JSI Seminar: The stability of bad thingsIn-person event Political philosophers have long been concerned with how best to ensure the stability of social orders. Stability is assumed to be a good, whether because whatever is good is better for being stably so, or because stability enables cooperation in the pursuit of whatever other goods […]
JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudenceIn-person event Modern jurisprudence has been tormented by a divide between description and evaluation in legal theory. Proponents argue that the distinction is essential to any clearheaded discussion of law itself and its relation to adjacent normative systems, especially morality. Opponents insist that being the necessarily normative practice […]
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Assessing witness credibility: Is it possible to tell whether someone is lying or telling the truth? Substantive Law Professional Skills CPD Points: 1.5 About Witness testimony can be extremely influential in legal investigations and trials; however, sometimes witnesses lie. Such deception can be detrimental to due process and can result […]
JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistanceIn-person event Victims of oppression are sometimes said to have epistemic privilege in virtue of their marginalised social position into the operation and impact of oppressive social structures. Epistemic privilege sometimes is cited as a basis for deference in social relations between victims and non-victims—for example, the […]
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative reviewIn-person event This 24-nation review of social enterprise law analyzes data developed by a team of academics and practitioners with deep expertise regarding jurisdictions on six continents. Each responded to the authors’ detailed questionnaire inquiring into the relevant jurisdiction’s legal treatment […]
The Charles Perkins Centre Annual Lecture 2023Public health sovereignty and public reason: A comparative perspective In-person event You are warmly invited to the Charles Perkins Centre Annual Lecture 2023 presented by visiting scholar Professor Sheila Jasanoff, the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. Drawing on varied policy responses to the Covid-19 […]
Book launch: Comparing Online Legal Education In-person event The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Comparing Online Legal Education, co-edited by Professor Luke Nottage, Sydney Law School, for the International Academy of Comparative Law. The book will be launched by The Hon. Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of […]
2023 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and LawSydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law. The Council of Australian Law Deans in 2020 expressed its commitment to a legal system free of systemic discrimination and structural bias against First Nations peoples – this […]
The Life and Death of States: Author Meets ReadersIn-person event Natasha Wheatley’s bold new book The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty (Princeton University Press 2023) rediscovers the multinational Habsburg polity as a hothouse for ideas that still shape our understanding of the sovereign state. The radical mismatch between theories […]
Let’s Talk About Corporations: AI risks in the financial sector: consequences for companies and directorsIn-person event In this seminar, we will be discussing the use of machine learning (ML) and AI technologies to offer personalised products to consumers and exploring the legal and ethical risks for financial sector companies that potentially arise out of the […]
Can we accommodate independent legal representation for complainants of sexual violence in an adversarial system?In-person event “The legitimate rights of the accused should be protected and fulfilled. So too the rights of the community.â€Â - VLRC, 2021 Australia has not been immune from calls to strengthen its criminal justice system, with a series of inquiries over the […]
Meet the author | Reimagining Desistance from Male-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: The role and experiences of female victims-survivorsHybrid event Despite decades of research, our understanding of IPV desistance processes is very limited. In particular, understanding of the mechanisms that may account for why some men ‘stop’ abusing their partners and others persist, is under-developed. Because […]
