BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Law School: Events - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Law School: Events REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Sydney BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20230401T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20230930T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20240406T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20241005T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20250405T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20251004T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20260404T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20261003T160000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250409T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250409T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20250210T065728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T065729Z UID:2210-1744221600-1744227000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Julius Stone Address: Legal practice and the responsibility of individuals DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nSome 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 individuals and the rules of the practices. Leaving aside cases where the law simply protects independent moral rights\, the same points can be made about compliance with law generally. This lecture explores the question of how we should understand the ethical tie between individuals and legal practices that are justified in terms of the social good produced by general compliance. An imperfect duty of impartial beneficence will play a central role in the account. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nLiam Murphy works in legal\, moral\, and political philosophy and the application of these inquiries to law\, legal institutions\, and legal theory. Subjects of his publications range from abstract questions of moral philosophy (for example\, “Nonlegislative Justification\,” in Jeff McMahan et al.\, Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit\, 2021) to concrete issues of legal and economic policy (for example\, The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice\, 2002\, co-authored with Thomas Nagel). A central theme in all Murphy’s work is that legal\, moral\, and political theory cannot be pursued independently of one another; they are\, in fact\, different dimensions of a single subject. This theme is evident in his book What Makes Law (2014)\, which locates the traditional philosophical issue of the grounds of law (the factors that determine the content of the law in force) within broader issues of political theory. \n\n\n\nMuch of Murphy’s recent work has been in the field of private law theory\, though he has also recently returned to tax policy\, writing a new paper with Thomas Nagel on wealth taxation. Going forward\, Murphy is working on a book project that concerns the connections and differences among the justifications of practices (including legal practices) and the moral requirements that apply to individuals\, collectives of individuals\, and states. Murphy has been awarded fellowships at Columbia’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities\, Harvard’s Society of Fellows\, and the National Humanities Center. He was vice dean of NYU School of Law from 2007 to 2010. \n\n\n\nWednesday 9 April 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 6-7.30pmVenue: Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. \n\n\n\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/2025jsaddress_liammurphy/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown Campus ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/jsaddress2025wordpress.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250403T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250403T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20250225T010955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250225T025045Z UID:2218-1743685200-1743688800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | On the nature of legal reasoning: Rules\, knowledge and concepts DESCRIPTION: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 the distinction between ‘knowing how’ and ‘knowing that’ and the relationship between the two. Lastly\, it considers the ‘concept’ of concepts and of legal concepts in particular\, and the vexed question of whether ‘conceptual analysis’ has any role to play in legal reasoning. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nJames Penner (B.Sc (Genetics) University of Western Ontario (1985)\, LLB University of Toronto (1988)\, DPhil Oxford (1992)) is Kwa Geok Choo Professor of Property Law at the University of Singapore\, which he joined in 2013. He formerly taught at Brunel University\, the London School of Economics\, King’s College London\, and University College London. He is one of the world’s leading scholars in the philosophy of property and the law of trusts\, and writes more widely in the areas of private law and the philosophy of law. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Alberta\, the University of Queensland\, Queen’s University (Canada)\, Jilin University\, the Catholic University of Leuven\, the University of Toronto and Harvard University and\, most recently\, at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday 3 April\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\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/jsiseminar_penner/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/penner-banner.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250402T170000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250402T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20250220T001427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250220T001651Z UID:2214-1743613200-1743616800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Corporate re-domiciliation: a comparative perspective DESCRIPTION:In-person event\n\n\n\nGlobally 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 some allow both inward and outward re-domiciliation\, a few jurisdictions allow only the inward variety. This seminar explores the motivating factors surrounding corporate re-domiciliation\, the varied regimes among key jurisdictions\, the differing roles of corporate regulators\, and the policy considerations that deal with possible concerns surrounding the process. It does so with specific focus on the laws or proposals in the UK\, Singapore and Hong Kong\, among other key jurisdictions. \n\n\n\nPresenter\n\n\n\nUmakanth Varottil is Vice Dean (Graduate Studies) and Professor at the Faculty of Law\, National University of Singapore. He specialises in corporate law and governance\, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. While his work is generally comparative in nature\, his specific focus is on India and Singapore. \n\n\n\nUmakanth is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He is also an editor of the Indian Law Review\, Asian Journal of Comparative Law\, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies\, Oxford Business Law Blog and the ECGI Blog. Prior to his foray into academia\, Umakanth was a partner at a pre-eminent law firm in India. During that time\, he was also ranked as a leading corporate/mergers & acquisitions lawyer in India by the Chambers Global Guide. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 2 April 2025\, 5-6pm AEDT\n\n\n\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial\, Corporate and Taxation at the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/corporate-re-domiciliation/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Uma_seminar.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250319T170000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250319T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20250305T000631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T000631Z UID:2226-1742403600-1742409000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Let’s Talk About Corporations: From Monopoly to Lego: Building a more competitive economy from the ground up DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nIn 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 Australia.Join us for the inaugural Let’s Talk About Corporations event of 2025 with a talk by the The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP\, Assistant Minister for Charities\, Treasury and Competition\, Assistant Minister for Employment discussing the recent policy focus on fostering competition across industries. \n\n\n\nPresenter\n\n\n\nAndrew Leigh is the Assistant Minister for Competition\, Charities\, Treasury and Employment\, and Federal Member for Fenner in the ACT. Prior to being elected in 2010\, Andrew was a professor of economics at the Australian National University. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard\, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in Arts and Law. Andrew is a past recipient of the Economic Society of Australia’s Young Economist Award and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 19 March 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 5-6.30pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1.5 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Let’s Talk About Corporations series is a joint project of Sydney Law School and UQ Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/monopoly-to-lego/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/yaneevent.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250318T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250318T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20250303T060134Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250303T060508Z UID:2222-1742302800-1742306400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Professionalising bank culture DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nThis 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 starting to have a positive impact on the culture of the financial services sector\, there are also some indications to the contrary\, which are often minimised. \n\n\n\nDrawing on legal and regulatory theory\, criminological theory\, and behavioural psychology\, this talk explores how these IARs can work better in practice\, setting out a normative roadmap for both regulators and financial institutions to consider when implementing and executing these regimes. It explores\, for example\, the case for implementing a “process sandbox” to provide guidance on the operation and implementation of IARs\, where there is a lack of clarity as to how provisions of the IAR will be interpreted by regulators. This would provide the opportunity to increase mutual understanding of regulatory expectations thereby enhancing the probability that regulatory objectives will be met. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the talk explores the case for further professionalising the banking sector\, as recommended by the UK Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards in 2013 and the Australian Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking\, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry in 2019. In particular\, it employs regulatory theory (meta-regulation)\, behavioural psychology (groups as moral anchors)\, and criminological theory (stakes in conformity)\, to explore how increased professionalisation is a form of control and attachment\, creating particular group dynamics which can inform individual decision-making processes and help to generate more ethical actions to prevent wrongdoing. It is argued that professionalism can be enhanced by educational requirements that emphasise members’ commitment to serve a positive social purpose\, beyond profit-maximisation\, and through mechanisms for members to be disciplined by their community for failing to honour their duties. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nJoe McGrath is an Irish Research Council Scholar\, an Ireland-Canada Scholar\, a Fulbright Scholar\, and an Associate Professor of Law at the Sutherland School of Law\, University College Dublin\, Ireland. He researches corporate governance\, financial regulation\, and white-collar crime. He is the author and editor of several books and publishes in the leading-peer reviewed journals in Ireland\, Europe\, Australia\, and the USA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday 18 March\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/professionalising-bank-culture/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/wordpressprofessionalisingbankculture.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250314T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250314T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20250210T060143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T060144Z UID:2207-1741957200-1741960800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Polyvocal constitutionalism DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nConstitutional 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 political and sociological legitimacy of the process of constitutional construction\, and increase support for core democratic norms. At the same time\, there is clear scope for debate about how constitutionalism should work in a polyvocal world: should poly-vocalism\, for example\, be premised on ongoing constitutional contestation or a preference for the resolution of constitutional controversies? And within this spectrum\, what values or ethos should guide courts as they engage with other actors: for example\, deference\, collaboration or democratic responsiveness? This article explores these questions\, and offers a partial defence of responsiveness as the most desirable model of polyvocal constitutionalism\, in a world of rich choice. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nRosalind Dixon is a Scientia Professor and Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law Sydney. \n\n\n\nFriday 14 March\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\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-polyvocal-constitutionalism/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/rosdixonjsiseminar.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250306T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250306T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20250205T054007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250205T054008Z UID:2183-1741284000-1741289400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Democracy’s people DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar I explore the relationship between democracy and how one defines “the people”. A common approach suggests that “the people” ought to be defined only by the scope of the institutions themselves. On this view\, for the purposes of democratic governance\, the people are a purely institutional creation\, formed by the rules that determine the boundaries of the state (“the institutionalist position”). A second common approach treats “the people” as formed exogenously. Peoples are defined pre-politically\, typically in cultural terms. Those peoples possess the right to self-determination; they determine their own political structure (“the culturalist position”). \n\n\n\nEach of these positions is over-simplified. I advance a “hybrid position”\, which recognizes (in response to the culturalists) that there are often multiple potential definitions of the people\, that “the people” is not purely pre-political\, and that the value of democratic self-government can help us to weigh those potential definitions; and (in response to the institutionalists)\, that democratic self-government is inevitably shaped by cultural factors\, and thus\, for reasons internal to democratic theory\, the structure of democratic institutions can legitimately include certain adaptations to those factors. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nJeremy Webber is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Victoria (Canada) and Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has written widely in legal theory\, constitutional theory\, Indigenous rights\, federalism\, cultural diversity\, and constitutional law in Canada and in relation to other countries (especially Australia). \n\n\n\nProfessor Webber began his career at McGill University (1987-1998)\, was Dean of Law at the University of Sydney (1998-2002)\, then Canada Research Chair in Law and Society at the University of Victoria (2002-2014)\, until he surrendered that chair to become Dean of Law at UVic (2013-2018) and finally Professor Emeritus from 2023 until now. He was appointed a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation in 2009\, Fellow of Royal Society of Canada in 2016\, and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne in 2023. \n\n\n\nThursday 6 March 2025\, 6-7.30pm AEDT\n\n\n\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1.5 \n\n\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-democracys-people/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/jsiwebber.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250305T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250305T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20250207T044741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250209T220439Z UID:2186-1741179600-1741183200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:The environmental damage of rare earth mining: Regulatory challenges in China DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nRare 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 significant and sometimes irreversible harm to the ecosystem. \n\n\n\nChina\, the global leader in REE extraction and production\, has dominated the industry for decades\, largely on the strength of historically unregulated mining practices. This seminar will explore the environmental damage of REE extraction and production in China and examine the regulatory challenges in the implementation of permit control\, environmental impact assessment\, and eco-environmental remediation. By engaging with case studies involving courts\, agencies and procuratorates as well as the central and local governments\, we will gain a better understanding of the real-world complexity and the Chinese approach to pollution prevention and environmental remediation. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nYuhong Zhao is an associate professor from the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. She teaches Chinese Civil Law and Chinese Environmental Law on both the LLB and the LLM programmes. Her research interests are Chinese environmental law\, climate law and policy\, and comparative environmental law. She is the author of Chinese Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press\, 2021) and has published extensively with prestigious academic law journals on issues of climate change\, environmental enforcement\, environmental impact assessment\, environmental dispute resolution\, land contamination\, and biodiversity conservation. \n\n\n\nWedneday 5 March\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Room TBC\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\nThis event is proudly co-presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney Law School\, and The China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/rareearthminingchina/ LOCATION:Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown\, NSW\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/RareearthminingChina.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250228T090000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250228T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241202T045610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T235832Z UID:2156-1740733200-1740762000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:2025 Sydney Centre for International Law "Year in Review" DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nThis annual ‘year in review’ conference gives participants insight into the latest developments in international law over the preceding year\, including those most salient for Australia. \n\n\n\nThis all-day\, event features Professor Aaron Fellmeth of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law as keynote speaker and includes insights on important legal developments in 2024.  Nick Bryant\, one of the BBC’s finest foreign correspondents\, joins us for a literary lunch where he will discuss his latest book The Forever War. \n\n\n\nThe conference will traverse recent developments in areas such as public international law\, private international law\, international criminal law and international environmental law. Speakers will include leading academics\, practitioners and government lawyers. \n\n\n\nParticipation will enable lawyers and non-lawyers alike to remain abreast of important trends in international affairs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday 28 February 2025 \n\n\n\nTime: 9am – 5pmVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, University of Sydney \n\n\n\nView the program here \n\n\n\nRegistration$50 for full day attendance$25 for full day student attendance \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly hosted by the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/sydney-2025-sydney-centre-for-international-law-year-in-review/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SCILYIR2025.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250226T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250226T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20250210T032044Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T040652Z UID:2203-1740574800-1740578400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:White boxing the administrative state: Machine learning algorithms and the duty to give reasons in administrative law DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\nThe discussion seeks to answer three questions: [1] what are the purposes of the duty to give reasons in administrative law\, [2] what information must be disclosed in order to satisfy those purposes\, and [3] are machine learning algorithms capable of providing information that can satisfy those requirements? The analysis distinguishes between interpretable machine learning algorithms where the features determinative to the prediction are knowable and inscrutable machine learning algorithms where they are not. The argument is that interpretable machine learning algorithms (in conjunction with human decision-makers) can provide reasons that meet legal standards of justification\, whereas inscrutable machine learning algorithms cannot satisfy such a duty. \n\n\n\nThe talk explores the legal implications of these findings given the context of increasing government adoption of AI in the administrative state. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nAlexandra Sinclair is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Centre for Automated Decision-making and Society (ADM+S) at Sydney Law School. She has recently come from the London School of Economics and Political Science where her PhD thesis examined using public law as an accountability mechanism for automated decision-making. Alexandra spent the last five years working for a legal NGO in London where she worked extensively on proposed policy reforms to AI regulation in the UK. Her work on frontline automated decision-making in government was covered by the Guardian and in 2023 she gave oral evidence to the House of Commons on proposed changes to the UK’s data protection law. She has recently published a piece in the journal Public Law on automated decision-making and government opacity in the UK state. \n\n\n\nChair: Professor Lisa Burton-Crawford\, Sydney Law School \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 26 February 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-hosted by the University of Sydney Law School and ADM+S. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/machinelearningalgorithms_administrativelaw/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/alex-sinclair_wordpress.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250219T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250219T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241202T032654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250113T015703Z UID:2152-1739986200-1739991600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:2025 George Winterton Memorial Lecture: The evolving electoral system as an ongoing constitutional process DESCRIPTION:Speaker: The Honourable Stephen John Gageler AC\, Chief Justice of Australia \n\n\n\nAbout the lecture \n\n\n\nThe 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 dynamic\, the design of the electoral system according to which the people would act in those distinct manifestations having been entrusted to development by ordinary law made by the Commonwealth Parliament. And it can be seen to have evolved: through the development of a broad franchise to be exercised by the people today in fact comprising the large portion of the community entitled to vote at federal elections and at constitutional referenda; and through the establishment of a system of compulsory voting by which the people today in fact exercise that broad franchise. The form of popular sovereignty empowered by the Australian Constitution can accordingly be seen today to be government by “the people” writ large. Chief Justice Gageler traces this evolution as a process by which ordinary law has built out the constitutional structure empowering popular sovereignty. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\nStephen Gageler AC was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia on 6 November 2023\, having served as a justice of the High Court from 2012. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2000 and Solicitor-General of Australia in 2008. In 2017\, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia. His Honour is a graduate of the Australian National University and Harvard University. \n\n\n\nGeorge Winterton Memorial Fund \n\n\n\nThe George Winterton Memorial Lecture was established to commemorate the outstanding and lasting contribution of Professor George Winterton to constitutional law scholarship and our understanding of constitutional law. It is funded through the George Winterton Memorial Fund. The Fund exists to support advancing constitutional law at Sydney Law School through teaching\, research\, and community engagement in memory of Professor Winterton. \n\n\n\nFor those interested in making a gift to the George Winterton Memorial Fund\, please contact Dr Joel Harrison\, Convenor of the Fund and Winterton Lecture series (joel.harrison@sydney.edu.au). Your gift will be gratefully used for sustaining the Winterton Memorial lecture series\, supporting a PhD and research scholarship fund\, and developing new research in constitutional law. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 19 February 2025 \n\n\n\nTime: 5.30-6.45pm (Registration from 5pm\, cocktail reception to follow)Venue: Banco Court\, Supreme Court of NSW (184 Phillip Street\, Sydney) \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis lecture is proudly hosted by The University of Sydney Law School and The University of Western Australia Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/2025-wintertonmemoriallecture/ LOCATION:Banco Court\, Supreme Court of NSW (184 Phillip Street\, Sydney)\, 184 Phillip Street\, Sydney\, NSW\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/wintertonwordpress.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250203T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250203T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20250113T052917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250113T053031Z UID:2173-1738605600-1738609200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:The next chapter of IBC: Innovations and expectations for India’s insolvency framework DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nThis 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 continuing controversies under the IBC including the absence of a framework for non-corporate debtors\, the use of ADR within the IBC and cross border insolvencies and the IBC. \n\n\n\nThe IBC’s achievements in 2024 underscore its critical role in India’s economy. However\, the next chapter will require bold reforms to tackle unresolved issues\, including cross-border insolvency\, non-corporate debtor inclusion\, and sector-specific resolutions\, ensuring a more inclusive and robust insolvency regime. \n\n\n\nThis seminar explores the challenges that lie ahead for India and what to expect in the coming year. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nPreeti Nalavadi is a qualified and admitted corporate lawyer from India with over 15 years of experience. She has worked in different capacities both in Australia and in India including working as an Inhouse Counsel at Canara Bank (for 11 years)\, one of the leading Banks in India. \n\n\n\nShe is currently a Doctoral Candidate at Adelaide Law School under the supervision of Associate Prof Dr Sylvia Villios\, Emeritus Prof Chris Symes and Associate Prof David Brown. Her thesis topic is Comparative and functional study of corporate rescue in three countries- US Australia and India. She had been awarded Commonwealth and Zelling Gray Scholarships. She is a Sessional Academic for undergrad and postgrad courses and mainly teaches Commercial and Business laws at Adelaide Law School. \n\n\n\nDuring her candidature she has been invited to present her research at various international conferences organised by the Australian Corporate Law Teachers Association (Scola)\, Australia and New Zealand Law History and Society\, Ross Parson Centre at Sydney Law School and Prof Bob Wessels’ PhD Conference (Leiden University). She is working on publications for peer reviewed journals. She had been a guest speaker at Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs\, Delhi\, a flagship institution under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs\, Government of India. \n\n\n\nShe is a member of INSOL ERA (the UK)\, American Bankruptcy Institute (the US)\, Australian Asian Lawyers’ Association (Australia)\, Australasian Law Academic Association (Australia)\, Society of Corporate Law Academics (Australia). She is co-convenor of Emerging Scholars Committee at Insolvency Law Academy (India). \n\n\n\nChair: Professor Jason Harris\, Sydney Law School \n\n\n\nMonday 3 February 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 6-7pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\nRegister \n\n\n\nThis event is proudly hosted by the Ross Parsons Centre at the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/ibcinnovations/ LOCATION:New Law Building (F10) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/insolvencybankruptcyindia.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250121T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250121T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20250109T043119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T045857Z UID:2164-1737464400-1737468000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Does compliance with the global anticorruption regime require the use of artificial intelligence?: The case of managing global critical raw material value chains DESCRIPTION:Hybrid event \n\n\n\nBusiness firms constantly hear that artificial intelligence has changed the world and that they must either utilize artificial intelligence or fall behind. By extension\, this would be true of regulatory compliance as well as operations. This article challenges the mantra of artificial intelligence as a ubiquitous agent of change. It does so through the lens of the global anticorruption regime\, a transnational web of laws\, regulations and norms that work together to reign in corruption. As this article demonstrates\, the global anticorruption regime imposes on business firms a requirement to implement effective and up-to-date antibribery programs. \n\n\n\nGiven the prevailing conception of artificial intelligence as the newly-critical tool for business\, it would be easy to interpret “effective” and “up-to-date” as requiring the use of artificial intelligence. To determine whether in fact the global anticorruption regime does\, this article undertakes two analyses. First\, it carefully determines the systems requirements of the type of artificial intelligence most applicable to antibribery programs – systems that can distinguish between honest and corrupt actors and transactions – and determines the regulatory constraints on the use of artificial intelligence in that way. This article then asks specifically what tasks artificial intelligence would be asked to do as part of an antibribery program\, and evaluates the capacity of artificial intelligence to perform those tasks given the already determined system requirements and constraints. These analyses yield a surprising conclusion: in some instances the use of artificial intelligence would be helpful\, but for most business firms\, particularly for smaller firms or firms that have not experienced bribery\, the use of artificial intelligence would not be helpful and could be harmful. Regulators and legal scholars must not think of artificial intelligence as a panacea; its potential use must be analyzed in the context of objectives and the capacities\, needs\, and limits of artificial intelligence. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nDr. Philip M. Nichols is the Joseph S. Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility in Business and Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was Co-Chair\, UN/CEFACT Law Group (United Nations experts committee on electronic commerce and trade facilitation)\, 1998 to 2005. \n\n\n\nModerator: Professor Hans Hendrischke\, Sydney Business School. \n\n\n\nTuesday 21 January 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Boardroom\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\nThis event is jointly sponsored by the Sydney Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the Sydney Netzero Institute. \n\n\n\nIt is part of the first meeting of the UN/CEFACT working group on the white paper of ‘Addressing Conflict of Laws and Facilitating Digital Product Passports in the Critical Raw Material Value Chains’. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/globalanticorruptionregime_ai/ LOCATION:The University of Sydney Law School\, Boardroom\, Level 4\, New Law Building F10 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/globalanticurrptionregimeai.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241129T090000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241129T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241030T060045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241114T045017Z UID:2133-1732870800-1732903200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:New directions in financial crime DESCRIPTION:Financial crime is a global issue that has a significant impact on Australia’s society and economy. Related offences come in different forms (e.g. bribery\, corruption\, fraud\, money laundering) and are committed by different actors\, with various motivations. The different sectors involved range from small businesses to large banks and from the real estate to the art market. Unsurprisingly\, financial crime has been the subject of significant academic study for decades\, as well as being an area of national and international concern for policymakers\, regulators\, and law enforcement. The aim of this symposium is to bring together different experts to discuss a wide variety of contemporary issues and challenges in this context. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\nAUSTRAC – TBC.\n\n\n\nKatie Benson\, University of Manchester\, UK – AML Reflections from the UK.\n\n\n\nLiz Campbell\, Monash University – Legal Professional Privilege and Corporate Liability.\n\n\n\nDavid Chaikin\, University of Sydney – Lawyers and Tranche 2.\n\n\n\nJonathan Clough\, Monash University – Topic TBC.\n\n\n\nDerwent Coshott – The Risk-Based Approach (Cayman Islands developments).\n\n\n\nPenny Crofts\, University of Technology Sydney – Corporate Financial Crime and Euphemism.\n\n\n\nOlivia Dixon\, University of Sydney – AML and Lawyers.\n\n\n\nLouis de Koker\, La Trobe University – Risk and the FATF’s Risk-Based Approach.\n\n\n\nSusanna Ford\, Arnold Bloch Leibler – Foreign Bribery.\n\n\n\nRadha Ivory\, University of Queensland – Corporate Criminal Liability Reforms.\n\n\n\nDoron Goldbarsht\, Macquarie University – Personal Liability of Directors.\n\n\n\nHannah Harris\, Macquarie University – The Forest-Finance Nexus: Addressing the Connection between Forest Crime and Financial Crime.\n\n\n\nAnton Moiseienko\, Australian National University – AML Developments.\n\n\n\nRachel Southworth\, Bank of Queensland (provisionally confirmed).\n\n\n\nMegan Styles\, Monash University – Asset Forfeiture.\n\n\n\nYane Svetiev\, University of Sydney – FATF MERs and Developing Countries.\n\n\n\nMitali Tyagi\, APG – The Infrastructure of the FATF System.\n\n\n\n\nView the program here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday 29 November\, 2024 \n\n\n\nTime: 9am – 6pmVenue: Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building\, University of Sydney \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/new-directions-in-financial-crime/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown Campus ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/newdirectionsfinancialcrime.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241126T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241126T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241018T043648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T002328Z UID:2106-1732642200-1732647600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Sydney Law School Social Justice celebration DESCRIPTION:At Sydney Law School\, we think teach\, research\, and engage in the social justice dimensions of law. We appreciate the social context in which law operates\, and law’s potential to both enable and constrain\, to both liberate and oppress. This event will celebrate many of the social achievements from the year and showcase work of students\, including those working on the Just Cause podcast\, practitioners-in-residence\, including a presentation from Liz Snell (current practitioner-in-residence)\, and staff. \n\n\n\nThe Kim Santow Law and Social Justice Essay Prize will also be announced at this event. \n\n\n\nAbout the presenter \n\n\n\nLiz Snell is interested in researching and better understanding the mechanisms required to ensure and support successful implementation of recommendations in inquiries with a focus on inquiries responding to gender-based violence. Liz has worked as the Law Reform and Policy Co-ordinator at Women’s Legal Service for over a decade. Women’s Legal Service is a specialist community legal centre run by and for women that aims to achieve access to justice and a just legal system for women in NSW. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday 26 November 2024\, 5.30-7pm AEDT \n\n\n\nVenue: New Law Building (F10)\, Level 4\, Common Room\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential.Register \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly supported by the Kim Santow Law and Social Justice Fund. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/sydney-law-school-social-justice-celebration/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/socialjusticecelebration.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241121T123000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241121T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241018T055327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241101T055442Z UID:2113-1732192200-1732195800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Regulating disruptive technologies DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nThis presentation on disruptive technologies regulation\, including artificial intelligence\, will provide an overview of the various regulatory options available\, their pros and cons\, as well as possible outcomes in terms of technological advancement and social progress. \n\n\n\nPart of the lecture will present the author’s own three-level categorization of AI interference in human decision-making\, a topic strongly related to some current projects on both UTS and The University of Sydney’s ADM+S Centre. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nLeonardo Parentoni \n\n\n\nProfessor Parentoni is a Senior Lecturer and UFMG’s/Brazil’s leading expert on technology law\, with more than 20 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. His research interests include artificial intelligence\, big data\, data science\, personal data protection\, blockchain\, IoT\, ISP liability\, regulating disruptive technologies\, legal techs and the future of legal market\, human rights and telecom infrastructure. He has published his works in 5 languages and more than 8 countries. \n\n\n\nHis ResearchGate profile is the most visited of all professors at the UFMG Law School and one of the most popular in Brazil\, with over 65\,000 views. He also holds a permanent position at Brazil’s Attorney-General’s Office (AGU)\, serving as head of legal in a research facility focused on nuclear-based medicine and new materials\, such as graphene. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday 21 November 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 12.30-1.30pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential.Register \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Parentoni is a visiting scholar at UTS and the University of Sydney Law School. This event is co-hosted by the University of Sydney Law School\, ADM+S and UTS: Law\, Technology and Intellectual Property Research Cluster. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/regulating-disruptive-technologies/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/leonardoparentoni.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241113T183000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241113T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241108T053242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T053244Z UID:2143-1731522600-1731526200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:The changing landscape of EU competition law - Competition law as an instrument of protectionist policy DESCRIPTION:This seminar will discuss recent developments in European competition law. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Professor Dubravka Akšamović\, Faculty of Law Osijek\, Croatia \n\n\n\nCommentator: Prof. Yane Svetiev\, Sydney Law School \n\n\n\nChair: Prof Jason Harris\, Sydney Law School \n\n\n\nWednesday 13 November\, 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 6.30-7.30pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Camperdown Campus \n\n\n\nCPD points = 1 \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial\, Corporate and Taxation Law at the University of Sydney Law School\, and the Faculty of Law Osijek\, University of J. J. Strossmayer in Croatia. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/the-changing-landscape-of-eu-competition-law-competition-law-as-an-instrument-of-protectionist-policy/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/eucompetitionlaw.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241111T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241111T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241021T051301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T002519Z UID:2124-1731330000-1731333600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Documenting war crimes from the field DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, Belkis Wille (Associate Director in the Crisis\, Conflict and Arms Division at Human Rights Watch) will discuss her extraordinary experiences in documenting war crimes across the world. \n\n\n\nOver the course of her career\, she has been documenting laws of war violations in Libya\, Yemen\, Iraq\, Sudan\, Israel and Palestine. Belkis has also spearheaded the organization’s work investigating the harms stemming from personal data collection\, including biometrics\, in humanitarian contexts. This work has included investigations in Afghanistan\, Bangladesh\, Iraq\, Jordan\, and Kenya. She has also led the organization’s work on the preservation of content taken down by social media platforms that is vital to war crimes investigations. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nBelkis Wille \n\n\n\nAssociate Director\, Crisis\, Conflict and Arms Division \n\n\n\nFollow belkiswille \n\n\n\nBelkis Wille is an associate director in the Crisis\, Conflict and Arms Division at Human Rights Watch. Belkis was previously Human Rights Watch’s senior Iraq researcher for three-and-a half years\, and its Kuwait\, Qatar\, and Yemen researcher\, based in Sanaa\, for over three years. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining Human Rights Watch\, Belkis worked with the World Organisation Against Torture in Libya. She has an LLM in human rights and humanitarian law from the University of Essex\, a graduate diploma in law from City University London\, and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. Belkis speaks English\, German\, French\, and Arabic. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday 11 November 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-hosted by Sydney Law School and Human Rights Watch. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/documenting-war-crimes-from-the-field/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/belkiswille.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241031T163000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241031T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241004T045225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T050128Z UID:2079-1730392200-1730399400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:UNCITRAL RCAP Symposium: Navigating transparency and confidentiality in international arbitration DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: \n\n\n\nThis event is being held online only. \n\n\n\nUNCITRAL RCAP Symposium: Navigating transparency and confidentiality in international arbitration\n\n\n\nThe UNCITRAL RCAP Symposium on ‘Transparency in Arbitration’ brings together distinguished experts to explore the critical balance between confidentiality and transparency in international arbitration\, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. \n\n\n\nFeaturing insights from world-renowned scholars such as Prof. Luke Nottage\, Dr. Caroline Kenny KC\, and Dr. Nick Gallus\, the symposium will examine key tensions and emerging trends across both commercial and investor-state dispute settlement contexts. \n\n\n\nDiscussions will address regional developments in Australia and Japan\, the interplay between transparency and confidentiality in commercial arbitration\, and transparency considerations in arbitration involving states. A/Prof. Jeanne Huang\, a leading authority on international arbitration and cross-border digital trade\, will provide commentary\, offering her unique perspective on how these issues impact the future of arbitration in an increasingly digital world. \n\n\n\nThe symposium promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking event\, moderated by Inma Conde\, Secretary of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law National Coordination Committee for Australia (UNCCA). \n\n\n\nCo-Hosted by:The University of Sydney\, Sydney Law School and UNCITRAL RCAP. \n\n\n\nOrganised by: \n\n\n\n\nCAPLUS: Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney\n\n\n\nSCIL: Sydney Centre for International Law\n\n\n\nUNCCA: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) National Coordination Committee for Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday 31 October 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 4.30-6.30pm AEDTCPD points = 2 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. RegisterYou will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is jointly presented by The University of Sydney\, Sydney Law School and UNCITRAL RCAP. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/uncitral-rcap-symposium-navigating-transparency-and-confidentiality-in-international-arbitration/ LOCATION:Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lukewp.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241023T170000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241023T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241004T051033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T005038Z UID:2071-1729702800-1729710000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Symposium: Financial crime in different contexts DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nFinancial crime poses many challenges and affects a multitude of sectors\, in Australia and globally. As offenders become more sophisticated\, new vulnerabilities emerge\, and law enforcement has to adapt. While the criminal justice responses have been swift and emphatic in some sectors\, they have been cumbersome and lethargic in others. Variations in criminalisation and enforcement can also be discerned geographically with many law-making initiatives originating in the EU rather than other parts of the world. \n\n\n\nAgainst this context\, this symposium will examine different aspects of\, and global perspectives on\, financial crime\, namely 1) policing welfare fraud; 2) cultural property crime; 3) federal proceeds of crime; and 4) civil recovery of criminal property. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nThis event brings together experts from the Sydney Institute of Criminology who have recently published books on these fascinating contexts of financial crime: \n\n\n\n\nDr Scarlet Wilcock – Policing Welfare Fraud | The Government of Welfare Fraud and Non-Compliance (taylorfrancis.com)\n\n\n\nProf. Saskia Hufnagel – Cultural Property Crime and the Law: Legal Approaches to Protection\, R (routledge.com) & Global Perspectives on Cultural Property Crime – 1st Edition – Michell (routledge.com)\n\n\n\nProf. Simon Bronitt – Federal Proceeds of Crime Law – Thomson Reuters Australia\n\n\n\nProf. Colin King – Civil Recovery of Criminal Property – Colin King\, Jennifer Hendry – Oxford University Press (oup.com)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 23 October 2024\n\n\n\nTime:  5-7pmVenue: Sydney Law School\, Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annexe(F10A)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campusCPD points = 2 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential.Register \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/symposium-financial-crime-in-different-contexts/ LOCATION:Sydney Law School\, Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/colinwp.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241022T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241022T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241001T021252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T000520Z UID:2038-1729602000-1729609200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Responders Lab sessions DESCRIPTION:Responders Lab sessions \n\n\n\nIn-person event \n\n\n\nSydney Law School and Insight Exchange invite you to participate in a Responders Lab session\, supported by the Sydney Policy Lab. \n\n\n\nThe Responders Lab is designed to support you in exploring and building on your understanding of domestic\, family and sexualised violence\, and how this influences what you might notice\, think or do in your responses. The use of violence and abuse continues to be a serious problem globally and locally. National\, state and territory definitions of domestic\, family and sexualised violence and criminal codes vary\, however violence and abuse is never acceptable in any community\, family\, institution\, place or context. There is no one preference or path for support. Every responder\, community and industry matters. \n\n\n\nBut the demands in our lives are many – studying\, working\, caring and more. And our days fill with so much to do and so much to care about. \n\n\n\nIs it too noisy to think? To think about our responses to violence and abuse? \n\n\n\nToo little space to think or permission to pause? \n\n\n\n‘Time’ to think is one thing. ‘Room’ to think is another. \n\n\n\nWhen it comes to violence and abuse\, thinking about our responses is important\, intentional and essential. \n\n\n\nAt the Responders Lab you will have the opportunity to reflect and exchange insights by: \n\n\n\n\ndrawing on your own thinking and contextual expertise\n\n\n\ncritically thinking about your assumptions\, observations\, actions\, and inactions as a responder\n\n\n\nreflecting on what these insights (content & conversations) reveal to you and your peers\n\n\n\n\nWatch to find out more. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResponders Lab sessions will be held on the following dates and you are invited to sign up to one of these: \n\n\n\n22 October: 1-3pm14 November: 1:30-3:30pm\n\n\n\nYou will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the session. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-hosted by the Sydney Law School and Insight Exchange and supported by the Sydney Policy Lab. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/responders-lab-sessions/ LOCATION:Sydney Law School\, Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Law-Events-eventbrite-banners.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241017T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241017T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241004T050604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T002026Z UID:2063-1729188000-1729193400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Public lecture: A Human Rights Act for NSW DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nThe NSW Bar Association and the Human Rights Act for NSW Alliance invite you to attend a public lecture on ‘A Human Rights Act for NSW’\, hosted by the Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney. \n\n\n\nWhy should NSW enact a human rights act and what rights could be protected? How would it make a difference to the lives of people in NSW and why is a State human rights act needed in addition to a Commonwealth human rights act? Join our esteemed speakers for an engaging discussion about the benefits of a State human rights act\, lessons learned from other jurisdictions and how to promote community engagement to achieve this reform.About the speakers \n\n\n\nThe Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG – Michael Kirby is an international jurist\, educator and former judge. He served as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (1975-83); Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84); Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (1983-4); President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1984-96); President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands (1995-96) and Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996-2009). He is Editor-in-Chief of The Laws of Australia (2009 – ). \n\n\n\nHugh de Kretser – Hugh de Kretser commenced his five-year term as President of the Australian Human Rights Commission on 30 July 2024. Before joining the Commission\, he was the CEO of the Yoorrook Justice Commission. Prior to this\, he was Executive Director of the Human Rights Law Centre and Executive Officer of the Victorian Federation of Community Legal Centres. Hugh has also served as a Commissioner of the Victorian Law Reform Commission and a Director of the Sentencing Advisory Council. \n\n\n\nDr Ruth Higgins SC – Ruth Higgins SC is a commercial and public law silk\, practising nationally. Ruth is a member of the Takeovers Panel\, President of the NSW Bar Association\, a director of the Australian Bar Association\, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law\, an Assistant General Editor of the Australian Law Journal\, and a Fellow of ACICA and on its panel of Arbitrators. \n\n\n\nTrent Glover SC – Trent Glover is the Chair of the NSW Bar Association’s Human Rights Committee. At the bar\, Trent has a diverse practice concentrating primarily on public law litigation at first instance and appellate level around Australia. \n\n\n\nCarmel Lee – Carmel Lee is a barrister specialising in commercial law\, equity\, conflict of laws\, and human rights. She is a member of the Human Rights Act for NSW Alliance and the NSW Bar Association Human Rights Committee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday 17 October\, 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 6-7.30pmVenue: Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)CPD points = 1.5Category: Social justice events \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. Register \n\n\n\nPlease note – due to unforeseen circumstances\, Auslan interpreters will not be available. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the NSW Bar Association and the Human Rights Act for NSW Alliance in partnership with the University of Sydney Law School . URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/public-lecture-a-human-rights-act-for-nsw/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown Campus ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/kirbywp.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241015T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241015T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241002T012902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T012904Z UID:2051-1729015200-1729020600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Constraining the Use of Force: A Chinese Project in International Law? DESCRIPTION:Constraining the Use of Force: A Chinese Project in International Law? \n\n\n\nIn-person event \n\n\n\nOver the course of decades\, the People’s Republic of China has consistently expressed a relatively strict interpretation of core legal norms constraining the use of force. These include its positions on Article 2(4) of the UN Charter\, the customary international law of self-defense\, and controversial topics such as humanitarian intervention or the “unwilling or unable” doctrine. \n\n\n\nPart of this advocacy involves a claim that China is a uniquely peaceful great power; a notion often rooted in exceptionalist language regarding traditional Chinese civilization. In reality\, however\, the origins of China’s stances on the use of force can be traced to a specific set of experiences and initiatives beginning at the turn of the 20th century and extending to the present. In turn\, a more granular understanding of the history of Chinese views on the use of force facilitates better comprehension of the current parameters of the Chinese jus ad bellum. \n\n\n\nUltimately\, the nuances of China’s modern practice reveal a “zone of legalism” for restricting war and warlike uses of force\, combined with a “zone of struggle” including various forms of de minimis force\, intervention\, and reprisal. Amidst continued lack of global consensus on key aspects of the use of force\, China’s distinct model may increasingly influence customary international law. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\nRyan Martínez Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday 15 October 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 6-7.30pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points = 1.5 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly co-presented 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/constraining-the-use-of-force-a-chinese-project-in-international-law/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Law-Events-eventbrite-banners-Oct15.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241009T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241009T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241002T013506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T013518Z UID:2054-1728496800-1728502200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2024:The significant origins of the modern corporation DESCRIPTION:Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2024:The significant origins of the modern corporation \n\n\n\nIn-person event \n\n\n\nIt is a truth (almost) universally acknowledged that the modern corporation is a separate legal entity from its shareholders. But what does it mean when we describe a corporation as an entity and how separate is the company really from its shareholders? \n\n\n\nBy casting an historical lens over its earliest origins\, this lecture will unpack the pieces that make up what has been described as “amongst mankind’s greatest inventions”. The lecture discusses why those hybrid origins are significant\, why they have led to the tension between shareholder’ interests and broader interests inherent in corporate law\, and how the potential and perils of the corporation can be best realised once we understand what exactly it is. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\nProfessor Susan Watson is the Dean of the University of Auckland Business School. She holds joint chairs in the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland. \n\n\n\nSusan researches corporate law and corporate governance with a particular interest in the corporate form. In her research she considers corporations and their features from multiple perspectives seeking to understand the reasons for their economic\, societal and environmental impact. Her monograph The Making of the Modern Company (Routledge\, 2022) traces its origins back to 1657 and in doing so identifies what might be the key features that make the modern company the omnipresent business form across the globe. \n\n\n\nIn 2016 Susan won the Legal Research Foundation Sir Ian Barker Published Article Award. She was elected president of the Society of Corporate Law Academics (SCoLa) in 2020; the first person from outside Australia. She is the only person appointed a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) to date. \n\n\n\nCommentator: Justice Ashley Black\, Supreme Court of New South Wales \n\n\n\nChair: Professor Jason Harris\, Professor of Corporate Law\, Sydney Law School \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 9 October 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 6-7.30pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points = 1.5 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial\, Corporate and Taxation Law at the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/ross-parsons-corporations-law-lecture-2024the-significant-origins-of-the-modern-corporation/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Significant-Origins-of-moder-corporation.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241008T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241008T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20241002T014030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T014116Z UID:2057-1728410400-1728417600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Beyond Punishment Seminar: Are the aims of sentencing realised in practice? DESCRIPTION:Beyond Punishment Seminar: Are the aims of sentencing realised in practice? \n\n\n\nIn-person event \n\n\n\nMuch ink has been spilled over what the proper aims of sentencing should be\, and it seems that different aims have become more or less prominent over time. The rehabilitative aim gave way to more retributive approaches in the 1970s in many countries and perhaps to approaches with more focus on dangerousness in recent times. But how well are the aims of sentencing realised in practice? \n\n\n\nThis Beyond Punishment Seminar will consider how the aims of sentencing as contained in the law matches up with reality of actual criminal justice practices. So\, does rehabilitation really have a significant place in current approaches to criminal sanctions? How is this impacted by issues of funding or discretion? Is the reality of the response to offending largely punitive and how much does it reduce the capacity to reoffend? Do the sentences imposed by the courts or the experiences of sanction really deter? If there is discrepancy between stated aims and the practice how should this discrepancy be addressed\, and which parts of the discrepancy are most troubling? \n\n\n\nThis seminar will address these and other questions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanellists \n\n\n\n\nThe Honourable Justice Yehia was appointed to the Supreme Court in June 2022 having served as a District Court Judge for 8 years. In addition to her service as a judge of the District and Supreme Courts\, her Honour holds a number of positions including Board member and previous Chair of Diverse Women in Law\, Board member of the AIJA\, Chair of the Ngara Yura Committee and member of the Bugmy Bar Book Committee. Her Honour is also a member of the Judicial Commission’s Sentencing Bench Book Committee and became an Adjunct Professor at the UNSW Law School in 2023\, where she teaches an advanced course on sentencing law.\n\n\n\nJennifer Galouzis is the Assistant Commissioner of Strategy & Policy\, Corrective Services NSW. Currently in the final year of her PhD at the University of Melbourne\, her research focuses on “A rehabilitative prison environment: Accountability\, complexity and the possibility of therapeutic prisons.” With over 20 years of experience in prison and correctional research\, Jennifer’s work encompasses the ecology of prison environments\, the social and cultural climate of prisons\, and the measurement of prison performance. She has published in the areas of rehabilitative design\, preventing prison violence\, sex offender treatment\, and the role of corrective services in reducing reoffending\n\n\n\nThe Honourable Geoffrey Bellew SC was appointed Senior Counsel in 2006 and in 2011 he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He served continually as a Judge of the Common Law Division until February 2023. Upon his retirement Mr Bellew was appointed by the Attorney-General as the Chairperson of the State Parole Authority. He is the author of a number of texts published by Lexis Nexis\, including Uniform Evidence Law\, Principles and Context\, a substantive text on the law of evidence. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law\, a member of the Law Advisory Board\, and a sessional lecturer\, at Notre Dame University\, Sydney.\n\n\n\nDr Mindy Sotiri is Executive Director\, Justice Reform Initiative and has worked in criminal justice system settings as an advocate\, community sector practitioner\, academic\, and researcher for more than twenty-five years. During this time\, much of her work has been focused on advocacy around decarceration and building sustainable community-based and community led pathways outside of prison settings. Mindy completed her PhD in 2003 (looking at the purpose of imprisonment in NSW); completed a Churchill Fellowship in 2016 (looking at evidence based community led re-entry and post-release programs) and is a senior visiting fellow at UNSW.\n\n\n\n\nChair \n\n\n\n\nDr Allan McCay is Co-director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney’s Law School. He coordinates the Legal Research units at the Sydney Law School\, and lectures in Criminal Law. Much of his work as focused on neuroscience\, neurotechnology\, and the criminal law. He is also interested in free will and punishment\, ethical issues related to emerging neurotechnologies\, and the future of legal work. His first coedited book Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives is published by Routledge (2019) and his second\, Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity is published by Oxford University Press (2020).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday 8 October 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 6-8pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points = 2 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at Sydney Law School in conjunction with Corrective Services NSW. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/beyond-punishment-seminar-are-the-aims-of-sentencing-realised-in-practice/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Law-Events-are-the-aims-of-sentencing-realised-in-practice.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240923T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240923T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20240912T235231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T011201Z UID:1538-1727114400-1727119800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Book launch | Research Methods in Private International Law: Educating the Next Generation of Conflicts Lawyers DESCRIPTION:Book launch | Research Methods in Private International Law: Educating the Next Generation of Conflicts LawyersOnline event\n\n\n\n\n\nResearch Methods in Private International Law: A Handbook on Regulation\, Research\, and Teaching\n\nThis incisive research handbook provides valuable insights into the various methodological approaches to Private International Law from regulatory and educational perspectives. It comprehensively unpacks central themes in the field including international jurisdiction\, recognition and enforcement\, and scrupulously analyses core debates whilst addressing legislative and policy issues.\n\nIn collaboration with the editors Xandra Kramer (Erasmus School of Law/Utrecht University) and Laura Carballo Piñeiro (University of Vigo)\, this online book launch will feature contributions from eminent speakers\, focusing on global insights in teaching Private International Law.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and discussion topics\n\n\nLaura Carballo Piñeiro/Xandra Kramer\n\nMethods in private international law are not only important for the purpose of regulation and research\, but also for societal and educational purposes. To continue developing and fulfil its regulatory and societal functions\, private international law requires the nurturing of strong scholarship and thus research on creating a suitable learning environment for it to be diversified. Highlighting perspectives from university teaching in different countries\, laypersons\, colonialism\, and feminism enriches the development of private international law and increases awareness of its role as a global governance tool.\n\nVeronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm\n\nPrivate international law matters for everybody. Why then is it perceived to be so marginal? We identify three distorted perceptions: irrelevance\, impenetrability\, and indifference. Private international law is considered to be irrelevant\, because relevant decisions are taken in substantive law. It is considered impenetrable because many of its doctrines appear strange and general intuition offers little guidance towards the correct solution. And it seems indifferent to questions of values and questions of political economy. We address each of these perceptions in turn. We demonstrate that private international law\, far from being irrelevant\, is an indispensable part of private law. Whoever wants to make full use of private law must think of private international law as well. We suggest that private international law can seem impenetrable because it requires a whole different way of thinking: thinking between legal orders. Lawyers and non-lawyers alike are used to thinking within one order that is relatively coherent. That thinking is of little help in resolving issues that take place in-between such coherent orders. And we describe what we view as the ethical minimum of private international law: responsivity\, cultural humility\, and intercultural competence. These attitudes\, which are not confined to the law\, raise the possibility that private international law could teach something of relevance to everyone beyond its own disciplinary boundaries. Putting these insights in practice can\, we hope\, be transformative towards Private International Law for Everyone.\n\nRamani Garimella\n\nThe human catastrophe witnessed in Bhopal\, India\, remains pertinent for the domain of private international law. The US court ruled against the forum’s jurisdiction as being forum non conveniens and return it for the jurisdiction of India’s courts. Adherence to a formalist/positivist approach that believed in the public-private distinction allowed the court to avoid a discussion on the immense public interests that were involved in the suit. Such approach dwarfed the nature and magnitude of loss for the victims and demonstrated how far the ideas of territoriality and jurisdiction moved away from the notion of ‘unified international law’. The author suggests revisiting this distinction from a methodological perspective – historicity – to understand the reasons for the survival of this distinction\, especially in the third world countries as a vestige of the colonial law. This research\, exemplifying through India\, explores the zealous adherence to the colonial law on the rules of private international law including the methodology of the domain\, and the absence of any significant local contribution to the domain. The research argues that the distinction emerged as an expression of the positivist international law (often non-representative/non-participative) that had helped further the legitimation of colonialism. The research suggests a historicity-based methodology for identifying the domain’s content so as to ensure a justice-centric regime that takes note of the rights of the victims of human error.