Andrew DyerÂ is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School and has been a Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology since 1 January 2021. His research concerns criminal law and human rights law and the relationship between them.

This webinar will be released on Thursday 27 April, 2023.
Find out more about the series.

9th Frontiers in Environmental Law Colloquium
2026-06-25 18:47 | Sydney Law School, New Law Building, 3 Law School, Eastern Ave, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
9th Frontiers in Environmental Law Colloquium
This colloquium will be held on 16-17 February at The University of Sydney Law School
The annual Frontiers in Environmental Law Colloquium provides a forum for environmental law academics and practitioners to share and discuss their experiences, research, and teaching practices.
Through this forum, we aim to:

Foster a supportive and inclusive network of like-minded individuals;
Explore innovative environmental law ideas and insights within and beyond our discipline;
Contribute meaningfully to the future of environmental law in our region;
Share approaches to teaching and learning in environmental law; and
Assist environmental law academics to actively build their careers.

Colloquium Theme for 2023:
A Half Century of Environmental Law: Where to From Here?
This year marks fifty years since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm, a conference that led to the creation of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the first international instrument to broadly recognise the dependency of humans on the natural world, the Stockholm Convention. Over the past fifty years, we have
witnessed the maturity of environmental law as a discipline, as major multilateral agreements including the Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Biodiversity Convention, as well as
the Rio Principles have shaped domestic environmental laws around the world, and a body of scholarship has concurrently developed.
As we enter the second half of environmental law’s first century, we are facing an extinction crisis that is being exacerbated by a climate crisis. Australia is particularly vulnerable to the impacts as we struggle to adapt to major species losses and frequent extreme weather events. The urgency of this situation has prompted an increasing volume of litigation, both in Australia and abroad, and calls to reform environmental and climate laws that are not working. We invite you to reflect with us on the relevancy of environmental law’s pioneering sentiments today, in light of what is needed to secure a stable future.
Program
Click here to view the program (updated on 8/2/23)
Registration
Full fee: $100 per person
Dinner (optional) – on Day 1, Thu 16 February, 6pm at Thai Pathong, Newtown: $50
Register here.
Venue
Sydney Law School, New Law Building (room tbc)
The University of Sydney
Nearby hotels
Local hotels to University campus

This conference is hosted by the University ofÂ Sydney Law School.

SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference
2026-06-25 18:47 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
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Domestic and Family Violence Conference
2026-06-25 18:47 | Sydney Law School, New Law Building, 3 Law School, Eastern Ave, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
Domestic and Family Violence Conference
This conference will be held on 9 November at The University of Sydney Law School
A one day conference of academic researchers and community professionals who are working to improve our understanding of and response to Domestic and Family Violence. This conference has been initiated by the Sydney Institute of Criminology, and is supported by the University of Sydney Law School; the School of Psychology, the Women at Sydney Network; Diversity and Inclusion; and the Research Centre for Children and Families.

About the conference
Domestic and family violence is rife in Australia. Concerningly, 1 in 6 women have experienced physical or sexual violence by a current or former partner, and one woman a week is killed (AIHW, 2018).
To address this complex issue, the Sydney Institute of Criminology is organising a one-day conference on domestic and family violence. This event will take place in person at The University of Sydney Camperdown Campus on Wednesday, 9 November.
The conference will bring together a diverse group of people, including those with lived experience, academics, and professionals working in community organisations. We hope to learn from one another’s knowledge and experiences to enhance our understanding of and responses to this urgent national issue. Our aim is to start a dialogue between community organisations and researchers that may lead to mutually beneficial research and practice collaborations.
Program
A final program is available here (last updated 08 November 2022).

Venue
Sydney Law School, New Law Building Annexe – Level 1
The University of Sydney

Please note that by registering to this event, you will also be registered to attend 16 Days of Activism â€” Lunchtime Event.

Contact: If you have questions, please email: Associate Professor Helen Paterson: helen.paterson@sydney.edu.au
This conference is hosted by the University ofÂ Sydney Law School.

Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference
2026-06-25 18:47 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference
Registration is now open for the annual conference of the Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy, which will be hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School on 14 and 15 July 2022.
Keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Kirsty GoverÂ (University of Melbourne) andÂ Professor Claudio MichelonÂ (University of Edinburgh).
The subject of the annual book symposium will beÂ Constituent Power and the LawÂ byÂ Professor Joel ColÃ³n-RÃosÂ (Victoria University of Wellington). Commentaries will be provided by Professor Rosalind Dixon and Ayesha Wijayalath (University of New South Wales), Dr Yarran Hominh (Dartmouth College), and Associate Professor Ron Levy (Australian National University).
Papers on a range of issues in legal theory, broadly defined, will also be presented and discussed.
> VIEW THE DRAFT PROGRAM (PDF) (as at 5 July 2022)
Thursday 14 July and Friday 15 July 2022
>> THURSDAY 14 JULY 2022, 12 – 5.45PM AEST (followed by cocktail reception)
9am – 12pm: PhD workshop (by invitation only)
12 – 5.45pm: Conference
5.45 – 6.45pm: Cocktail reception
7-9pm: Conference dinner
>> FRIDAY 15 JULY 2022, 9am – 5.30PM AEST

Registration feesÂ (inc. GST)
Attending in-person both days

ASLP member: $300
Non-member: $395 (includes ASLP membership)
Student ASLP member: $125
Student non-member: $170 (includes ASLP membership)

Conference dinner

Cost: $100 (includes a three course vegetarian meal and drinks package)
Location: Forum Restaurant, Corner of City Road and Eastern Avenue Level 1, F23 The Michael Spence Building, Camperdown.

Attending online both days

ASLP member online: $110
Non-member online: $205 (includes ASLP membership)
Student ASLP member online: $50
Student non-member online: $95 (includes ASLP membership)

The conference is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at Sydney Law School.
