Law School: Events

JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance
2023-07-27 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance
In-person event
Victims of oppression are sometimes said to have epistemic privilege in virtue of their marginalised social position into the operation and impact of oppressive social structures. Epistemic privilege sometimes is cited as a basis for deference in social relations between victims and non-victimsâ€”for example, the use of â€˜lived experience’ to resolve or terminate disagreements about social and political oppression. I am interested in whether epistemic privilege can be a basis for duties of mutual assistance between victims, where assistance is understood as mitigating the harms of oppression on other victims without necessarily targeting oppression itself. I outline the ways in which victims of oppression can be said to have epistemic privilege, the limits of this privilege, and what duties of assistance this privilege might ground.
About the speaker:
Ashwini Vasanthakumar
Ashwini VasanthakumarÂ is a political and legal theorist with research interests in political obligation and authority, migration, and the ethics of resistance.
She is currently an Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in Legal & Political Philosophy at Queen’s Law School in Canada. She holds an AB from Harvard, an MA from Toronto, a JD from Yale Law School, and a DPhil from Oxford, where she studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar.
Previously, she has worked at King’s College London, the University of York, University College, Oxford, and Jindal Global Law School. She has also been a Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm) and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School (Berlin).

Thursday 27 July 2023, 6-7.30pmÂ AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review
2023-07-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review
In-person event
This 24-nation review of social enterprise law analyzes data developed by a team of academics and practitioners with deep expertise regarding jurisdictions on six continents. Each responded to the authors’ detailed questionnaire inquiring into the relevant jurisdiction’s legal treatment of entities using business methods to achieve social good. After first identifying the key role of political, cultural and legal baselines in determining the space for and legal treatment of social enterprises, the paper explores the myriad specialized forms and certifications that have been developed to identify firms around the world as social enterprises.
Legal forms are offered exclusively by governments and relevant to a single jurisdiction, while certifications may or may not be public or jurisdiction-specific. Comparing these tools offers guidance to policymakers keen to continue evolving specialized social enterprise forms and certifications across jurisdictions. It also reveals how these identifiers for social enterprise are being used to incentivize the pursuit of social good using business methods. The assurances of trustworthiness provided by distribution constraints and regulatory oversight appear critical to support public subsidization or privileging of social enterprise. Without these protections in place, public incentives for social enterprise are largely absent
About the speaker
Dana Brakman Reiser holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she also served as Vice Dean. She teaches courses in Corporations, Nonprofit Law, Social Enterprise, Property, and Trusts and Estates. A globally recognized expert in the law at the intersection of business and charity, her work on the law of social enterprises – firms that pursue profits for owners and social good – defined the field. She has also written extensively on law and finance for philanthropic organizations and on sustainable investing.
She is a member of the American Law Institute and was an Associate Reporter for its project on the Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations, as well as a past-Chair of the Section on Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law of the American Association of Law Schools and a former member of the executive board of its Section on Business Law. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School.
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Monday 31 July, 2023
Time:Â 1-2pm
Venue:Â The University of Sydney Law School, Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD points:Â 1
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This event is proudly presented by theÂ Ross Parsons CentreÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

Book launch: Comparing Online Legal Education
2023-08-03 17:30 - 18:30 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Book launch: Comparing Online Legal Education
In-person event
The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Comparing Online Legal Education, co-edited by Professor Luke Nottage, Sydney Law School, for the International Academy of Comparative Law.
The book will be launched by The Hon. Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW, and previously part-time lecturer at Sydney Law School.
About Comparing Online Legal Education
This pioneering work by leading comparative lawyers examines developments in online legal education, particularly in universities but also in professional associations, before and especially after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The book posits and largely confirms that transformations are linked to the extent and scope of respective legal professions (often, but not always, correlating to common versus civil law traditions), funding and other aspects of university-level education, and information and communications technology infrastructure in each jurisdiction. It charts the dramatic shift to online legal education in almost all jurisdictions even with different levels of COVID-19 infections and deaths, or mobility restrictions imposed by law and/or social norms. It also details how law teachers and students adapted to the challenges and opportunities of new technologies and practices, sometimes benefitting from serendipitous earlier events supporting online legal education, and a considerable â€˜reversion to the mean’ as the pandemic has abated.
The special reports incorporate extensive empirical data, including surveys on online legal education experiences. They cover 13 jurisdictions across the Asia-Pacific region (Australia, Canada, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan and Pakistan), Europe and beyond (Croatia, Cyprus, Italy and Seychelles), ranging from micro-states to very large economies, at various stages of economic development and from different legal traditions. Comparing Online Legal Education provides rich resources and lessons for legal academics and professionals, as well as those involved in education policy.
Find out more about the book and order it online here.
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Thursday 3 August 2023
Time: 5.30-6.30pm (Cocktail reception to follow book launch)
Venue: Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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About the editors
Luke Nottage (PhD VUW, LLD Kyoto) is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Business Law at the University of Sydney, Associate Director of its Centre for Asian and Pacific Law (CAPLUS) and founding Co-Director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL). He is Honorary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Special Counsel with Williams Trade Law and a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Professor Nottage has published 19 books and taught law in Australasia, Southeast Asia, Japan, North America and Europe.
Makoto Ibusuki (LLD Hokkaido) is Professor of Law at Seijo University in Tokyo and ANJeL-in-Japan Program Convenor for the Australian Network for Japanese Law. His major areas of research, teaching and writing are in cyberspace law and criminal procedure. He was a founding director of the Hojohogakkai (Association for Legal Informatics) and a key member of a study group promoting IT issues in Japan’s major reforms to criminal and civil justice. Professor Ibusuki formerly taught at Kagoshima University in Kyushu (1990-2002) and at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto (2002-2008).
CPD Points: 1
This event and book project are supported by theÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at Sydney Law School, and the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL).

2023 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law
2023-08-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Law Foyer, Level 2
2023 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.
The Council of Australian Law Deans in 2020 expressed its commitment to aÂ legal system free of systemic discrimination and structural bias against First Nations peoples – this commitment applies to legal education institutions.Â
The recent public lecture by Dr EddieÂ CubilloÂ addressed this topic, which is of considerableÂ public interest including within the legal academy.Â
We acknowledge the courage of Dr EddieÂ CubilloÂ to address the impact on First Nations Peoples.
Since the delivery of the lecture, the University has been informed of ongoing legal issues, which currently prevent the lecture recording being available for distribution.
In-person event

Sydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law.
In 2023, the lecture is “One more broken silence: an Indigenous academic encounters racism in the law school 2023”, delivered by Dr Eddie Cubillo (University of Melbourne Law School).
This event is being held to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, which is celebrated annually on 9 August.
2023 Lecture
One more broken silence: an Indigenous academic encounters racism in the law schoolÂ
In this lecture, I question why despite being white-qualified, having done an LLB, LLM, PhD, I am only seen as â€˜the culture guy’ and only respected enough to do â€˜smoking and acknowledgements’, why myself and other Blak academics continue to be subjected to casual and pervasive racisms as an everyday occurrence, and why some of our most prestigious academic institutions continue to be complicit in perpetrating and condoning racism despite all the rhetoric about standing for equity and justice.
In 2015, Wiradjuri man Stan Grant challenged Australians to consider that â€˜The Australian Dream is rooted in racismâ€¦the very foundation of the dream’. Recently, as Australia tracks towards a referendum on a First Nations Voice to Parliament that 80% of Indigenous people support, non-Indigenous author Richard Flanagan challenges us to â€˜confront th[e] most terrible truthâ€¦[that] racism experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peopleâ€¦is of a completely different orderâ€¦far more extremeâ€¦[and] so pervasive as to often be invisible to non-Indigenous Australians’.
The toxicity of the academy and whether it’s safe for Indigenous staff and students needs to be confronted. It needs to be highlighted that they often are not. First Nations academics often ask each other if it’s all worthwhile. As a country, we need to acknowledge that the places settlers/non-Indigenous Australians have built for themselves were established by,Â andÂ are sustained by, racial violence. InstitutionsÂ can beÂ unrelentingÂ inÂ theirÂ viciousness towards sovereign Black bodies,Â and this viciousness includes the silence of colleagues, their privilege and their â€˜unconscious biases’. As Richard Flanagan acknowledges â€˜Spend some real time with Aboriginal people and you’ll see how they are still made to live in another country, and it is frequently a cruel, pitiless and brutally destructive world.‘
So why am I still here? Why do I, and other Blak academics continue to subject ourselves to the viciousness and racial violence? For the same reason I call it out in this lecture – As a proud Larrakia, Wadjigan and Central Arrernte man I put up with the racism because of what I hear constantly from our people on the front-line advocating and delivering services trying their best in a racist world. If I can educate future leaders to respect my people, I will. My ancestors and elders have faced adversity, so that I can achieve, it’s my turn.

