Distinguished Alumni Series: In conversation with the Hon Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of NSW Supreme Court
2022-05-04 18:00 - 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Lecture Theatre 101, level 1, New Law Building F10A, Campderdown Campus
Distinguished Alumni Series: In conversation with the Hon Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of NSW Supreme Court

In-person event
Join us for this special â€˜in conversation’ event with University of Sydney Law School alumnus and the newly appointed 18th Chief Justice of NSW, the Hon Andrew Bell, and alumna Nicole Abadee.
The Chief Justice will reflect on his life and times at the Law School, as a judge’s Associate, at the University of Oxford, NSW Bar and on the NSW Court of Appeal. His Honour will also discuss how the legal profession has changed, the enduring value of a law degree and where it might lead you and what makes a good law teacher – and judge.
This Distinguished Alumni Series is an occasional program of talks featuring eminent graduates of the Law School.

Speakers
Chief Justice Bell
Prior to his new position as NSW Supreme Chief Justice, the Hon Andrew Bell was appointed as the President of the NSW Court of Appeal in February 2019. During his time, he has presided over numerous high-profile appeals in both the Court of Appeal and Court of Criminal Appeal. His Honour led a team of nine appeal judges and two acting judges of appeal, with the responsibility for overseeing more than 300 matters which come before the Court of Appeal every year. Prior to his appointment to the Bench, Chief Justice Bell practised as a barrister for 24 years and was appointed Senior Counsel in 2006. Throughout that time, he appeared in 30 appeals in the High Court of Australia and conducted an extensive international arbitration practice. His Honour brings not only breadth and depth of knowledge to the role of Chief Justice, but proven leadership abilities from his three years as President. His academic achievements include two University Medals from Sydney University, and a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he graduated in first place (post-graduate) Bachelor of Civil Law and also completed a doctorate.
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.

Time: Wednesday 4 May, 6-7pm, followed by a cocktail reception

CPD Points: 1
This event is presented by the Â University of Sydney Law School.

Photo credit, Chief Justice portrait: Gillianne Tedder

Legal Obligation of the Security Council's mandate on the protection of civilians in UN peacekeeping operations
2022-05-17 12:00 - 13:00
Legal Obligation of the Security Council’s mandate on the protection of civilians in UN peacekeeping operations
Speaker: Dr Tamer Morris, Sydney Law School
While the Security Council has been mandating peacekeepers to protect civilians since 1999, there is still confusion on what it means to ‘protect’. Even though the concept of ‘protection’ can seem self-evident, as UN peace missions are made up of multiple players, each person has interpreted the protection of civilians mandate differently. As the concept of ‘protection’ is borrowed language, each body of law will perceive ‘protection’ through a different lens. However, as the mandate creates a legal obligation on UN peace missions, a clear understanding of protection is fundamental to ensure performance and accountability.
Speaker:Â Tamer Morris is a casual academic at the University of Sydney teaching in international law. Tamer’s area of research focuses on protection of civilians, particularly focusing on the legal understanding of the obligation to protect.
After working briefly at the UN, Tamer’s interests in peacekeeping and international law arose. Tamer’s doctoral thesis, from the University of Sydney, was on the legal obligation of the protection of civilians in UN peacekeeping. Focusing on the Security Council’s mandate and legal ramifications of peacekeepers engaging in protection activities.
Moderator: Associate Professor Emily Crawford, Sydney Law School

TUESDAY 17 MAY 2022, 12 – 1pm AEST
Once registered, you will receive the Zoom link closer to the date of the webinar.

CPD Points:Â 1

This event is hosted by theÂ Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.
This is the first in a series of webinars highlighting the research of recently graduated doctoral candidates at The University of Sydney Law School. Â

Trust in Knowledge Talks - Launch Event
2022-05-19 17:00 - 18:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Trust in Knowledge Talks – Launch Event

In-person event
Please join us at the launch event of the new Trust in Knowledge Talks seminar series – a research initiative supported by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and the Research Portfolio at the University of Sydney.
Reproducibility, replicability, transparency and integrity are key attributes that enable excellence in research and research translation. Trust in Knowledge Talks promote these issues, as well as the sharing of ideas and approaches across disciplines, to enable discussion and collaboration on producing robust and reliable research across our university community.
In this inaugural Trust in Knowledge Talk hosted by Sydney Law School, guest speaker Professor Simine Vazire from the University of Melbourne asks: where are the self-correcting mechanisms in science?

About the talk
‘Where are the self-correcting mechanisms in science?’
We often hear the self-correcting mechanisms in science invoked as a reason to trust science, but it is not always clear what these mechanisms are. Some quality control mechanisms, such as peer review for journals, or vetting for textbooks or for public dissemination, have recently been found not to provide much of a safeguard against invalid claims.
Instead, I will argue that we should look for visible signs of a scientific community’s commitment to self-correction. These signs include transparency in the research and peer review process, investment in error detection and quality control, and an emphasis on calibration rather than popularisation. We should trust scientific claims more to the extent that they were produced by communities that have these hallmarks of credibility. Fields that are more transparent, rigorous, and calibrated should earn more trust. Meta-science can provide scientists and the public with valuable information in assessing the credibility of scientific fields.
The speaker
Professor Simine Vazire, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne.
Simine is a board member of PLOS and the Berkeley Institute for Transparency in the Social Sciences, was a member of the US National Academy of Science study committee on replicability and reproducibility, and co-founded the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS). She is Editor in Chief of Collabra: Psychology and has served as editor at several other journals. She has two lines of research. One examines people’s self-knowledge of their personality and behaviour, and another examines the individual and institutional practices and norms in science, and the degree to which these norms encourage or impede self-correction and credibility.

