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:20220402T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20221001T160000 END:DAYLIGHT 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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230803T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230803T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010728Z UID:1628-1691083800-1691087400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Book launch: Comparing Online Legal Education DESCRIPTION:Book launch: Comparing Online Legal Education \nIn-person event \nThe University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Comparing Online Legal Education\, co-edited by Professor Luke Nottage\, Sydney Law School\, for the International Academy of Comparative Law. \nThe book will be launched by The Hon. Andrew Bell\, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW\, and previously part-time lecturer at Sydney Law School. \nAbout Comparing Online Legal Education \nThis pioneering work by leading comparative lawyers examines developments in online legal education\, particularly in universities but also in professional associations\, before and especially after the COVID-19 pandemic. \nThe book posits and largely confirms that transformations are linked to the extent and scope of respective legal professions (often\, but not always\, correlating to common versus civil law traditions)\, funding and other aspects of university-level education\, and information and communications technology infrastructure in each jurisdiction. It charts the dramatic shift to online legal education in almost all jurisdictions even with different levels of COVID-19 infections and deaths\, or mobility restrictions imposed by law and/or social norms. It also details how law teachers and students adapted to the challenges and opportunities of new technologies and practices\, sometimes benefitting from serendipitous earlier events supporting online legal education\, and a considerable ‘reversion to the mean’ as the pandemic has abated. \nThe special reports incorporate extensive empirical data\, including surveys on online legal education experiences. They cover 13 jurisdictions across the Asia-Pacific region (Australia\, Canada\, Brunei\, Malaysia\, Singapore\, Hong Kong\, Macao\, Japan and Pakistan)\, Europe and beyond (Croatia\, Cyprus\, Italy and Seychelles)\, ranging from micro-states to very large economies\, at various stages of economic development and from different legal traditions. Comparing Online Legal Education provides rich resources and lessons for legal academics and professionals\, as well as those involved in education policy. \nFind out more about the book and order it online here. \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThursday 3 August 2023\nTime: 5.30-6.30pm (Cocktail reception to follow book launch) \nVenue: Level 1\, Law Lounge\, New Law Building Annex (F10A) \nThis event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School. \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \n\n\nAbout the editors \nLuke Nottage (PhD VUW\, LLD Kyoto) is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Business Law at the University of Sydney\, Associate Director of its Centre for Asian and Pacific Law (CAPLUS) and founding Co-Director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL). He is Honorary Professor at the University of Wollongong\, Special Counsel with Williams Trade Law and a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Professor Nottage has published 19 books and taught law in Australasia\, Southeast Asia\, Japan\, North America and Europe. \nMakoto Ibusuki (LLD Hokkaido) is Professor of Law at Seijo University in Tokyo and ANJeL-in-Japan Program Convenor for the Australian Network for Japanese Law. His major areas of research\, teaching and writing are in cyberspace law and criminal procedure. He was a founding director of the Hojohogakkai (Association for Legal Informatics) and a key member of a study group promoting IT issues in Japan’s major reforms to criminal and civil justice. Professor Ibusuki formerly taught at Kagoshima University in Kyushu (1990-2002) and at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto (2002-2008). \nCPD Points: 1 \nThis event and book project are supported by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at Sydney Law School\, and the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL). URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/book-launch-comparing-online-legal-education/ LOCATION:Law Lounge\, Level 1 CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230802T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230802T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010810Z UID:1636-1690997400-1691002800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:The Charles Perkins Centre Annual Lecture 2023 DESCRIPTION:The Charles Perkins Centre Annual Lecture 2023Public health sovereignty and public reason: A comparative perspective\nIn-person event \nYou are warmly invited to the Charles Perkins Centre Annual Lecture 2023 presented by visiting scholar Professor Sheila Jasanoff\, the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. \nDrawing on varied policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic\, Professor Jasanoff argues that national health policies reflect underlying social compacts regarding the mutual obligations of citizens\, experts\, and the state. This approach helps make sense of wide divergences in measures taken by states worldwide to combat Covid-19 and ensure recovery. \nThis talk challenges conventional understandings of modernity as the product of two trajectories that sustain each other and improve human futures: one of advances in science and technology and the other of social progress. Progress is here imagined as always in-the-making\, riding on the wings of scientific enlightenment. There is no room for backsliding in this view\, only the horizon of greater emancipation. \nBut what if this idea of modernity is itself an imaginary overlaid on less tidy epistemic and political commitments? What if\, instead of perfection through knowledge and reason\, modernity is a patchwork of opaque delegations whereby control over minds\, bodies\, and nature’s workings is handed over to experts with quasi-sovereign power to regulate their respective domains? Empirically exploring these questions provides insights into contemporary debates on populism and loss of trust in science. \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nWednesday 2 August\, 2023\nTime: 5.30-7pm AEST \nLocation: University of Sydney Camperdown campus: Venue to be confirmed \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThis event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School and the Charles Perkins Centre. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/the-charles-perkins-centre-annual-lecture-2023/ LOCATION:Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed CATEGORIES:Health law events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230731T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230731T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010807Z UID:1626-1690808400-1690812000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review DESCRIPTION:Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review\nIn-person event \nThis 24-nation review of social enterprise law analyzes data developed by a team of academics and practitioners with deep expertise regarding jurisdictions on six continents. Each responded to the authors’ detailed questionnaire inquiring into the relevant jurisdiction’s legal treatment of entities using business methods to achieve social good. After first identifying the key role of political\, cultural and legal baselines in determining the space for and legal treatment of social enterprises\, the paper explores the myriad specialized forms and certifications that have been developed to identify firms around the world as social enterprises. \nLegal forms are offered exclusively by governments and relevant to a single jurisdiction\, while certifications may or may not be public or jurisdiction-specific. Comparing these tools offers guidance to policymakers keen to continue evolving specialized social enterprise forms and certifications across jurisdictions. It also reveals how these identifiers for social enterprise are being used to incentivize the pursuit of social good using business methods. The assurances of trustworthiness provided by distribution constraints and regulatory oversight appear critical to support public subsidization or privileging of social enterprise. Without these protections in place\, public incentives for social enterprise are largely absent \nAbout the speaker \nDana Brakman Reiser holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School\, where she also served as Vice Dean. She teaches courses in Corporations\, Nonprofit Law\, Social Enterprise\, Property\, and Trusts and Estates. A globally recognized expert in the law at the intersection of business and charity\, her work on the law of social enterprises – firms that pursue profits for owners and social good – defined the field. She has also written extensively on law and finance for philanthropic organizations and on sustainable investing. \nShe is a member of the American Law Institute and was an Associate Reporter for its project on the Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations\, as well as a past-Chair of the Section on Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law of the American Association of Law Schools and a former member of the executive board of its Section on Business Law. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School. \n——————————— \nMonday 31 July\, 2023\nTime: 1-2pm \nVenue: The University of Sydney Law School\, Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown \nCPD points: 1 \n——————————— \nThis event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/ross-parsons-centre-law-and-business-seminar-social-enterprise-law-a-multijurisdictional-comparative-review/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:Commercial,corporate and tax law events,CPD eligible events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230727T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230727T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010747Z UID:1621-1690480800-1690486200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance\nIn-person event \nVictims of oppression are sometimes said to have epistemic privilege in virtue of their marginalised social position into the operation and impact of oppressive social structures. Epistemic privilege sometimes is cited as a basis for deference in social relations between victims and non-victims—for example\, the use of ‘lived experience’ to resolve or terminate disagreements about social and political oppression. I am interested in whether epistemic privilege can be a basis for duties of mutual assistance between victims\, where assistance is understood as mitigating the harms of oppression on other victims without necessarily targeting oppression itself. I outline the ways in which victims of oppression can be said to have epistemic privilege\, the limits of this privilege\, and what duties of assistance this privilege might ground. \nAbout the speaker:\nAshwini Vasanthakumar \nAshwini Vasanthakumar is a political and legal theorist with research interests in political obligation and authority\, migration\, and the ethics of resistance. \nShe is currently an Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in Legal & Political Philosophy at Queen’s Law School in Canada. She holds an AB from Harvard\, an MA from Toronto\, a JD from Yale Law School\, and a DPhil from Oxford\, where she studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar. \nPreviously\, she has worked at King’s College London\, the University of York\, University College\, Oxford\, and Jindal Global Law School. She has also been a Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm) and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School (Berlin). \n  \nThursday 27 July 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-epistemic-privilege-and-duties-of-mutual-assistance/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230727T000000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230727T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010720Z UID:1630-1690416000-1690416000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Assessing witness credibility: Is it possible to tell whether someone is lying or telling the truth? DESCRIPTION:2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Assessing witness credibility: Is it possible to tell whether someone is lying or telling the truth?\n  \nSubstantive Law \nProfessional Skills \nCPD Points: 1.5 \nAbout \nWitness testimony can be extremely influential in legal investigations and trials; however\, sometimes witnesses lie. Such deception can be detrimental to due process and can result in miscarriages of justice. Thus\, it is important for legal personnel and factfinders to be able to determine whether someone is lying or telling the truth. \nIn an interactive seminar\, I will discuss research investigating behavioural and content indicators of deception. This seminar will help legal practitioners understand the difficulties in discriminating liars from truth-tellers as well as the evidence-base for various lie detection techniques. \nPresenter \nHelen Paterson is an Associate Professor in Forensic Psychology at the University of Sydney. She investigates the reliability and credibility of eyewitnesses. In particular\, her research focuses on best practice techniques to collect accurate and complete accounts from eyewitnesses. She also studies lies and the detection of deception. \n\n\nA recording of this webinar will be released on Thursday\, 27 July 2023. \nFind out more about the series. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/2023-criminal-law-cpd-series-assessing-witness-credibility-is-it-possible-to-tell-whether-someone-is-lying-or-telling-the-truth/ CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Criminology events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/04-1-I6AFC3.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230720T110000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230720T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235728Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010754Z UID:1622-1689850800-1689858000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudence DESCRIPTION:JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudence\nIn-person event \nModern jurisprudence has been tormented by a divide between description and evaluation in legal theory. Proponents argue that the distinction is essential to any clearheaded discussion of law itself and its relation to adjacent normative systems\, especially morality. Opponents insist that being the necessarily normative practice it is\, a pure description of the law and its theory is untenable. This conversation will bring together legal and moral theorists to shed some novel light on an old problem. \nSpeakers \n\nAssociate Professor Kevin Walton (University of Sydney Law School)\nDr. Yarran Hominh (Assistant Professor in Philosophy\, Bard College)\nDr. Alma Diamond (Postdoctoral Fellow in Law & Philosophy\, University of Chicago)\nDr. Meir Yarom (Postdoctoral Fellow in Jurisprudence\, the Julius Stone Institute\, University of Sydney Law School)\n\n——————————— \nThursday 20 July\, 2023\nTime: 11am-1pm \nVenue: Level 4\, Board Room\, New Law Building (F10) \nCPD Points: 2 \n———————————- \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-workshop-description-and-evaluation-in-contemporary-jurisprudence/ LOCATION:Board Room\, Level 4 CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230713T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230713T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010752Z UID:1625-1689271200-1689276600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: The stability of bad things DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: The stability of bad things\nIn-person event\n  \nPolitical philosophers have long been concerned with how best to ensure the stability of social orders. Stability is assumed to be a good\, whether because whatever is good is better for being stably so\, or because stability enables cooperation in the pursuit of whatever other goods we have. \nBut is stability always a good? What of the stability of systems of unfreedom\, of forms of oppression and domination? Such systems are stable in the face of constant efforts to shift them. Why is this? Call this the question of the stability of bad things: why bad things are stable despite the fact that they are bad. \nIn this talk\, I examine one central way in which systems of unfreedom are self-stabilizing: through shaping the moral psychology of agents within those systems. Unfreedom is not just a matter of having limited options for choice\, but of the ways in which social systems foster in us particular ways of thinking\, feeling\, and acting. I argue that there are two ways in which this moral psychological shaping stabilizes systems of unfreedom. First\, it generates support for those systems\, by which I mean not just voluntary upholding of the system but a range of attitudes from consent to resigned participation. Second\, it disrupts possibilities of collective resistance to those systems. Understanding these mechanisms of stability might better help us to first resist\, and then transform\, the systems of unfreedom to which we are all subject. \nAbout the speaker:\nYarran Hominh \nYarran Hominh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bard College. His research sits at the intersection of social and political philosophy with moral psychology. He draws liberally from a variety of traditions of thought and practice\, including the pragmatist tradition\, the Black radical tradition\, Buddhist modernism\, and anti-racist\, anti-colonial\, and anti-imperial praxis from around the globe. He is working on a book entitled The Problem of Unfreedom and has papers recently published or forthcoming in Philosophers’ Imprint\, The Pluralist\, the Journal of Legal Philosophy\, Comparative Philosophy and the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture. He is also the Associate Editor of the APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies and is on the editorial board of The Philosopher. \n  \nThursday 13 July 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.  URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-the-stability-of-bad-things/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230713T000000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230714T000000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010720Z UID:1635-1689206400-1689292800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:2023 ADM+S Symposium: Automated News & Media DESCRIPTION:2023 ADM+S Symposium: Automated News & Media\nAbout  \nThe University of Sydney is one of 9 partner universities of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Through this partnership the University of Sydney is proud to host this event. \nAI and automation are now part of the news and media industries. Digital platforms use automated systems to shape how we find and access information and entertainment\, as well as to filter\, fact-check and moderate content\, and to serve advertising to their users. Newsrooms are producing stories without human intervention and using bots to collect newsworthy data. \nAs these sectors start to seriously grapple with AI\, the dominance of major platforms and media organisations looks far less certain\, thanks to a series of economic shocks and a renewed interest in alternative social media technologies. \nThis is a moment of possibility\, and one that invites reflection and action. \nKeynote Speakers \nThere will be a host of speakers from the ADM+S Centre and The University of Sydney including: \nProfessor Bronwyn Carlson \nBronwyn Carlson is the leading Indigenous scholar on Indigenous peoples use of social media for cultural\, social\, intimate\, and political activism. She is widely published on these topics\, including collaborations with other Indigenous scholars across the globe. Bronwyn is the recipient of three consecutive Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous grants exploring Indigenous engagements across social media platforms. \nShe was also recently awarded a grant from Meta to explore the unique experiences of Indigenous women and LGBTQI+ people’s online. Bronwyn is the co-author of Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media (2021) and co-editor and contributor of Indigenous People Rise Up: The Global Ascendancy of Social Media Activism (2021). \nBronwyn is the Director of the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures\, Deputy Director Indigenous of the recently funded ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) and a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities. \nProfessor Wiebke Loosen \nWiebke Loosen is a senior journalism researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research│Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) (Germany) as well as a professor at the University of Hamburg. Her major areas of expertise are the transformation of journalism within a changing media environment\, theories of journalism\, and methodology. Wiebke’s current research focuses on the changing journalism-audience relationship\, the datafication of journalism\, forms of\, pioneer journalism’ and the start-up culture in journalism as well as the automation of communication. \nMs Tarunima Prabhakar\n \nTarunima is the research lead and co-founder of Tattle which builds citizen centric tools and datasets to respond to inaccurate and harmful content in India. Through Tattle\, she focuses on the unique challenges of addressing inaccurate and harmful information in India and the Global South. Her broader research interests are in the intersection of technology\, policy and global development. As a practitioner\, she has worked on ICTD and Data driven development projects with non-profits and tech companies in Asia and the United States. \nAssistant Professor Nick Seaver \nNick Seaver is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and director of the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society at Tufts University in Medford\, MA. His ethnographic research on the developers of algorithmic music recommendation has appeared in Cultural Anthropology\, Cultural Studies\, and Big Data & Society. He is co-editor of Towards an Anthropology of Data (2021) and author of Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation (2022). \nSpeakers from the University of Sydney include: \n\nDr Olga Boichak\nProfessor Terry Flew\nDr Jonathon Hutchinson\nMs Rebecca Johnson\n\nAs well as speakers from ABC\, Telstra\, Sydney Morning Herald\, The Conversation\, Amazon\, and Nvidia. \nAbout the ADM+S Centre \nThe ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) is a new\, cross-disciplinary\, national research centre which aims to create the knowledge and strategies necessary for responsible\, ethical\, and inclusive automated decision-making. Funded by the Australian federal government through the Australian Research Council from 2020 to 2026\, ADM+S is hosted at RMIT in Melbourne\, Australia\, with nodes in seven other Australian universities including the University of Sydney\, and partnerships with international universities and industry organisations. The Centre brings together leading researchers in the humanities\, social and technological sciences in an international industry\, research and civil society network. Its priority domains for public engagement are news and media\, transport\, social services and health. \nThis symposium brings together researchers\, industry\, advocacy groups and policymakers to address the most pressing challenges associated with AI and automation in news\, media and entertainment. \nRegister now. \n——————————— \n13-14 July 2023\nTime: Thursday 13 July – 9am to 5.30pm\, Friday 14 July – 9am- 5pm \nVenue: Online and In-person: New Law Building F10\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown\, Gadigal Land\, NSW 2006 \n——————————— URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/2023-adms-symposium-automated-news-media/ CATEGORIES:ADM+ S Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/344349393_1319608761924089_2287259009076415487_n-GHVnJs.