The Living Law of Wikipedia
2023-02-21 12:30 - 14:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
The Living Law of Wikipedia
In-person event

Wikipedia offers (yet) another example of a scheme of ‘private ordering’, regulation and governance that works largely outside of state law. Its institutions and procedures show strong resemblances to those found in legal systems generally. Â But what may distinguish Wikipedia ( or what some Wikipedians claim does so) is the frequent discursive insistence on the risks of taking rules seriously and the dangers of what they call ‘Wikilawering’.
In this talk, Professor Nelken will seek to explore why this is so and what it means in actual practice, also with reference to a various ‘trouble cases’ as illustrations.
About the speaker:
David Nelken is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law, and former Head of Research, at the Dickson Poon Law School, King’s College, London.Â Professor Nelken’s research focuses on theoretical enquiry and empirical investigation in the areas of comparative sociology of law, criminology, and legal and social theory.Â HeÂ taught law at Cambridge, Edinburgh and University College, London, from 1976-1989 before moving to Italy in 1990 as Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change at the University of Macerata. From 1995 to 2013 he was also Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Cardiff University, and from 2010 to 2014 Visiting Professor of Criminology at Oxford University. He is also a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. On the editorial board of numerous journals, he is also a member of the Independent Board of the SCOPUS (Elsevier) Database of peer-reviewed literature, where he is responsible for evaluating all law journals worldwide. He was a Panel member of Scottish Children’s Hearings juvenile justice system 1979-1983, aÂ memberÂ of Italian Regional Crime committees in the 1990’s and, amongst many visiting appointments, was the Global Law professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, for 2014.

Tuesday 21 February 2023
Time: 1-2pm AEDTÂ (Light lunch from 12.30pm)
Venue: New Law Building (F10), Level 4, Common Room, University of Sydney (Camperdown campus)
CPD Points: 1

This event is proudly hosted byÂ The University of Sydney Law School.Â

LGBTQ organising in the new protest environment - book launch and panel discussion
2023-02-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Book launch and panel discussion: LGBTQ organising in the new protest environment
In-person event
The use of public space for recreation and protest remains hotly contested, as reactions to anti-protest legislation in NSW and other Australian jurisdictions show. 2023 marks a decade since a case of police excessive force at the 2013 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras went viral on YouTube. That case marked a watershed moment in police-LGBTQ community relations in NSW, and was part of a global awakening about the power of bystander video distributed through social media.
Dr Justin Ellis’ 2021 monograph Policing Legitimacy: Social media, scandal and sexual citizenship critically engages with that case and considers the relationship between digital media, LGBTQ identity-based rights claims and police accountability. This book launch and panel discussion provides a timely opportunity to consider how LGBTQ individuals and communities will organise in the face of increased penalties for peaceful public protest in NSW, and unease about police use of platform biometrics and related issues of privacy and consent. The launch of Dr Ellis’ monograph will be followed by a discussion on these issues chaired by Institute of Criminology co-director Dr Carolyn McKay, and between Professor Kane Race, Dr Justin Ellis and Mr Josh Pallas – president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties. Please join us for this timely and important discussion.
About the author
Dr Justin Ellis is a senior lecturer in criminology at the Newcastle Law School and the editor-in-chief of Current Issues in Criminal Justice, the journal of the Institute of Criminology at the Sydney Law School. His research examines the relationship between digital media technologies, institutional trust and politically vulnerable populations, LGBTQ in particular. His scholarship on these issues is regularly published in high-ranking internationally peer-reviewed journals and in media commentary.
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Tuesday 28 February 2023, 6pm (AEDT)
Venue:Â University of Sydney, Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
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This event is presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at Sydney Law School.

Gender persecution: New frontiers in international criminal law
2023-03-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Gender persecution: New frontiers in international criminal law
In-person event

The Sydney Centre for International Law warmly invites Sydney Law School staff, students and external guests to this conversation on the crime against humanity of â€˜gender persecution’, which is currently being prosecuted for the first time in the International Criminal Court.
This event is free of charge, but registration is required.
Speakers:
Lisa Davis, Special Advisor on Gender Persecution to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor and Associate Professor at The City University of New York (CUNY) Law School
in conversation with
Rosemary Grey, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law

Wednesday 1 March 2023
Time: 1-2pm AEDT
Venue: University of Sydney, Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building Annex (F10A), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD Points: 1

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

Beyond Punishment Seminar: Transforming rehabilitation through digital technology
2023-03-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Beyond Punishment Seminar: Transforming rehabilitation through digital technology
In-person event

Institutions of criminal justice are not isolated from broader trends in society – and developments in the application of technologies in prisons have made it important to reconsider the role of digital technologies in rehabilitation.
What is the role of digital technologies in the context of the rehabilitative aim of prisons? What ought it to be? How is this role likely to develop in the future? And what challenges need to be borne in mind when answering these questions?
These issues will be the focus of the Beyond Punishment Seminar: Transforming Rehabilitation Through Digital Technology, which is hosted by the Sydney Institute of Criminology in conjunction with Corrective Services NSW at the Sydney Law School.
A good first step is to assess the current state of play regarding potentially rehabilitative technologies in prisons. The seminar will examine the roll-out of android tablet devices in NSW prisons and the impacts on family visits, health services and education of people in prison, especially since the Covid-19 prison lockdowns, and it will also examine how the devices can be used to deliver effective programs of rehabilitation.
How are tablet devices employed in prison? Do they lead to greater participation in rehabilitation or mean that people in prison socially withdraw? Can android devices address reintegration back into society and minimise issues of digital illiteracy? Is this an initiative that can ultimately decrease re-offending rates?
Technologies are never politically neutral and often raise ethical issues that need to be considered, particularly in the context of criminal justice’s rehabilitative aims and this seminar will aim to consider these ethical issues and to try to answer some of the questions raised above.

Our panel will be moderated by:
Dr Carolyn McKay, Sydney Institute of Criminology, Co-Director
Carolyn 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 Co-Director 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, â€˜The Pixelated Prisoner: Prison video links, court â€˜appearance’ and the justice matrix‘ (2018).
Panel Members:
Luke Grant, Deputy Commissioner, Corrections Strategy and Governance, Corrective Services NSW
Luke joined Corrective Services NSW in the 1991 and held a number of executive positions prior to his appointment as Assistant Commissioner Inmate Management in 2000. He has worked at the coalface in the areas of inmate classification, offender rehabilitation programs and services and inmate education. Luke was appointed to the role of Deputy Commissioner Corrections Strategy and Policy in 2020 and Deputy Commissioner of Strategy and Governance in 2022. In this role Mr Grant leads the development of Corrective Services strategy, policies, and practice as well as overseeing the interaction with partner organisations and service providers.
Renee Van Aaken, Acting Director – Reducing Recidivism (Premiers Priority) at Department of Communities and Justice
Renee is an experienced leader in the Criminal Justice sector, with extensive and diverse experience including being operational in prisons, senior management, and strategic areas. Renee is passionate about making a difference, for people impacted by the criminal justice system and those working within what is a very challenging environment. She is driven to implement change effectively and is currently focused on several projects supporting the Premier’s Priority to Reduce Recidivism. A new and exciting area interest for Renee is Correctional Technology, leading the development and implementation of a business case for a $40m program to transform prisoner rehabilitation through technology in CSNSW.
Steven Van De Steene,Â Smart Corrections
Steven is an Enterprise Architect specialised in technology in corrections. He works as a consultant in innovation and digital strategies for prisons and probation services. He is also active as a researcher, affiliated to the Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and as board member of the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) he is the liaison for the technology solutions network within the association. Steven is actively promoting more research in this field and works closely together with universities across the globe to enhance our knowledge on the opportunities as well as the risks and ethical questions related to the use of technology in corrections.
Professor Mark Halsey, Flinders University
Mark is a Professor of Criminology at Flinders University, South Australia. He has a long-standing interest in the intended and unintended consequences of incarceration as well as the conditions which facilitate and impede desistance from crime. Mark’s books include Young Offenders (Palgrave), Tackling Correctional Corruption (Springer), Generations Through Prison (Routledge) and Power and Pain in the Modern Prison (Oxford).

