Transnational Online Legal Education Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic Online event This webinar discusses how online (university or other) legal education interacts with each jurisdiction’s legal profession, university system, and ICT infrastructure, as well as how online legal education has developed both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, comparing several jurisdictions beyond the Asia-Pacific […]
Exhibition launch: Iconic: The Use and Misuse of the Red Cross Emblem Professor Robert McLaughlin (ANU) will formally launch the exhibition, created by Associate Professor Emily Crawford (Sydney Law School.) The Red Cross is one of the most identifiable icons of all time – since its adoption in the 19th century, the Red Cross emblem […]
Symposium: “Global Sports Law: Hot Topics in Australia and Japanâ€This symposium is part of Japanaroo, a week-long series of events that is part of an initiative to promote exchange and collaboration between Australia and Japan. This informal panel brings together experts and practitioners in sports law and governance from Japan and Australia, two countries at the […]
Book launch: Gender and International Criminal LawSydney Centre for International Law is excited to host a panel on the new book ‘Gender and International Criminal Law’ (Oxford University Press 2022), edited by Indira Rosenthal, Valerie Oosterveld, and Susana SáCouto. In this panel, participants will hear from some of the book’s Australian authors and participate in […]
Underutilisation of ADR in ISDS: Resolving Treaty Interpretation IssuesOnline event Over the years, it has become evident that arbitration is the favoured dispute resolution mechanism over conciliation/mediation in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). This is due to the benefits of arbitration (binding process with final, enforceable award) over the shortcomings of conciliation/mediation (non-binding process with non-enforceable […]
Book launch and in conversation with Professor Wojciech SadurskiIn-person event The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of A Pandemic of Populists by Professor Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Chair in Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School. The book will be launched by Professor Simon Bronitt, Dean of Sydney Law School, followed […]
Repatriating Cultural Heritage: Conflict of Laws, Archaeology, and Indigenous StudiesFrom the intersection of conflict of laws, archaeology, and indigenous studies, this multidisciplinary webinar will explore legal and practical challenges and solutions in repatriating cultural heritage in Australia, China, the EU, and the USA. Examples include an Australian repatriation project with the Anindilyakwa Land Council and […]
Book launch: China and the International E-commerce and Digital Trade LawTHIS 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 of China and the International E-commerce and Digital Trade Law by Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Sydney Law School. The book […]
Climate litigation against companies in a comparative perspectiveIn-person event In this seminar, Prof M Marc-Philippe Weller (Heidelberg University) takes the spectacular 2021 Milieudefensie v Shell 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 […]
Works-in-Progress ConferenceHybrid 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. 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 […]
Gender persecution: New frontiers in international criminal lawIn-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 ‘gender persecution’, which is currently being prosecuted for the first time in the International Criminal Court. This event is free […]
