SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference
2026-09-08 20:37 (Australia/Sydney) | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
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Domestic and Family Violence Conference
2026-09-08 20:37 | Sydney Law School, New Law Building, 3 Law School, Eastern Ave, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
Domestic and Family Violence Conference
This conference will be held on 9 November at The University of Sydney Law School
A one day conference of academic researchers and community professionals who are working to improve our understanding of and response to Domestic and Family Violence. This conference has been initiated by the Sydney Institute of Criminology, and is supported by the University of Sydney Law School; the School of Psychology, the Women at Sydney Network; Diversity and Inclusion; and the Research Centre for Children and Families.

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

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

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

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

Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference
2026-09-08 20:37 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy Conference
Registration is now open for the annual conference of the Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy, which will be hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School on 14 and 15 July 2022.
Keynote lectures will be delivered by Professor Kirsty GoverÂ (University of Melbourne) andÂ Professor Claudio MichelonÂ (University of Edinburgh).
The subject of the annual book symposium will beÂ Constituent Power and the LawÂ byÂ Professor Joel ColÃ³n-RÃosÂ (Victoria University of Wellington). Commentaries will be provided by Professor Rosalind Dixon and Ayesha Wijayalath (University of New South Wales), Dr Yarran Hominh (Dartmouth College), and Associate Professor Ron Levy (Australian National University).
Papers on a range of issues in legal theory, broadly defined, will also be presented and discussed.
> VIEW THE DRAFT PROGRAM (PDF) (as at 5 July 2022)
Thursday 14 July and Friday 15 July 2022
>> THURSDAY 14 JULY 2022, 12 – 5.45PM AEST (followed by cocktail reception)
9am – 12pm: PhD workshop (by invitation only)
12 – 5.45pm: Conference
5.45 – 6.45pm: Cocktail reception
7-9pm: Conference dinner
>> FRIDAY 15 JULY 2022, 9am – 5.30PM AEST

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

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

Conference dinner

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

Attending online both days

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

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

In Conversation with Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law (Emerita) Julie Macfarlane
2021-07-28 09:00 - 10:30
Online event:
In Conversation with Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law (Emerita) Julie Macfarlane
Wednesday 28 July, 9 – 10.30am
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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 Professor of Law (Emerita)Â Julie Macfarlane.
The session is free and is in two parts:

Part A The dilemma of disclosure (sexualised violence)
Part B The problem of non-disclosure agreements.

PART A:Â The dilemma of disclosure (sexualised violence)
Julie Macfarlane, author of â€˜Going Public’ will share her lived experience insights including disclosure and navigating the justice system.
Key Audience: People with lived experience of domestic, family and sexualised violence, people who are responding (formally and informally), people leading response strategies in organisations and institutions.
PART B:Â The problem of non-disclosure agreements
Julie Macfarlane will share her international work to prevent the problematic use of nondisclosure agreements as a toxic bargain that conceals violence and abuse.
Key Audience: Board Members, Non-Executive Directors, Executive Leaders, Human Resource Teams, Lawyers, people leading response strategies in organisations and institutions.
The event will be facilitated by:

Associate Professor Dr Ghena Krayem,Â Sydney Law School
Sal Dennis, Director of Insight Exchange
Rebecca Glenn, Assistant Director of Insight Exchange and Founder of Centre for Women’s Economic Safety.

Time
Part A:Â 9 – 9.45am AEST
Part B:Â 9.45 – 10.30am AEST

Registration
Find out more and register your attendance

CPD points: 1.5
This event is hosted by Sydney Law School in collaboration with Insight Exchange

JSI Seminar: What is the point of going to school?
2021-08-05 18:00 - 19:30
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 there is: it is the interest that children have in establishing and maintaining a form of civic friendship with their fellow child citizens. They argue that this is an interest that children have, qua children, that is uniquely served by their going to school. Moreover, they argue that it may well be an interest which is best served by children going to public school rather than private school.
About the speaker
Dr Luara FerracioliÂ is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She was awarded her PhD from the Australian National University and was a Global Leaders Fellow at Oxford and Princeton in 2011-2013. Prior to her appointment at the University of Sydney, she was an assistant professor in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. In 2021-2022, she will be a Laurence S. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton. Her book Liberal Self-Determination in a World of Migration will be published with OUP in December 2021.

Time:Â 6-7.30pm
This is an online event. Once you register you will receive the Zoom details.

CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

JSI Seminar: Expertise for the End of History: The Rise of Comparative Constitutional Law in the 1990s
2021-09-02 18:00 - 19:30
JSI Seminar: Expertise for the End of History: The Rise of Comparative Constitutional Law in the 1990s
Speaker: 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 main catalyst the wave of constitution-making that occurred in the early 1990s, especially throughout the former Soviet Bloc.
That analysis, while correct, leaves much unsaid about the operative forces, actors and institutions operating at â€˜the end of history’ that helped to establish comparative constitutional law as a prestigious domain of academic expertise.
This paper seeks to shed light on the rise of comparative constitutional law by exploring the origins and operation of one academic institution that was both exemplary of and influential in that rise: the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe.
Drawing on the example of the Chicago Center, the paper argues that comparative constitutional law rose to prominence in substantial part because it was fostered by powerful global actors – Northern states, private foundations and international institutions – to guide and legitimate their agendas of promoting liberal democracy in the Global South and the post-Communist world. For scholars, whether in the Global North, South or East, comparative constitutional law became attractive not simply because of its intellectual interest, but due to the opportunities comparative constitutional expertise offered for exerting political influence over constitution-making and for professional advancement.
Understanding the origins of the rise of comparative constitutional law helps us in understanding the field’s shape today.
About the speaker
Dylan LinoÂ is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland School of Law. He researches in constitutional law and colonialism, especially in their historical and theoretical contexts.

Time: 6-7.30pm AEST
This is an online event. Once you register you will receive the Zoom details.

CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

Unilateralism in (International) Economic Law: the Case of Special Economic Zones
2021-09-08 17:00 - 18:15
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 from the international (to the regional) to the domestic level of governance. A new form of â€˜unilateral economic law’ is thus gaining importance in the development of international and domestic laws and institutions.
This seminar aims to celebrate the launch of the special issue ofÂ Journal of International Economic LawÂ on unilateral economic law focusing on Special Economic Zones.
We have engaged leading experts from Qatar, the UK, India, and Hong Kong China:

Speakers
Associate Professor Georgios DimitropoulosÂ at the Hamad Bin Khalifa University:Â â€˜Special Economic Zones in International Economic Law: Towards Unilateral Economic Law’
Principal Researcher Lorenzo CotulaÂ at the International Institute for Environment and Development andÂ Dr Liliane MouanÂ at the Coventry University:Â â€˜Labour Rights in Special Economic Zones: Between Unilateralism and Transnational Law Diffusion’
Professor James J. NedumparaÂ at the Jindal Global Law School andÂ Professor LeÃ¯la Delphine ChoukrouneÂ at the University of Portsmouth:Â â€˜WTO Litigation and SEZs: Determining the Scope of Exceptional Trade Unilateralism’
Professor Julien Laurent ChaisseÂ at the City University of Hong Kong:Â â€˜Dangerous Liaisons: The Story of Special Economic Zones, International Investment Agreements, and Investor-State Dispute Settlement’
Moderator
Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) HuangÂ at the University of Sydney Law School (publishedÂ The Latest Generation of SEZs: Consumer-Oriented Unilateralism in China’s E-Commerce TradeÂ in the special issue).

Webinar date and time: Wednesday 8 September 2021, 5-6.15pm AEST
You will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the event.

This event is sponsored by theÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific LawÂ at the Sydney Law School.

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JSI Seminar: Law's People
2021-09-23 18:00 - 19:30
JSI Seminar: Law’s People
Speaker: Dr Susan Bartie, University of Tasmania
Alice Erh-Soon TayÂ 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 among some of her new colleagues that she would close the jurisprudential arm of the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law and end decades of division within the Faculty.
Contrary to expectations, she neither closed the Department nor mended fences. The small Department continued to operate, in the face of opposition and hostility, for another 23 years. Unlike her predecessor, Professor Julius Stone, Tay is not a well-known figure among the current generation of Australian legal academics.
Drawing on this case study, as well as others described inÂ Free Hands and MindsÂ (Hart, 2019) andÂ American Legal Education Abroad – Critical HistoriesÂ (NYU Press, 2021 – edited with David Sandomierski), this paper will explore how and why we honour and remember certain legal figures. It will identify a range of factors, including US influence, which have distorted current understandings of academics and the discipline of law. And it will argue that in some circumstances the running of a department or faculty can be characterised as an important contribution to both the discipline of law and legal theory; a contribution which ought to be better recognised and understood.
Speaker
Dr Susan BartieÂ is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania. She researches the history of legal ideas, law schools and lawyers in Australian society. She is currently working on a 50-year socio-legal history of Australian environmental lawyering which, from 2022 to 2024, will be supported by an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.

Time:Â 6-7.30pm
This is an online event. Once you register you will receive the Zoom details.

CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

The Public International Law Webinar Series: Keynote addresses by Professor Shotaro Hamamoto and Professor Simon Chesterman
2021-10-06 19:30 - 20:30
The Public International Law Webinar Series: Keynote addresses by Professor Shotaro Hamamoto and Professor Simon Chesterman
The 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 Shotaro Hamamoto and Professor Simon Chesterman who will discuss â€œIssues of Legitimacy in the International Legal Orderâ€.
There are ï¬ve weekly webinars in this series. The webinars are free of charge, but places are limited, and prior registration is required.
Registration for the webinars taking place in October 2021 is now open at the hyperlinks below. Do keep an eye out for subsequent ï¬‚yers that will contain information and hyperlinks to sign up for each of the individual webinars.

INTRODUCTION
Matthew Koh (Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP)
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES BY PROFESSOR SHOTARO HAMAMOTO AND PROFESSOR SIMON CHESTERMAN
Keynote addresses by Professor Shotaro Hamamoto (Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University) and Professor Simon Chesterman (National University of Singapore) on â€œIssues of Legitimacy in the International Legal Orderâ€
THE EVER-EXPANDING REMIT OF UNCLOS TRIBUNALS
Moderators: Professor Tim Stephens (University of Sydney), Alvin Yap (Squire Patton Boggs)
Panellists: Stephen Fietta QC (Fietta LLP), Callista Harris (University of Sydney), Ben Juratowitch QC, Captain Ian Park (Royal Navy, United Kingdom)

WEDNESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2021
9:30 AM (London time) / 4:30 PM (Singapore time) / 7:30 PM (Sydney time)

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Other webinars in the series:

New horizons for investor-state disputes

13 October 2021 |Â 10:00 AM (London time) / 5:00 PM (Singapore time) / 8:00 PM (Sydney time)
Find out more

Climate change and international disputes

20 October 2021 | 9:30 AM (London time) / 4:30 PM (Singapore time) / 7:30 PM (Sydney time)
Find out more

How states negotiate their treaties

26 October 2021 | 9:30 AM (London time) / 4:30 PM (Singapore time) / 7:30 PM (Sydney time)
Find out more

The public international law year in review

Date to be confirmed | 9:30 AM (London time) / 5:30 PM (Singapore time) / 8:30 PM (Sydney time)
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This webinar series is sponsored by:

Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School
American Society of International Law
Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
Centre for International Law and National University of Singapore
International Centre for Settlement of Investor Disputes (ICSID) of World Bank Group
Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy.

For enquiries, please contact bd@rajahtann.com.

Book launch of Law and Justice in Malaysia: 2020 and Beyond
2021-10-07 19:00 - 20:30
Book launch of Law and Justice in Malaysia: 2020 and Beyondâ€œThis masterfully edited book â€¦ will help readers find where such intricate balance [that takes into consideration diverse and often conflicting interests] may lie in Malaysian society by introducing a current discussion of justice in the context of Malaysian law â€¦â€ â€” From the Foreword by Yong-Shik Lee, Director, The Law and Development Institute, Visiting Professor of Law, Georgia State University

The book launch ofÂ Law and Justice in Malaysia : 2020 and BeyondÂ will begin with a keynote address byÂ Datuk Seri Dr Nik Norzrul Thani, the CEO of Zico Law, followed by presentations from the contributors,Â Dr Salim FarrarÂ (Sydney Law School)Â andÂ Paul SubramaniamÂ (ZICO Holdings Inc.)

The launch will be followed by a Q and A.

About the book
This book surveys the landscape of law and justice in Malaysia now and beyond through a re-evaluation of Vision 2020. It contains the views and analyses of pre-eminent legal thinkers and writers, with a variety of perspectives, from across the ethnic and religious divide, on the role of law within a more holistic view of Malaysia’s development and with a broad understanding of justice.

The present political landscape of the country makes the analyses presented in this book even more relevant. The chapters of this book cover a vast terrain and disparate subject matter, both public and private in nature. Some unique features of Malaysian law, such as constitutional supremacy, legal pluralism and the space given to Indigenous law and Islamic law, are considered.

Part 1,Â â€œLaw and Governmentâ€, focuses on public law matters: law and development; Indigenous land rights, constitutional law and public prosecution.

Part 2,Â â€œFamily and Financeâ€, examines matters related more to the private sector: family law, children’s rights and Islamic finance.

This book should be of interest to lawyers, judges, judicial officers, academia, civil society groups and everyone concerned with law and justice in Malaysia.

About the keynote speaker
Datuk Seri Dr NikÂ is Chairman of Malaysian Rating Corporation Berhad (MARC), IIUM Holdings Sdn Bhd (a wholly owned subsidiary of International Islamic University Malaysia) and T7 Global Berhad (formerly known as Tanjung Offshore Berhad). He was appointed by the Minister of International Trade & Industry as the Chairman of Malaysia-Singapore Business Council (MSBC) and is currently Chairman of the Appeals Committee of Bursa Malaysia. Datuk Seri Dr Nik is also Chairman of the Capital Market Compensation Fund Corporation (a corporation set up by the Securities Commission of Malaysia) and is a director of several public companies including Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB), Cagamas Holdings Berhad and MUFG Bank (Malaysia) Berhad. He was also formerly the Chairman of Al Rajhi Banking & Investment Corporation (Malaysia) Berhad and Chairman of Pengurusan Aset Air Berhad (PAAB) (a wholly owned company under the Minister of Finance Inc.).

Datuk Seri Dr Nik Norzrul Thani is Chairman and Senior Partner of Zaid Ibrahim & Co. (ZICO), the largest law firm in Malaysia and a member of ZICO Law, the premier ASEAN law network with offices in Bangkok, Brunei, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Vientiane, Melbourne, Phnom Penh, Singapore, Manila and Yangon as well as an associate office in Jakarta. Prior to joining ZICO, he was practising with the international law firm, Baker & McKenzie. He was previously working with an audit firm and a bank in Kuala Lumpur.

Datuk Seri Dr Nik graduated with LL.B (Hons) from University of Buckingham, Masters in Law (LL.M) from Queen Mary College, University of London, and Ph.D in Law from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, and is a Barrister at Law, Lincoln’s Inn. In addition, he also possesses a Post-Graduate Diploma in Syariah Law and Practice (with distinction) from the International Islamic University Malaysia, and is a member of Chartered Institute of Marketing (United Kingdom). He is also a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) and has also been admitted as a Practising Member of the Chartered Institute of Islamic Finance Professionals (CIIF). Datuk Seri Dr Nik was a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School (1996-1997) and Chevening Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies, Oxford University (2004/2005). Datuk Seri Dr Nik is also a registered Notary Public.

Datuk Seri Dr Nik is the author ofÂ â€œLegal Aspects of the Malaysian Financial Systemâ€, and co-author ofÂ â€œThe Law and Practice of Islamic Banking & Financeâ€Â andÂ â€œAn Introduction to Islamic and Conventional Corporate Financeâ€. Datuk Seri Dr Nik is presently completing a bookÂ â€œCorporate Governance and Ethics in Malaysiaâ€Â (to be published by Thomson Reuters Asia Sdn Bhd).

About the editors
Dr Salim Farrar, Sydney Law School:Â Dr Salim Farrar is Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law within the Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney, and formerly of the International Islamic University Malaysia. He teaches and researches in Islamic Law, Islamic Ethics, Malaysian Law, International Law, Criminal Justice and Comparative Law. With Ghena Krayem, he is the author of Accommodating Muslims Under Common Law: A Comparative Analysis (Routledge, 2016, 2018); and the editor of Law and Development Review, Special Issue: Law and Development in the Islamic World, Vol 13 (2) (De Gruyter, 2020).

Paul Subramaniam, ZICO Holdings Inc.:Â Paul Subramaniam is currently the Chief Risk Officer of ZICO Holdings Inc. Prior to his current position, he was an Advocate & Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya for 27 years, practising in the field of Litigation and Dispute Resolution. He was also the Head of Knowledge Management and Training for ZICO Law, a network of independent law firms in the ASEAN region. He is the author of A Practical Guide to Preventive Relief – Injunctions, and was the advisory editor of the volumes on Bankruptcy and Injunctions in the MLJ Handbooks Series.

Webinar time: 7pm AEDT (Sydney time), 4pm (Kuala Lumpur time)

Once you register, you will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the event.

Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: The New Small Business Debtor in Possession Regime - Can it be made to work?
2021-10-13 18:00 - 19:00
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 a unique background having been exposed to a broad range of industry sectors with top tier firms and smaller boutique insolvency practices’ both in the UK & Australia.
Nick Cooper, Managing Partner Oracle Insolvency Services
Nick is a Registered Liquidator and a Registered Trustee in Bankruptcy and has worked in insolvency practice for over 25 years. He has acted as an Administrator, Liquidator and Receiver of companies in a diverse range of industries. He has acted on behalf of major banks and in respect of clients of many accounting firms. Nick and his partner Dominic Cantone were appointed as Small Business Restructuring Practitioners of Martini on the Parade Pty Ltd, an Italian fine dining restaurant in Adelaide, in August this year.
Chair:Â Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School

Webinar via Zoom, Wednesday 13 October 2021, 6pm AEDT
Once you register, your confirmation will provide the Zoom details.

This seminar is sponsored by theÂ Ross Parsons CentreÂ atÂ Sydney Law School.

The Public International Law Webinar Series: New horizons for investor-state disputes
2021-10-13 20:00 - 21:00
The Public International Law Webinar Series: New horizons for investor-state disputes
The 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 Shotaro Hamamoto and Professor Simon Chesterman who will discuss â€œIssues of Legitimacy in the International Legal Orderâ€.
There are ï¬ve weekly webinars in this series. The webinars are free of charge, but places are limited, and prior registration is required.
Registration for the webinars taking place in October 2021 is now open at the hyperlinks below. Do keep an eye out for subsequent ï¬‚yers that will contain information and hyperlinks to sign up for each of the individual webinars.

NEW HORIZONS FOR INVESTOR-STATE DISPUTES
Moderators: Professor Chester Brown (University of Sydney), Ashique Rahman (Fietta LLP)
Panellists: Meg Kinnear (ICSID), Toby Landau QC (Duxton Hill Chambers), Salim Moollan QC (Brick Court Chambers), Francis Xavier SC (Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP)

WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2021
10 AM (London time) / 5 PM (Singapore time) / 8 PM (Sydney time)

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Other webinars in the series:

Climate change and international disputes

20 October 2021 | 9:30 AM (London time) / 4:30 PM (Singapore time) / 7:30 PM (Sydney time)
Find out more

How states negotiate their treaties

26 October 2021 | 9:30 AM (London time) / 4:30 PM (Singapore time) / 7:30 PM (Sydney time)
Find out more

The public international law year in review

Date to be confirmed | 9:30 AM (London time) / 5:30 PM (Singapore time) / 8:30 PM (Sydney time)
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This webinar series is sponsored by:

Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School
American Society of International Law
Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
Centre for International Law and National University of Singapore
International Centre for Settlement of Investor Disputes (ICSID) of World Bank Group
Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy.

For enquiries, please contact bd@rajahtann.com.

JSI Seminar: Fidelity to Real-World Politics: Political Realism under Conditions of Modernity
2021-10-14 18:00 - 19:30
JSI Seminar: Fidelity to Real-World Politics: Political Realism under Conditions of Modernity
Speaker: 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 key methodological requirement of political realism: that political theory must be sufficiently faithful to the conditions of real-world politics if it is to be â€˜political’ theory (what he calls the â€˜fidelity requirement’). The paper then defends two claims: first, that the â€˜fidelity requirement’ is a necessary one for political theory; and second, that a popular form of political realism, that of Bernard Williams, does not adequately satisfy that requirement.
Speaker
Lukas OpacicÂ is a graduate of Sydney Law School and was awarded his PhD (Realism and Moralism in Political Thought) this year. He also holds a B.Sc. (Pure Mathematics) from the University of Sydney and teaches Constitutional Law and Public Law at Sydney Law School. His research concerns the methodology of political theory, in particular the way in which methodological considerations can shed light on what are generally considered purely substantive questions in political theory. This research also explores the ways in which the work of Michael Oakeshott can be used as an alternative basis for realist thought in a post-liberal political context. In a previous life, Lukas was a concert pianist and a mathematics teacher.

Time:Â 6-7.30pm
This is an online event. Once you register you will receive the Zoom details.

CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

Private International Law and Intellectual Property: the ILA Kyoto Guidelines
2021-10-15 15:00 - 16:00
Private International Law and Intellectual Property: the ILA Kyoto Guidelines
In 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 (â€˜Kyoto Guidelines‘).
The Guidelines are part of international efforts to establish a cooperative global system for jurisdiction, choice of law, and judgment recognition and enforcement in transnational IP disputes. They apply to civil and commercial matters involving IP rights that are connected to more than one State.
In this webinar, we invite distinguished professors from Japan, Republic of Korea and Australia to discuss the contents, implications, and challenges of the Guidelines in regulating complicated IP disputes.
Speakers:
Professor Toshiyuki KonoÂ (Kyushu University, Japan)
The background and significance of the ILA Kyoto Guidelines 2020
The ILA Kyoto Guidelines were adopted in December 2020 at the General Assembly of the ILA. I will explain why and how the initiative to create the Kyoto Guidelines started 10 years ago and what its significance is under the current circumstances, especially after the adoption of the Convention for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters in 2019. The ILA Kyoto Guidelines adopted innovative approaches. Hence, a few selected provisions will be explained in detail which include laws applicable to initial ownership and ubiquitous infringement.
Professor Gyooho LeeÂ (Chung-Ang University, Republic of Korea)
Laws applicable to transferability of an intellectual property right and employment contracts under ILA Guidelines
Transferability of an intellectual property right is the law of the State for which protection is sought (Article 19 of ILA Guidelines). In this context, a Korean case will be discussed (Seoul High Court on June 25, 2020, Case No. 2019 Na 2013948), whose main focus is which law is applicable to split-off of a company. My argument is that, in this case, lex loci protection is is the law applicable to transferability of shares of copyright co-owners. Also, my presentation will deal with applicable laws in connection with employment contracts under Article 23 of ILA Guidelines. In this context, it will discuss the Korean Supreme Court Decision on 15 January, 2015 (Case No. 2012 Da 4763), which held that the grant of a free non-exclusive licence to an employer by operation of law would be governed by the law applicable to the employment relationship.
Professor Vivienne BathÂ (Sydney Law School, Australia)
Kyoto Guidelines and injunction in transnational standard essential patents and parallel patent infringement disputes
The paper will look at the possibilities presented by the Kyoto Guidelines in view of the current controversy about jurisdiction over rate-setting for standard essential patents and parallel patent infringement cases.
Moderator:

Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) HuangÂ (Sydney Law School)

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An English and Chinese translation of the Guideline can be downloaded from here.
Flow chat of the Guidelines can be downloaded from here.
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Webinar time:Â 3-4pm AEDT
You will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the event.

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This event is jointly sponsored by theÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific LawÂ at the Sydney Law School and International Law Association (Australian Branch).

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Climate extremes on the road to Glasgow
2021-10-18 18:00 - 19:30
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.
TheÂ IPCC’s 2021 Sixth Assessment ReportÂ confirms that these events are likely to become more frequent and more intense as greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures rise.
Yet international climate change negotiations have delivered outcomes that are entirely inadequate to meet the goal set by the Parties to the Paris Agreement of keeping the rise in average global temperatures below 2 degrees C above pre-industrial temperatures.
The question is what we can expect to be resolved at the negotiations in Glasgow.

Schedule:

Time
Presentation

6-6.15pm
Welcome and Introduction byÂ Professor Rosemary Lyster, Sydney Law School

6.15 – 6.35pm
‘Climate change and our land of extremes’, presented by Professor David Karoly, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO

6.35 – 6.55pm
‘Impacts of the changing climate extremes on Australia’s natural and human systems’, presented by Professor Lesley Hughes, Macquarie University

6.55 – 7.15pm
‘The Global Investment response to the Paris Agreement: Accelerated Engagement driving Rapid Change’, presented by Martijn Wilder AM, Founding Partner, Pollination.

About the speakers:

Professor David Karoly, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO
David Karoly is a Chief Research Scientist in the CSIRO Climate Science Centre. He is also an honorary Professor at the University of Melbourne. He is an internationally recognised expert on climate change and climate variability. Professor Karoly was Leader of the Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub in the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program, based in CSIRO, during 2018-2021. He was a member of the National Climate Science Advisory Committee during 2018-19. He has been involved in the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001, 2007, 2014 and 2021 in several different roles. He was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019 .
Professor Lesley Hughes, Macquarie University
Lesley Hughes is Distinguished Professor of Biology and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Integrity & Development) at Macquarie University. Her principal research interest has been the impacts of climate change on species and the implications for conservation. She is a former Lead Author in the IPCC’s 4th and 5th Assessment Report, a former federal Climate Commissioner and now a Councillor with the Climate Council of Australia. She is also a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists and a Director of WWF-Australia.
Martijn Wilder AM, Founding Partner, Pollination
Martijn is a Founding Partner of Pollination, a global climate advisory and investment firm. With a background in economics and law, Martijn is focused on developing innovative policies, ideas and investments that enable our economies to rapidly transition to net zero, while at the same time preserving our natural ecosystems. He is also currently President of WWF-Australia, an Adjunct Professor of International Climate Change Law at Australian National University, and a Member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. Martijn was head of Baker & McKenzie’s global climate law and finance practice for 20 years and has retained over many years the accolade of the world’s leading climate change lawyer and the Star Individual by Chambers Global Law Guide. He was Chair of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), a former founding Director of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and a former Director of the Climate Council. He helped establish and later Chair the Federal Government’s Low Carbon Australia finance body. Martijn was a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholar and awarded an Australian Honour (AM) for his contribution to climate change law and the environment, and was winner of the 2018 Financial Times Asia Pacific Legal Innovator of the Year.

Time:Â 6-7.30pmÂ AEDT
This is an online event held on Zoom.

CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is hosted by theÂ Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

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20th International Arbitration lecture
2021-10-20 17:30 - 18:30
20th International Arbitration lectureParallel proceedings in international arbitration: theoretical analysis and search for practical solutions
Speaker: Salim Moollan QC

About the lecture
The annual International Arbitration lecture, presented by Clayton Utz and supported by the University of Sydney Law School, brings together key figures in international arbitration and the Australian business community to explore the real issues that could affect their international operations, and how international dispute resolution can contribute to their bottom line.
2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the International Arbitration Lecture series, which continues to attract guest speakers from the four corners of the world to give their insights into the challenges facing international arbitration.
Topic
Parallel proceedings in international arbitration: theoretical analysis and search for practical solutions
Fifteen years have elapsed since the last major effort at analysing the problems arising from parallel proceedings in international arbitration and looking for solutions thereto. This lecture, which will in part be based on Mr Moollan’s recently delivered Hague Lectures on the topic, will aim to take a fresh look at this topic – folding in, inter alia, the substantial development of investment arbitration during that period and the new issues which this has given rise to.
About the speaker
Salim Moollan QC specialises in international commercial and investment arbitration. He has acted as Counsel in high profile investment arbitration cases (White Industries v. India, Philip Morris v. Australia, Cairn Energy v. India), and currently acts as lead Counsel in a number of prominent investment arbitrations for both States and investors. In the commercial field, he acts in high-value cases in (in particular) the energy and telecoms fields. He frequently sits as arbitrator (party-appointed and chair) in investment and commercial arbitrations. He has an in-depth knowledge of the procedural regimes of all major international arbitral institutions, being a past chairman and vice-chairman of UNCITRAL, a past Vice-President of the ICC Court, a past member of the LCIA Court, a member of the World Bank’s ICSID Panel of Arbitrators and a former editor of the ICSID Law Review; and having worked closely with these and other institutions in the establishment of an African platform for international arbitration in Mauritius.
The holder of a mathematics degree from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (in addition to a first class law degree from Cambridge University and to a degree in economics and political science from Sciences-Po, Paris), he also has a unique grasp of technical and quantum expert issues. He is also called to the Mauritian Bar and appears from time to time before the Mauritian Courts in complex and high value cases. He frequently appears in the Privy Council on issues ranging from civil law to administrative law and tax matters. He is a Visiting Professor in International Arbitration Law at King’s College London.
CPD points = 1
Webinar details: Wednesday 20 October 2021, 5:30pm – 6:30pm AEDT

This annual event is presented by Clayton Utz and supported by the University of Sydney Law School.

