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

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

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

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

Program Schedule

Title
Presenter
CPD area
Recording release date

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In-person event
Join us for this special â€˜in conversation’ event with University of Sydney Law School alumnae Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of NSW, and Nicole Abadee.
Her Excellency will reflect on her Law School experience, and successful career at the Bar and as a judge of both the Federal Court of Australia and the NSW Court of Appeal, during which time she served as a role model for women in law at both the State and national level. She will also discuss her current role as Governor of New South Wales and share her thoughts and advice for the next generation of lawyers.
The Distinguished Alumni Series is an occasional program of talks featuring eminent graduates of the Law School.
Speakers
Her Excellency Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of NSW
Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC is the 39th Governor of New South Wales.
Prior to her appointment as Governor, Her Excellency enjoyed a long and distinguished law career spanning 43 years, during which time she served as a role model for women in law at both the State and national level.
Appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1989, in 1993 she was made a judge of the Federal Court of Australia, the first woman to sit exclusively in that Court. In 1996, she achieved the distinction of being the first woman appointed to the New South Wales Court of Appeal and, subsequently, as the first woman to be appointed as its President. She served, on a number of occasions, as Administrator of the Government of the State of New South Wales.
She was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day Honours List on 26 January 2020 for “eminent service to the people of New South Wales, particularly through leadership roles in the judiciary, and as a mentor of young women lawyers”.
Her Excellency brings her deep commitment to education, youth leadership, human rights and social justice to the role in service of the people of New South Wales.
Nicole Abadee
Nicole Abadee is a University of Sydney alumna. After a 20-year career in the law, practising as a barrister at the New South Wales Bar and then teaching International Law, she moved into the literary world and now writes about books and other things for Good Weekend. Nicole was one of many extremely fortunate women barristers to be mentored by Her Excellency whilst at the NSW Bar.
Time: Wednesday 5 October, 6-7pm, followed by a cocktail reception

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Program Schedule

Title
Presenter
CPD area
Recording release date

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday 20 October, 4.30-6pm AEDT
This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.

CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Program Schedule

Title
Presenter
CPD area
Recording release date

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday 24 November 2022, 6-7.30pmÂ AEDT
This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.

CPD Points:Â 1.5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Program Schedule

Title
Presenter
CPD area
Recording release date

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Myths, Misconceptions and Mixed Messages: An Early Look at the New Tendency and Coincidence Evidence Provisions
2023-01-19 00:00
2022-23 Criminal Law CPD Series:
Myths, Misconceptions and Mixed Messages: An Early Look at the New Tendency and Coincidence Evidence Provisions
Substantive Law
CPD Points: 1.5
About
Following the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Uniform Evidence Law jurisdictions are implementing reforms to the tendency and coincidence evidence provisions. These reforms aim to relax the exclusionary rules so that the prosecution can more readily rely upon other allegations against the defendant and the defendant’s prior guilty pleas. The reforms purport to address the traditional misconception that such evidence would lack probative value unless the defendant’s other misconduct shares distinctive similarities with the charged offence. The reforms can be expected to increase the rate of successful prosecutions. However, these benefits are likely to be compromised by the reforms’ unnecessary complexity. Rather than improve understanding of the inferential value of other misconduct evidence, the reforms may sow confusion, wasting court resources, and creating associated costs for complainants, defendants, and other participants.
This seminar will follow the argument presented in Professor Hamer’s article of the same title, which appeared inÂ (2021) 45(4)Â Criminal Law JournalÂ 232.
Presenter
David HamerÂ is a Professor at the University of Sydney Law School. He 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. David’s 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.

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

CLICK HERE to register
This webinar will be released on 19 January 2023.

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

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

Program Schedule

Title
Presenter
CPD area
Recording release date

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Let's Talk About Corporations: A New Series of Boardroom Conversations 2023
2023-02-02 17:00 - 18:30 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Let’s Talk About Corporations: A New Series of Boardroom Conversations 2023
Hybrid Event
Launch Event
Join us as we launch â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’: A New Series of Boardroom Conversations 2023, featuring a keynote address byÂ Professor Rod Sims AOÂ (Crawford School of Public Police, Australian National University). This new seminar series is a collaboration between academics at the University of Sydney and the University of Queensland and will provide a unique forum for academia, industry, and regulatory agencies to come together to explore current trends in corporate accountability and regulation.
The seminar series will consider the myriad forms of modern corporate wrongdoing and investigate current trends in corporate accountability and regulation, such as the shift from individual to corporate responsibility, the emergence of hybrid civil penalties, and the growing focus on â€˜soft law’ and CSG/ESG norms in redefining corporate culture and practice. It will also identifies new and emerging regulatory mechanisms and strategies to prevent and remediate harms caused by corporations. The seminars and workshops in the series will provide a forum to explore these trends and challenge perspectives in a closed invitation-only format by leading academics, practitioners and policy makers. Through this dialogue – bringing together principled and pragmatic perspectives – the series aims to inform research, share insights, and promote better informed public policy and debate about how we understand the nature of responsive regulation of the â€˜body corporate’ in the early decades of the 21st century.
We look forward to welcoming you to the launch, and to your continued involvement in the seminar series throughout 2023.
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Thursday 2 February, 2023
Time:Â 5-6.30pm (Keynote address from 5-5.45pm, followed by a cocktail reception)
Venue:Â New Law Building (F10), Law Lounge, Level 1, University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus)
This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.
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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.

Advocacy in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal
2023-02-09 00:00
2022-23 Criminal Law CPD Series:
Advocacy in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal
Professional Skills
CPD Points: 1.5
About
Appearing in the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal can be an intimidating prospect. Seeking leave, applications brought out of time, questions of law, questions of fact, mixed questions: senior criminal law barristerÂ JohnÂ StrattonÂ SC will consider these issues and offer best-practice tips developed over the course of his career. Mr Stratton will speak about topics like the length of oral submissions, preparing written submissions,Â how to address a bench comprising three judges of the Supreme Court of NSW, and briefing counsel in Court of Criminal Appeal appeals.Â This presentation will assist legal practitioners considering a career at the NSW Bar, barristers working towards a career in appellate jurisdictions, and solicitors who brief barristers.
Presenter
John StrattonÂ was admitted as a solicitor in 1981. He worked at Legal Aid and for a number of private firms. In 1991 he was admitted as a barrister. During his time at the Bar, he has mainly practised in criminal jury trials and appeals to the Court of Criminal Appeal. In 1997 he was appointed a Public Defender. In 2003 he was appointed Senior Counsel. In 2005 he was appointed Deputy Senior Public Defender. He returned to the private Bar in 2013.

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

CLICK HERE to register
This webinar will be released on 9 February 2023.

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

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

Program Schedule

Title
Presenter
CPD area
Recording release date

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Federal Environmental Law reform: past lessons, priority reforms, future challenges
2023-02-14 08:30 - 17:00
Federal Environmental Law reform: past lessons, priority reforms, future challenges
The Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law at Sydney Law School invites you to its â€˜Environmental Law Year in Review Conference’ on Tuesday, 14 February 2023.
In 2022, the new Federal Government declared â€˜the environment is back’ and took office with an ambitious reform agenda for federal environmental frameworks and climate action. In the face of alarming declines in the state of the Australian environment, government reform priorities have focused on climate change, the environment and biodiversity. Starting with the Climate Act 2022, critical reforms currently underway include improving the integrity of Australian Carbon Credit Units, responding to the 2020 Samuel Review of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act 1999 through the Government’s Nature Positive Plan and co-developing a standalone federal cultural heritage law.
This event will bring together academics, practitioners, members of the NGO sector, government officials and students to hear about the implications of these â€˜once in a generation’ developments in climate and environmental law. Keynote speakers and panellists will discuss the key shortcomings in existing federal legislation, the content of reforms and key challenges for Australian governments in implementing these programs successfully.
Topics will include:Â

Reforms to the EPBC Act
Emissions reduction legislation and the energy transition
First Nations cultural heritage
COP 15, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure and national offsets.