Wednesday 9 August, 6-7.30pm
CPD points =1.5

About the speaker
Dr Eddie Cubillo is a Larrakia, Wadjigan and Central Arrente man from the Northern Territory.
He is a long time advocate for Indigenous rights and is currently Associate Dean (Indigenous Programs) & Director of the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub at the University of Melbourne’s Law School, were he has his sights on the decolonisation of legal education and supporting graduates to work towards First Nations Justice.
Eddie’s other past roles include Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of the Northern Territory, Executive Officer of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (NATSILS) and Director of Community Engagement in the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory.
Eddie has been a former Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) Yilli Rreung Regional Council, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) and the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee and is currently on the Law Council of Australia’s – Indigenous Legal Issues Committee, National OPCAT Advisory Group, Justice Policy Partnership (JPP) under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, and the Victorian Treaty Authority Panel.

Catch up on the 2022 lecture
In 2022, the Wingarra Djuraliyin lecture was presented by Professor Anne Poelina and Marlikka Perdrisat, who spoke on the topic of â€˜First Law: A Climate Chance’.
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.

The Life and Death of States: Author Meets Readers
2023-08-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
The Life and Death of States: Author Meets Readers
In-person event
Natasha Wheatley’s bold new bookÂ The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern SovereigntyÂ (Princeton University Press 2023) rediscovers the multinational Habsburg polity as a hothouse for ideas that still shape our understanding of the sovereign state. The radical mismatch between theories of singular sovereignty and the empire’s plural, layered legal order pushed politicians as well as scholars like Hans Kelsen toward bold new conceptions of the state and the nature of law. The book follows a recurring set of questions about the juridical birth, death, and survival of states through the creative experiments of Austro-Hungarian constitutional order and into the domain of international law following the empire’s collapse in 1918. These ideas would echo around the globe in the era of global decolonization that followed the Second World War, suggesting new ways of understanding Central Europe in the world.
About the speakers

Natasha WheatleyÂ is an historian of modern European and international history, with broad interests in intellectual and legal history, Central Europe, and the history of international law. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sydney before joining the Princeton faculty as an assistant professor in 2017. She is the co-editor of the volumesÂ Power and TimeÂ andÂ Remaking Central Europe, and her writing has appeared inÂ Past & Present, History and Theory, Law and History Review,Â and theÂ London Review of Books, among other places.Â The Life and Death of StatesÂ is her first book.
Professor Lisa FordÂ is the prize-winning author of three monographs:Â Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836Â (Harvard UP, 2010);Â Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850Â (Harvard UP, 2016), co-authored with Professor Lauren Benton; andÂ The King’s Peace: Law and Order in the British EmpireÂ (Harvard UP, 2021). She recently co-editedÂ The Cambridge Legal History of AustraliaÂ (Cambridge UP, 2022). Her current project, on emergency in the British Empire is funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.
Professor Lea YpiÂ is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is the author ofÂ Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, The Meaning of PartisanshipÂ (with Jonathan White), andÂ The Architectonic of Reason.Â Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitledÂ Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,Â won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize and is being translated into more than twenty languages. Her academic work has been recognised with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and the Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She coedits The Journal of Political Philosophy and occasionally writes for The Guardian.

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Thursday 10 August 2023
Time:Â 5.30-7pm
Venue:Â University of Sydney, Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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This event is proudly presented by theÂ Julius Stone InstituteÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

Let's Talk About Corporations: AI risks in the financial sector: consequences for companies and directors
2023-08-16 17:00 - 19:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Let’s Talk About Corporations: AI risks in the financial sector: consequences for companies and directors
In-person event
In this seminar, we will be discussing the use of machine learning (ML) and AI technologies to offer personalised products to consumers and exploring the legal and ethical risks for financial sector companies that potentially arise out of the use of ML and AI in this context.
About the speakers
Susan Bennett (Principal of Sibenco Legal & Advisory, Founder & Executive Director of InfoGovANZ, PhD Candidate, The University of Sydney Law School)

Susan’s focus is driving best practice holistic governance solutions aligning data, information, privacy and records with technology and regulatory compliance to achieve organisational goals. Â Recognised for her global thought leadership in information governance, Susan hasÂ deep commercial expertise on which she draws to work with cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams to add value and deliver outcomes on major projects and objectives.Â Susan advises on information and data governance frameworks and policies, including cross-border data privacy and regulatory compliance, as well as acting in internal investigations and regulatory inquiries.
Susan holds a Master of Laws (Syd) and a Master of Business Administration (AGSM), and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional – Europe (CIPP/E). Â She is in the final stage of completing a PhD thesis on Privacy and Data Protection: the role of meta-regulation and information governance.Â Susan is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia (FGIA), a member of the Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN), and a member of the EDRM Global Advisory Board.
Dr Zofia Bednarz (Lecturer, The University of Sydney)
Zofia is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, where she teaches and researches in the area of commercial and corporate law. She is also an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Zofia’s current research focuses on the use of new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, by financial firms and the implications it has for provision of financial services to consumers. She has published her research in leading international and Australian journals, and regularly contributes to government consultation processes on law reform and comments for the media. Zofia has got a PhD in commercial law from the University of Malaga, Spain, and has qualified as a lawyer (abogada) in Spain.
The Honourable Justice Michael Lee
Justice Michael Bryan Joshua Lee was born in Perth but was raised in Sydney. After graduating in arts (political science) and later in law from the University of Sydney, he commenced work as a solicitor in 1989 with a firm that later became one of Australia’s largest national partnerships. He was made a senior associate of the firm in 1992 and was appointed its youngest partner, in 1995. He eventually became a senior litigation partner and national practice group leader before coming to the New South Wales Bar in 2002.
While at the Bar, his Honour was involved in a number of high profile cases ranging from building and construction disputes, insurance cases and employment law and workplace safety prosecutions; additionally, he was briefed as leading counsel in a number of the most significant commercial actions in Australia.
Justice Lee was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia in 2017 and is also an Additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. His Honour deals with matters at both first instance and on appeal. He is also a National Coordinating Judge in the Federal Court’s Commercial and Corporations National Practice Area and also of the defamation work of the Court.
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
Find out more about the series.
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Wednesday 16 August, 2023
Time: 5-7pm AEST (Registrations from 5pm with the panel discussion to start at 5:30pm, followed by drinks and canapes.)
Location: University of Sydney, Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown Campus
CPD points:Â 1.5 points
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

Can we accommodate independent legal representation for complainants of sexual violence in an adversarial system?
2023-08-18 12:30 - 14:30 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Can we accommodate independent legal representation for complainants of sexual violence in an adversarial system?
In-person event

â€œThe legitimate rights of the accused should be protected and fulfilled. So too the rights of the community.â€Â -Â VLRC, 2021
Australia has not been immune from calls to strengthen its criminal justice system, with a series of inquiries over the past seven years considering matters affecting complainants of sexual violence. Despite relying on victims to report crime and cooperate so that the state may prosecute, the mistreatment of victims remains a subject of academic criticism.
Independent legal representation has surfaced as a major factor in reducing secondary victimisation and attrition. While often positioned as solely in the interests of the victim, it can support the state’s prosecution efforts and lead to improved substantive justice outcomes.
On behalf of With You We Can, this event co-ordinates advocates, lawyers and academics to discuss models of independent legal representation for victims abroad, and how we might apply similar principles in Australia. The discussion will be preceded by a short screening of Suzie Miller’sÂ Prima Facie, a powerful tool to create more developed understanding of our justice system in these contexts.
Speakers will be consulting victimologistÂ Michael O’Connell AM APM, who served as the inaugural Commissioner for Victims’ Rights,Â Associate Professor Kerstin Braun, who teaches criminal law and procedure in the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland,Â Eleanor Danks, an advocate who went through the legal system as a survivor of intimate partner sexual violence while working at the Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions, andÂ Sarah Rosenberg, Director and Co-Founder of With you We Can.
*With You We Can is a victim-led organisation pulling together victims, advocates and experts to demystify the police and legal processes while working to improve them.
Program
12.30-1.30pm Screening ofÂ Suzie Miller’s film Prima Facie
1.30-2.30pm Panel discussion

Friday 18 August 2023, 12.30-2.30pmÂ AEST
Venue:Â Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building Annex (F10A), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 2

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Sydney Institute of Criminology The University of Sydney Law School.

