Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Comparing Australia’s insolvent trading regime with New Zealand’s reckless trading regime

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Comparing Australia’s insolvent trading regime with New Zealand’s reckless trading regimeOnline event This webinar will discuss the current state of insolvent trading law reform in Australia and contrast this with the reckless trading in New Zealand by discussing the recent NZSC decision in Yan v Mainzeal Property […]

Self-represented Accused and Appellants in the Criminal Justice System and a Prosecutor’s Duty

2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Self-represented Accused and Appellants in the Criminal Justice System and a Prosecutor’s Duty  Ethics & Professional Responsibility Professional Skills CPD Points: 1.5 About Self-represented accused and appellants often add complexity and time to court proceedings. Prosecutors have a unique role in matters involving such persons, as they must balance their […]

JSI Seminar | Bringing law back in: Theorizing the role of law in shaping the social reproduction bargain

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

JSI Seminar | Bringing law back in: Theorizing the role of law in shaping the social reproduction bargainIn-person event A rich interdisciplinary feminist project spanning the fields of critical political economy, feminist economics, geography, migration, sociology and social policy has long sought to theorize and make visible the role social of reproduction and reproductive labour […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Navigating the Consumer Data Right: A Business Perspective

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Navigating the Consumer Data Right: A Business PerspectiveOnline event The introduction of the Consumer Data Right (‘CDR’) in Australia in 2019 heralds a new era in data governance, with profound implications for businesses across various sectors. This world-leading initiative holds the potential to inject much-needed competition into […]

John Emerson Oration and CLAANZ Annual Lecture: Statutory Eucalypts in the Law of Charity

Law Lounge, Level 1

John Emerson Oration and CLAANZ Annual Lecture: Statutory Eucalypts in the Law of CharityHybrid event The Law Council of Australia Legal Practice Section’s Charities and Not-for-Profit Committee, the Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (CLAANZ) and the University of Sydney Law School will host the fourth John Emerson Oration and CLAANZ Annual Lecture […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | AI and Contracting: An EU Perspective

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | AI and Contracting: An EU PerspectiveOnline event This webinar will discuss the use of artificial intelligence systems in commercial contracting. This is a joint event by the Ross Parsons Centre and the Automated Decision-Making and Society Centre, both of Sydney Law School. Speakers Professor Teresa Rodríguez de […]

Business and Human rights: Recent Developments and Comparative Lessons

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Business and Human rights: Recent Developments and Comparative LessonsIn-person event Given that human rights abuses-linked to businesses are on the rise rather than in decline, it is no surprise that ‘business and human rights’ remains a rapidly evolving research field. There are various national initiatives (e.g. the French loi de vigilance, one of the pioneer […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insider Trading, Fiduciary Relationships, and Market Integrity: A Comparative Consideration of Insider Laws of United States and Australia

Law Lounge, Level 1

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insider Trading, Fiduciary Relationships, and Market Integrity: A Comparative Consideration of Insider Laws of United States and AustraliaIn-person event There are a variety of distinctions that exist between the Australian and US laws prohibiting insider trading. While insider trading is prohibited in Australia under an express statutory […]

Corruption, Criminal Law, and China: Offering and Accepting Bribes

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Corruption, Criminal Law, and China: Offering and Accepting Bribes In-person event The XII Amendment to Criminal Law of P.R.C adopted by the Standing Committee of People’s Congress on 29 December 2023 is guided by two principles. One is to enhance protection for private enterprises and the other is to punish offering bribes and accepting bribes […]

China as a Development Model for the Global South: Opportunities and Limits

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

China as a Development Model for the Global South: Opportunities and Limits In-person event With its remarkable economic success, China could be regarded by countries in the Global South as presenting a development model that is easier to emulate than that of Western developed countries. In this paper, we examine to what extent the Chinese […]

Book launch: Youth Crime, Youth Justice and Children’s Courts in NSW

New Law Building (F10)

Book launch: Youth Crime, Youth Justice and Children’s Courts in NSWIn-person event The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Youth Crime, Youth Justice and Children’s Courts in NSW, co-edited by Dr Garner Clancey, Sydney Law School, and Dr Rohan Lulham, University of Sydney. About Youth Crime, Youth […]