BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Law School: Events - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Law School: Events 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: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 BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20250405T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20251004T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20260404T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20261003T160000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250121T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20250121T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20250109T043119Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T045857Z UID:2164-1737464400-1737468000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Does compliance with the global anticorruption regime require the use of artificial intelligence?: The case of managing global critical raw material value chains DESCRIPTION:Hybrid event \n\n\n\nBusiness firms constantly hear that artificial intelligence has changed the world and that they must either utilize artificial intelligence or fall behind. By extension\, this would be true of regulatory compliance as well as operations. This article challenges the mantra of artificial intelligence as a ubiquitous agent of change. It does so through the lens of the global anticorruption regime\, a transnational web of laws\, regulations and norms that work together to reign in corruption. As this article demonstrates\, the global anticorruption regime imposes on business firms a requirement to implement effective and up-to-date antibribery programs. \n\n\n\nGiven the prevailing conception of artificial intelligence as the newly-critical tool for business\, it would be easy to interpret “effective” and “up-to-date” as requiring the use of artificial intelligence. To determine whether in fact the global anticorruption regime does\, this article undertakes two analyses. First\, it carefully determines the systems requirements of the type of artificial intelligence most applicable to antibribery programs – systems that can distinguish between honest and corrupt actors and transactions – and determines the regulatory constraints on the use of artificial intelligence in that way. This article then asks specifically what tasks artificial intelligence would be asked to do as part of an antibribery program\, and evaluates the capacity of artificial intelligence to perform those tasks given the already determined system requirements and constraints. These analyses yield a surprising conclusion: in some instances the use of artificial intelligence would be helpful\, but for most business firms\, particularly for smaller firms or firms that have not experienced bribery\, the use of artificial intelligence would not be helpful and could be harmful. Regulators and legal scholars must not think of artificial intelligence as a panacea; its potential use must be analyzed in the context of objectives and the capacities\, needs\, and limits of artificial intelligence. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nDr. Philip M. Nichols is the Joseph S. Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility in Business and Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was Co-Chair\, UN/CEFACT Law Group (United Nations experts committee on electronic commerce and trade facilitation)\, 1998 to 2005. \n\n\n\nModerator: Professor Hans Hendrischke\, Sydney Business School. \n\n\n\nTuesday 21 January 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Boardroom\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\nThis event is jointly sponsored by the Sydney Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the Sydney Netzero Institute. \n\n\n\nIt is part of the first meeting of the UN/CEFACT working group on the white paper of ‘Addressing Conflict of Laws and Facilitating Digital Product Passports in the Critical Raw Material Value Chains’. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/globalanticorruptionregime_ai/ LOCATION:The University of Sydney Law School\, Boardroom\, Level 4\, New Law Building F10 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/globalanticurrptionregimeai.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241129T090000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241129T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241030T060045Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241114T045017Z UID:2133-1732870800-1732903200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:New directions in financial crime DESCRIPTION:Financial crime is a global issue that has a significant impact on Australia’s society and economy. Related offences come in different forms (e.g. bribery\, corruption\, fraud\, money laundering) and are committed by different actors\, with various motivations. The different sectors involved range from small businesses to large banks and from the real estate to the art market. Unsurprisingly\, financial crime has been the subject of significant academic study for decades\, as well as being an area of national and international concern for policymakers\, regulators\, and law enforcement. The aim of this symposium is to bring together different experts to discuss a wide variety of contemporary issues and challenges in this context. \n\n\n\nSpeakers \n\n\n\n\nAUSTRAC – TBC.\n\n\n\nKatie Benson\, University of Manchester\, UK – AML Reflections from the UK.\n\n\n\nLiz Campbell\, Monash University – Legal Professional Privilege and Corporate Liability.\n\n\n\nDavid Chaikin\, University of Sydney – Lawyers and Tranche 2.\n\n\n\nJonathan Clough\, Monash University – Topic TBC.\n\n\n\nDerwent Coshott – The Risk-Based Approach (Cayman Islands developments).\n\n\n\nPenny Crofts\, University of Technology Sydney – Corporate Financial Crime and Euphemism.\n\n\n\nOlivia Dixon\, University of Sydney – AML and Lawyers.\n\n\n\nLouis de Koker\, La Trobe University – Risk and the FATF’s Risk-Based Approach.\n\n\n\nSusanna Ford\, Arnold Bloch Leibler – Foreign Bribery.\n\n\n\nRadha Ivory\, University of Queensland – Corporate Criminal Liability Reforms.\n\n\n\nDoron Goldbarsht\, Macquarie University – Personal Liability of Directors.\n\n\n\nHannah Harris\, Macquarie University – The Forest-Finance Nexus: Addressing the Connection between Forest Crime and Financial Crime.\n\n\n\nAnton Moiseienko\, Australian National University – AML Developments.\n\n\n\nRachel Southworth\, Bank of Queensland (provisionally confirmed).\n\n\n\nMegan Styles\, Monash University – Asset Forfeiture.\n\n\n\nYane Svetiev\, University of Sydney – FATF MERs and Developing Countries.\n\n\n\nMitali Tyagi\, APG – The Infrastructure of the FATF System.\n\n\n\n\nView the program here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday 29 November\, 2024 \n\n\n\nTime: 9am – 6pmVenue: Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building\, University of Sydney \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/new-directions-in-financial-crime/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown Campus ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/newdirectionsfinancialcrime.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241126T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241126T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241018T043648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T002328Z UID:2106-1732642200-1732647600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Sydney Law School Social Justice celebration DESCRIPTION:At Sydney Law School\, we think teach\, research\, and engage in the social justice dimensions of law. We appreciate the social context in which law operates\, and law’s potential to both enable and constrain\, to both liberate and oppress. This event will celebrate many of the social achievements from the year and showcase work of students\, including those working on the Just Cause podcast\, practitioners-in-residence\, including a presentation from Liz Snell (current practitioner-in-residence)\, and staff. \n\n\n\nThe Kim Santow Law and Social Justice Essay Prize will also be announced at this event. \n\n\n\nAbout the presenter \n\n\n\nLiz Snell is interested in researching and better understanding the mechanisms required to ensure and support successful implementation of recommendations in inquiries with a focus on inquiries responding to gender-based violence. Liz has worked as the Law Reform and Policy Co-ordinator at Women’s Legal Service for over a decade. Women’s Legal Service is a specialist community legal centre run by and for women that aims to achieve access to justice and a just legal system for women in NSW. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday 26 November 2024\, 5.30-7pm AEDT \n\n\n\nVenue: New Law Building (F10)\, Level 4\, Common Room\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential.Register \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly supported by the Kim Santow Law and Social Justice Fund. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/sydney-law-school-social-justice-celebration/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/socialjusticecelebration.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241121T123000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241121T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241018T055327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241101T055442Z UID:2113-1732192200-1732195800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Regulating disruptive technologies DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nThis presentation on disruptive technologies regulation\, including artificial intelligence\, will provide an overview of the various regulatory options available\, their pros and cons\, as well as possible outcomes in terms of technological advancement and social progress. \n\n\n\nPart of the lecture will present the author’s own three-level categorization of AI interference in human decision-making\, a topic strongly related to some current projects on both UTS and The University of Sydney’s ADM+S Centre. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nLeonardo Parentoni \n\n\n\nProfessor Parentoni is a Senior Lecturer and UFMG’s/Brazil’s leading expert on technology law\, with more than 20 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. His research interests include artificial intelligence\, big data\, data science\, personal data protection\, blockchain\, IoT\, ISP liability\, regulating disruptive technologies\, legal techs and the future of legal market\, human rights and telecom infrastructure. He has published his works in 5 languages and more than 8 countries. \n\n\n\nHis ResearchGate profile is the most visited of all professors at the UFMG Law School and one of the most popular in Brazil\, with over 65\,000 views. He also holds a permanent position at Brazil’s Attorney-General’s Office (AGU)\, serving as head of legal in a research facility focused on nuclear-based medicine and new materials\, such as graphene. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday 21 November 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 12.30-1.30pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential.Register \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Parentoni is a visiting scholar at UTS and the University of Sydney Law School. This event is co-hosted by the University of Sydney Law School\, ADM+S and UTS: Law\, Technology and Intellectual Property Research Cluster. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/regulating-disruptive-technologies/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/leonardoparentoni.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241113T183000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241113T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241108T053242Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241108T053244Z UID:2143-1731522600-1731526200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:The changing landscape of EU competition law - Competition law as an instrument of protectionist policy DESCRIPTION:This seminar will discuss recent developments in European competition law. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Professor Dubravka Akšamović\, Faculty of Law Osijek\, Croatia \n\n\n\nCommentator: Prof. Yane Svetiev\, Sydney Law School \n\n\n\nChair: Prof Jason Harris\, Sydney Law School \n\n\n\nWednesday 13 November\, 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 6.30-7.30pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Camperdown Campus \n\n\n\nCPD points = 1 \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial\, Corporate and Taxation Law at the University of Sydney Law School\, and the Faculty of Law Osijek\, University of J. J. Strossmayer in Croatia. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/the-changing-landscape-of-eu-competition-law-competition-law-as-an-instrument-of-protectionist-policy/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/eucompetitionlaw.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241111T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241111T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241021T051301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T002519Z UID:2124-1731330000-1731333600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Documenting war crimes from the field DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nIn this seminar\, Belkis Wille (Associate Director in the Crisis\, Conflict and Arms Division at Human Rights Watch) will discuss her extraordinary experiences in documenting war crimes across the world. \n\n\n\nOver the course of her career\, she has been documenting laws of war violations in Libya\, Yemen\, Iraq\, Sudan\, Israel and Palestine. Belkis has also spearheaded the organization’s work investigating the harms stemming from personal data collection\, including biometrics\, in humanitarian contexts. This work has included investigations in Afghanistan\, Bangladesh\, Iraq\, Jordan\, and Kenya. She has also led the organization’s work on the preservation of content taken down by social media platforms that is vital to war crimes investigations. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nBelkis Wille \n\n\n\nAssociate Director\, Crisis\, Conflict and Arms Division \n\n\n\nFollow belkiswille \n\n\n\nBelkis Wille is an associate director in the Crisis\, Conflict and Arms Division at Human Rights Watch. Belkis was previously Human Rights Watch’s senior Iraq researcher for three-and-a half years\, and its Kuwait\, Qatar\, and Yemen researcher\, based in Sanaa\, for over three years. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining Human Rights Watch\, Belkis worked with the World Organisation Against Torture in Libya. She has an LLM in human rights and humanitarian law from the University of Essex\, a graduate diploma in law from City University London\, and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. Belkis speaks English\, German\, French\, and Arabic. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMonday 11 November 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-hosted by Sydney Law School and Human Rights Watch. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/documenting-war-crimes-from-the-field/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/belkiswille.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241031T163000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241031T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241004T045225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T050128Z UID:2079-1730392200-1730399400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:UNCITRAL RCAP Symposium: Navigating transparency and confidentiality in international arbitration DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: \n\n\n\nThis event is being held online only. \n\n\n\nUNCITRAL RCAP Symposium: Navigating transparency and confidentiality in international arbitration\n\n\n\nThe UNCITRAL RCAP Symposium on ‘Transparency in Arbitration’ brings together distinguished experts to explore the critical balance between confidentiality and transparency in international arbitration\, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. \n\n\n\nFeaturing insights from world-renowned scholars such as Prof. Luke Nottage\, Dr. Caroline Kenny KC\, and Dr. Nick Gallus\, the symposium will examine key tensions and emerging trends across both commercial and investor-state dispute settlement contexts. \n\n\n\nDiscussions will address regional developments in Australia and Japan\, the interplay between transparency and confidentiality in commercial arbitration\, and transparency considerations in arbitration involving states. A/Prof. Jeanne Huang\, a leading authority on international arbitration and cross-border digital trade\, will provide commentary\, offering her unique perspective on how these issues impact the future of arbitration in an increasingly digital world. \n\n\n\nThe symposium promises to be an engaging and thought-provoking event\, moderated by Inma Conde\, Secretary of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law National Coordination Committee for Australia (UNCCA). \n\n\n\nCo-Hosted by:The University of Sydney\, Sydney Law School and UNCITRAL RCAP. \n\n\n\nOrganised by: \n\n\n\n\nCAPLUS: Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney\n\n\n\nSCIL: Sydney Centre for International Law\n\n\n\nUNCCA: United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) National Coordination Committee for Australia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday 31 October 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 4.30-6.30pm AEDTCPD points = 2 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. RegisterYou will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is jointly presented by The University of Sydney\, Sydney Law School and UNCITRAL RCAP. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/uncitral-rcap-symposium-navigating-transparency-and-confidentiality-in-international-arbitration/ LOCATION:Online event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/lukewp.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241023T170000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241023T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241004T051033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T005038Z UID:2071-1729702800-1729710000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Symposium: Financial crime in different contexts DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nFinancial crime poses many challenges and affects a multitude of sectors\, in Australia and globally. As offenders become more sophisticated\, new vulnerabilities emerge\, and law enforcement has to adapt. While the criminal justice responses have been swift and emphatic in some sectors\, they have been cumbersome and lethargic in others. Variations in criminalisation and enforcement can also be discerned geographically with many law-making initiatives originating in the EU rather than other parts of the world. \n\n\n\nAgainst this context\, this symposium will examine different aspects of\, and global perspectives on\, financial crime\, namely 1) policing welfare fraud; 2) cultural property crime; 3) federal proceeds of crime; and 4) civil recovery of criminal property. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nThis event brings together experts from the Sydney Institute of Criminology who have recently published books on these fascinating contexts of financial crime: \n\n\n\n\nDr Scarlet Wilcock – Policing Welfare Fraud | The Government of Welfare Fraud and Non-Compliance (taylorfrancis.com)\n\n\n\nProf. Saskia Hufnagel – Cultural Property Crime and the Law: Legal Approaches to Protection\, R (routledge.com) & Global Perspectives on Cultural Property Crime – 1st Edition – Michell (routledge.com)\n\n\n\nProf. Simon Bronitt – Federal Proceeds of Crime Law – Thomson Reuters Australia\n\n\n\nProf. Colin King – Civil Recovery of Criminal Property – Colin King\, Jennifer Hendry – Oxford University Press (oup.com)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 23 October 2024\n\n\n\nTime:  5-7pmVenue: Sydney Law School\, Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annexe(F10A)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campusCPD points = 2 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential.Register \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/symposium-financial-crime-in-different-contexts/ LOCATION:Sydney Law School\, Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/colinwp.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241022T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241022T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241001T021252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T000520Z UID:2038-1729602000-1729609200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Responders Lab sessions DESCRIPTION:Responders Lab sessions \n\n\n\nIn-person event \n\n\n\nSydney Law School and Insight Exchange invite you to participate in a Responders Lab session\, supported by the Sydney Policy Lab. \n\n\n\nThe Responders Lab is designed to support you in exploring and building on your understanding of domestic\, family and sexualised violence\, and how this influences what you might notice\, think or do in your responses. The use of violence and abuse continues to be a serious problem globally and locally. National\, state and territory definitions of domestic\, family and sexualised violence and criminal codes vary\, however violence and abuse is never acceptable in any community\, family\, institution\, place or context. There is no one preference or path for support. Every responder\, community and industry matters. \n\n\n\nBut the demands in our lives are many – studying\, working\, caring and more. And our days fill with so much to do and so much to care about. \n\n\n\nIs it too noisy to think? To think about our responses to violence and abuse? \n\n\n\nToo little space to think or permission to pause? \n\n\n\n‘Time’ to think is one thing. ‘Room’ to think is another. \n\n\n\nWhen it comes to violence and abuse\, thinking about our responses is important\, intentional and essential. \n\n\n\nAt the Responders Lab you will have the opportunity to reflect and exchange insights by: \n\n\n\n\ndrawing on your own thinking and contextual expertise\n\n\n\ncritically thinking about your assumptions\, observations\, actions\, and inactions as a responder\n\n\n\nreflecting on what these insights (content & conversations) reveal to you and your peers\n\n\n\n\nWatch to find out more. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nResponders Lab sessions will be held on the following dates and you are invited to sign up to one of these: \n\n\n\n22 October: 1-3pm14 November: 1:30-3:30pm\n\n\n\nYou will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the session. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is co-hosted by the Sydney Law School and Insight Exchange and supported by the Sydney Policy Lab. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/responders-lab-sessions/ LOCATION:Sydney Law School\, Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building Annex (F10A) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Law-Events-eventbrite-banners.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241017T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241017T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241004T050604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T002026Z UID:2063-1729188000-1729193400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Public lecture: A Human Rights Act for NSW DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nThe NSW Bar Association and the Human Rights Act for NSW Alliance invite you to attend a public lecture on ‘A Human Rights Act for NSW’\, hosted by the Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney. \n\n\n\nWhy should NSW enact a human rights act and what rights could be protected? How would it make a difference to the lives of people in NSW and why is a State human rights act needed in addition to a Commonwealth human rights act? Join our esteemed speakers for an engaging discussion about the benefits of a State human rights act\, lessons learned from other jurisdictions and how to promote community engagement to achieve this reform.About the speakers \n\n\n\nThe Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG – Michael Kirby is an international jurist\, educator and former judge. He served as a Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (1975-83); Chairman of the Australian Law Reform Commission (1975-84); Judge of the Federal Court of Australia (1983-4); President of the New South Wales Court of Appeal (1984-96); President of the Court of Appeal of Solomon Islands (1995-96) and Justice of the High Court of Australia (1996-2009). He is Editor-in-Chief of The Laws of Australia (2009 – ). \n\n\n\nHugh de Kretser – Hugh de Kretser commenced his five-year term as President of the Australian Human Rights Commission on 30 July 2024. Before joining the Commission\, he was the CEO of the Yoorrook Justice Commission. Prior to this\, he was Executive Director of the Human Rights Law Centre and Executive Officer of the Victorian Federation of Community Legal Centres. Hugh has also served as a Commissioner of the Victorian Law Reform Commission and a Director of the Sentencing Advisory Council. \n\n\n\nDr Ruth Higgins SC – Ruth Higgins SC is a commercial and public law silk\, practising nationally. Ruth is a member of the Takeovers Panel\, President of the NSW Bar Association\, a director of the Australian Bar Association\, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law\, an Assistant General Editor of the Australian Law Journal\, and a Fellow of ACICA and on its panel of Arbitrators. \n\n\n\nTrent Glover SC – Trent Glover is the Chair of the NSW Bar Association’s Human Rights Committee. At the bar\, Trent has a diverse practice concentrating primarily on public law litigation at first instance and appellate level around Australia. \n\n\n\nCarmel Lee – Carmel Lee is a barrister specialising in commercial law\, equity\, conflict of laws\, and human rights. She is a member of the Human Rights Act for NSW Alliance and the NSW Bar Association Human Rights Committee. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday 17 October\, 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 6-7.30pmVenue: Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)CPD points = 1.5Category: Social justice events \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. Register \n\n\n\nPlease note – due to unforeseen circumstances\, Auslan interpreters will not be available. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the NSW Bar Association and the Human Rights Act for NSW Alliance in partnership with the University of Sydney Law School . URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/public-lecture-a-human-rights-act-for-nsw/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown Campus ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/kirbywp.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241015T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241015T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241002T012902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T012904Z UID:2051-1729015200-1729020600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Constraining the Use of Force: A Chinese Project in International Law? DESCRIPTION:Constraining the Use of Force: A Chinese Project in International Law? \n\n\n\nIn-person event \n\n\n\nOver the course of decades\, the People’s Republic of China has consistently expressed a relatively strict interpretation of core legal norms constraining the use of force. These include its positions on Article 2(4) of the UN Charter\, the customary international law of self-defense\, and controversial topics such as humanitarian intervention or the “unwilling or unable” doctrine. \n\n\n\nPart of this advocacy involves a claim that China is a uniquely peaceful great power; a notion often rooted in exceptionalist language regarding traditional Chinese civilization. In reality\, however\, the origins of China’s stances on the use of force can be traced to a specific set of experiences and initiatives beginning at the turn of the 20th century and extending to the present. In turn\, a more granular understanding of the history of Chinese views on the use of force facilitates better comprehension of the current parameters of the Chinese jus ad bellum. \n\n\n\nUltimately\, the nuances of China’s modern practice reveal a “zone of legalism” for restricting war and warlike uses of force\, combined with a “zone of struggle” including various forms of de minimis force\, intervention\, and reprisal. Amidst continued lack of global consensus on key aspects of the use of force\, China’s distinct model may increasingly influence customary international law. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\nRyan Martínez Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday 15 October 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 6-7.30pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points = 1.5 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly co-presented 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/constraining-the-use-of-force-a-chinese-project-in-international-law/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Law-Events-eventbrite-banners-Oct15.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241009T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241009T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241002T013506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T013518Z UID:2054-1728496800-1728502200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2024:The significant origins of the modern corporation DESCRIPTION:Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2024:The significant origins of the modern corporation \n\n\n\nIn-person event \n\n\n\nIt is a truth (almost) universally acknowledged that the modern corporation is a separate legal entity from its shareholders. But what does it mean when we describe a corporation as an entity and how separate is the company really from its shareholders? \n\n\n\nBy casting an historical lens over its earliest origins\, this lecture will unpack the pieces that make up what has been described as “amongst mankind’s greatest inventions”. The lecture discusses why those hybrid origins are significant\, why they have led to the tension between shareholder’ interests and broader interests inherent in corporate law\, and how the potential and perils of the corporation can be best realised once we understand what exactly it is. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker \n\n\n\nProfessor Susan Watson is the Dean of the University of Auckland Business School. She holds joint chairs in the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland. \n\n\n\nSusan researches corporate law and corporate governance with a particular interest in the corporate form. In her research she considers corporations and their features from multiple perspectives seeking to understand the reasons for their economic\, societal and environmental impact. Her monograph The Making of the Modern Company (Routledge\, 2022) traces its origins back to 1657 and in doing so identifies what might be the key features that make the modern company the omnipresent business form across the globe. \n\n\n\nIn 2016 Susan won the Legal Research Foundation Sir Ian Barker Published Article Award. She was elected president of the Society of Corporate Law Academics (SCoLa) in 2020; the first person from outside Australia. She is the only person appointed a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) to date. \n\n\n\nCommentator: Justice Ashley Black\, Supreme Court of New South Wales \n\n\n\nChair: Professor Jason Harris\, Professor of Corporate Law\, Sydney Law School \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 9 October 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 6-7.30pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points = 1.5 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial\, Corporate and Taxation Law at the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/ross-parsons-corporations-law-lecture-2024the-significant-origins-of-the-modern-corporation/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Significant-Origins-of-moder-corporation.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241008T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20241008T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20241002T014030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T014116Z UID:2057-1728410400-1728417600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Beyond Punishment Seminar: Are the aims of sentencing realised in practice? DESCRIPTION:Beyond Punishment Seminar: Are the aims of sentencing realised in practice? \n\n\n\nIn-person event \n\n\n\nMuch ink has been spilled over what the proper aims of sentencing should be\, and it seems that different aims have become more or less prominent over time. The rehabilitative aim gave way to more retributive approaches in the 1970s in many countries and perhaps to approaches with more focus on dangerousness in recent times. But how well are the aims of sentencing realised in practice? \n\n\n\nThis Beyond Punishment Seminar will consider how the aims of sentencing as contained in the law matches up with reality of actual criminal justice practices. So\, does rehabilitation really have a significant place in current approaches to criminal sanctions? How is this impacted by issues of funding or discretion? Is the reality of the response to offending largely punitive and how much does it reduce the capacity to reoffend? Do the sentences imposed by the courts or the experiences of sanction really deter? If there is discrepancy between stated aims and the practice how should this discrepancy be addressed\, and which parts of the discrepancy are most troubling? \n\n\n\nThis seminar will address these and other questions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration \n\n\n\nComplimentary\, however registration is essential. \n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanellists \n\n\n\n\nThe Honourable Justice Yehia was appointed to the Supreme Court in June 2022 having served as a District Court Judge for 8 years. In addition to her service as a judge of the District and Supreme Courts\, her Honour holds a number of positions including Board member and previous Chair of Diverse Women in Law\, Board member of the AIJA\, Chair of the Ngara Yura Committee and member of the Bugmy Bar Book Committee. Her Honour is also a member of the Judicial Commission’s Sentencing Bench Book Committee and became an Adjunct Professor at the UNSW Law School in 2023\, where she teaches an advanced course on sentencing law.