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  • Sydney Law School Social Justice celebration

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

    Join us to celebrate many of the social achievements from the year, showcasing the work of students, practitioners-in-residence, and staff.

    Free, however registration is required.

  • New directions in financial crime

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

    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 […]

  • Does compliance with the global anticorruption regime require the use of artificial intelligence?: The case of managing global critical raw material value chains

    The University of Sydney Law School, Boardroom, Level 4, New Law Building F10

    Hybrid event Business 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 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 […]