Time: Thursday 19 May, 5-6pm (followed by a cocktail reception)
Venue: Sydney Law School, Law Foyer, level 2 (street level entrance), New Law Building F10, University of Sydney.Â

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

Transnational Online Legal Education Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
2022-06-21 05:00 - 18:00
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 region (covered in aÂ previous webinar recorded): Croatia, Cyprus and Seychelles. This webinar also draws on draft National Reports for anÂ International Academy of Comparative LawÂ conference hosted overÂ 23-28 October 2022 in Asuncion (Paraguay), comparing over 20 jurisdictions worldwide, for a volume to be published by Intersentia co-edited by Professors Luke Nottage and Makoto Ibusuki.
Find out more aboutÂ the project,Â including links to several draft reports and general report.
Speakers:

Professor Luke NottageÂ (also co-chair, University of Sydney Law School; Honorary Professor, University of Wollongong)
Professor Mirela ZupanÂ (University of Ozijek, Croatia)
Dr Lida PitsillidouÂ (University of Lancaster, Cyprus)
Ms Nyasha Noreen KatsengaÂ (Office of the Chief Justice, Seychelles)

Time: Tuesday 21 June, 5-6pm AEST (via Zoom)

CPD Points = 1
This event is co-presented by The University of Wollongong and The University of Sydney Law School.

Exhibition launch: Iconic: The Use and Misuse of the Red Cross Emblem
2022-08-04 17:00 - 18:00 | Fisher Library, Fisher Library, Seminar Room, Level 2, Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney, Camperdown.
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 has come to symbolise care and protection for people who are sick or injured.
The Red Cross can be seen everywhere – on toys, medical supplies, and costumes. However, the Emblem is not meant to be a logo – it is symbol that has its origins in an international law designed to protect the wounded and sick members of the armed forces during times of armed conflict, as well as to protect the persons who care for the wounded and sick. The Red Cross, and its associated Emblems, the Red Crescent, Red Crystal, and Red Lion and Sun, are meant to be used to denote the care and protection of the most vulnerable populations during times of armed conflict, and in certain strictly regulated situations outside of armed conflicts.
The iconic nature of the Red Cross emblem, and its connotations of care and protection, has seen the Emblem misused and misapplied in manifold ways. What many do not know is that the Emblem is protected under both international and domestic law, and misuse of the Emblem is an offence under Australian law and may be, in specific circumstances, a war crime under international law – this includes both misuse of the Red Cross emblem, as well as displaying a white cross on a red background.
Iconic: The Use and Misuse of the Red Cross Emblem showcases some of the most common ways the Emblem has been misused in every day life. The aim of the exhibition is to educate and inform people that the Red Cross has a special meaning that should not be devalued. The objects on display are shown in conjunction with the selections from the University’s rare book collection, which illustrate how the Red Cross came into being, how it has been protected in law, and how it has been used on practice in the century and a half since its inception.

Thursday 4 August, 5-6pm AEST
(includes exhibition launch and cocktail reception)
Location:Â Fisher Library, Seminar Room, Level 2, Eastern Avenue, The University of Sydney, Camperdown.
This is an in-person event being held at The University of Sydney with limited capacity.

The launch is sponsored by the Sydney Centre for International Law at Sydney Law School.

Symposium: Global Sports Law: Hot Topics in Australia and Japan"
2022-09-02 15:30 - 17:00
Symposium: â€œGlobal Sports Law: Hot Topics in Australia and Japanâ€
This symposium is part ofÂ 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 forefront of development of global sports law, to discuss the big legal issues currently shaping the sports landscape. The panel examines the governance of sporting organisations and the regulation of labour mobility in the context of a globalised sports world.
The panel will feature presentations from:

Professor Deborah Healey (University of New South Wales) on â€œCorporate Governance in Australian Sportâ€;

Professor Healey is the Director of the Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre and the Editor of the Sports Law Journal. She has more than 30 years of experience serving on the boards of major sports governance organizations.

Mr. Shoichi Sugiyama, (Partner, Field-R Law Offices, Tokyo) on â€œThe Transfer System in Nippon Professional Baseballâ€;

Mr. Sugiyama counsels the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association and the Japan Sports Arbitration Agency (the independent dispute resolution body for sport-related disputes in Japan). He has lectured widely on sports law in Japan.

Dr. Matt NicholÂ (Lecturer, Central Queensland University, (Melbourne)) on â€œGlobal Labour Mobility and Nippon Professional Baseball: Murakami to Nomo, Ichiro and Ohtaniâ€.

Dr. Nichol’s research uses approaches to labour law and regulatory theory to understand the regulation of labour in professional team sports. Dr. Nichol’s specialty is in domestic and global labour regulation and labour mobility in baseball and he is on the board of directors of Baseball Victoria.
Moderator:Â Mr. Micah Burch, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School.
Friday 2 September 2022, 3.30-5pm (AEST)
This event is being held an online.
CPD Points:Â 1.5
This event is co-sponsored by Sydney Law School, ANJeL and the Australia-Japan Society of NSW.

Book launch: Gender and International Criminal Law
2022-09-07 12:00 - 13:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Book launch: Gender and International Criminal Law
Sydney Centre for International Law is excited to host a panel on the new book â€˜Gender and International Criminal Law‘ (Oxford University Press 2022), edited by Indira Rosenthal, Valerie Oosterveld, and Susana SÃ¡Couto.
In this panel, participants will hear from some of the book’s Australian authors and participate in a live â€˜question and answer’ session.
Chaired by transitional justice expert Rachel Killean (Sydney Law School), the panel will feature presentations from:
â€¢ Indira Rosenthal (University of Tasmania) on â€˜Gender and International Criminal Law’;
â€¢ Professor Valerie Oosterveld (Western Law, Canada) on gender-based persecution;
â€¢ Melanie O’Brien (University of Western Australia) on â€˜Forced marriage’;
â€¢ Jonathan O’Donohue (University of New South Wales) on â€˜Gender inclusive reparations’;
â€¢ Rosemary Grey (Sydney Law School) on â€˜Forced pregnancy and other reproductive crimes’ and
â€¢ Dianne Otto (University of Melbourne) on “Is international criminal law particularly impervious to feminist reconstruction?”.

Wednesday 7 September 2022, 12:00 to 1.30pm (AEST)
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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About the book
Gender and International Criminal LawÂ
The last few decades have seen remarkable developments in international criminal justice, especially in relation to the pursuit of individuals responsible for sexual violence and other gender-based crimes.
Historically ignored, justified, or minimised, this category of crimes now has a heightened profile in the international political and judicial arena. Despite this, gender is poorly understood, and blind spots, biases, and stereotypes prevail.
Responding to that challenge, this book brings together leading feminist international criminal and humanitarian law academics and practitioners to examine the place of gender in international criminal law (ICL).
The book

Provides an in-depth examination of how gender is perceived and analysed in international criminal law
Offers recommendations for how gender, including sexual violence and other gender-based crimes, can be more meaningfully addressed by international courts and tribunals
Identifies key gaps in the understanding of gender within international criminal law

Order online with code ALAUTHC4 to save 30%.
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CPD Points:Â 1.5
This event is hosted by the Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

Underutilisation of ADR in ISDS: Resolving Treaty Interpretation Issues
2022-09-16 13:00 - 14:00
Underutilisation of ADR in ISDS: Resolving Treaty Interpretation Issues
Online 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 settlement agreements). Therefore, incentives, such as the recent adoption of the Singapore Convention on Mediation and proposed amendments by ICSID, are deemed promising developments for the promotion of more alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms in ISDS.
This study advances a hypothesis that, apart from the non-enforceability of settlement agreements, there may be an additional and, as a matter of fact, the principal cause for the underutilisation of conciliation in ISDS. The common formulation of ISDS clauses, that carry advance consent to conciliation and arbitration in investment treaties, suggests that the choice between these two may have conflicting interpretations. Under one interpretation, disputants have an option to choose conciliation and then proceed with arbitration; the other interpretation suggests that selection of conciliation is to the exclusion of arbitration. This is also supported by anecdotal evidence where claimants have had an impression that the â€˜fork in the road’ principle applied to the choice between conciliation and arbitration, and that, therefore, recourse to conciliation regardless of the outcome would jeopardise their right to subsequent arbitration. Based on these observations this study argues that the adoption of the Singapore Convention on Mediation will most probably not be enough to promote more ADR in ISDS. In particular, recourse to investor-state conciliation (and mediation) will not increase unless mediation/conciliation are made mandatory before arbitration, and the source of conflicting interpretations of the choice between conciliation and arbitration is eliminated.
Ubilava, A. (2022). Underutilization of ADR in ISDS: Resolving Treaty Interpretation Issues. UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, 26(2).
About the speaker:
Dr Ana Ubilava is a lecturer in International Law at the University of Sydney Law School.
Discussant: Associate Professor Stacie Strong, the University of Sydney Law School and Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law.
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Webinar via Zoom: Friday, 16 September, 1-2pm (AEST)

Once registered, you will be provided with Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.
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CPD points = 1
This webinar is presented by the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney Law School.

Book launch and in conversation with Professor Wojciech Sadurski
2022-09-20 18:00 - 19:30 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
Book launch and in conversation with Professor Wojciech Sadurski
In-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 by in-conversation discussion with the author and Professor David Kinley, Professor of Human Rights Law at the Law School.
About A Pandemic of Populists
Over the last decade, the world has watched in shock as populists swept to power in free elections. From Manila to Warsaw, Brasilia to Budapest, the populist tide has shattered illusions of an inexorable march to liberal democracy. Eschewing simplistic notions of a unified global populism, this book unpacks the diversity and plurality of populisms.
It highlights the variety of constitutional and extraconstitutional strategies that populists have used to undermine the institutional fabric of liberal democracy and investigates how ruling populists responded to the Covid-19 crisis. Outlining the rise of populisms and their governing styles, Wojciech Sadurski focuses on what populists in power do, rather than what they say. Confronting one of the most pressing concerns of international politics, this book offers a vibrant, contemporary account of modern populisms and, significantly, considers what we can do to fight back.
â€˜Wojciech Sadurski is one of the world’s leading constitutional theorists; not for nothing has he been subject to the wrath of right-wing populists in his native Poland. With this masterful volume, he brings together a sophisticated analysis of what populists in power do to institutions with personal stories as well as new ideas how to defeat populists.’ Jan-Werner Mueller, Princeton University
The book will be available for purchase on the evening, or order online here.
Find out more about the book.
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TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2022
Time:Â 6-7.30pm (including a cocktail reception)
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
Location: The University of Sydney, Camperdown.
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About the author
Wojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor of the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw; formerly Professor and Head of Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He is author of several books, most recently Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown (2019) and Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe (2012). He regularly teaches, as visiting professor, in top universities around the world, including at Yale and New York Universities.
CPD Points: 1
This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School.

Repatriating Cultural Heritage: Conflict of Laws, Archaeology, and Indigenous Studies
2022-09-21 18:00 - 19:15
Repatriating Cultural Heritage: Conflict of Laws, Archaeology, and Indigenous Studies
From 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 Traditional Owners on Groote Eylandt, the world-wide Return of Cultural Heritage (RoCH) program established by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, legal battles in repatriating the Chinese statue of ZhÄng GÅng ZÇ” ShÄ« (a budda statue with a mummy inside), sovereign immunity issues in recovery of World War II-era stolen art and other heritage, and participation of local communities in protecting and repatriating cultural heritage.
SpeakersÂ (listed in the surname alphabetic order):

Dr. Evelien Campfens, member of the International Law Association Cultural Heritage Law Committee based at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and former director to the Dutch Restitutions Committee for Nazi looted art
Professor Anne (Annie) Clarke, Chair of Archaeology Discipline and Member of Museum and Heritage Studies Program, the University of Sydney, Australia
Professor Zheng Xin Huo,Â China University of Political Science and Law, China
Professor Charles T. Kotuby Jr., University of Pittsburgh School of Law and Honorary Professor of Law, Durham Law School, the USA and UK
Mr. Craig Ritchie, an Aboriginal man of the Dhunghutti and Biripi nations and the Chief Executive Officer at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS), Australia
Professor Jennifer Barrett, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous (Academic) and Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) at the University of Sydney.

Moderator:

Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang, the University of Sydney Law School and Co-Director of Center for Asian and Pacific Law

Webinar via Zoom: Wednesday 21 September 6.00-7.15 pm (AEST)

Once registered, you will be provided with Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar.

This webinar is jointly presented by the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group, Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the Center for International Law at the University of Sydney Law School.

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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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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.

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.

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

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.

Book launch: Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski
2023-05-15 17:30 - 19:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Book launch: Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski
In-person event
The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Chair in Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School.
The book will be launched by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG.
About Constitutional Public Reason
Public reason, which urges that only laws based on principles reasonably agreeable to all those bound by them are legitimate, has rarely been applied to constitutional law, and never in a comparative way. This book aspires to fill that gap, by studying the use of public reason in different constitutional systems. In doing so, it studies public reason both as a normative idea – as a principle postulated for democratic constitutionalism, and as a descriptive account – as helping to understand many important doctrines in constitutional adjudication of some leading constitutional courts around the world, and also in the supranational sphere.
Constitutional Public Reason questions the performance of leading ‘exemplars of public reasons’, including the top courts of the United States, India, Canada, Australia, Germany, and South Africa, as well as the European Court of Human Rights. It also attempts to show how this performance can be improved in fields such as freedom of expression, non-establishment of religion, and anti-discrimination law. Ultimately, it finds that the best resonance between the ideal of public reason and constitutional interpretation is found in doctrines that locate the illegitimacy of laws in the wrongful motives (or purposes) pursued by legislators. Scrutinising motives is often as important as scrutinising consequences.
Find out more about the book and order it online here.
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Monday 15 May 2023
Time: 5.30-7pm (including a cocktail reception)
Venue: Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10)
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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About the author
Wojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor of the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw; formerly Professor and Head of Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He is author of several books, most recently Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown (2019) and Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe (2012). He regularly teaches, as visiting professor, in top universities around the world, including at Yale and New York Universities.
CPD Points: 1
This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School.

Private International Law and Voices of Children
2023-06-01 18:00 - 19:30
Private International Law and Voices of Children
Online event
When making decisions, adults should think about how their decisions will affect children. Recent years have witnessed, in private international law cases and legislation, the protection of children is increasingly mingled with gender, indigenous issues, refugees, violence, war, surrogacy technology, etc. This is evidenced by the US Supreme Court 2022 judgmentÂ Golan v. Saada, the Australian caseÂ Secretary, Department of Communities & Justice v Bamfield, the 2023Â German Constitutional Court decision, theÂ Chinese Civil Code, the Australia Family Law (Child Abduction Convention) Amendment (Family Violence) Regulations 2022, and developments at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH Children Conventions) and the United Nations (Convention on the Rights of the ChildÂ and its additionalÂ Protocols).
On this International Children’s Day, let us join thisÂ CAPLUSÂ webinar in cooperation with conflictoflaws.net and American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group to hear voices of children in private international law.
Speakers

Ms. Anna Mary Coburn

After 22-years of public service as a U.S. Department of State Attorney-Advisor for Children’s Issues as well as a USAID Regional Legal Advisor/Senior Advisor for Children/Youth in Conflict, Anna has transitioned to practicing international family law with a focus on child rights cases and issues.

Mr. Philippe Lortie

Philippe is co-head of the International Family and Child Protection Law Division at the Hague Conference on Private International Law Permanent Bureau and has more than 30 years’ experience in the field of child protection.

Ms. Miranda Kaye

Ms Miranda Kaye is an academic at the Faculty of Law in the University of Technology Sydney in Australia and a member of Hague Mothers, a project aiming to end the injustices created by the Hague Child Abduction Convention. She also has experience in the public service (Law Commission of England and Wales) and as a practicing solicitor (family law in the UK).

Professor Lukas Rademacher

Lukas is a Professor of Private Law, Private International Law, and Comparative Law in Kiel, Germany. He studied law at the Universities of DÃ¼sseldorf and Oxford, and received his PhD at the University of MÃ¼nster. He wrote his postdoctoral thesis at the University of Cologne.

Ms. Haitao Ye

Haitao is a lawyer at the Shanghai Office of the Beijing Dacheng Law LLP specializing in marriage and family dispute resolution, family wealth inheritance and management. She is a former experienced judge in civil and commercial trials at the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court in China.
Moderators/commentators
â€¢Â Dr. Jie (Jeanne) HuangÂ (Associate Professor at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney)

Thursday 1 June, 6-7.30pm AEST
(4-5.30am Washington D.C./9-10:30am London/10-11.30am the Hague/4-5.30pm Beijing)

This event is proudly co-presented by theÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney, conflictoflaws.net and the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group.

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

Comparative History of International Arbitration: Australia, Japan and Beyond
2023-09-21 16:00 - 17:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Comparative History of International Arbitration: Australia, Japan and Beyond
Hybrid event
This hybrid-format webinar compares the historical trajectory of international arbitration law and practice in Australia and Japan in regional and global contexts. An aim is to explore the evolving images and contours of arbitration and scope for cross-border collaboration in promoting this popular but sometimes contested form of dispute resolution.
Speakers

Prof the Hon Marilyn Warren AC KCÂ (Monash University, former Chief Justice of Victoria) The History of Arbitration in Australia
(based on chapter in recent textbook with Justice Clyde Croft and Dr Drossos Stamboulakis reviewed in ALJ and here: https://japaneselaw.sydney.edu.au/2022/01/international-and-australian-commercial-arbitration-book-review/)

Prof Giorgio ColomboÂ (Nagoya University) The Maria Luz Arbitration in Meiji Japan
(based on his 2022 book:Â https://www.routledge.com/Justice-and-International-Law-in-Meiji-Japan-The-Maria-Luz-Incident-and/Colombo/p/book/9781032249025)

Asst Prof Nobumichi TeramuraÂ (Universiti Brunei Darussalam) The History and Potential of International Arbitration in Japan
(based on his 2023 chapter with Luke Nottage for Lars Markert et al, eds, International Arbitration in Japan, Wolters Kluwer, forthcoming)

Commentator

Prof Luke NottageÂ (University of Sydney)(Drawing on the concluding chapter in his 2021 book: https://japaneselaw.sydney.edu.au/2020/08/book-in-press-with-elgar/Â and his Encyclopedia entry on ACICA (with Prof Richard Garnett) atÂ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4431276Â )

Chair

Assoc Prof Jeanne HuangÂ (University of Sydney)

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Thursday 21 September
Time:Â 4-5.30pm
Location:Â The University of Sydney, Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
Cost:Â Free, but registration is essential. Please select your attendance type during registration.
CPD points:Â 1.5 points
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 the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, the Resolution Institute and the Australian Network for Japanese Law at the University of Sydney Law School.

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

About the Speakers
Dispute Resolution in Sports: Expert Reflections
Professor Deborah HealeyÂ (University of New South Wales)
Deborah Healey is the Director of the Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre and the Editor of the Sports Law Journal. She has more than 30 years of experience serving on the boards of major sports governance organizations and serves on the National Sports Tribunal.
Professor the Hon Marilyn Warren AC KCÂ (Monash University)
Marilyn Warren is a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow of Monash University and is the former Chief Justice of Victoria. She practices as a commercial arbitrator and teaches law as a Professor at Monash’s Law Faculty.

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

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

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

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

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

Business and Human rights: Recent Developments and Comparative Lessons
2023-12-05 13:00 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Business and Human rights: Recent Developments and Comparative Lessons
In-person event
Given that human rights abuses-linked to businesses are on the rise rather than in decline, it is no surprise that â€˜business and human rights’ remains a rapidly evolving research field. There are various national initiatives (e.g. the French loi de vigilance, one of the pioneer laws in this field, the new German Lieferkettengesetz or the currently ongoing review of the Modern Slavery Act in Australia). At the same time, there are various international initiatives (e.g. the UN Guiding principles or draft of a new binding treaty at the UN Human Rights Council) with different prospects for success. The talk will analyze the most recent developments on the different legal levels (national, regional and international) and draw comparative conclusions for the field of business and human rights. In doing so, the talk with focus on two distinct sub-questions: corporations’ human rights obligations vis-Ã -vis the environment as well as corporate human rights due diligence in areas of conflict.
About the speaker
Pierre ThielbÃ¶rger is a Professor of Public Law and Public International Law at Ruhr University Bochum. He is also the Executive Director of the Institute for the International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Germany’s biggest research institute on armed conflicts and humanitarian crises. He serves as chairman of the General Assembly of the Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA), is co-convener of the Interest Group on Human Rights of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) and sits on the advisory board of the German Institute on Human Rights. He advises the German government on all matters concerning the United Nations as well as humanitarian action and is the co-editor of several peer-reviewed journals in international law. His research field is (business and) human rights, the law of peace and armed conflict, ICL and transitional justice, as well as environmental law and the law of the global commons (including water).
Tuesday 5 December 2023,
Time: 1-2pm AEDT
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points: 1

This event is proudly presented by the Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

Corruption, Criminal Law, and China: Offering and Accepting Bribes
2024-02-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Corruption, Criminal Law, and China: Offering and Accepting Bribes

In-person event
The XII Amendment to Criminal Law of P.R.C adopted by the Standing Committee of People’s Congress on 29 December 2023 is guided by two principles. One is to enhance protection for private enterprises and the other is to punish offering bribes and accepting bribes equally. The reason that accepting bribes, which has been punished ever since the foundation of P.R.C, is stressed now is of course the serious situation of bribery. Meanwhile, although the logic behind this is acceptable, whether legislative purpose can be realized to a high degree depends on judicial efforts.
Judging from typical cases and relative statistics, I believe four principles should be observed in terms of criminal law. In the first place, different approaches should be taken to deal with offering bribes committed by organizations and individuals. Compliance model might be a choice. Secondly, crime and civil or administrative violation should be carefully differentiated to prevent criminal punishments from leading to undue harms. Thirdly, the question whether public authorities can be charged with offering or accepting bribes should be answered in specific context. Finally, more flexible systems, such as disqualification and corporate probation, should be considered.
Speaker
Professor Zhenjie Zhou,Â Vice Dean, Beijing Normal University School of Law, China
Zhenjie Zhou, Professor and Doctor of Law. He is now vice Dean of Beijing Normal University College for Criminal Law Science Â He obtained his Doctor degree at the Law Institute of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and then worked at Waseda Institute for Advanced Sciences (Japan) for three years. He was visiting fellows at several internationally renowned academic institutions such as the Center for Criminology at Oxford University (UK) and Australia Research Center for Excellences at Griffith University (Australia). His academic achievements in many fields, including fundamental principles of criminal law, corporate crime and history of criminal law, can be seen in books and articles he has published in Chinese, English and Japanese, awards from authoritative organizations such as Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Chinese Law Society and research funds supported by high level organizations such as EU and National Foundation of Stoical Sciences of China.
Commentators

Peili Ying, Professor at the Criminal Law School of East China University of Political Science and Law, he serves as the Vice President of the Chinese Society of Criminology, President of the Shanghai Society of Criminology, and President of the Social Governance Research Society of the Shanghai Law Society. His main research focus is criminology, and he has undertaken several research projects funded by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate and the Ministry of Education. Pei Li has published over 10 academic papers and authored three monographs.
Judy Zhou is a Consulting Solicitor of Taylor Rose Australia with dual-qualifications in both Australia and China who has a practice focus of financial and white-collar crime, proceeds of crime litigation, investigations and dispute resolution, and legal advisory concerning AML/CTF and corporate compliance. Judy is also an ACAMS certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist. Having previously worked at a leading criminal defence law firm in Australia, Judy is the winner of Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards criminal law category, and was nominated by Finance Monthly as the Australian White Collar Crime Defense Lawyer of the Year in 2022 and 2023.

Tianqi Gu received her PhD from the Sydney Law School. She is the recipient of an Australian Government Research Training Program scholarship. Tianqi obtained an LLB from Dalian Maritime University and two LLMs from University College London and the University of Sydney, respectively. Tianqi’s research focuses on the impact of China’s latest round of State-owned Enterprise (SOE) reforms on Chinese SOEs’ foreign investment in Australia. Tianqi and professor Vivienne Bath co-authored a book chapter titled Foreign Investment, Investment Treaties, and Corruption in China and Hong Kong for the book Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration, which will be published in 2024.

Chair
Associate Professor Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Sydney Law School.
Tuesday 20 February
Time:Â 5-6pm
CPD Points: 1
Venue:Â Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10)

This event is proudly co-presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the Sydney Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney Law School.

30th Anniversary of the Shanghai Winter School
2024-02-21 17:30 - 19:30 | New Law Building (F10)
Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the Shanghai Winter School
In-person event
Join us for a special reception hosted by the University of Sydney Law SchoolÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, commemorating three decades of theÂ Shanghai Winter SchoolÂ program. We extend a warm invitation to our esteemed staff, students, alumni, and anyone passionate about Asian and Pacific Law to be part of this joyous occasion.
This event offers a unique opportunity to connect with renowned scholars and practitioners in various legal fields, particularly business compliance in the Asia Pacific region.
Chair:Â Dr. Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Co-director, Centre for Asian and Pacific Law of the University of Sydney
Speakers:

Dean and Professor Simon Bronitt, University of Sydney Law School
Vice President and Professor Peili Ying, East China University of Political Science and Law
Professor Vivienne Bath, University of Sydney Law School
Professor Bing Ling, University of Sydney Law School

This event is being held in conjunction with the Business Compliance in International Commercial Transactions in Asia Pacific Conference. Visit this page for further details and registration.
Wednesday 21 February 2024
Time:Â 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Venue:Â New Law Building (F10), University of Sydney, Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus

Catering and beverages will be provided to enhance your experience.
Let’s come together to reminisce, network, and celebrate the rich legacy of the Shanghai Winter School. We look forward to your presence at this memorable reception!
This conference is hosted by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at Sydney Law School and the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

China as a Development Model for the Global South: Opportunities and Limits
2024-02-22 13:00 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
China as a Development Model for the Global South: Opportunities and Limits

In-person event
With its remarkable economic success, China could be regarded by countries in the Global South as presenting a development model that is easier to emulate than that of Western developed countries. In this paper, we examine to what extent the Chinese model, which China calls â€œSocialism with Chinese Characteristics,â€ could be regarded as a universal truth for the Global South. We start with two key features of the Chinese model: its export-oriented growth model, which reversed its import-substitution model that communist China practiced in the first 30 years under Mao, and can still be found in many developing countries; and its extensive use of industrial policy that relies heavily on state-owned enterprises and government subsidies, in contrast to the more market-oriented model in Western countries.
In addition, we discuss two new areas of development that illustrate the complexity and adaptability of China’s heterodox approach to development: the phenomenal growth of its e-commerce sector, despite its longstanding censorship regime; and its sustainable development policies, as illustrated with its recent experience in climate adaptation and energy transition. We conclude by discussing how the Chinese approach, which combines a variety of seemingly irreconcilable approaches, reflects another major feature: experimental pragmatism, and what lessons it might offer to countries in the Global South.
Speaker

Professor Henry Gao,Â Singapore Management University

Chair
David S G Goodman is Director of the China Studies Centre, University of Sydney, where he is Professor of Chinese Politics. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Recent publications include: Local Governance in China: Structures, variations, and innovations Elgar 2023 (with Ceren Ergenc); Class and the Communist Party of China, 1921-2021 (2 Vols) (with Marc Blecher, Yingjie Guo, Jean-Louis Rocca, Tony Saich, and Beibei Tang) Routledge, 2022.
Thursday 22 February
Time:Â 1-2pm
CPD Points: 1
Venue:Â Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10)

This event is proudly co-presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific LawÂ and the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.

Responding to repression and strengthening human rights systems | In conversation with Human Rights Watch's Tirana Hassan
2024-04-12 12:30 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Responding to Repression and Strengthening Human Rights Systems | In conversation with Human Rights Watch’s Tirana Hassan
In-person event
The last few years have seen extensive human rights suppression and wartime atrocities. Selective government outrage and transactional diplomacy has carried profound costs for the rights of those not in on the deal.Â The drivers of these human rights crises and their consequences often transcend borders and cannot be solved by governments acting alone. Understanding and responding to these threats needs to be rooted in universal principles of international human rights and the rule of law. These ideas built on shared human histories agreed upon by nations across all regions 75 years ago in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the basis for all contemporary human rights conventions and treaties.
This foundation is needed now more than ever. But this very system we rely on to protect the human rights of people everywhere is under threat. Every time a government overlooks or rejects these universal and globally accepted principles, someone pays a price – in freedoms and liberties, in their health or livelihood, and at times their lives. Australia grapples with the far-reaching arm of transnational repression while at the same time it chooses to sacrifice human rights in the name of military alliances, enabling autocrats, particularly across the Southeast Asia region, to erode the independence of key institutions vital for protecting human rights.
These topics will be traversed in a conversation between Human Rights Watch’s Executive Director Tirana Hassan, and the University of Sydney’s Ben Saul.
About the speakers:
Tirana Hassan is Executive Director at Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations, which operates in more than 90 countries and has over 500 staff members.
Tirana specializes in human rights protection in conflicts and crises. Prior to becoming Human Rights Watch’s Executive Director, Tirana served as director of Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Program and served on the organization’s interim executive team. Between 2010-2015, Tirana worked as a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch’s Emergencies Division. She has worked with various non-governmental organizations including MÃ©decins Sans FrontiÃ¨res (MSF), the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and Save the Children. Tirana was a founding member of a refugee legal serviceÂ in Australia in the early 2000s.
She has carried out and lead teams of investigations in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, as well as East and West Africa. She has authored reports and op-eds for major publications worldwide.
Tirana graduated with honors degrees in both social work and law in Australia and holds a master’s in international human rights law from Oxford University.
Moderator
Professor Ben Saul is Challis Chair of International Law at The University of Sydney and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism.
Friday 12 April, 12.30-2pm AEDT
Venue: Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5
This event is proudly presented by the Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School and Human Rights Watch.