\n\n\n\nJennifer Galouzis is the Assistant Commissioner of Strategy & Policy\, Corrective Services NSW. Currently in the final year of her PhD at the University of Melbourne\, her research focuses on “A rehabilitative prison environment: Accountability\, complexity and the possibility of therapeutic prisons.” With over 20 years of experience in prison and correctional research\, Jennifer’s work encompasses the ecology of prison environments\, the social and cultural climate of prisons\, and the measurement of prison performance. She has published in the areas of rehabilitative design\, preventing prison violence\, sex offender treatment\, and the role of corrective services in reducing reoffending\n\n\n\nThe Honourable Geoffrey Bellew SC was appointed Senior Counsel in 2006 and in 2011 he was appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. He served continually as a Judge of the Common Law Division until February 2023. Upon his retirement Mr Bellew was appointed by the Attorney-General as the Chairperson of the State Parole Authority. He is the author of a number of texts published by Lexis Nexis\, including Uniform Evidence Law\, Principles and Context\, a substantive text on the law of evidence. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law\, a member of the Law Advisory Board\, and a sessional lecturer\, at Notre Dame University\, Sydney.\n\n\n\nDr Mindy Sotiri is Executive Director\, Justice Reform Initiative and has worked in criminal justice system settings as an advocate\, community sector practitioner\, academic\, and researcher for more than twenty-five years. During this time\, much of her work has been focused on advocacy around decarceration and building sustainable community-based and community led pathways outside of prison settings. Mindy completed her PhD in 2003 (looking at the purpose of imprisonment in NSW); completed a Churchill Fellowship in 2016 (looking at evidence based community led re-entry and post-release programs) and is a senior visiting fellow at UNSW.\n\n\n\n\nChair \n\n\n\n\nDr Allan McCay is Co-director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology and an Academic Fellow at the University of Sydney’s Law School. He coordinates the Legal Research units at the Sydney Law School\, and lectures in Criminal Law. Much of his work as focused on neuroscience\, neurotechnology\, and the criminal law. He is also interested in free will and punishment\, ethical issues related to emerging neurotechnologies\, and the future of legal work. His first coedited book Free Will and the Law: New Perspectives is published by Routledge (2019) and his second\, Neurointerventions and the Law: Regulating Human Mental Capacity is published by Oxford University Press (2020).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday 8 October 2024\n\n\n\nTime: 6-8pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Law Foyer\, Level 2\, New Law Building (F10)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points = 2 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the Sydney Institute of Criminology at Sydney Law School in conjunction with Corrective Services NSW. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/beyond-punishment-seminar-are-the-aims-of-sentencing-realised-in-practice/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Law-Events-are-the-aims-of-sentencing-realised-in-practice.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240923T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240923T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T011201Z UID:1538-1727114400-1727119800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Book launch | Research Methods in Private International Law: Educating the Next Generation of Conflicts Lawyers DESCRIPTION:Book launch | Research Methods in Private International Law: Educating the Next Generation of Conflicts LawyersOnline event\n\n\n\n\n\nResearch Methods in Private International Law: A Handbook on Regulation\, Research\, and Teaching\n\nThis incisive research handbook provides valuable insights into the various methodological approaches to Private International Law from regulatory and educational perspectives. It comprehensively unpacks central themes in the field including international jurisdiction\, recognition and enforcement\, and scrupulously analyses core debates whilst addressing legislative and policy issues.\n\nIn collaboration with the editors Xandra Kramer (Erasmus School of Law/Utrecht University) and Laura Carballo Piñeiro (University of Vigo)\, this online book launch will feature contributions from eminent speakers\, focusing on global insights in teaching Private International Law.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers and discussion topics\n\n\nLaura Carballo Piñeiro/Xandra Kramer\n\nMethods in private international law are not only important for the purpose of regulation and research\, but also for societal and educational purposes. To continue developing and fulfil its regulatory and societal functions\, private international law requires the nurturing of strong scholarship and thus research on creating a suitable learning environment for it to be diversified. Highlighting perspectives from university teaching in different countries\, laypersons\, colonialism\, and feminism enriches the development of private international law and increases awareness of its role as a global governance tool.\n\nVeronica Ruiz Abou-Nigm\n\nPrivate international law matters for everybody. Why then is it perceived to be so marginal? We identify three distorted perceptions: irrelevance\, impenetrability\, and indifference. Private international law is considered to be irrelevant\, because relevant decisions are taken in substantive law. It is considered impenetrable because many of its doctrines appear strange and general intuition offers little guidance towards the correct solution. And it seems indifferent to questions of values and questions of political economy. We address each of these perceptions in turn. We demonstrate that private international law\, far from being irrelevant\, is an indispensable part of private law. Whoever wants to make full use of private law must think of private international law as well. We suggest that private international law can seem impenetrable because it requires a whole different way of thinking: thinking between legal orders. Lawyers and non-lawyers alike are used to thinking within one order that is relatively coherent. That thinking is of little help in resolving issues that take place in-between such coherent orders. And we describe what we view as the ethical minimum of private international law: responsivity\, cultural humility\, and intercultural competence. These attitudes\, which are not confined to the law\, raise the possibility that private international law could teach something of relevance to everyone beyond its own disciplinary boundaries. Putting these insights in practice can\, we hope\, be transformative towards Private International Law for Everyone.\n\nRamani Garimella\n\nThe human catastrophe witnessed in Bhopal\, India\, remains pertinent for the domain of private international law. The US court ruled against the forum’s jurisdiction as being forum non conveniens and return it for the jurisdiction of India’s courts. Adherence to a formalist/positivist approach that believed in the public-private distinction allowed the court to avoid a discussion on the immense public interests that were involved in the suit. Such approach dwarfed the nature and magnitude of loss for the victims and demonstrated how far the ideas of territoriality and jurisdiction moved away from the notion of ‘unified international law’. The author suggests revisiting this distinction from a methodological perspective – historicity – to understand the reasons for the survival of this distinction\, especially in the third world countries as a vestige of the colonial law. This research\, exemplifying through India\, explores the zealous adherence to the colonial law on the rules of private international law including the methodology of the domain\, and the absence of any significant local contribution to the domain. The research argues that the distinction emerged as an expression of the positivist international law (often non-representative/non-participative) that had helped further the legitimation of colonialism. The research suggests a historicity-based methodology for identifying the domain’s content so as to ensure a justice-centric regime that takes note of the rights of the victims of human error.\n\nChukwama Okoli/Abubakri Yekini\n\nMany African countries aim to capitalise on globalization to enhance cross-border trade and commerce. This necessitates an effective private international law framework to resolve frictions that inherent in cross-border transactions. While scholarly work often focuses on PIL’s role in facilitating cross-border trade\, the teaching of PIL and the preparedness of budding lawyers to tackle modern issues have been largely overlooked. This chapter addresses this gap by examining the effectiveness of PIL education in Nigeria. Through empirical research involving questionnaires administered to 75 undergraduate students from seven universities\, the study provides insights into the current curriculum and teaching methodologies. The findings suggest that existing approaches are inadequate for producing transnational lawyers equipped with the necessary hands-on skills. The paper recommends a multi-method teaching approach\, with a strong emphasis on clinical education and comparative law.\n\nAukje van Hoek\n\nAn inventory of (online) course descriptions of courses in private international law at different European universities show a diversity in approaches to teaching PIL. Which choices are made when developing a specific course\, will depend on the staff teaching the course and the wider ‘Umfeld’ in which the course is situated. Three approaches will be discussed and put in context.\n\nModerator: Dr. Jie (Jeanne) Huang\, Co-chair of ASIL PIL Interest Group and Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Law School.\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the book\nResearch Methods in Private International Law- A Handbook on Regulation\, Research and Teaching\n\nEdited by Xandra Kramer\, Professor of Private Law\, Erasmus School of Law\, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Professor of Private International Law\, Utrecht University\, the Netherlands and Laura Carballo Piñeiro\, Professor of Private International Law\, Universidade de Vigo\, Spain.\n\n\n\n\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\nMonday 23 September 2024\nTime: 6pm-7.30pm AEST \nYou will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar. \nCPD points = 1.5\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>\n\n\n\nThis event is jointly presented by the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group and the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/book-launch-research-methods-in-private-international-law-educating-the-next-generation-of-conflicts-lawyers/ CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240913T120000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240913T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235225Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010732Z UID:1534-1726228800-1726232400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:CANCELLED A new era" of Chinese law: The theoretical origins of Xi Jinping Legal Thought DESCRIPTION:#N/A URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/cancelled-a-new-era-of-chinese-law-the-theoretical-origins-of-xi-jinping-legal-thought/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240911T120000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240911T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241118T230327Z UID:1533-1726056000-1726059600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Taking Power Seriously in Constitutional Law: A Materialist Approach to Constitutional Law\, Executive Power\, and the British State DESCRIPTION:#N/A URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-taking-power-seriously-in-constitutional-law-a-materialist-approach-to-constitutional-law-executive-power-and-the-british-state/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240910T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240910T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010819Z UID:1535-1725991200-1725996600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:What are the responsibilities of freedom and why do we need them? DESCRIPTION:What are the responsibilities of freedom and why do we need them?\nA thought provoking discussion on one of the abiding themes of our time as explored in Professor Kinley’s new book The Liberty Paradox.\n\nIn-person event \n\n\nSydney Law School is delighted to host a discussion on liberty and the dangers it faces today from the myopic demands of freedom without limit\, as explored in Professor David Kinley’s new book The Liberty Paradox: Living with the Responsibilities of Freedom. \nJoin Professor Kinley in conversation with special guest Alexander Heffner\, host of PBS’s The Open Mind\, in what promises to be a lively\, engaging and thought-provoking discussion of the complexities that shape our society and challenge our perceptions of freedom and responsibility in today’s world. \nAcclaimed by the New York Times as “a thorough meditation on the complexities of negotiating our desires with those of other people\,” The Liberty Paradox offers some answers as we tackle life’s challenges of health\, happiness\, wealth\, work\, security\, voice\, respect\, trust\, love and death. \nAbout the speakers \nProfessor David Kinley holds the Chair of Human Rights Law at the University of Sydney. He is also an Academic Expert Member of Doughty Street Chambers in London\, a founding member of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights\, and a board member of Cisarua\, an Afghan refugee-led education centre located in Indonesia. \nAlexander Heffner is the host of The Open Mind—America’s longest-running current affairs TV program—and the creator of Breaking Bread with Alexander on Bloomberg TV. He is also the co-author of the bestselling A Documentary History of the United States. He has been covering American politics and civic life since the 2008 presidential campaign. \n\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nTuesday 10 September 2024\nTime: 6-7.30pm \nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Lecture Theatre 101\, Level 1\, New Law Building (F10A)\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \nCPD points = 1.5 \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \n\n\nAbout the book \nCopies of Professor Kinley’s new book The Liberty Paradox: Living with the Responsibilities of Freedom will be available for purchase at the event\, courtesy of Gleebooks. \n**Please note that the event will be recorded for broadcast in the US and online** \n  \nThis event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/what-are-the-responsibilities-of-freedom-and-why-do-we-need-them/ LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 101\, level 1\, New Law Building F10A\, Campderdown Campus CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International Law END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240902T010000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240902T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010725Z UID:1537-1725238800-1725285600@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:A new explanation of China's patenting phenomenon with a focus on the patenting of traditional medical knowledge DESCRIPTION:A new explanation of China’s patenting phenomenon with a focus on the patenting of traditional medical knowledge\nIn-person event \n\n\nThis seminar will present how Dr Ben Hopper’s thesis explains why people are getting patents over traditional medical knowledge in a way that differs from (and adds to) the usual explanations for China’s “patent boom”. These “usual (explanatory) suspects” are based on State interference (patenting subsidies\, etc.)\, level of innovation and level of human capital. It will draw on his original fieldwork data comprising a survey of the approaches to patenting of 53 mostly ethnic minority traditional medical practitioners in China’s southwestern\, relatively poor and isolated province of Guizhou. The analysis of those data involved a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods. The seminar will conclude that a key (and\, thus far\, missing) ingredient in explaining patenting activity in China is the individual’s extent of marketisation\, with more marketised individuals having a statistically significant higher propensity to get patents and to obey patent laws. \n\nThis event is part of the PhD/ECR presentation series hosted by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law. \n\nAbout the speaker\nDr Ben Hopper is a lecturer at Melbourne Law School. He teaches and researches in the areas of intellectual property\, traditional knowledge\, technology law\, civil procedure\, and legal ethics. He examines doctrinal developments in these areas of law\, with a focus on intellectual property law. His research uses empirical methods to illuminate the “living law”\, including people’s lived experiences of the law\, and legal subjectivity. He draws on both legal theory and broader social theory to explain the results of his empirical research. \nBen’s current research focus is China\, the locus of his PhD on patenting of traditional knowledge\, and where he has completed projects on geographical indications in the tea industry and internal migration in Xinjiang. He has a J.D.\, B.A. (Hons)\, and D-Lang (German) from the University of Melbourne\, and an LL.M. from Harvard University. \nCommentator: Dr Olugbenga Olatunji (University of Sydney Law School) \n————————————————– \nMonday 2 September\, 2024\nTime: 1-2pm \nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1 point \n————————————————— \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law and the Ross Parsons Centre. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/a-new-explanation-of-chinas-patenting-phenomenon-with-a-focus-on-the-patenting-of-traditional-medical-knowledge/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240829T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240829T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010752Z UID:1539-1724954400-1724959800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: 'The Little Commonweale of my poore thoughts': nature\, ownership\, Cosmography\, and the origins of the climate crisis in Richard Zouche\, 1613-63 DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: ‘The Little Commonweale of my poore thoughts’: nature\, ownership\, Cosmography\, and the origins of the climate crisis in Richard Zouche\, 1613-63\nIn-person event \nThis seminar examines Richard Zouche’s legal thought on ‘nature’ at some of the earliest origins of the climate crisis and the formation of international law. Zouche is usually remembered as the ‘father’ of international legal positivism for his 1656 treatise An Exposition of the Fecial Law and Procedure\, or of Law between Nations where he influentially introduced the term ‘jus inter gentes’ or law between peoples as the basis for his juridical system. In this work\, Zouche deals extensively with questions of ownership in war and peace. He describes a tripartite right for princes and peoples as ‘Plenary’\, ‘Hereditary’ or ‘merely Usufructuary’ rights both to holding power and property. He also deals with questions of sea jurisdiction and appropriation by occupation\, which he expanded on in his posthumous treatise on the Admiralty courts. \nMost significantly\, Zouche solidifies two major tenets of legal argumentation that provided the early architecture for claims and extraction that formed the early climate crisis. First was the ‘jus inter gentes’ formulation that allowed for international law to be developed by consent between princes and peoples\, referable to Augustinian concord but not bound by it or the law of nature. Second\, Zouche’s modernisation of the disputation format gave ‘both sides’ of each of these legal questions\, both obscuring Zouche’s own views and giving princes and lawyers a handbook with the argumentative structures for claiming and resisting legal disputes around ownership\, showing the vital importance of these legal questions in the early history of international law. But it is in Zouche’s juvenile cosmographical poem ‘The Dove’ (1613) that an early vision of the political economy of the world and the importance of sight and ordering — the main tools of positivism — were first announced through the circling of Noah’s dove. Zouche called this poem ‘the little Commonweale of my poore thoughts’. The Dove provides an early announcement of the foundational commitments that thread through Zouche’s major juridical works. Throughout these works\, Zouche’s engagement with nature and natural resources move quickly to questions of ownership and right\, revealing the function of law to connect early forms of extraction\, capitalism and empire. \nAbout the speaker\nMartin Clark is a lecturer at La Trobe Law School. His research focuses on the history of legal thought and international and public law. His work has been published in the Modern Law Review\, the British Yearbook of International Law\, the Leiden Journal of International Law and the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly\, and he is finishing a book (with Dr Yoriko Otomo) on law and commodities\, Eating the World: A Global History of Law and Commodities (Counterpress). He was awarded his PhD in Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science in May 2020 for a thesis on the history of the ideas of ‘domestic’ and ‘international’ in British legal thought. At LSE he was a Judge Rosalyn Higgins Scholar and Modern Law Review Scholar (2018 and 2019). \nHe is an Editor at the London Review of International Law and Web Assistant at the Modern Law Review. Prior to joining La Trobe he was a Modern Law Review Postdoctoral Fellow\, a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School\, a Lecturer at UTAS Law\, where he taught contract and legal theory\, and a JD Teaching Fellow at Melbourne Law School\, where he taught contract \nThursday 29 August 2024\, 6-7.30pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \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-little-commonweale-of-my-poore-thoughts-nature-ownership-cosmography-and-the-origins-of-the-climate-crisis-in-richard-zouche-1613-63/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240827T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240827T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010727Z UID:1542-1724781600-1724787000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Book launch | Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia: Democratic Legitimacy\, Safeguards And Executive Aggrandisement DESCRIPTION:Book launch: Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia: Democratic Legitimacy\, Safeguards And Executive Aggrandisement\n\n\n(Hart Publishing\, 2024) \nIn-person event \nThe University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Regulation-Making in the United Kingdom and Australia: Democratic Legitimacy\, Safeguards And Executive Aggrandisement by Associate Professor Andrew Edgar. \nThis book examines the legal frameworks supporting the democratic legitimacy of regulation-making in the UK and Australia. It emphasises that parliamentary scrutiny of regulations provides the primary support\, supplemented by public consultation processes. Parliamentary scrutiny of regulation-making emerged in the twentieth century as the primary basis for the democratic legitimacy of regulations\, however recent developments avoid or minimise this safeguard. This book contributes to public law by analysing executive over-reach in regulation-making\, by reference to the historical development of parliamentary checks on regulation-making. \nFind out more about the book and order it online here. \nIf purchasing the book online from Bloomsbury\, use the code GLR AT5 for a 20% discount. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the author \nAndrew Edgar is an Associate Professor in the University of Sydney Law School. He specialises in administrative law and\, in particular\, on administrative law-making. His recent publications focus on regulation-making processes and review of regulations by parliaments and courts. Andrew also has research interests in statutory interpretation and the implementation of international law in domestic law. \nAbout the speaker \nSenator Paul Scarr was elected as a Senator for Queensland in 2019. He is the Chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee and is a long-term member of the Senate Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation Committee. [Full bio here: https://www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and_Members/Parliamentarian?MPID=282997] \n\n\n\n\n——————————— \nTuesday 27 August 2024\nTime: 6-7.30pm \nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nThis event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School. \n——————————— \nThis event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/book-launch-regulation-making-in-the-united-kingdom-and-australia-democratic-legitimacy-safeguards-and-executive-aggrandisement/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240815T110000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240815T120000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010800Z UID:1536-1723719600-1723723200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Protecting digital privacy while countering terrorism: A dialogue with two UN Special Rapporteurs DESCRIPTION:Protecting digital privacy while countering terrorism: A dialogue with two UN Special Rapporteurs\nIn-person event \n\n\nJoin us for the unique opportunity at The University of Sydney Law School to participate in a dialogue between Prof. Ana Brian Nougrères\, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy and Prof. Ben Saul\, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. \nAs our digital lives expand our exposure to the world and the need to counter terrorism does not decrease\, the use of public and private data by governments and agencies is becoming one of the key elements in the fight against terrorism. Boundaries about what is private and off-limits are becoming increasingly difficult to determine. Procedures to ensure that those limits are respected are even more challenging to enforce. Knowledge about how our data is used is progressively clouded by layers of systems and interventions. Differences among jurisdictions on what digital privacy entails in the anti-terrorism context in turn are more acute. \nIn a dialogue moderated by Dr. José-Miguel Bello y Villarino (U. Sydney/ADM+S CoE)\, Prof. Brian Nougrères and Prof. Saul will discuss the status quo\, the current debates and possible ways forward. \nAbout the speakers\nProf. Ana Brian Nougrères: In July 2021\, the Human Rights Council appointed Dr. Ana Brian Nougrères of Uruguay as the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy and she took up the mandate on 1 August 2021. A Professor of Law\, Privacy and ICT at the School of Engineering\, University of Montevideo and a Professor of Law\, Data Protection and ICT at the School of Law\, University of the Republic\, Montevideo. She is also a practicing Attorney-at-law and Consultant on data protection. Her latest article\, The Uruguayan law system facing security breaches\, was published by LA LEY (Spain) in 2021. \nProf. Ben Saul: Since 1 November 2023\, Ben Saul has been the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism. He is the Challis Chair of International Law at The University of Sydney and has expertise in public international law\, counter-terrorism law\, human rights and refugee law\, international humanitarian law\, and international criminal law. He has taught at Oxford\, Harvard\, The Hague and Xiamen Academies of International Law\, and in Europe and Asia; practised in international tribunals; advised governments\, NGOs and the United Nations; and worked on international law in over 35 countries. \nDr. José-Miguel Bello y Villarino: Senior Research Fellow at the Law School and the Institutions programme of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). He is a member of the Diplomatic Corps of Spain (on leave) and previously worked in different capacities for the European Union. His current research focuses on regulatory approaches to ADM and Artificial Intelligence (AI)\, especially on how to deal with risks derived from the operation of AI systems from a comparative approach. In 2023 he received the Rita and John Cornforth Medal for Research Excellence at the University of Sydney\, for outstanding achievement in research; in 2022 the Scotiabank Global AI + Regulation Emerging Scholar Award (joint award) and in 2021 he was a Fulbright-Schuman scholar at the Harvard Law School. \n————————————————– \nThursday 15 August\, 2024\nTime: 11am-12pm \nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1 point \n————————————————– \nThis event is proudly presented by the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/protecting-digital-privacy-while-countering-terrorism-a-dialogue-with-two-un-special-rapporteurs/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:ADM+ S Events,CPD eligible events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240809T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240809T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010723Z UID:1545-1723226400-1723231800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:2024 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law DESCRIPTION:2024 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law\nSydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture\, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law. \nIn-person event \n\n\nSydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture\, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law. \nIn 2024\, the lecture is “Critical Legal Juxtapositions: Practice and Decision-Making”\, delivered by Professor Val Napoleon (University of Victoria\, Canada). \nThis event is being held to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People\, which is celebrated annually on 9 August. \n2024 Lecture \nCritical Legal Juxtapositions: Practice and Decision-Making \nWhat happens when we rethink state legal decision-making regarding Indigenous lands through the practical application of the laws of an Indigenous legal order? This talk is intended to support learning about ways of approaching\, understanding and working with substantive Indigenous laws through reimagined legal processes and decision-making. A focus will be placed on introducing perspectives\, principles\, and practices that can help think through questions and issues that arise when engaging with Indigenous laws. There is much work to build needed public and state intersocietal legal capacities – what are the steps? \nProgram of events: \n\nWelcome to Country: Uncle Charles (Chicka) Madden\nIntroductions: Professor Rita Shackel\, Dean Sydney Law School\nOpening Remarks: Teela Reid\, Wiradjuri and Wailwan woman\, Professor of Practice\, Sydney Law School\nLecture: Professor Val Napoleon\nQ&A facilitated by: Brendan Loizou\, Warlpiri man and PhD candidate in Law\nClosing Remarks and Vote of Thanks: Marlikka Perdrisat\, Nyikina Warrwa and Wangkumara Barkindji woman\, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Postgraduate Fellow\n\nFriday 9 August\, 6-7.30pm\nCPD points =1.5 \n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker \nProfessor Val Napoleon \nProfessor Napoleon is the Law Foundation Chair of Indigenous Justice and Governance at the University of Victoria\, Canada. Professor Napoleon is from northeast British Columbia (Treaty 8) and a member of Saulteau First Nation. She is also an adopted member of the Gitanyow (Gitksan) House of Luuxhon\, Ganada (Frog) Clan. Professor Napoleon’s major initiatives include the unique and ground-breaking JD/JID (joint JD and Indigenous law degree) program\, and the establishment of the Indigenous Law Research Unit. \n\n\n\n\nThis event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School in collaboration with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) at the University of Sydney. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/2024-wingarra-djuraliyin-public-lecture-on-indigenous-peoples-and-law/ LOCATION:Law Foyer\, Level 2 CATEGORIES:Alumni,CPD eligible events,Indigenous Peoples and Law END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240808T113000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240808T123000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235247Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010813Z UID:1544-1723116600-1723120200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:The proliferation of Chinese surveillance tools overseas: sovereignty\, resistance\, and debt DESCRIPTION:The proliferation of Chinese surveillance tools overseas: sovereignty\, resistance\, and debt\nIn-person event \n\n\nThe heightened public and scholarly attention to Africa-China relations is chiefly inspired by the growing trade\, investment\, and aid between Beijing and the Global South. More specifically\, the research on digital surveillance in Africa focuses largely on the wide distribution of Chinese technology\, drawing attention to the fact that regime type is a poor predictor of the purchase and use of that technology. \nQuestions concerning how digital technologies work\, their high local demand\, and how they alter or do not alter state capacity have received far less study. More importantly\, though\, the literature that has already been written ignores an important paradox: if increased digital surveillance is wanted to support government authority because of its ability to police and administer\, it may also work against state sovereignty. \nIn the latter regard\, digital surveillance tools are embedded within processes that result in the privatization of the state. The outsourcing of its functions to Chinese tech giants\, like Huawei\, has transformed the government\, done within the context of a supposedly weak African state that seeks to ameliorate its inefficiencies\, in part\, into a holding company in the business of franchising out many operations\, including police services\, and hence much of its sovereignty. This is all done within the context of supposedly weak postcolonial states that seek to improve their states’ practical and technical inefficiencies. \nIn this presentation\, we explore how postcolonial states seek to use scientific knowledge and technology to scale state capacities. Accordingly\, it interrogates claims around China’s growing technological footprint\, the role of those technologies in emergent forms of state-corporate venture\, the nature of African developmental states\, and challenges to local data privacy. \nThis is the first event in the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law HDR/ECR series. \nAbout the speaker\nBulelani Jili is a Meta Research PhD fellow at Harvard University. His research interests include ICT development\, Africa-China relations\, cybersecurity\, post-colonial thought\, and privacy law. He is also a visiting fellow at Yale Law School\, a cybersecurity fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School\, a scholar-in-residence at the Electronic Privacy Information Center\, a visiting fellow at Hong Kong University Law\, a fellow at the Atlantic Council\, and a research associate at Oxford University. \nCommentator: Jose-Miguel Bello Villarino\, Sydney Law School \nModerator: Jie (Jeanne) Huang\, Sydney Law School \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThursday 8 August\, 2024\nTime: 11.30-12.30pm \nVenue: Law Lounge\, Level 1\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nCPD Points = 1 point \nThis event is co-sponsored by the China Studies Centre and the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law. \n\n\n  URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/the-proliferation-of-chinese-surveillance-tools-overseas-sovereignty-resistance-and-debt/ LOCATION:Law Lounge\, Level 1 CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240806T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240806T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010755Z UID:1541-1722965400-1722970800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Just Cause Season 2 launch: Celebrating social justice at Sydney Law School DESCRIPTION:Just Cause Season 2 launch: Celebrating social justice at Sydney Law School\nIn-person event \nJoin us to celebrate the launch of season 2 of ‘Just Cause\,’ a podcast created by staff and students affiliated with the Sydney Law School Social Justice Advisory Board. Learn more about the exciting new season and get a glimpse into the various dimensions of social justice work being done at Sydney Law School. Are you interested in the social justice dimensions of cross examination? Want to know more about what is to come after the Voice Referendum? Whether you are student interested in social justice initiatives and work being done at USyd\, an academic seeking to platform your social justice research\, or just someone who enjoys podcasts – come join us! \nSpeakers \n\nRachel Killean\nJuliette Marchant\nCharles Hao\n\nTuesday 6 August\, 5.30-7pm AEST\nVenue: New Law Building (F10)\, Level 4\, Common Room\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \n  \nThis event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/just-cause-season-2-launch-celebrating-social-justice-at-sydney-law-school/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Social justice events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240801T170000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240801T190000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010734Z UID:1549-1722531600-1722538800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Corruption and Investment Arbitration in Asia: New Frontiers DESCRIPTION:Corruption and Investment Arbitration in Asia: New Frontiers\nIn-person event \n\n\nThis seminar hosted by the University of Sydney Law School will involve a local re-launch of a new book on Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration (Teramura\, Nottage and Jetin eds\, published in Open Access in Springer’s Asia in Transition series in April 2024) and discussion of some new research. \nParticipants include: \n\nOpening: Professor Simon Bronitt (University of Sydney)\nChair and re-launch: Hon Wayne Martin AC KC (Francis Burt Chambers\, former Chief Justice of Western Australia)\nBook overview and key findings: Assistant Professor Nobumichi Teramura (Universiti Brunei Darussalam)\nNew pan-Asian empirical study: Professor Luke Nottage (University of Sydney)\, with Teramura\nChina focus: Professor Vivienne Bath and Dr Tianqi Gu (University of Sydney)\nIndonesia focus: Professor Simon Butt (University of Sydney) and Antony Crockett\, Herbert Smith Freehills (Hong Kong).\nCommentator: Dr Amokura Kawharu (President\, New Zealand Law Commission)\n\nClick here for more information. \n\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nThursday 1 August 2024\nTime: 5-7pm (including a cocktail reception) \nVenue: Sydney Law School\, Law Lounge\, level 1\, New Law Building (F10A)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus  \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \n\n\nThis event is presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney Law School and the Australian Network for Japanese Law. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/corruption-and-investment-arbitration-in-asia-new-frontiers/ LOCATION:New Law Building (F10) CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240731T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240731T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010754Z UID:1546-1722448800-1722454200@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Julius Stone Address: Law\, Philosophy\, and the Susceptible Skins of Living Beings DESCRIPTION:Julius Stone Address: Law\, Philosophy\, and the Susceptible Skins of Living Beings\nIn-person event\n  \nCatherine the Great (apparently) wrote to the French philosopher Diderot something along the lines of: “You philosophers are fortunate. You write on paper\, and paper is patient. Unfortunate emperor that I am\, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.” Catherine expressed\, I think\, an important insight\, that is true of the law as well: the law writes on the susceptible skins of living beings. \nThis doesn’t mean\, of course\, that we should not philosophize about the law\, or that we should not take advantage of the benefits of having patient paper to write on. But as we do so\, we should philosophize about the law all the time fully realizing that the law itself does not write on patient paper\, but on the susceptible skins of living beings. This has important implications to how we should – and how we should not – do philosophy of law. This talk elaborates on these implications – both in general\, and using more specific examples. \nAbout the speaker\nProfessor David Enoch \nDavid Enoch is The Professor of the Philosophy of Law at Oxford\, and the Rodney Blackman Chair in the Philosophy of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He works primarily in moral\, political\, and legal philosophy. \nDavid studies law and philosophy at Tel Aviv University\, and then got his PhD in philosophy at NYU (2003). He has published a book defending moral realism (Taking Morality Seriously\, OUP 2011)\, and many papers mostly in moral\, political\, and legal philosophy. \n  \nWednesday 31 July\, 2024\nTime: 6-7.30pm \nVenue: Auditorium 104/105\, Michael Spence Building (F23)\, City Road\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n  \nThis event is hosted by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School. \nThe Julius Stone Address is generously sponsored by the Educational Heritage Foundation. It is named to commemorate the life and work of Professor Julius Stone\, Australia’s foremost legal philosopher and for many years Challis Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/julius-stone-address-law-philosophy-and-the-susceptible-skins-of-living-beings/ LOCATION:Auditorium 104/105\, Michael Spence Building (F23) CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240724T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240724T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235246Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010750Z UID:1543-1721844000-1721849400@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:JSI Seminar: Natural Law to Natural Rights to Human Rights DESCRIPTION:JSI Seminar: Natural Law to Natural Rights to Human Rights\nIn-person event \n**Please note this event date has been moved to one day earlier than originally advertised.** \nNatural law and natural rights are frequently discussed as if they are tightly connected\, and human rights are presented as natural rights in a new label. But the relationship between all three is complicated and in tension. Natural law consists of objective legal principles and rules dictating the right course of action: do good and avoid evil\, do not murder or steal\, honor contracts\, and other binding proscriptions and prescriptions. Natural rights\, in contrast\, are innate subjective rights individuals hold against government and others. This is about individual powers\, entitlements\, and areas of protection from infringement by others: a right to possess property\, to defend one’s life\, to exercise free speech\, to choose one’s religion\, to choose employment and spouses\, and so forth. \nThomas Hobbes drew a clear distinction between the two: “RIGHT consisteth in liberty to do\, or to forbear: whereas LAW\, determineth\, and bindeth to one of them: so that law\, and right\, differ as much\, as obligation and liberty.” Or as John Locke put it\, “for right [jus] consists in the fact that we have a free use of something\, but law [lex] is that which either commands or forbids some action.” A tension arises because natural rights promote freedom while natural law compels conformity. Natural rights and human rights appear obviously connected\, since both espouse rights that attach to humans universally. Yet tension exists because natural rights had expired over a century before “human rights” obtained recognition\, those who recognized human rights did not identify them with natural rights\, and the content of the human rights extend far beyond previously recognized natural rights. Natural law\, natural rights\, and human rights are linked yet distinct. \nAbout the speaker\nBrian Tamanaha is the John S. Lehmann University Professor at Washington University School of Law. A scholar of jurisprudence and law and society\, he has written eleven books\, which have collectively received 6 book awards\, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages. \nWednesday 24 July 2024\, 6-7.30pm AEST – NEW DATE\nVenue: Level 4\, Boardroom\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1.5 \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-natural-law-to-natural-rights-to-human-rights/ LOCATION:Board Room\, Level 4 CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Jurisprudence events END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240717T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240717T140000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235250Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010813Z UID:1547-1721221200-1721224800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:The Past\, Present\, and Future of the Palestine Investigation DESCRIPTION:The Past\, Present\, and Future of the Palestine Investigation\nIn-person event\n \nOn May 20th\, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court\, Karim Khan KC\, announced that his Office had applied for arrest warrants against three senior Hamas leaders and two high-ranking Israeli government officials. This talk\, which is based on Professor Kevin Jon Heller’s role as Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor\, will discuss the past\, present\, and future of the investigation in Palestine. He will explain what a Special Adviser does\, provide a history of the Palestine investigation\, discuss the arrest-warrant applications\, and offer a few thoughts for what the future might hold for the warrants and the investigation more generally. \nAbout the author:\nKevin Jon Heller is Professor of International Law and Security at the University of Copenhagen’s Centre for Military Studies and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. He is an Academic Member of Doughty Street Chambers in London and currently serves as Special Advisor to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on War Crimes. \nProf. Heller’s books include The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law (OUP\, 2011) and four co-edited volumes: The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law (Stanford\, 2010)\, The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials (OUP\, 2013)\, the Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law (OUP\, 2018)\, and Contingency in International Law: On the Possibility of Different Legal Histories (OUP\, 2021). He is currently co-writing a book with Samuel Moyn (Yale) provisionally entitled The Vietnam War and International Law. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the international-law blog Opinio Juris\, where he has blogged for more than 17 years. \nProf. Heller has been involved in the practice of international law throughout his career\, most notably acting as one of Radovan Karadzic’s formally-appointed legal associates at the ICTY; serving as the plaintiffs’ sole expert witness in Salim v Mitchell\, a successful Alien Tort Statute case against the psychologists who designed and administered the CIA’s torture program; functioning as UNITAD’s Special Expert for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law; and acting as legal advisor to and expert witness for Ramzi bin al-Shibh\, one of the defendants in the 9/11 trial at Guantanamo Bay. \n  \nWednesday 17 July\, 1-2pm AEST\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \nCPD Points: 1 \nThis event is proudly presented by the Sydney Centre for International Law at the University of Sydney Law School URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/the-past-present-and-future-of-the-palestine-investigation/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,Interdisciplinary,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law,Lunchtime Seminar Series END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240715T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240715T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010730Z UID:1550-1721066400-1721071800@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Book launch: Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia DESCRIPTION:Book launch: Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia\nAn analysis of corruption in Indonesia’s courts.\n\n\nIn-person event \n\n\nThe University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia by Professor Simon Butt\, a revealing book that examines the deep-rooted issues in Indonesia’s judicial system. \nTracing problems back to the authoritarian regimes of Presidents Soekarno and Soeharto\, the book explains how the judiciary nearly collapsed by the late 1990s. Despite reforms aimed at improving judicial independence\, corruption and inefficiency persist\, with judges often acting without accountability. \nThis essential work offers an empirical analysis of corruption mechanisms\, including how bribes are negotiated and paid. It also addresses the impact of public pressure on judicial independence and the prevalence of unsafe convictions. \nThe book will be launched by Professor Tim Lindsey\, University of Melbourne Law School\, and Dr Laode Syarif\, Executive Director at The Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia\, and moderated by Lydia Santoso of the Australia Indonesia Business Council. \nThe book will be available for purchase on the evening. \nFind out more about the book and order it online here. \n\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nMonday 15 July 2024\nTime: 6-7.30pm (including a cocktail reception) \nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \n\n\nAbout the author \nSimon Butt is Professor of Indonesian Law at the University of Sydney Law School\, where he teaches Indonesian law and Private International Law. Fluent in Indonesian\, and having spent years in Indonesia\, he has written widely on Indonesian law\, including Corruption and Law in Indonesia (2012)\, The Constitutional Court and Democracy in Indonesia (2015)\, and co-authored The Constitution of Indonesia: A Contextual Analysis (2012) and Indonesian Law (2018) with Tim Lindsey. \nThis event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/book-launch-judicial-dysfunction-in-indonesia/ LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, Sydney Law School CATEGORIES:CPD eligible events,International and Asia-Pacific law events,International Law END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240702T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20240702T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T073606 CREATED:20240912T235301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240913T010801Z UID:1548-1719941400-1719945000@law-events.sydney.edu.au SUMMARY:Re-imagining the laws of nature - storying the rules of hyperconnected futures DESCRIPTION:Re-imagining the laws of nature – storying rules of hyperconnected futures\nOnline event \n\n\nIn this seminar\, Dr Michelle Lim\, Sydney Law School’s George Flannery Fellow\, argues that rewriting legal systems to include more-than-human perspectives and employing creative writing in legal scholarship can help address global biodiversity loss\, reimagine law\, and foster hopeful\, normalised human-nature relationships. \n\n\nEach drop a ripple\nConcentric circles collide\nTears spiral to hope? \nMaria Ojala (2017) defines hope to include ‘active coping in the face of hardship’. With the very real hardship of global extinction\, I argue that form is as important as content when exploring active coping amidst planetary scale social-ecological upheaval. I contend further\, that blurring the lines of form and content enables plural worldviews and understandings of natural worlds. \nThe sheer existence of our more-than-human kin is disappearing on our watch. The IPBES Values Assessment attributes this unprecedented global biodiversity loss to the prioritisation of instrumental values. In other words\, dominant worldviews\, which emphasise nature’s use and its usefulness to humans\, are a fundamental underlying driver of the catastrophic loss of nature. Creative forms of expression present an important means of engaging emotionally with nature’s intrinsic and relational values. Dominant legal systems\, however\, largely reflect and entrench dominant value systems which foreground the instrumental values of nature. Current laws mostly focus on safeguarding individual rights and property – and by extension the values of nature that can be easily traded in markets. \nMichelle Lim contemplates what it would mean to rewrite legal systems with the more-than-human. She considers how storying with nature may allow the re-imagination of law – and of dominant\, destructive ways of understanding nature. She argues that creative writing\, as a methodology in legal scholarship (and other disciplines)\, could contribute to the realisation of radically hopeful futures and the normalisation of human-nature relations. \n\n\n\n\nAbout the speaker \nDr Michelle Lim is an Associate Professor of Law and a Lee Kong Chian Fellow at the Yong Pung How School of Law\, Singapore Management University\, Singapore. Michelle’s work focuses on futures-oriented biodiversity law aimed at advancing equity and sustainability under conditions of unprecedented environmental change. She is increasingly interested in approaches which allows affective engagement with scholarship and explores ways which challenge the form of scholarship including through creative and imaginative means of expression. \n\n\n\n\n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \nTuesday 2 July 2024\nTime: 5.30-6.30pm  \nYou will receive Zoom details closer to the date of the webinar. \n>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> \n\n\nThis event is presented by the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law at the University of Sydney Law School in partnership with the Sydney Environment Institute. URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/re-imagining-the-laws-of-nature-storying-the-rules-of-hyperconnected-futures/ CATEGORIES:Climate and environmental law events,CPD eligible events END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR