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SUMMARY:The Past\, Present\, and Future of the Palestine Investigation
DESCRIPTION:The Past\, Present\, and Future of the Palestine Investigation\nIn-person event\n \nOn 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 Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor\, will discuss the past\, present\, and future of the investigation in Palestine. He will explain what a Special Adviser does\, provide a history of the Palestine investigation\, discuss the arrest-warrant applications\, and offer a few thoughts for what the future might hold for the warrants and the investigation more generally. \nAbout the author:\nKevin Jon Heller is Professor of International Law and Security at the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Military Studies and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. He is an Academic Member of Doughty Street Chambers in London and currently serves as Special Advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on War Crimes. \nProf. Heller’s books include The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law (OUP\, 2011) and four co-edited volumes: The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (Stanford\, 2010)\, The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials (OUP\, 2013)\, the Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law (OUP\, 2018)\, and Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories (OUP\, 2021). He is currently co-writing a book with Samuel Moyn (Yale) provisionally entitled The Vietnam War and International Law. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the international-law blog Opinio Juris\, where he has blogged for more than 17 years. \nProf. Heller has been involved in the practice of international law throughout his career\, most notably acting as one of Radovan Karadzic’s formally-appointed legal associates at the ICTY; serving as the plaintiffs’ sole expert witness in Salim v Mitchell\, a successful Alien Tort Statute case against the psychologists who designed and administered the CIA’s torture program; functioning as UNITAD’s Special Expert for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law; and acting as legal advisor to and expert witness for Ramzi bin al-Shibh\, one of the defendants in the 9/11 trial at Guantanamo Bay. \n  \nWednesday 17 July\, 1-2pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1 \nThis event is proudly presented by the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney Law School
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-palestine-investigation/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Interdisciplinary,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law,Lunchtime Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Corruption and Investment Arbitration in Asia: New Frontiers
DESCRIPTION:Corruption and Investment Arbitration in Asia: New Frontiers\nIn-person event \n\n\nThis 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) and discussion of some new research. \nParticipants include: \n\nOpening: Professor Simon Bronitt (University of Sydney)\nChair and re-launch: Hon Wayne Martin AC KC (Francis Burt Chambers\, former Chief Justice of Western Australia)\nBook overview and key findings: Assistant Professor Nobumichi Teramura (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)\nNew pan-Asian empirical study: Professor Luke Nottage (University of Sydney)\, with Teramura\nChina focus: Professor Vivienne Bath and Dr Tianqi Gu (University of Sydney)\nIndonesia focus: Professor Simon Butt (University of Sydney) and Antony Crockett\, Herbert Smith Freehills (Hong Kong).\nCommentator: Dr Amokura Kawharu (President\, New Zealand Law Commission)\n\nClick here for more information. \n\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThursday 1 August 2024\nTime: 5-7pm (including a cocktail reception) \nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Law Lounge\, level 1\, New Law Building (F10A)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus  \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \n\n\nThis event is presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney Law School and the Australian Network for Japanese Law.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/corruption-and-investment-arbitration-in-asia-new-frontiers/
LOCATION:New Law Building (F10)
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law
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SUMMARY:The proliferation of Chinese surveillance tools overseas: sovereignty\, resistance\, and debt
DESCRIPTION:The proliferation of Chinese surveillance tools overseas: sovereignty\, resistance\, and debt\nIn-person event \n\n\nThe 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\, drawing attention to the fact that regime type is a poor predictor of the purchase and use of that technology. \nQuestions concerning how digital technologies work\, their high local demand\, and how they alter or do not alter state capacity have received far less study. More importantly\, though\, the literature that has already been written ignores an important paradox: if increased digital surveillance is wanted to support government authority because of its ability to police and administer\, it may also work against state sovereignty. \nIn the latter regard\, digital surveillance tools are embedded within processes that result in the privatization of the state. The outsourcing of its functions to Chinese tech giants\, like Huawei\, has transformed the government\, done within the context of a supposedly weak African state that seeks to ameliorate its inefficiencies\, in part\, into a holding company in the business of franchising out many operations\, including police services\, and hence much of its sovereignty. This is all done within the context of supposedly weak postcolonial states that seek to improve their states’ practical and technical inefficiencies. \nIn this presentation\, we explore how postcolonial states seek to use scientific knowledge and technology to scale state capacities. Accordingly\, it interrogates claims around China’s growing technological footprint\, the role of those technologies in emergent forms of state-corporate venture\, the nature of African developmental states\, and challenges to local data privacy. \nThis is the first event in the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law HDR/ECR series. \nAbout the speaker\nBulelani Jili is a Meta Research PhD fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include ICT development\, Africa-China relations\, cybersecurity\, post-colonial thought\, and privacy law. He is also a visiting fellow at Yale Law School\, a cybersecurity fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School\, a scholar-in-residence at the Electronic Privacy Information Center\, a visiting fellow at Hong Kong University Law\, a fellow at the Atlantic Council\, and a research associate at Oxford University. \nCommentator: Jose-Miguel Bello Villarino\, Sydney Law School \nModerator: Jie (Jeanne) Huang\, Sydney Law School \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThursday 8 August\, 2024\nTime: 11.30-12.30pm \nVenue: Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nCPD Points = 1 point \nThis event is co-sponsored by the China Studies Centre and the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law. \n\n\n 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/the-proliferation-of-chinese-surveillance-tools-overseas-sovereignty-resistance-and-debt/
LOCATION:Law Lounge\, Level 1
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240902T010000
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SUMMARY:A new explanation of China's patenting phenomenon with a focus on the patenting of traditional medical knowledge
DESCRIPTION:A new explanation of China’s patenting phenomenon with a focus on the patenting of traditional medical knowledge\nIn-person event \n\n\nThis 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 boom”. These “usual (explanatory) suspects” are based on State interference (patenting subsidies\, etc.)\, level of innovation and level of human capital. It will draw on his original fieldwork data comprising a survey of the approaches to patenting of 53 mostly ethnic minority traditional medical practitioners in China’s southwestern\, relatively poor and isolated province of Guizhou. The analysis of those data involved a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods. The seminar will conclude that a key (and\, thus far\, missing) ingredient in explaining patenting activity in China is the individual’s extent of marketisation\, with more marketised individuals having a statistically significant higher propensity to get patents and to obey patent laws. \n\nThis event is part of the PhD/ECR presentation series hosted by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law. \n\nAbout the speaker\nDr Ben Hopper is a lecturer at Melbourne Law School. He teaches and researches in the areas of intellectual property\, traditional knowledge\, technology law\, civil procedure\, and legal ethics. He examines doctrinal developments in these areas of law\, with a focus on intellectual property law. His research uses empirical methods to illuminate the “living law”\, including people’s lived experiences of the law\, and legal subjectivity. He draws on both legal theory and broader social theory to explain the results of his empirical research. \nBen’s current research focus is China\, the locus of his PhD on patenting of traditional knowledge\, and where he has completed projects on geographical indications in the tea industry and internal migration in Xinjiang. He has a J.D.\, B.A. (Hons)\, and D-Lang (German) from the University of Melbourne\, and an LL.M. from Harvard University. \nCommentator: Dr Olugbenga Olatunji (University of Sydney Law School) \n————————————————– \nMonday 2 September\, 2024\nTime: 1-2pm \nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1 point \n————————————————— \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the Ross Parsons Centre.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/a-new-explanation-of-chinas-patenting-phenomenon-with-a-focus-on-the-patenting-of-traditional-medical-knowledge/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240913T120000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED A new era" of Chinese law: The theoretical origins of Xi Jinping Legal Thought
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URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-a-new-era-of-chinese-law-the-theoretical-origins-of-xi-jinping-legal-thought/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240923T180000
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SUMMARY:Book launch | Research Methods in Private International Law: Educating the Next Generation of Conflicts Lawyers
DESCRIPTION:Book launch | Research Methods in Private International Law: Educating the Next Generation of Conflicts LawyersOnline event\n\n\n\n\n\nResearch Methods in Private International Law: A Handbook on Regulation\, Research\, and Teaching\n\nThis incisive research handbook provides valuable insights into the various methodological approaches to Private International Law from regulatory and educational perspectives. It comprehensively unpacks central themes in the field including international jurisdiction\, recognition and enforcement\, and scrupulously analyses core debates whilst addressing legislative and policy issues.\n\nIn collaboration with the editors Xandra Kramer (Erasmus School of Law/Utrecht University) and Laura Carballo Piñeiro (University of Vigo)\, this online book launch will feature contributions from eminent speakers\, focusing on global insights in teaching Private International Law.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and discussion topics\n\n\nLaura Carballo Piñeiro/Xandra Kramer\n\nMethods in private international law are not only important for the purpose of regulation and research\, but also for societal and educational purposes. To continue developing and fulfil its regulatory and societal functions\, private international law requires the nurturing of strong scholarship and thus research on creating a suitable learning environment for it to be diversified. Highlighting perspectives from university teaching in different countries\, laypersons\, colonialism\, and feminism enriches the development of private international law and increases awareness of its role as a global governance tool.\n\nVeronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm\n\nPrivate international law matters for everybody. Why then is it perceived to be so marginal? We identify three distorted perceptions: irrelevance\, impenetrability\, and indifference. Private international law is considered to be irrelevant\, because relevant decisions are taken in substantive law. It is considered impenetrable because many of its doctrines appear strange and general intuition offers little guidance towards the correct solution. And it seems indifferent to questions of values and questions of political economy. We address each of these perceptions in turn. We demonstrate that private international law\, far from being irrelevant\, is an indispensable part of private law. Whoever wants to make full use of private law must think of private international law as well. We suggest that private international law can seem impenetrable because it requires a whole different way of thinking: thinking between legal orders. Lawyers and non-lawyers alike are used to thinking within one order that is relatively coherent. That thinking is of little help in resolving issues that take place in-between such coherent orders. And we describe what we view as the ethical minimum of private international law: responsivity\, cultural humility\, and intercultural competence. These attitudes\, which are not confined to the law\, raise the possibility that private international law could teach something of relevance to everyone beyond its own disciplinary boundaries. Putting these insights in practice can\, we hope\, be transformative towards Private International Law for Everyone.\n\nRamani Garimella\n\nThe human catastrophe witnessed in Bhopal\, India\, remains pertinent for the domain of private international law. The US court ruled against the forum’s jurisdiction as being forum non conveniens and return it for the jurisdiction of India’s courts. Adherence to a formalist/positivist approach that believed in the public-private distinction allowed the court to avoid a discussion on the immense public interests that were involved in the suit. Such approach dwarfed the nature and magnitude of loss for the victims and demonstrated how far the ideas of territoriality and jurisdiction moved away from the notion of ‘unified international law’. The author suggests revisiting this distinction from a methodological perspective – historicity – to understand the reasons for the survival of this distinction\, especially in the third world countries as a vestige of the colonial law. This research\, exemplifying through India\, explores the zealous adherence to the colonial law on the rules of private international law including the methodology of the domain\, and the absence of any significant local contribution to the domain. The research argues that the distinction emerged as an expression of the positivist international law (often non-representative/non-participative) that had helped further the legitimation of colonialism. The research suggests a historicity-based methodology for identifying the domain’s content so as to ensure a justice-centric regime that takes note of the rights of the victims of human error.\n\nChukwama Okoli/Abubakri Yekini\n\nMany African countries aim to capitalise on globalization to enhance cross-border trade and commerce. This necessitates an effective private international law framework to resolve frictions that inherent in cross-border transactions. While scholarly work often focuses on PIL’s role in facilitating cross-border trade\, the teaching of PIL and the preparedness of budding lawyers to tackle modern issues have been largely overlooked. This chapter addresses this gap by examining the effectiveness of PIL education in Nigeria. Through empirical research involving questionnaires administered to 75 undergraduate students from seven universities\, the study provides insights into the current curriculum and teaching methodologies. The findings suggest that existing approaches are inadequate for producing transnational lawyers equipped with the necessary hands-on skills. The paper recommends a multi-method teaching approach\, with a strong emphasis on clinical education and comparative law.\n\nAukje van Hoek\n\nAn inventory of (online) course descriptions of courses in private international law at different European universities show a diversity in approaches to teaching PIL. Which choices are made when developing a specific course\, will depend on the staff teaching the course and the wider ‘Umfeld’ in which the course is situated. Three approaches will be discussed and put in context.\n\nModerator: Dr. Jie (Jeanne) Huang\, Co-chair of ASIL PIL Interest Group and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the book\nResearch Methods in Private International Law- A Handbook on Regulation\, Research and Teaching\n\nEdited by Xandra Kramer\, Professor of Private Law\, Erasmus School of Law\, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor of Private International Law\, Utrecht University\, the Netherlands and Laura Carballo Piñeiro\, Professor of Private International Law\, Universidade de Vigo\, Spain.\n\n\n\n\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\nMonday 23 September 2024\nTime: 6pm-7.30pm AEST  \nYou will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar. \nCPD points = 1.5\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\n\n\n\nThis event is jointly presented by the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group and the University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/book-launch-research-methods-in-private-international-law-educating-the-next-generation-of-conflicts-lawyers/
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law
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