The Public International Law Webinar Series: Climate change and international disputes
2021-10-20 19:30 - 20:30
The Public International Law Webinar Series: Climate change and international disputes
The 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 Shotaro Hamamoto and Professor Simon Chesterman who will discuss â€œIssues of Legitimacy in the International Legal Orderâ€.
There are ï¬ve weekly webinars in this series. The webinars are free of charge, but places are limited, and prior registration is required.
Registration for the webinars taking place in October 2021 is now open at the hyperlinks below. Do keep an eye out for subsequent ï¬‚yers that will contain information and hyperlinks to sign up for each of the individual webinars.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES
Moderators: Rachel Tan (Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy), David Isidore Tan (Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP)
Panellists: Paul Barker (Doughty Street Chambers / Gould Center for Conï¬‚ict Resolution, Stanford Law School), Dr Tara Davenport (NUS, Asia-Paciï¬c Centre for Environment Law), Sudhanshu Swaroop QC (20 Essex), Professor Jorge E. ViÃ±uales (University of Cambridge)

WEDNESDAY 20 OCTOBER 2021
9:30 AM (London time) / 4:30 PM (Singapore time) / 7:30 PM (Sydney time)

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Other webinars in the series:

How states negotiate their treaties

26 October 2021 | 9:30 AM (London time) / 4:30 PM (Singapore time) / 7:30 PM (Sydney time)
Find out more

The public international law year in review

Date to be confirmed | 9:30 AM (London time) / 5:30 PM (Singapore time) / 8:30 PM (Sydney time)
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This webinar series is sponsored by:

Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School
American Society of International Law
Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
Centre for International Law and National University of Singapore
International Centre for Settlement of Investor Disputes (ICSID) of World Bank Group
Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy.

For enquiries, please contact bd@rajahtann.com.

Cross-border flow of personal data: globalized Internet and fragmented (inter)national regulations
2021-10-22 13:00 - 14:00
Cross-border flow of personal data: globalized Internet and fragmented (inter)national regulations
Personal data is the fuel of the digital economy. However, in the globalised world of personal data being used over the Internet, there is a lack of harmonized international governance mechanisms. A typical example is the ideological, legal and functional divergence in data regulations between countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
This webinar will explore the conflicts and challenges brought by globalized Internet and fragmented international regulations. Using a comparative-law and multilayered approach, it aims to analyze the potential for future law reform.
Speakers and topics

Dr Robert Walters, Victoria University

The Evolution of Data Protection Law and Cross Border Data Flows in the New Digital Economy.
This paper examines the role personal data plays in the evolving digital economy. From its beginning as a rights-based concept, data was regulated to protect the privacy of individuals over the Internet. Yet, today, increasingly as technology evolves this data is being a core component of trade, business, law enforcement, national security, defense amongst others. This paper explores the rights-based approach to regulating data. It further examines the value of the trade in data, and how that data is increasingly being used in sectors such as agriculture, environment, consumer – customer, health and education, transport and infrastructure [ITC]. On the backdrop of the above, the paper will address a further accentuating question as to how far, if at all, the cross-border data flows are being considered in the area of national security and defense. It proposes a way forward by establishing an international harmonised policy approach that, will assist with future law reform between all nation states.

Mr Ken Dai, Dentons China

Regulatory Restrictions on Cross-border Data Transfer under PIPL and DSL in China.
With the enactment of the PRC Data Security Law (DSL) and Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), China has provided the regulatory requirements on dealing with data cross-border, including the important data and personal data. The proposed discussion will focus on how China has developed the enforcement regime of data cross-border transfer and the impact (such as more data localization setting and the procedure of handling security assessment under certain circumstances) of such arrangement on business operation in Chinese market.
Graduated from the University of Bristol in the UK, Ken Dai is one of the pioneering lawyers in China practicing in the area of data protection. Since 2012, he has been offering professional legal services upon the application and enforcement policies of relevant laws in data and privacy protection sphere for multinational corporations and large-scale enterprises, including: (1) reviewing and revising privacy policies, (2) advising on the data protection & privacy issues pertain to employment, (3) issuing compliance opinions upon cross-border transfer of data, (4) analysing the feasibility of business modes from the perspective of data and privacy protection, (5) advising on the data protection & privacy issues pertain to cross-border litigation, arbitration and investigation, (6) advising on the legislation and enforcement trend of data protection & privacy, and cybersecurity, (7) advising on the intersection between data and competition. Ken was ranked as one of the â€œClient Choice Top 20 Lawyersâ€ by Asian Legal Business (ALB) in 2014 and 2017, and as Competition Lawyer of the Year in China by Corporate INTL in 2017.

Professor Leon Trakman, University of New South Wales

Regulating Data Flows in the Digital Economy: Ideological, Legal and Functional Divergence.
A formidable challenge for national and international regulators is to develop a compatible legal regime to regulate cross border data flows. Their obstacle is to respond to ideological, legal and functional divergence over data protection across national boundaries. Their task is to remedy the aberrant consequences of regulatory inertia and inconsistency in regulating data flows efficiently and fairly. This presentation explores these obstacles and challenges. It concludes with possible pathways to ensure greater legal harmonisation across nation states.
Moderator
Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang,Â Sydney Law School

Friday 22 October 2021, 1-2pm AEDT
You will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the event.

This event is sponsored by theÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific LawÂ at the Sydney Law School.

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The Public International Law Webinar Series: How states negotiate their treaties
2021-10-26 19:30 - 20:30
The Public International Law Webinar Series: How states negotiate their treaties
The 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 Shotaro Hamamoto and Professor Simon Chesterman who will discuss â€œIssues of Legitimacy in the International Legal Orderâ€.
There are ï¬ve weekly webinars in this series. The webinars are free of charge, but places are limited, and prior registration is required.
Registration for the webinars taking place in October 2021 is now open at the hyperlinks below. Do keep an eye out for subsequent ï¬‚yers that will contain information and hyperlinks to sign up for each of the individual webinars.

HOW STATES NEGOTIATE THEIR TREATIES
Moderators: Oonagh Sands (Fietta LLP), Ryce Lee (Attorney-General’s Chambers, Singapore)
Panellists: Azusa Kikuma (Economic Dispute Settlement Division Â· Ministry of Foreign Aï¬€airs, Japan), Sarah McCosker (LexBridge Lawyers), Henrique Choer Moraes (Ministry of Foreign Aï¬€airs, Brazil), Andrew Williams (Ministry of Foreign Aï¬€airs & Trade, New Zealand)

TUESDAY 26 OCTOBER 2021
9:30 AM (London time) / 4:30 PM (Singapore time) / 7:30 PM (Sydney time)

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Other webinars in the series:

The public international law year in review

9:30 AM (London time) / 5:30 PM (Singapore time) / 8:30 PM (Sydney time)
Find out more and register
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This webinar series is sponsored by:

Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School
American Society of International Law
Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
Centre for International Law and National University of Singapore
International Centre for Settlement of Investor Disputes (ICSID) of World Bank Group
Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy.

For enquiries, please contact bd@rajahtann.com.

Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law
2021-11-03 18:30 - 19:30
Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law

This inaugural Sydney Law School public lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law will be delivered byÂ Associate Professor Nicole Watson, on the topic of ‘Indigenous Women, Outlaw Culture and the Law’.
The University of Sydney Law School, the oldest in Australia, has long taught almost exclusively the laws brought by settlers to this continent. The Law School is committed to transforming legal education as part of the University’s â€˜One Sydney, Many People’ Indigenous Strategy.
Earlier this year the Law School declared its support for theÂ Uluru Statement of the Heart. We are also committed to further embedding Indigenous perspectives and legal traditions into our curriculum.
This new annual lecture is a key part of those commitments. It seeks to create a public platform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars to reflect on the nature of Indigenous laws and legal traditions for a wider audience in Australia and abroad.
2021 Lecture
â€˜Indigenous Women, Outlaw Culture and the Law’
Since the advent of colonisation, Indigenous women have rarely enjoyed the protection of the law. In response to their exclusion from the law’s protection, generations of Indigenous women have developed an outlaw culture, which consists of tactics and practices that provide sanctuary from the violence of colonisation.
In common with the outlaw culture articulated by the American scholar, Monica Evans, Indigenous women’s outlaw culture is manifest in a spectrum of relationships with the law. At one end of the spectrum are the law-breakers who became bushrangers and absconders. At the other end are women who sought to create sanctuary by operating within the law. Such outlaw women drew upon their resourcefulness and grit to advocate for constitutional reform. Others pursued litigation in order to protect the rights of vulnerable people.

The speaker
Associate Professor Nicole Watson, Director of Nura Gili Academic Programs, University of New South Wales.
Nicole Watson is a Murri academic from south-east Queensland, whose family hail from the Munanjali and Birri Gubba peoples. She is the Director of Nura Gili Academic Programs at UNSW, and has an LLB, an LLM and a DCA. Nicole has published a large body of work on legal issues that are pertinent to Indigenous peoples. Her 2021 book Indigenous Legal Judgments, co-edited with Heather Douglas, examines how the stories of Indigenous peoples can be incorporated into legal decision making.
The inaugural lecture is sponsored by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence. It will also feature several guest speakers:

Professor Lisa Jackson Pulver AM, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services), University of Sydney
Professor Simon Bronitt, Dean, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
Nathan Allen, First Nations Officer, Sydney University Law Society

Watch the replay
Watch on The University of Sydney’s YouTube: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law: â€˜Indigenous Women, Outlaw Culture and the Law’,Â delivered by Associate Professor Nicole Watson.
CPD Points:Â 1.5
This lecture 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.
Banner image credit: â€˜Yanhambabirra Burambabirra Yalbailinya‘ (Come, Share and Learn) 2020 by Luke Penrith for the One Sydney Many People Strategy.

The Public International Law Webinar Series: The Public International Law Year in Review
2021-11-03 20:30 - 21:30
The Public International Law Webinar Series: The Public International Law Year in Review
The 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.Â
This event will see Judge Tim Eicke, Professor Neha Jain and Professor Christian Tams, three pre-eminent and authoritative figures in international law, discuss and debate the Public International Law Year in Review.
The speakers will critically examine a number of themes which have emerged over the course of the year, such as the ways in which different sub-fields in international law attempt to regulate internationally wrongful conduct, and the consequential trend of similar or related litigation being pursued before different international dispute resolution fora and transnational courts. Pressing and contemporary issues such as climate change, the continued relevance of bilateral investment treaties, and the present status of multilateralism in international law will also be discussed.
The webinar will conclude with a closing address by Rod Bundy, a leading practitioner in international dispute resolution, who will offer some observations on the broader implications of a number of cases currently pending before various tribunals.

THE PUBLIC LAW INTERNATIONAL LAW YEAR IN REVIEW
Moderators: Chow Zi En (Attorney-General’s Chambers, Singapore) and Colin Liew (Duxton Hill Chambers)
Panellists:
Judge Tim Eicke (European Court of Human Rights),
Professor Neha Jain (European University Institute),
Professor Christian Tams (University of Glasgow),
Closing address by Rodman Bundy (Squire Patton Boggs)

WEDNESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2021
9:30 AM (London time) / 5:30 PM (Singapore time) / 8:30 PM (Sydney time)

The webinar will be recorded and made available to registrants for 7 days after the webinar. The link to access the recording will be sent to registrants after the webinar.
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This webinar series is sponsored by:

Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School
American Society of International Law
Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
Centre for International Law and National University of Singapore
International Centre for Settlement of Investor Disputes (ICSID) of World Bank Group
Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy.

For enquiries, please contact bd@rajahtann.com.

The Hague Judgments Convention and Commonwealth Model Law - A Conversation With Dr. Abubakri Yekini
2021-11-11 18:00 - 19:00
The Hague Judgments Convention and Commonwealth Model Law – A Conversation With Dr. Abubakri Yekini
This presentation will examine the concept of legal pragmatism in private international law and how it has been used by courts and treaty makers to solve practical legal problems arising from the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments.
Specifically, it will analyse how pragmatism was applied in the negotiation and conclusion of the 2005 Choice of Court Convention, the 2019 Hague Judgments Convention and the 2017 Commonwealth Model Law on Foreign Judgments.

Speaker
Dr. Abubakri YekiniÂ is a Law Lecturer at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom. He recently earned his PhD from the Centre for Private International Law, University of Aberdeen, under the supervision of Professor Paul Beaumont and late Professor Jonathan Fitchen. His PhD thesis was published as a monograph by Hart Publishers in August 2021. Dr. Yekini was a Visiting Scholar at Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European, and Regulatory Procedural Law in 2019. He was also recently awarded the Schumann Fellowship for Young Scholars by the University of Munster, Germany for 2021/2022. His current research focuses on how and what Africa can learn from the harmonization projects of the Hague Conference on Private International Law and the European Union to drive the newly formed African Continental Free Trade Area. He is one of the founding members of the Nigeria Group on Private International Law (NGPIL). Dr Yekini is an Assistant Editor for the Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law.
Discussant
Associate Professor Stacie StrongÂ is an Associate Professor at Sydney Law SchoolÂ specialising in private international law, international arbitration, international mediation and comparative law. Stacie has taught at law schools around the world and has acted as a dual-qualified (England-US) practitioner with major international law firms in the UK and the US. She has also written over 130 award-winning books, articles and other works (attributed as S.I. Strong) and has acted as an expert consultant to a variety of governmental, non-governmental and intergovernmental organisations.

Book offer
Book offer discount:Â The Hague Judgments Convention and Commonwealth Model Law: A Pragmatic Perspective.

Relevant materials
Hague Judgments Convention 2019
Commonwealth Model Law on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments

Time: 11 November, 6-7pm AEDT
This is a free online event. You will receive a reminder notification with the Zoom link closer to the date.
CPD Points: 1
This event is presented by theÂ Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney.
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JSI Seminar: Social possibility as constraint and social possibility as construct
2021-11-18 18:00 - 19:30
JSI Seminar: Social possibility as constraint and social possibility as construct
Speaker: Jayani Nadarajalingam, University of Melbourne
As political and social philosophers, one of our central aims is to work out which of the social facts in our world should be the candidates for change and why. In doing so, we tend to treat some social facts asÂ givenÂ whereas we treat others asÂ objects of change. This gives rise to a question: which social facts should we treat as given and which ones as objects of action?
This paper puts forward a way in which we can answer this question in a principled manner. In doing so, it describes two properties ofÂ social possibility: social possibility asÂ constraintÂ and social possibility asÂ construct. This then paves the way for an innovative understanding of the ideal/nonideal distinction that is often drawn in contemporary analytic English-language political philosophy.

Speaker
Jayani NadarajalingamÂ is a lecturer with the Melbourne School of Government at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests lie primarily in political philosophy and constitutional theory. In 2022, she will commence a postdoctoral fellowship in the Melbourne Law School’s Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law (led by Professor Adrienne Stone).

Time:Â 6-7.30pmÂ AEDT
This is an online event. You will receive Zoom details closer to the day of the event.

CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

2021 ACCEL Environmental Law Year in Review Conference
2021-11-19 09:00 - 16:40
2021 ACCEL Environmental Law Year in Review ConferenceThe Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law at Sydney Law School invites you to its â€˜Year in Review Conference’ on 19 November 2021.

This event will bring together practitioners, academics, members of the NGO sector, government officials and students to hear about the implications of key developments in Climate and Environmental Law in 2021, which will also have implications going forward.

Leading practitioners and academics will analyse and provide insights into major developments in 2021 which are of particular interest to practitioners, policymakers and academics.
Topics include:

Developments in International Environmental Law
Climate investment and nature-related financial disclosures
Water resources
Federal issues, biodiversity and mining.

>> View the program (PDF) (as at 9 November 2021)

Registration:

Full day online attendance: $50 (inc. GST)
Sydney Law School students full day online attendance: Free (Sydney Law School students will need to provide proof of student status at registration. Any registrations that do not provide valid proof, will be cancelled)

Webinar time:Â 9am – 4.40pm AEDT
You will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the event.

Gain 6 CPD points for full day attendance.

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

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How Private International Law Can Make the UN Sustainable Development Goals a Reality
2021-11-23 18:00 - 19:30
How Private International Law Can Make the UN Sustainable Development Goals a Reality

The clock is ticking. We have until 2030 to implement the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals if we are to achieve a â€œbetter and more sustainable future for all.â€

Law plays a crucial role in reaching ambitious goals such as â€˜No Poverty’ (SDG #1), â€˜Affordable and Clean Energy’ (#7) and â€˜Climate Action’ (#13). But until now, the role of law in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals has been limited to public international law and relations between nations. Missing from the commentary has been the vital role to be played by private law, particularly private international law, which is essential for the implementation of cross-border contracts and the resolution of cross-border disputes.
An exciting new project brings together a team of legal experts from around the world to demonstrate how private international law can make each Sustainable Development Goal a reality.
Join some of these pioneering legal minds as they discuss the results of their research and the path ahead for our world.

Order of proceedings

1. Introduction to the SDGs and the project
Professor VerÃ³nica Ruiz Abou-Nigm and Mr Hans Van Loon
These presentations will address the sustainable development goals, the interaction of and issues presented by private international law, and the objectives and recommendations of the project.
2. SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
Professor Vivienne Bath
This presentation will address the impact on, and interaction of private international law with, the construction and operation of sustainable infrastructure and the potential role of regulatory private international law.
3. SDG 15: Life on Land
Dr Drossos Stamboulakis
This presentation considers the global governance role that private international law can, and arguable should, play in achieving SDG 15 through the facilitation and incentivization of private action geared at environmental protection and sustainability. Chapter written by Dr Stamboulakis and Professor Jay Sanderson.
Chair
Associate Professor Stacie Strong

Speakers

Professor VerÃ³nica Ruiz Abou-NigmÂ is Senior Lecturer in International Private Law at Edinburgh Law School. Professionally qualified as a solicitor in Uruguay, with extensive practice in international litigation, her research focuses on the intersections between private international law and various other disciplines, within and beyond law, including maritime law and migration studies. Her scholarship promotes the transnational mobilisation of private international law, developing knowledge in which private international law can foster intercultural integration, contributing to accommodate different legal traditions and cultures in cross-border cases.

Mr Hans Van LoonÂ is an independent international consultant. He is a member and vice-president of the Institut de droit international. He practiced as a lawyer before the Supreme Court of the Netherlands and the European Court of Human Rights, and was as a deputy judge in the Hague District Court. He joined the secretariat of the Hague Conference on Private International Law in 1978, being appointed also as Secretary of the Netherlands Government Committee on Private International Law, and was the HCCH’s Secretary General from 1996-2913. He contributed to the creation of a dozen Hague Conventions on private international law and to the amendment of its Statute to enable Membership of the European Union, and is a member of the European Group for Private International Law.
Professor Vivienne BathÂ is Professor of Chinese and International Business Law in the University of Sydney and Associate Director – International of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney. She is also a Senior Research Fellow of the Asia IP and Technology Law Project at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Her teaching and research interests are in international business and economic law, private international law and Chinese law. She also has extensive professional experience in Sydney, New York and Hong Kong, specialising in international commercial law, with a focus on foreign investment and commercial transactions in China and the Asian region.
Dr Drossos StamboulakisÂ is Lecturer at Monash University, and is admitted to practice as an Australian Lawyer. He is the Deputy Convenor of Monash’s Commercial Disputes Group, and coaches the Monash Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team. His research spans commercial arbitration, comparative law and private international law, and intersections with biodiversity and sustainability.
Professor Jay Sanderson is an interdisciplinary scholar with degrees in law, science and psychology. He is currently Professor and Head of School of USC’s School of Law and Society. Jay’s main areas of research focus on the social and doctrinal developments of laws related to plants, agriculture and biodiversity. He is currently working on projects that examine biodiversity and BioTrade; and the use of trademarks and certification.

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Chair

Associate Professor Stacie Strong is an Associate Professor at Sydney Law School Â specialising in private international law, international arbitration, international mediation and comparative law. Stacie has taught at law schools around the world and has acted as a dual-qualified (England-US) practitioner with major international law firms in the UK and the US. She has also written over 130 award-winning books, articles and other works and has acted as an expert consultant to a variety of governmental, non-governmental and intergovernmental organisations.
Publication – access here:

The Private Side of Transforming our World – UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Role of Private International Law

Edited byÂ Ralf Michaels,Â VerÃ³nica Ruiz Abou-NigmÂ andÂ Hans van Loon

Event details
This free online event will be held onÂ 23 November 2021, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM AEDT
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This webinar is jointly presented by theÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific LawÂ and theÂ Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at theÂ University of Sydney Law School, theÂ Centre for Commercial Law & Regulatory Studies,Â Faculty of Law, Monash University, and theÂ Monash Sustainable Development Institute.

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Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Common mistakes in using national uniform legislation
2021-11-25 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Common mistakes in using national uniform legislation
National uniform legislation underpins major areas of regulation in commercial and corporate law. Here are few examples in these major areas: regulation of corporations, cooperatives, consumer protection, commercial arbitration, electronic conveyancing, defamation and business names.
Today’s legal profession is “born to the age of statutes”. What are the main pitfalls in reading and interpreting national uniform legislation? Uniform legislation is not a panacea for all legal challenges but the growth in this area warrants close academic attention to take a step towards demystifying some of confusing factors that are obscuring the underlying general principles.
This practical presentation summarises the main findings of analysis of close to 100 sets of uniform Acts across a number of areas of law, so it can be applied by legal practitioners and academics working with harmonised legislation.

Speaker: Dr Guzyal Hill, senior lecturer, Charles Darwin University
Chair:Â Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School

Webinar via Zoom, Thursday 25 November 2021, 6pm AEDT
Once you register, your confirmation will provide the Zoom details.

This seminar is sponsored by theÂ Ross Parsons CentreÂ atÂ Sydney Law School.

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Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Recent cases in banking and finance law
2021-12-01 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Recent cases in banking and finance law
Chair:Â Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School
Presenter: David Allen, barrister, University Chambers, Sydney
David accepts briefs for commercial, equity, insolvency and financial services matters, among other areas and trained as a solicitor at Allens and at Allen & Overy LLP in London. He returned to Australia and before being called to the Bar was a senior associate at Ashurst.
David has particular expertise in relation to finance transactions, financial services and financial regulation. He is the co-author of LexisNexis’s Practical Guidance Personal Property Securities. As a solicitor he completed placements at Morgan Stanley and ANZ Bank.
At the Bar, David has advised American Express, Police Bank and Azupay. He is currently appearing as junior counsel for the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority in a number of applications by superannuation trustees for judicial advice.
David graduated with a Master of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons I)/Bachelor of Arts (Hons I) from the University of Sydney.
Commentator: Nick Koutsoukos, Allens Linklaters
Nick is a Senior Associate in the Banking and Finance team at Allens Linklaters, based in Sydney, Australia. Nick specialises in acting for financiers, borrowers and government across a range of areas, including acquisition, leveraged and project finance.
Prior to Allens, Nick was a senior manager for Suncorp Group in corporate banking, including corporate finance, insolvency and restructuring.
Nick holds a Juris Doctor (Hons) from University of Technology Sydney, and a Bachelor of Commerce (majoring in Banking and Finance). Nick is also a part-time academic at University of Technology Sydney, teaching both private and public law, and the secretary of the Australian Banking and Financial Services Law Association legal opinions committee, and regularly presents finance documentation training for the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association.

Webinar via Zoom, Wednesday 1 December 2021, 6pm AEDT
Once you register, your confirmation will provide the Zoom details.

This seminar is sponsored by theÂ Ross Parsons CentreÂ atÂ Sydney Law School.

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Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Vaccine mandates and public health orders: legal and ethical issues for business
2021-12-09 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Vaccine mandates and public health orders: legal and ethical issues for business
This webinar will feature a panel of experts from Sydney Law School and Corrs Chambers Westgarth who will discuss legal and ethical issues for business arising from vaccine mandates under public health orders.
Chair:

Professor David Kinley, Professor of Human Rights Law, Sydney Law School

Panel members:

Professor Barbara McDonald, Sydney Law School
Professor Roger Magnusson, Professor of Health Law and Governance, Sydney Law School
Professor Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney law School
Jack de Flamingh, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Webinar via Zoom, Thursday 9 December 2021, 6pm AEDT
Once you register, your confirmation will provide the webinar details.

This seminar is sponsored by theÂ Ross Parsons CentreÂ atÂ Sydney Law School.

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ACCEL 2021 Distinguished Speaker Address: Can climate litigation save the planet?: the role of climate attribution science
2021-12-09 18:00 - 19:30
ACCEL 2021 Distinguished Speaker Address -Â Can climate litigation save the planet?: the role of climate attribution science
Speakers: Dr Petra Minnerop, Durham University and Dr Friederike Otto, University of Oxford and Global Climate Science Programme
Litigants are increasingly approaching the courts in the face of inadequate action by governments and corporations on climate change. Plaintiffs want compensatory damages for losses incurred as a result of the defendants’ greenhouse gas emissions, or are asking courts to compel governments and corporations, to reduce their emissions. They also want financial institutions to stop financing the construction of high-emitting infrastructure, and banks and businesses to disclose their exposure to the financial risks associated with climate change.
This Distinguished Address shows how climate attribution science assists with establishing the all important causal relationship between the defendants’ emissions and the plaintiffs’ losses.
Speakers
Dr Petra Minnerop is Associate Professor of International Law at Durham University where she is also the University’s Academic Lead for COP 26, Co-Director of the Global Policy Institute and Co-Director of the Research Centre Law and Global Justice. Prior to joining Durham Law School, Petra has held academic positions at the Universities of Dundee, Munich and GÃ¶ttingen, and worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, and at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg. She is a member of the Bar in Germany.
Dr Friederike Otto is an Honorary Research Associate of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, and an Associate Professor in the Global Climate Science Programme. She leads several projects understanding the impacts of man-made climate change on natural and social systems with a particular focus on Africa and India. Fredi is the co-lead of World Weather Attribution (WWA), an international effort to analyse and communicate the possible influence of climate change on extreme weather events. In 2019 Fredi was named one of New Scientist’s ‘Ones to Watch’ and in 2020 climate change attribution was named one of MIT Tech Review’s top ten breakthrough technologies. In 2020, Fredi became one of just 10 international climate scientists to join the core writing team of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Synthesis Report of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6)
Chair: Professor Tim Stephens, The University of Sydney Law School
Running order
6pm Welcome to Country delivered by Yvonne Weldon, and introduction by Professor Stephens
6.10pm ACCEL 2021 Distinguished Address, Associate Professor Petro Minnerop and Dr Friederike Otto
7.15pm Q&A
7.30pm Close

Thursday 9 December, 6-7.30pmÂ AEDT
This is an online event held on Zoom.Â

CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is hosted by theÂ Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

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Neurotechnology, Criminal Law and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
2021-12-14 09:00 - 20:00
Neurotechnology, Criminal Law and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
What kind of human rights challenges might emerge from neurotechnology and how might these challenges play out in criminal justice? This event will address these questions.
Investment from companies such as Elon Musk’s Neuralink, Facebook and a host of others gives reason to take seriously the possibility that neurotechnologies, such as brain-computer interfaces, may soon be more widely available in society. Recently, Chile has become a world-leader in responding to possible human rights implications of more widespread use of technologies that interact with the brain, and has now changed its constitution in order to address emerging challenges.
Whether one imagines people committing crimes by way of brain-computer interface, or the employment by the state of technologies that monitor brains, or even intervene on them to reduce the risk of a person offending, it seems reasonable to expect that there will be a criminal justice dimension to neurotechnology.
But should governments monitor brains? Should they use a neurotechnological means to address crime? There are obvious human rights implications concerning such hypothetical scenarios. Given the possibility that, at some point, the uptake of neurotechnologies might start to accelerate, it seems prudent to envisage some of the issues that might emerge now, rather than waiting until technology is entrenched in a way that is undesirable.
With this in mind, scholars and policymakers from around the world are starting to consider the human rights implications of neurotechnology. While considering some general issues relating to neurotechnology and human rights, this event will also examine the technology with a somewhat more specific aim in mind and ask what human rights implications it may have for criminal justice.
The consideration of such issues requires scholars from a variety of backgrounds including science and technology, and philosophy, as well as law and we look forward to investigating the issues with the below-mentioned speakers and others.
The audience we expect is similarly diverse and we invite scholars from a variety of backgrounds, legal practitioners, scientists, technologists, policymakers, and others who wish to consider the themes that will be discussed.
The conference is free to register and takes place via Zoom.
Speakers and discussants

Susie Alegre, Associate, Doughty Street Chambers and Visiting Fellow at University of Roehampton
Tugba Basaran Akmazoglu, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Jennifer Chandler, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Lisa Claydon, The Open University Law School
Jared Genser, Perseus Strategies and Neurorights Foundation
Walter Glannon, Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary
Sara Goering, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington
Stephanie Herrmann, Perseus Strategies
Marcello Ienca, ETH Zurich and Intelligent Systems Ethics Unit, College of Humanities, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
Fabrice Jotterand, Medical College of Wisconsin and Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Basel
Sjors Ligthart, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University and Utrecht University
Allan McCay, Sydney Law School
Fruzsina MolnÃ¡r-GÃ¡bor, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Helen Paterson, Sydney Institute of Criminology and Faculty of Science, University of Sydney
Rafael Yuste, NeuroTechnology Center, Columbia University and Neurorights Foundation

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Tuesday 14 December 2021, 8.50am-8pm AEDT (Sydney time)Â
Please note that the conference start and end time caters to the time zones of our speakers in North America and Europe. The conference will be broken up into two sessions, with a gap in between.
You will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the event.

This conference is organised by Dr Allan McCay and Francis Maxwell, Sydney Law School and hosted by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at The University of Sydney Law School.

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