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230627T140000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230627T160000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010753Z UID:1627-1687874400-1687881600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Workshop | Towards a Moralisation of Jurisprudence? Reflections on the Future of Legal Philosophy DESCRIPTION:JSI Workshop | Towards a Moralisation of Jurisprudence? Reflections on the Future of Legal Philosophy\nIn-person event\nThere is a trend in current Anglo-American legal philosophy that is drawing the attention of legal scholars. We could label this trend “The moralisation of jurisprudence”. Its animating idea is as follows: The questions still left open in contemporary jurisprudence can only be addressed by moral theory. Thus\, there is no longer room for legal philosophy as an autonomous field of enquiry. The seminar aims to critically discuss this thesis from different theoretical perspectives. \nAbout the speakers:\nProfessor Damiano Canale \nDamiano Canale is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Critical Thinking at Bocconi University\, Milan (Italy). His scholarship mainly focuses on legal reasoning and legal interpretation\, the methodology of jurisprudence\, the relationship between scientific knowledge and legal knowledge\, and the history of legal concepts. He was visiting fellow at the Max-Plank-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt a.M.)\, the Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. He is the author of four books in Italian and his papers have been published in journals such as Law and Philosophy\, Ratio Juris\, the American Journal of Law and Jurisprudence\, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence\, Jurisprudence\, Informal Logic\, Argumentation. \nDr Meir Yarom \nMeir Yarom is the inaugural Julius Stone Postdoctoral Fellow. He has recently completed his PhD entitled ‘Reflections on Coherence in Law’ supervised by Jeremy Waldron at NYU School of Law. \nTuesday\, 27 June 2023 2.00 – 4.00pm AEST\nVenue:  Board Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.  URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-workshop-towards-a-moralisation-of-jurisprudence-reflections-on-the-future-of-legal-philosophy/ CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230615T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230615T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010746Z UID:1629-1686852000-1686857400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia? DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia?\nIn-person event\n  \nOn 28 November 2023\, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act will come into effect in NSW. The Act allows ill persons having decision-making capacity\, acting voluntary\, and with less than six months to live (12 months in the case of a neurogenerative illness) to request a prescription of a lethal substance to end intolerable suffering. If the medical practitioners responsible for the assessment of the request confirm that the eligibility conditions are satisfied\, the patient may decide to self-administer the lethal substance or that the substance is to be administered to the patient by a doctor. The Voluntary Assisted Dying Act was eventually approved on 19 May 2022 after an exhausting and hard-fought parliamentary debate. \nOne of the main reasons justifying the opposition to the bill was provided by a slippery slope argument: The legalization of assisted dying would be a first and decisive step towards the gradual acceptance by public opinion\, medical professions\, and political decision-makers of the medical killing of people unable to consent. Given that this outcome is morally disgraceful\, assisted dying should not be permitted in the first place. Slippery slope arguments are popular in a wide range of debates across bioethics\, law\, and public policy\, and are still extensively used to prevent the legalization of assisted dying in countries such as the UK\, Germany and Italy. Besides\, they are widely employed to prevent policymakers from extending the right to assisted dying to new categories of persons in those jurisdictions where that right is already recognized. \nHowever\, it is highly disputed whether arguments of this sort are able to support their conclusions or should rather be dismissed because ill-grounded. In this seminar I will try to answer this question. To do that\, I will first show that various versions of the slippery slope arguments are actually present in the debate on assisted dying. I will then claim that the only version of the argument that is not ill-grounded supports the opposite conclusion\, namely that the non-recognition of the right to assisted dying may be a first step on the slippery slope to unvoluntary euthanasia in many legal systems. \nAbout the speaker:\nDamiano Canale \nDamiano Canale is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Critical Thinking at Bocconi University\, Milan (Italy). His scholarship mainly focuses on legal reasoning and legal interpretation\, the methodology of jurisprudence\, the relationship between scientific knowledge and legal knowledge\, and the history of legal concepts. He was visiting fellow at the Max-Plank-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt a.M.)\, the Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. He is the author of four books in Italian and his papers have been published in journals such as Law and Philosophy\, Ratio Juris\, the American Journal of Law and Jurisprudence\, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence\, Jurisprudence\, Informal Logic\, Argumentation. \n  \nThursday 15 June 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.  URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-legalizing-assisted-dying-are-we-on-a-slippery-slope-to-involuntary-euthanasia/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230615T120000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230615T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235851Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010756Z UID:1649-1686830400-1686834000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Let's Talk About Corporations: Rethinking accessorial liability in corporate law DESCRIPTION:Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking accessorial liability in corporate law\nOnline event \nThis lunchtime webinar will discuss a paper by Dr Jason Harris\, Professor of Corporate Law at Sydney Law School\, that considers accessorial liability in corporate law for civil and criminal breaches of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). A review of recent cases will be undertaken with suggestions on how persons working within corporations can minimise the risk of accessorial liability. \nAbout the speakers\nProfessor Jason Harris\nProfessor Jason Harris teaches and researches in the areas of Corporate Law\, Insolvency Law\, Commercial Law and Contracts. His research is focused on the public and private regulation of financially distressed companies\, including debt restructuring\, voluntary administration\, corporate governance and directors’ duties during financial distress and the regulation of corporate groups. Jason’s research is frequently cited in Supreme Court and Federal Court decisions and has been cited in the High Court of Australia as well as in Commonwealth parliamentary committees and by academic works in Australia and internationally. Jason is an active participant in law reform initiatives through his policy work with the Governance Institute of Australia\, the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Corporations and Insolvency Committees of the Law Council of Australia. Jason has served on a number of editorial boards including for the Australian Journal of Corporate Law\, the Australian Law Journal and the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice. Jason is a former president of the Corporate Law Teachers’ Association and has previously held academic positions at UNSW\, the ANU and UTS and has had visiting academic roles with Universities in England\, Canada and the United States. \n‘Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.\nFind out more about the series.\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThursday 15 June\, 2023\nTime: 12-1pm AEST \nLocation: Online webinar via Zoom \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThis event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/lets-talk-about-corporations-rethinking-accessorial-liability-in-corporate-law/ CATEGORIES:Commercial,corporate and tax law events,CPD eligible events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/5-Ip8V2Z.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230601T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230601T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010800Z UID:1645-1685642400-1685647800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Private International Law and Voices of Children DESCRIPTION:Private International Law and Voices of Children\nOnline event \nWhen making decisions\, adults should think about how their decisions will affect children. Recent years have witnessed\, in private international law cases and legislation\, the protection of children is increasingly mingled with gender\, indigenous issues\, refugees\, violence\, war\, surrogacy technology\, etc. This is evidenced by the US Supreme Court 2022 judgment Golan v. Saada\, the Australian case Secretary\, Department of Communities & Justice v Bamfield\, the 2023 German Constitutional Court decision\, the Chinese Civil Code\, the Australia Family Law (Child Abduction Convention) Amendment (Family Violence) Regulations 2022\, and developments at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH Children Conventions) and the United Nations (Convention on the Rights of the Child and its additional Protocols). \nOn this International Children’s Day\, let us join this CAPLUS webinar in cooperation with conflictoflaws.net and American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group to hear voices of children in private international law. \nSpeakers \n\nMs. Anna Mary Coburn\n\nAfter 22-years of public service as a U.S. Department of State Attorney-Advisor for Children’s Issues as well as a USAID Regional Legal Advisor/Senior Advisor for Children/Youth in Conflict\, Anna has transitioned to practicing international family law with a focus on child rights cases and issues. \n\nMr. Philippe Lortie\n\nPhilippe is co-head of the International Family and Child Protection Law Division at the Hague Conference on Private International Law Permanent Bureau and has more than 30 years’ experience in the field of child protection. \n\nMs. Miranda Kaye\n\nMs Miranda Kaye is an academic at the Faculty of Law in the University of Technology Sydney in Australia and a member of Hague Mothers\, a project aiming to end the injustices created by the Hague Child Abduction Convention. She also has experience in the public service (Law Commission of England and Wales) and as a practicing solicitor (family law in the UK). \n\nProfessor Lukas Rademacher\n\nLukas is a Professor of Private Law\, Private International Law\, and Comparative Law in Kiel\, Germany. He studied law at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Oxford\, and received his PhD at the University of Münster. He wrote his postdoctoral thesis at the University of Cologne. \n\nMs. Haitao Ye\n\nHaitao is a lawyer at the Shanghai Office of the Beijing Dacheng Law LLP specializing in marriage and family dispute resolution\, family wealth inheritance and management. She is a former experienced judge in civil and commercial trials at the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court in China. \nModerators/commentators \n• Dr. Jie (Jeanne) Huang (Associate Professor at Sydney Law School\, University of Sydney) \n  \nThursday 1 June\, 6-7.30pm AEST\n(4-5.30am Washington D.C./9-10:30am London/10-11.30am the Hague/4-5.30pm Beijing) \n\nThis event is proudly co-presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney\, conflictoflaws.net and the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/private-international-law-and-voices-of-children/ CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230601T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230601T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010818Z UID:1641-1685642400-1685647800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Unpicking torts: Elements\, standing requirements and conditions of actionability DESCRIPTION:Unpicking torts: Elements\, standing requirements and conditions of actionability\nIn-person event\n  \nThere is a fashion for thinking about torts in terms of recipes: as causes of action made up of a fixed set of ingredients. It is fashion that has adherents in both judicial and juristic circles. Typically\, the things that a plaintiff must demonstrate in order to sue in tort are referred to as ‘elements’ of a tort. But sometimes one comes across talk of the plaintiff’s need to satisfy either a ‘condition of actionability’ or a ‘standing requirement’. \nThis change in language when referring to what the plaintiff must show is ostensibly perplexing. It naturally raises the following questions: (1) how\, do the three concepts come apart\, and (2) what significance can be attached to any differences between them? These are the questions with which this paper wrestles. \nThe first contention advanced in the paper is this: while elements and conditions of actionability are in fact discrete juridical entities\, standing requirements are not. The second is that recognising the difference possesses considerable practical and theoretical significance. \nAbout the speaker:\nProfessor John Murphy (The University of Hong Kong) \nJohn Murphy is a Professor at the Faculty of Law\, The University of Hong Kong. He was educated in England and holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law. John specialises in the law of torts\, and he has authored two monographs in the field: The Law of Nuisance (Oxford University Press\, 2010) and The Province and Politics of the Economic Torts (Hart Publishing\, 2022). For over a decade he was the editor of Street on Torts \, and for even longer he has been one of small group of editors responsible for the production of Clerk and Lindsell on Torts\, the leading practitioner work on tort law. \nCommentator: Professor Peter Cane (Sydney Law School) \nThursday 1 June 2023\nTime: 6-7.30pm AEST (Seminar from 6-7pm\, with refreshments served afterwards) \nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1 \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at The University of Sydney. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/unpicking-torts-elements-standing-requirements-and-conditions-of-actionability/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230529T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230529T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010818Z UID:1642-1685381400-1685386800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual Causes DESCRIPTION:Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual Causes\nIn-person event \nSydney Law School at the University of Sydney and King & Wood Mallesons are proud to be presenting a seminar with Professor Jane Stapleton. The Law School welcomes the appointment of Professor Jane Stapleton as Honorary Professor of the University of Sydney. \nAbout the seminar \nIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic\, the UK Government decided to take swingeing lock-down measures in March 2020 which resulted in billions of dollars of business interruption loss to hundreds of thousands of enterprises in that country. In a landmark 2021 decision concerning insurance cover for such losses a unanimous UK Supreme Court confirmed that the law recognises that an unnecessary and insufficient factor may be a factual cause of an indivisible loss. \nThe talk\, presented by Honorary Professor Jane Stapleton (University of Sydney) will describe the revolutionary procedure deployed in the case\, how the Justices’ insightful introduction of non-insurance cases and commentary was crucial to the crafting of their decision and how profound an impact that decision may have across the landscape of the law. \nThe event will be chaired by the Honourable Justice Julie Ward\, President of the Court of Appeal\, Supreme Court of New South Wales. \nAbout the speakers\nJane Stapleton KC (Hon)\, FBA \nJane Stapleton is an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney Law School and has held academic posts at Oxford\, the University of Texas and the Australian National University as well as a number of visiting professorships including at Cambridge\, Harvard\, Columbia and the European University Institute. She has acted as a consultant in commercial\, pharmaceutical\, medical and environmental litigation in the US and UK. \nShe is an Emeritus Council Member of the American Law Institute\, an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn\, an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College\, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College\, Cambridge. In 2020 she was appointed an Honorary Queen’s Counsel by HM Queen Elizabeth II. In 2022 she stepped down as the 38th Master of Christ’s College\, Cambridge where she continues as a Life Fellow. \nThe Honourable Justice Julie Ward \nJustice Ward completed her Bachelor of Laws at Sydney Law School in 1982 with first class honours and the University Medal for law. She was the youngest female partner to be appointed at Mallesons in 1998. In 2008\, Justice Ward was the first female solicitor to be directly appointed to the Supreme Court bench. \nIn 2022\, Justice Ward was appointed as President of the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court of NSW\, only the second female to be appointed as a President of the Court of Appeal. \n——————————— \nMonday 29 May 2023\nTime: 5.30-7pm (Registration from 5.30pm for a 5.45-7pm seminar. Cocktail function to follow.) \nVenue: Level 61\, Governor Phillip Tower\, 1 Farrer Place\, Sydney NSW 2000 \nCPD points: 1.25 \n——————————— \nThis event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney\, and King & Wood Mallesons. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/unnecessary-and-insufficient-factual-causes/ LOCATION:King & Wood Mallesons CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230526T080000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230526T090000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010807Z UID:1639-1685088000-1685091600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock DESCRIPTION:Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock\nIn-person event \n‘Crowd-sourced funding’ is a new form of online venture capital stock market\, open to all investors—retail and wholesale—that was only legally authorised in Australia five years ago. It’s like Kickstarter\, except the backer gets a share in the company (not a t-shirt)\, which would be an illegal public offering of unregistered securities—absent two acts of Parliament from 2017 and 2018. Since then\, under the oversight of ASIC\, and learning from experience in the United States\, New Zealand\, and elsewhere\, the Australian crowd-sourced funding market has grown rapidly\, doubling almost every year—yet the market still remains quite small. \nThis seminar will discuss the law and regulation of crowd-sourced funding in Australia\, and compare it with international practice. It will also address the state of the Australian market and what it would take to achieve the full potential of crowd-sourced funding across this vast country. \nAbout the speaker \nAndrew A. Schwartz\, Professor of Law at the University of Colorado\, is a leading international scholar in the field of crowd-sourced funding\, and the author of a new book on the subject\, Investment Crowdfunding\, due to be published by Oxford University Press in July 2023. \nCommentator \nSteven Rice (Partner\, Corrs Chambers Westgarth) \n——————————— \nFriday 26 May\nTime: 8-9am \nVenue: Corrs\, Chambers Westgarth\, Level 37\, Quay Quarter Tower\, 50 Bridge Street\, Sydney\, NSW\, 2000 \nCPD Points: 1 \n——————————— \nThis event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/ross-parsons-centre-law-and-business-seminar-five-years-of-crowd-sourced-funding-in-australia-taking-stock/ LOCATION:Corrs\, Chambers Westgarth CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/parsons-seminar-jcDkZ2.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230524T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230524T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010808Z UID:1640-1684949400-1684954800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee's corporate insolvency inquiry DESCRIPTION:Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry\nHybrid event \nThis event will discuss the submissions made to the Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry that is due to release its report at the end of May. The speakers will consider the range of submissions made to the inquiry and discuss potential future law reform in insolvency law. \nSpeakers \nProfessor Jason Harris (Sydney Law School) \nMichael Murray (Murrays Legal) \nChair: Lindsay Powers (Minter Ellison) \n——————————— \nWednesday 24 May\, 2023\nTime: 5.30-7pm \nVenue: The University of Sydney Law School\, Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown \nCPD points: 1.5 \n——————————— \nThis event is proudly co-presented by the Association of Independent Insolvency Practitioners (AIIP) and the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial\, Corporate and Taxation Law at Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/ross-parsons-centre-law-and-business-seminar-the-parliamentary-joint-committees-corporate-insolvency-inquiry/ LOCATION:Law Lounge\, Level 1 CATEGORIES:Commercial,corporate and tax law events,CPD eligible events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230523T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230523T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010747Z UID:1648-1684864800-1684870200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts\nIn-person event\nIn Judgment SU-151/2020 the Constitutional Court of Colombia rendered its decision on a constitutional complaint of a group of journalists. They claim that in certain criminal cases concerning possible corruption by government officials\, prosecutors and judges were unsatisfyingly prohibiting the press to attend public criminal law hearings. The petitioners claimed that judges and prosecutors use to limit the constitutional right to free press outside of those exceptions and by means of disproportionate decisions. \nThe Court made an open call to journalists\, prosecutors\, judges\, and other interested parties to send short videos or writings with relevant information or their views concerning the issue at hand. The Court received 37 videos and writings. All materials were posted online\, and people wrote comments on them. The Court was able to process those materials\, which reveal that there was indeed and unconstitutional practice. However\, the Court could have never processed that information\, had it received hundreds or thousands of pieces of information. \nThis example illustrates how crowdsourcing can assist constitutional courts to overcome their epistemic deficiencies for solving constitutional cases. Those deficiencies can relate to factual or normative matters. Nevertheless\, this advantage does not come without risks. Judicial crowdsourcing can be meaningless if it is misused as a mechanism of democratic window-dressing. This risk instantiates if\, as it may happen with other mechanisms of digital democracy\, it is entirely shaped and controlled by representatives of “existing entrenched social and economic interests” or if constitutional procedural laws include an empowerment for judges to disregard or supersede outcomes of crowdsourcing processes without justification. Furthermore\, power brokers can manipulate crowdsourcing mechanisms. Additionally\, judicial crowdsourcing can be trivialized if citizens’ suggestions do not elicit deliberation among judges and remain only as an expression lacking any kind of impact. Finally\, constitutional courts can use artificial intelligence to analyse big amounts of information that stake-holders submit in the crowdsourcing process. The use of artificial intelligence for those purposes also raises specific concerns of algocratia\, opacity\, and algorithmic discrimination. \nWithin the context\, the aim of this presentation is to assess the advantages and disadvantages of the use of crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence by Constitutional Courts in complex cases of constitutional adjudication. \nAbout the speaker:\nCarlos Bernal \nCarlos Bernal is Commissioner of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. He is professor of law at the University of Dayton (Ohio\, USA) and Macquarie University (Sydney\, Australia). Between 2017 and 2020\, he was Justice at the Colombian Constitutional Court. His qualifications include a LL.B. from the University Externado of Colombia (Bogotá – Colombia) (1996)\, a S.J.D. from the University of Salamanca (Spain) (2001)\, and a M.A. (2008) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (2011) from the University of Florida (U.S.A). \nProf. Bernal’s research focuses on constitutional rights’ interpretation\, comparative constitutional change\, general jurisprudence -in particular\, on the intersection between social ontology and legal theory-\, and the philosophical foundations of tort law. His work has been published in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals\, books and edited collections in English\, Spanish\, German\, Italian\, French\, Portuguese\, and Russian. \n  \nTuesday 23 May 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.  URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-crowdsourcing-and-artificial-intelligence-in-constitutional-courts/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230522T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230522T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010743Z UID:1646-1684778400-1684782000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Is Sustainable Finance nothing more than Woke Capitalism"? DESCRIPTION:#N/A URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/is-sustainable-finance-nothing-more-than-woke-capitalism/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:Climate and environmental law events,CPD eligible events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230518T120000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230518T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010756Z UID:1650-1684411200-1684414800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Let's Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate law DESCRIPTION:Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate law\nOnline event \nIn this seminar\, Kerry Abadee will consider proposals for the reform of the regulatory architecture including the Hayne Royal Commission’s proposal for a new federal civil law enforcement body for corporate law. \nAbout the speakers\nKerry Abadee\nKerry is a graduate of Macquarie University (Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (Honours)) and The University of Sydney (Master of Laws). She worked as a legal practitioner in private practice in the field of commercial litigation for more than 20 years and then for several years in enforcement as a senior manager at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Kerry is a doctoral candidate in the Sydney Law School at The University of Sydney where she is researching corporate regulation and teaches corporate law. \n‘Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.\nFind out more about the series.\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThursday 18 May\, 2023\nTime: 12-1pm AEST \nLocation: Online webinar via Zoom \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThis event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/lets-talk-about-corporations-rethinking-federal-enforcement-of-corporate-law/ CATEGORIES:Commercial,corporate and tax law events,CPD eligible events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/4-VgKhEF.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230516T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230516T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010727Z UID:1651-1684242000-1684245600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Black Internationalism and International Criminal Justice DESCRIPTION:Black Internationalism and International Criminal Justice\nIn-person event\n  \nWhat are the possibilities of international criminal justice being informed by epistemologies that emerged from Black and African intellectuals’ historical engagement with the concept of ‘justice’? This paper responds with an intervention rooted in Black internationalism focusing on Pan-Africanist thinkers. The goals are threefold. \nFirst\, it tentatively presents ways to take Black intellectuals seriously as progenitors of ‘justice’ that should inform\, agitate\, and expand the concept within international law. Second\, the paper analysed how the architecture of international criminal justice and its primary actors (mis)align with those imaginaries of justice and its myriad approaches and visions. Finally\, the paper concludes by offering a remapping and reimagining of justice and its emancipatory impulse through these expansive intellectual historiographies. \nAbout the speaker\nDr Yassin Brunger (Queen’s University Belfast) \nYassin Brunger is Lecturer in Human Rights Law at Queen’s University\, Belfast and a Fellow of Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace\, Security\, and Justice. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the IILAH (University of Melbourne) completing a book project entitled Narratives of Justice: The Relationship between the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council (contracted with Cambridge University Press). \n————————–\nTuesday 16 May 2023\nTime: 1-2pm AEST\nVenue: TBA\nCPD Points: 1 \n————————–\nThis event is hosted by the Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/black-internationalism-and-international-criminal-justice/ LOCATION:Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed CATEGORIES:Social justice events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230515T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230515T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235858Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010729Z UID:1652-1684171800-1684177200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Book launch: Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski DESCRIPTION:Book launch: Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski\nIn-person event \nThe University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski\, Challis Chair in Jurisprudence\, Sydney Law School. \nThe book will be launched by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG. \nAbout Constitutional Public Reason \nPublic reason\, which urges that only laws based on principles reasonably agreeable to all those bound by them are legitimate\, has rarely been applied to constitutional law\, and never in a comparative way. This book aspires to fill that gap\, by studying the use of public reason in different constitutional systems. In doing so\, it studies public reason both as a normative idea – as a principle postulated for democratic constitutionalism\, and as a descriptive account – as helping to understand many important doctrines in constitutional adjudication of some leading constitutional courts around the world\, and also in the supranational sphere. \nConstitutional Public Reason questions the performance of leading ‘exemplars of public reasons’\, including the top courts of the United States\, India\, Canada\, Australia\, Germany\, and South Africa\, as well as the European Court of Human Rights. It also attempts to show how this performance can be improved in fields such as freedom of expression\, non-establishment of religion\, and anti-discrimination law. Ultimately\, it finds that the best resonance between the ideal of public reason and constitutional interpretation is found in doctrines that locate the illegitimacy of laws in the wrongful motives (or purposes) pursued by legislators. Scrutinising motives is often as important as scrutinising consequences. \nFind out more about the book and order it online here. \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nMonday 15 May 2023\nTime: 5.30-7pm (including a cocktail reception) \nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10) \nThis event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School. \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \n\n\nAbout the author \nWojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor of the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw; formerly Professor and Head of Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He is author of several books\, most recently Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown (2019) and Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe (2012). He regularly teaches\, as visiting professor\, in top universities around the world\, including at Yale and New York Universities. \nCPD Points: 1 \nThis event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/book-launch-constitutional-public-reason-by-professor-wojciech-sadurski/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230511T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230511T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010752Z UID:1647-1683828000-1683833400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experience DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experience\nIn-person event\n  \nU.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously maintained that “the life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.” Holmes statement suggests an antecedent question: what is the life of the law? This essay construes this question ontologically. What gives law life? What animates it\, and in so doing warrants the claim that law contributes to the production of social order in a particular community? \nThe answer\, I contend\, is that law lives\, or exists\, only in those societies where law rules\, and law rules only when the exercise of political power is conducted under the supervision of lawyers\, agents for whom realizing the rule of law is a calling or vocation. Perhaps surprisingly\, I contend that the most prominent proponent of this account of law in the field of international law and legal theory is Martti Koskenniemi. While he generally eschews talk of government in accordance with the rule of law in favor of “a culture of formalism” and “constitutionalism as a mindset\,” I demonstrate that Koskenniemi defends the same conception of law that Lon Fuller and Ronald Dworkin do. This conception identifies law not with rules or institutions but with a particular approach to the exercise of political power\, one premised on actors reciprocal regard for one another as autonomous and responsible agents. \nRead the paper here. \nAbout the speaker:\nDavid Lefkowitz \nDavid Lefkowitz is Professor of Philosophy and the founding Coordinator of the Program in Philosophy\, Politics\, Economics\, and Law (PPEL) at the University of Richmond (US). His scholarship focuses largely on conceptual and normative questions in international law\, and the morality of obedience and disobedience to law. He is the author of Philosophy and International Law: A Critical Introduction (CUP 2020)\, as well as more than forty journal articles and book chapters. Lefkowitz has held research fellowships at Princeton University\, the U.S. Naval Academy\, and National University of Singapore\, and served as a visiting research scholar at Pompeu Fabra University. \n  \nThursday 11 May 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is co-hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence and the Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School.  URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-the-life-of-international-law-is-not-logic-but-experience/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230510T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230510T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010736Z UID:1658-1683739800-1683747000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Critical issues in international space law: 2023 and beyond DESCRIPTION:Critical issues in international space law: 2023 and beyond\nPanel discussion and cocktail reception\nIn-person event \nWe are entering a new era of space exploration and exploitation\, placing space law at the forefront of the international legal agenda. In this commercial space age\, private space companies pursue their corporate agendas alongside the public initiatives of national space agencies. The domain of ‘space’ is now more congested\, competitive and commercialised than any previous era. The advances in space technology have brought with it new challenges including\, but not limited to concerns relating to space debris\, the cluttering of orbits\, spectrum allocations\, space militarisation and weaponization\, mining of space resources\, space tourism\, commercialisation and space sustainability. The rapid evolution of the space industry raises the question of whether the existing international legal framework effectively addresses these emerging challenges. \nThis panel will consider some of the present critical issues in space law and the challenges going forward for space global governance. \nWelcome and launch of Sydney Law School’s Space Law program \nProfessor Simon Bronitt (Head of School and Dean\, Sydney Law School) \nIntroduction to panel discussion \nIsobel Haddow (Industry Analyst\, Space Industry Association of Australia) \nPanel chair \nProfessor Chester Brown (Sydney Law School) \n  \nPanelists\nDr Rebecca Connolly (Sydney Law School) \nCrowding of the Low-Earth Orbit – the rise in military and commercial space assets in the LEO. \nWith the cost to access space rapidly decreasing\, we are witnessing a rush to place commercial and military assets in the LEO. The rapid increase in these space assets raises complex issues relating to space-traffic management\, orbital collisions\, national security\, space debris\, impacts on astronomy and overall space sustainability. This talk will discuss the crowding and competition in the LEO and the need for regulation. \nDr Annie Handmer \nSpace Debris – mitigation and remediation strategies and the challenge of dual-use technologies. \nThis talk will discuss the importance of a multi-disciplinary perspective to tackle challenging regulatory issues relating to the rising cloud of space debris. In particular\, the relevance of Science and Technology Studies as a lens through which to understand space law and to address the interwoven issues of politics\, technology and social concerns going forward. \nProfessor Steven Freeland (Western Sydney University/Bond University\, Law) \nSpace Law “Big Issues” – the geopolitics of space and the challenges of achieving multilateral consensus. \nThe past few decades have witnessed significant changes to the space landscape. While the existing international space law represents an important base for regulation\, it is clear that further multilateral standards and instruments will be required to more comprehensively address the next stage of space activities. This talk will discuss the challenges for achieving global space governance on some of the ‘big issues’ in space law and the pathway forward. \n——————————— \nWednesday 10 May\, 2023\nTime: 5.30-7.30pm AEST (5.30pm registration for 5.45pm start\, followed by a cocktail reception) \nVenue: Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown Campus \nCPD Points: 2 \nThis event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School. \n——————————— \nThis event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the Space Industry Association of Australia. \n  URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/critical-issues-in-international-space-law-2023-and-beyond/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2 CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230503T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230503T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235859Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010801Z UID:1654-1683135000-1683140400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Reflecting on 25 Years of the Young Offenders Act 1997 in NSW DESCRIPTION:Reflecting on 25 Years of the Young Offenders Act 1997 in NSW\nHybrid event \nIn April 1998\, the Young Offenders Act 1997 commenced in New South Wales. It provided a legislative basis for the diversion of young people from formal court proceedings and introduced\, amongst other things\, youth justice conferences. A panel discussion involving key actors in the development and initial implementation of the YOA will reflect on this history and discuss the challenges of implementing the legislation and the benefits of diverting young people from more formal criminal justice interventions. \nGarner Clancey (Associate Professor Criminology\, Sydney Law School) will facilitate this panel discussion which will\, amongst others\, include: \nJenny Bargen\nJenny’s passion for reforming the way police respond to children and young people was kindled while working with unemployed young people at Rozelle Community Youth Support Scheme in the early ‘80s when she first moved to Sydney. Some years later\, after completing my law degree\, Jenny became one of the early members of the Youth Justice Coalition and participated in preparing and writing Kids in Justice\, a Blueprint for the’90s\, and then lobbying government to implement the recommendations. Those implemented included the establishment of Juvenile Justice as a separate government department and the appointment of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Council (JJAC) with our former Governor Maree Bashir as chair. Jenny joined the academic staff at UNSW Law School in 1990\, where she taught and researched in juvenile justice and children and the law\, while remaining an active member of the YJC. Jenny also served on the JJAC\, and on the Children’s Law and Criminal Law committees of the Law Society of NSW\, and was a member of the working party on entry into the juvenile justice system chaired by the then Police Commissioner Anthony Lauer. This working party was responsible for preparing the chapter on juvenile entry into the Juvenile Justice System for the Green Paper\, Future Directions in Juvenile Justice in New South Wales. \nLater\, as a member of the YJC\, Jenny and many others contributed to the work of the Minor Offenders Punishment Scheme committee that ultimately recommended the introduction of the Young Offenders Act. Jenny was appointed as Director of the Youth Justice Conferencing Directorate in the Department of Juvenile Justice in 1997\, and worked closely for 10 years with police\, the ODPP\, lawyers\, courts and community organisations in implementing and operating under the Act. \nLouise Blazejowska \nLouise was admitted in 1984 before working at the Aboriginal Legal Service preparing asbestosis claims\, assisting former wards of the Aborigines Welfare Board and Protection Board\, appearing on behalf of children\, young people and adults in various matters. She worked as an Investigative Officer for the RCIADIC from 1988 to 1990 then community legal centres in particular in the area of domestic violence. From 1995 to 2000\, Louise worked at the Attorney General’s Department on various legislative proposals including the Young Offenders Act. She worked from 2001 to 2011 at Legal Aid NSW in different roles\, setting up various services including the Aboriginal Justice Unit\, Regional Solicitor Program and Domestic Violence Solicitor Service. From 201`2 to 2016\, Louise worked at Ageing Disability and Home Care on boarding house reform and the transition to the NDIS and then at FACS as Director of the Legislative Reform Unit followed by a stint at Land and Housing. Since 2019 Louise has been working as a Director in Court Services providing strategic planning and operational advice on the Local Court\, Children’s Court\, coronial and District Court jurisdictions as well as establishing and expanding various court services such as the Youth Koori Court and Drug Court. \nDr Jane Bolitho \nDr Bolitho is a highly respected expert in restorative justice\, restorative practices\, and violence and conflict resolution. Her work explores the experiences of those coming before criminal justice systems\, the operations of formal and community-based justice systems\, alternative models of resolution\, and innovations in justice. Dr Bolitho conducted important research into youth justice conferences in the early years of the implementation of the Young Offenders Act. \nRichard Funston\nRichard worked as solicitor Children’s Legal Service with Legal Aid Victoria from 1987 to 1993\, then principal solicitor Inner City Legal Centre NSW from 1993 to 1998.  Richard was appointed solicitor in charge Children’s Legal Service at Legal Aid NSW from 1998 to 2003.  Richard was a member of the Executive at Legal Aid NSW in various roles including Director Criminal Law and Deputy Chief Executive Officer from 2003 to 2018.  Richard was appointed a magistrate in 2018 and specialist children’s magistrate at the start of this year.  \nActing Superintendent Joanne Schultz \nJoanne has been a member of the NSW Police Force for 35 years. From 1998 to 2002 Joanne was the Principal Tutor Youth at the NSWPF Academy and was heavily involved in the roll out of the Specialist Youth Officer Workshop and Youth Liaison Officer Courses across New South Wales. Joanne is currently relieving as Commander\, Mid North Coast Police District. \n—————————- \nRescheduled date: Wednesday 3 May2023\nTime: 5.30-7pm\, with drinks and canapes to follow\nLocation: The University of Sydney\, Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown\nCost: Free\, but registration is essential. Please select your attendance type during registration. \nCPD points: 1.5 points \nThis event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n—————————- \nThis event is proudly hosted by University of Sydney Youth Justice Collaboration and The University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/reflecting-on-25-years-of-the-young-offenders-act-1997-in-nsw/ LOCATION:Law Lounge\, Level 1 CATEGORIES:Criminology events,Social justice events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Young-offenders-act-stAfdz.tmp_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230427T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230427T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235903Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010809Z UID:1656-1682618400-1682623800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Stand-up\, fight back: Defending protest in NSW DESCRIPTION:Stand-up\, fight back: Defending protest in NSW\nIn-person event \nWe know that activism changes history and the right to stand together and peacefully protest must be protected and defended for every citizen not pared back. Peaceful protestors should never face incarceration. \nYet\, both major parties in NSW joined forces a year ago to support draconian regulations to make it a crime punishable by up to 2 years in jail and a $22\,000 fine\, to block entrances to train stations\, ports and public and private infrastructure. \nThe implications of criminalising protest at iconic sites like Town Hall and Oxford Street is unimaginable to ordinary Australians who have watched and actively participated in protests across countless human rights issues. Rallies for Marriage Equality\, Black Lives Matter\, School Strike 4 Climate and May Day could all be illegal under these laws. \nWhat can we do? What should we do? \nOur panel\, chaired by Professor Simon Rice will explore these questions. \nThis is a free event as part of a calendar of events celebrating 60 years of activism from the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties and jointly organised by the University of Sydney Law School and NSW Council for Civil Liberties. \nAbout the speakers \nProfessor Simon Rice (OAM) is the Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice at the University of Sydney Law School\, and a consultant lawyer at Chalk & Behrendt. Simon has practised extensively in poverty law in community legal centres\, particularly anti-discrimination law.  He has been President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights\, and an adviser to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights.  