Informers Up Close: Stories From Communist PragueIn-person event Informers are generally reviled. After all, ‘snitches get stitches’. Informers who report to repressive regimes are particularly disdained. While informers may themselves be victims enlisted by the state, their actions cause other individuals to suffer significant harm. Informers, then, are central to the proliferation of endemic human […]
How Canada Chose Exile: The decision to banish Japanese Canadians, 1946This event is proudly co-presented by the University of Sydney Law School and Discipline of History. In-person event As the end of the Second World War drew into view, federal officials in Canada faced a policy problem of their own creation. They had displaced over […]
How China governs Big Tech and regulates artificial intelligence In-person event China has long been recognized as a powerhouse in cultivating Big Tech firms that rival those in the United States. However, the Chinese government recently embarked on a massive regulatory crackdown, targeting its largest tech corporations such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Meituan. Â Many Western […]
Peace in the Ancient Near East: Insights into the world’s first attested peace treatyIn-person event This seminar gives some background to the first attested peace treaty in world history, between Ramses II of Egypt and Hattusili III of Hatti. This treaty survives in several copies, in two languages (Ancient Egyptian and Akkadian) and in two […]
Navigating China’s regulatory approach to generative artificial intelligenceIn-person event In-person event The rapid development and application of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems have raised growing concerns of their potential risks at a global level. In July 2023, Chinese regulators passed the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services (the Measures). The Measures target […]
Book launch: Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia An analysis of corruption in Indonesia’s courts. In-person event The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia by Professor Simon Butt, a revealing book that examines the deep-rooted issues in Indonesia’s judicial system. Tracing problems back to the […]
The Past, Present, and Future of the Palestine InvestigationIn-person event On May 20th, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan KC, announced that his Office had applied for arrest warrants against three senior Hamas leaders and two high-ranking Israeli government officials. This talk, which is based on Professor Kevin Jon Heller’s role as […]
Corruption and Investment Arbitration in Asia: New Frontiers In-person event This seminar hosted by the University of Sydney Law School will involve a local re-launch of a new book on Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration (Teramura, Nottage and Jetin eds, published in Open Access in Springer’s Asia in Transition series in April 2024) […]
The proliferation of Chinese surveillance tools overseas: sovereignty, resistance, and debtIn-person event The heightened public and scholarly attention to Africa-China relations is chiefly inspired by the growing trade, investment, and aid between Beijing and the Global South. More specifically, the research on digital surveillance in Africa focuses largely on the wide distribution of Chinese technology, […]
A new explanation of China’s patenting phenomenon with a focus on the patenting of traditional medical knowledgeIn-person event This seminar will present how Dr Ben Hopper’s thesis explains why people are getting patents over traditional medical knowledge in a way that differs from (and adds to) the usual explanations for China’s “patent boomâ€. These “usual […]
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Book launch | Research Methods in Private International Law: Educating the Next Generation of Conflicts LawyersOnline event Research Methods in Private International Law: A Handbook on Regulation, Research, and Teaching This incisive research handbook provides valuable insights into the various methodological approaches to Private International Law from regulatory and educational perspectives. It comprehensively unpacks central […]