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How Private International Law Can Make the UN Sustainable Development Goals a Reality
2021-11-23 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Sydney)
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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Asia-Pacific Online Legal Education Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
2022-02-01 12:00 - 13:30
Webinar: Asia-Pacific Online Legal Education Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

This webinar discusses how online (university or other) legal education interacts with each jurisdiction’s legal profession, university system, and ICT infrastructure, as well as how online legal education has developed both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, across several Asia-Pacific jurisdictions: Australia, Japan, Canada, Brunei/Malaysia/Singapore and Macau. It draws on draft National Reports for anÂ International Academy of Comparative LawÂ conference hosted overÂ 23-28 October 2022 in Asuncion (Paraguay), comparing over 20 jurisdictions worldwide, for a volume to be published by Intersentia co-edited by Professors Luke Nottage and Makoto Ibusuki.
Find out more about the project, including links to several draft reports.
Speakers:

Professor Luke NottageÂ (also co-chair, University of Sydney Law School)
Professor Makoto IbusukiÂ (also co-chair, Seijo University)
Dean Trish MundyÂ (University of Wollongong)
Professor William van CaenagemÂ (Bond University)
Assistant Prof Nobumichi TeramuraÂ (University of Brunei)
Assoc Professor Salim FarrarÂ (University of Sydney Law School)
Professor Rostam NeuwirthÂ (University of Macau)
Professor Adrien HabermacherÂ (University of Moncton)
Associate Prof Alice Lee (University of Hong Kong)
Wilson Lui (University of Hong Kong)
Professor Kenichi Yoneda (Kagoshima University)

Tuesday 1 February, 12-1.30pm AEDT

Registration

Please click here to register online.
**This event, previously advertised as hybrid (in-person and via zoom) will proceed online only. A zoom link will be provided closer to the date**
CPD points =1.5

This event is hosted by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at Sydney Law School, Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL) and the Transnational Law and Policy Centre at the University of Wollongong.

Direct Jurisdiction in Asia
2022-02-17 18:00 - 19:00
Direct Jurisdiction in Asia
The book Direct Jurisdiction is the second thematic volume in the series Studies in Private International Law – Asia. It considers the situations in which the courts of 15 key Asian states are prepared to hear a case involving cross-border elements. For instance, will the courts of an Asian state accept jurisdiction in a dispute that has only some, little or no connection with an Asian state, and (if so) on what conditions? As a comprehensive survey across multiple jurisdictions and areas of law, the book suggests that enacting suitable rules of direct jurisdiction requires an Asian state to strike a delicate balance between affording certainty and protecting its nationals. It involves sometimes difficult policy considerations and is not just about drawing up lists of jurisdictional grounds and exceptions to them.
In this webinar, the editors and contributors will summarise the practical and theoretical findings in the book. It will consider the possibility of a multilateral convention or soft law instrument articulating principles of direct jurisdiction for Asia. It will also discuss possible trajectories that Asian states may be taking in respect of direct jurisdiction in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the political tensions currently besetting the world. The editors and contributors will also talk about the process of putting the book together, especially in the face of lockdowns and other restrictions imposed in various jurisdictions.
There will be ample time for Q&A.

Speakers

Professor Anselmo Reyes, Singapore International Commercial Court; Doshisha University, Editor ofÂ Direct Jurisdiction
Wilson Lui, University of Hong Kong; University of Oxford, Editor ofÂ Direct Jurisdiction
Dr Nobumichi Teramura, University of Brunei Darussalam; University of Sydney, Contributor ofÂ Direct Jurisdiction

Moderator:Â Professor Vivienne Bath, University of Sydney Law School

Book discount offer
Direct Jurisdiction, Asian Perspectives:
Australian orders – receive 35% off here.
UK orders – receive 20% off here.

Time: Thursday 17 February, 6pm 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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Sydney Centre for International Law Year in Review Conference
2022-02-25 08:45 - 18:00
Sydney Centre for International Law Year in Review Conference
The Sydney Centre for International Law at Sydney Law School is delighted to present the 2022 International Law Year in Review Conference, to be held online on Friday 25 February 2022.
This annual â€˜year in review’ conference brings together expert speakers from around the world to give participants insight into the latest developments in international law over the preceding year, especially those most salient for Australia.
Highlights of the day include:

A keynote address by Professor Megan Davis, Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous at UNSW, on the topic ‘Public International Law and the Uluru Statement from the Heart’
A law literary lunch with Tara June Winch, winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award for The Yield
The launch ofÂ Non-Binding Norms in International Humanitarian LawÂ with author,Â Associate Professor Emily Crawford, Sydney Law School.

The conference will traverse recent developments in environmental law, private international law and human rights.
Speakers include leading academics, practitioners and government lawyers.
Participation will enable lawyers and non-lawyers alike to remain abreast of important trends in international affairs.

VIEW THE PROGRAM HERE (last updated 23 February 2022)

FRIDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2022, 8.45am – 5pm AEDT (and book launch from 5-6pm AEDT)
Online conference with complimentary registration.
The Zoom webinar link will be provided once registered.Â

CPD Points:
If this particular educational activity extends your knowledge and skills in areas that are relevant to your practice needs or professional development, then you should claim one (1) “unitâ€ for each hour of attendance, refreshment breaks not included.
Legal practitioners may earn 6.5 CPD points for full day attendance.
The CPD rules require solicitors to keep their own record of their CPD activities.

Sydney Centre for International LawÂ sits on country of the Gadi people of the Eora nation.

This conference is hosted by the Sydney Centre for International Law and sponsored by TDM/OGEMID.

Between Theory and Practice: Introducing TagTime and In Conversation with Neil Kaplan
2022-03-02 17:30 - 18:30
Between Theory and Practice: Introducing TagTime and In Conversation with Neil Kaplan
Join us onÂ 2 March 2022 atÂ 5.30pm AEDTÂ when Dr Michael Hwang SC, Neil Kaplan CBE QC SBS, Professor Luke Nottage and Hafez Virjee will introduce the content of the benefaction by Michael Hwang to the law students of the University of Sydney.
The speakers will discuss the development of international arbitration in the Asia-Pacific region, the place of Australian practitioners in this global market, and the benefits of pursuing international arbitration as an elective, in the context of the large range of materials made available to the law students through the benefaction on the Delos platform.

Speakers

DrÂ Michael HwangÂ SC
Neil Kaplan CBE QC SBS
Dr Luke Nottage is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Business Law at Sydney Law School
Hafez Virjee is the President and a co-Founder of Delos

Click here for speaker bios and to register.

Time: Wednesday 2 March 2022 atÂ 5.30pm AEDTÂ
This is a free online event.
This event is co-presented by Delos Dispute Resolution and the University of Sydney Law School.Â

The Invasion of Ukraine: Causes and Consequences
2022-03-08 12:00 - 13:00
The Invasion of Ukraine: Causes and Consequences
The Russian attack against Ukraine is one of the largest military operations in modern history.â€¯It has the potential to redraw not only borders in Europe, but may be the starting point for a transformation of the global order as we know it.
This webinar will analyse the motives behind Russia’s attack,â€¯investigateâ€¯to what extent NATO expansion is a genuine concern for Russia andâ€¯discussâ€¯the rules of international law that apply to its military operations. The panelâ€¯will then explore what options the global community has in face of President Putin’s apparent willingness to disregard international rules and norms. Finally, panelists will address the geopolitical and economic consequences of this conflict for Ukraine, Russia itself, Europe and the world.
This one-hour conversation features experts on international politics, international law and relations between Russia and Ukraine.
Panellists:

Professor Theo Farrell, UOW
Associate Professor Emily Crawford, The University of Sydney Law School
Sonia Mycak, ANU

Tuesday 8 March 2022, 12-1pm AEDT

This webinar is presented by the University of Wollongong Transnational Law and Policy Centre & the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney Law School.

Ukraine and China: Russian Invasion and After
2022-03-10 18:00 - 19:15
Ukraine and China: Russian Invasion and After
On 24 February 2022, Russia started a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine. It is no doubt that the crisis is going to be considerably elongated with equally as elongated consequences for China, its policy, and international environments.
This multidisciplinary roundtable will combine renowned speakers from the disciplines of law, politics, economy, and international relations to discuss the issues.
Speakers (in the surname alphabetical order):
Professor Vivienne Bath: Professor of Chinese and International Business Law at the Sydney Law School. Professor Bath’s teaching and research interests are in international business and economic law, private international law, and Chinese law. She 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.
Mr. Rowan Callick: Industry fellow at Griffith University’s Asia Institute. He is a double Walkley Award winner and a Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year. He joined The Australian at the start of 2006, as China Correspondent. After three years in Beijing, he became The Australian’s Asia-Pacific Editor and then returned to Beijing as China Correspondent, from March 2016 to April 2018. He remains a columnist for The Australian. He was appointed in 2013 as a fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs.
Professor Bing Ling: Professor of Chinese Law at the Sydney Law School. Before coming to Australia, he was a professor and founding member of the Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also taught at Peking University Law School, University of Michigan Law School, and City University of Hong Kong Law School. He is the author of books and articles on Chinese civil and commercial law and international law.
Mr. Raffaello Pantucci: Senior Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Senior Fellow at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore. Author of Sinostan: China’s Inadvertent Empire, a contemporary history of China’s relations with Central Asia to be published by Oxford University Press April 2022.
Associate Professor Jingdong Yuan: a leading expert in Asia-Pacific security, Chinese defense and foreign policy, and global and regional arms control and non-proliferation issues. He is the co-author of China and India: Cooperation or Conflict? (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003) and is currently working on a book manuscript on post-Cold War Chinese security policy.
Moderator: Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Sydney Law School and China Studies Centre

Thursday 10 March, 6-7.15pm AEDT
This event is being held online.
This event is jointly organised by the China Studies Centre and Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, The University of Sydney.

Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Reforming creditors' schemes of arrangement: Lessons from the Netherlands
2022-03-15 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Reforming creditors’ schemes of arrangement: Lessons from the Netherlands
This webinar will discuss the new creditors scheme of arrangement (WHOA) reforms in the Netherlands that were introduced in 2020. The webinar will provide an overview of the WHOA and discuss what lessons can be learnt from the initial cases decided under the new law. Will the Dutch scheme supplant English schemes post-Brexit as the restructuring tool of choice in Europe? Does the Dutch scheme offer lessons for Australia in reforming our scheme of arrangement procedure?
These questions will be discussed by our expert panel:
Speaker: Johan Jol
Johan works for ABN AMRO Bank NV as part of the Financial Restructuring and Recovery Legal Team and has extensive experience working as legal counsel for a range of banks and law firms in the Netherlands, London and New York. Johan is a member of the Expert Group on Restructuring and Insolvency Law for the European Commission and teaches international and comparative bankruptcy law in the United States as well as teaching at Leiden Law School. Johan is also an INSOL Fellow. Johan’s publications and presentations can be found here: www.legalhoudini.com
Commentator: Leonard McCarthy
Leonard is a special counsel at William James in Sydney, where he practices in insolvency, restructuring and commercial litigation. Leonard acts for insolvency practitioners, creditors and debtors and has acted on some of Australia’s largest insolvencies and restructurings. Leonard is an INSOL Fellow, a member of ARITA and of the TMA.

Chair: Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School

Webinar via Zoom, Tuesday 15 March 2022, 6-7pm AEDT
Once registered, you will be provided with Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.

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

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The Invasion of Ukraine: Legal, Political and Personal Consequences
2022-03-22 12:00 - 13:00
The Invasion of Ukraine: Legal, Political and Personal Consequences
Although Russia appears to be acting with impunity, there are very real consequences to its actions in Ukraine. Some of these consequences are having immediate effect, while others will last for years.
This webinar analyses the ramifications of Russia’s recent aggression against Ukraine in legal, political and personal terms. Panelists will address the international response to Russia’s actions, focusing on such diverse topics as economic sanctions, actions at the International Court of Justice and criminal prosecutions at the International Criminal Court.
While it is unclear how long the current military conflict will continue, what is certain is that the consequences of Russia’s aggression will last for years to come. This one-hour conversation features a diverse array of experts who will shed light on this complex and rapidly evolving situation.
Speakers

ProfessorÂ Chester Brown, The University of Sydney Law School
Associate ProfessorÂ Markus Wagner, University of Wollongong
ProfessorÂ Sarah Williams, UNSW.

Moderator

Professor Lisa Toohey, University of Newcastle

Webinar via Zoom, Tuesday 22 March 2022, 12-1pm AEDT
Once registered, you will be provided with Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.

This webinar is presented by the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney Law School and the University of Wollongong Transnational Law and Policy Centre.

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Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Central Bank Digital Currencies as a potential response to the financial inclusion challenges of the Pacific
2022-04-05 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Central Bank Digital Currencies as a potential response to the financial inclusion challenges of the Pacific
Despite years of effort, financial inclusion persists as a major challenge in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs), with many in the region still lacking access to financial services. This webinar considers what central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) offer as a solution to (i) the financial inclusion challenges of the PICs and (ii) the problem of high remittance costs that currently serve as a tax on the earnings of Pacific Islanders abroad.

Speaker: Dr Anton Didenko, Senior Lecturer, School of Law and Justice, UNSW
Commentator: Urszula McCormack, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons, Sydney
Chair: Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School

Webinar via Zoom, Tuesday 5 April 2022, 6-7pm AEDT
Once registered, you will be provided with Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.

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

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The Invasion of Ukraine: The Personal Cost - Refugees
2022-04-13 12:00 - 13:00
The Invasion of Ukraine: The Personal Cost – Refugees
The world has been watching the horrific events in Ukraine for over a month, and what is abundantly clear is that Russian aggression has caused significant human suffering.
This one-hour webinar considers the issue from the perspective of the more than 4 million refugees who have left Ukraine in the last month.
Two esteemed experts in refugee law – Professor Mary Crock of the University of Sydney and Dr Niamh Kinchin of the University of Wollongong – will discuss the issues facing refugees both now and in the coming months and perhaps years.
Speakers

Professor Mary Crock, The University of Sydney Law School
Dr Niamh Kinchin, University of Wollongong.

Webinar via Zoom, Wednesday 13 April 2022, 12-1pm AEST
Once registered, you will be provided with Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.

This webinar is presented by the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney Law School and the University of Wollongong Transnational Law and Policy Centre.

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JSI Seminar: Legislative Intent: A Rational Unity Account
2022-04-14 18:00 - 19:30
JSI Seminar: Legislative Intent: A Rational Unity Account
(co-authored with David Tan, Deakin University)
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD ONLINE AND IN-PERSON AT SYDNEY LAW SCHOOL.
Speaker: Associate ProfessorÂ Stephanie Collins, Monash University
Does the legislature have intentions concerning the effects of legislation? If so, how can that intent be gleaned? Existing theories of legislative intent can be divided into three camps: skepticism, constructivism, and realism. This paper begins by outlining problems for constructivism and (existing accounts of) realism. However, this does not imply a retreat into skepticism. Instead, the paper offers a new account of legislative intent: the rational unity account. The paper explains how this account avoids the problems with existing versions of realism and constructivism, while also capturing the sense in which the legislature is a rational group agent with intentions that can be distinguished from the intentions of individual legislators.
About the speaker
Stephanie CollinsÂ is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. Her work primarily develops theories of group agency and group responsibility. Her monographs are The Core of Care Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015),Â Group Duties: Their Existence and Their Implications for IndividualsÂ (Oxford University Press, 2019) andÂ Organizations as WrongdoersÂ (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Thursday 14 April 2022
Time: 6-7.30pm AEST
PLEASE NOTE: This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.

CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Recent cases on Quistclose trusts
2022-04-26 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Recent cases on Quistclose trusts
Quistclose Trusts can be a useful tool in commercial and other disputes. This webinar will discuss recent decisions from across the Common Law world on Quistclose trusts.
Presenter:Â Ronny Chen, Barrister, Frederick Jordan Chambers, Sydney.
Ronny Chen has a particular interest in cross-border commercial and insolvency disputes, including international commercial arbitration. Ronny also maintains chambers in Singapore.
Commentator:Â Dr Derwent Coshott, Sydney Law School
Derwent’s researches in the law of trusts, with a particular focus on how trusts are utilised internationally as a legitimate tool of commerce and charity, and as an illegitimate device in the context of illegal financial conduct. He has been quoted extensively in the Australian media as an expert on charities, trust law and money laundering, and has been invited to appear before the NSW parliament to give advice on draft legislation.
Chair:Â Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School

Webinar via Zoom, Tuesday 26 April 2022, 6-7pm AEST
Once registered, you will be provided with Zoom details.

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

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Indo-Pacific Digital Trade and National Security: A China Context
2022-04-28 13:00 - 14:00
Indo-Pacific Digital Trade and National Security: A China Context

Data collection, analysis, disposal, and cross-border flow are essential components of digital trade and investment projects. A tension exists between promoting private commercial businesses under investment and trade treaties concluded between China and countries in the Indo Pacific and protecting the national interest in data security and privacy sought by these countries against the perceived threat of China.
This multidisciplinary roundtable will bring expert opinions on critical and controversial issues such as:

The legal regulations imposed by the Chinese government on its state-owned enterprises and privately-owned companies in digital trade and the political linkage between them
The rise of digital protectionism, the confluence of industrial policy, mutual suspicion and national security
China’s digital trade in Southeast Asia, particularly investments in media companies and how this impacts national security and internet governance
The U.S.-China forced technology transfer dispute and national security implications.

Speakers:
Ms. Tianqi Gu, PhD researcher at the University of Sydney Law School. She holds a Bachelor of Law degree from Dalian Maritime University, a Master of Law degree in International Commercial Law from the University College London, and a second Master of Law degree (general) from the University of Sydney. Her research topic focuses on the implications of the latest round of Chinese State-owned enterprises (SOEs) reform on the Chinese SOEs’ outbound foreign investment behavioural patterns in developed countries, and how developed host countries should cope with the potential risks that come with the Chinese SOEs’ investment influx.
Dr. Simon Lacey, is currently Senior Lecturer in International Trade at the University of Adelaide’s School of Economics and Public Policy. Prior to that, Simon served as Vice-President Trade Facilitation and Market Access at Huawei Technologies in Shenzhen, where he was responsible for monitoring, managing and mitigating the biggest trade and investment risks facing the company across a dozen of its most important markets internationally. Simon has worked in government advisory and policy advocacy roles in more than 30 countries supporting both sovereigns and corporates. It was in this capacity that Simon spent four years in Jakarta advising the Indonesian government on a broad range of issues in connection with the country’s membership of ASEAN, the WTO, and various preferential trade agreements and bilateral investment treaties. Simon obtained his bachelor’s in laws from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), and an LLM from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC. He is currently completing a PhD in international economic law at UNSW Law.
Dr. Aim Sinpeng, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She is a Discovery Early Career Research Fellow (DECRA) for her project on cyber activism in Thailand and is the author of Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age: The Yellow Shirts in Thailand (University of Michigan Press, 2021). Her research expertise is on the interaction between digital media and politics in Southeast Asia, particularly on the topics of disinformation, hate speech and online political participation.
Professor Peter Yu, Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he is Vice-President and Co-Director of Studies of the American Branch of the International Law Association. He has served as the general editor of The WIPO Journal published by the World Intellectual Property Organization. He previously held the Kern Family Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Drake University Law School and was Wenlan Scholar Chair Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law in Wuhan, China.
Moderator:
Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Co-Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, Sydney Law School. Jeanne is also the co-chair of the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Groups. Her research focuses on conflict-of-law issues in digital trade and dispute resolution involving Chinese parties.

Webinar via Zoom, Thursday 28 April, 1-2pm AEST
Once registered, you will be provided with Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.

This event is jointly organized byÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific Law,Â China Studies CentreÂ at the University of Sydney, and theÂ International Law Association (Australian Branch).
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Distinguished Alumni Series: In conversation with the Hon Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of NSW Supreme Court
2022-05-04 18:00 - 19:00 | Lecture Theatre 101, level 1, New Law Building F10A, Campderdown Campus
Distinguished Alumni Series: In conversation with the Hon Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of NSW Supreme Court

In-person event
Join us for this special â€˜in conversation’ event with University of Sydney Law School alumnus and the newly appointed 18th Chief Justice of NSW, the Hon Andrew Bell, and alumna Nicole Abadee.
The Chief Justice will reflect on his life and times at the Law School, as a judge’s Associate, at the University of Oxford, NSW Bar and on the NSW Court of Appeal. His Honour will also discuss how the legal profession has changed, the enduring value of a law degree and where it might lead you and what makes a good law teacher – and judge.
This Distinguished Alumni Series is an occasional program of talks featuring eminent graduates of the Law School.

Speakers
Chief Justice Bell
Prior to his new position as NSW Supreme Chief Justice, the Hon Andrew Bell was appointed as the President of the NSW Court of Appeal in February 2019. During his time, he has presided over numerous high-profile appeals in both the Court of Appeal and Court of Criminal Appeal. His Honour led a team of nine appeal judges and two acting judges of appeal, with the responsibility for overseeing more than 300 matters which come before the Court of Appeal every year. Prior to his appointment to the Bench, Chief Justice Bell practised as a barrister for 24 years and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2006. Throughout that time, he appeared in 30 appeals in the High Court of Australia and conducted an extensive international arbitration practice. His Honour brings not only breadth and depth of knowledge to the role of Chief Justice, but proven leadership abilities from his three years as President. His academic achievements include two University Medals from Sydney University, and a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he graduated in first place (post-graduate) Bachelor of Civil Law and also completed a doctorate.
Nicole Abadee
Nicole Abadee is a University of Sydney alumna. After a 20-year career in the law, practising as a barrister at the New South Wales Bar and then teaching International Law, she moved into the literary world and now writes about books and other things for Good Weekend.

Time: Wednesday 4 May, 6-7pm, followed by a cocktail reception

CPD Points: 1
This event is presented by the Â University of Sydney Law School.

Photo credit, Chief Justice portrait: Gillianne Tedder

JSI Seminar: Louise Richardson-Self & Gabrielle Mardon, "Stuck in Suffering: A Philosophical Exploration of Violence"
2022-05-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
JSI Seminar: Louise Richardson-Self & Gabrielle Mardon, “Stuck in Suffering: A Philosophical Exploration of Violence”
Speakers: Louise Richardson-Self, University of Tasmania and Gabrielle Mardon, PhD candidate, University of Tasmania
This paper considers and evaluates some of the elastic applications of the term â€œviolenceâ€.
Some of the most well-known applications are structural, symbolic, epistemic, psychosocial, and linguistic violence. Should these phenomena be understood as violence-proper or are these merely provocative hyperbole?
Some scholars are openly resistant to these elastic applications, arguing that calling these phenomena â€˜violence’ is no more than conceptual carelessness.
The question that interests Louise Richardson-Self and Gabrielle Mardon is why people continue to be drawn to the image of violence to typify certain phenomena that cause suffering. They identify that it is the temporal extension (i.e., the experiential duration) of the experience of stuckedness in suffering that unifies these conditions. In close, they offer some reflections on the relationship of law to (what is called) violence and where it can mitigate stuckedness.

Thursday 5 May 2022, 6-7.30pmÂ AEST
This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.

CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

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Sharma: The future of climate litigation in Australia
2022-05-13 13:00 - 14:00
Sharma: The future of climate litigation in Australia
The Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL) invites you to a panel discussion on the Sharma decision and its impact on future climate litigation. This panel, chaired by the ACCEL interns, will be the inaugural ACCEL NextGen Series event.
You will hear from those directly involved in the landmark Sharma case and from experts in the field of environmental law, human rights law and Indigenous environmental rights.Â
The first instance judgment recognised that the Federal Environment Minister owed Australian children a duty of care to protect them from climate change harm. Its acceptance and subsequent overturning have changed Australia’s climate law landscape.
We look forward to discussing how future litigants, the government and the private sector may be affected.
Panellists:

Ava Princi, student litigant in the Sharma case
Jack McLean, Associate at Equity Generation Lawyers who represented the student litigants in the Sharma case
Ilona Millar, Partner at Gilbert + Tobin, specialising in Global Climate Change
Professor David Kinley, Chair of Human Rights Law at the University of Sydney Law School
Fleur Ramsay, Chair of the First Nations and Indigenous Peoples Program Working Group at EDO

FRIDAY 13 MAY 2022, 1-2pm AEST
Once registered, you will receive the Zoom link closer to the date of the webinar.
CPD Points:Â 1

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

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Legal Obligation of the Security Council's mandate on the protection of civilians in UN peacekeeping operations
2022-05-17 12:00 - 13:00
Legal Obligation of the Security Council’s mandate on the protection of civilians in UN peacekeeping operations
Speaker: Dr Tamer Morris, Sydney Law School
While the Security Council has been mandating peacekeepers to protect civilians since 1999, there is still confusion on what it means to ‘protect’. Even though the concept of ‘protection’ can seem self-evident, as UN peace missions are made up of multiple players, each person has interpreted the protection of civilians mandate differently. As the concept of ‘protection’ is borrowed language, each body of law will perceive ‘protection’ through a different lens. However, as the mandate creates a legal obligation on UN peace missions, a clear understanding of protection is fundamental to ensure performance and accountability.
Speaker:Â Tamer Morris is a casual academic at the University of Sydney teaching in international law. Tamer’s area of research focuses on protection of civilians, particularly focusing on the legal understanding of the obligation to protect.
After working briefly at the UN, Tamer’s interests in peacekeeping and international law arose. Tamer’s doctoral thesis, from the University of Sydney, was on the legal obligation of the protection of civilians in UN peacekeeping. Focusing on the Security Council’s mandate and legal ramifications of peacekeepers engaging in protection activities.
Moderator: Associate Professor Emily Crawford, Sydney Law School

TUESDAY 17 MAY 2022, 12 – 1pm AEST
Once registered, you will receive the Zoom link closer to the date of the webinar.

CPD Points:Â 1

This event is hosted by theÂ Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.
This is the first in a series of webinars highlighting the research of recently graduated doctoral candidates at The University of Sydney Law School. Â

Pandemic Policing: Sydney Institute of Criminology panel discussion
2022-05-18 18:30 - 20:00 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
Pandemic Policing: Sydney Institute of Criminology panel discussion
THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD ONLINE AND IN-PERSON AT SYDNEY LAW SCHOOL
With the World Health Organisation’s declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, emergency health orders were introduced to contain the spreading contagion. Central to this aim was the restriction of social movement and gatherings enforced via new criminal offences and expanded police powers.
At the same time, assumed civil rights, such as freedom of movement, eroded with state-sanctioned lockdowns of borders, places of work, study and socialisation as well as targeted communities.
Opposition developed initially in relation to the lockdowns, morphing into anti-vax/anti-mask protests that has seen the increasing influence of conspiracy theorists, right-wing extremists and sovereign citizens.
This panel of diverse experts examines the complexities of policing a pandemic in a democratic society.
Host: Dr Carolyn McKay, Co-Director, Sydney Institute of Criminology
Chairperson: Dr Louise Boon-Kuo, Sydney Law School
Invited guest speakers:

Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine, CEO, Health Justice Australia
Associate Professor Julian Droogan, Macquarie University, Department of Security Studies and Criminology
Associate Professor Greg Martin, University of Sydney, School of Social and Political Sciences
Jane Sanders, Principal Solicitor, The Shopfront Youth Legal Centre
Mick Willing, former Deputy Commissioner NSW Police

WEDNESDAY 18 MAY 2022
Time: 6.30-8pm AEST
This event is being held online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.
(Arrival for in-person is 6pm with light refreshments being served.)

CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

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Trust in Knowledge Talks - Launch Event
2022-05-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Trust in Knowledge Talks – Launch Event

In-person event
Please join us at the launch event of the new Trust in Knowledge Talks seminar series – a research initiative supported by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and the Research Portfolio at the University of Sydney.
Reproducibility, replicability, transparency and integrity are key attributes that enable excellence in research and research translation. Trust in Knowledge Talks promote these issues, as well as the sharing of ideas and approaches across disciplines, to enable discussion and collaboration on producing robust and reliable research across our university community.
In this inaugural Trust in Knowledge Talk hosted by Sydney Law School, guest speaker Professor Simine Vazire from the University of Melbourne asks: where are the self-correcting mechanisms in science?

About the talk
‘Where are the self-correcting mechanisms in science?’
We often hear the self-correcting mechanisms in science invoked as a reason to trust science, but it is not always clear what these mechanisms are. Some quality control mechanisms, such as peer review for journals, or vetting for textbooks or for public dissemination, have recently been found not to provide much of a safeguard against invalid claims.
Instead, I will argue that we should look for visible signs of a scientific community’s commitment to self-correction. These signs include transparency in the research and peer review process, investment in error detection and quality control, and an emphasis on calibration rather than popularisation. We should trust scientific claims more to the extent that they were produced by communities that have these hallmarks of credibility. Fields that are more transparent, rigorous, and calibrated should earn more trust. Meta-science can provide scientists and the public with valuable information in assessing the credibility of scientific fields.
The speaker
Professor Simine Vazire, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne.
Simine is a board member of PLOS and the Berkeley Institute for Transparency in the Social Sciences, was a member of the US National Academy of Science study committee on replicability and reproducibility, and co-founded the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS). She is Editor in Chief of Collabra: Psychology and has served as editor at several other journals. She has two lines of research. One examines people’s self-knowledge of their personality and behaviour, and another examines the individual and institutional practices and norms in science, and the degree to which these norms encourage or impede self-correction and credibility.

Time: Thursday 19 May, 5-6pm (followed by a cocktail reception)
Venue: Sydney Law School, Law Foyer, level 2 (street level entrance), New Law Building F10, University of Sydney.Â

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

Reconcile what? Why white Australia needs to rectify its wrongs
2022-05-25 18:00 - 19:00
Reconcile what? Why white Australia needs to rectify its wrongs
Join lawyer Teela Reid and The Daily Aus’ Editor Billi FitzSimons for a conversation about truth and reckoning.
Why are we a nation that has not yet recognised the First People, andÂ whatÂ can we do to take action?
Ahead of National Reconciliation Week and on the eve of the fifth anniversary of Uluru Statement from the Heart, join us for a conversation about truth and reckoning withÂ Teela ReidÂ and University of Sydney alumnaÂ Billi FitzSimons, Editor of The Daily Aus.
Afterwards, we invite you to join us for light refreshments, to continue the conversation and make new connections.
About the speaker
Teela Reid is a proud Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman, lawyer, essayist, storyteller and co-founder of @blackfulla_bookclub, a platform that honours First Nation’s Ancestors as the original Storytellers. Currently, Teela is a Sydney-based Senior Solicitor practicing in Aboriginal Land Rights litigation and is the current Practitioner in residence at Sydney Law School. She is also a campaigner for the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
This year, Teela is the contributing editor for the Griffith Review ‘Acts of Reckoning‘ Edition 2022. Her essay is titled ‘The Power of the First Nations Matriarchy: Warrior Women Reckoning with the Colony’. Her first essay isÂ 2020 – the year of reckoning, not reconciliation. It’s time to show up!,Â a soaring tribute to her late grandfather, Trevor â€˜Toot’ Reid. Her second essay isÂ The Heart of seeding First Nations Sovereignty – Can you handle the truth about Treaty?
Teela has also written opinions published in the Sydney Morning Herald, Washington Post, The Guardian, Marie Claire and The National Indigenous Times.
In 2021, Teela was named as aÂ Future ShaperÂ by Time Out Sydney for her public advocacy across a range of mediums. She was also awarded theÂ 2020 UNSW Young AchieverÂ for her contributions to the community, her advocacy as a working group leader on section 51 (xxvi), the Race Power, in the Constitutional dialogue process that culminated in the Uluru Statement from the Heart that culminated in the most historic calls for a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Australian Constitution and a Makarrata Commission to enable a process of Treaty and Truth-telling. Teela was also recognised for her work as a key thinker and leading advocate behind theÂ Walama Court, a proposal to establish an Aboriginal sentencing court at the NSW District Court jurisdiction.
About the host
Billi FitzSimons is the Editor at The Daily Aus, a social-first news service that engages more than 350,000 young Australians. She is also the host of ‘No Silly Questions’, which is dedicated to breaking down the big issues for young people in an accessible and digestible way. She previously worked as a senior news writer at Mamamia, where she specialised in stories at the intersection of politics and gender.
Billi studied Media and Communications at the University of Sydney and has been a commentator on ABC and in The Sydney Morning Herald.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 6-7pm AESTÂ (followed by a cocktail reception)
Location: Charles Perkins Centre

This event is hosted by Sydney Law School and Sydney Ideas, and supported by Minter Ellison.

JSI Seminar: The Modern Approach to Statutory Interpretation
2022-05-26 18:00 - 19:30 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
JSI Seminar: The Modern Approach to Statutory Interpretation
Speaker: Professor Dale Smith, The University of Melbourne
It is now common, in Australia and in a number of other jurisdictions, to speak of â€œthe modern approach to statutory interpretationâ€. Many of the details of this approach are unclear or contested. However, the modern approach consists at least of a rejection of literalism, and an emphasis on the importance of considering the statutory text in context and in light of the statutory purpose.
As such, the modern approach can be characterised as a pluralist account of statutory interpretation. Indeed, it is sometimes summarised in the slogan â€œtext, context and purposeâ€.
In this seminar, Professor Dale Smith identifies three sets of questions raised by the modern approach. These questions concern what, precisely, is meant by â€œtextâ€, â€œcontextâ€ and â€œpurposeâ€, what role these three factors play in statutory interpretation (e.g. are they relevant in their own right or merely as evidence of something else?) and what should be done in cases where those factors push in different directions.
He argues that, to the extent that adherents of the modern approach have addressed these questions, they have disagreed among themselves about the correct answers, and he explores some of the difficulties confronting the various answers that have been offered to date.
Speaker:
Dale Smith’s research focuses primarily on analytic legal philosophy, especially the jurisprudential writings of Ronald Dworkin. He also writes on theoretical aspects of statutory interpretation and (with Colin Campbell) on anti-discrimination law.
Dale’s research has been published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, the Modern Law Review and the University of Toronto Law Journal.
Dale graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1998 with first class honours degrees in Law and Arts. He also holds a Masters of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne and a D.Phil in Law from the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis was on the implications for adjudication of the debate between moral objectivists and anti-objectivists.
Prior to joining Melbourne Law School in 2014, Dale was a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy at the University of Surrey in 2019, and a Visiting Academic at the Faculty of Laws, University College London in 2012.
Dale is a past Editor of the Australasian Journal of Legal Philosophy, and a past Treasurer of the Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy. He is currently the Associate Dean (Research) at Melbourne Law School.

Thursday 26 May 2022, 6-7.30pmÂ AEST
This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.

CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

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The role of civil society in food system governance: Comparing Canada, the United States, and Australia
2022-06-03 09:00 - 11:00
The role of civil society in food system governance: Comparing Canada, the United States, and Australia

Ottawa, Canada: Thursday 2 June, 7-9pm (EDT)
Baltimore, United States: Thursday 2 June, 7-9pm (EDT)
Melbourne/Sydney, Australia: Friday 3 June, 9-11am (AEST)

Join this webinar and interactive conversation to learn about how civil society organizations in Canada, the United States, and Australia are working collaboratively to influence food system policy change and decision making.
Civil society organizations are integral to food system governance. Food systems governance is not limited to laws and regulations developed by government. It also includes practices, actions, and advocacy by a wide range of actors to create policies and change decision making structures.
The webinar will include a dialogue between civil society representatives and researchers from Canada, the US and Australia, exploring the role of civil society organizations in food system governance. We will unpack the motivations, opportunities, challenges, and lessons learnt from collaborative forms of food system governance. We will also reflect on lessons learnt from the various models of collaborative food system governance, such as food policy councils and networks, across the three countries.
Recent research will set the stage for representatives from each country to share their experiences of engaging in food system governance. Discussions emerging from the webinar will contribute to future comparative research on the role of civil society organizations in food systems governance in the US, Australia, and Canada.
A second event later in June will focus on the issues of equity and inclusion in food system governance, as well as Indigenous-settler relations. Please indicate your interest in this second event when you register.
This event is supported by funding fromÂ The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of CanadaÂ andÂ Mitacs.
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Agenda
7-7.05pm (EDT)Â – Welcome and land acknowledgement
7.05-7.30pm – Panel presentation and Q&A featuring: Moe Garahan, Karen Bassarab, and Nick Rose
7.30-7.45pm – Presentation of research on the role of civil society organisations in food system governance in Australia: Belinda Reeve, in conversation with Charles Levkoe, and Jill Clark
7.45-7.55pm – Q&A moderated by Peter AndrÃ©e
7.55-8.05pm – Break
8.05-8.45pm – Breakout rooms with guiding questions
8.45-8.55pm – Report back from breakout rooms
8.55-9pmÂ – Close
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Speakers
Moe Garahan, Executive Director, Just Food, Ottawa
Moe has been working on food and farming systems issues since 1995. Since 2004, Moe has been the Executive Director of Just Food in Algonquin Territory/Ottawa region, working with teams to integrate equitable food access and a local food economy within mixed urban and rural settings with a focus on community/economic development approaches.Â She is a Board Director of Sustain Ontario. Since 2019, she has supported the founding of Food Communities Network as Project Director, creating a platform toÂ connect people working at the community-wide level on food systems change coast-to-coast-to-coast.
Karen Bassarab, Senior Program Officer, John Hopkins Center for a Liveable Future
Karen Bassarab is a Senior Program Officer with the Johns Hopkins Center for a Liveable Future, where she manages the Food Policy Networks project. Her work involves both research and capacity building to support food policy councils and similar organizations in the United States to effectively engage in food systems policy change. Karen has a particular interest in local and regional food systems policy, collaborative governance, community engagement, and food access and the built environment. Karen earned a Master’s degree in Community and Regional Planning and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr Nick Rose, Executive Director, Sustain: The Australian Food Network
Dr Nick Rose is Sustain’s Executive Director and a leading thinker in food system governance and urban agriculture, with over a decade’s experience in the fields of sustainable food systems and local food economies. He holds a PhD in Political Ecology from RMIT University (2013), a Master of International and Community Development (2006, Deakin University) and a Bachelor of Laws (1989, Melbourne University). In 2014, he completed a Churchill Fellowship investigating innovative models of urban agriculture in Canada, the United States and Argentina. Nick is a Partner Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, â€œStrengthening Food Systems Governance at the Local Levelâ€ (2019-2022). He coordinates Sustain’s biannual Urban Agriculture Forum and its annual Urban Agriculture Month. He has published extensively on urban agriculture, local food economies and food system governance both academically and in the public domain.
DrÂ Belinda Reeve, Senior Lecturer, The University of Sydney Law School
DrÂ Charles Levkoe, Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead University
DrÂ Jill Clark, Associate Professor, The Ohio State University John Glenn College of Public Affairs
ProfessorÂ Peter AndrÃ©e, Department of Political Science, Carleton University

FRIDAY 3 JUNE 2022, 9-11am AEST

Ottawa, Canada: Thursday 2 June, 7-9pm (EDT)
Baltimore, United States: Thursday 2 June, 7-9pm (EDT)
Melbourne/Sydney, Australia: Friday 3 June, 9-11am (AEST)

This event is being held online only.

This event is hosted byÂ Sydney Health LawÂ at The University ofÂ Sydney Law School.

You may also be interested in this event, ‘Equity, Justice and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Food Systems Governance in Canada, Australia, and the United States’ on 15 June.Â Â

Equity, Justice and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Food Systems Governance in Canada, Australia, and the United States
2022-06-15 09:30 - 11:00
Equity, Justice and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Food Systems Governance in Canada, Australia, and the United States

Tuesday 14 June, 7.30-9pm – Ottawa, Canada (EDT)
Wednesday 15 June, 9.30-11am – Sydney, Australia (AEST)
Wednesday 15 June, 7.30-9am – Perth, Australia (AWST)

This event will explore the issues of equity and inclusion, as well as Indigenous/settler relations, in food system governance, comparing the three national contexts of Canada, the US, and Australia.
In this context, food systems governance includes, but is not limited to, policy, laws, and regulations that shape and influence the nature and orientation of our food systems. It also includes the implicit practices, customs and assumptions related to who and what are considered part of the food system, who should be included in decision-making, and in what ways.
Themes to be explored include:

What does â€˜equity’, â€˜inclusion’ and â€˜participation’ in food policy governance by Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) mean for these communities?
How does the presence (or absence) of treaties impact Indigenous Peoples’ participation in food system governance? Are there effective models of engagement and collaboration with Indigenous communities in food system governance?
How can the role of BIPOC communities and organisations in food system governance be strengthened?

Agenda
7.30-7.35pm (EDT)Â – Welcome to Country
7.35-8.05pmÂ – Panel presentation
8.05-8.25pmÂ – Panel invited to respond to pre-set questions
8.25-8.50pmÂ – Q&A with the audience
8.55-9.00pmÂ – Closing remarks

Speakers
Larry McDermott, Member, Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation, and Executive Director, Plenty Canada
Larry McDermottÂ is Algonquin from Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation, and is the Executive Director of Plenty Canada. Larry is currently a member of numerous organizations including the International Indigenous Forum for Biodiversity, the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP), Ontario Biodiversity Council, the Ontario Professional Foresters Association, the Healing Place partnership, the Indigenous Circle of the Canadian Biosphere Association, and serves as co-chair of the Lanark County Safety and Well-Being Plan. A former three-time Mayor and long-time council member of Lanark Highlands, was the first Chair of the Rural Forum of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, was a Commissioner for the Ontario Human Rights Commission, and was on theÂ Ontario Species at Risk Public Advisory Committee and provincial and national recovery teams for the American Eel. Larry also served as a comprehensive claim representative for Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation, is a certified tree marker and butternut assessor, and holds other environmental certifications. He has also received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Guelph. Larry was a humble student for many years of the late Algonquin Elder, Grandfather William Commanda, who created the Circle of All Nations organization. Larry lives in a 170-year-old log home on 500 acres of biologically diverse Algonquin land along the Mississippi River with his wife Nancy.
Darriel Harris, Johns Hopkins Centre for a Livable Future, Baltimore, Maryland
Darriel Harris, PhD, is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.Â His research interests are in faith-based health communications, neighborhood related health factors, social determinants of health, and food systems. Darriel worked for the Center for a Livable Future as project coordinator for the Baltimore Food and Faith Project before matriculating as a PhD student. Over the past 8 years, Dr. Harris has worked in various aspects of the food system, including consulting with municipalities around equity food systems issues, managing an urban farm, and engaging in food related policy.Â In addition to his PhD, Darriel holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University, an MA in Organizational Management from The George Washington University, and a Masters of Divinity degree from Duke University. He is an ordained minister in the American Baptist Church and currently serves as senior pastor of Newborn Community of Faith Church in Baltimore, Md.
Madeline Anderson, Yued descendant born in Whaduk country and Noongar Land Enterprise Group Chairperson
Madeline Anderson is a Yued descendant born on Whaduk country. Since 2016 she has been a board member of Beemurra Aboriginal Corporation and recently appointed Chairperson of Noongar Land Enterprise. Madeline plays a key role in Beemurra as the business manager and endeavours towards growing the business. Her career background in the past 10 years has been hugely focused in Aboriginal policy development and wellbeing services across the government sector. After returning back to her grandmother’s country four years ago, she has been progressing towards a better understanding of the cattle business, employment opportunities in her community and learning about sustainable ways in caring for country (regenerating soils).
Alan Beattie, CEO, Noongar Land Enterprises Group
Alan is the CEO of the Noongar Land Enterprise Group (NLE).Â Alan is a recognised industry leader, having held a number of senior roles in Government, the Not for Profit and private sector since 1997. In 2013 Alan was awarded theÂ Asia Pacific Enterprise Corporation (AP-EC) Asia Pacific Enterprise Leadership Awards (APELA) Social Service Award.Â Alan has well developed leadership, management, and people skills, demonstrated through repeated successful government, businesses and consultancy projects focused on Indigenous issues/projects and social enterprise. He has extensive community and stakeholder engagement knowledge and expertise.
Alan commenced as the CEO of NLE in April 2020, prior to this he was:

Director / CEO – People Places Planet
Social Enterprise Manager – Holyoake
Community and Economic Development Manager (Nauru) – Connect Settlement Services
CEO – Nyaarla Projects and MADALAH Limited
Regional Manager (Broome) – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.

Chair: Dominique Chen, Lecturer, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.

WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE, 9.30 – 11am AEST
Tuesday 14 June, 7.30-9pm – Ottawa, Canada (Eastern Daylight Time)
Wednesday 15 June 9.30-11am – Sydney, Australia (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
Wednesday 15 June 7.30-9am – Perth, Australia (Australian Western Standard Time)
This event is being held online only.

This event is hosted byÂ Sydney Health LawÂ at The University ofÂ Sydney Law School.

This is the second event in a series on Participatory Food Systems Governance, with the first taking place on June 2/3. Find out more.

Transnational Online Legal Education Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
2022-06-21 05:00 - 18:00
Transnational Online Legal Education Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

Online event
This webinar discusses how online (university or other) legal education interacts with each jurisdiction’s legal profession, university system, and ICT infrastructure, as well as how online legal education has developed both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, comparing several jurisdictions beyond the Asia-Pacific region (covered in aÂ previous webinar recorded): Croatia, Cyprus and Seychelles. This webinar also draws on draft National Reports for anÂ International Academy of Comparative LawÂ conference hosted overÂ 23-28 October 2022 in Asuncion (Paraguay), comparing over 20 jurisdictions worldwide, for a volume to be published by Intersentia co-edited by Professors Luke Nottage and Makoto Ibusuki.
Find out more aboutÂ the project,Â including links to several draft reports and general report.
Speakers:

Professor Luke NottageÂ (also co-chair, University of Sydney Law School; Honorary Professor, University of Wollongong)
Professor Mirela ZupanÂ (University of Ozijek, Croatia)
Dr Lida PitsillidouÂ (University of Lancaster, Cyprus)
Ms Nyasha Noreen KatsengaÂ (Office of the Chief Justice, Seychelles)

Time: Tuesday 21 June, 5-6pm AEST (via Zoom)

CPD Points = 1
This event is co-presented by The University of Wollongong and The University of Sydney Law School.