He has encountered the police while observing protests. \nJosh Pallas (he/him) is the President of the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties. Josh is also PhD Candidate at the University of Sydney Law School researching at the intersection of criminal and public law. He was previously a criminal and public lawyer in both government and private practice. Josh has published in criminal law and taught in a range of law and international relations subjects at the University of Sydney and University of Wollongong. \nAmal Naser is a Palestinian organiser and third-generation refugee. She lives on unceded Bidjigal land. Amal is currently studying a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at UNSW. She is currently conducting a critical analysis of the criminalisation of protest in liberal democracies using Marxist State Theory for her law honours project. Amal has a strong interest in the intersection of the law and the rights of Indigenous persons and was the Human Rights Defender intern at the Australian Human Rights Institute for summer 2022/23. \nDr Jeff Gordon is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. Jeff specialises in free speech and judicial federalism\, most recently writing on the law of protest during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jeff’s work spans public and private law\, exploring free expression\, judicial federalism\, speech torts\, non-disclosure agreements and equitable relief. \nLuc Velez (he/him) is a student activist organising on stolen Gadigal and Bidjigal land. Passionate about economic and environmental justice\, Luc was the 2022 National Education Officer of the National Union of Students. He has been involved in national campaigns on climate justice\, free education and student unionism reforms. Luc is studying a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Politics\, Philosophy and Economics at UNSW after having spent two years studying fashion in France. \nKavita Naidu is a feminist climate activist and international human rights lawyer from Fiji-Australia specialising in climate justice for grassroots women in all their diversity in Asia and the Pacific. With over 16 years of diverse experience working in the Pacific\, Asia and the UK\, Kavita has worked at the Asia Pacific Forum on Women\, Law and Development\, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights\, the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat\, government bodies and the private sector. Kavita was involved with the UN Free & Equal campaign in the Pacific\, the Global Women’s Strike and the feminist bloc for the climate marches in COP25 & COP26. Kavita served as a Board member with Greenpeace Australia Pacific and is currently a board member with AkitvAsia and Progressive International. \n—————————– \nThursday 27 April 2023\nTime: 6-7.30pm\nVenue:Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\nCPD Points: 1.5 \n—————————– \nThis event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/stand-up-fight-back-defending-protest-in-nsw/ LOCATION:Law Lounge\, Level 1 CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Social justice events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230424T120000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230424T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235912Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010736Z UID:1662-1682337600-1682348400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Criminal Law Careers DESCRIPTION:Criminal Law Careers\nIn-person event\n  \nThe Sydney Institute of Criminology will host a Criminal Law Careers Event on the 24th April\, 12-2pm at the Sydney Law School. We welcome students interested in a career in criminal law practice to attend and learn more about the transition from University into criminal law practice\, the requirements and role descriptions of junior positions with major criminal law agencies in NSW\, and the benefits of criminal law practice. \nThe event will begin with a presentation by his Honour Judge Haesler SC who will speak to his own diverse career in criminal law\, and avenues of practice for graduating students – as well as some practice tips. Following his Honour’s presentation\, there will be short information sessions co-ordinated by representatives of various criminal law agencies (ODPP\, ALS\, LA\, private practice\, NSW BAR)\, during which speakers will address the topics above. Those attending will then have the opportunity to interact directly to the speakers\, and ask questions about criminal law practice. \nThe event presents a fantastic opportunity for those interested in criminal law practice\, hoping to learn more about practice roles and opportunities in NSW. \nSpeakers\n\nHis Honour Judge A C Haesler SC (District Court Judge)\n\nAndrew Haesler SC is a Judge of the District Court of NSW \nAdmitted to practice in 1981 Andrew worked as a Solicitor with the Redfern Legal Centre\, in Alice Springs with the Aboriginal Legal Service and in Wollongong with the Legal Aid Commission. \nAndrew was admitted to the Bar in 1990 practicing from Hargrave Chambers in Wollongong.  He volunteered at the Illawarra Legal Service and taught at University of Wollongong. He became the South Coast Public Defender in 1995 and later a Deputy Senior Public Defender. In 1999-2000 he was the Director of the Criminal Law Review Division of the NSW Attorney General’s Department.  He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2004 and a Judge of the District Court of NSW in 2010. Since 2016 he has been the permanent list judge at Wollongong. \nAndrew has presented and had published\, many papers\, on a variety of topics concerned with criminal law and advocacy. \n\nMiiko Kumar (Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor)\n\nMiiko Kumar is the Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor for Sydney West (which covers Parramatta\, Campbelltown\, Penrith\, Katoomba and Bathurst). Miiko appears in significant and complex trials and appeals. Miiko was an Acting Deputy Director for the first part of this year. \nFrom 1996\, Miiko lectured in evidence for the University of Sydney. Miiko was an Advisory Committee Member and Consultant on the ALRC’s review of the Evidence Act. Miiko received the 2022 DPP Excellence Team Award for her training on domestic violence to police prosecutors and the 2019 DPP Excellence Team Award for her prosecution of historical child sexual assault involving Aboriginal complainants and an Aboriginal offender. \nMiiko is the Deputy Chair of the NSW Bar Association’s Human Rights Committee. Since 2016\, she has been an Assistant Editor of the New South Wales Law Reports. Miiko is the Chair of the ODPP’s Implementation Committee for the Child Sexual Offence Evidence Program.  She is also the Co-Chair of the Crown Prosecutors’ CPD Committee. Miiko is the Chair of the ODPP First Nation’s Mentoring Program. \n\nRobert Hoyles (Legal Aid\, Director Criminal Law NSW)\n\nRob is the Director of Criminal Law for Legal Aid NSW. He is an accredited specialist in criminal law and holds an Executive Master of Public Administration from ANZSOG. He has previously held many roles within Legal Aid NSW including Deputy Director\, EAGP Project Lead and Solicitor in Charge of a Sydney Indictable Team. He was the inaugural Solicitor in Charge of Legal Aid NSW’s Port Macquarie office and previously worked as criminal defence lawyer in Sydney private practice\, with the Aboriginal Legal Service and in four regional Legal Aid NSW offices. He commenced his career as Researcher of NSW Court of Appeal. He is presently appointed to the NSW Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee\, Ethics Committee and Specialist Accreditation Advisory Committee for Criminal Law. In 2008\, he represented Australia in the Lawyers Cricket World Cup in Hyderabad\, India. \n\nSteven Rees (Aboriginal Legal Service)\n\nSteven Rees is a Senior Trial Advocate for the Aboriginal Legal Service. Completing his LLB at UTS in 2007\, Steven was admitted as a solicitor in 2008 before starting at Legal Aid NSW in 2009 and the Aboriginal Legal Service later that year. His practice primarily consists of District Court trials and sentences\, Coronial Inquests and complex Local Court hearings. \nOther practitioners present\n\nAdam Booker (Private bar)\nBenjamin Hart (Private bar)\nTalitha Hennessy (Crown prosecutor)\nTimothy McKenzie (Private bar)\nHarriet Skinner (Trial advocate Wollongong ALS)\n\nSchedule\n12pm – Information desks\n1pm – Presentation by his Honour Judge Haesler SC\n1.45pm – Presentations by other speakers\n2.30pm – Information desks resume\n3pm – Event concludes \n————————–\nMonday 24 April 2023\nTime: 12-3pm AEDT\nVenue: Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\n————————–\nThis event is proudly hosted by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at The University of Sydney Law School.  URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/criminal-law-careers/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2 CATEGORIES:Criminology events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230420T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230420T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010751Z UID:1655-1682013600-1682019000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theory DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theory\nIn-person event\n  \nIn this talk\, Dr Ntina Tzouvala sets out to defend the potential for legal theory of what Edward Said called ‘contrapuntal reading’\, Louis Althusser (drawing from Jacques Lacan) described as ‘symptomatic read-ing’\, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick denounced as ‘paranoid reading’. Albeit different in their origins and orientation\, all three approaches demand that we take law seriously\, but not literally. They suggest that legal texts neither are nor can be made complete and coherent and they presume that nobody is in full control of those text\, perhaps least of all their authors. \nDr Tzouvala argues that this ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’ (Ricoeur\, 1970) establishes the specificity of (critical) legal theory as opposed to both doctrinal work that strives for consistency and to a particular form of legal history and legal biography that place the conscious plans\, desires and ideas of the individual subject at the centre of the law. Importantly\, this approach does not simply defer to ‘politics’ for the validity for its arguments but posits that symptomatic reading is the only way to establish rigorous knowledge of the law as an autonomous subject. \nAbout the speaker:\nDr Ntina Tzouvala \nDr Ntina Tzouvala’s work focuses on the political economy\, history and theory of international law. She is especially interested in historical materialism\, deconstruction\, feminist and queer legal theory. Her first monograph\, Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law\, was published by Cambridge University Press in late 2020. Her book was awarded the 2022 ASIL Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship and the Australian Legal Research Award (ALRA) in the book category. In addition\, it was shortlisted for the Deutscher Prize and was awarded a honourable mention in the context of the 2021 Sussex Prize in International Theory. Her work has also appeared in leading journals\, including the European Journal of International Law\, the Leiden Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Economic Law. \nBetween 2019 and 2021 Ntina was a founding member of the editorial collective of the Third World Approaches to International Law Review. In early 2020\, she was appointed Senior Advisor to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. \n\nThursday 20 April 2023\, 6-7.30pm AEDT\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \n  \nCPD Points: 1.5 \n  \nThis event is co-hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence and the Sydney Centre for International Law at The University of Sydney Law School.  URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-politics-all-the-way-down-a-qualified-defence-of-critical-legal-theory/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230419T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230419T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010741Z UID:1657-1681909200-1681912800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:In conversation with Elaine Pearson DESCRIPTION:In conversation with Elaine Pearson\nIn-person event\n  \nElaine Pearson will be in conversation with Professor Simon Rice and Dr Susan Banki on her new book\, Chasing Wrongs and Rights\, in which the Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights. Pearson\, ranging across human trafficking in Nepal to the ‘drug war’ in the Philippines to treatment of detainees in Papua New Guinea and in Australia\, offers an extremely involving personal account of how far we’ve come\, and how far we’ve got to go. \nElaine\, in her career\, followed her interest in women’s rights and people-trafficking\, interviewing sex-workers and victims of trafficking on the streets of Bangkok and Amsterdam’s red light district. Her experiences in Nepal and Nigeria profoundly shaped her understanding of how governments and NGOs need to protect the rights of victims\, as well as how poverty\, corruption and war drive trafficking in the first place. \nElaine’s story takes us on a panoramic survey of human rights across the world – into the UN committee rooms of New York and Geneva\, as well as to the front-lines of Sri Lanka’s search for those who disappeared in the country’s civil war\, examining death squad killings on the Philippines island of Mindanao and the detention of asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea. And her work on the appalling treatment of prisoners\, many of whom are Aboriginal\, vividly demonstrates that human rights abuses are something that happens at home as well as out in that wider world. \nIn exploring human rights abuses and governments’ failure to address them\, Chasing Wrongs and Rights sometimes shows humanity at its worst. Just as often\, though\, we see people at their best – compassionate\, resilient\, determined. Deeply informative and inspiring\, Elaine Pearson’s story will leave you understanding how much needs to change\, and how individuals can make a difference. \n‘Important and inspiring. Essential reading for those who want to help\, because it illuminates the courage\, commitment and collegiality needed for working towards a better world.’ \n- Geoffrey Robertson QC AO\nAbout the speakers\nElaine Pearson \nElaine Pearson is the Australia Director at Human Rights Watch\, based in Sydney. She established Human Rights Watch’s Australia office in 2013 and works to influence Australian foreign and domestic policies in order to give them a human rights dimension. Pearson writes frequently for a range of publications and her articles have appeared in the Guardian\, the Sydney Morning Herald\, The Australian\, Foreign Policy and the Washington Post. From 2007 to 2012 she was the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division based in New York. She is an adjunct lecturer in law at the University of New South Wales\, on the advisory committee of UNSW’s Australian Human Rights Institute and on the board of the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women. \nProfessor Simon Rice \nSimon Rice is the Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice at the University of Sydney Law School\, and a consultant lawyer at the law firm Chalk & Behrendt. A long time human rights law advocate\, Simon is a co-author of The International Law of Human Rights (Oxford University Press)\, and has been President of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights and an adviser to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights. \nDr Susan Banki \nSusan Banki studies the political\, institutional\, and social contexts that explain the roots of and solutions to human rights violations and social justice abuses. In particular\, she is interested in the ways that questions of sovereignty\, transnationalism\, and citizenship/membership have shaped our responses to conflict and injustice\, particularly examining institutions such as the international refugee regime\, diasporas\, and the humanitarian system. Susan’s focus is in the Asia-Pacific region\, where she has conducted extensive field research in Thailand\, Myanmar/Burma\, Cambodia\, Nepal\, Bangladesh and Japan on refugee/migrant protection\, statelessness and border control. Her current projects include: the work of diasporas in responding to acute crises at home; humanitarian responses to complex displacement contexts; and the role of creative arts in transnational activism. \n————————–\nWednesday 19 April 2023\nTime: 1-2pm AEST\nVenue: The University of Sydney\, Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown Campus\nCPD Points: 1 \n————————–\nThis event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School and the Master of Social Justice in the School of Social and Political Sciences. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/in-conversation-with-elaine-pearson/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:Social justice events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230413T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230413T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010732Z UID:1659-1681408800-1681414200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:CBA and Crown Casino: Tales of Risk Governance Failures DESCRIPTION:Let’s Talk About Corporations: CBA and Crown Casino: Tales of Risk Governance Failures\nIn-person event \nIn this presentation Dr Vicky Comino reflects on the regulatory treatment of the CBA and Crown Casino and examines the challenges of addressing financial crime in corporate settings. She uses the investigations into the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Crown Casino as case studies to consider the link between organisational culture\, wrongdoing and regulatory treatment with a view to drawing out lessons for regulators and other sectors beyond banking and gaming. \nMr Jamie Kelly joins Dr Comino to reflect on what ‘good’ risk governance looks like\, drawing on global regulatory experiences in risk culture\, compliance and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF). \nAbout the speakers\nDr Vicky Comino\nDr Vicky Comino has enjoyed a long career as an academic in the Law School at the University of Queensland. Vicky teaches corporate law and is recognized as a leading corporate law scholar. Her book\, Australia’s ‘Company Law Watchdog’: ASIC and Corporate Regulation\, published in 2015 is the definitive text on corporate regulation in Australia. She is regularly sought out for media comment\, to present at conferences and invited to make submissions and provide input through involvement in consultation processes to government on key law reform initiatives. Her work has also been cited by the courts (eg\, in the notorious James Hardie litigation which determined in the High Court of Australia) and in government reports (eg\, the Final Report of the recent Banking Royal Commission)\, demonstrating her ability to produce research with real world impact. \nBefore joining the academy\, Vicky practiced as a solicitor in a top-tier legal firm in Brisbane. She has maintained her professional links with the legal profession and with industry\, including serving on the Executive (since 2012) and as Chair (since 2016) of a major Queensland Law Society Committee for the accreditation of Business Law Specialists. \nJamie Kelly\nJamie specialises in Compliance and Conduct risk management in EY’s Financial Services Consulting practice in Australia. Jamie brings a depth of insight and lived experience to support organisations in achieving sustainable compliance and fair customer outcomes. Jamie has deep practitioner knowledge of risk management\, including frameworks\, risk appetite\, governance\, policies and procedures\, risk taxonomy\, obligations\, monitoring/surveillance\, as well as supporting technology.  He is experienced in navigating complex regulatory change and substantial regulatory interactions both domestically and internationally\, including responding to Enforceable Undertakings. Prior to EY\, Jamie was Chief Compliance Officer at Westpac\, with responsibilities for compliance\, conduct and financial crime.  Jamie also spent a decade in Singapore\, where he was the Global Head of Legal and Compliance Standard Chartered Bank.  Jamie started his career as a lawyer at Freehills. Jamie holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Law (Hons). \n‘Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.\nFind out more about the series.\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThursday 13 April\, 2023\nTime: 6-7.30pm AEST (Seminar from 6-7pm\, with drinks and canapes to follow) \nVenue: TBA \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThis event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cba-and-crown-casino-tales-of-risk-governance-failures/ LOCATION:Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed CATEGORIES:Commercial,corporate and tax law events,CPD eligible events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230405T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20230405T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T182804 CREATED:20240912T235913Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010719Z UID:1663-1680715800-1680721200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:[POSTPONED] Reflecting on 25 Years of the Young Offenders Act 1997 in NSW DESCRIPTION:Reflecting on 25 Years of the Young Offenders Act 1997 in NSW\nHybrid event \n**Please note that this event has now been postponed. A new date will be released shortly.** \nIn April 1998\, the Young Offenders Act 1997 commenced in New South Wales. It provided a legislative basis for the diversion of young people from formal court proceedings and introduced\, amongst other things\, youth justice conferences. A panel discussion involving key actors in the development and initial implementation of the YOA will reflect on this history and discuss the challenges of implementing the legislation and the benefits of diverting young people from more formal criminal justice interventions. \nGarner Clancey (Associate Professor Criminology\, Sydney Law School) will facilitate this panel discussion which will\, amongst others\, include: \nJenny Bargen\nJenny’s passion for reforming the way police respond to children and young people was kindled while working with unemployed young people at Rozelle Community Youth Support Scheme in the early ‘80s when she first moved to Sydney. Many of these young people reported negative experiences in their frequent encounters with police on the streets. Marrickville Legal Centre had established the first Children’s Legal Service in Sydney and was hearing similar stories about police malpractice. Some years later\, after completing my law degree\, Jenny became one of the early members of the Youth Justice Coalition and participated in preparing and writing Kids in Justice\, a Blueprint for the’90s\, and then lobbying government to implement the recommendations. Those implemented included the establishment of Juvenile Justice as a separate government department and the appointment of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Council (JJAC) with our former Governor Maree Bashir as chair. Jenny joined the academic staff at UNSW Law School in 1990\, where she taught and researched in juvenile justice and children and the law\, while remaining an active member of the YJC. Jenny also served on the JJAC\, and on the Children’s Law and Criminal Law committees of the Law Society of NSW\, and was a member of the working party on entry into the juvenile justice system chaired by the then Police Commissioner Anthony Lauer. This working party was responsible for preparing the chapter on juvenile entry into the Juvenile Justice System for the Green Paper\, Future Directions in Juvenile Justice in New South Wales. The report was presented to the Minister for Juvenile Justice by JJAC in August 1992. \nLater\, as a member of the YJC\, Jenny and many others contributed to the work of the Minor Offenders Punishment Scheme committee that ultimately recommended the introduction of the Young Offenders Act. Jenny was appointed as Director of the Youth Justice Conferencing Directorate in the Department of Juvenile Justice in 1997\, and worked closely for 10 years with police\, the ODPP\, lawyers\, courts and community organisations in implementing and operating under the Act. \nRichard Funston\nRichard worked as solicitor Children’s Legal Service with Legal Aid Victoria from 1987 to 1993\, then principal solicitor Inner City Legal Centre NSW from 1993 to 1998.  Richard was appointed solicitor in charge Children’s Legal Service at Legal Aid NSW from 1998 to 2003.  Richard was a member of the Executive at Legal Aid NSW in various roles including Director Criminal Law and Deputy Chief Executive Officer from 2003 to 2018.  Richard was appointed a magistrate in 2018 and specialist children’s magistrate at the start of this year.  \nActing Superintendent Joanne Schultz \nJoanne has been a member of the NSW Police Force for 35 years. From 1998 to 2002 Joanne was the Principal Tutor Youth at the NSWPF Academy and was heavily involved in the roll out of the Specialist Youth Officer Workshop and Youth Liaison Officer Courses across New South Wales. Joanne is currently relieving as Commander\, Mid North Coast Police District. \nDr Jane Bolitho \nDr Bolitho is a highly respected expert in restorative justice\, restorative practices\, and violence and conflict resolution. Her work explores the experiences of those coming before criminal justice systems\, the operations of formal and community-based justice systems\, alternative models of resolution\, and innovations in justice. Dr Bolitho conducted important research into youth justice conferences in the early years of the implementation of the Young Offenders Act. \nFurther panelists will be announced at a later date. \n—————————- \nWednesday 5 April 2023\nTime: 5.30-7pm\, with drinks and canapes to follow\nLocation: The University of Sydney\, Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown\nCost: Free\, but registration is essential. Please select your attendance type during registration. \nCPD points: 1.5 points \nThis event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering. \n—————————- \nThis event is proudly hosted by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/postponed-reflecting-on-25-years-of-the-young-offenders-act-1997-in-nsw/ LOCATION:Law Lounge\, Level 1 CATEGORIES:Criminology events,Social justice events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Young-offenders-act-stAfdz.tmp_.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR