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The next chapter of IBC: Innovations and expectations for India’s insolvency framework

New Law Building (F10)

In-person event This seminar will discuss developments in India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 over the past year, including creditor recoveries of over $40 billion and major real estate resolutions that have safeguarded homebuyer interests and facilitated the completion of stalled projects, supported by innovative frameworks like the ‘Reverse CIRP’. The seminar will also discuss […]

2025 George Winterton Memorial Lecture: The evolving electoral system as an ongoing constitutional process

Banco Court, Supreme Court of NSW (184 Phillip Street, Sydney) 184 Phillip Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Speaker: The Honourable Stephen John Gageler AC, Chief Justice of Australia About the lecture The form of popular sovereignty empowered by the Australian Constitution was framed to be government by “the people” in constitutive and routine manifestations, both sustaining and sustained by the system of government it called into existence. It was framed to be […]

White boxing the administrative state: Machine learning algorithms and the duty to give reasons in administrative law

Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus New Law Building, Camperdown, Australia

In-person event This presentation uses contemporary examples of automated systems operating in the UK and Australia to examine the duty to give reasons and the extent to which automated systems currently in use in the administrative state give effect to the duty. The discussion seeks to answer three questions: what are the purposes of the […]

2025 Sydney Centre for International Law “Year in Review”

Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus New Law Building, Camperdown, Australia

The Sydney Centre for International Law at Sydney Law School is delighted to present the tenth International Law Year in Review Conference, to be held at the Law School on Friday 28 February 2025. This annual ‘year in review’ conference gives participants insight into the latest developments in international law over the preceding year, including […]

The environmental damage of rare earth mining: Regulatory challenges in China

Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney, Camperdown Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown, NSW, Australia

In-person event Rare earth elements (REE) are critical raw materials essential for manufacturing wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicles. As nations strive to meet net-zero emission targets under the Paris Agreement, the global demand for REE is expected to surge in the green energy transition. However, rare earth mining and processing often result in […]

JSI Seminar | Democracy’s people

Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus New Law Building, Camperdown, Australia

In-person event In the Voice Referendum, one major reason for voting No was the conviction among some Australians that the Australian people ought to be seen as single and undivided; for these Australians, the recognition of divisions within the polity would be inconsistent with the equal, democratically-grounded citizenship of all Australians. In this seminar I […]

JSI Seminar | Polyvocal constitutionalism

Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus New Law Building, Camperdown, Australia

In-person event Constitutional theory increasingly recognizes that constitutional norms are shaped and implemented by a broad range of actors – at different levels of government, across different institutions, and from the “top down” and “bottom up”. Polyvocal constitutionalism of this kind also has a range of advantages: it has potential epistemic benefits, can enhance the […]

Professionalising bank culture

Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus New Law Building, Camperdown, Australia

In-person event This talk is a critical examination of the cultural impact of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) in the UK and the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR), recently expanded into the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR), in Australia. Though various reports in the UK and Australia have determined that these IARs are already […]

Let’s Talk About Corporations: From Monopoly to Lego: Building a more competitive economy from the ground up

Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building, Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney, Camperdown campus

In-person event In his 2023 launch of Let’s Talk About Corporations (a series of boardroom conversations organised by the Sydney Law School and the University of Queensland Law School), the former Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Professor Rod Sims AO called for a revitalisation and reform of competition law and policy in […]

Corporate re-domiciliation: a comparative perspective

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

In-person event Globally there is a diversity of approaches to corporate re-domiciliation, which involves the transfer of registration of a company from its place of incorporation to another jurisdiction. While some jurisdictions have allowed this, others such as the United Kingdom (UK) are in the process of considering the viability of such a regime. While […]

JSI Seminar | On the nature of legal reasoning: Rules, knowledge and concepts

This seminar is part of a larger work on legal reasoning. The seminar focuses on three aspects of our reasoning capabilities, to provide a sense of the intellectual territory we inhabit when we engage in legal reasoning. The seminar presents a broadly Wittgensteinian approach to rules and rule-following and the nature of knowledge, in particular […]

Julius Stone Address: Legal practice and the responsibility of individuals

Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10), University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus

In-person event Some legal practices, such as the private law of obligations and property, are justified by the good that general compliance with their rules bring about. It cannot be said, however, that each particular act of compliance by individuals itself contributes to that good outcome. And yet there is clearly an ethical tie between […]