Cross-border flow of personal data: globalized Internet and fragmented (inter)national regulationsPersonal data is the fuel of the digital economy. However, in the globalised world of personal data being used over the Internet, there is a lack of harmonized international governance mechanisms. A typical example is the ideological, legal and functional divergence in data regulations between […]
The Public International Law Webinar Series: How states negotiate their treatiesThe organisers are pleased to invite you to attend a public international law webinar series that will bring together leading public international law practitioners, academics and arbitrators to discuss topical issues of global importance. The webinar series will be launched by keynote addresses by Professor […]
Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law This inaugural Sydney Law School public lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law will be delivered by Associate Professor Nicole Watson, on the topic of ‘Indigenous Women, Outlaw Culture and the Law’. The University of Sydney Law School, the oldest in Australia, has long taught almost exclusively the laws brought […]
The Public International Law Webinar Series: The Public International Law Year in ReviewThe organisers are pleased to invite you to attend a public international law webinar series that will bring together leading public international law practitioners, academics and arbitrators to discuss topical issues of global importance. This event will see Judge Tim Eicke, Professor Neha […]
The Hague Judgments Convention and Commonwealth Model Law – A Conversation With Dr. Abubakri YekiniThis presentation will examine the concept of legal pragmatism in private international law and how it has been used by courts and treaty makers to solve practical legal problems arising from the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. Specifically, it will […]
JSI Seminar: Social possibility as constraint and social possibility as constructSpeaker: Jayani Nadarajalingam, University of Melbourne As political and social philosophers, one of our central aims is to work out which of the social facts in our world should be the candidates for change and why. In doing so, we tend to treat some social […]
2021 ACCEL Environmental Law Year in Review ConferenceThe Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law at Sydney Law School invites you to its ‘Year in Review Conference’ on 19 November 2021. This event will bring together practitioners, academics, members of the NGO sector, government officials and students to hear about the implications of key developments […]
How Private International Law Can Make the UN Sustainable Development Goals a Reality The clock is ticking. We have until 2030 to implement the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals if we are to achieve a “better and more sustainable future for all.†Law plays a crucial role in reaching ambitious goals such as ‘No Poverty’ […]
Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Common mistakes in using national uniform legislationNational uniform legislation underpins major areas of regulation in commercial and corporate law. Here are few examples in these major areas: regulation of corporations, cooperatives, consumer protection, commercial arbitration, electronic conveyancing, defamation and business names. Today’s legal profession is “born to the […]
Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Recent cases in banking and finance lawChair:Â Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School Presenter: David Allen, barrister, University Chambers, Sydney David accepts briefs for commercial, equity, insolvency and financial services matters, among other areas and trained as a solicitor at Allens and at Allen & Overy […]
Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Vaccine mandates and public health orders: legal and ethical issues for businessThis webinar will feature a panel of experts from Sydney Law School and Corrs Chambers Westgarth who will discuss legal and ethical issues for business arising from vaccine mandates under public health orders. Chair: Professor David Kinley, […]
ACCEL 2021 Distinguished Speaker Address -Â Can climate litigation save the planet?: the role of climate attribution scienceSpeakers: Dr Petra Minnerop, Durham University and Dr Friederike Otto, University of Oxford and Global Climate Science Programme Litigants are increasingly approaching the courts in the face of inadequate action by governments and corporations on climate change. Plaintiffs want […]
