The Charles Perkins Centre Annual Lecture 2023Public health sovereignty and public reason: A comparative perspective In-person event You are warmly invited to the Charles Perkins Centre Annual Lecture 2023 presented by visiting scholar Professor Sheila Jasanoff, the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. Drawing on varied policy responses to the Covid-19 […]
Book launch: Comparing Online Legal Education In-person event The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Comparing Online Legal Education, co-edited by Professor Luke Nottage, Sydney Law School, for the International Academy of Comparative Law. The book will be launched by The Hon. Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of […]
2023 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and LawSydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law. The Council of Australian Law Deans in 2020 expressed its commitment to a legal system free of systemic discrimination and structural bias against First Nations peoples – this […]
The Life and Death of States: Author Meets ReadersIn-person event Natasha Wheatley’s bold new book The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty (Princeton University Press 2023) rediscovers the multinational Habsburg polity as a hothouse for ideas that still shape our understanding of the sovereign state. The radical mismatch between theories […]
Let’s Talk About Corporations: AI risks in the financial sector: consequences for companies and directorsIn-person event In this seminar, we will be discussing the use of machine learning (ML) and AI technologies to offer personalised products to consumers and exploring the legal and ethical risks for financial sector companies that potentially arise out of the […]
Can we accommodate independent legal representation for complainants of sexual violence in an adversarial system?In-person event “The legitimate rights of the accused should be protected and fulfilled. So too the rights of the community.â€Â - VLRC, 2021 Australia has not been immune from calls to strengthen its criminal justice system, with a series of inquiries over the […]
Meet the author | Reimagining Desistance from Male-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: The role and experiences of female victims-survivorsHybrid event Despite decades of research, our understanding of IPV desistance processes is very limited. In particular, understanding of the mechanisms that may account for why some men ‘stop’ abusing their partners and others persist, is under-developed. Because […]
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATOOnline event The Australian Taxation Office is a creditor in almost three out of every four company insolvencies. Legislation in 1993 removed the last of what were seen as rights that elevated the ATO to the status of […]
Julius Stone Address: What is political progress?In-person event Progress is both a necessary and a dangerous idea. It is necessary if one is striving to improve the way things are, and it is dangerous because the pursuit of progress has historically often given rise to episodes of paternalism, colonial domination and narratives of civilizational […]
Report launch | The risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing: A synthesis of evidence and the implications for Australia In-person event This launch event will highlight the significance of the new report “The risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing: A synthesis of evidence and the implications […]
JSI Seminar | Beyond Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property: opportunities in law reform for Aboriginal-led medicines in Australia and the limitations of legal pluralismIn-person event Australian regulators and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples have the opportunity to co-design a cross-jurisdictional framework that ensures structural integrity and cultural ethics, which embodies international law principles and […]
Criminalising Children: Should we raise the age of criminal responsibility? In-person event Recently, the Northern Territory became the first Australian jurisdiction to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 years. In New South Wales, and other Australian jurisdictions, the minimum age remains 10, which is one of the lowest minimum ages […]
