Report launch | The risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing: A synthesis of evidence and the implications for Australia.
2023-09-04 12:30 - 14:15 (Australia/Sydney) | Law Foyer, Level 2
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 reportÂ â€œThe risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing: A synthesis of evidence and the implications for Australiaâ€. It will exploreÂ key findings of the review around climate change, chemical contamination of air and water and resulting physical, social and spiritual health impacts. The report aims to inform the Australian community and decision makers about what is at stake should we proceed with new developments.
Professor of Practice in Environmental Wellbeing Melissa Haswell and Jacob Hegedus will speak to the report, and will be joined by other expert speakers as part of this event which will shape the dialogue around these critical topics.
Join us to connect and continue these important conversations with peers.
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Monday 4 September
Time:Â 12.30-2.15pmÂ (12.30pm arrival for a 1pm start. Light refreshments will be served before the event.)
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10)
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This event is proudly co-presented by the University of Sydney Law School, and the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous Strategy and Services.

JSI Seminar | Beyond Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property: opportunities in law reform for Aboriginal-led medicines in Australia and the limitations of legal pluralism
2023-09-14 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar | Beyond Indigenous Cultural & Intellectual Property: opportunities in law reform for Aboriginal-led medicines in Australia and the limitations of legal pluralism
In-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 standards. However, the Australian intellectual property regime and regulatory framework for traditional medicines is not fit for purpose. Equally, the tension between Australia’s settler state and unceded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples remains constrained by legal pluralism, western concepts of Indigeneity and biocultural knowledge and truth-telling.
About the speaker:
Dr Virginia Marshall
Dr Marshall is a Research Fellow based at the Australian National University’s School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). She is a practising lawyer and leading legal scholar with expertise in Aboriginal water rights, native title rights in Sea Country, Indigenous governance and the intersection of Traditional Knowledge systems and western intellectual property regimes, especially as it relates to Indigenous commercialisation of traditional medicines.
Virginia holds various government appointments including serving on the Climate Change Authority Board, Deputy Co-Chair of the Committee on Aboriginal Water Interests and the Drafting Group for the National Water Initiative Mark 2 and regularly invited on expert roundtables relating to water policy reform. Virginia serves on the ANU Human Ethics Research Committee, the inaugural MÄori Research and Ethics Council and Chair of the ANU Indigenous Research Advisory Group. Virginia is a Co-Chair of the ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster SolutionsÂ Indigenous peoples, cultures and knowledgesÂ research cluster and is a Research Associate and Board member of ANU’s Australian Studies Institute.

Thursday 14 September 2023, 6-7.30pmÂ AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

Criminalising Children: Should we raise the age of criminal responsibility?
2023-09-19 18:00 - 20:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
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 of criminal responsibility in the world. That is, while a child under the age of 10 cannot be convicted of a criminal offence, and while a child aged between 10 and 14 is likewise presumed to beÂ doli incapax, this presumption can be rebutted by the prosecution on the evidence.
But is the age of 10 too young to criminalise any child? What harms accrue to incarcerated children?
There are many arguments in favour of â€˜raising the age’ to minimise the criminalisation of children. First, there is the alarming over-representation of Indigenous children in detention. Second, raising the age of criminal responsibility would recognise the fact that children are in a period of neurodevelopmental immaturity. Third, the younger a child is when first encountering the criminal justice system, the more likely they are to re-offend as an adult. Fourth, the great prevalence of mental health disorders and cognitive disabilities amongst young people in the criminal justice system, compared with the general youth population, highlights a vulnerability that would be better addressed outside the criminal justice system. Finally, incarcerated children are deprived of the family, friends, education, health, cultural and sporting opportunities that most of us take for granted.
Given the significant momentum for raising the age of criminal responsibility following the Northern Territory’s decision, this panel will examine whether other Australian jurisdictions should do the same Â- or raise the age even higher.
About the panel discussion
To continue the dialogue around raising the age of criminal responsibility, the Sydney Institute of Criminology is hosting a panel of academics and legal professionals.
Introductions: Dr Carolyn McKayÂ (Co-Director, Sydney Institute of Criminology)
Chairperson: Professor Megan WilliamsÂ (Principal of Yulang Indigenous Evaluation)
Professor Megan Williams is Wiradjuri through paternal family and has worked for over two decades advocating for the use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s expertise in health service design and evaluation, research, ethics and university curriculum. Megan is principal of Yulang Indigenous Evaluation and worked in the tertiary sector across three decades, most recently at UTS. Megan is author of the Ngaa-bi-nya Aboriginal evaluation framework available at the Evaluation Journal of Australasia, contributed as background work for the Australian Government’s Indigenous Evaluation Strategy. Megan collaborates on ARC, MRFF, NHMRC, government and industry funds for research, and has had local and national roles including as a Human Research Ethics Committee chairperson, and Health Sociology Review associate editor including for the Yuwinbir Special Issue. Megan is a member of the AIHW National Prisoner Health Information Committee and Corrective Services NSW Aboriginal Advisory Council. Megan has been miimi (sister) of Mibbinbah community organisation for 15 years, and is Chairperson of independent media company Croakey.org.
Panellists

Dr Krystal LockwoodÂ (Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University)

Dr Krystal Lockwood is Gumbaynggirr and Dunghutti, and grew up in Armidale, New South Wales. She is an applied justice researcher, with methodological expertise in qualitative, realist, and Indigenous research and evaluation, as well as experience with quantitative methods. Broadly, her research examines how programs, policies, and practices are used to address complex problems. Her research interests include parental incarceration, reintegration, and sentencing processes; application of realist and Indigenous methodologies; and the impact of the criminal justice system on social justice outcomes, particularly for Indigenous peoples. Krystal is also interested in the application of Indigenous knowledges and perspectives in tertiary education and the justice sector.

Mr Robert HoylesÂ (Director Criminal Law Division, Legal Aid NSW)

Mr Rob Hoyles is the Director of Criminal Law for Legal Aid NSW. He is an Accredited Specialist in criminal law and holds an Executive Master of Public Administration from ANZSOG. He has previously held many roles with Legal Aid NSW including Deputy Director, Project Lead of the Early Appropriate Guilty Plea (EAGP) Implementation Team and Solicitor in Charge of a Sydney Indictable Team. He was the inaugural Solicitor in Charge of Legal Aid NSW’s Port Macquarie office and previously worked as a criminal defence lawyer in Sydney private practice, with the Aboriginal Legal Service and in four regional Legal Aid offices. He commenced his career as Researcher for NSW Court of Appeal. He is presently appointed to the NSW Law Society’s Criminal Law Committee, Ethics Committee and Specialist Accreditation Advisory Committee for Criminal Law.

Professor Thomas CroftsÂ (City University of Hong Kong)

Professor Thomas Crofts holds a joint appointment in the School of Law and Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at City University of Hong Kong. He was formerly Professor of Criminal Law in the Sydney University School of Law and Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology. His research in criminal law, criminology and criminal justice centres on criminalisation and criminal responsibility with a particular focus on the criminalisation and criminal responsibility of children, comparative criminal law and criminal law reform. Professor Crofts’ teaching interests are in the fields of criminal law, criminology and criminal justice.
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Tuesday 19 September
Time:Â 6-8pmÂ (Refreshments to follow panel)
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10)
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This event is proudly presented by theÂ Sydney Institute of CriminologyÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

Comparative History of International Arbitration: Australia, Japan and Beyond
2023-09-21 16:00 - 17:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Comparative History of International Arbitration: Australia, Japan and Beyond
Hybrid event
This hybrid-format webinar compares the historical trajectory of international arbitration law and practice in Australia and Japan in regional and global contexts. An aim is to explore the evolving images and contours of arbitration and scope for cross-border collaboration in promoting this popular but sometimes contested form of dispute resolution.
Speakers

Prof the Hon Marilyn Warren AC KCÂ (Monash University, former Chief Justice of Victoria) The History of Arbitration in Australia
(based on chapter in recent textbook with Justice Clyde Croft and Dr Drossos Stamboulakis reviewed in ALJ and here: https://japaneselaw.sydney.edu.au/2022/01/international-and-australian-commercial-arbitration-book-review/)

Prof Giorgio ColomboÂ (Nagoya University) The Maria Luz Arbitration in Meiji Japan
(based on his 2022 book:Â https://www.routledge.com/Justice-and-International-Law-in-Meiji-Japan-The-Maria-Luz-Incident-and/Colombo/p/book/9781032249025)

Asst Prof Nobumichi TeramuraÂ (Universiti Brunei Darussalam) The History and Potential of International Arbitration in Japan
(based on his 2023 chapter with Luke Nottage for Lars Markert et al, eds, International Arbitration in Japan, Wolters Kluwer, forthcoming)

Commentator

Prof Luke NottageÂ (University of Sydney)(Drawing on the concluding chapter in his 2021 book: https://japaneselaw.sydney.edu.au/2020/08/book-in-press-with-elgar/Â and his Encyclopedia entry on ACICA (with Prof Richard Garnett) atÂ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4431276Â )

Chair

Assoc Prof Jeanne HuangÂ (University of Sydney)

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Thursday 21 September
Time:Â 4-5.30pm
Location:Â The University of Sydney, Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
Cost:Â Free, but registration is essential. Please select your attendance type during registration.
CPD points:Â 1.5 points
This event is being held an online and in-person at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference when registering.
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This event is proudly co-presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, the Resolution Institute and the Australian Network for Japanese Law at the University of Sydney Law School.

