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Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: SPACs, Direct Listings, and SEC Reform
2022-07-26 08:00 - 09:00 (Australia/Sydney)
Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: SPACs, Direct Listings, and SEC Reform
Presenter: ProfessorÂ Andrew Tuch, Washington University in St Louis
Despite recent market volatility, mergers of special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) and direct listings remain viable alternatives to IPOs in the United States. SPACs continue to outnumber traditional IPOs. Direct listings have allowed companies, including Slack, Palantir, and Coinbase, to go public.
However, SPAC mergers and direct listings sidestep basic investor protections that apply in the traditional IPO process, including underwriter liability. Increased reliance on these IPO-alternatives is part of a increasing trend in the US of companies accessing capital without subjecting themselves to the rigors of public market regulation. In response, the SEC released highly anticipated reforms proposing wide-ranging changes.
This presentation will consider these IPO-alternatives, market trends, and recently proposed SEC reforms.
About the presenter:
Andrew TuchÂ is a professor of law at Washington University in St Louis. He has published widely in the US, the UK, and Australia, and his scholarship has been cited by Australian and US courts, including numerous times by the Delaware Court of Chancery. He has served on the National Adjudicatory Council for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the primary regulator for U.S. brokers and dealers. Before entering academia, he practiced corporate law in New York and London. He holds LLM and SJD degrees from Harvard Law School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is Australian.
Chair:Â Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School
Commentator:Â Daniel Scotti, Partner, MinterEllison, Sydney

Webinar via Zoom, Tuesday 26 July 2022, 8am AEST
Once you register, your confirmation will provide the Zoom details.

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

Company Directors - Navigating Troubled Waters
2022-07-27 17:30 - 19:30
Company Directors – Navigating Troubled Waters

In person event
Norton Rose Fulbright in collaboration with Sydney Law School and Ansarada are pleased to invite you to our forum entitled Company Directors – Navigating Troubled Waters.
In today’s uncertain world, company directors need to be ready to deal with unexpected challenges and distress. Hear from our panel of experts sharing their practical experience about the tools available to navigate your business through these challenges and how to effectively manage the risk of personal liability.
The session will help you to understand, in practical terms:

directors’ duties, in the context of distress or potential insolvency;
how the legislative safe harbour has enabled successful businesses restructures (including a discussion of first-hand experience);
its value in protecting directors from personal liability; and
relevant issues and how technology can play a role.

There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the end of the session.

Speakers:

Pauline Vamos | Non-Executive Director, BALLB, FASFA, GAICD
Professor Jason Harris | Professor of Corporate Law, University of Sydney
Andrew McCabe | Partner, Wexted Advisors

Date: Wednesday, 27 July 2022

Key times: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Where:
Norton Rose Fulbright
Level 4, 60 Martin Place
Sydney NSW
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Key contact: Jacquie Kemp, Events Executive: jacquie.kemp@nortonrosefulbright.com

CPD Points = 2
This event is co-presented by Norton Rose Fulbright, The Ross Parsons Centre at the University of Sydney Law School and Ansarada.Â

JSI Seminar: Flourishing in the Anthropocene
2022-08-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Sydney Law School, Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
JSI Seminar: Flourishing in the Anthropocene
Speaker: Associate Professor Nicole Graham, Sydney Law School
Progressive property theory presents a recent corrective to atomistic theories that isolate property interests from the network of relations and obligations arising from the sociality of organised human society. The â€˜social obligation norm’ that underpins progressive property theory stretches back to Aristotle’s philosophy of eudemonia (â€˜human flourishing’ or â€˜living well’) written in the 4th Century BC. But property is not timeless; the world has changed. The rise of global greenhouse gas emissions above pre-industrial levels is rapidly transforming the climate of the planet – presenting an existential crisis on a scale far greater than the individual, society, and species. For millennia, Western theories of property, including progressive property, have been dominated by anthropocentric notions of law and land. However, the concept of community, central to progressive property theory, foregrounds and prioritises both materiality and relationality, making possible a more viable theory of human-earth relations for the 21st Century. The arrival of the Anthropocene calls for a planetary understanding of â€˜community’ that encompasses its disowned human and more-than-human members, whose labour in Capital’s shadow lands provide the conditions of modern Western proprietorship. â€˜Living well’ through the 21st century will involve reframing social obligation as existential imperative to model a viable property regime.
About the speaker:
Dr Nicole Graham is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School. She teaches and researches in the fields of property law and theory, and legal geography. Nicole has written on the relationship between law, environment and culture with a particular focus on property rights, natural resource regulation and the concept of place.

Thursday 11 August 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

JSI Seminar: The Conscience of Trust
2022-08-18 18:00 - 19:30 | Sydney Law School, Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
JSI Seminar: The Conscience of Trust
Speaker: Professor Irit Samet, King’s College London
At the heart of the modern trust lies a glaring paradox: how has a legal institution that is repeatedly referred to by the courts as rooted in a duty of conscience become infamous for helping individuals to achieve goals that are patently unconscionable?
With every brazen leak of documents from offshore jurisdictions and the ensuing investigation into the financial affairs of the super affluent, it becomes clear that the trust is now a widely used vehicle for evading duties owed by property owners to creditors, dependants and the community. A dangerous trend of importing practices and trust structures from offshore jurisdictions to established onshore trust regimes threatens to further accelerate the corrosion in the reputation of the trust. Any comprehensive solution for the acute legitimacy problem faced by the trust must be multi-systemic.
In this paper, I focus on one aspect of it: the normative basis for the trust obligation. Looking at the conceptual edifice that underlies the trustee’s obligations, the paper argues that what worked for the problems that afflicted traditional trust relationship may not be suitable when facing the challenges of modern trusts. However, the way in which the concept of â€˜conscience’ functions in this area of the law can be useful for reformers who wish to protect (what is left of) the good name of trusts. In particular, it can help us build the necessary moral authority for recent judicial interventions that aim to undo the damage of reckless offshore trust forms. I look into the way the courts of equity lift the concept of conscience from moral discourse and what this means for the moral standing of beneficiaries to make claims on the basis of trusts that are designed to create â€˜orphan property’.
About the speaker:
Irit Samet is a Professor in the Dickson Poon School of Law, which she joined in 2008. She was previously a Lecturer in Law at Mansfield College, Oxford (2006-2007), and a lecturer at the University of Essex (2008). She read law and philosophy in Israel and completed her doctorate at Oxford. Her main research interests lie in the Law of Equity, Property Law, and the theory of private law. She published papers on these subjects in leading journals (like OJLS, MLR), and her book on the theory of Equity Law was published by OUP in 2018. She is a course convener for the undergraduate module of Equity and Trusts, and teaches philosophy of property law as an option B part of the Jurisprudence course, and research seminars in property law.

Thursday 18 August 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

JSI Seminar: Jealousy of trade, from the Scottish Enlightenment to neoliberalism
2022-08-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Jealousy of trade, from the Scottish Enlightenment to neoliberalism
Speaker: Associate Professor Jessica Whyte, UNSW
In this talk, I trace the Scottish Enlightenment debates about what David Hume termed â€œjealousy of tradeâ€â€”that is, the transformation of international commerce into a political concern of states and a cause of international conflict. I revisit these debates – in a context marked by new trade wars and military conflicts within a highly integrated global economy – in order to propose a new understanding ofÂ neoliberalism. Against the dominant understanding of neoliberalism as primarily an economic ideology, I argue that early neoliberals (notably Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises) drew from the Scottish Enlightenment to portray market competition as the necessary condition not of economic efficiency but of social and international peace. Against laissez-faire, they portrayed the market (and peace) as a legal order, not a natural order. In this vein, they also pioneered new forms of economic coercion to restrict the options of democratic polities, and to pacify market societies.
About the speaker:
Jessica Whyte is Scientia Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales with a cross-appointment in the Faculty of Law. Her work integrates political philosophy, intellectual history and political economy to analyse contemporary forms of sovereignty, human rights, humanitarianism and militarism. She is the author ofÂ Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben, (SUNY 2013) andÂ The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of NeoliberalismÂ (Verso, 2019).