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Thursday 2 March 2023, 6-8pm, followed by a cocktail reception
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Watch the event recording here.
This event is presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology in conjunction with Corrective Services NSW at the Sydney Law School.

Conflict-of-norms in the information society: national security and cross-border data flow
2023-03-03 11:00 - 12:00
Conflict-of-norms in the information society: national security and cross-border data flow
Online event
National security has increasingly become a concern for cross-border data flow. In this panel discussion, we will survey the conflicts and potential collaboration between protecting national security and enhancing digital trade. Our distinguished panel will cover relevant laws and practices in big (the US and China), medium (the UK), and small (Vietnam and Taiwan) jurisdictions.
Speakers

Professor Anupam ChanderÂ (Professor, Georgetown University)

Trump v. TikTok:Â How a Chinese big tech platform defeated the President of the United States, and why that’s important for free expression
When then-President Donald Trump sought to ban TikTok, ostensibly because of its Chinese roots, US courts came to TikTok’s rescue. Rather than deferring to the president’s claims of a national security emergency justifying the ban, courts held that the president lacked statutory authority to ban TikTok. This talk will explain why, and what was at stake in this struggle.

Ms. Nguyen Ha (Visiting Scholar Harvard University, Research & Teaching Associate Monash University)

Conflicting cybersecurity norms in Vietnam: the borrowing of local actors
As scholars grapple with the complexity of international cybersecurity, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam offers a surprisingly rich snapshot of cybersecurity norms in the global arena. This talk discusses the Vietnamese cybersecurity regime that has been shaped by local actors, who borrowed conflicting cybersecurity norms from international laws and trade agreements.

Dr. Phoebe LiÂ (Reader, Sussex University)

How national security is shaping digital sovereignty: the cases of middle power countries
Economic security has been a main driver for countries to develop digital and data sovereignty in order to protection national security. This talk will discuss the comparative efforts of the UK government in developing an AI strategy after leaving the EU and how the Taiwanese National Security Law has been strengthened by the recent law reform in trade secrets protection.

Moderators/commentators
â€¢Â Dr.Â Han-Wei LiuÂ (Senior Lecturer, Monash University)
â€¢Â Dr. Jie (Jeanne) HuangÂ (Associate Professor Sydney University, Visiting Scholar Harvard University)

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Friday 3 March, 11am-12pm AEDT (Thursday 2 March, 7-8pm EST)
This event is being heldÂ online.Â
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This event is presented by the Sydney Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney and Private International Law, Monash University, and Law & Technology interest groups of the American Society of International Law.

Development of the Common Law by Analogy to Statute
2023-03-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Development of the common law by analogy to statute
In-person event
In recent decades the importance of statute within Australian law has increased enormously. Legislation has proliferated in size, number and scope; and many of these statutes contain underlying policies, values and ideas which the common law is capable of taking cognisance of. This gives rise to the question addressed by Adam Waldman and Michael Gvozdenovic in this face-to-face presentation: can the common law develop by analogy to statute?
Part I of the presentation will consider how attitudes across the common law world have shifted towards recognising a stronger interrelationship between statute and the common law. This has paved the way for the recognition of analogical reasoning to statute in Australia.
Part II will examine the High Court’s jurisprudence on this form of judicial reasoning. It will closely examine the authorities that have explicitly discussed it, which appear to have left the legitimacy of such reasoning open. It will then identify numerous High Court cases which have developed the common law by analogy to statute, albeit often without explicitly recognising that they are doing so. Considered together, these cases demonstrate that such reasoning must be legitimate in Australia.
Part III will then compare this Australian jurisprudence to that of the United States, which is the jurisdiction in which such reasoning was first pioneered. It will consider whether the American jurisprudence supports the legitimacy of this reasoning, and what lessons might be drawn from it.
Speakers
Adam Waldman, Colin Phegan Associate Lecturer, Sydney Law School
Michael Gvozdenovic, Herbert Smith Freehills and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School
Commentator
Hon Justice Mark Leeming, New South Wales Court of Appeal, Challis Lecturer in Equity, Sydney Law School
Chair
Dr Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School
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Monday 6 March, 2023
Time:Â 6-7pm
Venue: The University of Sydney, Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD Points:Â 1
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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This event is proudly presented by theÂ Ross Parsons CentreÂ at Sydney Law School.

The Work of the Mental Health Review Tribunal
2023-03-09 00:00
2022-23 Criminal Law CPD Series:
The Work of the Mental Health Review Tribunal
Professional Skills
CPD Points: 1.5
About
Balancing the competing priorities of offenders with mental health diagnoses, the community, and the criminal justice system more broadly, is complicated. At the intersection of those interests sits the Mental Health Review Tribunal. The Tribunal endeavours to acknowledge and respect the dignity, autonomy, diversity and individuality of those whose matters it hears and determines. But how are these outcomes achieved? What are the characteristics of those best-practice features in a rapidly developing criminal justice system? – especially as it grapples with growing rates of mental illness and more complex mental health questions.Â District Court Judge and President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal Paul Lakatos SC considers these questions, as well as theÂ balancing of priorities between the criminal justice system and the health system as a point of focus that is rapidly taking on greater importance and, indeed, engaging more resources. This presentation will assist legal practitioners practising criminal law with an interest in mental health, as well as those practitioners with a lived experience of mental health.
Presenter
Judge Paul Lakatos SC commenced his professional career working as a solicitor for the Aboriginal Legal Service in 1977. He continued his work in the Sydney metropolitan area representing indigent clients with the Public Solicitor’s Office from 1978. In 1982 Judge Lakatos SC led a team of investigators including the AFP, ATO investigators and forensic accountants, investigating bottom of the harbour tax schemes at the Special Prosecutors Office. In 1984 he was admitted as a Barrister, practising in Criminal Law; Administrative Law; Appellate Law; Coronial inquiries and before ICAC and the Police Integrity Commission – and as counsel assisting ICAC and the State Coroner. In 2005, Judge Lakatos was appointed as senior counsel and, in 2008, was appointed as a Judge of the District Court of NSW. Judge Paul Lakatos SC commenced as the President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal in 2019, where he oversees its functions. He also sits on Tribunal hearings in both forensic and civil jurisdictions. Most recently, he was appointed an ICAC Commissioner. This appointment will take effect in mid-September 2022.

Registration
Full series (7 webinars) = $300
Individual webinar(s) = $50

CLICK HERE to register
This webinar will be released on 9 March 2023.

You will receive a webinar link on this date, and can also register at a later date to catch up in your own time.Â

About the series
The 2022-23 Criminal Law CPD series, presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology is an innovative educational program made up of 7 recorded webinars delivered by eminent speakers from the University of Sydney and the legal profession.
A new webinar will be released each month from September 2022 – March 2023. Quizzes will be included to test your comprehension of the material being discussed.
Register now for the full series or individual webinars and enjoy the flexibility of watching at your own pace from any location at any time.
View flyer here

Program Schedule

Title
Presenter
CPD area
Recording release date

1. Should Deceptive Sex Always Be Rape?
Dr Andrew Dyer
Substantive Law
Thursday, 29 September 2022

2. The Role of the Crown Prosecutor in NSW
Mr Brett Hatfield
Practice Management and Business Skills, Ethics and professional responsibility
Thursday, 20 October 2022

3. The Reliability and Credibility of Eyewitnesses
Associate Professor Helen Paterson
Substantive Law
Thursday, 24 November 2022

4. Ethical Practice for Junior Criminal Law Barristers
Ms Talitha Hennessy
Ethics and professional responsibility
Thursday, 15 December 2022

5. Myths, Misconceptions and Mixed Messages: An Early Look at the New Tendency and Coincidence Evidence Provisions
Professor David Hamer
Substantive Law
Thursday, 19 January 2023

6. Advocacy in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal
John Stratton SC
Professional Skills
Thursday, 9 February 2023

7. The Work of the Mental Health Review Tribunal
Judge Paul Lakatos SC
Professional Skills
Thursday, 9 March 2023

Information for lawyers and barristers
If this educational activity is relevant to your professional development and practice of the law, then you should claim 1.5 MCLE/CPD points per seminar attended or 10.5 units for the full series. Practitioners are advised to check with the CPD governing body in their jurisdiction for the most accurate and up-to-date information. Find out about interstate accreditation.
For further enquiries: T +61 2 9351 0248
E law.events@sydney.edu.au

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Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Small business restructuring: The US experience
2023-03-21 08:00 - 09:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Small business restructuring: The US experience
Online event
This webinar will consider the SME restructuring reforms introduced in 2020 in SubChapter V of Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code. The presenter will examine how the recent reforms have performed and compare this experience with other small business restructuring provisions under Chapter 11. The session will also discuss the Australian experience with SME restructuring.
Speakers
Presenter: Prof Brook Gotberg (Francis R. Kirkham Professor of Law, Brigham Young University, Utah USA)
Professor Gotberg teaches Bankruptcy, Contracts, Secured Transactions and other commercial law subjects at BYU Law in the United States. Professor Gotberg’s scholarship focuses primarily on debtor and creditor relations, both in and out of bankruptcy. She has published articles on the impact of bankruptcy provisions on small and medium-sized enterprises, the treatment of preferential transfers in the bankruptcy code, and more generally on the laws and policies shaping business reorganization in the United States.
Commentator: Mark Robinson (dVT Group)
Mark has over 25 years experience in turnaround and insolvency, strategy, operations and risk management. Mark is a registered liquidator and registered bankruptcy trustee and is a former president of ARITA and former president of INSOL International.
Chair: Dr Jason Harris (Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School)
Tuesday 21 March, 8am AEDT

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

CBA and Crown Casino: Tales of Risk Governance Failures
2023-04-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
Let’s Talk About Corporations: CBA and Crown Casino: Tales of Risk Governance Failures
In-person event
In this presentation Dr Vicky Comino reflects on the regulatory treatment of the CBA and Crown Casino and examines the challenges of addressing financial crime in corporate settings. She uses the investigations into the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Crown Casino as case studies to consider the link between organisational culture, wrongdoing and regulatory treatment with a view to drawing out lessons for regulators and other sectors beyond banking and gaming.
Mr Jamie Kelly joins Dr Comino to reflect on what â€˜good’ risk governance looks like, drawing on global regulatory experiences in risk culture, compliance and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF).
About the speakers
Dr Vicky Comino
Dr Vicky CominoÂ has enjoyed a long career as an academic in the Law School at the University of Queensland. Vicky teaches corporate law and is recognized as a leading corporate law scholar. Her book,Â Australia’s â€˜Company Law Watchdog’: ASIC and Corporate Regulation, published in 2015 is the definitive text on corporate regulation in Australia. She is regularly sought out for media comment, to present at conferences and invitedÂ to make submissions and provide input through involvement in consultation processes to government on key law reform initiatives.Â Her work has also beenÂ cited by the courts (eg, in the notorious James Hardie litigation which determined in the High Court of Australia) and in government reports (eg, the Final Report of the recent Banking Royal Commission), demonstrating her ability to produce research with real world impact.
Before joining the academy, Vicky practiced as a solicitor in a top-tier legal firm in Brisbane. She has maintained her professional links with the legal profession and with industry, including serving on the Executive (since 2012) and as Chair (since 2016)Â of a major Queensland Law Society Committee for the accreditation of Business Law Specialists.
Jamie Kelly
Jamie specialises in Compliance and Conduct risk management in EY’s Financial Services Consulting practice in Australia. Jamie brings a depth of insight and lived experience to support organisations in achieving sustainable compliance and fair customer outcomes. Jamie has deep practitioner knowledge of risk management, including frameworks, risk appetite, governance, policies and procedures, risk taxonomy, obligations, monitoring/surveillance, as well as supporting technology.Â He is experienced in navigating complex regulatory change and substantial regulatory interactions both domestically and internationally, including responding to Enforceable Undertakings. Prior to EY, Jamie was Chief Compliance Officer at Westpac, with responsibilities for compliance, conduct and financial crime.Â Jamie also spent a decade in Singapore, where he was the Global Head of Legal and Compliance Standard Chartered Bank.Â Jamie started his career as a lawyer at Freehills. Jamie holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Law (Hons).
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
Find out more about the series.
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Thursday 13 April, 2023
Time: 6-7.30pm AEST (Seminar from 6-7pm, with drinks and canapes to follow)
Venue: TBA
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theory
2023-04-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theory
In-person event

In this talk, Dr Ntina Tzouvala sets out to defend the potential for legal theory of what Edward Said called â€˜contrapuntal reading’, Louis Althusser (drawing from Jacques Lacan) described as â€˜symptomatic read-ing’, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick denounced as â€˜paranoid reading’. Albeit different in their origins and orientation, all three approaches demand that we take law seriously, but not literally. They suggest that legal texts neither are nor can be made complete and coherent and they presume that nobody is in full control of those text, perhaps least of all their authors.
Dr Tzouvala argues that this â€˜hermeneutics of suspicion’ (Ricoeur, 1970) establishes the specificity of (critical) legal theory as opposed to both doctrinal work that strives for consistency and to a particular form of legal history and legal biography that place the conscious plans, desires and ideas of the individual subject at the centre of the law. Importantly, this approach does not simply defer to ‘politics’ for the validity for its arguments but posits that symptomatic reading is the only way to establish rigorous knowledge of the law as an autonomous subject.
About the speaker:
Dr Ntina Tzouvala
Dr Ntina Tzouvala’s work focuses on the political economy, history and theory of international law. She is especially interested in historical materialism, deconstruction, feminist and queer legal theory. Her first monograph,Â Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law,Â was published by Cambridge University Press in late 2020. Her book was awarded the 2022 ASIL Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship and the Australian Legal Research Award (ALRA) in the book category. In addition, it was shortlisted for the Deutscher Prize and was awarded a honourable mention in the context of the 2021 Sussex Prize in International Theory. Her work has also appeared in leading journals, including the European Journal of International Law, the Leiden Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Economic Law.
Between 2019 and 2021 Ntina was a founding member of the editorial collective of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review. In early 2020, she was appointed Senior Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

Thursday 20 April 2023, 6-7.30pmÂ AEDT
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus

CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is co-hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence and the Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

Stand-up, fight back: Defending protest in NSW
2023-04-27 18:00 - 19:30 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Stand-up, fight back: Defending protest in NSW
In-person event
We know that activism changes history and the right to stand together and peacefully protest must be protected and defended for every citizen not pared back. Peaceful protestors should never face incarceration.
Yet, both major parties in NSW joined forces a year ago to support draconian regulations to make it a crime punishable by up to 2 years in jail and a $22,000 fine, to block entrances to train stations, ports and public and private infrastructure.
The implications of criminalising protest at iconic sites like Town Hall and Oxford Street is unimaginable to ordinary Australians who have watched and actively participated in protests across countless human rights issues. Rallies for Marriage Equality, Black Lives Matter, School Strike 4 Climate and May Day could all be illegal under these laws.
What can we do? What should we do?
Our panel, chaired by Professor Simon Rice will explore these questions.
This is a free event as part of a calendar of events celebrating 60 years of activism from the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties and jointly organised by the University of Sydney Law School and NSW Council for Civil Liberties.
About the speakers
Professor Simon Rice (OAM)Â isÂ the Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice at the University of Sydney Law School, and a consultant lawyer at Chalk & Behrendt. Simon has practised extensively in poverty law in community legal centres, particularly anti-discrimination law.Â He has been President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, and an adviser to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights.Â He has encountered the police while observing protests.
Josh Pallas (he/him) is the President of the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties. Josh is also PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney Law School researching at the intersection of criminal and public law. He was previously a criminal and public lawyer in both government and private practice. Josh has published in criminal law and taught in a range of law and international relations subjects at the University of Sydney and University of Wollongong.
Amal Naser is a Palestinian organiser and third-generation refugee. She lives on unceded Bidjigal land. Amal is currently studying a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNSW. She is currently conductingÂ a critical analysis of the criminalisation of protest in liberal democracies using Marxist State Theory for her law honours project. Amal has a strong interest in the intersection of the law and the rights of Indigenous persons and was the Human Rights Defender intern at the Australian Human Rights Institute for summer 2022/23.
Dr Jeff GordonÂ is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School.Â Jeff specialises in free speech and judicial federalism, most recently writing on the law of protest during the COVID-19 pandemic.Â Jeff’sÂ work spans public and private law, exploring free expression, judicial federalism, speech torts, non-disclosure agreements and equitable relief.
Luc Velez (he/him) is a student activist organising on stolen Gadigal and Bidjigal land. Passionate about economic and environmental justice, Luc was the 2022 National Education Officer of the National Union of Students. He has been involved in national campaigns on climate justice, free education and student unionism reforms. Luc is studying a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics at UNSW after having spent two years studying fashion in France.
Kavita Naidu is a feminist climate activist and international human rights lawyer from Fiji-Australia specialising in climate justice for grassroots women in all their diversity in Asia and the Pacific. WithÂ over 16 years of diverse experience working in the Pacific, Asia and the UK, Kavita has worked at the Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, government bodies and the private sector.Â Kavita was involved with the UN Free & Equal campaign in the Pacific, the Global Women’s Strike and the feminist bloc for the climate marches in COP25 & COP26.Â Kavita served as a Board member with Greenpeace Australia Pacific and is currently a board member with AkitvAsiaÂ and Progressive International.
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Thursday 27 April 2023
Time:Â 6-7.30pm
Venue:Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties.

Critical issues in international space law: 2023 and beyond
2023-05-10 17:30 - 19:30 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Critical issues in international space law: 2023 and beyond
Panel discussion and cocktail reception
In-person event
We are entering a new era of space exploration and exploitation, placing space law at the forefront of the international legal agenda. In this commercial space age, private space companies pursue their corporate agendas alongside the public initiatives of national space agencies. The domain of â€˜space’ is now more congested, competitive and commercialised than any previous era. The advances in space technology have brought with it new challenges including, but not limited to concerns relating to space debris, the cluttering of orbits, spectrum allocations, space militarisation and weaponization, mining of space resources, space tourism, commercialisation and space sustainability. The rapid evolution of the space industry raises the question of whether the existing international legal framework effectively addresses these emerging challenges.
This panel will consider some of the present critical issues in space law and the challenges going forward for space global governance.
Welcome and launch of Sydney Law School’s Space Law program
Professor Simon Bronitt (Head of School and Dean, Sydney Law School)
Introduction to panel discussion
Isobel Haddow (Industry Analyst, Space Industry Association of Australia)
Panel chair
Professor Chester BrownÂ (Sydney Law School)

Panelists
Dr Rebecca ConnollyÂ (Sydney Law School)
Crowding of the Low-Earth Orbit – the rise in military and commercial space assets in the LEO.
With the cost to access space rapidly decreasing, we are witnessing a rush to place commercial and military assets in the LEO. The rapid increase in these space assets raises complex issues relating to space-traffic management, orbital collisions, national security, space debris, impacts on astronomy and overall space sustainability. This talk will discuss the crowding and competition in the LEO and the need for regulation.
Dr Annie Handmer
Space Debris – mitigation and remediation strategies and the challenge of dual-use technologies.
This talk will discuss the importance of a multi-disciplinary perspective to tackle challenging regulatory issues relating to the rising cloud of space debris. In particular, the relevance of Science and Technology Studies as a lens through which to understand space law and to address the interwoven issues of politics, technology and social concerns going forward.
Professor Steven FreelandÂ (Western Sydney University/Bond University, Law)
Space Law â€œBig Issuesâ€ – the geopolitics of space and the challenges of achieving multilateral consensus.
The past few decades have witnessed significant changes to the space landscape. While the existing international space law represents an important base for regulation, it is clear that further multilateral standards and instruments will be required to more comprehensively address the next stage of space activities. This talk will discuss the challenges for achieving global space governance on some of the â€˜big issues’ in space law and the pathway forward.
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Wednesday 10 May, 2023
Time:Â 5.30-7.30pm AESTÂ (5.30pm registration for 5.45pm start, followed by a cocktail reception)
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown Campus
CPD Points:Â 2
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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This event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the Space Industry Association of Australia.

JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experience
2023-05-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experience
In-person event

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously maintained that â€œthe life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.â€ Holmes statement suggests an antecedent question: what is the life of the law? This essay construes this question ontologically. What gives law life? What animates it, and in so doing warrants the claim that law contributes to the production of social order in a particular community?
The answer, I contend, is that law lives, or exists, only in those societies where law rules, and law rules only when the exercise of political power is conducted under the supervision of lawyers, agents for whom realizing the rule of law is a calling or vocation. Perhaps surprisingly, I contend that the most prominent proponent of this account of law in the field of international law and legal theory is Martti Koskenniemi. While he generally eschews talk of government in accordance with the rule of law in favor of â€œa culture of formalismâ€ and â€œconstitutionalism as a mindset,â€ I demonstrate that Koskenniemi defends the same conception of law that Lon Fuller and Ronald Dworkin do. This conception identifies law not with rules or institutions but with a particular approach to the exercise of political power, one premised on actors reciprocal regard for one another as autonomous and responsible agents.
Read the paper here.
About the speaker:
David Lefkowitz
David Lefkowitz is Professor of Philosophy and the founding Coordinator of the Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law (PPEL) at the University of Richmond (US). His scholarship focuses largely on conceptual and normative questions in international law, and the morality of obedience and disobedience to law. He is the author of Philosophy and International Law: A Critical Introduction (CUP 2020), as well as more than forty journal articles and book chapters. Lefkowitz has held research fellowships at Princeton University, the U.S. Naval Academy, and National University of Singapore, and served as a visiting research scholar at Pompeu Fabra University.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 6-7.30pmÂ AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is co-hosted by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ and theÂ Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

Book launch: Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski
2023-05-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Book launch: Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski
In-person event
The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Chair in Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School.
The book will be launched by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG.
About Constitutional Public Reason
Public reason, which urges that only laws based on principles reasonably agreeable to all those bound by them are legitimate, has rarely been applied to constitutional law, and never in a comparative way. This book aspires to fill that gap, by studying the use of public reason in different constitutional systems. In doing so, it studies public reason both as a normative idea – as a principle postulated for democratic constitutionalism, and as a descriptive account – as helping to understand many important doctrines in constitutional adjudication of some leading constitutional courts around the world, and also in the supranational sphere.
Constitutional Public Reason questions the performance of leading ‘exemplars of public reasons’, including the top courts of the United States, India, Canada, Australia, Germany, and South Africa, as well as the European Court of Human Rights. It also attempts to show how this performance can be improved in fields such as freedom of expression, non-establishment of religion, and anti-discrimination law. Ultimately, it finds that the best resonance between the ideal of public reason and constitutional interpretation is found in doctrines that locate the illegitimacy of laws in the wrongful motives (or purposes) pursued by legislators. Scrutinising motives is often as important as scrutinising consequences.
Find out more about the book and order it online here.
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Monday 15 May 2023
Time: 5.30-7pm (including a cocktail reception)
Venue: Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10)
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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About the author
Wojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor of the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw; formerly Professor and Head of Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He is author of several books, most recently Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown (2019) and Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe (2012). He regularly teaches, as visiting professor, in top universities around the world, including at Yale and New York Universities.
CPD Points: 1
This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School.

Let's Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate law
2023-05-18 12:00 - 13:00
Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate law
Online event
In this seminar, Kerry Abadee will consider proposals for the reform of the regulatory architecture including the Hayne Royal Commission’s proposal for a new federal civil law enforcement body for corporate law.
About the speakers
Kerry Abadee
Kerry is a graduate of Macquarie University (Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (Honours)) and The University of Sydney (Master of Laws). She worked as a legal practitioner in private practice in the field of commercial litigation for more than 20 years and then for several years in enforcement as a senior manager at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.Â Kerry is a doctoral candidate in the Sydney Law School at The University of Sydney where she is researching corporate regulation and teaches corporate law.
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
Find out more about the series.
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Thursday 18 May, 2023
Time: 12-1pm AEST
Location:Â Online webinar via Zoom
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

Is Sustainable Finance nothing more than Woke Capitalism"?
2023-05-22 18:00 - 19:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
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JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts
2023-05-23 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts
In-person event
In Judgment SU-151/2020 the Constitutional Court of Colombia rendered its decision on a constitutional complaint of a group of journalists. They claim that in certain criminal cases concerning possible corruption by government officials, prosecutors and judges were unsatisfyingly prohibiting the press to attend public criminal law hearings. The petitioners claimed that judges and prosecutors use to limit the constitutional right to free press outside of those exceptions and by means of disproportionate decisions.
The Court made an open call to journalists, prosecutors, judges, and other interested parties to send short videos or writings with relevant information or their views concerning the issue at hand. The Court received 37 videos and writings. All materials were posted online, and people wrote comments on them. The Court was able to process those materials, which reveal that there was indeed and unconstitutional practice. However, the Court could have never processed that information, had it received hundreds or thousands of pieces of information.
This example illustrates how crowdsourcing can assist constitutional courts to overcome their epistemic deficiencies for solving constitutional cases. Those deficiencies can relate to factual or normative matters. Nevertheless, this advantage does not come without risks. Judicial crowdsourcing can be meaningless if it is misused as a mechanism of democratic window-dressing. This risk instantiates if, as it may happen with other mechanisms of digital democracy, it is entirely shaped and controlled by representatives of â€œexisting entrenched social and economic interestsâ€ or if constitutional procedural laws include an empowerment for judges to disregard or supersede outcomes of crowdsourcing processes without justification. Furthermore, power brokers can manipulate crowdsourcing mechanisms. Additionally, judicial crowdsourcing can be trivialized if citizens’ suggestions do not elicit deliberation among judges and remain only as an expression lacking any kind of impact. Finally, constitutional courts can use artificial intelligence to analyse big amounts of information that stake-holders submit in the crowdsourcing process. The use of artificial intelligence for those purposes also raises specific concerns of algocratia, opacity, and algorithmic discrimination.
Within the context, the aim of this presentation is to assess the advantages and disadvantages of the use of crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence by Constitutional Courts in complex cases of constitutional adjudication.
About the speaker:
Carlos Bernal
Carlos Bernal is Commissioner of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. He is professor of law at the University of Dayton (Ohio, USA) and Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). Between 2017 and 2020, he was Justice at the Colombian Constitutional Court. His qualifications include a LL.B. from the University Externado of Colombia (BogotÃ¡ – Colombia) (1996), a S.J.D. from the University of Salamanca (Spain) (2001), and a M.A. (2008) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (2011) from the University of Florida (U.S.A).
Prof. Bernal’s research focuses on constitutional rights’ interpretation, comparative constitutional change, general jurisprudence -in particular, on the intersection between social ontology and legal theory-, and the philosophical foundations of tort law. His work has been published in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals, books and edited collections in English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Russian.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 6-7.30pmÂ AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is hosted by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee's corporate insolvency inquiry
2023-05-24 17:30 - 19:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry
Hybrid event
This event will discuss the submissions made to the Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry that is due to release its report at the end of May. The speakers will consider the range of submissions made to the inquiry and discuss potential future law reform in insolvency law.
Speakers
Professor Jason HarrisÂ (Sydney Law School)
Michael MurrayÂ (Murrays Legal)
Chair: Lindsay PowersÂ (Minter Ellison)
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Wednesday 24 May, 2023
Time: 5.30-7pm
Venue:Â The University of Sydney Law School, Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD points:Â 1.5
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This event is proudly co-presented by the Association of Independent Insolvency Practitioners (AIIP) and theÂ Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation LawÂ at Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock
2023-05-26 08:00 - 09:00 | Corrs, Chambers Westgarth
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock
In-person event
â€˜Crowd-sourced funding’ is a new form of online venture capital stock market, open to all investorsâ€”retail and wholesaleâ€”that was only legally authorised in Australia five years ago. It’s like Kickstarter, except the backer gets a share in the company (not a t-shirt), which would be an illegal public offering of unregistered securitiesâ€”absent two acts of Parliament from 2017 and 2018. Since then, under the oversight of ASIC, and learning from experience in the United States, New Zealand, and elsewhere, the Australian crowd-sourced funding market has grown rapidly, doubling almost every yearâ€”yet the market still remains quite small.
This seminar will discuss the law and regulation of crowd-sourced funding in Australia, and compare it with international practice. It will also address the state of the Australian market and what it would take to achieve the full potential of crowd-sourced funding across this vast country.
About the speaker
Andrew A. Schwartz, Professor of Law at the University of Colorado, is a leading international scholar in the field of crowd-sourced funding, and the author of a new book on the subject, Investment Crowdfunding, due to be published by Oxford University Press in July 2023.
Commentator
Steven Rice (Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth)
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Friday 26 May
Time:Â 8-9am
Venue: Corrs, Chambers Westgarth, Level 37, Quay Quarter Tower, 50 Bridge Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.

Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual Causes
2023-05-29 17:30 - 19:00 | King & Wood Mallesons
Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual Causes
In-person event
Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and King & Wood Mallesons are proud to be presenting a seminar with Professor Jane Stapleton. The Law School welcomes the appointment of Professor Jane Stapleton as Honorary Professor of the University of Sydney.
About the seminar
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK Government decided to take swingeing lock-down measures in March 2020 which resulted in billions of dollars of business interruption loss to hundreds of thousands of enterprises in that country. In a landmark 2021 decision concerning insurance cover for such losses a unanimous UK Supreme Court confirmed that the law recognises that an unnecessary and insufficient factor may be a factual cause of an indivisible loss.
The talk, presented by Honorary Professor Jane Stapleton (University of Sydney) will describe the revolutionary procedure deployed in the case, how the Justices’ insightful introduction of non-insurance cases and commentary was crucial to the crafting of their decision and how profound an impact that decision may have across the landscape of the law.
The event will be chaired by the Honourable Justice Julie Ward, President of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales.
About the speakers
Jane Stapleton KC (Hon), FBA
Jane Stapleton is an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney Law School and has held academic posts at Oxford, the University of Texas and the Australian National University as well as a number of visiting professorships including at Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia and the European University Institute. She has acted as a consultant in commercial, pharmaceutical, medical and environmental litigation in the US and UK.
She is an Emeritus Council Member of the American Law Institute, an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn, an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. In 2020 she was appointed an Honorary Queen’s Counsel by HM Queen Elizabeth II. In 2022 she stepped down as the 38th Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge where she continues as a Life Fellow.
The Honourable Justice Julie Ward
Justice Ward completed her Bachelor of Laws at Sydney Law School in 1982 with first class honours and the University Medal for law. She was the youngest female partner to be appointed at Mallesons in 1998. In 2008, Justice Ward was the first female solicitor to be directly appointed to the Supreme Court bench.
In 2022, Justice Ward was appointed as President of the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court of NSW, only the second female to be appointed as a President of the Court of Appeal.
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Monday 29 May 2023
Time:Â 5.30-7pmÂ (Registration from 5.30pm for a 5.45-7pm seminar. Cocktail function to follow.)
Venue:Â Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney NSW 2000
CPD points:Â 1.25
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney, and King & Wood Mallesons.

Unpicking torts: Elements, standing requirements and conditions of actionability
2023-06-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Unpicking torts: Elements, standing requirements and conditions of actionability
In-person event

There is a fashion for thinking about torts in terms of recipes: as causes of action made up of a fixed set of ingredients. It is fashion that has adherents in both judicial and juristic circles. Typically, the things that a plaintiff must demonstrate in order to sue in tort are referred to as â€˜elements’ of a tort. But sometimes one comes across talk of the plaintiff’s need to satisfy either a â€˜condition of actionability’ or a â€˜standing requirement’.
This change in language when referring to what the plaintiff must show is ostensibly perplexing. It naturally raises the following questions: (1) how, do the three concepts come apart, and (2) what significance can be attached to any differences between them? These are the questions with which this paper wrestles.
The first contention advanced in the paper is this: while elements and conditions of actionability are in fact discrete juridical entities, standing requirements are not. The second is that recognising the difference possesses considerable practical and theoretical significance.
About the speaker:
Professor John MurphyÂ (The University of Hong Kong)
John Murphy is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong. He was educated in England and holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law. John specialises in the law of torts, and he has authored two monographs in the field:Â The Law of NuisanceÂ (Oxford University Press, 2010) andÂ The Province and Politics of the Economic TortsÂ (Hart Publishing, 2022). For over a decade he was the editor ofÂ Street on TortsÂ , and for even longer he has been one of small group of editors responsible for the production ofÂ Clerk and Lindsell on Torts,Â the leading practitioner work on tort law.
Commentator: Professor Peter CaneÂ (Sydney Law School)
Thursday 1 June 2023
Time:Â 6-7.30pmÂ AEST (Seminar from 6-7pm, with refreshments served afterwards)
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1

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

Private International Law and Voices of Children
2023-06-01 18:00 - 19:30
Private International Law and Voices of Children
Online event
When making decisions, adults should think about how their decisions will affect children. Recent years have witnessed, in private international law cases and legislation, the protection of children is increasingly mingled with gender, indigenous issues, refugees, violence, war, surrogacy technology, etc. This is evidenced by the US Supreme Court 2022 judgmentÂ Golan v. Saada, the Australian caseÂ Secretary, Department of Communities & Justice v Bamfield, the 2023Â German Constitutional Court decision, theÂ Chinese Civil Code, the Australia Family Law (Child Abduction Convention) Amendment (Family Violence) Regulations 2022, and developments at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH Children Conventions) and the United Nations (Convention on the Rights of the ChildÂ and its additionalÂ Protocols).
On this International Children’s Day, let us join thisÂ CAPLUSÂ webinar in cooperation with conflictoflaws.net and American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group to hear voices of children in private international law.
Speakers

Ms. Anna Mary Coburn

After 22-years of public service as a U.S. Department of State Attorney-Advisor for Children’s Issues as well as a USAID Regional Legal Advisor/Senior Advisor for Children/Youth in Conflict, Anna has transitioned to practicing international family law with a focus on child rights cases and issues.

Mr. Philippe Lortie

Philippe is co-head of the International Family and Child Protection Law Division at the Hague Conference on Private International Law Permanent Bureau and has more than 30 years’ experience in the field of child protection.

Ms. Miranda Kaye

Ms Miranda Kaye is an academic at the Faculty of Law in the University of Technology Sydney in Australia and a member of Hague Mothers, a project aiming to end the injustices created by the Hague Child Abduction Convention. She also has experience in the public service (Law Commission of England and Wales) and as a practicing solicitor (family law in the UK).

Professor Lukas Rademacher

Lukas is a Professor of Private Law, Private International Law, and Comparative Law in Kiel, Germany. He studied law at the Universities of DÃ¼sseldorf and Oxford, and received his PhD at the University of MÃ¼nster. He wrote his postdoctoral thesis at the University of Cologne.

Ms. Haitao Ye

Haitao is a lawyer at the Shanghai Office of the Beijing Dacheng Law LLP specializing in marriage and family dispute resolution, family wealth inheritance and management. She is a former experienced judge in civil and commercial trials at the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court in China.
Moderators/commentators
â€¢Â Dr. Jie (Jeanne) HuangÂ (Associate Professor at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney)

Thursday 1 June, 6-7.30pm AEST
(4-5.30am Washington D.C./9-10:30am London/10-11.30am the Hague/4-5.30pm Beijing)

This event is proudly co-presented by theÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney, conflictoflaws.net and the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group.

Let's Talk About Corporations: Rethinking accessorial liability in corporate law
2023-06-15 12:00 - 13:00
Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking accessorial liability in corporate law
Online event
This lunchtime webinar will discuss a paper by Dr Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law at Sydney Law School, that considers accessorial liability in corporate law for civil and criminal breaches of theÂ Corporations Act 2001Â (Cth). A review of recent cases will be undertaken with suggestions on how persons working within corporations can minimise the risk of accessorial liability.
About the speakers
Professor Jason Harris
Professor Jason Harris teaches and researches in the areas of Corporate Law, Insolvency Law, Commercial Law and Contracts. His research is focused on the public and private regulation of financially distressed companies, including debt restructuring, voluntary administration, corporate governance and directors’ duties during financial distress and the regulation of corporate groups. Jason’s research is frequently cited in Supreme Court and Federal Court decisions and has been cited in the High Court of Australia as well as in Commonwealth parliamentary committees and by academic works in Australia and internationally. Jason is an active participant in law reform initiatives through his policy work with theÂ Governance Institute of Australia, theÂ Australian Institute of Company DirectorsÂ and the Corporations and Insolvency Committees of theÂ Law Council of Australia. Jason has served on a number of editorial boards including for theÂ Australian Journal of Corporate Law, theÂ Australian Law JournalÂ and theÂ Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice. Jason is a former president of the Corporate Law Teachers’ Association and has previously held academic positions at UNSW, the ANU and UTS and has had visiting academic roles with Universities in England, Canada and the United States.
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
Find out more about the series.
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Thursday 15 June, 2023
Time: 12-1pm AEST
Location:Â Online webinar via Zoom
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

JSI Seminar | Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia?
2023-06-15 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia?
In-person event

On 28 November 2023, theÂ Voluntary Assisted Dying ActÂ will come into effect in NSW. The Act allows ill persons having decision-making capacity, acting voluntary, and with less than six months to live (12 months in the case of a neurogenerative illness) to request a prescription of a lethal substance to end intolerable suffering. If the medical practitioners responsible for the assessment of the request confirm that the eligibility conditions are satisfied, the patient may decide to self-administer the lethal substance or that the substance is to be administered to the patient by a doctor. TheÂ Voluntary Assisted Dying ActÂ was eventually approved on 19 May 2022 after an exhausting and hard-fought parliamentary debate.
One of the main reasons justifying the opposition to the bill was provided by a slippery slope argument: The legalization of assisted dying would be a first and decisive step towards the gradual acceptance by public opinion, medical professions, and political decision-makers of the medical killing of people unable to consent. Given that this outcome is morally disgraceful, assisted dying should not be permitted in the first place. Slippery slope arguments are popular in a wide range of debates across bioethics, law, and public policy, and are still extensively used to prevent the legalization of assisted dying in countries such as the UK, Germany and Italy. Besides, they are widely employed to prevent policymakers from extending the right to assisted dying to new categories of persons in those jurisdictions where that right is already recognized.
However, it is highly disputed whether arguments of this sort are able to support their conclusions or should rather be dismissed because ill-grounded. In this seminar I will try to answer this question. To do that, I will first show that various versions of the slippery slope arguments are actually present in the debate on assisted dying. I will then claim that the only version of the argument that is not ill-grounded supports the opposite conclusion, namely that the non-recognition of the right to assisted dying may be a first step on the slippery slope to unvoluntary euthanasia in many legal systems.
About the speaker:
Damiano Canale
Damiano Canale is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Critical Thinking at Bocconi University, Milan (Italy). His scholarship mainly focuses on legal reasoning and legal interpretation, the methodology of jurisprudence, the relationship between scientific knowledge and legal knowledge, and the history of legal concepts. He was visiting fellow at the Max-Plank-Institut fÃ¼r EuropÃ¤ische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt a.M.), the Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. He is the author of four books in Italian and his papers have been published in journals such as Law and Philosophy, Ratio Juris, the American Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence, Informal Logic, Argumentation.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 6-7.30pm AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

JSI Workshop | Towards a Moralisation of Jurisprudence? Reflections on the Future of Legal Philosophy
2023-06-27 14:00 - 16:00
JSI Workshop | Towards a Moralisation of Jurisprudence? Reflections on the Future of Legal Philosophy
In-person event
There is a trend in current Anglo-American legal philosophy that is drawing the attention of legal scholars. We could label this trend â€œThe moralisation of jurisprudenceâ€. Its animating idea is as follows: The questions still left open in contemporary jurisprudence can only be addressed by moral theory. Thus, there is no longer room for legal philosophy as an autonomous field of enquiry. The seminar aims to critically discuss this thesis from different theoretical perspectives.
About the speakers:
Professor Damiano Canale
Damiano CanaleÂ is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Critical Thinking at Bocconi University, Milan (Italy). His scholarship mainly focuses on legal reasoning and legal interpretation, the methodology of jurisprudence, the relationship between scientific knowledge and legal knowledge, and the history of legal concepts. He was visiting fellow at the Max-Plank-Institut fÃ¼r EuropÃ¤ische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt a.M.), the Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. He is the author of four books in Italian and his papers have been published in journals such as Law and Philosophy, Ratio Juris, the American Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence, Informal Logic, Argumentation.
Dr Meir Yarom
Meir YaromÂ is the inaugural Julius Stone Postdoctoral Fellow. He has recently completed his PhD entitled ‘Reflections on Coherence in Law’ supervised by Jeremy Waldron at NYU School of Law.
Tuesday, 27 June 2023 2.00 – 4.00pm AEST
Venue: Â Board Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

JSI Seminar: The stability of bad things
2023-07-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: The stability of bad things
In-person event

Political philosophers have long been concerned with how best to ensure the stability of social orders. Stability is assumed to be a good, whether because whatever is good is better for being stably so, or because stability enables cooperation in the pursuit of whatever other goods we have.
But is stability always a good? What of the stability of systems of unfreedom, of forms of oppression and domination? Such systems are stable in the face of constant efforts to shift them. Why is this? Call this the question of the stability of bad things: why bad things are stable despite the fact that they are bad.
In this talk, I examine one central way in which systems of unfreedom are self-stabilizing: through shaping the moral psychology of agents within those systems. Unfreedom is not just a matter of having limited options for choice, but of the ways in which social systems foster in us particular ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. I argue that there are two ways in which this moral psychological shaping stabilizes systems of unfreedom. First, it generates support for those systems, by which I mean not just voluntary upholding of the system but a range of attitudes from consent to resigned participation. Second, it disrupts possibilities of collective resistance to those systems. Understanding these mechanisms of stability might better help us to first resist, and then transform, the systems of unfreedom to which we are all subject.
About the speaker:
Yarran Hominh
Yarran Hominh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bard College. His research sits at the intersection of social and political philosophy with moral psychology. He draws liberally from a variety of traditions of thought and practice, including the pragmatist tradition, the Black radical tradition, Buddhist modernism, and anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-imperial praxis from around the globe. He is working on a book entitledÂ The Problem of UnfreedomÂ and has papers recently published or forthcoming inÂ Philosophers’ Imprint, The Pluralist, the Journal of Legal Philosophy, Comparative PhilosophyÂ and theÂ Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture.Â He is also the Associate Editor of the APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies and is on the editorial board of The Philosopher.

Thursday 13 July 2023, 6-7.30pm AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudence
2023-07-20 11:00 - 13:00 | Board Room, Level 4
JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudence
In-person event
Modern jurisprudence has been tormented by a divide between description and evaluation in legal theory. Proponents argue that the distinction is essential to any clearheaded discussion of law itself and its relation to adjacent normative systems, especially morality. Opponents insist that being the necessarily normative practice it is, a pure description of the law and its theory is untenable. This conversation will bring together legal and moral theorists to shed some novel light on an old problem.
Speakers

Associate Professor Kevin Walton (University of Sydney Law School)
Dr. Yarran Hominh (Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Bard College)
Dr. Alma Diamond (Postdoctoral Fellow in Law & Philosophy, University of Chicago)
Dr. Meir Yarom (Postdoctoral Fellow in Jurisprudence, the Julius Stone Institute, University of Sydney Law School)

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Thursday 20 July, 2023
Time: 11am-1pm
Venue: Level 4, Board Room, New Law Building (F10)
CPD Points: 2
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This event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.

2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Assessing witness credibility: Is it possible to tell whether someone is lying or telling the truth?
2023-07-27 00:00
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Assessing witness credibility: Is it possible to tell whether someone is lying or telling the truth?

Substantive Law
Professional Skills
CPD Points: 1.5
About
Witness testimony can be extremely influential in legal investigations and trials; however, sometimes witnesses lie. Such deception can be detrimental to due process and can result in miscarriages of justice. Thus, it is important for legal personnel and factfinders to be able to determine whether someone is lying or telling the truth.
In an interactive seminar, I will discuss research investigating behavioural and content indicators of deception. This seminar will help legal practitioners understand the difficulties in discriminating liars from truth-tellers as well as the evidence-base for various lie detection techniques.
Presenter
Helen Paterson is an Associate Professor in Forensic Psychology at the University of Sydney. She investigates the reliability and credibility of eyewitnesses. In particular, her research focuses on best practice techniques to collect accurate and complete accounts from eyewitnesses. She also studies lies and the detection of deception.

A recording of this webinar will be released on Thursday, 27 July 2023.
Find out more about the series.

JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance
2023-07-27 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance
In-person event
Victims of oppression are sometimes said to have epistemic privilege in virtue of their marginalised social position into the operation and impact of oppressive social structures. Epistemic privilege sometimes is cited as a basis for deference in social relations between victims and non-victimsâ€”for example, the use of â€˜lived experience’ to resolve or terminate disagreements about social and political oppression. I am interested in whether epistemic privilege can be a basis for duties of mutual assistance between victims, where assistance is understood as mitigating the harms of oppression on other victims without necessarily targeting oppression itself. I outline the ways in which victims of oppression can be said to have epistemic privilege, the limits of this privilege, and what duties of assistance this privilege might ground.
About the speaker:
Ashwini Vasanthakumar
Ashwini VasanthakumarÂ is a political and legal theorist with research interests in political obligation and authority, migration, and the ethics of resistance.
She is currently an Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in Legal & Political Philosophy at Queen’s Law School in Canada. She holds an AB from Harvard, an MA from Toronto, a JD from Yale Law School, and a DPhil from Oxford, where she studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar.
Previously, she has worked at King’s College London, the University of York, University College, Oxford, and Jindal Global Law School. She has also been a Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm) and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School (Berlin).

Thursday 27 July 2023, 6-7.30pmÂ AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review
2023-07-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review
In-person event
This 24-nation review of social enterprise law analyzes data developed by a team of academics and practitioners with deep expertise regarding jurisdictions on six continents. Each responded to the authors’ detailed questionnaire inquiring into the relevant jurisdiction’s legal treatment of entities using business methods to achieve social good. After first identifying the key role of political, cultural and legal baselines in determining the space for and legal treatment of social enterprises, the paper explores the myriad specialized forms and certifications that have been developed to identify firms around the world as social enterprises.
Legal forms are offered exclusively by governments and relevant to a single jurisdiction, while certifications may or may not be public or jurisdiction-specific. Comparing these tools offers guidance to policymakers keen to continue evolving specialized social enterprise forms and certifications across jurisdictions. It also reveals how these identifiers for social enterprise are being used to incentivize the pursuit of social good using business methods. The assurances of trustworthiness provided by distribution constraints and regulatory oversight appear critical to support public subsidization or privileging of social enterprise. Without these protections in place, public incentives for social enterprise are largely absent
About the speaker
Dana Brakman Reiser holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she also served as Vice Dean. She teaches courses in Corporations, Nonprofit Law, Social Enterprise, Property, and Trusts and Estates. A globally recognized expert in the law at the intersection of business and charity, her work on the law of social enterprises – firms that pursue profits for owners and social good – defined the field. She has also written extensively on law and finance for philanthropic organizations and on sustainable investing.
She is a member of the American Law Institute and was an Associate Reporter for its project on the Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations, as well as a past-Chair of the Section on Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law of the American Association of Law Schools and a former member of the executive board of its Section on Business Law. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School.
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Monday 31 July, 2023
Time:Â 1-2pm
Venue:Â The University of Sydney Law School, Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD points:Â 1
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This event is proudly presented by theÂ Ross Parsons CentreÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.
