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JSI Seminar | European Émigré Legal Scholars in Australian Law Schools: Julius Stone’s Circle

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

JSI Seminar | European Émigré Legal Scholars in Australian Law Schools: Julius Stone’s CircleIn-person event During and immediately after World War II, some Australian law schools had the opportunity to rescue European émigré legal scholars fleeing persecution and fascism. Overwhelmingly, Australian universities did not become shelters for refugee intellectuals, despite the extraordinary efforts of some […]

2024 ACCEL Environmental Law Year in Review: Spotlighting Climate Change, Nature Repair, Transport, and Greenwashing

2024 ACCEL Environmental Law Year in Review: Spotlighting Climate Change, Nature Repair, Transport, and GreenwashingThe Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law at Sydney Law School invites you to its Environmental Law Year in Review Conference on 8 March 2024. In Australia and around the world, 2023 was a significant year for climate and environmental […]

Revisiting the Role and Relevance of the ‘The Right to Strike’

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Revisiting the Role and Relevance of the ‘The Right to Strike’ In-person event In 2023, the University of Bristol Centre for Law at Work (UK) joined forces with the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), and International Lawyers Assisting Workers (ILAW) Network at the Solidarity Center (Washington DC, US) to commence a project on the right […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Restructuring Reform in Europe: The Italian Experience

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Restructuring Reform in Europe: The Italian ExperienceOnline event This webinar will discuss recent reforms in the European Union and reflect on how those reforms have been implemented in Italy. It will provide an overview of Italian insolvency and restructuring laws, with a particular focus on […]

Responding to repression and strengthening human rights systems | In conversation with Human Rights Watch’s Tirana Hassan

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Responding to Repression and Strengthening Human Rights Systems | In conversation with Human Rights Watch’s Tirana HassanIn-person event The last few years have seen extensive human rights suppression and wartime atrocities. Selective government outrage and transactional diplomacy has carried profound costs for the rights of those not in on the deal. The drivers of these human […]

JSI Seminar | Dominium in the Age of Neurotechnologies: Who Is the Subject of Neurorights?

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

JSI Seminar | Dominium in the Age of Neurotechnologies: Who Is the Subject of Neurorights?In-person event Many scholars expressed concerns about how potential misuse of neurotechnologies may threaten some basic rights such as right to privacy, freedom of thought, freedom from self-incrimination, right to fair trial, prohibition of discrimination, etc. In order to ensure an […]

Informers Up Close: Stories From Communist Prague

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Informers Up Close: Stories From Communist PragueIn-person event Informers are generally reviled. After all, ‘snitches get stitches’. Informers who report to repressive regimes are particularly disdained. While informers may themselves be victims enlisted by the state, their actions cause other individuals to suffer significant harm. Informers, then, are central to the proliferation of endemic human […]

How Canada Chose Exile: The decision to banish Japanese Canadians, 1946

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

How Canada Chose Exile: The decision to banish Japanese Canadians, 1946This event is proudly co-presented by the University of Sydney Law School and Discipline of History. In-person event As the end of the Second World War drew into view, federal officials in Canada faced a policy problem of their own creation. They had displaced over […]

How China governs Big Tech and regulates artificial intelligence

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

How China governs Big Tech and regulates artificial intelligence In-person event China has long been recognized as a powerhouse in cultivating Big Tech firms that rival those in the United States. However, the Chinese government recently embarked on a massive regulatory crackdown, targeting its largest tech corporations such as Alibaba, Tencent, and Meituan.  Many Western […]

Peace in the Ancient Near East: Insights into the world’s first attested peace treaty

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Peace in the Ancient Near East: Insights into the world’s first attested peace treatyIn-person event This seminar gives some background to the first attested peace treaty in world history, between Ramses II of Egypt and Hattusili III of Hatti. This treaty survives in several copies, in two languages (Ancient Egyptian and Akkadian) and in two […]

Navigating China’s regulatory approach to generative artificial intelligence

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Navigating China’s regulatory approach to generative artificial intelligenceIn-person event In-person event The rapid development and application of generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems have raised growing concerns of their potential risks at a global level. In July 2023, Chinese regulators passed the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services (the Measures). The Measures target […]