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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20231102T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20231102T193000
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes\nIn-person event \nDisputes over frozen embryos represent a particularly problematic case\, legally and ethically\, due to the ambiguity of their moral and legal status and the potential rights-claims which can be made with regard to them. Recent work has contextualised frozen embryos as liminal and suggested a contextual approach to their legal classification. \nBy appeal to personal property law\, with a lens provided by Roman law doctrines\, and reproductive bioethics\, we argue that frozen embryos may be subjects of property rights\, providing a more stable framework for dispute resolution. To illustrate how a property approach would work\, we reconsider the facts of the influential Evans case and argue that if a proprietary rather than promissory estoppel claim had been pursued\, the reverse outcome may have been reached\, to the benefit of women who are disproportionately harmed in these scenarios. \nAbout the speaker:\nTeresa Baron \nTeresa is a Nottingham Research Fellow working on reproductive ethics and philosophy of parenthood. She was previously a postdoc at the Czech Academy of Sciences\, and a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. \nThursday 2 November 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEDT\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-the-law-and-ethics-of-a-property-rights-approach-to-frozen-embryo-disputes/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20231019T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20231019T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
CREATED:20240912T235547Z
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Contract law and reasons for action: A crash course in private law theory
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar | Contract law and reasons for action: A crash course in private law theory\nIn-person event \nIf contract law is to be authoritative\, it must mediate between the subjects of contract law and reasons for action they have. Either implicitly or explicitly\, this insight informs various approaches to the theorisation of this law. Some have tried to understand contract law as mediating ordinary moral reasons relating to promising. Others have argued that this law embodies duties of private right\, the sort of reasons that apply to us as independent individuals cooperating as equals. And there are others still who identify different sets of reasons for action special to the contractual relationship. \nIn my talk\, I will identify the common flaw shared by these different theories. I will explain why focusing our attention on contract law as an exercise of political authority—rather than authoritative in the abstract—paves the way not only to a better understanding of the normative basis for contract but also the broad stakes involved in the making of contract law. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr Arie Rosen \nArie Rosen is a legal theorist based at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law and a founding co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Legal and Political Theory. His work in legal and political philosophy focuses on political authority\, the grounds for its exercise\, the ideology that sustains it\, and the impact it has on law and practical reasoning. His work appears in various edited volumes and leading journals\, including Legal Theory\, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies\, the University of Toronto Law Journal\, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. His current project focuses on how political authority is exercised in the context of private law and what this can teach us about constitutional structures and the core commitments of liberal political morality. \nThursday 19 October 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-contract-law-and-reasons-for-action-a-crash-course-in-private-law-theory/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20231012T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20231012T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
CREATED:20240912T235535Z
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Bathroom Bills and Liberal Rights
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Bathroom Bills and Liberal Rights\nIn-person event \nOn June 30th 2023 Florida’s House Bill 1521 came into effect. The bill requires that all trans people must use Florida public restrooms that align with the sex they were assigned at birth. This includes restrooms in all Florida airports\, government buildings\, schools and universities\, city parks and beaches\, and many Florida stadiums\, rest stops\, service stations\, and conferences. The implications of this bill are that all trans women\, for instance\, must use the men’s bathroom in these places even if they have had sex reassignment surgery\, have lived as a woman for decades\, or since they were a child\, are perceived to be a woman by everyone they meet\, and/or have changed their birth certificate\, their driving license\, and their passports so that they acknowledge that they are female or a woman. \nEarlier in 2023\, Kansas adopted a similar bathroom bill\, North Carolina adopted a similar bill in 2016-2017\, the UK government is considering adopting a similar law\, and at least 21 other US states have proposed similar bathroom bills. There has been a lot of discussion and criticism of these bathroom bills but no sustained case for their injustice (or their justice) has been made. This paper argues that bathroom bills like Florida’s breach trans people’s rights in three ways. I argue that we have the following three rights: (1) rights to not be made to subject ourselves to significant risks of harm in order to participate in the (face-to-face) public or social world; (2) rights to not be unjustly discriminated against; (3) rights to have our interests considered equally in lawmaking and policymaking. \nI argue that a variety of more specific liberal and egalitarian rights and claims\, made by a variety of liberals and egalitarians\, imply (1-3) and (1-3) are very intuitive. And I argue that bathroom bills like Florida’s breach trans people’s rights to (1-3). I argue that bathroom bills force trans people to risk significant harm in order to participate in the public or social world\, and refraining from adopting bathroom bills does not force anyone to incur any similar significant risk of harm to participate in the public or social world. I argue that the different philosophical theories of unjust discrimination that we have imply that bathroom bills are instances of unjust discrimination. And I argue that the adoption of bathroom bills does not involve equal consideration of trans people’s interests. \nAbout the speaker:\nAssociate Professor Rach Cosker-Rowland \nRach Cosker-Rowland is an Associate Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Leeds. She is the author of The Normative and the Evaluative (OUP\, 2019) and Moral Disagreement (Routledge\, 2020) as well as the co-editor of Fittingness (OUP\, 2022). She has recently published papers on the nature of gender\, the relationship between gender identity and gender\, and gender-identity-based rights in journals including Nous\, Analysis\, and the Journal of Medical Ethics. Before taking up her position at Leeds she held positions at the Australian Catholic University\, La Trobe University\, the University of Oxford\, and the University of Warwick. \nThursday 12 October 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-bathroom-bills-and-liberal-rights/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20231005T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20231005T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Demystifying CLS: A reflection on writing an intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar | Demystifying CLS: A reflection on writing an intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement\nIn-person event \nIn his forthcoming book The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies\, Stewart uses the tools of CLS to analyse CLS\, assessing its dominant narrative against its history and legacy. Literary and philosophical lenses are used to highlight the power of CLS\, which in turn presents its deficits. In this seminar Stewart presents this rise and fall through key discoveries in his research\, as well as anecdotes from the Crits\, and why CLS was not as radical as it should have been. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr James Gilchrist Stewart \nJames is a lecturer in law and LLB Program Manager at RMIT’s graduate school of business and law. James has published on legal theory\, neoliberalism’s effect on law\, and is a media voice on Australian consumer law. James’ first book “The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies” is scheduled for publication with Edinburgh University Press in 2024. \nThursday 5 October 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-demystifying-cls-a-reflection-on-writing-an-intellectual-history-of-the-critical-legal-studies-movement/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230914T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230914T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
CREATED:20240912T235604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010744Z
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Beyond Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property: opportunities in law reform for Aboriginal-led medicines in Australia and the limitations of legal pluralism
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar | Beyond Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property: opportunities in law reform for Aboriginal-led medicines in Australia and the limitations of legal pluralism\nIn-person event \nAustralian regulators and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have the opportunity to co-design a cross-jurisdictional framework that ensures structural integrity and cultural ethics\, which embodies international law principles and standards. However\, the Australian intellectual property regime and regulatory framework for traditional medicines is not fit for purpose. Equally\, the tension between Australia’s settler state and unceded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples remains constrained by legal pluralism\, western concepts of Indigeneity and biocultural knowledge and truth-telling. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr Virginia Marshall \nDr Marshall is a Research Fellow based at the Australian National University’s School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). She is a practising lawyer and leading legal scholar with expertise in Aboriginal water rights\, native title rights in Sea Country\, Indigenous governance and the intersection of Traditional Knowledge systems and western intellectual property regimes\, especially as it relates to Indigenous commercialisation of traditional medicines. \nVirginia holds various government appointments including serving on the Climate Change Authority Board\, Deputy Co-Chair of the Committee on Aboriginal Water Interests and the Drafting Group for the National Water Initiative Mark 2 and regularly invited on expert roundtables relating to water policy reform. Virginia serves on the ANU Human Ethics Research Committee\, the inaugural Māori Research and Ethics Council and Chair of the ANU Indigenous Research Advisory Group. Virginia is a Co-Chair of the ANU Institute for Climate\, Energy & Disaster Solutions Indigenous peoples\, cultures and knowledges research cluster and is a Research Associate and Board member of ANU’s Australian Studies Institute. \n  \nThursday 14 September 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-beyond-indigenous-cultural-intellectual-property-opportunities-in-law-reform-for-aboriginal-led-medicines-in-australia-and-the-limitations-of-legal-pluralism/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230829T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230829T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
CREATED:20240912T235715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010755Z
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SUMMARY:Julius Stone Address: What is political progress?
DESCRIPTION:Julius Stone Address: What is political progress?\nIn-person event\n  \nProgress is both a necessary and a dangerous idea. It is necessary if one is striving to improve the way things are\, and it is dangerous because the pursuit of progress has historically often given rise to episodes of paternalism\, colonial domination and narratives of civilizational superiority. In my talk\, I will present some first thoughts on how to defend a more critical account of progress. I will start by distinguishing between moral and political progress\, then explore the relation between political progress and justice. I will suggest that we make political progress not when we approximate an ideal of justice that is always already known to us\, but when the political institutions we construct reflect what we learn from the trials and failures of the past. \nAbout the speaker\nProfessor Lea Ypi \nLea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania\, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza\, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College\, Oxford University. She is the author of Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency\, The Meaning of Partisanship (with Jonathan White)\, and The Architectonic of Reason. Her latest book\, a philosophical memoir entitled Free: Coming of Age at the End of History\, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize and is being translated into more than twenty languages. Her academic work has been recognised with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and the Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She coedits The Journal of Political Philosophy and occasionally writes for The Guardian. \n  \nTuesday 29 August\, 2023\nTime: 6-7.30pm \nVenue: Lecture Theatre 101\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A) \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. \nThe Julius Stone Address is generously sponsored by the Educational Heritage Foundation. It is named to commemorate the life and work of Professor Julius Stone\, Australia’s foremost legal philosopher and for many years Challis Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/julius-stone-address-what-is-political-progress/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 101\, level 1\, New Law Building F10A\, Campderdown Campus
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230810T173000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230810T190000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
CREATED:20240912T235714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010812Z
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SUMMARY:The Life and Death of States: Author Meets Readers
DESCRIPTION:The Life and Death of States: Author Meets Readers\nIn-person event \nNatasha Wheatley’s bold new book The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty (Princeton University Press 2023) rediscovers the multinational Habsburg polity as a hothouse for ideas that still shape our understanding of the sovereign state. The radical mismatch between theories of singular sovereignty and the empire’s plural\, layered legal order pushed politicians as well as scholars like Hans Kelsen toward bold new conceptions of the state and the nature of law. The book follows a recurring set of questions about the juridical birth\, death\, and survival of states through the creative experiments of Austro-Hungarian constitutional order and into the domain of international law following the empire’s collapse in 1918. These ideas would echo around the globe in the era of global decolonization that followed the Second World War\, suggesting new ways of understanding Central Europe in the world. \nAbout the speakers\n\nNatasha Wheatley is an historian of modern European and international history\, with broad interests in intellectual and legal history\, Central Europe\, and the history of international law. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sydney before joining the Princeton faculty as an assistant professor in 2017. She is the co-editor of the volumes Power and Time and Remaking Central Europe\, and her writing has appeared in Past & Present\, History and Theory\, Law and History Review\, and the London Review of Books\, among other places. The Life and Death of States is her first book.\nProfessor Lisa Ford is the prize-winning author of three monographs: Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia\, 1788-1836 (Harvard UP\, 2010); Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law\, 1800-1850 (Harvard UP\, 2016)\, co-authored with Professor Lauren Benton; and The King’s Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire (Harvard UP\, 2021). She recently co-edited The Cambridge Legal History of Australia (Cambridge UP\, 2022). Her current project\, on emergency in the British Empire is funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.\nProfessor Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania\, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza\, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College\, Oxford University. She is the author of Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency\, The Meaning of Partisanship (with Jonathan White)\, and The Architectonic of Reason. Her latest book\, a philosophical memoir entitled Free: Coming of Age at the End of History\, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize and is being translated into more than twenty languages. Her academic work has been recognised with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and the Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She coedits The Journal of Political Philosophy and occasionally writes for The Guardian.\n\n——————————— \nThursday 10 August 2023\nTime: 5.30-7pm \nVenue: University of Sydney\, Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown \nThis event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School. \n——————————— \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute at the University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/the-life-and-death-of-states-author-meets-readers/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230727T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230727T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance\nIn-person event \nVictims of oppression are sometimes said to have epistemic privilege in virtue of their marginalised social position into the operation and impact of oppressive social structures. Epistemic privilege sometimes is cited as a basis for deference in social relations between victims and non-victims—for example\, the use of ‘lived experience’ to resolve or terminate disagreements about social and political oppression. I am interested in whether epistemic privilege can be a basis for duties of mutual assistance between victims\, where assistance is understood as mitigating the harms of oppression on other victims without necessarily targeting oppression itself. I outline the ways in which victims of oppression can be said to have epistemic privilege\, the limits of this privilege\, and what duties of assistance this privilege might ground. \nAbout the speaker:\nAshwini Vasanthakumar \nAshwini Vasanthakumar is a political and legal theorist with research interests in political obligation and authority\, migration\, and the ethics of resistance. \nShe is currently an Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in Legal & Political Philosophy at Queen’s Law School in Canada. She holds an AB from Harvard\, an MA from Toronto\, a JD from Yale Law School\, and a DPhil from Oxford\, where she studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar. \nPreviously\, she has worked at King’s College London\, the University of York\, University College\, Oxford\, and Jindal Global Law School. She has also been a Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm) and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School (Berlin). \n  \nThursday 27 July 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-epistemic-privilege-and-duties-of-mutual-assistance/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230720T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230720T130000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
CREATED:20240912T235728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010754Z
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SUMMARY:JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudence
DESCRIPTION:JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudence\nIn-person event \nModern jurisprudence has been tormented by a divide between description and evaluation in legal theory. Proponents argue that the distinction is essential to any clearheaded discussion of law itself and its relation to adjacent normative systems\, especially morality. Opponents insist that being the necessarily normative practice it is\, a pure description of the law and its theory is untenable. This conversation will bring together legal and moral theorists to shed some novel light on an old problem. \nSpeakers \n\nAssociate Professor Kevin Walton (University of Sydney Law School)\nDr. Yarran Hominh (Assistant Professor in Philosophy\, Bard College)\nDr. Alma Diamond (Postdoctoral Fellow in Law & Philosophy\, University of Chicago)\nDr. Meir Yarom (Postdoctoral Fellow in Jurisprudence\, the Julius Stone Institute\, University of Sydney Law School)\n\n——————————— \nThursday 20 July\, 2023\nTime: 11am-1pm  \nVenue: Level 4\, Board Room\, New Law Building (F10) \nCPD Points: 2 \n———————————- \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-workshop-description-and-evaluation-in-contemporary-jurisprudence/
LOCATION:Board Room\, Level 4
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230713T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230713T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
CREATED:20240912T235742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010752Z
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: The stability of bad things
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: The stability of bad things\nIn-person event\n  \nPolitical philosophers have long been concerned with how best to ensure the stability of social orders. Stability is assumed to be a good\, whether because whatever is good is better for being stably so\, or because stability enables cooperation in the pursuit of whatever other goods we have. \nBut is stability always a good? What of the stability of systems of unfreedom\, of forms of oppression and domination? Such systems are stable in the face of constant efforts to shift them. Why is this? Call this the question of the stability of bad things: why bad things are stable despite the fact that they are bad. \nIn this talk\, I examine one central way in which systems of unfreedom are self-stabilizing: through shaping the moral psychology of agents within those systems. Unfreedom is not just a matter of having limited options for choice\, but of the ways in which social systems foster in us particular ways of thinking\, feeling\, and acting. I argue that there are two ways in which this moral psychological shaping stabilizes systems of unfreedom. First\, it generates support for those systems\, by which I mean not just voluntary upholding of the system but a range of attitudes from consent to resigned participation. Second\, it disrupts possibilities of collective resistance to those systems. Understanding these mechanisms of stability might better help us to first resist\, and then transform\, the systems of unfreedom to which we are all subject. \nAbout the speaker:\nYarran Hominh \nYarran Hominh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bard College. His research sits at the intersection of social and political philosophy with moral psychology. He draws liberally from a variety of traditions of thought and practice\, including the pragmatist tradition\, the Black radical tradition\, Buddhist modernism\, and anti-racist\, anti-colonial\, and anti-imperial praxis from around the globe. He is working on a book entitled The Problem of Unfreedom and has papers recently published or forthcoming in Philosophers’ Imprint\, The Pluralist\, the Journal of Legal Philosophy\, Comparative Philosophy and the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture. He is also the Associate Editor of the APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies and is on the editorial board of The Philosopher. \n  \nThursday 13 July 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-the-stability-of-bad-things/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230627T140000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230627T160000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
CREATED:20240912T235744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010753Z
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SUMMARY:JSI Workshop | Towards a Moralisation of Jurisprudence? Reflections on the Future of Legal Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:JSI Workshop | Towards a Moralisation of Jurisprudence? Reflections on the Future of Legal Philosophy\nIn-person event\nThere is a trend in current Anglo-American legal philosophy that is drawing the attention of legal scholars. We could label this trend “The moralisation of jurisprudence”. Its animating idea is as follows: The questions still left open in contemporary jurisprudence can only be addressed by moral theory. Thus\, there is no longer room for legal philosophy as an autonomous field of enquiry. The seminar aims to critically discuss this thesis from different theoretical perspectives. \nAbout the speakers:\nProfessor Damiano Canale \nDamiano Canale is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Critical Thinking at Bocconi University\, Milan (Italy). His scholarship mainly focuses on legal reasoning and legal interpretation\, the methodology of jurisprudence\, the relationship between scientific knowledge and legal knowledge\, and the history of legal concepts. He was visiting fellow at the Max-Plank-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt a.M.)\, the Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. He is the author of four books in Italian and his papers have been published in journals such as Law and Philosophy\, Ratio Juris\, the American Journal of Law and Jurisprudence\, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence\, Jurisprudence\, Informal Logic\, Argumentation. \nDr Meir Yarom \nMeir Yarom is the inaugural Julius Stone Postdoctoral Fellow. He has recently completed his PhD entitled ‘Reflections on Coherence in Law’ supervised by Jeremy Waldron at NYU School of Law. \nTuesday\, 27 June 2023 2.00 – 4.00pm AEST\nVenue:  Board Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-workshop-towards-a-moralisation-of-jurisprudence-reflections-on-the-future-of-legal-philosophy/
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230615T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230615T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia?
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia?\nIn-person event\n  \nOn 28 November 2023\, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act will come into effect in NSW. The Act allows ill persons having decision-making capacity\, acting voluntary\, and with less than six months to live (12 months in the case of a neurogenerative illness) to request a prescription of a lethal substance to end intolerable suffering. If the medical practitioners responsible for the assessment of the request confirm that the eligibility conditions are satisfied\, the patient may decide to self-administer the lethal substance or that the substance is to be administered to the patient by a doctor. The Voluntary Assisted Dying Act was eventually approved on 19 May 2022 after an exhausting and hard-fought parliamentary debate. \nOne of the main reasons justifying the opposition to the bill was provided by a slippery slope argument: The legalization of assisted dying would be a first and decisive step towards the gradual acceptance by public opinion\, medical professions\, and political decision-makers of the medical killing of people unable to consent. Given that this outcome is morally disgraceful\, assisted dying should not be permitted in the first place. Slippery slope arguments are popular in a wide range of debates across bioethics\, law\, and public policy\, and are still extensively used to prevent the legalization of assisted dying in countries such as the UK\, Germany and Italy. Besides\, they are widely employed to prevent policymakers from extending the right to assisted dying to new categories of persons in those jurisdictions where that right is already recognized. \nHowever\, it is highly disputed whether arguments of this sort are able to support their conclusions or should rather be dismissed because ill-grounded. In this seminar I will try to answer this question. To do that\, I will first show that various versions of the slippery slope arguments are actually present in the debate on assisted dying. I will then claim that the only version of the argument that is not ill-grounded supports the opposite conclusion\, namely that the non-recognition of the right to assisted dying may be a first step on the slippery slope to unvoluntary euthanasia in many legal systems. \nAbout the speaker:\nDamiano Canale \nDamiano Canale is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Critical Thinking at Bocconi University\, Milan (Italy). His scholarship mainly focuses on legal reasoning and legal interpretation\, the methodology of jurisprudence\, the relationship between scientific knowledge and legal knowledge\, and the history of legal concepts. He was visiting fellow at the Max-Plank-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt a.M.)\, the Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. He is the author of four books in Italian and his papers have been published in journals such as Law and Philosophy\, Ratio Juris\, the American Journal of Law and Jurisprudence\, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence\, Jurisprudence\, Informal Logic\, Argumentation. \n  \nThursday 15 June 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-legalizing-assisted-dying-are-we-on-a-slippery-slope-to-involuntary-euthanasia/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230523T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230523T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010747Z
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts\nIn-person event\nIn Judgment SU-151/2020 the Constitutional Court of Colombia rendered its decision on a constitutional complaint of a group of journalists. They claim that in certain criminal cases concerning possible corruption by government officials\, prosecutors and judges were unsatisfyingly prohibiting the press to attend public criminal law hearings. The petitioners claimed that judges and prosecutors use to limit the constitutional right to free press outside of those exceptions and by means of disproportionate decisions. \nThe Court made an open call to journalists\, prosecutors\, judges\, and other interested parties to send short videos or writings with relevant information or their views concerning the issue at hand. The Court received 37 videos and writings. All materials were posted online\, and people wrote comments on them. The Court was able to process those materials\, which reveal that there was indeed and unconstitutional practice. However\, the Court could have never processed that information\, had it received hundreds or thousands of pieces of information. \nThis example illustrates how crowdsourcing can assist constitutional courts to overcome their epistemic deficiencies for solving constitutional cases. Those deficiencies can relate to factual or normative matters. Nevertheless\, this advantage does not come without risks. Judicial crowdsourcing can be meaningless if it is misused as a mechanism of democratic window-dressing. This risk instantiates if\, as it may happen with other mechanisms of digital democracy\, it is entirely shaped and controlled by representatives of “existing entrenched social and economic interests” or if constitutional procedural laws include an empowerment for judges to disregard or supersede outcomes of crowdsourcing processes without justification. Furthermore\, power brokers can manipulate crowdsourcing mechanisms. Additionally\, judicial crowdsourcing can be trivialized if citizens’ suggestions do not elicit deliberation among judges and remain only as an expression lacking any kind of impact. Finally\, constitutional courts can use artificial intelligence to analyse big amounts of information that stake-holders submit in the crowdsourcing process. The use of artificial intelligence for those purposes also raises specific concerns of algocratia\, opacity\, and algorithmic discrimination. \nWithin the context\, the aim of this presentation is to assess the advantages and disadvantages of the use of crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence by Constitutional Courts in complex cases of constitutional adjudication. \nAbout the speaker:\nCarlos Bernal \nCarlos Bernal is Commissioner of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. He is professor of law at the University of Dayton (Ohio\, USA) and Macquarie University (Sydney\, Australia). Between 2017 and 2020\, he was Justice at the Colombian Constitutional Court. His qualifications include a LL.B. from the University Externado of Colombia (Bogotá – Colombia) (1996)\, a S.J.D. from the University of Salamanca (Spain) (2001)\, and a M.A. (2008) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (2011) from the University of Florida (U.S.A). \nProf. Bernal’s research focuses on constitutional rights’ interpretation\, comparative constitutional change\, general jurisprudence -in particular\, on the intersection between social ontology and legal theory-\, and the philosophical foundations of tort law. His work has been published in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals\, books and edited collections in English\, Spanish\, German\, Italian\, French\, Portuguese\, and Russian. \n  \nTuesday 23 May 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-crowdsourcing-and-artificial-intelligence-in-constitutional-courts/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230511T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230511T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experience
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experience\nIn-person event\n  \nU.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously maintained that “the life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.” Holmes statement suggests an antecedent question: what is the life of the law? This essay construes this question ontologically. What gives law life? What animates it\, and in so doing warrants the claim that law contributes to the production of social order in a particular community? \nThe answer\, I contend\, is that law lives\, or exists\, only in those societies where law rules\, and law rules only when the exercise of political power is conducted under the supervision of lawyers\, agents for whom realizing the rule of law is a calling or vocation. Perhaps surprisingly\, I contend that the most prominent proponent of this account of law in the field of international law and legal theory is Martti Koskenniemi. While he generally eschews talk of government in accordance with the rule of law in favor of “a culture of formalism” and “constitutionalism as a mindset\,” I demonstrate that Koskenniemi defends the same conception of law that Lon Fuller and Ronald Dworkin do. This conception identifies law not with rules or institutions but with a particular approach to the exercise of political power\, one premised on actors reciprocal regard for one another as autonomous and responsible agents. \nRead the paper here. \nAbout the speaker:\nDavid Lefkowitz \nDavid Lefkowitz is Professor of Philosophy and the founding Coordinator of the Program in Philosophy\, Politics\, Economics\, and Law (PPEL) at the University of Richmond (US). His scholarship focuses largely on conceptual and normative questions in international law\, and the morality of obedience and disobedience to law. He is the author of Philosophy and International Law: A Critical Introduction (CUP 2020)\, as well as more than forty journal articles and book chapters. Lefkowitz has held research fellowships at Princeton University\, the U.S. Naval Academy\, and National University of Singapore\, and served as a visiting research scholar at Pompeu Fabra University. \n  \nThursday 11 May 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is co-hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence and the Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-the-life-of-international-law-is-not-logic-but-experience/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230420T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230420T193000
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theory
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theory\nIn-person event\n  \nIn this talk\, Dr Ntina Tzouvala sets out to defend the potential for legal theory of what Edward Said called ‘contrapuntal reading’\, Louis Althusser (drawing from Jacques Lacan) described as ‘symptomatic read-ing’\, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick denounced as ‘paranoid reading’. Albeit different in their origins and orientation\, all three approaches demand that we take law seriously\, but not literally. They suggest that legal texts neither are nor can be made complete and coherent and they presume that nobody is in full control of those text\, perhaps least of all their authors. \nDr Tzouvala argues that this ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ (Ricoeur\, 1970) establishes the specificity of (critical) legal theory as opposed to both doctrinal work that strives for consistency and to a particular form of legal history and legal biography that place the conscious plans\, desires and ideas of the individual subject at the centre of the law. Importantly\, this approach does not simply defer to ‘politics’ for the validity for its arguments but posits that symptomatic reading is the only way to establish rigorous knowledge of the law as an autonomous subject. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr Ntina Tzouvala \nDr Ntina Tzouvala’s work focuses on the political economy\, history and theory of international law. She is especially interested in historical materialism\, deconstruction\, feminist and queer legal theory. Her first monograph\, Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law\, was published by Cambridge University Press in late 2020. Her book was awarded the 2022 ASIL Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship and the Australian Legal Research Award (ALRA) in the book category. In addition\, it was shortlisted for the Deutscher Prize and was awarded a honourable mention in the context of the 2021 Sussex Prize in International Theory. Her work has also appeared in leading journals\, including the European Journal of International Law\, the Leiden Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Economic Law. \nBetween 2019 and 2021 Ntina was a founding member of the editorial collective of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review. In early 2020\, she was appointed Senior Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. \n\nThursday 20 April 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEDT\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is co-hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence and the Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-politics-all-the-way-down-a-qualified-defence-of-critical-legal-theory/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20221208T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20221208T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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SUMMARY:Julius Stone Address: The Legal Experience of Injustice
DESCRIPTION:Julius Stone Address: The Legal Experience of Injustice\nIn-person event \nIn The Faces of Injustice\, Judith Shklar criticizes the ‘normal model’ of justice which views injustice as ‘a prelude to or a rejection and breakdown of justice\, as if injustice were a surprising abnormality’. Her central insight is that ‘the real realm of injustice … does not stand outside of the gates of even the best known of states. Most injustices occur continuously within the framework of an established polity with an operative system of law in normal times.’ She also offers a second\, Hobbesian insight: ‘[w]ithout juridical institutions and the beliefs that support them\, there can be no decent\, just\, or stable social relations\, but only anxiety\, mutual mistrust\, and insecurity’. Since juridical institutions and the beliefs that support them may be necessary for justice\, but insufficient to prevent injustice\, the insights are perfectly consistent as a matter of abstract logic. \nMy question is consistency as a matter of a different logic\, the logic of legal experience for those in the ‘jural community’\, the community of persons subject to law. I argue that such experience shows that certain kinds of injustice are inconsistent with an operative system of law since they create tensions within the jural community that it must resolve to remain operative. I rely on two of Shklar’s examples\, the Nazi state and slavery in USA\, and two she did not mention\, the apartheid state and the ‘parallel state’ of Israel and the Occupied Territories\, to show how systems of law offer a legal resource that makes resistance to certain kinds of injustice possible and thus the practice of human rights lawyering. However\, at the same time we see that all involved in maintaining an operative system of law\, including human rights lawyers and their clients\, participate in legitimizing the system. Here I suggest that Shklar underestimated the ability of the legal theories of three important exemplars of the normal model of justice\, H.L.A. Hart\, Lon Fuller and Ronald Dworkin\, to illuminate different aspects of the experience of injustice. \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThursday 8 December\, 6-7.30pm\nCPD points =1.5 \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nAbout the speaker\nProfessor David Dyzenhaus \nDavid Dyzenhaus is a professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto\, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He holds the Albert Abel Chair of Law and was appointed in 2015 to the rank of University Professor. He has taught in South Africa\, England\, Canada\, Singapore\, New Zealand\, Hungary\, Mexico and the USA. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University and law and undergraduate degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand\, South Africa. In 2002\, he was the Law Foundation Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Law\, University of Auckland. In 2005-06 he was Herbert Smith Visiting Professor in the Cambridge Law Faculty and a Senior Scholar of Pembroke College\, Cambridge. In 2014-15\, he was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science in Cambridge. In 2016-17\, he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. In 2020-21\, he was a Guggenheim Fellow and a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College\, Oxford. \nProfessor Dyzenhaus is the author of Hard Cases in Wicked Legal Systems: South African Law in the Perspective of Legal Philosophy (now in its second edition)\, Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt\, Hans Kelsen\, and Hermann Heller in Weimar\, and Judging the Judges\, Judging Ourselves: Truth\, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order. He has edited and co-edited several collections of essays. In 2004 he gave the JC Smuts Memorial Lectures to the Faculty of Law\, Cambridge University. These were published by Cambridge University Press in 2006 as The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency. He is editor of the University of Toronto Law Journal and co-editor of the series Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law. His most recent book is The Long Arc of Legality: Hobbes\, Kelsen\, Hart (Cambridge\, 2022). \n  \nContact \nPlease contact Dr Kevin Walton (kevin.walton@sydney.edu.au) with enquiries about the conference. \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. \nThe Julius Stone Address is generously sponsored by the Educational Heritage Foundation. It is named to commemorate the life and work of Professor Julius Stone\, Australia’s foremost legal philosopher and for many years Challis Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/julius-stone-address-the-legal-experience-of-injustice/
LOCATION:Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20221124T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20221124T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Lawmativity
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Lawmativity\nHybrid event\n  \nExplaining the normativity of law – how it guides action by giving reasons – is one of the central questions of general jurisprudence. It is also one of the topics on which there is least agreement. In the first half of the talk\, Alex Horne offers a diagnosis as to why. Basically: the desiderata for a genuine and mutually satisfactory solution to the problem of law’s normativity cannot all be satisfied by one theory. In the second half of the talk\, he articulates his partial solution to the problem and explains (i) which desiderata we should abandon and (ii) why the best – and complete – account of law’s normativity is therefore piecemeal. \nAbout the speaker:\nAlex Horne is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. He works on various topics in moral psychology\, ethics\, political philosophy\, and jurisprudence. \n\nThursday 24 November 2022\, 6-7.30pm AEDT\nThis event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-lawmativity/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220915T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220915T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Children\, families\, and immigration enforcement
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Children\, families\, and immigration enforcement\nSpeaker: Associate Professor Matthew Lister\, Bond University \nWhat might otherwise seem like straight-forward instances of immigration enforcement can give rise to both practical and moral complications when the objects of the enforcement measures are children and/or have close family ties to citizens or legal permanent residents. In the case of children\, we may doubt whether they can be held morally responsible for immigration violations and may also face complicated questions about the best interest of the children. \nWhen an otherwise removable non-citizen has close family ties to a citizen or permanent resident\, we may worry that removal will both impose disproportionate harms on the one removed and will also cause unacceptable harms on\, and violate the rights of\, citizens or permanent residents. \nIn this seminar\, Matthew Lister will try to isolate the issues\, both practical and moral\, and look at what sorts of limits they place on otherwise acceptable instances of immigration enforcement. \nAbout the speaker:\nMatthew Lister is an Associate Professor at Bond University. He is a legal and political philosopher as well as a lawyer who works on normative issues relating to immigration and refugee law\, international law\, including international economic law and regulation\, workplace and employment law\, criminal law\, and other issues in jurisprudence and political philosophy. \n  \nThursday 15 September 2022\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nThis event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-children-families-and-immigration-enforcement/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220825T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220825T193000
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Jealousy of trade\, from the Scottish Enlightenment to neoliberalism
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Jealousy of trade\, from the Scottish Enlightenment to neoliberalism\nSpeaker: Associate Professor Jessica Whyte\, UNSW \nIn this talk\, I trace the Scottish Enlightenment debates about what David Hume termed “jealousy of trade”—that is\, the transformation of international commerce into a political concern of states and a cause of international conflict. I revisit these debates – in a context marked by new trade wars and military conflicts within a highly integrated global economy – in order to propose a new understanding of neoliberalism. Against the dominant understanding of neoliberalism as primarily an economic ideology\, I argue that early neoliberals (notably Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises) drew from the Scottish Enlightenment to portray market competition as the necessary condition not of economic efficiency but of social and international peace. Against laissez-faire\, they portrayed the market (and peace) as a legal order\, not a natural order. In this vein\, they also pioneered new forms of economic coercion to restrict the options of democratic polities\, and to pacify market societies. \nAbout the speaker:\nJessica Whyte is Scientia Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales with a cross-appointment in the Faculty of Law. Her work integrates political philosophy\, intellectual history and political economy to analyse contemporary forms of sovereignty\, human rights\, humanitarianism and militarism. She is the author of Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben\, (SUNY 2013) and The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism (Verso\, 2019). \n  \nThursday 25 August 2022\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nThis event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-jealousy-of-trade-from-the-scottish-enlightenment-to-neoliberalism/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220818T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220818T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: The Conscience of Trust
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: The Conscience of Trust\nSpeaker: Professor Irit Samet\, King’s College London \nAt the heart of the modern trust lies a glaring paradox: how has a legal institution that is repeatedly referred to by the courts as rooted in a duty of conscience become infamous for helping individuals to achieve goals that are patently unconscionable? \nWith every brazen leak of documents from offshore jurisdictions and the ensuing investigation into the financial affairs of the super affluent\, it becomes clear that the trust is now a widely used vehicle for evading duties owed by property owners to creditors\, dependants and the community. A dangerous trend of importing practices and trust structures from offshore jurisdictions to established onshore trust regimes threatens to further accelerate the corrosion in the reputation of the trust. Any comprehensive solution for the acute legitimacy problem faced by the trust must be multi-systemic. \nIn this paper\, I focus on one aspect of it: the normative basis for the trust obligation. Looking at the conceptual edifice that underlies the trustee’s obligations\, the paper argues that what worked for the problems that afflicted traditional trust relationship may not be suitable when facing the challenges of modern trusts. However\, the way in which the concept of ‘conscience’ functions in this area of the law can be useful for reformers who wish to protect (what is left of) the good name of trusts. In particular\, it can help us build the necessary moral authority for recent judicial interventions that aim to undo the damage of reckless offshore trust forms. I look into the way the courts of equity lift the concept of conscience from moral discourse and what this means for the moral standing of beneficiaries to make claims on the basis of trusts that are designed to create ‘orphan property’. \nAbout the speaker:\nIrit Samet is a Professor in the Dickson Poon School of Law\, which she joined in 2008. She was previously a Lecturer in Law at Mansfield College\, Oxford (2006-2007)\, and a lecturer at the University of Essex (2008). She read law and philosophy in Israel and completed her doctorate at Oxford. Her main research interests lie in the Law of Equity\, Property Law\, and the theory of private law. She published papers on these subjects in leading journals (like OJLS\, MLR)\, and her book on the theory of Equity Law was published by OUP in 2018. She is a course convener for the undergraduate module of Equity and Trusts\, and teaches philosophy of property law as an option B part of the Jurisprudence course\, and research seminars in property law. \n  \nThursday 18 August 2022\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nThis event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-the-conscience-of-trust/
LOCATION:Sydney Law School\, Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220811T193000
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Flourishing in the Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Flourishing in the Anthropocene\nSpeaker: Associate Professor Nicole Graham\, Sydney Law School \nProgressive property theory presents a recent corrective to atomistic theories that isolate property interests from the network of relations and obligations arising from the sociality of organised human society. The ‘social obligation norm’ that underpins progressive property theory stretches back to Aristotle’s philosophy of eudemonia (‘human flourishing’ or ‘living well’) written in the 4th Century BC. But property is not timeless; the world has changed. The rise of global greenhouse gas emissions above pre-industrial levels is rapidly transforming the climate of the planet – presenting an existential crisis on a scale far greater than the individual\, society\, and species. For millennia\, Western theories of property\, including progressive property\, have been dominated by anthropocentric notions of law and land. However\, the concept of community\, central to progressive property theory\, foregrounds and prioritises both materiality and relationality\, making possible a more viable theory of human-earth relations for the 21st Century. The arrival of the Anthropocene calls for a planetary understanding of ‘community’ that encompasses its disowned human and more-than-human members\, whose labour in Capital’s shadow lands provide the conditions of modern Western proprietorship. ‘Living well’ through the 21st century will involve reframing social obligation as existential imperative to model a viable property regime. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr Nicole Graham is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School. She teaches and researches in the fields of property law and theory\, and legal geography. Nicole has written on the relationship between law\, environment and culture with a particular focus on property rights\, natural resource regulation and the concept of place. \n  \nThursday 11 August 2022\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nThis event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-flourishing-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:Sydney Law School\, Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220630T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220630T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: American nullification and secession: the case for constitutional flexibility
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: American nullification and secession: the case for constitutional flexibility\nThis event is being held online and in-person at Sydney Law School. \nSpeaker: Professor Kit Wellman\, Washington University in St Louis \nAmericans live in a political marriage arranged by our ancestors. The good news is that the framers of our Constitution were brilliant; the bad news is that things have changed so dramatically since our predecessors planned our political nuptials that prominent legal theorists are now suggesting that we should fundamentally alter\, if not disband\, the Union. The urge to re-evaluate our constitutional order stems in part from the striking cultural and political divisions among contemporary Americans. In light of these cleavages\, legal scholars are revisiting the long-neglected ideas of nullification\, interposition\, and secession. \nIn this essay\, I review recent monographs by Timothy William Waters and F.H. Buckley along with an anthology edited by Sanford Levinson. I am more interested in highlighting the important questions these theorists raise about the constitutionality\, morality\, and advisability of these measures than I am in advancing any particular position. At least two striking conclusions seem warranted\, though. First\, we urgently need social scientific data on the potential costs and benefits\, not only of state-breaking\, but also of institutionally protecting secessionist rights. And second\, given the increasing enthusiasm for the right to secede\, it would be rash to summarily dismiss the more moderate option of nullification. \nSpeaker:\n​Professor Kit Wellman works in ethics\, specializing in political and legal philosophy. He serves as chair of the education department and is dean of academic planning for Arts & Sciences. \n  \nThursday 30 June 2022\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nThis event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-american-nullification-and-secession-the-case-for-constitutional-flexibility/
LOCATION:Sydney Law School\, New Law Building\, 3 Law School\, Eastern Ave\, Camperdown\, New South Wales\, 2050\, Australia
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220623T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220623T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Primary Duty = Secondary Duty?
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Primary Duty = Secondary Duty?\nThis event is being held online and in-person at Sydney Law School. \nSpeaker: Professor Claudio Michelon\, Edinburgh Law School\nThis paper addresses one of the central questions in the law of torts: what is the relationship between the primary duty and the secondary (or remedial) duty? The two dominant answers to that question (the continuity thesis and the identity thesis) stand in a complex relationship that is not yet fully understood and\, as a result\, the arguments for and against each thesis are muddled. \nThe paper clarifies each thesis\, defends each rival against objections that have been levelled against them and\, at the end\, present reasons why an original version of the continuity thesis offers a better framework within which to understand the relationship between primary and remedial duty. \nAbout the speaker:\nBefore his appointment for the chair of Philosophy of Law\, Professor Michelon was a lecturer (2007-2010) and Senior Lecturer (2010-2015) at Edinburgh Law School. Between 2002 and 2007 he lectured at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul\, while also practicing as a lawyer. Over the past decade or so\, he held a number of visiting positions\, amongst which the HLA Hart Visiting fellowship at Oxford (2007)\, and a British Academy Visiting Fellowship (2006-7). Between 2007 and 2011 he was the Secretary General of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR). He is a co-editor of Routledge’s Critical Studies in Jurisprudence series and part of the editorial board of Springer’s Law and Philosophy Library and of a number of journals. He is currently the Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory. \n  \nThursday 23 June 2022\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nThis event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-primary-duty-secondary-duty/
LOCATION:Law Lounge\, Level 1
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220526T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220526T193000
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: The Modern Approach to Statutory Interpretation
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: The Modern Approach to Statutory Interpretation\nSpeaker: Professor Dale Smith\, The University of Melbourne\nIt is now common\, in Australia and in a number of other jurisdictions\, to speak of “the modern approach to statutory interpretation”. Many of the details of this approach are unclear or contested. However\, the modern approach consists at least of a rejection of literalism\, and an emphasis on the importance of considering the statutory text in context and in light of the statutory purpose. \nAs such\, the modern approach can be characterised as a pluralist account of statutory interpretation. Indeed\, it is sometimes summarised in the slogan “text\, context and purpose”. \nIn this seminar\, Professor Dale Smith identifies three sets of questions raised by the modern approach. These questions concern what\, precisely\, is meant by “text”\, “context” and “purpose”\, what role these three factors play in statutory interpretation (e.g. are they relevant in their own right or merely as evidence of something else?) and what should be done in cases where those factors push in different directions. \nHe argues that\, to the extent that adherents of the modern approach have addressed these questions\, they have disagreed among themselves about the correct answers\, and he explores some of the difficulties confronting the various answers that have been offered to date. \nSpeaker:\nDale Smith’s research focuses primarily on analytic legal philosophy\, especially the jurisprudential writings of Ronald Dworkin. He also writes on theoretical aspects of statutory interpretation and (with Colin Campbell) on anti-discrimination law. \nDale’s research has been published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies\, Legal Theory\, Law and Philosophy\, the Modern Law Review and the University of Toronto Law Journal. \nDale graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1998 with first class honours degrees in Law and Arts. He also holds a Masters of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne and a D.Phil in Law from the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis was on the implications for adjudication of the debate between moral objectivists and anti-objectivists. \nPrior to joining Melbourne Law School in 2014\, Dale was a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy at the University of Surrey in 2019\, and a Visiting Academic at the Faculty of Laws\, University College London in 2012. \nDale is a past Editor of the Australasian Journal of Legal Philosophy\, and a past Treasurer of the Australasian Society of Legal Philosophy. He is currently the Associate Dean (Research) at Melbourne Law School. \n  \nThursday 26 May 2022\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nThis event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.  \n  \nImage: Canva
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-the-modern-approach-to-statutory-interpretation/
LOCATION:Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220505T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220505T193000
DTSTAMP:20260413T050405
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Louise Richardson-Self & Gabrielle Mardon\, "Stuck in Suffering: A Philosophical Exploration of Violence"
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Louise Richardson-Self & Gabrielle Mardon\, “Stuck in Suffering: A Philosophical Exploration of Violence”\nSpeakers: Louise Richardson-Self\, University of Tasmania and Gabrielle Mardon\, PhD candidate\, University of Tasmania\nThis paper considers and evaluates some of the elastic applications of the term “violence”. \nSome of the most well-known applications are structural\, symbolic\, epistemic\, psychosocial\, and linguistic violence. Should these phenomena be understood as violence-proper or are these merely provocative hyperbole? \nSome scholars are openly resistant to these elastic applications\, arguing that calling these phenomena ‘violence’ is no more than conceptual carelessness. \nThe question that interests Louise Richardson-Self and Gabrielle Mardon is why people continue to be drawn to the image of violence to typify certain phenomena that cause suffering. They identify that it is the temporal extension (i.e.\, the experiential duration) of the experience of stuckedness in suffering that unifies these conditions. In close\, they offer some reflections on the relationship of law to (what is called) violence and where it can mitigate stuckedness. \n  \nThursday 5 May 2022\, 6-7.30pm AEST \nThis event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.  \n  \nImage: Canva \n 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-louise-richardson-self-gabrielle-mardon-stuck-in-suffering-a-philosophical-exploration-of-violence/
LOCATION:Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220414T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20220414T193000
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Legislative Intent: A Rational Unity Account
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Legislative Intent: A Rational Unity Account\n(co-authored with David Tan\, Deakin University) \nPLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS BEING HELD ONLINE AND IN-PERSON AT SYDNEY LAW SCHOOL. \nSpeaker: Associate Professor Stephanie Collins\, Monash University\nDoes the legislature have intentions concerning the effects of legislation? If so\, how can that intent be gleaned? Existing theories of legislative intent can be divided into three camps: skepticism\, constructivism\, and realism. This paper begins by outlining problems for constructivism and (existing accounts of) realism. However\, this does not imply a retreat into skepticism. Instead\, the paper offers a new account of legislative intent: the rational unity account. The paper explains how this account avoids the problems with existing versions of realism and constructivism\, while also capturing the sense in which the legislature is a rational group agent with intentions that can be distinguished from the intentions of individual legislators. \nAbout the speaker\nStephanie Collins is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Monash University. Her work primarily develops theories of group agency and group responsibility. Her monographs are The Core of Care Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2015)\, Group Duties: Their Existence and Their Implications for Individuals (Oxford University Press\, 2019) and Organizations as Wrongdoers (Oxford University Press\, forthcoming). \n  \nThursday 14 April 2022\nTime: 6-7.30pm AEST \nPLEASE NOTE: This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-legislative-intent-a-rational-unity-account/
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20211118T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20211118T193000
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Social possibility as constraint and social possibility as construct
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Social possibility as constraint and social possibility as construct\nSpeaker: Jayani Nadarajalingam\, University of Melbourne\nAs political and social philosophers\, one of our central aims is to work out which of the social facts in our world should be the candidates for change and why. In doing so\, we tend to treat some social facts as given whereas we treat others as objects of change. This gives rise to a question: which social facts should we treat as given and which ones as objects of action? \nThis paper puts forward a way in which we can answer this question in a principled manner. In doing so\, it describes two properties of social possibility: social possibility as constraint and social possibility as construct. This then paves the way for an innovative understanding of the ideal/nonideal distinction that is often drawn in contemporary analytic English-language political philosophy. \n  \nSpeaker\nJayani Nadarajalingam is a lecturer with the Melbourne School of Government at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests lie primarily in political philosophy and constitutional theory. In 2022\, she will commence a postdoctoral fellowship in the Melbourne Law School’s Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law (led by Professor Adrienne Stone). \n  \nTime: 6-7.30pm AEDT \nThis is an online event. You will receive Zoom details closer to the day of the event. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-social-possibility-as-constraint-and-social-possibility-as-construct/
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20211103T183000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20211103T193000
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law\n\nThis inaugural Sydney Law School public lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law will be delivered by Associate Professor Nicole Watson\, on the topic of ‘Indigenous Women\, Outlaw Culture and the Law’. \nThe University of Sydney Law School\, the oldest in Australia\, has long taught almost exclusively the laws brought by settlers to this continent. The Law School is committed to transforming legal education as part of the University’s ‘One Sydney\, Many People’ Indigenous Strategy. \nEarlier this year the Law School declared its support for the Uluru Statement of the Heart. We are also committed to further embedding Indigenous perspectives and legal traditions into our curriculum. \nThis new annual lecture is a key part of those commitments. It seeks to create a public platform for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholars to reflect on the nature of Indigenous laws and legal traditions for a wider audience in Australia and abroad. \n2021 Lecture\n‘Indigenous Women\, Outlaw Culture and the Law’ \nSince the advent of colonisation\, Indigenous women have rarely enjoyed the protection of the law. In response to their exclusion from the law’s protection\, generations of Indigenous women have developed an outlaw culture\, which consists of tactics and practices that provide sanctuary from the violence of colonisation. \nIn common with the outlaw culture articulated by the American scholar\, Monica Evans\, Indigenous women’s outlaw culture is manifest in a spectrum of relationships with the law. At one end of the spectrum are the law-breakers who became bushrangers and absconders. At the other end are women who sought to create sanctuary by operating within the law. Such outlaw women drew upon their resourcefulness and grit to advocate for constitutional reform. Others pursued litigation in order to protect the rights of vulnerable people. \n\n\nThe speaker\nAssociate Professor Nicole Watson\, Director of Nura Gili Academic Programs\, University of New South Wales. \nNicole Watson is a Murri academic from south-east Queensland\, whose family hail from the Munanjali and Birri Gubba peoples. She is the Director of Nura Gili Academic Programs at UNSW\, and has an LLB\, an LLM and a DCA. Nicole has published a large body of work on legal issues that are pertinent to Indigenous peoples. Her 2021 book Indigenous Legal Judgments\, co-edited with Heather Douglas\, examines how the stories of Indigenous peoples can be incorporated into legal decision making. \nThe inaugural lecture is sponsored by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence. It will also feature several guest speakers: \n\nProfessor Lisa Jackson Pulver AM\, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services)\, University of Sydney\nProfessor Simon Bronitt\, Dean\, Sydney Law School\, University of Sydney\nNathan Allen\, First Nations Officer\, Sydney University Law Society\n\n  \nWatch the replay\nWatch on The University of Sydney’s YouTube: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law: ‘Indigenous Women\, Outlaw Culture and the Law’\,  delivered by Associate Professor Nicole Watson. \nCPD Points: 1.5 \nThis lecture is presented by the University of Sydney Law School in collaboration with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) at the University of Sydney. \nBanner image credit: ‘Yanhambabirra Burambabirra Yalbailinya‘ (Come\, Share and Learn) 2020 by Luke Penrith for the One Sydney Many People Strategy.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/public-lecture-on-indigenous-peoples-and-law/
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Fidelity to Real-World Politics: Political Realism under Conditions of Modernity
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Fidelity to Real-World Politics: Political Realism under Conditions of Modernity\nSpeaker: Lukas Opacic\, Sydney Law School\nIn recent years\, the debate between political moralists and political realists has enjoyed increasing relevance within the philosophical literature\, and this presentation adds another voice to that debate. Lukas Opacic begins by outlining what he regards as a key methodological requirement of political realism: that political theory must be sufficiently faithful to the conditions of real-world politics if it is to be ‘political’ theory (what he calls the ‘fidelity requirement’). The paper then defends two claims: first\, that the ‘fidelity requirement’ is a necessary one for political theory; and second\, that a popular form of political realism\, that of Bernard Williams\, does not adequately satisfy that requirement. \nSpeaker\nLukas Opacic is a graduate of Sydney Law School and was awarded his PhD (Realism and Moralism in Political Thought) this year. He also holds a B.Sc. (Pure Mathematics) from the University of Sydney and teaches Constitutional Law and Public Law at Sydney Law School. His research concerns the methodology of political theory\, in particular the way in which methodological considerations can shed light on what are generally considered purely substantive questions in political theory. This research also explores the ways in which the work of Michael Oakeshott can be used as an alternative basis for realist thought in a post-liberal political context. In a previous life\, Lukas was a concert pianist and a mathematics teacher. \n  \nTime: 6-7.30pm \nThis is an online event. Once you register you will receive the Zoom details. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-fidelity-to-real-world-politics-political-realism-under-conditions-of-modernity/
CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210923T180000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20210923T193000
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Law's People
DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Law’s People\nSpeaker: Dr Susan Bartie\, University of Tasmania\nAlice Erh-Soon Tay was appointed as Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney in 1975. She became the first Asian-Australian and second woman to become a law professor at an Australian university. \nHer appointment brought with it a belief among some of her new colleagues that she would close the jurisprudential arm of the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law and end decades of division within the Faculty. \nContrary to expectations\, she neither closed the Department nor mended fences. The small Department continued to operate\, in the face of opposition and hostility\, for another 23 years. Unlike her predecessor\, Professor Julius Stone\, Tay is not a well-known figure among the current generation of Australian legal academics. \nDrawing on this case study\, as well as others described in Free Hands and Minds (Hart\, 2019) and American Legal Education Abroad – Critical Histories (NYU Press\, 2021 – edited with David Sandomierski)\, this paper will explore how and why we honour and remember certain legal figures. It will identify a range of factors\, including US influence\, which have distorted current understandings of academics and the discipline of law. And it will argue that in some circumstances the running of a department or faculty can be characterised as an important contribution to both the discipline of law and legal theory; a contribution which ought to be better recognised and understood. \nSpeaker\nDr Susan Bartie is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania. She researches the history of legal ideas\, law schools and lawyers in Australian society. She is currently working on a 50-year socio-legal history of Australian environmental lawyering which\, from 2022 to 2024\, will be supported by an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. \n  \nTime: 6-7.30pm \nThis is an online event. Once you register you will receive the Zoom details. \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. 
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-laws-people/
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