\n\nChukwama Okoli/Abubakri Yekini\n\nMany African countries aim to capitalise on globalization to enhance cross-border trade and commerce. This necessitates an effective private international law framework to resolve frictions that inherent in cross-border transactions. While scholarly work often focuses on PIL’s role in facilitating cross-border trade\, the teaching of PIL and the preparedness of budding lawyers to tackle modern issues have been largely overlooked. This chapter addresses this gap by examining the effectiveness of PIL education in Nigeria. Through empirical research involving questionnaires administered to 75 undergraduate students from seven universities\, the study provides insights into the current curriculum and teaching methodologies. The findings suggest that existing approaches are inadequate for producing transnational lawyers equipped with the necessary hands-on skills. The paper recommends a multi-method teaching approach\, with a strong emphasis on clinical education and comparative law.\n\nAukje van Hoek\n\nAn inventory of (online) course descriptions of courses in private international law at different European universities show a diversity in approaches to teaching PIL. Which choices are made when developing a specific course\, will depend on the staff teaching the course and the wider ‘Umfeld’ in which the course is situated. Three approaches will be discussed and put in context.\n\nModerator: Dr. Jie (Jeanne) Huang\, Co-chair of ASIL PIL Interest Group and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the book\nResearch Methods in Private International Law- A Handbook on Regulation\, Research and Teaching\n\nEdited by Xandra Kramer\, Professor of Private Law\, Erasmus School of Law\, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor of Private International Law\, Utrecht University\, the Netherlands and Laura Carballo Piñeiro\, Professor of Private International Law\, Universidade de Vigo\, Spain.\n\n\n\n\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\nMonday 23 September 2024\nTime: 6pm-7.30pm AEST \nYou will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar. \nCPD points = 1.5\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\n\n\n\nThis event is jointly presented by the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group and the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/book-launch-research-methods-in-private-international-law-educating-the-next-generation-of-conflicts-lawyers/ CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240913T120000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240913T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20240912T235225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010732Z UID:1534-1726228800-1726232400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:CANCELLED A new era" of Chinese law: The theoretical origins of Xi Jinping Legal Thought DESCRIPTION:#N/A URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-a-new-era-of-chinese-law-the-theoretical-origins-of-xi-jinping-legal-thought/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240911T120000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240911T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20240912T235224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241118T230327Z UID:1533-1726056000-1726059600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Taking Power Seriously in Constitutional Law: A Materialist Approach to Constitutional Law\, Executive Power\, and the British State DESCRIPTION:#N/A URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-taking-power-seriously-in-constitutional-law-a-materialist-approach-to-constitutional-law-executive-power-and-the-british-state/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240910T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240910T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20240912T235226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010819Z UID:1535-1725991200-1725996600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:What are the responsibilities of freedom and why do we need them? DESCRIPTION:What are the responsibilities of freedom and why do we need them?\nA thought provoking discussion on one of the abiding themes of our time as explored in Professor Kinley’s new book The Liberty Paradox.\n\nIn-person event \n\n\nSydney Law School is delighted to host a discussion on liberty and the dangers it faces today from the myopic demands of freedom without limit\, as explored in Professor David Kinley’s new book The Liberty Paradox: Living with the Responsibilities of Freedom. \nJoin Professor Kinley in conversation with special guest Alexander Heffner\, host of PBS’s The Open Mind\, in what promises to be a lively\, engaging and thought-provoking discussion of the complexities that shape our society and challenge our perceptions of freedom and responsibility in today’s world. \nAcclaimed by the New York Times as “a thorough meditation on the complexities of negotiating our desires with those of other people\,” The Liberty Paradox offers some answers as we tackle life’s challenges of health\, happiness\, wealth\, work\, security\, voice\, respect\, trust\, love and death. \nAbout the speakers \nProfessor David Kinley holds the Chair of Human Rights Law at the University of Sydney. He is also an Academic Expert Member of Doughty Street Chambers in London\, a founding member of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights\, and a board member of Cisarua\, an Afghan refugee-led education centre located in Indonesia. \nAlexander Heffner is the host of The Open Mind—America’s longest-running current affairs TV program—and the creator of Breaking Bread with Alexander on Bloomberg TV. He is also the co-author of the bestselling A Documentary History of the United States. He has been covering American politics and civic life since the 2008 presidential campaign. \n\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nTuesday 10 September 2024\nTime: 6-7.30pm \nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Lecture Theatre 101\, Level 1\, New Law Building (F10A)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \nCPD points = 1.5 \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \n\n\nAbout the book \nCopies of Professor Kinley’s new book The Liberty Paradox: Living with the Responsibilities of Freedom will be available for purchase at the event\, courtesy of Gleebooks. \n**Please note that the event will be recorded for broadcast in the US and online** \n  \nThis event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/what-are-the-responsibilities-of-freedom-and-why-do-we-need-them/ LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 101\, level 1\, New Law Building F10A\, Campderdown Campus CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International Law END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240902T010000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240902T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T100656 CREATED:20240912T235228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010725Z UID:1537-1725238800-1725285600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:A new explanation of China's patenting phenomenon with a focus on the patenting of traditional medical knowledge DESCRIPTION:A new explanation of China’s patenting phenomenon with a focus on the patenting of traditional medical knowledge\nIn-person event \n\n\nThis seminar will present how Dr Ben Hopper’s thesis explains why people are getting patents over traditional medical knowledge in a way that differs from (and adds to) the usual explanations for China’s “patent boom”. These “usual (explanatory) suspects” are based on State interference (patenting subsidies\, etc.)\, level of innovation and level of human capital. It will draw on his original fieldwork data comprising a survey of the approaches to patenting of 53 mostly ethnic minority traditional medical practitioners in China’s southwestern\, relatively poor and isolated province of Guizhou. The analysis of those data involved a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods. The seminar will conclude that a key (and\, thus far\, missing) ingredient in explaining patenting activity in China is the individual’s extent of marketisation\, with more marketised individuals having a statistically significant higher propensity to get patents and to obey patent laws. \n\nThis event is part of the PhD/ECR presentation series hosted by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law. \n\nAbout the speaker\nDr Ben Hopper is a lecturer at Melbourne Law School. He teaches and researches in the areas of intellectual property\, traditional knowledge\, technology law\, civil procedure\, and legal ethics. He examines doctrinal developments in these areas of law\, with a focus on intellectual property law. His research uses empirical methods to illuminate the “living law”\, including people’s lived experiences of the law\, and legal subjectivity. He draws on both legal theory and broader social theory to explain the results of his empirical research. \nBen’s current research focus is China\, the locus of his PhD on patenting of traditional knowledge\, and where he has completed projects on geographical indications in the tea industry and internal migration in Xinjiang. He has a J.D.\, B.A. (Hons)\, and D-Lang (German) from the University of Melbourne\, and an LL.M. from Harvard University. \nCommentator: Dr Olugbenga Olatunji (University of Sydney Law School) \n————————————————– \nMonday 2 September\, 2024\nTime: 1-2pm \nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1 point \n————————————————— \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the Ross Parsons Centre. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/a-new-explanation-of-chinas-patenting-phenomenon-with-a-focus-on-the-patenting-of-traditional-medical-knowledge/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR