Navigating China's regulatory approach to generative artificial intelligence
2024-05-17 13:00 - 14:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Navigating China’s regulatory approach to generative artificial intelligence
In-person event
In-person event
The rapid development and application of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems have raised growing concerns of their potential risks at a global level. In July 2023, Chinese regulators passed the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services (the Measures). The Measures target various risks associated with this technology, particularly around content safety and security. At the same time, a key policy objective of Beijing is to promote further growth of the industry. The unresolved tensions between such policy objectives are reflected in the Measures’ provisions relating to obligations on generative AI service providers, which present significant challenges in the implementation of the regulation. As Beijing looks to developing a comprehensive legal framework for AI, legislators will need to further clarify and balance the liability of different regulated actors in a range of contexts.
About the speaker
Mimi Zou is Professor of Law and Head of School of the School of Private and Commercial Law, UNSW Sydney. Her research focuses on the impact of new technologies such as AI and blockchain on private and commercial law, and the regulation of new technologies from comparative and international perspectives. Professor Zou has spent most of her academic career in the UK and Hong Kong, and have held senior positions at top universities including a Chair in Commercial Law at the University of Exeter and the first-ever Fellowship in Chinese Law at the University of Oxford.
Friday 17 May
Time: 1-2pm
CPD Points: 1
Venue: Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10)
This event is proudly presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at Sydney Law School and the Chinese Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

JSI Seminar: On Constitutional Review
2024-05-23 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: On Constitutional Review
In-person event
Constitutional review is a continental European instrument of checking the parliamentary legislation for its compliance with the constitution. This practice has a long history traced from ancient Greek democracy to the French and American Revolutions up to the 20th century culminating in Constitutional Courts. The Czechoslovakian experience of its Constitution of 1920 gives a unique perspective on the rule of law and the perennial questions of constitutional review: who should be the guardian of the Constitution? In its contemporary form, this question has become whether the doctrine of the sovereignty of the parliament is a serious obstacle for a too strong (dominant) role of the judiciary the Large scale of competences of the Constitutional courts (except constitutional review). The talk concludes by discussing possible solutions without Constitutional Courts.
About the speaker
Alexander BrÃ¶stlÂ is a Professor of Legal Philosophy in Slovakia. He was formerly a Judge on and later advisor to the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic, as well as a member of the Judicial Council. His career has included positions at Fudan University in Shanghai, and then Slovakian Consul in Beijing. Alexander next spent 18 years in Strasbourg as the Slovak member of the European Charter on Minority Languages. In addition, he has been professor of law at the PJ Å afÃ¡rik University and University of Trnava, and held several high level administrative positions.

Thursday 23 May 2024, 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 theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

JSI Seminar: A republican case for regulatory juries
2024-06-06 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: A republican case for regulatory juries
In-person event
The idea of administrative juries was proposed by David Arkush in 2013, drawing on the republican revival in public-law theory. These proposed juries would make some key policy choices especially underlying delegated lawmaking in the US. The paper challenges some criticisms that have been made of his proposal. It also draws on aspects of the republican tradition not employed by Arkush to support such juries. Indeed, the paper suggests that more extensive delegation could occur where juries are involved. Partly for that reason, the wider term â€˜regulatory juries’ is preferred. The paper argues that such juries may assist in democratising delegated legislation as well as the political system more generally. They could do so not only in the US but also, at least, in the UK and Australia.
About the speaker
Eric GhoshÂ is an Associate Professor in the Law School at the University of New England, where he has taught jurisprudence and administrative law. His research is in constitutional theory, political philosophy and the history of political thought, with a focus on the republican revival in legal scholarship. He is the author of articles published in journals including theÂ History of Political ThoughtÂ andÂ Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. More recently, he wroteÂ Beyond the republican revival: Liberty as non-domination, positive liberty, and sortitionÂ (Hart, 2020).

Thursday 6 June 2024, 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 theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

JSI Workshop: Positive Pluralism and its Limits
2024-06-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Board Room, Level 4
JSI Workshop: Positive Pluralism and its Limits
In-person event
This project asks how freedom of religion should be construed when applied to religious insular communities whose way of life is often at odds with Western assumptions of a good life. I will argue for protection of distinctive religious communal identities as entities in and of themselves that are deserving of constitutional protection on the ground that they contribute to a thick pluralism. I propose a theory of pluralism that is premised on its positive value, and not merely on what John Rawls calls the â€œfact of pluralism.â€ At the same time, I argue that it is equally if not more important to ensure that members of such communities have a meaningful ability to exit from them. The project will spotlight several concrete impediments to the â€œright of exitâ€ in one large insular religious community: the Hasidic community in New York. It will lay out not only how internal communal practicesâ€”including and most notably the lack of secular educationâ€”can hamper members’ ability to exit but also how the state, via its family courts, contribute to its curtailment.
About the speaker
Zalman RothschildÂ is Assistant Professor of Law and Horn Family Distinguished Research Scholar in Law and Religion at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Previously, he was a Bigelow Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. His research focuses on the First Amendment, anti-discrimination law, and law and religion.
Before becoming a Bigelow Fellow, Zalman served as a law clerk to Judge Jane Roth on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and practiced law for several years as a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss. During that time, Zalman was recognized byÂ The American LawyerÂ in its “Litigator of the Week” profile for winning a Fourth Amendment appeal and securing the reversal of all convictions of his client (2021) and received the “On the Riseâ€”Top 40 Young Lawyer” award from the American Bar Association (2022).
Zalman holds a JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Religion from New York University.
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Tuesday 18 June, 2024
Time: 2-3pm
Venue: Level 4, Board Room, New Law Building (F10)
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.

JSI Seminar: Social Rights and Proportionality
2024-06-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Social Rights and Proportionality
In-person event
This seminar outlines a model of proportionality analysis for the adjudication of positive constitutional economic and social rights [hereinafter: social rights]. Three distinctions are the basis of this model: (i) the distinction between empirical and normative aspects of the adjudication of social rights; (ii) between the level and mode of fulfilment of those rights; and (iii) between the competence of political authorities and courts to determine the appropriate level and mode of satisfaction.
About the speaker
Carlos BernalÂ is First Vice-President and 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, human rights, energy transition, and general jurisprudence.
Thursday 20 June 2024, 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 theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

Workshop: The Future of the Criminal Law
2024-06-28 10:00 - 14:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Workshop: The Future of the Criminal Law
In-person event

In the current moment, it is little exaggeration to say the criminal law, and criminal justice more broadly, is in crisis. In liberal legal systems such as that of NSW and other Australian jurisdictions, the idea of a minimalist criminal law (which maximises liberty for individuals) remains a cornerstone principle, but criminal offences have likely never been so numerous. At the same time, questions about the efficacy of our laws loom large, with issues such as gender-based violence, terrorism, and bullying presenting as â€˜wicked problems’ that seem to both demand and resist solution through the criminal law. In addition, moral pluralism belies easy assumptions about the extent of social support for criminal laws, and the role of the criminal law in perpetuating disadvantage for First Nations peoples makes plain its central place in the long shadow of colonialism. In the context of criminal justice, concerns about the operation of the law in relation to policing of young people and those with mental illnesses, the purpose and contours of bail laws, prosecutorial independence, and coordination between states and territories deepen and expand these problems.
Against this background, what is the future of the criminal law? Given the fracturing that has occurred across the criminal law field – from orthodox offences and defences to novel constructions with deeming provisions and reverse burdens – does criminal law remain a coherent field? If not, what do multiple domains of doctrine share, and what limits the scope of the laws? With victim/survivors and advocates and others telling us what doesn’t work, is it possible that the criminal law of the future will be reconstructed, and more circumscribed, than it is at present?

This workshop invites participants to engage in a wide-ranging discussion about the future of the criminal law. The workshop will be structured around three sets of discussions:

Technology and Justice (Chair: Dr Carolyn McKay): Digitalisation has been described as the defining characteristic of 21st century society and its processes are radically transforming the criminal justice system. How do scholars, activists and others respond empirically, conceptually and epistemologically to the role of digital technologies in criminality, control, courts and punishment?
Legal Convergence (Chair: Professor Thomas Crofts): It is increasingly common for jurisdictions to compare and draw on approaches in other jurisdictions when reforming criminal law and criminal law practices. What are the challenges and possibilities of borrowing from the criminal law of other jurisdictions? What does this mean for the future of criminal law? Will this lead to convergence of criminal law on shared social issues?
Legitimacy in Decision-Making and Knowledge Coordination (Chair: Professor Arlie Loughnan): Massive growth in expert knowledges relevant to criminal law decision-making challenges every aspect of criminal law, from law reform, to responsibility attribution and evaluation and adjudication in particular cases. How is the criminal law responding to changes in knowledge conditions? What do they mean for authority and coherence of criminal law?

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Friday 28 June 2024
Time: 10am-2pm
Venue: The University of Sydney, Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD Points:Â TBC
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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This event is proudly presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney Law School.

Re-imagining the laws of nature - storying the rules of hyperconnected futures
2024-07-02 17:30 - 18:30
Re-imagining the laws of nature – storying rules of hyperconnected futures
Online event

In this seminar, Dr Michelle Lim, Sydney Law School’s George Flannery Fellow, argues that rewriting legal systems to include more-than-human perspectives and employing creative writing in legal scholarship can help address global biodiversity loss, reimagine law, and foster hopeful, normalised human-nature relationships.

Each drop a ripple
Concentric circles collide
Tears spiral to hope?
Maria Ojala (2017) defines hope to include â€˜active coping in the face of hardship’. With the very real hardship of global extinction, I argue that form is as important as content when exploring active coping amidst planetary scale social-ecological upheaval. I contend further, that blurring the lines of form and content enables plural worldviews and understandings of natural worlds.
The sheer existence of our more-than-human kin is disappearing on our watch. The IPBES Values Assessment attributes this unprecedented global biodiversity loss to the prioritisation of instrumental values. In other words, dominant worldviews, which emphasise nature’s use and its usefulness to humans, are a fundamental underlying driver of the catastrophic loss of nature. Creative forms of expression present an important means of engaging emotionally with nature’s intrinsic and relational values. Dominant legal systems, however, largely reflect and entrench dominant value systems which foreground the instrumental values of nature. Current laws mostly focus on safeguarding individual rights and property – and by extension the values of nature that can be easily traded in markets.
Michelle Lim contemplates what it would mean to rewrite legal systems with the more-than-human. She considers how storying with nature may allow the re-imagination of law – and of dominant, destructive ways of understanding nature. She argues that creative writing, as a methodology in legal scholarship (and other disciplines), could contribute to the realisation of radically hopeful futures and the normalisation of human-nature relations.

About the speaker
Dr Michelle Lim is an Associate Professor of Law and a Lee Kong Chian Fellow at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, Singapore. Michelle’s work focuses on futures-oriented biodiversity law aimed at advancing equity and sustainability under conditions of unprecedented environmental change. She is increasingly interested in approaches which allows affective engagement with scholarship and explores ways which challenge the form of scholarship including through creative and imaginative means of expression.

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Tuesday 2 July 2024
Time: 5.30-6.30pmÂ
You will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.
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This event is presented by the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law at the University of Sydney Law School in partnership with the Sydney Environment Institute.

Book launch: Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia
2024-07-15 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Book launch: Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia
An analysis of corruption in Indonesia’s courts.

In-person event

The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia by Professor Simon Butt, a revealing book that examines the deep-rooted issues in Indonesia’s judicial system.
Tracing problems back to the authoritarian regimes of Presidents Soekarno and Soeharto, the book explains how the judiciary nearly collapsed by the late 1990s. Despite reforms aimed at improving judicial independence, corruption and inefficiency persist, with judges often acting without accountability.
This essential work offers an empirical analysis of corruption mechanisms, including how bribes are negotiated and paid. It also addresses the impact of public pressure on judicial independence and the prevalence of unsafe convictions.
The book will be launched by Professor Tim Lindsey, University of Melbourne Law School, and Dr Laode Syarif, Executive Director at The Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia, and moderated by Lydia Santoso of the Australia Indonesia Business Council.
The book will be available for purchase on the evening.
Find out more about the book and order it online here.

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Monday 15 July 2024
Time: 6-7.30pm (including a cocktail reception)
Venue: Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
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About the author
Simon Butt is Professor of Indonesian Law at the University of Sydney Law School, where he teaches Indonesian law and Private International Law. Fluent in Indonesian, and having spent years in Indonesia, he has written widely on Indonesian law, including Corruption and Law in Indonesia (2012), The Constitutional Court and Democracy in Indonesia (2015), and co-authored The Constitution of Indonesia: A Contextual Analysis (2012) and Indonesian Law (2018) with Tim Lindsey.
This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School.

The Past, Present, and Future of the Palestine Investigation
2024-07-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
The Past, Present, and Future of the Palestine Investigation
In-person event

On May 20th, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan KC, announced that his Office had applied for arrest warrants against three senior Hamas leaders and two high-ranking Israeli government officials. This talk, which is based on Professor Kevin Jon Heller’s role as Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor, will discuss the past, present, and future of the investigation in Palestine. He will explain what a Special Adviser does, provide a history of the Palestine investigation, discuss the arrest-warrant applications, and offer a few thoughts for what the future might hold for the warrants and the investigation more generally.
About the author:
Kevin Jon HellerÂ is Professor of International Law and Security at the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Military Studies and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. He is an Academic Member of Doughty Street Chambers in London and currently serves as Special Advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on War Crimes.
Prof. Heller’s books includeÂ The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal LawÂ (OUP, 2011) and four co-edited volumes:Â The Handbook of Comparative Criminal LawÂ (Stanford, 2010),Â The Hidden Histories of War Crimes TrialsÂ (OUP, 2013), theÂ Oxford Handbook of International Criminal LawÂ (OUP, 2018), andÂ Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal HistoriesÂ (OUP, 2021). He is currently co-writing a book with Samuel Moyn (Yale) provisionally entitledÂ The Vietnam War and International Law. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the international-law blogÂ Opinio Juris, where he has blogged for more than 17 years.
Prof. Heller has been involved in the practice of international law throughout his career, most notably acting as one of Radovan Karadzic’s formally-appointed legal associates at the ICTY; serving as the plaintiffs’ sole expert witness inÂ Salim v Mitchell, a successful Alien Tort Statute case against the psychologists who designed and administered the CIA’s torture program; functioning as UNITAD’s Special Expert for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law; and acting as legal advisor to and expert witness for Ramzi bin al-Shibh, one of the defendants in the 9/11 trial at Guantanamo Bay.

Wednesday 17 July, 1-2pm AEST
Venue: Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points: 1
This event is proudly presented by the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney Law School

JSI Seminar: Natural Law to Natural Rights to Human Rights
2024-07-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Board Room, Level 4
JSI Seminar: Natural Law to Natural Rights to Human Rights
In-person event
**Please note this event date has been moved to one day earlier than originally advertised.**
Natural law and natural rights are frequently discussed as if they are tightly connected, and human rights are presented as natural rights in a new label. But the relationship between all three is complicated and in tension. Natural law consists of objective legal principles and rules dictating the right course of action: do good and avoid evil, do not murder or steal, honor contracts, and other binding proscriptions and prescriptions. Natural rights, in contrast, are innate subjective rights individuals hold against government and others. This is about individual powers, entitlements, and areas of protection from infringement by others: a right to possess property, to defend one’s life, to exercise free speech, to choose one’s religion, to choose employment and spouses, and so forth.
Thomas Hobbes drew a clear distinction between the two: â€œRIGHT consisteth in liberty to do, or to forbear: whereas LAW, determineth, and bindeth to one of them: so that law, and right, differ as much, as obligation and liberty.â€ Or as John Locke put it, â€œfor right [jus] consists in the fact that we have a free use of something, but law [lex] is that which either commands or forbids some action.â€ A tension arises because natural rights promote freedom while natural law compels conformity. Natural rights and human rights appear obviously connected, since both espouse rights that attach to humans universally. Yet tension exists because natural rights had expired over a century before â€œhuman rightsâ€ obtained recognition, those who recognized human rights did not identify them with natural rights, and the content of the human rights extend far beyond previously recognized natural rights. Natural law, natural rights, and human rights are linked yet distinct.
About the speaker
Brian TamanahaÂ is the John S. Lehmann University Professor at Washington University School of Law. A scholar of jurisprudence and law and society, he has written eleven books, which have collectively received 6 book awards, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages.
Wednesday 24 July 2024, 6-7.30pm AEST – NEW DATE
Venue:Â Level 4, Boardroom, 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.

Julius Stone Address: Law, Philosophy, and the Susceptible Skins of Living Beings
2024-07-31 18:00 - 19:30 | Auditorium 104/105, Michael Spence Building (F23)
Julius Stone Address: Law, Philosophy, and the Susceptible Skins of Living Beings
In-person event

Catherine the Great (apparently) wrote to the French philosopher Diderot something along the lines of: â€œYou philosophers are fortunate. You write on paper, and paper is patient. Unfortunate emperor that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.â€ Catherine expressed, I think, an important insight, that is true of the law as well: the law writes on the susceptible skins of living beings.
This doesn’t mean, of course, that we should not philosophize about the law, or that we should not take advantage of the benefits of having patient paper to write on. But as we do so, we should philosophize about the law all the time fully realizing that the law itself does not write on patient paper, but on the susceptible skins of living beings. This has important implications to how we should – and how we should not – do philosophy of law. This talk elaborates on these implications – both in general, and using more specific examples.
About the speaker
Professor David Enoch
David Enoch is The Professor of the Philosophy of Law at Oxford, and the Rodney Blackman Chair in the Philosophy of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works primarily in moral, political, and legal philosophy.
David studies law and philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and then got his PhD in philosophy at NYU (2003). He has published a book defending moral realism (Taking Morality Seriously, OUP 2011), and many papers mostly in moral, political, and legal philosophy.

Wednesday 31 July, 2024
Time:Â 6-7.30pm
Venue: Auditorium 104/105, Michael Spence Building (F23), City Road, University of Sydney, Camperdown campus

This event is hosted by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.
The Julius Stone Address is generously sponsored by the Educational Heritage Foundation. It is named to commemorate the life and work of Professor Julius Stone, Australia’s foremost legal philosopher and for many years Challis Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney.

Corruption and Investment Arbitration in Asia: New Frontiers
2024-08-01 17:00 - 19:00 | New Law Building (F10)
Corruption and Investment Arbitration in Asia: New Frontiers
In-person event

This seminar hosted by the University of Sydney Law School will involve a local re-launch of a new book on Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration (Teramura, Nottage and Jetin eds, published in Open Access in Springer’s Asia in Transition series in April 2024) and discussion of some new research.
Participants include:

Opening: Professor Simon Bronitt (University of Sydney)
Chair and re-launch: Hon Wayne Martin AC KC (Francis Burt Chambers, former Chief Justice of Western Australia)
Book overview and key findings: Assistant Professor Nobumichi Teramura (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)
New pan-Asian empirical study: Professor Luke Nottage (University of Sydney), with Teramura
China focus: Professor Vivienne Bath and Dr Tianqi Gu (University of Sydney)
Indonesia focus: Professor Simon Butt (University of Sydney) and Antony Crockett, Herbert Smith Freehills (Hong Kong).
Commentator: Dr Amokura Kawharu (President, New Zealand Law Commission)

Click here for more information.

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Thursday 1 August 2024
Time: 5-7pm (including a cocktail reception)
Venue: Sydney Law School, Law Lounge, level 1, New Law Building (F10A), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campusÂ
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This event is presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney Law School and the Australian Network for Japanese Law.

Just Cause Season 2 launch: Celebrating social justice at Sydney Law School
2024-08-06 17:30 - 19:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Just Cause Season 2 launch: Celebrating social justice at Sydney Law School
In-person event
Join us to celebrate the launch of season 2 of â€˜Just Cause,’ a podcast created by staff and students affiliated with the Sydney Law School Social Justice Advisory Board. Learn more about the exciting new season and get a glimpse into the various dimensions of social justice work being done at Sydney Law School. Are you interested in the social justice dimensions of cross examination? Want to know more about what is to come after the Voice Referendum? Whether you are student interested in social justice initiatives and work being done at USyd, an academic seeking to platform your social justice research, or just someone who enjoys podcasts – come join us!
Speakers

Rachel Killean
Juliette Marchant
Charles Hao

Tuesday 6 August, 5.30-7pm AEST
Venue:Â New Law Building (F10), Level 4, Common Room, Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus

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

The proliferation of Chinese surveillance tools overseas: sovereignty, resistance, and debt
2024-08-08 11:30 - 12:30 | Law Lounge, Level 1
The proliferation of Chinese surveillance tools overseas: sovereignty, resistance, and debt
In-person event

The heightened public and scholarly attention to Africa-China relations is chiefly inspired by the growing trade, investment, and aid between Beijing and the Global South. More specifically, the research on digital surveillance in Africa focuses largely on the wide distribution of Chinese technology, drawing attention to the fact that regime type is a poor predictor of the purchase and use of that technology.
Questions concerning how digital technologies work, their high local demand, and how they alter or do not alter state capacity have received far less study. More importantly, though, the literature that has already been written ignores an important paradox: if increased digital surveillance is wanted to support government authority because of its ability to police and administer, it may also work against state sovereignty.
In the latter regard, digital surveillance tools are embedded within processes that result in the privatization of the state. The outsourcing of its functions to Chinese tech giants, like Huawei, has transformed the government, done within the context of a supposedly weak African state that seeks to ameliorate its inefficiencies, in part, into a holding company in the business of franchising out many operations, including police services, and hence much of its sovereignty. This is all done within the context of supposedly weak postcolonial states that seek to improve their states’ practical and technical inefficiencies.
In this presentation, we explore how postcolonial states seek to use scientific knowledge and technology to scale state capacities. Accordingly, it interrogates claims around China’s growing technological footprint, the role of those technologies in emergent forms of state-corporate venture, the nature of African developmental states, and challenges to local data privacy.
This is the first event in the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law HDR/ECR series.
About the speaker
Bulelani Jili is a Meta Research PhD fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include ICT development, Africa-China relations, cybersecurity, post-colonial thought, and privacy law. He is also a visiting fellow at Yale Law School, a cybersecurity fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a scholar-in-residence at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a visiting fellow at Hong Kong University Law, a fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a research associate at Oxford University.
Commentator: Jose-Miguel Bello Villarino, Sydney Law School
Moderator: Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Sydney Law School
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Thursday 8 August, 2024
Time: 11.30-12.30pm
Venue: Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building, Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney, Camperdown campus

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This event is co-sponsored by the China Studies Centre and the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law.

2024 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law
2024-08-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Law Foyer, Level 2
2024 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law
Sydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law.
In-person event

Sydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law.
In 2024, the lecture is “Critical Legal Juxtapositions: Practice and Decision-Making”, delivered by Professor Val Napoleon (University of Victoria, Canada).
This event is being held to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, which is celebrated annually on 9 August.
2024 Lecture
Critical Legal Juxtapositions: Practice and Decision-Making
What happens when we rethink state legal decision-making regarding Indigenous lands through the practicalÂ application ofÂ the laws of an Indigenous legal order? This talk is intended to supportÂ learning about ways of approaching, understanding and working with substantive Indigenous lawsÂ through reimagined legal processes and decision-making. A focus will be placed on introducing perspectives, principles, and practices that can helpÂ think through questions and issues that arise when engaging with Indigenous laws. There is much workÂ to build needed public and state intersocietal legal capacities – what are the steps?
Program of events:

Welcome to Country: Uncle Charles (Chicka) Madden
Introductions: Professor Rita Shackel, Dean Sydney Law School
Opening Remarks: Teela Reid, Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, Professor of Practice, Sydney Law School
Lecture: Professor Val Napoleon
Q&A facilitated by: Brendan Loizou, Warlpiri man and PhD candidate in Law
Closing Remarks and Vote of Thanks: Marlikka Perdrisat, Nyikina Warrwa and Wangkumara Barkindji woman, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Postgraduate Fellow

Friday 9 August, 6-7.30pm
CPD points =1.5

About the speaker
Professor Val Napoleon
Professor Napoleon is the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance at the University of Victoria, Canada. Professor Napoleon is from northeast British Columbia (Treaty 8) and a member of Saulteau First Nation. She is also an adopted member of the Gitanyow (Gitksan) House of Luuxhon, Ganada (Frog) Clan. Professor Napoleon’s major initiatives include the unique and ground-breaking JD/JID (joint JD and Indigenous law degree) program, and the establishment of the Indigenous Law Research Unit.

This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School in collaboration with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) at the University of Sydney.

Protecting digital privacy while countering terrorism: A dialogue with two UN Special Rapporteurs
2024-08-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Protecting digital privacy while countering terrorism: A dialogue with two UN Special Rapporteurs
In-person event

Join us for the unique opportunity at The University of Sydney Law School to participate in a dialogue between Prof. Ana Brian NougrÃ¨res, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy and Prof. Ben Saul, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.
As our digital lives expand our exposure to the world and the need to counter terrorism does not decrease, the use of public and private data by governments and agencies is becoming one of the key elements in the fight against terrorism. Boundaries about what is private and off-limits are becoming increasingly difficult to determine. Procedures to ensure that those limits are respected are even more challenging to enforce. Knowledge about how our data is used is progressively clouded by layers of systems and interventions. Differences among jurisdictions on what digital privacy entails in the anti-terrorism context in turn are more acute.
In a dialogue moderated by Dr. JosÃ©-Miguel Bello y Villarino (U. Sydney/ADM+S CoE), Prof. Brian NougrÃ¨res and Prof. Saul will discuss the status quo, the current debates and possible ways forward.
About the speakers
Prof. Ana Brian NougrÃ¨res: In July 2021, the Human Rights Council appointed Dr. Ana Brian NougrÃ¨res of Uruguay as the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy and she took up the mandate on 1 August 2021. A Professor of Law, Privacy and ICT at the School of Engineering, University of Montevideo and a Professor of Law, Data Protection and ICT at the School of Law, University of the Republic, Montevideo. She is also a practicing Attorney-at-law and Consultant on data protection. Her latest article, The Uruguayan law system facing security breaches, was published by LA LEY (Spain) in 2021.
Prof. Ben Saul: Since 1 November 2023, Ben Saul has been the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. He is the Challis Chair of International Law at The University of Sydney and has expertise in public international law, counter-terrorism law, human rights and refugee law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law. He has taught at Oxford, Harvard, The Hague and Xiamen Academies of International Law, and in Europe and Asia; practised in international tribunals; advised governments, NGOs and the United Nations; and worked on international law in over 35 countries.
Dr. JosÃ©-Miguel Bello y Villarino: Senior Research Fellow at the Law School and the Institutions programme of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). He is a member of the Diplomatic Corps of Spain (on leave) and previously worked in different capacities for the European Union. His current research focuses on regulatory approaches to ADM and Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially on how to deal with risks derived from the operation of AI systems from a comparative approach. In 2023 he received the Rita and John Cornforth Medal for Research Excellence at the University of Sydney, for outstanding achievement in research; in 2022 the Scotiabank Global AI + Regulation Emerging Scholar Award (joint award) and in 2021 he was a Fulbright-Schuman scholar at the Harvard Law School.
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Thursday 15 August, 2024
Time:Â 11am-12pm
Venue: Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney, Camperdown campus
CPD Points: 1 point
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This event is proudly presented by the University of Sydney Law School.

Book launch | Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia: Democratic Legitimacy, Safeguards And Executive Aggrandisement
2024-08-27 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Book launch: Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia: Democratic Legitimacy, Safeguards And Executive Aggrandisement

(Hart Publishing, 2024)
In-person event
The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch ofÂ Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia: Democratic Legitimacy, Safeguards And Executive AggrandisementÂ by Associate Professor Andrew Edgar.
This book examines the legal frameworks supporting the democratic legitimacy of regulation-making in the UK and Australia. It emphasises that parliamentary scrutiny of regulations provides the primary support, supplemented by public consultation processes. Parliamentary scrutiny of regulation-making emerged in the twentieth century as the primary basis for the democratic legitimacy of regulations, however recent developments avoid or minimise this safeguard. This book contributes to public law by analysing executive over-reach in regulation-making, by reference to the historical development of parliamentary checks on regulation-making.
Find out more about the book and order it online here.
If purchasing the book online from Bloomsbury, use the code GLR AT5 for a 20% discount.

About the author
Andrew EdgarÂ is an Associate Professor in the University of Sydney Law School. He specialises in administrative law and, in particular, on administrative law-making. His recent publications focus on regulation-making processes and review of regulations by parliaments and courts. Andrew also has research interests in statutory interpretation and the implementation of international law in domestic law.
About the speaker
Senator Paul ScarrÂ was elected as a Senator for Queensland in 2019. He is the Chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee and is a long-term member of the Senate Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation Committee. [Full bio here:Â https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=282997]

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Tuesday 27 August 2024
Time: 6-7.30pm
Venue:Â Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School.

JSI Seminar: 'The Little Commonweale of my poore thoughts': nature, ownership, Cosmography, and the origins of the climate crisis in Richard Zouche, 1613-63
2024-08-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar:Â â€˜The Little Commonweale of my poore thoughts’: nature, ownership, Cosmography, and the origins of the climate crisis in Richard Zouche, 1613-63
In-person event
This seminar examines Richard Zouche’s legal thought on â€˜nature’ at some of the earliest origins of the climate crisis and the formation of international law. Zouche is usually remembered as the â€˜father’ of international legal positivism for his 1656 treatiseÂ An Exposition of the Fecial Law and Procedure, or of Law between NationsÂ where he influentially introduced the termÂ â€˜jus inter gentes’Â or law between peoples as the basis for his juridical system. In this work, Zouche deals extensively with questions of ownership in war and peace. He describes a tripartite right for princes and peoples as â€˜Plenary’, â€˜Hereditary’ or â€˜merely Usufructuary’ rights both to holding power and property. He also deals with questions of sea jurisdiction and appropriation by occupation, which he expanded on in his posthumous treatise on the Admiralty courts.
Most significantly, Zouche solidifies two major tenets of legal argumentation that provided the early architecture for claims and extraction that formed the early climate crisis. First was the â€˜jus inter gentes’ formulation that allowed for international law to be developed by consent between princes and peoples, referable to Augustinian concord but not bound by it or the law of nature. Second, Zouche’s modernisation of the disputation format gave â€˜both sides’ of each of these legal questions, both obscuring Zouche’s own views and giving princes and lawyers a handbook with the argumentative structures for claiming and resisting legal disputes around ownership, showing the vital importance of these legal questions in the early history of international law. But it is in Zouche’s juvenile cosmographical poemÂ â€˜The Dove’Â (1613) that an early vision of the political economy of the world and the importance of sight and ordering â€” the main tools of positivism â€” were first announced through the circling of Noah’s dove. Zouche called this poem â€˜the little Commonweale of my poore thoughts’.Â The DoveÂ provides an early announcement of the foundational commitments that thread through Zouche’s major juridical works. Throughout these works, Zouche’s engagement with nature and natural resources move quickly to questions of ownership and right, revealing the function of law to connect early forms of extraction, capitalism and empire.
About the speaker
Martin Clark is a lecturer at La Trobe Law School. His research focuses on the history of legal thought and international and public law. His work has been published in the Modern Law Review, theÂ British Yearbook of International Law, theÂ Leiden Journal of International LawÂ and theÂ Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, and he is finishing a book (with Dr Yoriko Otomo) on law and commodities,Â Eating the World: A Global History of Law and CommoditiesÂ (Counterpress). He was awarded his PhD in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science in May 2020 for a thesis on the history of the ideas of â€˜domestic’ and â€˜international’ in British legal thought. At LSE he was a Judge Rosalyn Higgins Scholar andÂ Modern Law ReviewÂ Scholar (2018 and 2019).
He is an Editor at theÂ London Review of International LawÂ and Web Assistant at theÂ Modern Law Review. Prior to joining La Trobe he was aÂ Modern Law ReviewÂ Postdoctoral Fellow, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School, a Lecturer at UTAS Law, where he taught contract and legal theory, and a JD Teaching Fellow at Melbourne Law School, where he taught contract
Thursday 29 August 2024, 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 theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

A new explanation of China's patenting phenomenon with a focus on the patenting of traditional medical knowledge
2024-09-02 01:00 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
A new explanation of China’s patenting phenomenon with a focus on the patenting of traditional medical knowledge
In-person event

This seminar will present how Dr Ben Hopper’s thesis explains why people are getting patents over traditional medical knowledge in a way that differs from (and adds to) the usual explanations for China’s â€œpatent boomâ€. These â€œusual (explanatory) suspectsâ€ are based on State interference (patenting subsidies, etc.), level of innovation and level of human capital. It will draw on his original fieldwork data comprising a survey of the approaches to patenting of 53 mostly ethnic minority traditional medical practitioners in China’s southwestern, relatively poor and isolated province of Guizhou. The analysis of those data involved a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods. The seminar will conclude that a key (and, thus far, missing) ingredient in explaining patenting activity in China is the individual’s extent of marketisation, with more marketised individuals having a statistically significant higher propensity to get patents and to obey patent laws.

This event is part of the PhD/ECR presentation series hosted by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law.

About the speaker
Dr Ben HopperÂ is a lecturer at Melbourne Law School. He teaches and researches in the areas of intellectual property, traditional knowledge, technology law, civil procedure, and legal ethics. He examines doctrinal developments in these areas of law, with a focus on intellectual property law. His research uses empirical methods to illuminate the â€œliving lawâ€, including people’s lived experiences of the law, and legal subjectivity. He draws on both legal theory and broader social theory to explain the results of his empirical research.
Ben’s current research focus is China, the locus of his PhD on patenting of traditional knowledge, and where he has completed projects on geographical indications in the tea industry and internal migration in Xinjiang. He has a J.D., B.A. (Hons), and D-Lang (German) from the University of Melbourne, and an LL.M. from Harvard University.
Commentator: Dr Olugbenga OlatunjiÂ (University of Sydney Law School)
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Monday 2 September, 2024
Time:Â 1-2pm
Venue: Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney, Camperdown campus
CPD Points: 1 point
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This event is co-sponsored byÂ theÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific LawÂ and theÂ Ross Parsons Centre.

What are the responsibilities of freedom and why do we need them?
2024-09-10 18:00 - 19:30 | Lecture Theatre 101, level 1, New Law Building F10A, Campderdown Campus
What are the responsibilities of freedom and why do we need them?
A thought provoking discussion on one of the abiding themes of our time as explored in Professor Kinley’s new bookâ€¯The Liberty Paradox.

In-person event

Sydney Law School is delighted to host a discussion on liberty and the dangers it faces today from the myopic demands of freedom without limit, as explored inÂ Professor David Kinley’sÂ new bookÂ The Liberty Paradox: Living with the Responsibilities of Freedom.
Join Professor Kinley in conversation with special guest Alexander Heffner, host of PBS’sÂ The Open Mind, in what promises to be a lively, engaging and thought-provoking discussion of the complexities that shape our society and challenge our perceptions of freedom and responsibility in today’s world.
Acclaimed by theÂ New York TimesÂ as â€œa thorough meditation on the complexities of negotiating our desires with those of other people,â€Â The Liberty ParadoxÂ offers some answers as we tackle life’s challenges of health, happiness, wealth, work, security, voice, respect, trust, love and death.
About the speakers
Professor David KinleyÂ holds the Chair of Human Rights Law at the University of Sydney. He is also an Academic Expert Member of Doughty Street Chambers in London, a founding member of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights, and a board member ofÂ Cisarua, an Afghan refugee-led education centre located in Indonesia.
Alexander HeffnerÂ is the host ofÂ The Open Mindâ€”America’s longest-running current affairs TV programâ€”and the creator ofÂ Breaking Bread with AlexanderÂ on Bloomberg TV. He is also the co-author of the bestsellingÂ A Documentary History of the United States. He has been covering American politics and civic life since the 2008 presidential campaign.

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Tuesday 10 September 2024
Time:Â 6-7.30pm
Venue: Sydney Law School, Lecture Theatre 101, Level 1, New Law Building (F10A), University of Sydney, Camperdown campus
CPD points = 1.5
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About the book
Copies of Professor Kinley’s new bookÂ The Liberty Paradox: Living with the Responsibilities of Freedom will be available for purchase at the event, courtesy of Gleebooks.
**Please note that the event will be recorded for broadcast in the US and online**

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

JSI Seminar | Taking Power Seriously in Constitutional Law: A Materialist Approach to Constitutional Law, Executive Power, and the British State
2024-09-11 12:00 - 13:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
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CANCELLED A new era" of Chinese law: The theoretical origins of Xi Jinping Legal Thought
2024-09-13 12:00 - 13:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Book launch | Research Methods in Private International Law: Educating the Next Generation of Conflicts Lawyers
2024-09-23 18:00 - 19:30
Book launch | Research Methods in Private International Law: Educating the Next Generation of Conflicts LawyersOnline event

Research Methods in Private International Law: A Handbook on Regulation, Research, and Teaching

This incisive research handbook provides valuable insights into the various methodological approaches to Private International Law from regulatory and educational perspectives. It comprehensively unpacks central themes in the field including international jurisdiction, recognition and enforcement, and scrupulously analyses core debates whilst addressing legislative and policy issues.

In collaboration with the editors Xandra Kramer (Erasmus School of Law/Utrecht University) and Laura Carballo PiÃ±eiro (University of Vigo), this online book launch will feature contributions from eminent speakers, focusing on global insights in teaching Private International Law.

Speakers and discussion topics

Laura Carballo PiÃ±eiro/Xandra Kramer

Methods in private international law are not only important for the purpose of regulation and research, but also for societal and educational purposes. To continue developing and fulfil its regulatory and societal functions, private international law requires the nurturing of strong scholarship and thus research on creating a suitable learning environment for it to be diversified. Highlighting perspectives from university teaching in different countries, laypersons, colonialism, and feminism enriches the development of private international law and increases awareness of its role as a global governance tool.

Veronica RuizÂ Abou-Nigm

Private international law matters for everybody. Why then is it perceived to be so marginal? We identify three distorted perceptions: irrelevance, impenetrability, and indifference. Private international law is considered to be irrelevant, because relevant decisions are taken in substantive law. It is considered impenetrable because many of its doctrines appear strange and general intuition offers little guidance towards the correct solution. And it seems indifferent to questions of values and questions of political economy. We address each of these perceptions in turn. We demonstrate that private international law, far from being irrelevant, is an indispensable part of private law. Whoever wants to make full use of private law must think of private international law as well. We suggest that private international law can seem impenetrable because it requires a whole different way of thinking: thinking between legal orders. Lawyers and non-lawyers alike are used to thinking within one order that is relatively coherent. That thinking is of little help in resolving issues that take place in-between such coherent orders. And we describe what we view as the ethical minimum of private international law: responsivity, cultural humility, and intercultural competence. These attitudes, which are not confined to the law, raise the possibility that private international law could teach something of relevance to everyone beyond its own disciplinary boundaries. Putting these insights in practice can, we hope, be transformative towards Private International Law for Everyone.

Ramani Garimella

The human catastrophe witnessed in Bhopal, India, remains pertinent for the domain of private international law. The US court ruled against the forum’s jurisdiction as being forum non conveniens and return it for the jurisdiction of India’s courts. Adherence to a formalist/positivist approach that believed in the public-private distinction allowed the court to avoid a discussion on the immense public interests that were involved in the suit. Such approach dwarfed the nature and magnitude of loss for the victims and demonstrated how far the ideas of territoriality and jurisdiction moved away from the notion of â€˜unified international law’. The author suggests revisiting this distinction from a methodological perspective – historicity – to understand the reasons for the survival of this distinction, especially in the third world countries as a vestige of the colonial law. This research, exemplifying through India, explores the zealous adherence to the colonial law on the rules of private international law including the methodology of the domain, and the absence of any significant local contribution to the domain. The research argues that the distinction emerged as an expression of the positivist international law (often non-representative/non-participative) that had helped further the legitimation of colonialism. The research suggests a historicity-based methodology for identifying the domain’s content so as to ensure a justice-centric regime that takes note of the rights of the victims of human error.

Chukwama Okoli/Abubakri Yekini

Many African countries aim to capitalise on globalization to enhance cross-border trade and commerce. This necessitates an effective private international law framework to resolve frictions that inherent in cross-border transactions. While scholarly work often focuses on PIL’s role in facilitating cross-border trade, the teaching of PIL and the preparedness of budding lawyers to tackle modern issues have been largely overlooked. This chapter addresses this gap by examining the effectiveness of PIL education in Nigeria. Through empirical research involving questionnaires administered to 75 undergraduate students from seven universities, the study provides insights into the current curriculum and teaching methodologies. The findings suggest that existing approaches are inadequate for producing transnational lawyers equipped with the necessary hands-on skills. The paper recommends a multi-method teaching approach, with a strong emphasis on clinical education and comparative law.

Aukje van Hoek

An inventory of (online) course descriptions of courses in private international law at different European universities show a diversity in approaches to teaching PIL. Which choices are made when developing a specific course, will depend on the staff teaching the course and the wider â€˜Umfeld’ in which the course is situated. Three approaches will be discussed and put in context.

Moderator: Dr.Â Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Co-chair of ASIL PIL Interest Group and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School.

About the book
Research Methods in Private International Law- A Handbook on Regulation, Research and Teaching

Edited byÂ Xandra Kramer, Professor of Private Law, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor of Private International Law, Utrecht University, the Netherlands andÂ Laura Carballo PiÃ±eiro, Professor of Private International Law, Universidade de Vigo, Spain.

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Monday 23 September 2024
Time: 6pm-7.30pm AEST
You will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.
CPD points = 1.5

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This event is jointly presented by the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group and the University of Sydney Law School.