Thursday 25 August 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

Symposium: Global Sports Law: Hot Topics in Australia and Japan"
2022-09-02 15:30 - 17:00
Symposium: â€œGlobal Sports Law: Hot Topics in Australia and Japanâ€
This symposium is part ofÂ Japanaroo, a week-long series of events that is part of an initiative to promote exchange and collaboration between Australia and Japan. This informal panel brings together experts and practitioners in sports law and governance from Japan and Australia, two countries at the forefront of development of global sports law, to discuss the big legal issues currently shaping the sports landscape. The panel examines the governance of sporting organisations and the regulation of labour mobility in the context of a globalised sports world.
The panel will feature presentations from:

Professor Deborah Healey (University of New South Wales) on â€œCorporate Governance in Australian Sportâ€;

Professor Healey is the Director of the Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre and the Editor of the Sports Law Journal. She has more than 30 years of experience serving on the boards of major sports governance organizations.

Mr. Shoichi Sugiyama, (Partner, Field-R Law Offices, Tokyo) on â€œThe Transfer System in Nippon Professional Baseballâ€;

Mr. Sugiyama counsels the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association and the Japan Sports Arbitration Agency (the independent dispute resolution body for sport-related disputes in Japan). He has lectured widely on sports law in Japan.

Dr. Matt NicholÂ (Lecturer, Central Queensland University, (Melbourne)) on â€œGlobal Labour Mobility and Nippon Professional Baseball: Murakami to Nomo, Ichiro and Ohtaniâ€.

Dr. Nichol’s research uses approaches to labour law and regulatory theory to understand the regulation of labour in professional team sports. Dr. Nichol’s specialty is in domestic and global labour regulation and labour mobility in baseball and he is on the board of directors of Baseball Victoria.
Moderator:Â Mr. Micah Burch, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School.
Friday 2 September 2022, 3.30-5pm (AEST)
This event is being held an online.
CPD Points:Â 1.5
This event is co-sponsored by Sydney Law School, ANJeL and the Australia-Japan Society of NSW.

Book launch: Gender and International Criminal Law
2022-09-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Book launch: Gender and International Criminal Law
Sydney Centre for International Law is excited to host a panel on the new book â€˜Gender and International Criminal Law‘ (Oxford University Press 2022), edited by Indira Rosenthal, Valerie Oosterveld, and Susana SÃ¡Couto.
In this panel, participants will hear from some of the book’s Australian authors and participate in a live â€˜question and answer’ session.
Chaired by transitional justice expert Rachel Killean (Sydney Law School), the panel will feature presentations from:
â€¢ Indira Rosenthal (University of Tasmania) on â€˜Gender and International Criminal Law’;
â€¢ Professor Valerie Oosterveld (Western Law, Canada) on gender-based persecution;
â€¢ Melanie O’Brien (University of Western Australia) on â€˜Forced marriage’;
â€¢ Jonathan O’Donohue (University of New South Wales) on â€˜Gender inclusive reparations’;
â€¢ Rosemary Grey (Sydney Law School) on â€˜Forced pregnancy and other reproductive crimes’ and
â€¢ Dianne Otto (University of Melbourne) on “Is international criminal law particularly impervious to feminist reconstruction?”.

Wednesday 7 September 2022, 12:00 to 1.30pm (AEST)
This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.
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About the book
Gender and International Criminal LawÂ
The last few decades have seen remarkable developments in international criminal justice, especially in relation to the pursuit of individuals responsible for sexual violence and other gender-based crimes.
Historically ignored, justified, or minimised, this category of crimes now has a heightened profile in the international political and judicial arena. Despite this, gender is poorly understood, and blind spots, biases, and stereotypes prevail.
Responding to that challenge, this book brings together leading feminist international criminal and humanitarian law academics and practitioners to examine the place of gender in international criminal law (ICL).
The book

Provides an in-depth examination of how gender is perceived and analysed in international criminal law
Offers recommendations for how gender, including sexual violence and other gender-based crimes, can be more meaningfully addressed by international courts and tribunals
Identifies key gaps in the understanding of gender within international criminal law

Order online with code ALAUTHC4 to save 30%.
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CPD Points:Â 1.5
This event is hosted by the Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

JSI Seminar: Children, families, and immigration enforcement
2022-09-15 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Children, families, and immigration enforcement
Speaker: Associate Professor Matthew Lister, Bond University
What might otherwise seem like straight-forward instances of immigration enforcement can give rise to both practical and moral complications when the objects of the enforcement measures are children and/or have close family ties to citizens or legal permanent residents. In the case of children, we may doubt whether they can be held morally responsible for immigration violations and may also face complicated questions about the best interest of the children.
When an otherwise removable non-citizen has close family ties to a citizen or permanent resident, we may worry that removal will both impose disproportionate harms on the one removed and will also cause unacceptable harms on, and violate the rights of, citizens or permanent residents.
In this seminar, Matthew Lister will try to isolate the issues, both practical and moral, and look at what sorts of limits they place on otherwise acceptable instances of immigration enforcement.
About the speaker:
Matthew Lister is an Associate Professor at Bond University. He is a legal and political philosopher as well as a lawyer who works on normative issues relating to immigration and refugee law, international law, including international economic law and regulation, workplace and employment law, criminal law, and other issues in jurisprudence and political philosophy.

Thursday 15 September 2022, 6-7.30pm 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

Underutilisation of ADR in ISDS: Resolving Treaty Interpretation Issues
2022-09-16 13:00 - 14:00
Underutilisation of ADR in ISDS: Resolving Treaty Interpretation Issues
Online event
Over the years, it has become evident that arbitration is the favoured dispute resolution mechanism over conciliation/mediation in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). This is due to the benefits of arbitration (binding process with final, enforceable award) over the shortcomings of conciliation/mediation (non-binding process with non-enforceable settlement agreements). Therefore, incentives, such as the recent adoption of the Singapore Convention on Mediation and proposed amendments by ICSID, are deemed promising developments for the promotion of more alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms in ISDS.
This study advances a hypothesis that, apart from the non-enforceability of settlement agreements, there may be an additional and, as a matter of fact, the principal cause for the underutilisation of conciliation in ISDS. The common formulation of ISDS clauses, that carry advance consent to conciliation and arbitration in investment treaties, suggests that the choice between these two may have conflicting interpretations. Under one interpretation, disputants have an option to choose conciliation and then proceed with arbitration; the other interpretation suggests that selection of conciliation is to the exclusion of arbitration. This is also supported by anecdotal evidence where claimants have had an impression that the â€˜fork in the road’ principle applied to the choice between conciliation and arbitration, and that, therefore, recourse to conciliation regardless of the outcome would jeopardise their right to subsequent arbitration. Based on these observations this study argues that the adoption of the Singapore Convention on Mediation will most probably not be enough to promote more ADR in ISDS. In particular, recourse to investor-state conciliation (and mediation) will not increase unless mediation/conciliation are made mandatory before arbitration, and the source of conflicting interpretations of the choice between conciliation and arbitration is eliminated.
Ubilava, A. (2022). Underutilization of ADR in ISDS: Resolving Treaty Interpretation Issues. UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, 26(2).
About the speaker:
Dr Ana Ubilava is a lecturer in International Law at the University of Sydney Law School.
Discussant: Associate Professor Stacie Strong, the University of Sydney Law School and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law.
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Webinar via Zoom: Friday, 16 September, 1-2pm (AEST)

Once registered, you will be provided with Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.
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CPD points = 1
This webinar is presented by the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney Law School.

Book launch and in conversation with Professor Wojciech Sadurski
2022-09-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
Book launch and in conversation with Professor Wojciech Sadurski
In-person event
The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of A Pandemic of Populists by Professor Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Chair in Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School.
The book will be launched by Professor Simon Bronitt, Dean of Sydney Law School, followed by in-conversation discussion with the author and Professor David Kinley, Professor of Human Rights Law at the Law School.
About A Pandemic of Populists
Over the last decade, the world has watched in shock as populists swept to power in free elections. From Manila to Warsaw, Brasilia to Budapest, the populist tide has shattered illusions of an inexorable march to liberal democracy. Eschewing simplistic notions of a unified global populism, this book unpacks the diversity and plurality of populisms.
It highlights the variety of constitutional and extraconstitutional strategies that populists have used to undermine the institutional fabric of liberal democracy and investigates how ruling populists responded to the Covid-19 crisis. Outlining the rise of populisms and their governing styles, Wojciech Sadurski focuses on what populists in power do, rather than what they say. Confronting one of the most pressing concerns of international politics, this book offers a vibrant, contemporary account of modern populisms and, significantly, considers what we can do to fight back.
â€˜Wojciech Sadurski is one of the world’s leading constitutional theorists; not for nothing has he been subject to the wrath of right-wing populists in his native Poland. With this masterful volume, he brings together a sophisticated analysis of what populists in power do to institutions with personal stories as well as new ideas how to defeat populists.’ Jan-Werner Mueller, Princeton University
The book will be available for purchase on the evening, or order online here.
Find out more about the book.
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TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2022
Time:Â 6-7.30pm (including a cocktail reception)
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
Location: The University of Sydney, Camperdown.
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About the author
Wojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor of the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw; formerly Professor and Head of Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He is author of several books, most recently Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown (2019) and Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe (2012). He regularly teaches, as visiting professor, in top universities around the world, including at Yale and New York Universities.
CPD Points: 1
This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School.

Repatriating Cultural Heritage: Conflict of Laws, Archaeology, and Indigenous Studies
2022-09-21 18:00 - 19:15
Repatriating Cultural Heritage: Conflict of Laws, Archaeology, and Indigenous Studies
From the intersection of conflict of laws, archaeology, and indigenous studies, this multidisciplinary webinar will explore legal and practical challenges and solutions in repatriating cultural heritage in Australia, China, the EU, and the USA.
Examples include an Australian repatriation project with the Anindilyakwa Land Council and Traditional Owners on Groote Eylandt, the world-wide Return of Cultural Heritage (RoCH) program established by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, legal battles in repatriating the Chinese statue of ZhÄng GÅng ZÇ” ShÄ« (a budda statue with a mummy inside), sovereign immunity issues in recovery of World War II-era stolen art and other heritage, and participation of local communities in protecting and repatriating cultural heritage.
SpeakersÂ (listed in the surname alphabetic order):

Dr. Evelien Campfens, member of the International Law Association Cultural Heritage Law Committee based at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and former director to the Dutch Restitutions Committee for Nazi looted art
Professor Anne (Annie) Clarke, Chair of Archaeology Discipline and Member of Museum and Heritage Studies Program, the University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Zheng Xin Huo,Â China University of Political Science and Law, China
Professor Charles T. Kotuby Jr., University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Honorary Professor of Law, Durham Law School, the USA and UK
Mr. Craig Ritchie, an Aboriginal man of the Dhunghutti and Biripi nations and the Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Australia
Professor Jennifer Barrett, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous (Academic) and Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) at the University of Sydney.

Moderator:

Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang, the University of Sydney Law School and Co-Director of Center for Asian and Pacific Law

Webinar via Zoom: Wednesday 21 September 6.00-7.15 pm (AEST)

Once registered, you will be provided with Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.

This webinar is jointly presented by the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group, Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the Center for International Law at the University of Sydney Law School.

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Celebrating 45 years of inspirational teaching
2022-09-28 18:00 - 20:00 | The Great Hall
Celebrating 45 years of inspirational teaching
** Limited places available**
In-person event
The University of Sydney Law School and the Law Extension Committee invite you to a special event to celebrate the valuable contribution Mr Ross Anderson has made to the legal profession and tertiary education throughout his 45-year career at the University of Sydney.
As an esteemed Senior Lecturer, Ross Anderson has dedicated more than four decades to enriching the minds of both junior and advanced law students, and until his recent retirement was the longest continuously serving academic at Sydney Law School.
To mark this occasion, the Hon Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of NSW, will give an opening address and launch a scholarship named in Ross Anderson’s honour. The evening will also include reflections from Ross’ colleagues, friends, and past students.
About Ross Anderson
Mr Anderson joined the Law School in 1973, serving as a part-time lecturer after graduating from Sydney Law School with a first-class honours Bachelor of Laws degree. He then moved to London to complete his Master of Laws at University College London before returning to the Law School as a full-time staff member.
In 1993, Mr Anderson was awarded a University of Sydney Excellence in Teaching Award. At the ceremony in the Great Hall, Chair of the Academic Board, Professor John Mack, acknowledged his outstanding contribution to the Sydney Law School and the University â€œthrough his scholarly and gifted enhancement of the art of teachingâ€.
Having taught generations of students, Ross has been profiled several times demonstrating his excellence in teaching and dedication to his students: â€œExcellence in teaching award for â€˜guru’â€ (The University of Sydney News,Â 17 May 1994) and â€œ40 years of inspirational teachingâ€ (JurisDictionÂ 2017).
Many of Ross’ former students have gone on to become eminent figures in the legal profession in Australia. Moreover, Ross’ influence extends internationally through the knowledge and careers of many of our most talented alumni in many other countries.
Post a message to congratulate Ross!
Leave a heartfelt message to congratulate Ross here. You can contribute photos, videos, and memories.
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WEDNESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2022
Time: 6-8pm
This event is being held in-person at the University of Sydney Great Hall
Location: The University of Sydney, Camperdown.
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This event is hosted by the University of Sydney Law School and the Law Extension Committee.

Artwork credit: Portrait of Ross Anderson by Simon Fieldhouse (2010).

Should Deceptive Sex Always Be Rape
2022-09-29 00:00
2022-23 Criminal Law CPD Series:
Should Deceptive Sex Always Be Rape?
Substantive Law
CPD Points: 1.5
About
It is common for people to deceive other people into engaging in sexual activity with them. But there is sharp division about whether all such deceitful people should be convicted of a sexual offence and, if all or some of them should, of which offences they should be convicted.
This seminar defends the view that, whenever an accused person uses deception to induce another person to engage in sexual activity with her or him, s/he has has knowingly engaged in non-consensual sexual activity with that person. Accordingly, such accused should generally be convicted of non-consensual sexual offending. But it will also be argued that there are exceptions to this. The person who induces her spouse to engage in sex by fraudulently telling him that she is not having an affair; the Jew who induces a Nazi to participate by telling her that she is not Jewish; the person who procures â€˜consent’ by falsely stating that he is unmarried, or that he is wealthier than he is; the person who causes a person to â€˜consent’ by lying about her biological sex at birth, or by failing to disclose an HIV infection that he presents no real risk of transmitting â€” none of them should be held criminally liable. For while, in each of these cases, there is no consent, the law cannot provide absolute protection to sexual autonomy.
Consideration will be given to recent non-consensual sexual offence law reform in New South Wales (â€˜NSW’) and Queensland. It will be argued that, while the NSW approach to deceptive sex is better than the prevailing Queensland approach, it is deficient in certain respects.
Presenter
Dr Andrew DyerÂ is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School, having been appointed the inaugural Colin Phegan Lecturer in Legal Reasoning in 2014. A graduate of Sydney Law School and the London School of Economics, Andrew began his working career not as a lawyer, but in television, acting in and writing for various sketch comedy shows. He then worked at a large commercial law firm; as tipstaff to a judge of the NSW Court of Appeal; and, immediately before coming to Sydney Law School as a sessional lecturer in 2010, as a Researcher at the Judicial Commission of NSW.

Registration
Full series (7 webinars) = $300
Individual webinar(s) = $50

CLICK HERE to register
This webinar will be released on 29 September 2022.

About the series
The 2022-23 Criminal Law CPD series, presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology is an innovative educational program made up of 7 recorded webinars delivered by eminent speakers from the University of Sydney and the legal profession.
A new webinar will be released each month from September 2022 – March 2023. Quizzes will be included to test your comprehension of the material being discussed.
Register now for the full series or individual webinars and enjoy the flexibility of watching at your own pace from any location at any time.
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Program Schedule

Title
Presenter
CPD area
Recording release date

1. Should Deceptive Sex Always Be Rape?
Dr Andrew Dyer
Substantive Law
Thursday, 29 September 2022

2. The Role of the Crown Prosecutor in NSW
Mr Brett Hatfield
Practice Management and Business Skills, Ethics and professional responsibility
Thursday, 20 October 2022

3. The Reliability and Credibility of Eyewitnesses
Associate Professor Helen Paterson
Substantive Law
Thursday, 24 November 2022

4. Ethical Practice for Junior Criminal Law Barristers
Ms Talitha Hennessy
Ethics and professional responsibility
Thursday, 15 December 2022

5. Myths, Misconceptions and Mixed Messages: An Early Look at the New Tendency and Coincidence Evidence Provisions
Professor David Hamer
Substantive Law
Thursday, 19 January 2023

6. Advocacy in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal
John Stratton SC
Professional Skills
Thursday, 9 February 2023

7. The Work of the Mental Health Review Tribunal
Judge Paul Lakatos SC
Professional Skills
Thursday, 9 March 2023

Information for lawyers and barristers
If this educational activity is relevant to your professional development and practice of the law, then you should claim 1.5 MCLE/CPD points per seminar attended or 10.5 units for the full series. Practitioners are advised to check with the CPD governing body in their jurisdiction for the most accurate and up-to-date information. Find out about interstate accreditation.
For further enquiries: T +61 2 9351 0248
E law.events@sydney.edu.au

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In conversation with Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of NSW
2022-10-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
In conversation with Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of NSW

In-person event
Join us for this special â€˜in conversation’ event with University of Sydney Law School alumnae Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of NSW, and Nicole Abadee.
Her Excellency will reflect on her Law School experience, and successful career at the Bar and as a judge of both the Federal Court of Australia and the NSW Court of Appeal, during which time she served as a role model for women in law at both the State and national level. She will also discuss her current role as Governor of New South Wales and share her thoughts and advice for the next generation of lawyers.
The Distinguished Alumni Series is an occasional program of talks featuring eminent graduates of the Law School.
Speakers
Her Excellency Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of NSW
Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC is the 39th Governor of New South Wales.
Prior to her appointment as Governor, Her Excellency enjoyed a long and distinguished law career spanning 43 years, during which time she served as a role model for women in law at both the State and national level.
Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1989, in 1993 she was made a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, the first woman to sit exclusively in that Court. In 1996, she achieved the distinction of being the first woman appointed to the New South Wales Court of Appeal and, subsequently, as the first woman to be appointed as its President. She served, on a number of occasions, as Administrator of the Government of the State of New South Wales.
She was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours List on 26 January 2020 for “eminent service to the people of New South Wales, particularly through leadership roles in the judiciary, and as a mentor of young women lawyers”.
Her Excellency brings her deep commitment to education, youth leadership, human rights and social justice to the role in service of the people of New South Wales.
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. Nicole was one of many extremely fortunate women barristers to be mentored by Her Excellency whilst at the NSW Bar.
Time: Wednesday 5 October, 6-7pm, followed by a cocktail reception

CPD Points: 1
This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School and the Sydney University Law Society (SULS).

The Public International Law Webinar Series
2022-10-12 00:00 - 2022-11-16 00:00
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Book launch: China and the International E-commerce and Digital Trade Law
2022-10-12 13:00 - 14:00 | The University of Sydney Law School, Boardroom, Level 4, New Law Building F10
Book launch: China and the International E-commerce and Digital Trade Law
THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD ONLINE AND IN-PERSON AT SYDNEY LAW SCHOOL.
The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch ofÂ China and the International E-commerce and Digital Trade LawÂ by Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Sydney Law School.
The book launch is an in-conversation discussion with the author and Mr Ian Watt, Vice Chair of the United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT), Professor Hans Hendrischke from the University of Sydney Business School, and Associate Professor Delei Peng from the East China University of Science and Technology in China.
AboutÂ China and the International E-commerce and Digital Trade Law
This monograph extensively compares the e-commerce/digital trade chapters in the CPTPP, USMCA with RCEP and other free trade agreements concluded by China and discusses the impact of these rules on relevant Chinese domestic laws and development strategies.
Its main points are:
(1) China should promote the pluralism trend of international digital trade and e-commerce legislation, but this type of pluralism is not the pluralism of one-hundred flowers blooming or decentralized pluralism. On the contrary, China should seek centralized pluralism: trying to become one of a limited number of centers leading international digital trade and e-commerce legislation.
(2) For a long time in the past, China’s legislative model for domestic laws in foreign-related economic relations was to use international pressures (e.g. trade negotiation) to push domestic reforms. That is to apply the â€˜internalization of international law’ model. However, in the field of digital trade and e-commerce, China has increasingly departed from the old model and instead, adopts the “externalization of domestic law” model. For example, China’s legislation on the protection of personal information has included provisions to achieve extraterritorial application, and Chinese courts have actively exercised long-arm jurisdiction in intellectual property disputes. The application of Chinese domestic law outside China will likely become the norm in the coming years.
(3) The “externalization of domestic law” model will likely help China become one of a limited number of centers shaping international digital trade and e-commerce legislation.
It has seven chapters covering major themes of the e-commerce/digital trade: cross-border data flow, intermediaries (such as Internet platforms), trade facilitation and China’s innovation in trade in goods by e-commerce, China’s private-international-law response to digital trade and e-commerce development, personal information protection and international investment arbitration.
“As one of the earliest research monographs in this field, this book has a thorough and precise analysis of CPTPP digital trade rules and is an indispensable reference book for scholars and practitioners studying CPTPP and free trade agreements.” Professor Qingjiang Kong, China University of Political Science and Law
Moderator: Mr. David Markus, law and data compliance expert and EMBA student at the University of Sydney Business School.
Find out more about the book.
The book is in Chinese: Jie (Jeanne) Huang, China and the International E-commerce and Digital Trade Law: the case of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (University of International Business and Trade Press, August 2022, Beijing China, ISBN: 9787566323989, 262,000 words).
About the author
Dr. Jie (Jeanne) HuangÂ is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School, specializing in conflict of laws and digital trade. She is the Co-chair of the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group and Co-Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the Sydney Law School. She has published three monographs with leading publishers in English and Chinese.
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Wednesday 12 October 2022, 1-2pm (AEDT)
This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.
CPD Points: 1
This event is presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at Sydney Law School and the China Studies Centre.
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ACCEL NextGen Series: Realism in the Corporate Sphere - Greenwashing and Net Zero
2022-10-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
ACCEL NextGen Series: Realism in the Corporate Sphere – Greenwashing and Net Zero
THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD ONLINE AND IN-PERSON AT SYDNEY LAW SCHOOL.
The Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law invites you to a panel discussion on the Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility’s case against Santos. Developed and chaired by the ACCEL interns, this event forms part of the ACCEL NextGen Series.
Although corporations are increasingly responding to the climate crisis through implementing sustainability targets and promoting ESG practices within their day-to-day business, environmental law has begun to focus on â€˜greenwashing’: the deceptive persuasion of a company to the public that their policies and protocols are environmentally friendly.
The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (â€œACCRâ€) has recently filed a landmark case in the Federal Court against Santos, one of Australia’s largest oil and gas companies. This is the first case in which a company’s net zero emissions target has been challenged, as well as being the first relating to the viability of carbon capture and storage (â€œCCSâ€) and the environmental impacts of blue hydrogen.
The ACCR filed their case initially on the basis that Santos engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct in claiming that CCS is able to make gas a â€œclean fuel.â€ The ACCR alleges that the pathway for net zero emissions that Santos mapped out in its 2020 Annual Report for reaching its sustainability goals is not substantiated by scientific evidence.
In August 2022, the ACCR amended pleadings to include additional claims arising from Santos’ 2020 Investor Day Briefing and their 2021 Climate Change Report. Allegations include that â€˜blue hydrogen’ production would actually increase Santos’ greenhouse gas emissions and that CCS is not practical to capture all of Santos’ increased emissions. Further, ACCR claims that their net zero plan does not account for the expected projected emissions and production growth from oil and gas exploration.
You will hear from those directly involved in the landmark case and from experts in the field of environmental law and corporate citizenship.
Panelists:
Dr Sebastian Hartford Davis, Barrister, Banco Chambers
Professor Christopher Wright, The University of Sydney Business School
Sally Torgoman, Partner, Infrastructure, Assets & Places, KPMG
About the event
The panel will delve into the potential implications of the case, such as the role of environmental law in enforcing corporate responsibility and how it can be harnessed to push corporations beyond mere â€˜box-ticking’ of ESG requirements. Further, the panel will explore how corporations can balance financial stability and their sustainability goals in keeping with legal obligations, considering the future of this developing area of the law.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 1-2pmÂ AEDT
CPD Points: 1
This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.
This event is hosted by the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL) at Sydney Law School.

The Role of the Crown Prosecutor in NSW
2022-10-20 00:00
2022-23 Criminal Law CPD Series:
The Role of the Crown Prosecutor in NSW
Practice management, Business Skills & Professional ResponsibilityÂ
CPD Points: 1.5
About
The principal functions of the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) are to institute and conduct prosecutions for indictable offences in the Local, District and Supreme Courts; and to conduct appeals in any court arising from those prosecutions, including as the responding party. Those duties are guided by the ODPP Prosecution and other best-practice instruments. The role of a prosecutor is crucial, involving a balancing of the interests of the state, community and victims, as well as a duty to the court. In a system subject to growing case numbers, increasingly regulated pre-trial processes, plea negotiations, and broad discretion, how are those priorities managed? Crown Prosecutor Brett Hatfield will consider those competing priorities and how they are balanced in practice.
Presenter
Brett Hatfield, Crown Prosecutor, The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW)

Registration
Full series (7 webinars) = $300
Individual webinar(s) = $50

CLICK HERE to register
This webinar will be released on 20 October 2022.

You will receive a webinar link on this date, and can also register at a later date to catch up in your own time.Â

About the series
The 2022-23 Criminal Law CPD series, presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology is an innovative educational program made up of 7 recorded webinars delivered by eminent speakers from the University of Sydney and the legal profession.
A new webinar will be released each month from September 2022 – March 2023. Quizzes will be included to test your comprehension of the material being discussed.
Register now for the full series or individual webinars and enjoy the flexibility of watching at your own pace from any location at any time.
View flyer here

Program Schedule

Title
Presenter
CPD area
Recording release date

1. Should Deceptive Sex Always Be Rape?
Dr Andrew Dyer
Substantive Law
Thursday, 29 September 2022

2. The Role of the Crown Prosecutor in NSW
Mr Brett Hatfield
Practice Management and Business Skills, Ethics and professional responsibility
Thursday, 20 October 2022

3. The Reliability and Credibility of Eyewitnesses
Associate Professor Helen Paterson
Substantive Law
Thursday, 24 November 2022

4. Ethical Practice for Junior Criminal Law Barristers
Ms Talitha Hennessy
Ethics and professional responsibility
Thursday, 15 December 2022

5. Myths, Misconceptions and Mixed Messages: An Early Look at the New Tendency and Coincidence Evidence Provisions
Professor David Hamer
Substantive Law
Thursday, 19 January 2023

6. Advocacy in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal
John Stratton SC
Professional Skills
Thursday, 9 February 2023

7. The Work of the Mental Health Review Tribunal
Judge Paul Lakatos SC
Professional Skills
Thursday, 9 March 2023

Information for lawyers and barristers
If this educational activity is relevant to your professional development and practice of the law, then you should claim 1.5 MCLE/CPD points per seminar attended or 10.5 units for the full series. Practitioners are advised to check with the CPD governing body in their jurisdiction for the most accurate and up-to-date information. Find out about interstate accreditation.
For further enquiries: T +61 2 9351 0248
E law.events@sydney.edu.au

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In Conversation: Charity Law Journeys
2022-10-20 16:30 - 18:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
In Conversation: Charity Law Journeys

Presented by the Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (CLAANZ) and Sydney Law School, this seminar brings together four experts in charity law to discuss their career journeys.
Moderated by Dr Natalie Silver, Sydney Law School, the panel comprises:

Sari Baird, General Counsel and Company Secretary of Oxfam Australia;
Professor Matthew Harding, Dean of Melbourne Law School;
Jon Cheung, Partner at Prolegis Lawyers; and
Elizabeth Lathlean, Senior Lawyer at Gilbert + Tobin

Thursday 20 October, 4.30-6pm AEDT
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

Theoretical Advances and Problems in the Sociology of Punishment
2022-11-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Theoretical Advances and Problems in the Sociology of Punishment
In-person event
This seminar, delivered by Sydney Law School visiting Fellow, Professor David Garland (New York University) explores the theoretical advances and problems in the sociology of punishment.
The last twenty years have seen a remarkable increase in â€œpunishment and societyâ€ scholarship. Together with this quantitative expansion, there have also been important qualitative developments in research, analysis and explanation – many of which can be counted as scientific advances.
In this talk, Professor Garland will describe a number of dimensions along which theory, method and data in this field have been improved and also identify a number of continuing challenges and problems. Examples from the American literature on the emergence of mass incarceration and the nature of the â€˜war on drugs’ are used to indicate the range of theoretical resources that scholars in this field have developed and to point to empirical and theoretical questions that remain to be resolved.
About the speaker
David Garland is Arthur T Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. His distinguished body of work includes Punishment and Welfare: A History of Penal Strategies; Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory ; The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society ; Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition ; and The Welfare State: A Very Short Introduction.
His many honours include membership of the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and receipt of the American Society of Criminology’s Edwin H. Sutherland Prize for outstanding contributions to theory and research.
He is currently at work on a book entitled Roots of Injustice: The Structural Sources of America’s Penal State. He is a Visiting Fellow at University of Sydney School of Law in October/November 2022.
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Tuesday 1 November
Time: 6-7.30 pm, followed by a cocktail reception
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10), University of Sydney
CPD points = 1.5
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Presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at Sydney Law School.

Cancelled: The Roads to a Referendum: Megan Davis and Pat Anderson, recipients of the Sydney Peace Prize on behalf of the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
2022-11-02 18:00 - 19:00
The Roads to a Referendum: Megan Davis and Pat Anderson, recipients of the Sydney Peace Prize on behalf of the Uluru Statement from the Heart
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEULED IN EARLY 2023
Sydney Law School is proud to be a partner and major sponsor of the 2021-22 Sydney Peace Prize, which has beenÂ awarded to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
In this online event, part of Sydney Peace Week, panellists Megan Davis and Pat Anderson, recipients of the Peace Prize on behalf of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, will explore the Statement and the roads to a referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
The event will be hosted by the Dean, Simon Bronitt, and also feature Sydney Law School’s Indigenous Practitioner-in-Residence, Teela Reid, who will discuss what the Statement means for the legal community and how we can all get involved in advocacy for an Indigenous Voice.
The speakers
Professor Megan Davis is Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous and Professor of Law at UNSW. She is Acting Commissioner of the NSW Land and Environment Court and was recently appointed the Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law. She was a member of the Referendum Council and the Experts Panel on the Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Peoples in the Constitution; was an expert member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (2011-2016); and is currently a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous peoples.
Pat Anderson AO is an Alyawarre woman known nationally and internationally as a powerful advocate for the health of Australia’s First Peoples. She has extensive experience in Aboriginal health, including community development, policy formation and research ethics. She has served as co-chair of the Referendum Council, is the current Chairperson of the Remote Area Health Corporation, and the Chairperson of the Lowitja Institute. Ms Anderson is the inaugural Patron of WoSSCA, the Women’s Safety Services of Central Australia. She was appointed Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2014 for distinguished service to the Indigenous community as a social justice advocate.
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.
CPD Points:Â 1
This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School.
Other events of interest: Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law

Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law
2022-11-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law
Sydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law.
In-person event
Sydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law.
In 2022, the lecture will be delivered by Dr Anne Poelina and Marlikka Perdristat on the topic of â€˜First Law: A Climate Chance’. Introductory remarks will be made by by First Nations Lawyer in Residence, Teela Reid.
2022 Lecture
First Law: A Climate Chance
We share our ancient philosophical framework, how we continue to enshrine our lifeways and livelihoods in the First Laws. We believe human and non-human beings have an equal right to life.
The meaning of life is grounded in the interdependent relationship between all things. There are benefits from promoting earth-centered governance where relationships are inclusive of our nonhuman kin. This balance and harmony with our living cultural landscapes grounds the philosophical framework of values, ethics, and belief that the Law is in the Land, not in Man.
We believe we can share and dream together so we can better understand how we, as human beings, can once again start to live in harmony with each other and with everything around us. We need to dream a new reality and defend our amazing planet, Mother Earth, and life itself from climate chaos and destruction. Otherwise, Mother Earth will be lonely without the vibrations of human beings!
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Tuesday 8 November, 6-7.30pm
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The speakers
Professor Anne PoelinaÂ is Co-Chair of Indigenous Studies at the Nulungu Institute Research University of Notre Dame, and Adjunct Professor at the College of Indigenous Education Futures, Arts & Society, Charles Darwin University, Darwin. Anne is the Murray Darling Basin inaugural First Nations appointment to its independent Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences (2022). She was awarded the Kailisa Budevi Earth and Environment Award on International Women’s Day (2022) in recognition of her global standing, and is a Peter Cullen Fellow for Water Leadership (2011). In 2017, she was awarded a Laureate from the Women’s World Summit Foundation (Geneva), elected Chair of the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council (2018), and has been a Visiting Fellow with the Institute for Post-Colonial Studies, Melbourne and the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Marlikka Perdrisat, a University of Sydney Law School alumna, works across academia, film, and law to spread awareness of First Law, the guiding principles created over thousands of years of living with a place. With a special life created by living with Nyikina Country and growing through multiple degrees, Marlikka is in a unique position to address how traditional knowledge can support Australia moving into the future.
Catch up on the 2021 lecture
In 2021, the inaugural Wingarra Djuraliyin lecture was presented by Dr Nicole Watson, who spoke on the topic of â€˜Indigenous Women, Outlaw Culture and the Law’.
Watch here
This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School in collaboration with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) at the University of Sydney.

Building resilience in Australia's electricity infrastructure
2022-11-10 09:00 - 16:30
Building resilience in Australia’s electricity infrastructure
Online conference
Australia has been hit by successive extreme weather events and disasters in recent years. As the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report has warned this is going to get worse. Australia has already warmed by 1.4Â° C. Each of the climate-induced disasters – floods and bushfires – has had a severe impact on our electricity infrastructure. When power is lost, telecommunications also fail meaning that communities are unable to stay in contact with emergency services and with each other. This conference assesses ways in which our existing grid can be made more resilient but it also looks to the resilience of our future grid in 2040. Experts from the disciplines of law, engineering, and physics, in Australia and the United States, will share their perspectives on how this can be achieved.
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Thursday 10 November 2022, 9am-4.30pm AEDT
Click here to view the program.
This event is being heldÂ online. You will receive a Zoom link closer to the date.Â
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This event is hosted by Sydney Law School and the Sydney Environment Institute at The University of Sydney.Â

The Reliability and Credibility of Eyewitnesses
2022-11-24 00:00
2022-23 Criminal Law CPD Series:
The Reliability and Credibility of Eyewitnesses
Substantive LawÂ
CPD Points: 1.5
About
Eyewitness testimony can provide critical leads in investigations and can be extremely persuasive in court. However, inconsistencies or inaccuracies in eyewitness accounts can undermine the perceived credibility of the witness and the value of the evidence. This is particularly problematic when witnesses are required to recall details of events that happened months or years earlier and that occurred over a number of episodes (such as bullying or domestic violence).
This seminar will look at the different stages of memory and highlight various factors that can affect the accuracy of memory at each stage and will outline best-practice techniques for eliciting the most complete and accurate testimonies from eyewitnesses. This seminar will assist legal practitioners to understand the strengths and limitations of human memory.
Presenter
Helen PatersonÂ is an Associate Professor in Forensic Psychology at the University of Sydney. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia and a PhD from the University of New South Wales. Her primary research interest focuses on the effects of traumatic events on memory and psychological well-being. She regularly works with industry partners to conduct high-quality applied research. She has also worked with NSW Fire and Rescue on ways to train firefighters to make effective decisions under stressful conditions and on post-traumatic stress disorder, resilience, and post-incident debriefing.

Registration
Full series (7 webinars) = $300
Individual webinar(s) = $50

CLICK HERE to register
This webinar will be released on 24 November 2022.

You will receive a webinar link on this date, and can also register at a later date to catch up in your own time.Â

About the series
The 2022-23 Criminal Law CPD series, presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology is an innovative educational program made up of 7 recorded webinars delivered by eminent speakers from the University of Sydney and the legal profession.
A new webinar will be released each month from September 2022 – March 2023. Quizzes will be included to test your comprehension of the material being discussed.
Register now for the full series or individual webinars and enjoy the flexibility of watching at your own pace from any location at any time.
View flyer here

Program Schedule

Title
Presenter
CPD area
Recording release date

1. Should Deceptive Sex Always Be Rape?
Dr Andrew Dyer
Substantive Law
Thursday, 29 September 2022

2. The Role of the Crown Prosecutor in NSW
Mr Brett Hatfield
Practice Management and Business Skills, Ethics and professional responsibility
Thursday, 20 October 2022

3. The Reliability and Credibility of Eyewitnesses
Associate Professor Helen Paterson
Substantive Law
Thursday, 24 November 2022

4. Ethical Practice for Junior Criminal Law Barristers
Ms Talitha Hennessy
Ethics and professional responsibility
Thursday, 15 December 2022

5. Myths, Misconceptions and Mixed Messages: An Early Look at the New Tendency and Coincidence Evidence Provisions
Professor David Hamer
Substantive Law
Thursday, 19 January 2023

6. Advocacy in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal
John Stratton SC
Professional Skills
Thursday, 9 February 2023

7. The Work of the Mental Health Review Tribunal
Judge Paul Lakatos SC
Professional Skills
Thursday, 9 March 2023

Information for lawyers and barristers
If this educational activity is relevant to your professional development and practice of the law, then you should claim 1.5 MCLE/CPD points per seminar attended or 10.5 units for the full series. Practitioners are advised to check with the CPD governing body in their jurisdiction for the most accurate and up-to-date information. Find out about interstate accreditation.
For further enquiries: T +61 2 9351 0248
E law.events@sydney.edu.au

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Youth Crime and Youth Justice Forum
2022-11-24 09:00 - 15:30 | Sydney Law School, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
Youth Crime and Youth Justice Forum
The Forum will bring together key stakeholders working to prevent youth crime and to administer the various aspects of youth justice. Presenters will discuss latest trends, research and policies in these areas and will showcase some of the relevant work across the University of Sydney.
Speakers have been confirmed from:

The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
The NSW Children’s Court
Youth Justice NSW
Youth Action

And from the following University of Sydney Research Centres or Faculties:

The Matilda Centre
The Research Centre for Children and Families
The CREATE Centre
The Gambling Research and Treatment Clinic
The Centre for Disability Research and Policy
The Digital Innovation Team

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Thursday 24 November 2022
Cost: Free
Time: 9am-3.30pm
Location: The University of Sydney, Camperdown.
Click here to view the program.

Register here.
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Contact
Please contact Garner Clancey if you have any queries.

JSI Seminar: Lawmativity
2022-11-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Lawmativity
Hybrid event

Explaining the normativity of law – how it guides action by giving reasons – is one of the central questions of general jurisprudence. It is also one of the topics on which there is least agreement. In the first half of the talk, Alex Horne offers a diagnosis as to why. Basically: the desiderata for a genuine and mutually satisfactory solution to the problem of law’s normativity cannot all be satisfied by one theory. In the second half of the talk, he articulates his partial solution to the problem and explains (i) which desiderata we should abandon and (ii) why the best – and complete – account of law’s normativity is therefore piecemeal.
About the speaker:
Alex Horne is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. He works on various topics in moral psychology, ethics, political philosophy, and jurisprudence.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 6-7.30pmÂ AEDT
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

Climate litigation against companies in a comparative perspective
2022-11-30 12:00 - 13:00 | The University of Sydney Law School, Boardroom, Level 4, New Law Building F10
Climate litigation against companies in a comparative perspective
In-person event
In this seminar, Prof M Marc-Philippe Weller (Heidelberg University) takes the spectacular 2021Â Milieudefensie v ShellÂ ruling from a first instance court in The Hague as an opportunity to identify cross-jurisdictional problems of civil climate change litigation from a comparative perspective.
The Shell case was the first climate action between private parties that was successful in the first instance and led to Shell’s obligation to drastically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, including its Scope 3 emissions. From the perspective of legal realism, the Dutch ruling provides a momentum for climate litigation worldwide. However, from the perspective of potential lawsuits for the reduction of CO2 emissions against companies in Germany, one must assert that the Shell ruling cannot simply be transposed into the German legal order.
Discussant: Dr Katherine Owens,Â Director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law.

About the speaker
Prof. Dr. Marc-Philippe Weller, Vice-Rector for International Affairs of Heidelberg University
Prof. Marc-Philippe Weller has been Vice-Rector for International Affairs of Heidelberg University since 2019. He was appointed Professor for Private Law, Company Law, Private International Law, and Comparative Law at Heidelberg University in 2014. As Vice-Rector, Prof. Weller is responsible for the international partnerships of Heidelberg University, in particular the 4EU+ European University Alliance (Sorbonne, Copenhagen, Geneva, Heidelberg, Milan, Prague and Warsaw), as well as the Heidelberg University’s centres abroad in Santiago de Chile, New York, Delhi, and Kyoto. He is also in charge of legal compliance.
Prof. Weller studied Law at the universities of Heidelberg and Montpellier, and earned his doctorate at Heidelberg University in 2004, while he was also employed as an associate advocate. He completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne in 2008. Before accepting the appointment to Heidelberg University, Prof. Weller held a Chair at the University of Mannheim from 2008 to 2011, and at the University of Freiburg from 2011 to 2014. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Austria (Vienna), France (Paris), Sweden (Goteborg), Taiwan and the USA (Georgetown). Prof. Weller has also directed two summer courses at the Hague Academy for International Law.
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Wednesday 30 November
Time: 12-1pm
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
Location: The University of Sydney, Boardroom, Level 4, New Law Building (F10)
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CPD Points: 1
This event is proudly presented by the Sydney Centre for International Law and the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law.

The inaugural Kim Santow law and social justice panel: The promise and pitfalls of a marketised NDIS
2022-12-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Law Lounge, Level 1
The inaugural Kim Santow law and social justice panel: The promise and pitfalls of a marketised NDIS
In-person event
Supported by the Kim Santow Law and Social Justice Fund, Sydney Law School’s annual panel discussion closely examines a legal issue in its socio-cultural context, with social justice and human rights considerations central to the discussion.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) holds great promise for improving the lives of people living with disability, but due to its marketised structure it also has a number of pitfalls. To discuss this difficult policy issue, this year’s panel brings together a range of perspectives:

Professor Emeritus Ron McCallum AO – Ron is the former Dean of Sydney Law School and an expert in disability and labour law. He was a part-time member of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and in October 2022 was appointed as one of three independent expert reviewers by the NDIS.
Dr Angela Jackson -Dr Jackson is lead economist at Impact Economics and Policy, with expertise in distributional analysis, labour markets, disability, health, gender, housing and fiscal policy. She has authored a number of major reports on housing policy, and the importance of investing in social housing for an equitable economic recovery from COVID-19.
Deborah Connors – Deborah has been a NDIS client since late 2016. She has experienced and employed a variety of support services in that time – including carers, cleaners, nurses and physiotherapists. The experience has run the gamut from superb and life changing, to terrible and despairing. As a result of the good support services, she eventually found Deborah has been able to continue to work fulltime and participate fully in life, and is living evidence of the NDIS goals.
Giancarlo de Vera – Giancarlo is the Senior Manager of Policy at People with Disability Australia. They are a passionate advocate for disability, multiculturalism, racial justice, LGBTIQ+ affairs and cultural diversity. Giancarlo was recently named as one of the 40 Under 40 Most Influential Asian-Australians of 2021.

The panel discussion will be facilitated by Australia’s Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Ben Gauntlett.
The discussion will be followed by audience questions, refreshments, and presentation of the Inaugural Kim Santow Law and Social Justice Essay Prize.
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Thursday 1 December 2022, 6-7.30pm
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This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School.

Julius Stone Address: The Legal Experience of Injustice
2022-12-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
Julius Stone Address: The Legal Experience of Injustice
In-person event
InÂ The Faces of Injustice, Judith Shklar criticizes the â€˜normal model’ of justice which views injustice as â€˜a prelude to or a rejection and breakdown of justice, as if injustice were a surprising abnormality’. Her central insight is that â€˜the real realm of injustice â€¦ does not stand outside of the gates of even the best known of states. Most injustices occur continuously within the framework of an established polity with an operative system of law in normal times.’ She also offers a second, Hobbesian insight: â€˜[w]ithout juridical institutions and the beliefs that support them, there can be no decent, just, or stable social relations, but only anxiety, mutual mistrust, and insecurity’. Since juridical institutions and the beliefs that support them may be necessary for justice, but insufficient to prevent injustice, the insights are perfectly consistent as a matter of abstract logic.
My question is consistency as a matter of a different logic, the logic of legal experience for those in the â€˜jural community’, the community of persons subject to law. I argue that such experience shows that certain kinds of injustice are inconsistent with an operative system of law since they create tensions within the jural community that it must resolve to remain operative. I rely on two of Shklar’s examples, the Nazi state and slavery in USA, and two she did not mention, the apartheid state and the â€˜parallel state’ of Israel and the Occupied Territories, to show how systems of law offer a legal resource that makes resistance to certain kinds of injustice possible and thus the practice of human rights lawyering. However, at the same time we see that all involved in maintaining an operative system of law, including human rights lawyers and their clients, participate in legitimizing the system. Here I suggest that Shklar underestimated the ability of the legal theories of three important exemplars of the normal model of justice, H.L.A. Hart, Lon Fuller and Ronald Dworkin, to illuminate different aspects of the experience of injustice.
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Thursday 8 December, 6-7.30pm
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About the speaker
Professor David Dyzenhaus
David Dyzenhaus is a professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He holds the Albert Abel Chair of Law and was appointed in 2015 to the rank of University Professor. He has taught in South Africa, England, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, Hungary, Mexico and the USA. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and law and undergraduate degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. In 2002, he was the Law Foundation Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland. In 2005-06 he was Herbert Smith Visiting Professor in the Cambridge Law Faculty and a Senior Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 2014-15, he was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science in Cambridge. In 2016-17, he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 2020-21, he was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Professor Dyzenhaus is the author ofÂ Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: South African Law in the Perspective of Legal PhilosophyÂ (now in its second edition),Â Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Hermann Heller in Weimar,Â andÂ Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves: Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order. He has edited and co-edited several collections of essays. In 2004 he gave the JC Smuts Memorial Lectures to the Faculty of Law, Cambridge University. These were published by Cambridge University Press in 2006 asÂ The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency. He is editor of the University of Toronto Law Journal and co-editor of the series Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law. His most recent book isÂ The Long Arc of Legality: Hobbes, Kelsen, HartÂ (Cambridge, 2022).

Contact
Please contact Dr Kevin Walton (kevin.walton@sydney.edu.au) with enquiries about the conference.

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

Ethical Practice for Junior Criminal Law Barristers
2022-12-15 00:00
2022-23 Criminal Law CPD Series:
Ethical Practice for Junior Criminal Law Barristers
Ethics and Professional Responsibility
CPD Points: 1.5
About
Coming to the Bar is a significant step in the career of any lawyer. For junior counsel intending to practise in criminal law, the ethical and moral obligations are significant. Factors like direct briefs, invoicing, barristers’ rules, duty to the court and professional conduct are all matters you are required to manage on your own. This is often a shift for those that have practised under the guidance of a principal or in government agencies. This presentation will examine that transition to the NSW Bar, considering the viewpoints and perspectives of junior counsel. It will animate some of the best-practice features of maintaining an ethical and professional practice, and ways that that model of practice can be leveraged to ensure success. This presentation will assist legal practitioners considering a career at the NSW Bar, solicitors who brief barristers and play a role in the discharge of their ethical obligations, and junior barristers recently called to the Bar.
Presenter
Talitha Hennessy is an experienced criminal lawyer having appeared for both the defense and prosecution. Before her admission to the NSW Bar in 2017, she was an Associate to Justice Cohen at the Family Court in Sydney. Talitha has also worked as a solicitor for the Aboriginal Legal Service in Dubbo, appearing in over 100 hearings in the Children’s Court and Local Court throughout Central Western NSW, as well as in numerous severity and conviction appeals and sentence matters in the District Court. Talitha also worked as solicitor at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW), where she regularly appeared on behalf of the Crown in summary hearings in the Local Court and also appeared for the Crown as an advocate in a number of District Court trials. In addition, Talitha has prepared and instructed in murder trials and other complex matters. She has also appeared in Family Law applications in the Federal Circuit Court, and in Care and Protection matters in the Children’s Court.

Registration
Full series (7 webinars) = $300
Individual webinar(s) = $50

CLICK HERE to register
This webinar will be released on 15 December 2022.

You will receive a webinar link on this date, and can also register at a later date to catch up in your own time.Â

About the series
The 2022-23 Criminal Law CPD series, presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology is an innovative educational program made up of 7 recorded webinars delivered by eminent speakers from the University of Sydney and the legal profession.
A new webinar will be released each month from September 2022 – March 2023. Quizzes will be included to test your comprehension of the material being discussed.
Register now for the full series or individual webinars and enjoy the flexibility of watching at your own pace from any location at any time.
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Program Schedule

Title
Presenter
CPD area
Recording release date

1. Should Deceptive Sex Always Be Rape?
Dr Andrew Dyer
Substantive Law
Thursday, 29 September 2022

2. The Role of the Crown Prosecutor in NSW
Mr Brett Hatfield
Practice Management and Business Skills, Ethics and professional responsibility
Thursday, 20 October 2022

3. The Reliability and Credibility of Eyewitnesses
Associate Professor Helen Paterson
Substantive Law
Thursday, 24 November 2022

4. Ethical Practice for Junior Criminal Law Barristers
Ms Talitha Hennessy
Ethics and professional responsibility
Thursday, 15 December 2022

5. Myths, Misconceptions and Mixed Messages: An Early Look at the New Tendency and Coincidence Evidence Provisions
Professor David Hamer
Substantive Law
Thursday, 19 January 2023

6. Advocacy in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal
John Stratton SC
Professional Skills
Thursday, 9 February 2023

7. The Work of the Mental Health Review Tribunal
Judge Paul Lakatos SC
Professional Skills
Thursday, 9 March 2023

Information for lawyers and barristers
If this educational activity is relevant to your professional development and practice of the law, then you should claim 1.5 MCLE/CPD points per seminar attended or 10.5 units for the full series. Practitioners are advised to check with the CPD governing body in their jurisdiction for the most accurate and up-to-date information. Find out about interstate accreditation.
For further enquiries: T +61 2 9351 0248
E law.events@sydney.edu.au

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