Peace in the Ancient Near East: Insights into the world’s first attested peace treatyIn-person event This seminar gives some background to the first attested peace treaty in world history, between Ramses II of Egypt and Hattusili III of Hatti. This treaty survives in several copies, in two languages (Ancient Egyptian and Akkadian) and in two […]
Navigating China’s regulatory approach to generative artificial intelligenceIn-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 […]
JSI Seminar: On Constitutional ReviewIn-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 […]
JSI Seminar: A republican case for regulatory juriesIn-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 […]
JSI Workshop: Positive Pluralism and its LimitsIn-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 […]
JSI Seminar: Social Rights and ProportionalityIn-person event This seminar outlines a model of proportionality analysis for the adjudication of positive constitutional economic and 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 […]
Workshop: The Future of the Criminal LawIn-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 […]
Re-imagining the laws of nature – storying rules of hyperconnected futuresOnline 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 […]
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 […]
The Past, Present, and Future of the Palestine InvestigationIn-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 […]
JSI Seminar: Natural Law to Natural Rights to Human RightsIn-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 […]
Julius Stone Address: Law, Philosophy, and the Susceptible Skins of Living BeingsIn-person event Catherine the Great (apparently) wrote to the French philosopher Diderot something along the lines of: “You 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.†[…]