Registration:

Full day in-person attendance: $80 (inc. GST)
University of Sydney students (full day attendance): FreeÂ (Students will need to provide proof of student status at registration. Any registrations that do not provide valid proof, will be cancelled)

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14 February 2023
Time: 8.30am-5pm
Venue: New Law Building (F10), Level 1, Law Lounge, University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus
CPD Points:Â 6
Click here to view the program.Â
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This event is hosted by theÂ Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental LawÂ (ACCEL) at Sydney Law School.

Works-in-Progress Conference
2023-02-16 13:00 - 16:30 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
Works-in-Progress Conference
Hybrid Event
Works-in-Progress Event
On Thursday, 16 February, the Sydney Centre for International Law hosts its first-ever works-in-progress conference in association with its annual International Year in Review conference.Â This hybrid afternoon event features authors from around the world workshopping papers dealing with the situation in Ukraine and interstate dispute settlement (ISDS), two topics that are discussed at the International Year in Review conference.
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Thursday 16 February 2023, 1-4.30pm AEDT
Click here to the program.Â (Last updated 8/02/2023)
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Attendees should contact Prof. Stacie Strong (stacie.strong@sydney.edu.au) to obtain copies of the papers under discussion.
This event is hosted by theÂ Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

2023 George Winterton Memorial Lecture
2023-02-17 17:30 - 18:45 | Supreme Court of NSW
2023 George Winterton Memorial Lecture: Judicial review of legislative and executive action – acceptance and resentment – lessons from a comparative perspective.
Speaker:Â The Honourable Susan Kiefel AC, Chief Justice of Australia

In-person event
The George Winterton Memorial Lecture was established to commemorate the outstanding and lasting contribution of Professor George Winterton to constitutional law scholarship and teaching.
About the Lecture
The 2023 Winterton Lecture examines the reaction to recent decisions of the courts of the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Australia in controversial matters from the governments of the day and politicians. Historically, there has been a general acceptance of the need for judicial review and the role of the courts in undertaking it. It enquires whether there is evident change in the acceptance of the decisions of the courts as authoritative and whether there may be other impacts on the courts. Immediately following the Lecture, there will be a reception in the Foyer of the Banco Court at which the 5th edition of Winterton’s Australian Federal Constitutional Law will be launched by the Hon A S Bell, Chief Justice of New South Wales.
About the Speaker
Susan Mary Kiefel ACÂ was appointed Chief Justice of Australia on 30 June 2017. Her Honour was educated in Queensland and received an LLM from the University of Cambridge. She became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Queensland in 1993 and of the Federal Court in 1994. She has served as part-time Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission (2003-2007) and held a commission as Justice of the Supreme Court of Norfolk Island from 2004.
She is an Honorary Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge; a Doctor of the University of Griffith University; an LLD (honoris causa) from the Universities of Queensland and Adelaide; an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn; an Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Hong Kong, and a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. In 2011, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia.
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Date: Friday 17 February 2023
Time: 5.30-6.45pm AEDT (Registration from 5pm, cocktail reception to follow lecture at 6.45pm together with the launch of the 5th Edition of Winterton’s Australia Federal Constitutional Law.)
Venue: Banco Court, Supreme Court of New South WalesÂ ,184 Phillip Street, Sydney.
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George Winterton Memorial Fund
Friends and colleagues of the late Professor George Winterton are invited to make a gift to the Memorial Fund named in his honour. Gifts to the Fund will support activities at Sydney Law School in the area of Constitutional Law in memory of Professor Winterton and the continuation of his work. For further information or to make your gift, please contactÂ Professor Peter Gerangelos, Convenor of the Winterton Memorial Fund and Winterton Lecture Series onÂ peter.gerangelos@sydney.edu.au.

This lecture is proudly hosted by The University of Sydney Law School and The University of Western Australia Law School.

The Living Law of Wikipedia
2023-02-21 12:30 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
The Living Law of Wikipedia
In-person event

Wikipedia offers (yet) another example of a scheme of ‘private ordering’, regulation and governance that works largely outside of state law. Its institutions and procedures show strong resemblances to those found in legal systems generally. Â But what may distinguish Wikipedia ( or what some Wikipedians claim does so) is the frequent discursive insistence on the risks of taking rules seriously and the dangers of what they call ‘Wikilawering’.
In this talk, Professor Nelken will seek to explore why this is so and what it means in actual practice, also with reference to a various ‘trouble cases’ as illustrations.
About the speaker:
David Nelken is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Law, and former Head of Research, at the Dickson Poon Law School, King’s College, London.Â Professor Nelken’s research focuses on theoretical enquiry and empirical investigation in the areas of comparative sociology of law, criminology, and legal and social theory.Â HeÂ taught law at Cambridge, Edinburgh and University College, London, from 1976-1989 before moving to Italy in 1990 as Distinguished Professor of Legal Institutions and Social Change at the University of Macerata. From 1995 to 2013 he was also Distinguished Research Professor of Law at Cardiff University, and from 2010 to 2014 Visiting Professor of Criminology at Oxford University. He is also a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences. On the editorial board of numerous journals, he is also a member of the Independent Board of the SCOPUS (Elsevier) Database of peer-reviewed literature, where he is responsible for evaluating all law journals worldwide. He was a Panel member of Scottish Children’s Hearings juvenile justice system 1979-1983, aÂ memberÂ of Italian Regional Crime committees in the 1990’s and, amongst many visiting appointments, was the Global Law professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, for 2014.

Tuesday 21 February 2023
Time: 1-2pm AEDTÂ (Light lunch from 12.30pm)
Venue: New Law Building (F10), Level 4, Common Room, University of Sydney (Camperdown campus)
CPD Points: 1

This event is proudly hosted byÂ The University of Sydney Law School.Â

LGBTQ organising in the new protest environment - book launch and panel discussion
2023-02-28 18:00 - 19:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Book launch and panel discussion: LGBTQ organising in the new protest environment
In-person event
The use of public space for recreation and protest remains hotly contested, as reactions to anti-protest legislation in NSW and other Australian jurisdictions show. 2023 marks a decade since a case of police excessive force at the 2013 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras went viral on YouTube. That case marked a watershed moment in police-LGBTQ community relations in NSW, and was part of a global awakening about the power of bystander video distributed through social media.
Dr Justin Ellis’ 2021 monograph Policing Legitimacy: Social media, scandal and sexual citizenship critically engages with that case and considers the relationship between digital media, LGBTQ identity-based rights claims and police accountability. This book launch and panel discussion provides a timely opportunity to consider how LGBTQ individuals and communities will organise in the face of increased penalties for peaceful public protest in NSW, and unease about police use of platform biometrics and related issues of privacy and consent. The launch of Dr Ellis’ monograph will be followed by a discussion on these issues chaired by Institute of Criminology co-director Dr Carolyn McKay, and between Professor Kane Race, Dr Justin Ellis and Mr Josh Pallas – president of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties. Please join us for this timely and important discussion.
About the author
Dr Justin Ellis is a senior lecturer in criminology at the Newcastle Law School and the editor-in-chief of Current Issues in Criminal Justice, the journal of the Institute of Criminology at the Sydney Law School. His research examines the relationship between digital media technologies, institutional trust and politically vulnerable populations, LGBTQ in particular. His scholarship on these issues is regularly published in high-ranking internationally peer-reviewed journals and in media commentary.
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Tuesday 28 February 2023, 6pm (AEDT)
Venue:Â University of Sydney, Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
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This event is presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at Sydney Law School.

Gender persecution: New frontiers in international criminal law
2023-03-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Gender persecution: New frontiers in international criminal law
In-person event

The Sydney Centre for International Law warmly invites Sydney Law School staff, students and external guests to this conversation on the crime against humanity of â€˜gender persecution’, which is currently being prosecuted for the first time in the International Criminal Court.
This event is free of charge, but registration is required.
Speakers:
Lisa Davis, Special Advisor on Gender Persecution to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor and Associate Professor at The City University of New York (CUNY) Law School
in conversation with
Rosemary Grey, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law

Wednesday 1 March 2023
Time: 1-2pm AEDT
Venue: University of Sydney, Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building Annex (F10A), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD Points: 1

This event is proudly hosted by theÂ Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

Beyond Punishment Seminar: Transforming rehabilitation through digital technology
2023-03-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Beyond Punishment Seminar: Transforming rehabilitation through digital technology
In-person event