Informers Up Close: Stories From Communist Prague
2024-04-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Informers Up Close: Stories From Communist Prague
In-person event
Informers are generally reviled. After all, â€˜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 rights abuses. Yet, little is known about exactly why ordinary people end up informing onâ€”at times betrayingâ€”other people to state authorities. Through a case study of Communist Czechoslovakia (1945-1989) that draws from secret police archives, oral histories, and a broad gamut of secondary sources, this book unearths what fuels informers to speak to the secret police in repressive times and considers how transitional justice should approach informers once repression ends.
This bookÂ – co-authored with Barbora HolÃ¡ — unravels the complex drivers behind informing and the dynamics of societal reactions to informing. It explores the agency of both informers and secret police officers. By presenting informers up close, and the relationships between informers and secret police officers in high resolution, this book centers the role of emotions in informer motivations and underscores the value of dignity and reconciliation in transitional reconstruction. This book also leverages research from informing in repressive states to better understand informing in so-called liberal democratic states, which, after all, also rely on informers to maintain law and preserve order.
About the author:
Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor and Director, Transnational Law Institute, at Washington and Lee University. He has held visiting appointments and has taught intensive courses at law schools world-wide, including Queen’s University Belfast, Oxford University (University College), UniversitÃ© de Paris II (PanthÃ©on-Assas), Free University of Amsterdam, University of Melbourne, and John Cabot University in Rome. His work has been relied upon by courts; he has served as defense lawyer in genocide trials; and has been an expert in litigation including on international terrorism, with the United Nations in matters involving child soldiers, and the drafting of a global convention to criminalize racist hate speech. Books includeÂ Atrocity, Punishment, and International LawÂ (CUP, 2007),Â Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and PolicyÂ (OUP, 2012), andÂ Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist PragueÂ (OUP 2024, with Barbora HolÃ¡); and co-edited volumesÂ Research Handbook of Child SoldiersÂ (Elgar 2019, with Jastine Barrett);Â Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity ProsecutionsÂ (Brill, 2024, with Caroline Fournet), andÂ Children and ViolenceÂ (Routledge 2024, with Christelle Molima, Mohamed Kamara et al).

Tuesday 30 April, 1-2pm AEST
Venue: Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points: 1
This event is proudly presented by the Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

How Canada Chose Exile: The decision to banish Japanese Canadians, 1946
2024-05-03 13:00 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
How Canada Chose Exile: The decision to banish Japanese Canadians, 1946
This 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 22,000 people of Japanese descent from their Pacific Coast communities and dispossessed them of their homes. With the scale of Nazi crimes in Europe increasingly known, mass internment of people on the basis of race had become unsustainable. Yet, many remained convinced that Japanese Canadians were â€œunassimilableâ€ in Canadian society on the basis of race. To resolve the problem of internment, Canadian officials devised a new harm, seeking to banish to Japan as many as possible so that the diminished number left behind could be allowed to live freely. This presentation explores Canada’s tangled path to exile amidst the dramatic shifts and stubborn continuities of the close of the Second World War. Seeking to situate Canada’s exile within a global history of the unmixing of peoples in the 1940s, the paper will close in reflection on Australia’s own expulsion of people of Japanese descent in the same era.
About the author:
Jordan Stanger-Ross is Professor of History at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. His past publications include Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians (2020) which received the John T. Saywell Prize in Canadian Constitutional Legal History.

Friday 3 May, 1-2pm AEST
Venue: Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points: 1
This event is proudly co-presented by the University of Sydney Law School and Discipline of History.

How China governs Big Tech and regulates artificial intelligence
2024-05-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
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 experts have perceived China’s tech crackdown as the government’s assault on private businesses, causing growing doubts among investors whether Chinese firms are still investable.
In this talk, Professor Zhang will take us beyond the headlines to unravel the complexity of China’s regulatory governance. Drawing insights from her newly released book, High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy,Â she will introduce the dynamic pyramid model of regulation, a new analytical framework that demystifies Chinese regulatory governance.
Professor Zhang will also apply this model to analyze China’s strategic approach to regulating artificial intelligence and discuss its implications for the global tech rivalry and the prospects for international cooperation. Â Join Professor Zhang as she uncovers how China regulates on the high wire by navigating the intricate balance between innovation, regulation and geopolitical contest.
About the speaker
Angela Zhang is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and Director of the Philip K. H. Wong Center for Chinese Law. Widely recognized as a leading authority on China’s tech regulation, Angela has written extensively on this topic. She is the author of Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation (Oxford, 2021), which was named one of the Best Political Economy Books of 2021 by ProMarket. Angela’s second book, High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its EconomyÂ was released by Oxford University Press in March 2024. In fall 2024, Angela will join the University of Southern California as a Professor of Law. For more information, please visit her website at AngelaZhang.net, and follow her on Twitter @AngelaZhangHK.

Monday 6 May
Time:Â 1-2pm
CPD Points: 1
Venue:Â Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10)

This event is proudly presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