2nd Annual Global Sports Law Symposium: Dispute Resolution
2023-09-22 16:00 - 17:30
2nd Annual Global Sports Law Symposium: Dispute Resolution
In-person event
Abstract
This symposium brings together luminary experts and practitioners in sports law to discuss dispute resolution in the world of sports (it follows on fromÂ ANJeL’s seminar on international arbitration). The symposium’s first panel will feature two giants of the Australian sports law world reflecting on their careers in jurisprudence and sports administration resolving disputes in the sports area. The second panel will be a case study focusing on dispute resolution in baseball with two experts on both Japanese and Australian baseball.

About the Speakers
Dispute Resolution in Sports: Expert Reflections
Professor Deborah HealeyÂ (University of New South Wales)
Deborah Healey is the Director of the Herbert Smith Freehills China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre and the Editor of the Sports Law Journal. She has more than 30 years of experience serving on the boards of major sports governance organizations and serves on the National Sports Tribunal.
Professor the Hon Marilyn Warren AC KCÂ (Monash University)
Marilyn Warren is a Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow of Monash University and is the former Chief Justice of Victoria. She practices as a commercial arbitrator and teaches law as a Professor at Monash’s Law Faculty.

Dispute Resolution in Sports: Baseball Case Study
Mr. Mark MarinoÂ (CEO, Baseball NSW)
Mark Marino has been the CEO of Baseball NSW since 2014 and is an Executive Committee Member of the Australian Baseball Players Alumni Association. Mark played collegiate and professional baseball in the United States and was the CEO of the Sydney Blue Sox 2014-2018.
Dr. Matt NicholÂ (Lecturer, Central Queensland University, (Melbourne))
Matt Nichol is a lecturer and sports law academic at the School of Business and Law at Central Queensland University and a board member of Baseball Victoria. His research uses approaches to labour law and regulatory theory to understand the regulation of labour in professional team sports.

Moderator:Â Mr. Micah Burch, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School.
Hosts: Sydney Law School, Australian Network for Japanese Law, Australia New Zealand Sports Law Association
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Date: Friday, 22 September 2023
Time: 4.00-5.30pm
Location: Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), The University of Sydney
Please follow directional signage on arrival.
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CPD Points:Â 1.5
This event is proudly co-presented by The University of Sydney Law School, the Australian Network for Japanese Law and the Australia New Zealand Sports Law Association.

Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2023: The responsibility of shareholders
2023-09-26 17:30 - 19:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2023: The responsibility of shareholders
In-person event

In 1911, Justice Louis Brandeis argued that:
â€˜â€¦there is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks. It is entirely contraryâ€¦to what ought to be our whole attitude towards investments, that the person who has a chance for profit by going into an enterprise â€¦ should have the chance of gain without any responsibility’.
This lecture asks whether, over a century later, it is now time to revisit that proposition. The lecture will consider whether shareholders should bear responsibility for the actions of the companies in which they hold shares. If so, is that just a moral responsibility, or can it also have a legal dimension? And, if legal, should the law simply facilitate greater shareholder responsibility, or should it be mandated?
About the speaker
Emeritus Professor Stephen Bottomley (ANU College of Law)
Emeritus Professor of Commercial Law, Stephen Bottomley is an expert in corporate law with particular emphasis on corporate governance. His main areas of research interest are corporate governance, and law and regulation. He has also published in the areas of corporate theory, corporate regulation and government-owned enterprises.
His 2008 book,Â The Constitutional Corporation: Rethinking Corporate GovernanceÂ was awarded the Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize for outstanding piece of socio-legal scholarship in the same year. Amongst his publications, Stephen is the co-author ofÂ Contemporary Australian Corporate LawÂ (2018, Cambridge University Press),Â Law in ContextÂ (2011, 4th edn, Federation Press), andÂ Directing the Top 500 – Corporate Governance and Accountability in Australian CompaniesÂ (1993, Allen and Unwin). Stephen’s articleÂ â€œThe Notional Legislator: The Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Role as a Law-Makerâ€Â (2011)Â 39 Federal Law Review 1, was awarded the 2011 Zines Prize for Excellence in Legal Research.
In 2021 Stephen was awarded the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Legal Research Medal in the 2020 Australian Legal Research Awards.
Stephen was Dean of the ANU College of Law from 2013 to 2017, prior to which he held positions as Head of School and Deputy Dean in the College.
Stephen is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a former President of the Corporate Law Teachers Association (now the Society of Corporate Law Academics).
Commentator: Rebecca Lim (Strategic Consultant, Gilbert + Tobin and Practitioner-in-Residence, Sydney Law School)
Rebecca is a strategic consultant at G&T in Sydney particularly in the areas of financial services, digital, ESG and Board advisory services. Rebecca was the General Counsel for Westpac for 10 years and worked in a variety of senior roles within with the Westpac Group for 20 years.
Chair: Dr Jason HarrisÂ (Professor of Corporate Law and Director of the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law, Sydney Law School)

Tuesday 26 September, 2023
Time:Â 5.30-7pm
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10)

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation LawÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

Advocacy in the Children's Court
2023-09-28 00:00
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Advocacy in the Children’s Court: Considerations for Criminal Matters Involving Children and Young Persons

Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Professional Skills
CPD Points: 1.5
About
The Children’s Court deals with a wide range of cases across NSW involving children and young people. In its criminal jurisdiction, matters involve defendants under the age of 18 years. There are a number of complexities in the legislation as to how certain charges involving children and young persons proceed including considerations of doli incapax and whether the charges can remain at the summary level or whether they should be dealt with â€œat lawâ€ in a higher court. This presentation will discuss the issues around the age of criminal responsibility and the committal process in the Children’s Court. This presentation will assist lawyers practising criminal law who appear in the Children’s Court and provide perspectives from the bench, prosecution, and defence.
Presenters
Judge Ellen Skinner was admitted to the legal profession in 1999, having graduated from the Australian National University in Arts and Law. Judge Skinner has served as Managing Solicitor at the Aboriginal Legal Service and worked at the ODPP and Legal Aid. Judge Skinner was appointed to the Bench in 2009 as a magistrate and was the youngest magistrate ever appointed in New South Wales. On 22 November 2021, Judge Skinner was appointed as the President of the Children’s Court of NSW and a judge of the District Court.
Shannon Richards is a Solicitor Advocate at the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. He has been practising law since 2003 and has worked in both commercial, government and military legal environments. Shannon was previously a prosecutor with the Office of the Director of Military Prosecutions and joined the NSW Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in 2015. He regularly appears in jury trials in the District Court and complex hearings in the Local Court and Children’s Court. Shannon appears in courts-martial and Defence Force Magistrate hearings on behalf of the prosecution and defence.
James Clifford is the Managing Solicitor of the Children’s Criminal Practice at the Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT), practicing primarily on Gadigal and Dharug land. He completed his studies at the University of Sydney before commencing private practice in criminal and employment law. Since commencing with the ALS in 2017, he has represented Aboriginal young people extensively in the Youth Koori Court and mainstream courts.

A recording of this webinar will be released on Thursday, 28 September 2023.
Find out more about the series.

Probative Value and Admissibility in the Criminal Trial
2023-09-28 00:00
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Probative Value and Admissibility in the Criminal Trial: Focus and Holism
Substantive Law
CPD Points: 1.5
About
In determining whether challenged evidence is admissible, the trial judge is often required to assess its probative value. The orthodox view is that this assessment focuses on the strength of connection between the challenged evidence and the fact in issue. However, a distinct strand of High Court jurisprudence, running through the common law and the uniform evidence legislation – fromâ€¯Pfennig v The QueenÂ (1995) 182 CLR 461 throughâ€¯Phillips v The Queenâ€¯(2006) 225 CLR 303 toâ€¯TL v The Kingâ€¯(2022) 96 ALJR 1072 – requires a holistic approach to probative value. That is, the trial judge should assess the contribution of the challenged evidence together with other evidence. The High Court’s occasional holism introduces incoherence and uncertainty into the law. The interventionism of this approach may be prompted by concern over the prejudicial risks of propensity evidence; however, holism does not necessarily provide added protection. The High Court’s holism appears to be more the product of fallacious reasoning and inattention to the logic of proof. And it carries the risk that the trial judge, at the admissibility stage, will trespass on the jury’s fact-finding province.
Presenter
David Hamer is interested in the way criminal courts deal with evidence in determining whether to convict or acquit defendants. While often focusing on the detail of evidence law and criminal procedure, he takes an interdisciplinary approach. His research has regard to both the psychology and the logic of proof and draws on empirical research and formal probabilistic models. Further, his work explores how the pursuit of factual accuracy is affected by other sometimes competing concerns: efficiency, fairness, and the overarching need to provide a mechanism for settling disputes that retains public acceptance.
A particular area of interest to David is the regulation of child sexual assault prosecutions. For various reasons, these offences are inherently difficult to prove. Drawing on David’s work, the recent Royal Commission recommended that the prosecution be able to place greater reliance on the accusations of other alleged victims to corroborate the complainant’s allegation. David’s work in this area is ongoing and he is contributing to the development of appropriate laws to implement this Royal Commission recommendation.
Another area of interest to David is wrongful convictions. Despite the rhetorical emphasis placed on avoiding this searing injustice, they come to light quite regularly and there is good reason to believe that many more wrongful convictions are hidden from view. David is interested in the conceptual and methodological issues concerning definition and estimation of error rates. He researches the causes of wrongful convictions and how these should be addressed through law reform. He also focuses on obstacles to their correction and believes that a Criminal Cases Review Commission should be adopted as a crucial element of criminal justice infrastructure.

Rescheduled date: A recording of this webinar will be released on Thursday, 28 September 2023.
Find out more about the series.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Law Reform & The PPSA: Why We Should Delete s 267 and Corporations Act s 588FL
2023-10-03 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Law Reform & The PPSA: Why We Should Delete s 267 andÂ Corporations ActÂ s 588FL
Online event
The Government’s response to the Statutory Review of the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (â€˜PPSA’) has been released, including an Exposure Draft containing its proposed amendments. We are currently within an eight-week consultation period closing on 17 November 2023, which makes this an opportune time to discuss reforms to improve the operation of the PPSA.
This seminar concerns s 267 of the PPSA and s 588FL of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), which are termed the â€˜vesting provisions’. The former provides that an unperfected security interest â€˜vests in the grantor’ upon the occurrence of specified events indicating the grantor’s insolvency. The latter provides that, where a security interest is perfected only by registration and the grantor is a company, that security interest â€˜vests in the company’ upon the occurrence of specified events indicating the company’s insolvency if the registration time is outside one of several time periods. Much of the debate concerning these provisions thus-far has focused on s 588FL due to its more stringent timing requirements, and there seemed to be consensus that this provision is unnecessary and should be deleted. Surprisingly however, the Government proposed retaining it in its recent response to the Statutory Review of the PPSA.
In this seminar I will take a step back from the debate specifically concerning s 588FL, and consider the broader question of what the vesting provisions seek to achieve in the first place. First, I will identify their commercial significance by considering when they lead to different outcomes than those which would occur anyway under other provisions of the PPSA. Secondly, I will identify the purported policy objectives underlying the vesting provisions, and argue that none of these sufficiently explain their operation. Thirdly, I will identify the costs of retaining these provisions, and argue that these cannot be satisfactorily addressed through more discrete amendments to their scope. This leads me to conclude that, while it may at first appear to be a radical solution, we should delete both s 267 and s 588FL.
About the speakers
Adam Waldman
Adam WaldmanÂ is the Colin Phegan Associate Lecturer at the University of Sydney Law School. His field of research is commercial law, with a particular focus on theÂ Personal Property Securities Act 2009Â (Cth) (â€˜PPSA’) and, more generally, on the relationship between statute and the general law. Adam is also a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney Law School, and his ongoing doctoral research examines the interaction between equity and the PPSA through the lens of the notion of unconscionability.
Adam teaches in Equity, Introduction to Property and Commercial Law, Torts and Contracts II, and Legal Reasoning. He is also a lecturer for the Legal Profession Admission Board’s Diploma in Law, where he lectures on personal property in Commercial Transactions.
Adam has previously worked at a boutique law firm, as a research assistant to counsel in chambers and as a research assistant to a former Supreme Court judge. He has also worked as a researcher at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, in the areas of insolvency, corporations law, and banking and financial law.
Commentator: Tony Ryan (Consultant, Ashurst)
Tony Ryan is a consultant in the restructuring, insolvency and special situations practice of Ashurst’s Sydney Office. Tony advises on all aspects of corporate insolvency and restructuring law, including voluntary administration, deeds of company arrangement, schemes of arrangement, receivership and liquidations and has been involved in a number of significant cross-border matters including acting as lead partner on the liquidation of MF Global, a major global financial services and derivatives broker group and one of the largest and most complicated bankruptcies in corporate history, and the liquidation of HIH Insurance Limited, a major insurance company with assets worldwide and the largest corporate insolvency in Australia. Tony is the NSW co-chair of the Insolvency and Restructuring Committee of the Business Law Section of the Law Council. Tony also lectures in insolvency and corporate finance law for Sydney Law School.
Chair: Dr Jason Harris (Professor of Corporate Law and Director of the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School)

Tuesday 3 October, 6-7pm AEST
CPD points:Â 1
This event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney.

JSI Seminar | Demystifying CLS: A reflection on writing an intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement
2023-10-05 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar | Demystifying CLS: A reflection on writing an intellectual history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement
In-person event
In his forthcoming bookÂ The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies,Â Stewart uses the tools of CLS to analyse CLS, assessing its dominant narrative against its history and legacy. Literary and philosophical lenses are used to highlight the power of CLS, which in turn presents its deficits. In this seminar Stewart presents this rise and fall through key discoveries in his research, as well as anecdotes from the Crits, and why CLS was not as radical as it should have been.
About the speaker:
Dr James Gilchrist Stewart
James is a lecturer in law and LLB Program Manager at RMIT’s graduate school of business and law. James has published on legal theory, neoliberalism’s effect on law, and is a media voice on Australian consumer law. James’ first book â€œThe Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studiesâ€ is scheduled for publication with Edinburgh University Press in 2024.
Thursday 5 October 2023, 6-7.30pmÂ AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

Let's Talk About Corporations | "Bid-rigging", cartel regulation, and public procurement: a comparative perspective from Switzerland
2023-10-12 12:00 - 13:00
Let’s Talk About Corporations | â€œBid-riggingâ€, cartel regulation, and public procurement: a comparative perspective from Switzerland
Online event
This seminar provides aÂ comparative perspective on cartel regulation, focused on theÂ Swiss framework.Â The presentation providesÂ a brief overview of the effects that cartels can have on competition,Â followed by a careful examination of theÂ different legislative measures the Swiss legal system has taken to tackle cartels, enriched with current examplesÂ from practice. The focus lies on cartels that areÂ formedÂ in the context of public procurement proceduresÂ -Â so-called â€œbid-riggingâ€.
About the speakers
Leandra Diem
Leandra Diem holds a master’s degree in law, which she obtained from the Universities of Lucerne (Switzerland) and Paris Nanterre (France). After an internship at the Swiss Competition Commission and the commercial court of Bern (Switzerland), she is now a Research Assistant and PhD Candidate of the University of Lucerne (Switzerland). Her research focuses on Public Economic Law, especially on Antitrust and Public Procurement Law. Her doctoral research focuses on bid-rigging from a public procurement law perspective. She is currently a visiting research scholar at the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland, where she is examining comparative aspects of law.
Discussant: Dr Barbora Jedlickova
Dr BarboraÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â is a Senior Lecturer and Fellows of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law and the Australian Centre for Private Law in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland in Australia. She is a member of theÂ Law Council of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Committee. DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â holds degrees from the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom (PhD in Law, 2012; and LL.M. with Commendation in InternationalÂ Competition Law and Policy, 2007) and from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic (Master Degree in Law and Legal Studies, 2004).
DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â specialises in competition lawÂ with principal research interests in competition-law theories, competition law in the digital economy and comparative competition law. Her research has focused on various topics, including cartels, anticompetitive agreements and AI, exclusionary conduct, vertical restraints, bargaining power, and economic and jurisprudential theories and arguments in competition law. Her research also includes the analysis of specific markets with distinctive issues, such the grocery retail market and the pharmaceutical market. She has published both internationally and nationally.Â DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â has been a visiting scholar at the University of Iowa, Boston University and the Court of Justice of the European Union. She has been an Australian reporter for the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) for five international LIDC projects. She has served asÂ an Editor of the Oceania Column of Competition Policy International (2019-2023) andÂ as a General Editor of theÂ LAWASIA JournalÂ (2014).
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
Find out more about the series.
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Thursday 12 October, 2023
Time: 1-2pm AEDT
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

