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Meet the Author | Olivera Simic | Lola’s War: Rape without Punishment

Sydney Law School New Law Building, 3 Law School, Eastern Ave, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia

Meet the Author | Olivera Simic | Lola’s War: Rape without PunishmentDr Olivera Simic, Associate Professor, Griffith Law School, Australia In-person event We invite you to this Visiting Staff Research Seminar with Associate Professor Olivera Simic in conjunction with Professor Emily Crawford at the Sydney Centre for International Law. About this Seminar In this seminar, Dr. Simic […]

Business and Human rights: Recent Developments and Comparative Lessons

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Business and Human rights: Recent Developments and Comparative LessonsIn-person event Given that human rights abuses-linked to businesses are on the rise rather than in decline, it is no surprise that ‘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 […]

Corruption, Criminal Law, and China: Offering and Accepting Bribes

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 […]

China as a Development Model for the Global South: Opportunities and Limits

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 […]

Revisiting the Role and Relevance of the ‘The Right to Strike’

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Revisiting the Role and Relevance of the ‘The Right to Strike’ In-person event In 2023, the University of Bristol Centre for Law at Work (UK) joined forces with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), and International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network at the Solidarity Center (Washington DC, US) to commence a project on the right […]

How China governs Big Tech and regulates artificial intelligence

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.  Many Western […]

Peace in the Ancient Near East: Insights into the world’s first attested peace treaty

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Peace in the Ancient Near East: Insights into the world’s first attested peace treatyIn-person event This seminar gives some background to the first attested peace treaty in world history, between Ramses II of Egypt and Hattusili III of Hatti. This treaty survives in several copies, in two languages (Ancient Egyptian and Akkadian) and in two […]

Navigating China’s regulatory approach to generative artificial intelligence

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Navigating China’s regulatory approach to generative artificial intelligenceIn-person event In-person event The rapid development and application of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems have raised growing concerns of their potential risks at a global level. In July 2023, Chinese regulators passed the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services (the Measures). The Measures target […]