Institutions of criminal justice are not isolated from broader trends in society – and developments in the application of technologies in prisons have made it important to reconsider the role of digital technologies in rehabilitation.
What is the role of digital technologies in the context of the rehabilitative aim of prisons? What ought it to be? How is this role likely to develop in the future? And what challenges need to be borne in mind when answering these questions?
These issues will be the focus of the Beyond Punishment Seminar: Transforming Rehabilitation Through Digital Technology, which is hosted by the Sydney Institute of Criminology in conjunction with Corrective Services NSW at the Sydney Law School.
A good first step is to assess the current state of play regarding potentially rehabilitative technologies in prisons. The seminar will examine the roll-out of android tablet devices in NSW prisons and the impacts on family visits, health services and education of people in prison, especially since the Covid-19 prison lockdowns, and it will also examine how the devices can be used to deliver effective programs of rehabilitation.
How are tablet devices employed in prison? Do they lead to greater participation in rehabilitation or mean that people in prison socially withdraw? Can android devices address reintegration back into society and minimise issues of digital illiteracy? Is this an initiative that can ultimately decrease re-offending rates?
Technologies are never politically neutral and often raise ethical issues that need to be considered, particularly in the context of criminal justice’s rehabilitative aims and this seminar will aim to consider these ethical issues and to try to answer some of the questions raised above.

Our panel will be moderated by:
Dr Carolyn McKay, Sydney Institute of Criminology, Co-Director
Carolyn is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney Law School where she teaches Criminal Law, Civil & Criminal Procedure and Digital Criminology. She is Co-Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology. Carolyn is recognised for her research into technologies in justice, specifically her empirical research into prisoners’ experiences of accessing justice from a custodial situation by audio visual links, published in her monograph, â€˜The Pixelated Prisoner: Prison video links, court â€˜appearance’ and the justice matrix‘ (2018).
Panel Members:
Luke Grant, Deputy Commissioner, Corrections Strategy and Governance, Corrective Services NSW
Luke joined Corrective Services NSW in the 1991 and held a number of executive positions prior to his appointment as Assistant Commissioner Inmate Management in 2000. He has worked at the coalface in the areas of inmate classification, offender rehabilitation programs and services and inmate education. Luke was appointed to the role of Deputy Commissioner Corrections Strategy and Policy in 2020 and Deputy Commissioner of Strategy and Governance in 2022. In this role Mr Grant leads the development of Corrective Services strategy, policies, and practice as well as overseeing the interaction with partner organisations and service providers.
Renee Van Aaken, Acting Director – Reducing Recidivism (Premiers Priority) at Department of Communities and Justice
Renee is an experienced leader in the Criminal Justice sector, with extensive and diverse experience including being operational in prisons, senior management, and strategic areas. Renee is passionate about making a difference, for people impacted by the criminal justice system and those working within what is a very challenging environment. She is driven to implement change effectively and is currently focused on several projects supporting the Premier’s Priority to Reduce Recidivism. A new and exciting area interest for Renee is Correctional Technology, leading the development and implementation of a business case for a $40m program to transform prisoner rehabilitation through technology in CSNSW.
Steven Van De Steene,Â Smart Corrections
Steven is an Enterprise Architect specialised in technology in corrections. He works as a consultant in innovation and digital strategies for prisons and probation services. He is also active as a researcher, affiliated to the Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and as board member of the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) he is the liaison for the technology solutions network within the association. Steven is actively promoting more research in this field and works closely together with universities across the globe to enhance our knowledge on the opportunities as well as the risks and ethical questions related to the use of technology in corrections.
Professor Mark Halsey, Flinders University
Mark is a Professor of Criminology at Flinders University, South Australia. He has a long-standing interest in the intended and unintended consequences of incarceration as well as the conditions which facilitate and impede desistance from crime. Mark’s books include Young Offenders (Palgrave), Tackling Correctional Corruption (Springer), Generations Through Prison (Routledge) and Power and Pain in the Modern Prison (Oxford).

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Thursday 2 March 2023, 6-8pm, followed by a cocktail reception
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Watch the event recording here.
This event is presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology in conjunction with Corrective Services NSW at the Sydney Law School.