Copyright and Generative AI: Best practices for LLM training and recent developments in U.S. litigation
2023-10-12 13:00 - 14:00 | New Law Building (F10)
Copyright and Generative AI: Best practices for LLM training and recent developments in U.S. litigation
Abstract
Generative AI based on large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, DALLÂ·E-2, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, JukeBox, and MusicLM can produce text, images, and music that are indistinguishable from human-authored works. The training data for these large language models consists predominantly of copyrighted works. This presentation and the accompanying article explore how generative AI fits within U.S. fair use rulings established in relation to previous generations of copy-reliant technology, including software reverse engineering, automated plagiarism detection systems, and the text data mining at the heart of the landmark HathiTrust and Google Books cases.
Although there is no machine learning exception to the principle of non-expressive use, the largeness of likelihood models suggest that they are capable of memorizing and reconstituting works in the training data, something that is incompatible with non-expressive use. At the moment, memorization is an edge case. For the most part, the link between the training data and the output of generative AI is attenuated by a process of decomposition, abstraction, and remix. Generally, pseudo-expression generated by large language models does not infringe copyright because these models â€œlearnâ€ latent features and associations within the training data, they do not memorize snippets of original expression from individual works.
However, there are particular situations in the context of text-to-image models where memorization of the training data is more likely. The computer science literature suggests that memorization is more likely when: models are trained on many duplicates of the same work; images are associated with unique text descriptions; and the ratio of the size of the model to the training data is relatively large. Professor Sag will talk through examples where these problems are accentuated and outline his proposals for initial best practices for â€œCopyright Safety for Generative AIâ€ to reduce the risk of copyright and related infringement.
About the Speaker

Matthew Sag is a Professor of Law in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science at Emory University Law School. Professor Sag is an expert in copyright law and intellectual property. He is a leading U.S. authority on the fair use doctrine in copyright law and its implications for researchers in the fields of text data mining, machine learning, and AI.
He was born and educated in Australia and earned honors in Law at the Australian National University in Canberra and clerked for Justice Paul Finn at the Australian Federal Court. Sag practiced law London as an associate at Arnold & Porter, and in Silicon Valley with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Prior to Emory, he taught at DePaul University and Loyola Chicago; he has also held visiting posts at Northwestern University, the University of Virginia and the University of Melbourne.
Sag is currently working on several theoretical contributions to copyright law in relation to AI and machine learning and a series of empirical papers using text-mining and machine learning tools to study judicial behavior. His work has been published in leading journals such as Nature, and the law reviews of the University of California Berkeley, Georgetown, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Iowa and William & Mary, among others. His research has been widely cited in academic works, court submissions, judicial opinions and government reports.
About the Moderator

Daniela Simone is an intellectual property law scholar with a special interest in copyright law and the challenges of the digital age. Daniela holds DPhil, MPhil and BCL degrees from the University of Oxford and a BA (English and French)/LLB (Hons I) degree from the University of Sydney. Daniela is a qualified lawyer and has worked at global commercial law firm, Ashurst.
Prior to joining Macquarie Law School, Daniela was Lecturer in Law and Co-Director of the Institute of Brand and Innovation Law at University College London. Daniela was founder of the University of Oxford’s Intellectual Property Discussion Group (and its convenor until 2013). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy with extensive experience in course design and innovative, research-led teaching.
Daniela’s research explores the intersection of law, technology, and culture. She is interested in collaborative authorship, artificial intelligence, the disruption new technology has brought to copyright law, regulation of the internet, the interaction between law and social norms, the international IP system, philosophy of IP, and the regulation of cultural property. Her work embraces comparative and inter-disciplinary methods and she is keen to engage directly with stakeholders.

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Time: 1.00- 2.00pm (arrivals are welcomed from 12.30pm to mingle and settle in with lunch)
Date: Thursday, 12 October 2023
Venue: In-person: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10), University of Sydney, Camperdown, Gadigal Land, NSW 2006 (please follow directional signage on arrival)
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This event is proudly co-hosted by the University of Sydney Law School and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Our moderator joins us from Macquarie Law School.Â
Register now
Enquiries may be directed to: law.events@sydney.edu.au

JSI Seminar | Bathroom Bills and Liberal Rights
2023-10-12 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Bathroom Bills and Liberal Rights
In-person event
On June 30th 2023 Florida’s House Bill 1521 came into effect. The bill requires that all trans people must use Florida public restrooms that align with the sex they were assigned at birth. This includes restrooms in all Florida airports, government buildings, schools and universities, city parks and beaches, and many Florida stadiums, rest stops, service stations, and conferences. The implications of this bill are that all trans women, for instance, must use the men’s bathroom in these places even if they have had sex reassignment surgery, have lived as a woman for decades, or since they were a child, are perceived to be a woman by everyone they meet, and/or have changed their birth certificate, their driving license, and their passports so that they acknowledge that they are female or a woman.
Earlier in 2023, Kansas adopted a similar bathroom bill, North Carolina adopted a similar bill in 2016-2017, the UK government is considering adopting a similar law, and at least 21 other US states have proposed similar bathroom bills. There has been a lot of discussion and criticism of these bathroom bills but no sustained case for their injustice (or their justice) has been made. This paper argues that bathroom bills like Florida’s breach trans people’s rights in three ways. I argue that we have the following three rights: (1) rights to not be made to subject ourselves to significant risks of harm in order to participate in the (face-to-face) public or social world; (2) rights to not be unjustly discriminated against; (3) rights to have our interests considered equally in lawmaking and policymaking.
I argue that a variety of more specific liberal and egalitarian rights and claims, made by a variety of liberals and egalitarians, imply (1-3) and (1-3) are very intuitive. And I argue that bathroom bills like Florida’s breach trans people’s rights to (1-3). I argue that bathroom bills force trans people to risk significant harm in order to participate in the public or social world, and refraining from adopting bathroom bills does not force anyone to incur any similar significant risk of harm to participate in the public or social world. I argue that the different philosophical theories of unjust discrimination that we have imply that bathroom bills are instances of unjust discrimination. And I argue that the adoption of bathroom bills does not involve equal consideration of trans people’s interests.
About the speaker:
Associate Professor Rach Cosker-Rowland
Rach Cosker-Rowland is an Associate Professor in Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Leeds. She is the author ofÂ The Normative and the EvaluativeÂ (OUP, 2019) andÂ Moral DisagreementÂ (Routledge, 2020) as well as the co-editor ofÂ FittingnessÂ (OUP, 2022). She has recently published papers on the nature of gender, the relationship between gender identity and gender, and gender-identity-based rights in journals including Nous, Analysis, and the Journal of Medical Ethics. Before taking up her position at Leeds she held positions at the Australian Catholic University, La Trobe University, the University of Oxford, and the University of Warwick.
Thursday 12 October 2023, 6-7.30pm AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

The Modern Slavery Act Review: Can the law drive meaningful change?
2023-10-13 13:00 - 14:30 | Law Foyer, Level 2
The Modern Slavery Act Review: Can the law drive meaningful change?
In-person event
In May this year, the Government tabled a report on the findings of the statutory review of Australia’sÂ Modern Slavery Act 2018. The Review, led by Professor John McMillan AO, made 30 recommendations to strengthen the Act. If the recommendations are adopted, it will mark the first mandatory human rights due diligence law in Australia, reflecting the rapidly changing legislative landscape internationally.
What does a strengthened Modern Slavery Act mean for reporting entities, including the higher education sector? Can legislative reform drive meaningful change for people vulnerable to modern slavery in Australia, such as international students and migrant workers?
The event will explore the unique role of academic research and universities in partnering with government, civil society and business to drive meaningful action on addressing modern slavery.

Opening remarks by the Australian Ambassador to Counter Modern Slavery, People Smuggling and Human Trafficking, Ms Lynn Bell.
Ambassador Bell is a career officer with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and was most recently Assistant Secretary, Crisis Preparedness and Management Branch. She has previously served as a Senior Adviser at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and overseas in Papua New Guinea. Ms Bell holds a Master of Public Administration from University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Arts from University of Technology Sydney.
Keynote address byÂ Professor John McMillan, AO, author of the Modern Slavery Act Review.
Professor McMillan is an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University, where he taught administrative and constitutional law from 1983-2003. He is a co-author ofÂ Control of Government Action: Text, Cases and CommentaryÂ (2022, 6th ed). John has held the statutory positions of Commonwealth Ombudsman (2003-10), Integrity Commissioner (Acting) for the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (2007), Australian Information Commissioner (2010-15), NSW Ombudsman (Acting) (2015-17), and member of the Australian Copyright Tribunal (2015-17).
Panel Discussion
Through diverse perspectives and expert insights, the panel will provide practical takeaways on the implications of the Modern Slavery Act Review in the context of wider legislative and policy changes in Australia and abroad.
About the speakers
Professor Jennifer Burn AM
Professor Burn is a lawyer and Director of Anti-Slavery Australia at UTS, a specialist legal practice, research and policy centre committed to the abolition of modern slavery in Australia. Jennifer received an Order of Australia this year for her significant service to anti-slavery and migration law. She has also been awarded the 2016 UTS Deputy Vice Chancellor’s Medal for Research Impact and the 2020 Law Council of Australia Outstanding Migration Lawyer of the Year. Jennifer serves on the Australian Government National Roundtable on Human Trafficking and was the Interim NSW Anti-Slavery Commissioner from 2018 to 2020. Jennifer sits on the Mercy Foundation Board and is a member of the Advisory Group for the Centre for Research on Modern Slavery (CReMS) at the University of Auckland.
Associate Professor Anna Boucher
Anna Boucher (PhD, LSE) is an Associate Professor in Political Science and Chair of the Discipline of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney as well as a practising solicitor. Her work covers comparative immigration data, immigration policy, diversity and immigration and labour exploitation. Her most recent book,Â Patterns of Exploitation: Migrant Worker Rights Violations in Advanced DemocraciesÂ (Oxford University Press: New York, 2023) explores migrant worker rights violations in four countries and six labour law jurisdictions over a twenty-year period. She is an advisor to the Australian, Canadian and British governments, alongside international agencies such as the ILO, OECD and World Bank on immigration and labour market issues.
Esty Marcu
Esty is the Director of the University of Sydney’s Modern Slavery Unit, where she leads the University’s strategic response to modern slavery and enables academic excellence on business and human rights. She also lectures at the Sydney Business School on shared value and inclusive business models. Esty is on the Advisory Panel for the NSW Anti-slavery Commissioner and the Board of Trustees for Electronics Watch, supporting public buyers to address human rights risks in the electronics industry. She has previously worked in both the Commonwealth and NSW state government advising on complex public policy issues, including temporary migration, refugee settlement, international development and health policy. She was the Co-founder and Director of Project Girl Code, a non-profit providing digital literacy and coding skills to trafficking survivors in Cambodia.
Moderator: Professor Simon Bronitt
Professor Simon Bronitt is the Head of School and Dean of Sydney Law School commencing July 2019. In 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, Professor Bronitt has published widely on criminal justice topics ranging across terrorism law and human rights, comparative criminal law, covert policing, family violence, and mental health policing. Recent publications includeÂ Rape Law in ContextÂ (The Federation Press, 2018),Â Principles of Criminal LawÂ (4th ed, Thomson Reuters 2017) andÂ Law in ContextÂ (4th ed, The Federation Press, 2012).

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Friday 13 October
Time:Â 1-2.30pm
Venue: Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10)
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School and the Modern Slavery Unit at the University of Sydney.

JSI Seminar | Contract law and reasons for action: A crash course in private law theory
2023-10-19 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar | Contract law and reasons for action: A crash course in private law theory
In-person event
If contract law is to be authoritative, it must mediate between the subjects of contract law and reasons for action they have. Either implicitly or explicitly, this insight informs various approaches to the theorisation of this law. Some have tried to understand contract law as mediating ordinary moral reasons relating to promising. Others have argued that this law embodies duties of private right, the sort of reasons that apply to us as independent individuals cooperating as equals. And there are others still who identify different sets of reasons for action special to the contractual relationship.
In my talk, I will identify the common flaw shared by these different theories. I will explain why focusing our attention on contract law as an exercise ofÂ politicalÂ authorityâ€”rather than authoritative in the abstractâ€”paves the way not only to a better understanding of the normative basis for contract but also the broad stakes involved in the making of contract law.
About the speaker:
Dr Arie Rosen
Arie Rosen is a legal theorist based at the University of Auckland Faculty of Law and a founding co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Legal and Political Theory. His work in legal and political philosophy focuses on political authority, the grounds for its exercise, the ideology that sustains it, and the impact it has on law and practical reasoning. His work appears in various edited volumes and leading journals, includingÂ Legal Theory, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the University of Toronto Law Journal, and theÂ Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. His current project focuses on how political authority is exercised in the context of private law and what this can teach us about constitutional structures and the core commitments of liberal political morality.
Thursday 19 October 2023, 6-7.30pm AEST
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

Webinar | Children's Rights and Participation in Youth Justice Systems: An International Perspective
2023-10-25 19:00 - 20:30
Children’s Rights and Participation in Youth Justice Systems: An International Perspective
Join the Youth Justice Research Collaboration at the University of Sydney and the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University at this free webinar. It will provide an opportunity for academics and professionals to detail and discuss the upholding of children’s rights and participation in the English and Australian Youth Justice Systems. There will be plenty of opportunities for interactive discussions about the enablers and barriers to meaningful participation in youth justice systems. Youth justice systems have been the focus of considerable scrutiny and review in many jurisdictions in recent years and many of these systems are grappling with how to better involve young people in shaping these systems. Practitioners and academics from England and New South Wales will talk about their work and research. The Forum will bring together key stakeholders working to prevent youth crime and to administer the various aspects of youth justice. Presenters will discuss latest trends, research and policies in these areas and will showcase some of the relevant work across the University of Sydney.
About the Speakers

Professor Hannah Smithson– ProfessorÂ of Criminology and Youth Justice, Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
Dr Hannah Smithson has worked within the field of criminology for over 20 years and she specialises in the area of youth justice. Hannah is the Director of the world-leading Manchester Centre for Youth Studies. Hannah is co-convenor of the award-winning Greater Manchester Youth Justice Partnership – a partnership between Man Met and each of the 10 Greater Manchester youth justice services. The partnership has led to the creation of a transformative new framework: Participatory Youth Practice (PYP). PYP is the first framework to be co-created with justice-involved children based on their lived experiences. PYP has had an impact on youth justice practice, on national and international youth justice strategies, and, most importantly, on justice-involved children themselves. Hannah works collaboratively with a variety of local, national and international communities and stakeholders, including professionals, activists and third sector organisations. Her research has been instrumental in shaping agendas in research and policy across the interconnected areas of youth justice, serious youth violence and child criminal exploitation. She has written extensively on the problematic reductionism of SYV to involvement in gangs. Her most recent publications explore the benefits and challenges of participatory practice with justice-involved children. Her output can be found here.

Associate Professor Garner Clancey– The University of Sydney Law School, Australia
Dr Garner Clancey is an Associate Professor in Criminology. Before joining the University of Sydney Law School in 2011, Garner worked in criminal justice agencies (including Juvenile Justice NSW and the NSW Police Force) between 1992-2002 and worked as a crime prevention consultant between 2002-2010. Garner also taught crime prevention, policing, juvenile justice, security and criminology courses at five other Australian universities between 2000 and 2011. Garner’s work focuses on the intersection between research, policy and practice. Currently, Garner is working to develop a whole-of-university approach to youth justice and youth crime issues. Garner is working closely with industry partners and colleagues from across the University of Sydney to tackle various practical and systemic challenges impacting the youth justice system. This work has resulted in the establishment of the University of Sydney’sÂ Youth Justice Collaboration.
Garner is a member of various research centres including the Sydney Institute of Criminology, theÂ Matilda Centre, theÂ Technology Addiction Team (Brain and Mind Centre), and an affiliate of the Wellbeing Health and Youth Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health.
His most recent article considers long term positive trends in youth justice detention. He co-authored Crime Prevention: Principles, Perspectives, PracticesÂ which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Dr Lisa Ewenson– Research Associate, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW, Australia
Dr Lisa Ewenson is a social worker and lawyer who has worked for over 15 years in both the youth justice detention and immigration detention centre contexts. Lisa completed her doctoral thesis in 2022, which explores the lived experiences of youth justice detention in New South Wales, Australia, and is now a research associate at UNSW.Â Her thesis, Children Must be Heard When They Cannot be Seen, analysed youth justice detention in contemporary Australia considering external oversight mechanisms, children’s rights and the capabilities approach. Relevantly, her work published in the Australian Journal of Human Rights, outlines the legal background to monitoring requirements in youth justice detention and makes practical recommendations for monitoring bodies to be effective in protecting rights and preventing harm to people in detention. It can be accessed here.

Ms Annika Ross– Youth Justice NSW, Australia
Ms Annika Ross has spent her career supporting and engaging with young people at risk. Her university studies focused on grass roots programs for young people through community arts and recreation. This was strengthened through master’s studies in Social Science. Annika has spent the last 17 years working with young people who offend, both in NSW and the UK. Annika has worked for Youth Justice NSW since 2006, in various operational roles and has been most recently managing the Strategic Projects Unit. This role handles a diverse portfolio of policy and project work for the agency including leading the Child Safe Framework, the Disability Action Plan, The Domestic and Family Violence Strategy and diversity, inclusion and wellbeing work for staff and young people.
Mr Thomas Lang– Head of Services, Manchester Youth Justice, Children’s and Education Directorate, United Kingdom

About the Discussant

Ms Anne Longfield CBE
Ms Anne Longfield CBE is Chair of the Commission on Young Lives.
From March 2015 to February 2021, Anne was the Children’s Commissioner for England.
Anne has spent the last three decades working to improve the life chances of children, particularly the most vulnerable. She previously led a national children’s charity and has also worked on the delivery of the Sure Start programme in the Cabinet Office. Anne is a passionate champion for children, influencing and shaping the national debate and policy agenda for children and their families. She spent many years campaigning for better childcare, often at a time when many saw the issue as obscure or niche. As Children’s Commissioner, Anne spent six years championing the rights and interests of children with those in power who make decisions about children’s lives, acting as children’s â€˜eyes and ears’ in the corridors of power in Whitehall and Westminster. Anne is also Special Advisor to the Lords Public Services Committee on their inquiry into public services and vulnerable children and is the Independent Chair of the NHS Children and Young People Learning Disability and Autism Board.
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Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Cost: Free
Time:Â 7- 8.30pm AEST
Location:Â Online (please note, an in-person offering is not available)
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Capacity is extremely limited. If your availability changes, we ask that you promptly update your registration accordingly so we can allocate your space to another participant.

Contact
General enquiries may be directed to: law.events@sydney.edu.au
Research related enquiries may be directed to:Â garner.clancey@sydney.edu.au or h.l.smithson@mmu.ac.uk

Gratuitous Concurrence and the Role of the Prosecutor
2023-10-26 00:00
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Gratuitous Concurrence and the Role of the Prosecutor – Presenting a Fair and Firm Crown Case in the Face of Sociolinguistic Challenges

Ethics & Professional Responsibility
CPD Points: 1.5
About
A unique challenge faced in the adversarial system is that the prosecution only â€˜wins’ when justice is done. An agreeable witness may, prima facie, seem like a blessing for those bringing the prosecution case. However, the presentation of a fair and firm prosecution in the criminal justice system must be reconciled with three distinct considerations:

The over-representation of Indigenous Australians interacting with the criminal justice system;
The phenomena of gratuitous concurrence – that is, the Indigenous Australian cultural practice of agreeing to direct questions to placate or appease the questioner; and
A prosecutor’s obligation to act fairly to the accused, act with integrity, and be mindful of cultural sensitivities – especially those relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

How, then, are a prosecutor’s obligations discharged in the face of appeasement? The presentation aims to give an overview of the role of the prosecutor, as a minister of justice, and the distinct ethical framework the Crown operates in. From that overview, authorities which have developed and considered the phenomena of gratuitous concurrence are discussed. These decisions, and â€˜practical’ applications, are contrasted with research and analyses of the phenomena within academia. The synthesis of academia and common law development are considered in extant justice stakeholder and law reform bodies, and what recommendations have been made, and are on foot.
Presenters
Shannon Matchett is a solicitor employed by the NSW ODPP, who currently practises in Wagga Wagga. Previously, he prosecuted in Parramatta and the Sydney West Trial Courts. Shannon graduated from the University of New England in 2018 whilst employed as a researcher in criminology, focusing on Family Law and judicial interpretations of the â€˜best interests of the child’. Shannon’s major research interest concerns how psychology and the law intersect. He has previously presented CPDs on extra-curial punishment, tribal punishments (and their status/recognition within statutory framework) – and is working towards a later presentation on assessing demeanour/body language, and the perils of armchair psychology in the jury room.

A recording of this webinar will be released on Thursday, 26 October 2023.
Find out more about the series.

2023 ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address: Human rights, climate justice and the UN Acceleration Agenda
2023-10-31 18:00 - 19:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
2023 ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address: Human rights, climate justice and the UN Acceleration Agenda
In-person event
The United Nations Secretary-General’s Acceleration Agenda spells out the actions needed from government, business and finance leadersÂ to accelerate their efforts to deeply cut emissions and deliver climate justice to protect lives and livelihoods. In the context of climate justice and drawing from the 2019 report of the Task Force on Justice, the Address will focus on two key thematic issues: climate change displacement and climate change litigation. Based on Dr Fry’s recent reports to the Human Rights Council (June 2023) and the UN General Assembly (October 2023), it will begin by discussing climate change displacement and the absence of appropriate legal measures for people displaced across international borders due to climate change. The Address will then focus on climate change litigation and barriers to accessing justice for people defending their right to live in a world free from climate change impacts.
Speaker: Dr Ian FryÂ (Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change)

This event forms part of a full-day conference on climate action.Â For further information, click here.

RegistrationÂ

2023 ACCEL Distinguished Speaker Address: $40
Student rate: $20

Tuesday 31 October 2023
Time:Â 5-7pm (Cocktail reception from 5-5.30pm)
Venue:Â Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)

This event is hosted by the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law (ACCEL) at Sydney Law School.

Just Cause launch: Celebrating social justice at Sydney Law School
2023-11-01 17:30 - 19:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Just Cause launch: Celebrating social justice at Sydney Law School
In-person event
Join us to celebrate the launch of â€˜Just Cause,’ a podcast created by staff and students affiliated with the Sydney Law School Social Justice Advisory Group. Learn more about this exciting new project, and get a glimpse into the variety of informative episodes that feature in season one. If you are student seeking to becoming involved in social justice initiatives at USyd, an academic seeking to platform your social justice research, or just someone who enjoys podcasts, then come join us!
Speakers:

Professor Simon Rice
Dr Rachel Killean
Ms Juliette Marchant

Wednesday 1 November 2023, 5.30-7pmÂ AEST
Refreshments to follow panel.
Venue:Â New Law Building (F10), Level 4, Common Room, Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus

This event is proudly presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney.

JSI Seminar | The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes
2023-11-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: The law and ethics of a property rights approach to frozen embryo disputes
In-person event
Disputes over frozen embryos represent a particularly problematic case, legally and ethically, due to the ambiguity of their moral and legal status and the potential rights-claims which can be made with regard to them. Recent work has contextualised frozen embryos as liminal and suggested a contextual approach to their legal classification.
By appeal to personal property law, with a lens provided by Roman law doctrines, and reproductive bioethics, we argue that frozen embryos may be subjects of property rights, providing a more stable framework for dispute resolution. To illustrate how a property approach would work, we reconsider the facts of the influential Evans case and argue that if a proprietary rather than promissory estoppel claim had been pursued, the reverse outcome may have been reached, to the benefit of women who are disproportionately harmed in these scenarios.
About the speaker:
Teresa Baron
Teresa is a Nottingham Research Fellow working on reproductive ethics and philosophy of parenthood. She was previously a postdoc at the Czech Academy of Sciences, and a visiting research fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
Thursday 2 November 2023, 6-7.30pm AEDT
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

Business, human rights and development: A case for course correction
2023-11-03 13:30 - 14:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Business, human rights and development: A case for course correction
In-person event
Businesses are expected to respect all human rights. However, there is little evidence that human rights abuses-linked to businesses are on the decline despite the evolution of plethora of standards. Businesses are also expected to contribute to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, as highlighted by the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023, the world is seriously offtrack to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and businesses have again not done enough to overcome global challenges such as poverty, inequalities, child labour, hunger or climate change.
What should businesses do differently in future? Building on his first thematic report (A/78/160) to the UN General Assembly as the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to development, Professor Deva will argue that a fundamental shift is required in the current role and place of business in society. There is a need to reorient the purpose of business, change irresponsible business models and go beyond the â€˜do no harm’ approach. By doing so, businesses will be able to make a meaningful contribution not only to achieving inclusive and sustainable development but also to building a human rights economy.

About the speaker
Surya Devais a Professor at the Macquarie Law School and Director of the Centre for Environmental Law at Macquarie University. He is also the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Development and a Co-Director of the Teaching Business and Human Rights Forum. Deva is an internationally recognised scholar in the field of business and human rights. He served as a member of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (2016-22). Deva has advised UN agencies, governments, national human rights institutions, multinational corporations, trade unions and civil society organisations on issues related to his expertise. He researches in the areas of business and human rights, comparative constitutional law, international human rights law, sustainable development, climate change, and gender equality. Deva is one of the founding Editors-in-Chief of the Business and Human Rights Journal, and is an elected Vice President of the International Association of Constitutional Law (2022-26).

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Friday 3 November
Time: 1.30-2.30pm
Venue: Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10)
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This event is proudly co-presented by the ANZIL International Human Rights Law Interest Group (IHRLIG) & The University of Sydney Law School.

Book launch: Contempt
2023-11-07 17:30 - 19:00 | Supreme Court of NSW
Book launch: Contempt
In-person event
The University of Sydney Law School and The Federation Press are delighted to invite you to the launch ofÂ ContemptÂ by David Rolph.Â The book considers all forms of contempt, including civil contempt, sub judice contempt, contempt in the face of the court, scandalising the court and interference with the administration of justice as an ongoing process. It examines the difficult issue of the distinction between civil and criminal contempt. It considers not only contempt of superior courts of record but also examines the contempt powers of a range of inferior courts and tribunals. The book also analyses the procedure and penalties for contempt of court.
The book will be launched byÂ The Honourable Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW. The launch will be followed by a cocktail reception.
AboutÂ Contempt
Contempt of court is a vitally important part of the administration of justice. Being a summary jurisdiction, the law of contempt often needs to be applied swiftly and is not regularly the subject of appeal. There are many complexities and idiosyncrasies about the law of contempt, which have developed over centuries. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the Australian law of contempt of court. It provides a rigorous but accessible exposition of the fundamental principles of this somewhat arcane area of law.
The book considers all forms of contempt, including civil contempt, sub judice contempt, contempt in the face of the court, scandalising the court and interference with the administration of justice as an ongoing process. It examines the difficult issue of the distinction between civil and criminal contempt. It considers not only contempt of superior courts of record but also examines the contempt powers of a range of inferior courts and tribunals. The book also analyses the procedure and penalties for contempt of court.
The book will be available for purchase on the evening.
Find out more about the book and order it online here.
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Tuesday 7 November 2023
Time: 5.30-7pm (including a cocktail reception)
Venue: Banco Court, Supreme Court of New South Wales ,184 Phillip Street, Sydney
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About the author
David Rolph is a Professor at the University of Sydney Law School, specialising in media law. He is the author of two books, as well as many book chapters and journal articles, on all aspects of media law. From 2007 to 2013, Professor Rolph was the editor of theÂ Sydney Law Review, one of Australiaâ€™s leading law journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of theÂ Media and Arts Law Review, theÂ Communications Law Bulletin, Communications LawÂ and theÂ International Journal of the Semiotics of Law. Professor Rolph is also a regular columnist for theÂ Gazette of Law and JournalismÂ and a frequent media commentary on a range of media law issues.
This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School.

**CANCELLED** Let's Talk About Corporations | Monetary sanctions against corporations: options for reform
2023-11-08 13:00 - 14:00
**This event has been cancelled.**
Let’s Talk About Corporations | Monetary sanctions against corporations: options for reform
Hybrid event
Monetary sanctions are the main method of punishing corporations for breaching the law. They are a mainstay of enforcement in many areas, including competition and consumer law, securities and investment law, environment law, bribery and corruption, privacy, and money-laundering. In this presentation, Professor Brent Fisse and Dr Radha Ivory examine the utility of these sanctions, with particular focus on the ALRC recommendations in the Final Report on corporate criminal liability (2020) and the escalation of maximum penalties under the Treasury Laws Amendment (More Competition, Better Prices) Act 2022 (Cth).
About the speakers
Professor Brent FisseÂ
Brent Fisse is the principal of Brent Fisse Lawyers, Sydney. He was a partner of Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney from 1995-2003. He is a consultant to the Asian Development Bank on competition law and policy in Pacific Island economies including Fiji and PNG. Brent is an honorary professor of law at the University of Sydney.
He is the co-author (with Caron Beaton-Wells) ofÂ Australian Cartel RegulationÂ (2011) and the author of various books and papers on competition law and corporate regulation.
Dr Radha IvoryÂ
Dr Radha Ivory is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Queensland, Australia (UQ), where she teaches company law and researches the transnational regulation of corruption and corporate crime. Radha’s work has been published by leading university presses and with leading law journals. Her current projects include studies of efforts to reform economic crime laws, including the international rules on corporate settlements in foreign bribery cases.
Chair: Dr BarboraÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡
Dr BarboraÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â is a Senior Lecturer and Fellow of the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law and the Australian Centre for Private Law in the TC Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland in Australia. DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â specialises in competition lawÂ with principal research interests in competition-law theories, competition law in the digital economy and comparative competition law. She has published both internationally and nationally, and hasÂ been a visiting scholar at the University of Iowa, Boston University and the Court of Justice of the European Union. She has also been an Australian reporter for the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) for five international LIDC projects and has served asÂ an Editor of the Oceania Column of Competition Policy International (2019-2023) andÂ as a General Editor of theÂ LAWASIA JournalÂ (2014).Â DrÂ JedliÄkovÃ¡Â is a member of theÂ Law Council of Australia’s Competition and Consumer Committee.
â€˜Let’s Talk About Corporations’ Seminar Series – a joint project of the UQ Law School and Sydney Law School.
Find out more about the series.
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Wednesday 8 November, 2023
Time: 1-2pm AEDT (12-1pm AEST)
In-person venue: Law School Board Room (W353), Level 3, Forgan Smith Building, The University of Queensland, St Lucia
Online:Â Zoom
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and the School of Law at the University of Queensland.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Comparing Australia's insolvent trading regime with New Zealand's reckless trading regime
2023-11-08 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Comparing Australia’s insolvent trading regime with New Zealand’s reckless trading regime
Online event
This webinar will discuss the current state of insolvent trading law reform in Australia and contrast this with the reckless trading in New Zealand by discussing the recent NZSC decision in Yan v Mainzeal Property and Construction Ltd (in liq) [2023] NZSC 113.
Speakers

Dr Jason HarrisÂ (Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School)
Mark WellardÂ (Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University)
Natasha McHattanÂ (Lawyer & Consultant in Insolvency, Restructuring & Commercial Disputes)

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Wednesday 8 November
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Online webinar
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.

Meet the Author | Olivera Simic | Lola's War: Rape without Punishment
2023-11-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Sydney Law School, New Law Building, 3 Law School, Eastern Ave, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
Meet the Author | Olivera Simic | Lola’s War: Rape without Punishment
Dr Olivera Simic, Associate Professor, Griffith Law School, Australia
In-person event
We invite you to this Visiting Staff Research Seminar with Associate Professor Olivera Simic in conjunction withÂ Professor Emily CrawfordÂ at the Sydney Centre for International Law.
About this Seminar
In this seminar, Dr. Simic will speak about her recently published book, Lola’s War: Rape without Punishment. Â The book offers a subtle understanding of the Bosnian war by listening to the voice of Lola, a rural Bosnian woman who in the first two months of war had become a widow, displaced, unemployed, homeless, disabled and a sole caretaker of her nine-month-old baby, four-year-old daughter and six-year-old son with whom she was forcibly taken from her family home to detention and rape camp. In span of only few weeks, her whole life was torn into pieces and turned into nightmare. In Lola’s War Dr SimiÄ‡ tells extraordinary story of one woman and her three decades long fight for justice. She explores the meanings of transitional justice by using in-depth narrative of a woman, wartime rape survivor who came out the other side of a trial empty handed and with no justice in sight. Her perpetrator is still at large, and she lives in continual fear that he will retaliate against her and her children for her role in his trial.
About the Speaker

Olivera SimiÄ‡ is an Associate Professor with the Griffith Law School, a feminist and a human rights activist. Dr SimiÄ‡ was born in the former Yugoslavia and lived through the Yugoslav Wars (1991-1999). She was nineteen years old, studying the first year of a law degree in Bosnia and Herzegovina when the Bosnian War broke out in 1992. Initially as a refugee and later as a migrant, Dr SimiÄ‡ lived and studied in Eastern and Western Europe, the USA and South America, before coming to Australia in 2006. She has published four monographs and eight co-edited collections, numerous book chapters, journal articles and personal narratives. They draw on hundreds of interviews with victims, perpetrators and bystanders of the wars. The stories of people who struggle with post-war trauma and seek some form of justice for crimes they survived, particularly women, are at the heart of Dr SimiÄ‡’s work. Dr SimiÄ‡ was a nominee for the Penny Pether Prize for Scholarship in Law, Literature and the Humanities, and won the Peace Women Award from Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF, Australian branch).
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Monday, 13 November 2023
Time: 12.45- 2.00pm
Venue:Â University of Sydney, Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Camperdown, Gadigal Land, 2006. Please follow directional signage on arrival.
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This event is presented by theÂ Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.
Enquiries may be directed to: law.events@sydney.edu.au

Self-represented Accused and Appellants in the Criminal Justice System and a Prosecutor's Duty
2023-11-23 00:00
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Self-represented Accused and Appellants in the Criminal Justice System and a Prosecutor’s Duty

Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Professional Skills
CPD Points: 1.5
About
Self-represented accused and appellants often add complexity and time to court proceedings. Prosecutors have a unique role in matters involving such persons, as they must balance their duty to the Court and their responsibilities to the ODPP. On one hand, the prosecutor must act on behalf of the State and related stakeholders (e.g. victims, police) and, on the other, they must assist the Court to ensure that justice is effected quickly. This seminar will consider such issues as: what a self-represented actually is; the arrangements that are made for self-represented litigants in the criminal justice system; relevant prosecution guidelines; practical issues that arise concerning self-represented litigants; balancing prosecutorial duties with the duty to assist the Court; and case law that bears on such issues.
Presenters
Felicity Evans is a Solicitor with the NSW ODPP, based at Parramatta. Felicity has significant experience in District Court appeals involving self-represented litigants and holds a JD from UNSW and an LLM in Global Laws from the University of Sydney.

A recording of this webinar will be released on Thursday, 23 November 2023.
Find out more about the series.

JSI Seminar | Bringing law back in: Theorizing the role of law in shaping the social reproduction bargain
2023-11-23 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar | Bringing law back in: Theorizing the role of law in shaping the social reproduction bargain
In-person event
A rich interdisciplinary feminist project spanning the fields of critical political economy, feminist economics, geography, migration, sociology and social policy has long sought to theorize and make visible the role social of reproduction and reproductive labour in sustaining both life and labour power, and its transformations, â€˜depletions’ and â€˜crises’ in post-Fordist life. With some notable exceptions, however, much of the intensive feminist attention upon social reproduction has taken placeÂ outsideÂ of legal scholarship. This might be attributed to several general factors: a dearth of materialist-informed approaches in feminist legal theory, legal feminists’ liberal orientations towards work, and a greater focus on unpaid care in the family, rather than paid reproductive labours performed in the market. In addition, non-legal disciplines have, for their part, been routinely less concerned with the role of law in their accounts of social reproduction, leaving the role of law in shaping the social reproduction bargain undertheorized.
This seminar paper maps aÂ legalÂ feminist approach to social reproduction theory. In doing so, it articulates the constitutive and distributional role of law in shaping markets in reproductive labours, focusing specifically on paid care and domestic work. Attention to law is important because when we focus on law’s distributional and disciplinary outcomes we can begin to imagine how different legal rules might shape them otherwise.
About the speaker:
Angela Kintominas
Angela Kintominas is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Justice, UNSW Sydney where she teaches labour law. Her research interests lie in feminist and critical approaches to work, gender, migration and social reproduction. She is particularly interested in the intersection between social security/welfare state law, labour law and migration law in producing gender (and other) inequalities. Her research has focused on forms of gendered, informal and reproductive labour including care and domestic work, au pairing and surrogacy, as well as the platformization of care and domestic work in the gig economy, family migration and transnational family life, and the human and labour rights of migrant workers.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 6-7.30pm AEDT
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Navigating the Consumer Data Right: A Business Perspective
2023-11-28 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Navigating the Consumer Data Right: A Business Perspective
Online event
The introduction of the Consumer Data Right (â€˜CDR’) in Australia in 2019 heralds a new era in data governance, with profound implications for businesses across various sectors. This world-leading initiative holds the potential to inject much-needed competition into key sectors of the economy and reinvigorate a waning commercial morality. However, like most transformative innovations, it is not without its challenges. One pressing concern is the need to safeguard consumer data rigorously, without imposing regulatory burdens that might discourage new market entrants. The impact of CDR on businesses is multi-faceted, depending on whether a business assumes the role of â€˜a consumer’, â€˜a data holder’, or â€˜a data recipient’ (accredited or not). This webinar explores the complex landscape of the CDR from a business perspective, shedding light on the challenges and opportunities that arise for entities engaged in this transformative journey.
Speakers

Presenter: Dr Natalia Jevglevskaja, Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
Commentator: Alysia Abeyratne, Senior Manager, Digital Policy, DD&A | National Australia Bank Limited
Chair: Dr Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School

About the presenter
Natalia is a Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law and Justice of the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney, Australia) and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK. As a member of the Australian Research Council Laureate ProjectÂ â€˜The Financial Data Revolution: Seizing the Benefits, Controlling the Risks’, she looks at how data and technology are transforming financial services in Australia and abroad and what measures may be required in the area of data and technology governance to facilitate innovation in finance. Natalia’s research on the Consumer Data Right (â€˜CDR’) can be accessedÂ here. The most recent analysis of the CDR and its potential impact on similar regimes evolving worldwide may soon be found in a monograph with Routledge (Anton Didenko, Natalia Jevglevskaja and Ross Buckley,Â Customer Data Sharing Frameworks: Twelve Lessons for the WorldÂ (2024, forthcoming)).
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Tuesday 28 November
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Online webinar
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.

John Emerson Oration and CLAANZ Annual Lecture: Statutory Eucalypts in the Law of Charity
2023-11-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
John Emerson Oration and CLAANZ Annual Lecture: Statutory Eucalypts in the Law of Charity
Hybrid event
The Law Council of Australia Legal Practice Section’s Charities and Not-for-Profit Committee, the Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (CLAANZ) and the University of Sydney Law School will host the fourth John Emerson Oration and CLAANZ Annual Lecture in Sydney on 29 November 2023. The Oration will be delivered by the Hon Justice Mark Leeming, New South Wales Court of Appeal and Challis Lecturer in Equity Sydney Law School, on â€˜Statutory Eucalypts in the Law of Charity’. The address will focus on the often hidden interaction between statute law and equity as it relates to the law of charity.
About the John Emerson OrationÂ

The John Emerson Oration is in honour of John Emerson AM. John has retired from Herbert Smith Freehills, where he was a partner for almost four decades. John is a Member of the Order of Australia for services to law and to the community, particularly through the provision of advice to charities and not-for-profit organisations and the development of public administration reform to encourage philanthropy in Australia.

About the CLAANZ Annual Lecture

In promoting its objective of charity law education, CLAANZ holds an Annual Public Lecture, which is open to anyone with an interest in charity law and the not-for-profit sector. The Annual Lecture addresses key, contemporary legal issues in the charity and not-for-profit sectors in Australia and New Zealand.

About the speaker
The Hon Justice Mark Leeming
The Hon Justice Mark LeemingÂ has served as a Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales since 2013. He has been Challis Lecturer in Equity at the University of Sydney since 2004, and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Equity and the Australian Bar Review. He is the co-author of two leading practitioner texts and a casebook on equity and trusts, and has published widely in the areas of constitutional law, administrative law, equity, trusts and legal history, including his recent book, Common Law, Equity and Statute: A Complex Entangled SystemÂ (2023).
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Wednesday 29 November, 2023
Time: 5-7pm (drinks and canapes from 5-5.30pm)
Location: University of Sydney, Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Aennex, Eastern Avenue, Camperdown, NSW
Cost:Â Â Â $50Â in person & $25 onlineÂ (free for University of Sydney staff and for students at all institutions)
Student registration:Â If you are a student, please email law.events@sydney.edu.au to receive a discount code.
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This event is proudly co-presented by University of Sydney Law School, The Legal Practice Section’s Charities and Not-for-Profit Committee, and the Charity Law Association of Australia and New Zealand (CLAANZ).

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | AI and Contracting: An EU Perspective
2023-11-29 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | AI and Contracting: An EU Perspective
Online event
This webinar will discuss the use of artificial intelligence systems in commercial contracting. This is a joint event by the Ross Parsons Centre and the Automated Decision-Making and Society Centre, both of Sydney Law School.
Speakers

Professor Teresa RodrÃguez de las Heras Ballell
Sir Roy Goode Scholar at UNIDROIT, Rome, 2021-2022
Profesora Titular de Derecho Mercantil / Professor of Commercial Law
Departamento de Derecho Privado
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
A/Prof Jorge Feliu Rey
Departamento de Derecho Privado
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Chair: Dr Jason Harris,Â Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School

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Wednesday 29 November
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: Online webinar
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.
