In conversation with Elaine PearsonIn-person event Elaine 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 […]
JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theoryIn-person event In 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 […]
Criminal Law CareersIn-person event The 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 […]
Stand-up, fight back: Defending protest in NSWIn-person event We 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. Yet, both major parties in NSW joined forces a year ago to support draconian regulations […]
Reflecting on 25 Years of the Young Offenders Act 1997 in NSWHybrid event In 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 […]
Critical issues in international space law: 2023 and beyondPanel discussion and cocktail reception In-person event We 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 […]
JSI Seminar: The life of international law is not logic but experienceIn-person event U.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 […]
Book launch: Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech SadurskiIn-person event The 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. The book will be launched by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG. About Constitutional Public Reason […]
Black Internationalism and International Criminal JusticeIn-person event What 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. First, it tentatively […]
Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate lawOnline event In 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. About the speakers Kerry Abadee Kerry is a graduate of Macquarie University […]
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JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courtsIn-person event In 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 […]
