Legal Obligation of the Security Council’s mandate on the protection of civilians in UN peacekeeping operationsSpeaker: Dr Tamer Morris, Sydney Law School While the Security Council has been mandating peacekeepers to protect civilians since 1999, there is still confusion on what it means to ‘protect’. Even though the concept of ‘protection’ can seem self-evident, as […]
Pandemic Policing: Sydney Institute of Criminology panel discussionTHIS EVENT IS BEING HELD ONLINE AND IN-PERSON AT SYDNEY LAW SCHOOL With the World Health Organisation’s declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, emergency health orders were introduced to contain the spreading contagion. Central to this aim was the restriction of social movement and gatherings enforced […]
Trust in Knowledge Talks – Launch Event In-person event Please join us at the launch event of the new Trust in Knowledge Talks seminar series – a research initiative supported by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and the Research Portfolio at the University of Sydney. Reproducibility, replicability, transparency and integrity are key attributes that enable excellence […]
Reconcile what? Why white Australia needs to rectify its wrongsJoin lawyer Teela Reid and The Daily Aus’ Editor Billi FitzSimons for a conversation about truth and reckoning. Why are we a nation that has not yet recognised the First People, and what can we do to take action? Ahead of National Reconciliation Week and on the eve […]
JSI Seminar: The Modern Approach to Statutory InterpretationSpeaker: Professor Dale Smith, The University of Melbourne It is now common, in Australia and in a number of other jurisdictions, to speak of “the modern approach to statutory interpretationâ€. Many of the details of this approach are unclear or contested. However, the modern approach consists at least […]
The role of civil society in food system governance: Comparing Canada, the United States, and Australia Ottawa, Canada: Thursday 2 June, 7-9pm (EDT) Baltimore, United States: Thursday 2 June, 7-9pm (EDT) Melbourne/Sydney, Australia: Friday 3 June, 9-11am (AEST) Join this webinar and interactive conversation to learn about how civil society organizations in Canada, the United […]
Equity, Justice and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Food Systems Governance in Canada, Australia, and the United States Tuesday 14 June, 7.30-9pm – Ottawa, Canada (EDT) Wednesday 15 June, 9.30-11am – Sydney, Australia (AEST) Wednesday 15 June, 7.30-9am – Perth, Australia (AWST) This event will explore the issues of equity and inclusion, as well as Indigenous/settler relations, […]
Transnational Online Legal Education Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic Online event This webinar discusses how online (university or other) legal education interacts with each jurisdiction’s legal profession, university system, and ICT infrastructure, as well as how online legal education has developed both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, comparing several jurisdictions beyond the Asia-Pacific […]
2022 Paul Byrne Memorial Lecture: They’re all good cases: Paul Byrne SCDelivered by Justice Peter Hamill Paul Byrne was one of Justice Peter Hamill’s most important mentors. His Honour thought he would use the opportunity, at what would have been, but for Covid, the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Paul Byrne SC Memorial […]
JSI Seminar: Primary Duty = Secondary Duty?This event is being held online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Speaker: Professor Claudio Michelon, Edinburgh Law School This paper addresses one of the central questions in the law of torts: what is the relationship between the primary duty and the secondary (or remedial) duty? The two dominant […]
Refugee week: Celebrate 10 YEARS of refugees with a disability resettling in Australia In-person event This Refugee Week we celebrate ten years since Australia allowed refugees living with a disability to arrive in Australia through the resettlement program. Join some of the people and services who helped make this change possible, and those who have […]
JSI Seminar: American nullification and secession: the case for constitutional flexibilityThis event is being held online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Speaker: Professor Kit Wellman, Washington University in St Louis Americans live in a political marriage arranged by our ancestors. The good news is that the framers of our Constitution were brilliant; the bad […]