Meet the author | Reimagining Desistance from Male-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: The role and experiences of female victims-survivors
2023-08-24 18:00 - 19:15 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Meet the author | Reimagining Desistance from Male-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: The role and experiences of female victims-survivors
Hybrid event
Despite decades of research, our understanding of IPV desistance processes is very limited. In particular, understanding of the mechanisms that may account for why some men â€˜stop’ abusing their partners and others persist, is under-developed. Because IPV occurs within a dyadic and domestic context, women who are subjected to IPV are not only in a unique position to observe their partner’s behaviours (and how they change over time), but also to implement strategies to initiate and support their partner’s desistance.
This study involved semi-structured interviews with 40 female victims-survivors of male-perpetrated IPV, 15 of whom had experienced the cessation or reduction of abuse perpetrated against them for a period of six months or longer. Focusing on the period where participants relationships with abusers were still intact, the analysis found that victims-survivors were highly agentic actors who implemented a range of strategies to both mitigate their day-to-day risk of violence and support their partners’ long-term behavioural changes. Even in situations where the violence did not stop entirely, the strategies participants implemented were important for inhibiting escalating patterns of violence and abuse within their relationship. Although their understanding of abusers’ thought processes and motivations was limited by contextual awareness, participants’ narratives suggested that desistance would not have occurred, but for their actions.

About the author
Dr Hayley Boxall is a criminologist who has been undertaking research on domestic and family violence (including intimate partner violence) and sexual violence for over 10 years. She has published extensively on these topics, and been a primary investigator on a number of projects focused on criminal justice responses to DFV, pathways/trajectories into DFV offending and intimate partner femicide, offending and reoffending patterns of DFV perpetrators and the exploring the nature and prevalence of different forms of DFV and sexual violence. Since 2020 Hayley has been the Manager of the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Violence against Women and Children Research Program, and is a Course Convenor at the University of Sydney and Griffith University.
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Thursday 24 August 2023
Time: 6-7.15pm (Refreshments to be provided)
Venue: Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
CPD points:Â 1.25
This event is being held in-person and online at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference at registration.
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This event is presented by theÂ Sydney Institute of CriminologyÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATO
2023-08-29 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATO
Online event
The Australian Taxation Office is a creditor in almost three out of every four company insolvencies. Legislation in 1993 removed the last of what were seen as rights that elevated the ATO to the status of priority creditor. Yet it continues to enjoy rights that other creditors do not have.
In this Webinar, Adjunct Associate Professor Lindsay Powers will explain these rights and how they impact the corporate insolvency process. He will be joined by experienced insolvency lawyer and MinterEllison partner Michael Hughes who will discuss the findings and recommendations of the recent Parliamentary Joint Committee Report on Corporate Insolvency in Australia in relation to the ATO as a creditor.
Speakers

Lindsay PowersÂ (Senior Legal Consultant MinterEllison and Adjunct Associate Professor Sydney Law School)
Michael HughesÂ (Partner, MinterEllison)

Chair: Dr Jason HarrisÂ (Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School)
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Tuesday 29 August
Time: 6pm
Venue: Online webinar
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.

Julius Stone Address: What is political progress?
2023-08-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Lecture Theatre 101, level 1, New Law Building F10A, Campderdown Campus
Julius Stone Address: What is political progress?
In-person event

Progress is both a necessary and a dangerous idea. It is necessary if one is striving to improve the way things are, and it is dangerous because the pursuit of progress has historically often given rise to episodes of paternalism, colonial domination and narratives of civilizational superiority. In my talk, I will present some first thoughts on how to defend a more critical account of progress. I will start by distinguishing between moral and political progress, then explore the relation between political progress and justice. I will suggest that we make political progress not when we approximate an ideal of justice that is always already known to us, but when the political institutions we construct reflect what we learn from the trials and failures of the past.
About the speaker
Professor Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is the author ofÂ Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, The Meaning of PartisanshipÂ (with Jonathan White), andÂ The Architectonic of Reason. Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitledÂ Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize and is being translated into more than twenty languages. Her academic work has been recognised with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and the Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She coeditsÂ The Journal of Political PhilosophyÂ and occasionally writes forÂ The Guardian.

Tuesday 29 August, 2023
Time:Â 6-7.30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 101, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)

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.

Report launch | The risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing: A synthesis of evidence and the implications for Australia.
2023-09-04 12:30 - 14:15 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Report launch | The risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing: A synthesis of evidence and the implications for Australia
In-person event
This launch event will highlight the significance of the new reportÂ â€œThe risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing: A synthesis of evidence and the implications for Australiaâ€. It will exploreÂ key findings of the review around climate change, chemical contamination of air and water and resulting physical, social and spiritual health impacts. The report aims to inform the Australian community and decision makers about what is at stake should we proceed with new developments.
Professor of Practice in Environmental Wellbeing Melissa Haswell and Jacob Hegedus will speak to the report, and will be joined by other expert speakers as part of this event which will shape the dialogue around these critical topics.
Join us to connect and continue these important conversations with peers.
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Monday 4 September
Time:Â 12.30-2.15pmÂ (12.30pm arrival for a 1pm start. Light refreshments will be served before the event.)
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10)
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This event is proudly co-presented by the University of Sydney Law School, and the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous Strategy and Services.

JSI Seminar | Beyond Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property: opportunities in law reform for Aboriginal-led medicines in Australia and the limitations of legal pluralism
2023-09-14 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar | Beyond Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property: opportunities in law reform for Aboriginal-led medicines in Australia and the limitations of legal pluralism
In-person event
Australian regulators and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have the opportunity to co-design a cross-jurisdictional framework that ensures structural integrity and cultural ethics, which embodies international law principles and standards. However, the Australian intellectual property regime and regulatory framework for traditional medicines is not fit for purpose. Equally, the tension between Australia’s settler state and unceded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples remains constrained by legal pluralism, western concepts of Indigeneity and biocultural knowledge and truth-telling.
About the speaker:
Dr Virginia Marshall
Dr Marshall is a Research Fellow based at the Australian National University’s School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). She is a practising lawyer and leading legal scholar with expertise in Aboriginal water rights, native title rights in Sea Country, Indigenous governance and the intersection of Traditional Knowledge systems and western intellectual property regimes, especially as it relates to Indigenous commercialisation of traditional medicines.
Virginia holds various government appointments including serving on the Climate Change Authority Board, Deputy Co-Chair of the Committee on Aboriginal Water Interests and the Drafting Group for the National Water Initiative Mark 2 and regularly invited on expert roundtables relating to water policy reform. Virginia serves on the ANU Human Ethics Research Committee, the inaugural MÄori Research and Ethics Council and Chair of the ANU Indigenous Research Advisory Group. Virginia is a Co-Chair of the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster SolutionsÂ Indigenous peoples, cultures and knowledgesÂ research cluster and is a Research Associate and Board member of ANU’s Australian Studies Institute.

Thursday 14 September 2023, 6-7.30pmÂ AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

Criminalising Children: Should we raise the age of criminal responsibility?
2023-09-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Criminalising Children: Should we raise the age of criminal responsibility?
In-person event
Recently, the Northern Territory became the first Australian jurisdiction to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 years. In New South Wales, and other Australian jurisdictions, the minimum age remains 10, which is one of the lowest minimum ages of criminal responsibility in the world. That is, while a child under the age of 10 cannot be convicted of a criminal offence, and while a child aged between 10 and 14 is likewise presumed to beÂ doli incapax, this presumption can be rebutted by the prosecution on the evidence.
But is the age of 10 too young to criminalise any child? What harms accrue to incarcerated children?
There are many arguments in favour of â€˜raising the age’ to minimise the criminalisation of children. First, there is the alarming over-representation of Indigenous children in detention. Second, raising the age of criminal responsibility would recognise the fact that children are in a period of neurodevelopmental immaturity. Third, the younger a child is when first encountering the criminal justice system, the more likely they are to re-offend as an adult. Fourth, the great prevalence of mental health disorders and cognitive disabilities amongst young people in the criminal justice system, compared with the general youth population, highlights a vulnerability that would be better addressed outside the criminal justice system. Finally, incarcerated children are deprived of the family, friends, education, health, cultural and sporting opportunities that most of us take for granted.
Given the significant momentum for raising the age of criminal responsibility following the Northern Territory’s decision, this panel will examine whether other Australian jurisdictions should do the same Â- or raise the age even higher.
About the panel discussion
To continue the dialogue around raising the age of criminal responsibility, the Sydney Institute of Criminology is hosting a panel of academics and legal professionals.
Introductions: Dr Carolyn McKayÂ (Co-Director, Sydney Institute of Criminology)
Chairperson: Professor Megan WilliamsÂ (Principal of Yulang Indigenous Evaluation)
Professor Megan Williams is Wiradjuri through paternal family and has worked for over two decades advocating for the use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s expertise in health service design and evaluation, research, ethics and university curriculum. Megan is principal of Yulang Indigenous Evaluation and worked in the tertiary sector across three decades, most recently at UTS. Megan is author of the Ngaa-bi-nya Aboriginal evaluation framework available at the Evaluation Journal of Australasia, contributed as background work for the Australian Government’s Indigenous Evaluation Strategy. Megan collaborates on ARC, MRFF, NHMRC, government and industry funds for research, and has had local and national roles including as a Human Research Ethics Committee chairperson, and Health Sociology Review associate editor including for the Yuwinbir Special Issue. Megan is a member of the AIHW National Prisoner Health Information Committee and Corrective Services NSW Aboriginal Advisory Council. Megan has been miimi (sister) of Mibbinbah community organisation for 15 years, and is Chairperson of independent media company Croakey.org.
Panellists