Conflict-of-norms in the information society: national security and cross-border data flow
2023-03-03 11:00 - 12:00
Conflict-of-norms in the information society: national security and cross-border data flow
Online event
National security has increasingly become a concern for cross-border data flow. In this panel discussion, we will survey the conflicts and potential collaboration between protecting national security and enhancing digital trade. Our distinguished panel will cover relevant laws and practices in big (the US and China), medium (the UK), and small (Vietnam and Taiwan) jurisdictions.
Speakers

Professor Anupam ChanderÂ (Professor, Georgetown University)

Trump v. TikTok:Â How a Chinese big tech platform defeated the President of the United States, and why that’s important for free expression
When then-President Donald Trump sought to ban TikTok, ostensibly because of its Chinese roots, US courts came to TikTok’s rescue. Rather than deferring to the president’s claims of a national security emergency justifying the ban, courts held that the president lacked statutory authority to ban TikTok. This talk will explain why, and what was at stake in this struggle.

Ms. Nguyen Ha (Visiting Scholar Harvard University, Research & Teaching Associate Monash University)

Conflicting cybersecurity norms in Vietnam: the borrowing of local actors
As scholars grapple with the complexity of international cybersecurity, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam offers a surprisingly rich snapshot of cybersecurity norms in the global arena. This talk discusses the Vietnamese cybersecurity regime that has been shaped by local actors, who borrowed conflicting cybersecurity norms from international laws and trade agreements.

Dr. Phoebe LiÂ (Reader, Sussex University)

How national security is shaping digital sovereignty: the cases of middle power countries
Economic security has been a main driver for countries to develop digital and data sovereignty in order to protection national security. This talk will discuss the comparative efforts of the UK government in developing an AI strategy after leaving the EU and how the Taiwanese National Security Law has been strengthened by the recent law reform in trade secrets protection.

Moderators/commentators
â€¢Â Dr.Â Han-Wei LiuÂ (Senior Lecturer, Monash University)
â€¢Â Dr. Jie (Jeanne) HuangÂ (Associate Professor Sydney University, Visiting Scholar Harvard University)

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Friday 3 March, 11am-12pm AEDT (Thursday 2 March, 7-8pm EST)
This event is being heldÂ online.Â
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This event is presented by the Sydney Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney and Private International Law, Monash University, and Law & Technology interest groups of the American Society of International Law.

Development of the Common Law by Analogy to Statute
2023-03-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Development of the common law by analogy to statute
In-person event
In recent decades the importance of statute within Australian law has increased enormously. Legislation has proliferated in size, number and scope; and many of these statutes contain underlying policies, values and ideas which the common law is capable of taking cognisance of. This gives rise to the question addressed by Adam Waldman and Michael Gvozdenovic in this face-to-face presentation: can the common law develop by analogy to statute?
Part I of the presentation will consider how attitudes across the common law world have shifted towards recognising a stronger interrelationship between statute and the common law. This has paved the way for the recognition of analogical reasoning to statute in Australia.
Part II will examine the High Court’s jurisprudence on this form of judicial reasoning. It will closely examine the authorities that have explicitly discussed it, which appear to have left the legitimacy of such reasoning open. It will then identify numerous High Court cases which have developed the common law by analogy to statute, albeit often without explicitly recognising that they are doing so. Considered together, these cases demonstrate that such reasoning must be legitimate in Australia.
Part III will then compare this Australian jurisprudence to that of the United States, which is the jurisdiction in which such reasoning was first pioneered. It will consider whether the American jurisprudence supports the legitimacy of this reasoning, and what lessons might be drawn from it.
Speakers
Adam Waldman, Colin Phegan Associate Lecturer, Sydney Law School
Michael Gvozdenovic, Herbert Smith Freehills and Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School
Commentator
Hon Justice Mark Leeming, New South Wales Court of Appeal, Challis Lecturer in Equity, Sydney Law School
Chair
Dr Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School
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Monday 6 March, 2023
Time:Â 6-7pm
Venue: The University of Sydney, Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD Points:Â 1
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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This event is proudly presented by theÂ Ross Parsons CentreÂ at Sydney Law School.
