Online event: In Conversation with Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law (Emerita) Julie Macfarlane Wednesday 28 July, 9 – 10.30am  About the event Sydney Law School in collaboration with Insight Exchange invite you to a virtual event about responses to domestic, family and sexualised violence. The event will feature Distinguished University Professor and […]
JSI seminar: What is the point of going to school?Speaker:Â Dr Luara Ferracioli, The University of Sydney Is there an interest that children have, qua children, which is uniquely or best served by their going to school? In the paper that Dr Luara Ferracioli will present at this seminar, she and Dr Ryan Cox argue that […]
JSI Seminar: Expertise for the End of History: The Rise of Comparative Constitutional Law in the 1990sSpeaker: Dr Dylan Lino, University of Queensland Since the 1990s, the fortunes of comparative constitutional law as a field of scholarly enquiry have risen stratospherically. In accounting for the field’s rapid ascent and consolidation, scholars typically identify as the […]
Unilateralism in (International) Economic Law: the Case of Special Economic Zones The international economic regime has entered a new phase of reassertion of sovereignty by States. This phase is especially prominent amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While States continue to show respect for the values of international (economic) law, the institutionalization of these values has devolved […]
JSI Seminar: Law’s PeopleSpeaker: Dr Susan Bartie, University of Tasmania Alice Erh-Soon Tay was appointed as Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney in 1975. She became the first Asian-Australian and second woman to become a law professor at an Australian university. Her appointment brought with it a belief […]
The Public International Law Webinar Series: Keynote addresses by Professor Shotaro Hamamoto and Professor Simon ChestermanThe organisers are pleased to invite you to attend a public international law webinar series that will bring together leading public international law practitioners, academics and arbitrators to discuss topical issues of global importance. The webinar series will be launched […]
Book launch of Law and Justice in Malaysia: 2020 and Beyond“This masterfully edited book … will help readers find where such intricate balance may lie in Malaysian society by introducing a current discussion of justice in the context of Malaysian law …†— From the Foreword by Yong-Shik Lee, Director, The Law and Development Institute, […]
Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: The New Small Business Debtor in Possession Regime – Can it be made to work?Speakers: Eddie Griffith, Partner and Turnaround Practitioner, ReGroup Solutions Eddie has over 20 years’ experience in business recovery, insolvency and turnaround management. Originally commencing at a top 4 firm in the UK, Eddie has […]
The Public International Law Webinar Series: New horizons for investor-state disputesThe organisers are pleased to invite you to attend a public international law webinar series that will bring together leading public international law practitioners, academics and arbitrators to discuss topical issues of global importance. The webinar series will be launched by keynote addresses by Professor […]
JSI Seminar: Fidelity to Real-World Politics: Political Realism under Conditions of ModernitySpeaker: Lukas Opacic, Sydney Law School In recent years, the debate between political moralists and political realists has enjoyed increasing relevance within the philosophical literature, and this presentation adds another voice to that debate. Lukas Opacic begins by outlining what he regards as a […]
Private International Law and Intellectual Property: the ILA Kyoto GuidelinesIn 2020, the 79th Conference of the International Law Association passed the Resolution 6/2020 and adopted the Guidelines on Intellectual Property and Private International Law (‘Kyoto Guidelines’). The Guidelines are part of international efforts to establish a cooperative global system for jurisdiction, choice of law, and […]
Climate extremes on the road to Glasgow Recent climate-induced extreme weather events and disasters around the world have resulted in loss of life, property, infrastructure and livelihoods and have severely disrupted the normal functioning of the societies which they have impacted. The IPCC’s 2021 Sixth Assessment Report confirms that these events are likely to become more frequent […]