Dr Krystal LockwoodÂ (Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University)

Dr Krystal Lockwood is Gumbaynggirr and Dunghutti, and grew up in Armidale, New South Wales. She is an applied justice researcher, with methodological expertise in qualitative, realist, and Indigenous research and evaluation, as well as experience with quantitative methods. Broadly, her research examines how programs, policies, and practices are used to address complex problems. Her research interests include parental incarceration, reintegration, and sentencing processes; application of realist and Indigenous methodologies; and the impact of the criminal justice system on social justice outcomes, particularly for Indigenous peoples. Krystal is also interested in the application of Indigenous knowledges and perspectives in tertiary education and the justice sector.

Mr Robert HoylesÂ (Director Criminal Law Division, Legal Aid NSW)

Mr Rob Hoyles is the Director of Criminal Law for Legal Aid NSW. He is an Accredited Specialist in criminal law and holds an Executive Master of Public Administration from ANZSOG. He has previously held many roles with Legal Aid NSW including Deputy Director, Project Lead of the Early Appropriate Guilty Plea (EAGP) Implementation Team and Solicitor in Charge of a Sydney Indictable Team. He was the inaugural Solicitor in Charge of Legal Aid NSW’s Port Macquarie office and previously worked as a criminal defence lawyer in Sydney private practice, with the Aboriginal Legal Service and in four regional Legal Aid offices. He commenced his career as Researcher for NSW Court of Appeal. He is presently appointed to the NSW Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee, Ethics Committee and Specialist Accreditation Advisory Committee for Criminal Law.

Professor Thomas CroftsÂ (City University of Hong Kong)

Professor Thomas Crofts holds a joint appointment in the School of Law and Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at City University of Hong Kong. He was formerly Professor of Criminal Law in the Sydney University School of Law and Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology. His research in criminal law, criminology and criminal justice centres on criminalisation and criminal responsibility with a particular focus on the criminalisation and criminal responsibility of children, comparative criminal law and criminal law reform. Professor Crofts’ teaching interests are in the fields of criminal law, criminology and criminal justice.
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Tuesday 19 September
Time:Â 6-8pmÂ (Refreshments to follow panel)
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10)
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This event is proudly presented by theÂ Sydney Institute of CriminologyÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

2nd Annual Global Sports Law Symposium: Dispute Resolution
2023-09-22 16:00 - 17:30
2nd Annual Global Sports Law Symposium: Dispute Resolution
In-person event
Abstract
This symposium brings together luminary experts and practitioners in sports law to discuss dispute resolution in the world of sports (it follows on fromÂ ANJeL’s seminar on international arbitration). The symposium’s first panel will feature two giants of the Australian sports law world reflecting on their careers in jurisprudence and sports administration resolving disputes in the sports area. The second panel will be a case study focusing on dispute resolution in baseball with two experts on both Japanese and Australian baseball.

About the Speakers
Dispute Resolution in Sports: Expert Reflections
Professor Deborah HealeyÂ (University of New South Wales)
Deborah 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 and serves on the National Sports Tribunal.
Professor the Hon Marilyn Warren AC KCÂ (Monash University)
Marilyn Warren is a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow of Monash University and is the former Chief Justice of Victoria. She practices as a commercial arbitrator and teaches law as a Professor at Monash’s Law Faculty.

Dispute Resolution in Sports: Baseball Case Study
Mr. Mark MarinoÂ (CEO, Baseball NSW)
Mark Marino has been the CEO of Baseball NSW since 2014 and is an Executive Committee Member of the Australian Baseball Players Alumni Association. Mark played collegiate and professional baseball in the United States and was the CEO of the Sydney Blue Sox 2014-2018.
Dr. Matt NicholÂ (Lecturer, Central Queensland University, (Melbourne))
Matt Nichol is a lecturer and sports law academic at the School of Business and Law at Central Queensland University and a board member of Baseball Victoria. His research uses approaches to labour law and regulatory theory to understand the regulation of labour in professional team sports.

Moderator:Â Mr. Micah Burch, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School.
Hosts: Sydney Law School, Australian Network for Japanese Law, Australia New Zealand Sports Law Association
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Date: Friday, 22 September 2023
Time: 4.00-5.30pm
Location: Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), The University of Sydney
Please follow directional signage on arrival.
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CPD Points:Â 1.5
This event is proudly co-presented by The University of Sydney Law School, the Australian Network for Japanese Law and the Australia New Zealand Sports Law Association.

Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2023: The responsibility of shareholders
2023-09-26 17:30 - 19:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2023: The responsibility of shareholders
In-person event

In 1911, Justice Louis Brandeis argued that:
â€˜â€¦there is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. It is entirely contraryâ€¦to what ought to be our whole attitude towards investments, that the person who has a chance for profit by going into an enterprise â€¦ should have the chance of gain without any responsibility’.
This lecture asks whether, over a century later, it is now time to revisit that proposition. The lecture will consider whether shareholders should bear responsibility for the actions of the companies in which they hold shares. If so, is that just a moral responsibility, or can it also have a legal dimension? And, if legal, should the law simply facilitate greater shareholder responsibility, or should it be mandated?
About the speaker
Emeritus Professor Stephen Bottomley (ANU College of Law)
Emeritus Professor of Commercial Law, Stephen Bottomley is an expert in corporate law with particular emphasis on corporate governance. His main areas of research interest are corporate governance, and law and regulation. He has also published in the areas of corporate theory, corporate regulation and government-owned enterprises.
His 2008 book,Â The Constitutional Corporation: Rethinking Corporate GovernanceÂ was awarded the Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize for outstanding piece of socio-legal scholarship in the same year. Amongst his publications, Stephen is the co-author ofÂ Contemporary Australian Corporate LawÂ (2018, Cambridge University Press),Â Law in ContextÂ (2011, 4th edn, Federation Press), andÂ Directing the Top 500 – Corporate Governance and Accountability in Australian CompaniesÂ (1993, Allen and Unwin). Stephen’s articleÂ â€œThe Notional Legislator: The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Role as a Law-Makerâ€Â (2011)Â 39 Federal Law Review 1, was awarded the 2011 Zines Prize for Excellence in Legal Research.
In 2021 Stephen was awarded the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Legal Research Medal in the 2020 Australian Legal Research Awards.
Stephen was Dean of the ANU College of Law from 2013 to 2017, prior to which he held positions as Head of School and Deputy Dean in the College.
Stephen is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a former President of the Corporate Law Teachers Association (now the Society of Corporate Law Academics).
Commentator: Rebecca Lim (Strategic Consultant, Gilbert + Tobin and Practitioner-in-Residence, Sydney Law School)
Rebecca is a strategic consultant at G&T in Sydney particularly in the areas of financial services, digital, ESG and Board advisory services. Rebecca was the General Counsel for Westpac for 10 years and worked in a variety of senior roles within with the Westpac Group for 20 years.
Chair: Dr Jason HarrisÂ (Professor of Corporate Law and Director of the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law, Sydney Law School)

Tuesday 26 September, 2023
Time:Â 5.30-7pm
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10)

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation LawÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

Advocacy in the Children's Court
2023-09-28 00:00
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Advocacy in the Children’s Court: Considerations for Criminal Matters Involving Children and Young Persons

Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Professional Skills
CPD Points: 1.5
About
The Children’s Court deals with a wide range of cases across NSW involving children and young people. In its criminal jurisdiction, matters involve defendants under the age of 18 years. There are a number of complexities in the legislation as to how certain charges involving children and young persons proceed including considerations of doli incapax and whether the charges can remain at the summary level or whether they should be dealt with â€œat lawâ€ in a higher court. This presentation will discuss the issues around the age of criminal responsibility and the committal process in the Children’s Court. This presentation will assist lawyers practising criminal law who appear in the Children’s Court and provide perspectives from the bench, prosecution, and defence.
Presenters
Judge Ellen Skinner was admitted to the legal profession in 1999, having graduated from the Australian National University in Arts and Law. Judge Skinner has served as Managing Solicitor at the Aboriginal Legal Service and worked at the ODPP and Legal Aid. Judge Skinner was appointed to the Bench in 2009 as a magistrate and was the youngest magistrate ever appointed in New South Wales. On 22 November 2021, Judge Skinner was appointed as the President of the Children’s Court of NSW and a judge of the District Court.
Shannon Richards is a Solicitor Advocate at the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. He has been practising law since 2003 and has worked in both commercial, government and military legal environments. Shannon was previously a prosecutor with the Office of the Director of Military Prosecutions and joined the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in 2015. He regularly appears in jury trials in the District Court and complex hearings in the Local Court and Children’s Court. Shannon appears in courts-martial and Defence Force Magistrate hearings on behalf of the prosecution and defence.
James Clifford is the Managing Solicitor of the Children’s Criminal Practice at the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT), practicing primarily on Gadigal and Dharug land. He completed his studies at the University of Sydney before commencing private practice in criminal and employment law. Since commencing with the ALS in 2017, he has represented Aboriginal young people extensively in the Youth Koori Court and mainstream courts.

A recording of this webinar will be released on Thursday, 28 September 2023.
Find out more about the series.

Probative Value and Admissibility in the Criminal Trial
2023-09-28 00:00
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Probative Value and Admissibility in the Criminal Trial: Focus and Holism
Substantive Law
CPD Points: 1.5
About
In determining whether challenged evidence is admissible, the trial judge is often required to assess its probative value. The orthodox view is that this assessment focuses on the strength of connection between the challenged evidence and the fact in issue. However, a distinct strand of High Court jurisprudence, running through the common law and the uniform evidence legislation – fromâ€¯Pfennig v The QueenÂ (1995) 182 CLR 461 throughâ€¯Phillips v The Queenâ€¯(2006) 225 CLR 303 toâ€¯TL v The Kingâ€¯(2022) 96 ALJR 1072 – requires a holistic approach to probative value. That is, the trial judge should assess the contribution of the challenged evidence together with other evidence. The High Court’s occasional holism introduces incoherence and uncertainty into the law. The interventionism of this approach may be prompted by concern over the prejudicial risks of propensity evidence; however, holism does not necessarily provide added protection. The High Court’s holism appears to be more the product of fallacious reasoning and inattention to the logic of proof. And it carries the risk that the trial judge, at the admissibility stage, will trespass on the jury’s fact-finding province.
Presenter
David Hamer is interested in the way criminal courts deal with evidence in determining whether to convict or acquit defendants. While often focusing on the detail of evidence law and criminal procedure, he takes an interdisciplinary approach. His research has regard to both the psychology and the logic of proof and draws on empirical research and formal probabilistic models. Further, his work explores how the pursuit of factual accuracy is affected by other sometimes competing concerns: efficiency, fairness, and the overarching need to provide a mechanism for settling disputes that retains public acceptance.
A particular area of interest to David is the regulation of child sexual assault prosecutions. For various reasons, these offences are inherently difficult to prove. Drawing on David’s work, the recent Royal Commission recommended that the prosecution be able to place greater reliance on the accusations of other alleged victims to corroborate the complainant’s allegation. David’s work in this area is ongoing and he is contributing to the development of appropriate laws to implement this Royal Commission recommendation.
Another area of interest to David is wrongful convictions. Despite the rhetorical emphasis placed on avoiding this searing injustice, they come to light quite regularly and there is good reason to believe that many more wrongful convictions are hidden from view. David is interested in the conceptual and methodological issues concerning definition and estimation of error rates. He researches the causes of wrongful convictions and how these should be addressed through law reform. He also focuses on obstacles to their correction and believes that a Criminal Cases Review Commission should be adopted as a crucial element of criminal justice infrastructure.

Rescheduled date: A recording of this webinar will be released on Thursday, 28 September 2023.
Find out more about the series.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Law Reform & The PPSA: Why We Should Delete s 267 and Corporations Act s 588FL
2023-10-03 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Law Reform & The PPSA: Why We Should Delete s 267 andÂ Corporations ActÂ s 588FL
Online event
The Government’s response to the Statutory Review of the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (â€˜PPSA’) has been released, including an Exposure Draft containing its proposed amendments. We are currently within an eight-week consultation period closing on 17 November 2023, which makes this an opportune time to discuss reforms to improve the operation of the PPSA.
This seminar concerns s 267 of the PPSA and s 588FL of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), which are termed the â€˜vesting provisions’. The former provides that an unperfected security interest â€˜vests in the grantor’ upon the occurrence of specified events indicating the grantor’s insolvency. The latter provides that, where a security interest is perfected only by registration and the grantor is a company, that security interest â€˜vests in the company’ upon the occurrence of specified events indicating the company’s insolvency if the registration time is outside one of several time periods. Much of the debate concerning these provisions thus-far has focused on s 588FL due to its more stringent timing requirements, and there seemed to be consensus that this provision is unnecessary and should be deleted. Surprisingly however, the Government proposed retaining it in its recent response to the Statutory Review of the PPSA.
In this seminar I will take a step back from the debate specifically concerning s 588FL, and consider the broader question of what the vesting provisions seek to achieve in the first place. First, I will identify their commercial significance by considering when they lead to different outcomes than those which would occur anyway under other provisions of the PPSA. Secondly, I will identify the purported policy objectives underlying the vesting provisions, and argue that none of these sufficiently explain their operation. Thirdly, I will identify the costs of retaining these provisions, and argue that these cannot be satisfactorily addressed through more discrete amendments to their scope. This leads me to conclude that, while it may at first appear to be a radical solution, we should delete both s 267 and s 588FL.
About the speakers
Adam Waldman
Adam WaldmanÂ is the Colin Phegan Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. His field of research is commercial law, with a particular focus on theÂ Personal Property Securities Act 2009Â (Cth) (â€˜PPSA’) and, more generally, on the relationship between statute and the general law. Adam is also a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney Law School, and his ongoing doctoral research examines the interaction between equity and the PPSA through the lens of the notion of unconscionability.
Adam teaches in Equity, Introduction to Property and Commercial Law, Torts and Contracts II, and Legal Reasoning. He is also a lecturer for the Legal Profession Admission Board’s Diploma in Law, where he lectures on personal property in Commercial Transactions.
Adam has previously worked at a boutique law firm, as a research assistant to counsel in chambers and as a research assistant to a former Supreme Court judge. He has also worked as a researcher at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, in the areas of insolvency, corporations law, and banking and financial law.
Commentator: Tony Ryan (Consultant, Ashurst)
Tony Ryan is a consultant in the restructuring, insolvency and special situations practice of Ashurst’s Sydney Office. Tony advises on all aspects of corporate insolvency and restructuring law, including voluntary administration, deeds of company arrangement, schemes of arrangement, receivership and liquidations and has been involved in a number of significant cross-border matters including acting as lead partner on the liquidation of MF Global, a major global financial services and derivatives broker group and one of the largest and most complicated bankruptcies in corporate history, and the liquidation of HIH Insurance Limited, a major insurance company with assets worldwide and the largest corporate insolvency in Australia. Tony is the NSW co-chair of the Insolvency and Restructuring Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council. Tony also lectures in insolvency and corporate finance law for Sydney Law School.
Chair: Dr Jason Harris (Professor of Corporate Law and Director of the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School)

Tuesday 3 October, 6-7pm AEST
CPD points:Â 1
This event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney.

JSI Seminar | Demystifying CLS: A reflection on writing an intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement
2023-10-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar | Demystifying CLS: A reflection on writing an intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement
In-person event
In his forthcoming bookÂ The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies,Â Stewart uses the tools of CLS to analyse CLS, assessing its dominant narrative against its history and legacy. Literary and philosophical lenses are used to highlight the power of CLS, which in turn presents its deficits. In this seminar Stewart presents this rise and fall through key discoveries in his research, as well as anecdotes from the Crits, and why CLS was not as radical as it should have been.
About the speaker:
Dr James Gilchrist Stewart
James is a lecturer in law and LLB Program Manager at RMIT’s graduate school of business and law. James has published on legal theory, neoliberalism’s effect on law, and is a media voice on Australian consumer law. James’ first book â€œThe Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studiesâ€ is scheduled for publication with Edinburgh University Press in 2024.
Thursday 5 October 2023, 6-7.30pmÂ AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

Let's Talk About Corporations | "Bid-rigging", cartel regulation, and public procurement: a comparative perspective from Switzerland
2023-10-12 12:00 - 13:00
Let’s Talk About Corporations | â€œBid-riggingâ€, cartel regulation, and public procurement: a comparative perspective from Switzerland
Online event
This seminar provides aÂ comparative perspective on cartel regulation, focused on theÂ Swiss framework.Â The presentation providesÂ a brief overview of the effects that cartels can have on competition,Â followed by a careful examination of theÂ different legislative measures the Swiss legal system has taken to tackle cartels, enriched with current examplesÂ from practice. The focus lies on cartels that areÂ formedÂ in the context of public procurement proceduresÂ -Â so-called â€œbid-riggingâ€.
About the speakers
Leandra Diem
Leandra Diem holds a master’s degree in law, which she obtained from the Universities of Lucerne (Switzerland) and Paris Nanterre (France). After an internship at the Swiss Competition Commission and the commercial court of Bern (Switzerland), she is now a Research Assistant and PhD Candidate of the University of Lucerne (Switzerland). Her research focuses on Public Economic Law, especially on Antitrust and Public Procurement Law. Her doctoral research focuses on bid-rigging from a public procurement law perspective. She is currently a visiting research scholar at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, where she is examining comparative aspects of law.
Discussant: Dr Barbora Jedlickova
Dr BarboraÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â is a Senior Lecturer and Fellows of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law and the Australian Centre for Private Law in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland in Australia. She is a member of theÂ Law Council of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Committee. DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â holds degrees from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom (PhD in Law, 2012; and LL.M. with Commendation in InternationalÂ Competition Law and Policy, 2007) and from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic (Master Degree in Law and Legal Studies, 2004).
DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â specialises in competition lawÂ with principal research interests in competition-law theories, competition law in the digital economy and comparative competition law. Her research has focused on various topics, including cartels, anticompetitive agreements and AI, exclusionary conduct, vertical restraints, bargaining power, and economic and jurisprudential theories and arguments in competition law. Her research also includes the analysis of specific markets with distinctive issues, such the grocery retail market and the pharmaceutical market. She has published both internationally and nationally.Â DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â has been a visiting scholar at the University of Iowa, Boston University and the Court of Justice of the European Union. She has been an Australian reporter for the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) for five international LIDC projects. She has served asÂ an Editor of the Oceania Column of Competition Policy International (2019-2023) andÂ as a General Editor of theÂ LAWASIA JournalÂ (2014).
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
Find out more about the series.
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Thursday 12 October, 2023
Time: 1-2pm AEDT
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

JSI Seminar | Bathroom Bills and Liberal Rights
2023-10-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Bathroom Bills and Liberal Rights
In-person event
On June 30th 2023 Florida’s House Bill 1521 came into effect. The bill requires that all trans people must use Florida public restrooms that align with the sex they were assigned at birth. This includes restrooms in all Florida airports, government buildings, schools and universities, city parks and beaches, and many Florida stadiums, rest stops, service stations, and conferences. The implications of this bill are that all trans women, for instance, must use the men’s bathroom in these places even if they have had sex reassignment surgery, have lived as a woman for decades, or since they were a child, are perceived to be a woman by everyone they meet, and/or have changed their birth certificate, their driving license, and their passports so that they acknowledge that they are female or a woman.
Earlier in 2023, Kansas adopted a similar bathroom bill, North Carolina adopted a similar bill in 2016-2017, the UK government is considering adopting a similar law, and at least 21 other US states have proposed similar bathroom bills. There has been a lot of discussion and criticism of these bathroom bills but no sustained case for their injustice (or their justice) has been made. This paper argues that bathroom bills like Florida’s breach trans people’s rights in three ways. I argue that we have the following three rights: (1) rights to not be made to subject ourselves to significant risks of harm in order to participate in the (face-to-face) public or social world; (2) rights to not be unjustly discriminated against; (3) rights to have our interests considered equally in lawmaking and policymaking.
I argue that a variety of more specific liberal and egalitarian rights and claims, made by a variety of liberals and egalitarians, imply (1-3) and (1-3) are very intuitive. And I argue that bathroom bills like Florida’s breach trans people’s rights to (1-3). I argue that bathroom bills force trans people to risk significant harm in order to participate in the public or social world, and refraining from adopting bathroom bills does not force anyone to incur any similar significant risk of harm to participate in the public or social world. I argue that the different philosophical theories of unjust discrimination that we have imply that bathroom bills are instances of unjust discrimination. And I argue that the adoption of bathroom bills does not involve equal consideration of trans people’s interests.
About the speaker:
Associate Professor Rach Cosker-Rowland
Rach Cosker-Rowland is an Associate Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Leeds. She is the author ofÂ The Normative and the EvaluativeÂ (OUP, 2019) andÂ Moral DisagreementÂ (Routledge, 2020) as well as the co-editor ofÂ FittingnessÂ (OUP, 2022). She has recently published papers on the nature of gender, the relationship between gender identity and gender, and gender-identity-based rights in journals including Nous, Analysis, and the Journal of Medical Ethics. Before taking up her position at Leeds she held positions at the Australian Catholic University, La Trobe University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Warwick.
Thursday 12 October 2023, 6-7.30pm AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

The Modern Slavery Act Review: Can the law drive meaningful change?
2023-10-13 13:00 - 14:30 | Law Foyer, Level 2
The Modern Slavery Act Review: Can the law drive meaningful change?
In-person event
In May this year, the Government tabled a report on the findings of the statutory review of Australia’sÂ Modern Slavery Act 2018. The Review, led by Professor John McMillan AO, made 30 recommendations to strengthen the Act. If the recommendations are adopted, it will mark the first mandatory human rights due diligence law in Australia, reflecting the rapidly changing legislative landscape internationally.
What does a strengthened Modern Slavery Act mean for reporting entities, including the higher education sector? Can legislative reform drive meaningful change for people vulnerable to modern slavery in Australia, such as international students and migrant workers?
The event will explore the unique role of academic research and universities in partnering with government, civil society and business to drive meaningful action on addressing modern slavery.

Opening remarks by the Australian Ambassador to Counter Modern Slavery, People Smuggling and Human Trafficking, Ms Lynn Bell.
Ambassador Bell is a career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and was most recently Assistant Secretary, Crisis Preparedness and Management Branch. She has previously served as a Senior Adviser at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and overseas in Papua New Guinea. Ms Bell holds a Master of Public Administration from University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Technology Sydney.
Keynote address byÂ Professor John McMillan, AO, author of the Modern Slavery Act Review.
Professor McMillan is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, where he taught administrative and constitutional law from 1983-2003. He is a co-author ofÂ Control of Government Action: Text, Cases and CommentaryÂ (2022, 6th ed). John has held the statutory positions of Commonwealth Ombudsman (2003-10), Integrity Commissioner (Acting) for the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (2007), Australian Information Commissioner (2010-15), NSW Ombudsman (Acting) (2015-17), and member of the Australian Copyright Tribunal (2015-17).
Panel Discussion
Through diverse perspectives and expert insights, the panel will provide practical takeaways on the implications of the Modern Slavery Act Review in the context of wider legislative and policy changes in Australia and abroad.
About the speakers
Professor Jennifer Burn AM
Professor Burn is a lawyer and Director of Anti-Slavery Australia at UTS, a specialist legal practice, research and policy centre committed to the abolition of modern slavery in Australia. Jennifer received an Order of Australia this year for her significant service to anti-slavery and migration law. She has also been awarded the 2016 UTS Deputy Vice Chancellor’s Medal for Research Impact and the 2020 Law Council of Australia Outstanding Migration Lawyer of the Year. Jennifer serves on the Australian Government National Roundtable on Human Trafficking and was the Interim NSW Anti-Slavery Commissioner from 2018 to 2020. Jennifer sits on the Mercy Foundation Board and is a member of the Advisory Group for the Centre for Research on Modern Slavery (CReMS) at the University of Auckland.
Associate Professor Anna Boucher
Anna Boucher (PhD, LSE) is an Associate Professor in Political Science and Chair of the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney as well as a practising solicitor. Her work covers comparative immigration data, immigration policy, diversity and immigration and labour exploitation. Her most recent book,Â Patterns of Exploitation: Migrant Worker Rights Violations in Advanced DemocraciesÂ (Oxford University Press: New York, 2023) explores migrant worker rights violations in four countries and six labour law jurisdictions over a twenty-year period. She is an advisor to the Australian, Canadian and British governments, alongside international agencies such as the ILO, OECD and World Bank on immigration and labour market issues.
Esty Marcu
Esty is the Director of the University of Sydney’s Modern Slavery Unit, where she leads the University’s strategic response to modern slavery and enables academic excellence on business and human rights. She also lectures at the Sydney Business School on shared value and inclusive business models. Esty is on the Advisory Panel for the NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner and the Board of Trustees for Electronics Watch, supporting public buyers to address human rights risks in the electronics industry. She has previously worked in both the Commonwealth and NSW state government advising on complex public policy issues, including temporary migration, refugee settlement, international development and health policy. She was the Co-founder and Director of Project Girl Code, a non-profit providing digital literacy and coding skills to trafficking survivors in Cambodia.
Moderator: Professor Simon Bronitt
Professor Simon Bronitt is the Head of School and Dean of Sydney Law School commencing July 2019. In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, Professor Bronitt has published widely on criminal justice topics ranging across terrorism law and human rights, comparative criminal law, covert policing, family violence, and mental health policing. Recent publications includeÂ Rape Law in ContextÂ (The Federation Press, 2018),Â Principles of Criminal LawÂ (4th ed, Thomson Reuters 2017) andÂ Law in ContextÂ (4th ed, The Federation Press, 2012).

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Friday 13 October
Time:Â 1-2.30pm
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10)
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School and the Modern Slavery Unit at the University of Sydney.

JSI Seminar | Contract law and reasons for action: A crash course in private law theory
2023-10-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar | Contract law and reasons for action: A crash course in private law theory
In-person event
If contract law is to be authoritative, it must mediate between the subjects of contract law and reasons for action they have. Either implicitly or explicitly, this insight informs various approaches to the theorisation of this law. Some have tried to understand contract law as mediating ordinary moral reasons relating to promising. Others have argued that this law embodies duties of private right, the sort of reasons that apply to us as independent individuals cooperating as equals. And there are others still who identify different sets of reasons for action special to the contractual relationship.
In my talk, I will identify the common flaw shared by these different theories. I will explain why focusing our attention on contract law as an exercise ofÂ politicalÂ authorityâ€”rather than authoritative in the abstractâ€”paves the way not only to a better understanding of the normative basis for contract but also the broad stakes involved in the making of contract law.
About the speaker:
Dr Arie Rosen
Arie Rosen is a legal theorist based at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law and a founding co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Legal and Political Theory. His work in legal and political philosophy focuses on political authority, the grounds for its exercise, the ideology that sustains it, and the impact it has on law and practical reasoning. His work appears in various edited volumes and leading journals, includingÂ Legal Theory, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the University of Toronto Law Journal, and theÂ Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. His current project focuses on how political authority is exercised in the context of private law and what this can teach us about constitutional structures and the core commitments of liberal political morality.
Thursday 19 October 2023, 6-7.30pm AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

Webinar | Children's Rights and Participation in Youth Justice Systems: An International Perspective
2023-10-25 19:00 - 20:30
Children’s Rights and Participation in Youth Justice Systems: An International Perspective
Join the Youth Justice Research Collaboration at the University of Sydney and the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University at this free webinar. It will provide an opportunity for academics and professionals to detail and discuss the upholding of children’s rights and participation in the English and Australian Youth Justice Systems. There will be plenty of opportunities for interactive discussions about the enablers and barriers to meaningful participation in youth justice systems. Youth justice systems have been the focus of considerable scrutiny and review in many jurisdictions in recent years and many of these systems are grappling with how to better involve young people in shaping these systems. Practitioners and academics from England and New South Wales will talk about their work and research. 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.
About the Speakers

Professor Hannah Smithson– ProfessorÂ of Criminology and Youth Justice, Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Dr Hannah Smithson has worked within the field of criminology for over 20 years and she specialises in the area of youth justice. Hannah is the Director of the world-leading Manchester Centre for Youth Studies. Hannah is co-convenor of the award-winning Greater Manchester Youth Justice Partnership – a partnership between Man Met and each of the 10 Greater Manchester youth justice services. The partnership has led to the creation of a transformative new framework: Participatory Youth Practice (PYP). PYP is the first framework to be co-created with justice-involved children based on their lived experiences. PYP has had an impact on youth justice practice, on national and international youth justice strategies, and, most importantly, on justice-involved children themselves. Hannah works collaboratively with a variety of local, national and international communities and stakeholders, including professionals, activists and third sector organisations. Her research has been instrumental in shaping agendas in research and policy across the interconnected areas of youth justice, serious youth violence and child criminal exploitation. She has written extensively on the problematic reductionism of SYV to involvement in gangs. Her most recent publications explore the benefits and challenges of participatory practice with justice-involved children. Her output can be found here.

Associate Professor Garner Clancey– The University of Sydney Law School, Australia
Dr Garner Clancey is an Associate Professor in Criminology. Before joining the University of Sydney Law School in 2011, Garner worked in criminal justice agencies (including Juvenile Justice NSW and the NSW Police Force) between 1992-2002 and worked as a crime prevention consultant between 2002-2010. Garner also taught crime prevention, policing, juvenile justice, security and criminology courses at five other Australian universities between 2000 and 2011. Garner’s work focuses on the intersection between research, policy and practice. Currently, Garner is working to develop a whole-of-university approach to youth justice and youth crime issues. Garner is working closely with industry partners and colleagues from across the University of Sydney to tackle various practical and systemic challenges impacting the youth justice system. This work has resulted in the establishment of the University of Sydney’sÂ Youth Justice Collaboration.
Garner is a member of various research centres including the Sydney Institute of Criminology, theÂ Matilda Centre, theÂ Technology Addiction Team (Brain and Mind Centre), and an affiliate of the Wellbeing Health and Youth Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health.
His most recent article considers long term positive trends in youth justice detention. He co-authored Crime Prevention: Principles, Perspectives, PracticesÂ which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Dr Lisa Ewenson– Research Associate, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW, Australia
Dr Lisa Ewenson is a social worker and lawyer who has worked for over 15 years in both the youth justice detention and immigration detention centre contexts. Lisa completed her doctoral thesis in 2022, which explores the lived experiences of youth justice detention in New South Wales, Australia, and is now a research associate at UNSW.Â Her thesis, Children Must be Heard When They Cannot be Seen, analysed youth justice detention in contemporary Australia considering external oversight mechanisms, children’s rights and the capabilities approach. Relevantly, her work published in the Australian Journal of Human Rights, outlines the legal background to monitoring requirements in youth justice detention and makes practical recommendations for monitoring bodies to be effective in protecting rights and preventing harm to people in detention. It can be accessed here.

Ms Annika Ross– Youth Justice NSW, Australia
Ms Annika Ross has spent her career supporting and engaging with young people at risk. Her university studies focused on grass roots programs for young people through community arts and recreation. This was strengthened through master’s studies in Social Science. Annika has spent the last 17 years working with young people who offend, both in NSW and the UK. Annika has worked for Youth Justice NSW since 2006, in various operational roles and has been most recently managing the Strategic Projects Unit. This role handles a diverse portfolio of policy and project work for the agency including leading the Child Safe Framework, the Disability Action Plan, The Domestic and Family Violence Strategy and diversity, inclusion and wellbeing work for staff and young people.
Mr Thomas Lang– Head of Services, Manchester Youth Justice, Children’s and Education Directorate, United Kingdom

About the Discussant

Ms Anne Longfield CBE
Ms Anne Longfield CBE is Chair of the Commission on Young Lives.
From March 2015 to February 2021, Anne was the Children’s Commissioner for England.
Anne has spent the last three decades working to improve the life chances of children, particularly the most vulnerable. She previously led a national children’s charity and has also worked on the delivery of the Sure Start programme in the Cabinet Office. Anne is a passionate champion for children, influencing and shaping the national debate and policy agenda for children and their families. She spent many years campaigning for better childcare, often at a time when many saw the issue as obscure or niche. As Children’s Commissioner, Anne spent six years championing the rights and interests of children with those in power who make decisions about children’s lives, acting as children’s â€˜eyes and ears’ in the corridors of power in Whitehall and Westminster. Anne is also Special Advisor to the Lords Public Services Committee on their inquiry into public services and vulnerable children and is the Independent Chair of the NHS Children and Young People Learning Disability and Autism Board.
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Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Cost: Free
Time:Â 7- 8.30pm AEST
Location:Â Online (please note, an in-person offering is not available)
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Capacity is extremely limited. If your availability changes, we ask that you promptly update your registration accordingly so we can allocate your space to another participant.

Contact
General enquiries may be directed to: law.events@sydney.edu.au
Research related enquiries may be directed to:Â garner.clancey@sydney.edu.au or h.l.smithson@mmu.ac.uk

Gratuitous Concurrence and the Role of the Prosecutor
2023-10-26 00:00
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Gratuitous Concurrence and the Role of the Prosecutor – Presenting a Fair and Firm Crown Case in the Face of Sociolinguistic Challenges

Ethics & Professional Responsibility
CPD Points: 1.5
About
A unique challenge faced in the adversarial system is that the prosecution only â€˜wins’ when justice is done. An agreeable witness may, prima facie, seem like a blessing for those bringing the prosecution case. However, the presentation of a fair and firm prosecution in the criminal justice system must be reconciled with three distinct considerations:

The over-representation of Indigenous Australians interacting with the criminal justice system;
The phenomena of gratuitous concurrence – that is, the Indigenous Australian cultural practice of agreeing to direct questions to placate or appease the questioner; and
A prosecutor’s obligation to act fairly to the accused, act with integrity, and be mindful of cultural sensitivities – especially those relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

How, then, are a prosecutor’s obligations discharged in the face of appeasement? The presentation aims to give an overview of the role of the prosecutor, as a minister of justice, and the distinct ethical framework the Crown operates in. From that overview, authorities which have developed and considered the phenomena of gratuitous concurrence are discussed. These decisions, and â€˜practical’ applications, are contrasted with research and analyses of the phenomena within academia. The synthesis of academia and common law development are considered in extant justice stakeholder and law reform bodies, and what recommendations have been made, and are on foot.
Presenters
Shannon Matchett is a solicitor employed by the NSW ODPP, who currently practises in Wagga Wagga. Previously, he prosecuted in Parramatta and the Sydney West Trial Courts. Shannon graduated from the University of New England in 2018 whilst employed as a researcher in criminology, focusing on Family Law and judicial interpretations of the â€˜best interests of the child’. Shannon’s major research interest concerns how psychology and the law intersect. He has previously presented CPDs on extra-curial punishment, tribal punishments (and their status/recognition within statutory framework) – and is working towards a later presentation on assessing demeanour/body language, and the perils of armchair psychology in the jury room.

A recording of this webinar will be released on Thursday, 26 October 2023.
Find out more about the series.

2023 ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address: Human rights, climate justice and the UN Acceleration Agenda
2023-10-31 18:00 - 19:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
2023 ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address: Human rights, climate justice and the UN Acceleration Agenda
In-person event
The United Nations Secretary-General’s Acceleration Agenda spells out the actions needed from government, business and finance leadersÂ to accelerate their efforts to deeply cut emissions and deliver climate justice to protect lives and livelihoods. In the context of climate justice and drawing from the 2019 report of the Task Force on Justice, the Address will focus on two key thematic issues: climate change displacement and climate change litigation. Based on Dr Fry’s recent reports to the Human Rights Council (June 2023) and the UN General Assembly (October 2023), it will begin by discussing climate change displacement and the absence of appropriate legal measures for people displaced across international borders due to climate change. The Address will then focus on climate change litigation and barriers to accessing justice for people defending their right to live in a world free from climate change impacts.
Speaker: Dr Ian FryÂ (Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change)

This event forms part of a full-day conference on climate action.Â For further information, click here.

RegistrationÂ

2023 ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address: $40
Student rate: $20

Tuesday 31 October 2023
Time:Â 5-7pm (Cocktail reception from 5-5.30pm)
Venue:Â Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)

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

Just Cause launch: Celebrating social justice at Sydney Law School
2023-11-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Just Cause launch: Celebrating social justice at Sydney Law School
In-person event
Join us to celebrate the launch of â€˜Just Cause,’ a podcast created by staff and students affiliated with the Sydney Law School Social Justice Advisory Group. Learn more about this exciting new project, and get a glimpse into the variety of informative episodes that feature in season one. If you are student seeking to becoming involved in social justice initiatives at USyd, an academic seeking to platform your social justice research, or just someone who enjoys podcasts, then come join us!
Speakers:

Professor Simon Rice
Dr Rachel Killean
Ms Juliette Marchant

Wednesday 1 November 2023, 5.30-7pmÂ AEST
Refreshments to follow panel.
Venue:Â New Law Building (F10), Level 4, Common Room, Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus

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

JSI Seminar | The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes
2023-11-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes
In-person event
Disputes over frozen embryos represent a particularly problematic case, legally and ethically, due to the ambiguity of their moral and legal status and the potential rights-claims which can be made with regard to them. Recent work has contextualised frozen embryos as liminal and suggested a contextual approach to their legal classification.
By appeal to personal property law, with a lens provided by Roman law doctrines, and reproductive bioethics, we argue that frozen embryos may be subjects of property rights, providing a more stable framework for dispute resolution. To illustrate how a property approach would work, we reconsider the facts of the influential Evans case and argue that if a proprietary rather than promissory estoppel claim had been pursued, the reverse outcome may have been reached, to the benefit of women who are disproportionately harmed in these scenarios.
About the speaker:
Teresa Baron
Teresa is a Nottingham Research Fellow working on reproductive ethics and philosophy of parenthood. She was previously a postdoc at the Czech Academy of Sciences, and a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
Thursday 2 November 2023, 6-7.30pm AEDT
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

Business, human rights and development: A case for course correction
2023-11-03 13:30 - 14:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Business, human rights and development: A case for course correction
In-person event
Businesses are expected to respect all human rights. However, there is little evidence that human rights abuses-linked to businesses are on the decline despite the evolution of plethora of standards. Businesses are also expected to contribute to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, as highlighted by the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023, the world is seriously offtrack to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and businesses have again not done enough to overcome global challenges such as poverty, inequalities, child labour, hunger or climate change.
What should businesses do differently in future? Building on his first thematic report (A/78/160) to the UN General Assembly as the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to development, Professor Deva will argue that a fundamental shift is required in the current role and place of business in society. There is a need to reorient the purpose of business, change irresponsible business models and go beyond the â€˜do no harm’ approach. By doing so, businesses will be able to make a meaningful contribution not only to achieving inclusive and sustainable development but also to building a human rights economy.

About the speaker
Surya Devais a Professor at the Macquarie Law School and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University. He is also the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development and a Co-Director of the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum. Deva is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of business and human rights. He served as a member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (2016-22). Deva has advised UN agencies, governments, national human rights institutions, multinational corporations, trade unions and civil society organisations on issues related to his expertise. He researches in the areas of business and human rights, comparative constitutional law, international human rights law, sustainable development, climate change, and gender equality. Deva is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal, and is an elected Vice President of the International Association of Constitutional Law (2022-26).

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Friday 3 November
Time: 1.30-2.30pm
Venue: Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10)
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This event is proudly co-presented by the ANZIL International Human Rights Law Interest Group (IHRLIG) & The University of Sydney Law School.

Book launch: Contempt
2023-11-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Supreme Court of NSW
Book launch: Contempt
In-person event
The University of Sydney Law School and The Federation Press are delighted to invite you to the launch ofÂ ContemptÂ by David Rolph.Â The book considers all forms of contempt, including civil contempt, sub judice contempt, contempt in the face of the court, scandalising the court and interference with the administration of justice as an ongoing process. It examines the difficult issue of the distinction between civil and criminal contempt. It considers not only contempt of superior courts of record but also examines the contempt powers of a range of inferior courts and tribunals. The book also analyses the procedure and penalties for contempt of court.
The book will be launched byÂ The Honourable Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW. The launch will be followed by a cocktail reception.
AboutÂ Contempt
Contempt of court is a vitally important part of the administration of justice. Being a summary jurisdiction, the law of contempt often needs to be applied swiftly and is not regularly the subject of appeal. There are many complexities and idiosyncrasies about the law of contempt, which have developed over centuries. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the Australian law of contempt of court. It provides a rigorous but accessible exposition of the fundamental principles of this somewhat arcane area of law.
The book considers all forms of contempt, including civil contempt, sub judice contempt, contempt in the face of the court, scandalising the court and interference with the administration of justice as an ongoing process. It examines the difficult issue of the distinction between civil and criminal contempt. It considers not only contempt of superior courts of record but also examines the contempt powers of a range of inferior courts and tribunals. The book also analyses the procedure and penalties for contempt of court.
The book will be available for purchase on the evening.
Find out more about the book and order it online here.
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Tuesday 7 November 2023
Time: 5.30-7pm (including a cocktail reception)
Venue: Banco Court, Supreme Court of New South Wales ,184 Phillip Street, Sydney
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About the author
David Rolph is a Professor at the University of Sydney Law School, specialising in media law. He is the author of two books, as well as many book chapters and journal articles, on all aspects of media law. From 2007 to 2013, Professor Rolph was the editor of theÂ Sydney Law Review, one of Australiaâ€™s leading law journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of theÂ Media and Arts Law Review, theÂ Communications Law Bulletin, Communications LawÂ and theÂ International Journal of the Semiotics of Law. Professor Rolph is also a regular columnist for theÂ Gazette of Law and JournalismÂ and a frequent media commentary on a range of media law issues.
This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School.
