Book launch: Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski
2023-05-15 17:30 - 19:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Book launch: Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski
In-person event
The University of Sydney Law School is delighted to invite you to the launch of Constitutional Public Reason by Professor Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Chair in Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School.
The book will be launched by The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG.
About Constitutional Public Reason
Public reason, which urges that only laws based on principles reasonably agreeable to all those bound by them are legitimate, has rarely been applied to constitutional law, and never in a comparative way. This book aspires to fill that gap, by studying the use of public reason in different constitutional systems. In doing so, it studies public reason both as a normative idea – as a principle postulated for democratic constitutionalism, and as a descriptive account – as helping to understand many important doctrines in constitutional adjudication of some leading constitutional courts around the world, and also in the supranational sphere.
Constitutional Public Reason questions the performance of leading ‘exemplars of public reasons’, including the top courts of the United States, India, Canada, Australia, Germany, and South Africa, as well as the European Court of Human Rights. It also attempts to show how this performance can be improved in fields such as freedom of expression, non-establishment of religion, and anti-discrimination law. Ultimately, it finds that the best resonance between the ideal of public reason and constitutional interpretation is found in doctrines that locate the illegitimacy of laws in the wrongful motives (or purposes) pursued by legislators. Scrutinising motives is often as important as scrutinising consequences.
Find out more about the book and order it online here.
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Monday 15 May 2023
Time: 5.30-7pm (including a cocktail reception)
Venue: Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10)
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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About the author
Wojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor of the Centre for Europe at the University of Warsaw; formerly Professor and Head of Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He is author of several books, most recently Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown (2019) and Constitutionalism and the Enlargement of Europe (2012). He regularly teaches, as visiting professor, in top universities around the world, including at Yale and New York Universities.
CPD Points: 1
This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School.

Black Internationalism and International Criminal Justice
2023-05-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
Black Internationalism and International Criminal Justice
In-person event

What are the possibilities of international criminal justice being informed by epistemologies that emerged from Black and African intellectuals’ historical engagement with the concept of ‘justice’? This paper responds with an intervention rooted in Black internationalism focusing on Pan-Africanist thinkers. The goals are threefold.
First, it tentatively presents ways to take Black intellectuals seriously as progenitors of ‘justice’ that should inform, agitate, and expand the concept within international law. Second, the paper analysed how the architecture of international criminal justice and its primary actors (mis)align with those imaginaries of justice and its myriad approaches and visions. Finally, the paper concludes by offering a remapping and reimagining of justice and its emancipatory impulse through these expansive intellectual historiographies.
About the speaker
Dr Yassin Brunger (Queen’s University Belfast)
Yassin Brunger is Lecturer in Human Rights Law at Queen’s University, Belfast and a Fellow of Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the IILAH (University of Melbourne) completing a book project entitledÂ Narratives of Justice: The Relationship between the International Criminal Court and the UN Security CouncilÂ (contracted with Cambridge University Press).
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Tuesday 16 May 2023
Time:Â 1-2pm AEST
Venue:Â TBA
CPD Points: 1
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This event is hosted by theÂ Sydney Centre for International LawÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.

Let's Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate law
2023-05-18 12:00 - 13:00
Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate law
Online event
In this seminar, Kerry Abadee will consider proposals for the reform of the regulatory architecture including the Hayne Royal Commission’s proposal for a new federal civil law enforcement body for corporate law.
About the speakers
Kerry Abadee
Kerry is a graduate of Macquarie University (Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Laws (Honours)) and The University of Sydney (Master of Laws). She worked as a legal practitioner in private practice in the field of commercial litigation for more than 20 years and then for several years in enforcement as a senior manager at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.Â Kerry is a doctoral candidate in the Sydney Law School at The University of Sydney where she is researching corporate regulation and teaches corporate law.
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 18 May, 2023
Time: 12-1pm AEST
Location:Â Online webinar via 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.

Is Sustainable Finance nothing more than Woke Capitalism"?
2023-05-22 18:00 - 19:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
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JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts
2023-05-23 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts
In-person event
In Judgment SU-151/2020 the Constitutional Court of Colombia rendered its decision on a constitutional complaint of a group of journalists. They claim that in certain criminal cases concerning possible corruption by government officials, prosecutors and judges were unsatisfyingly prohibiting the press to attend public criminal law hearings. The petitioners claimed that judges and prosecutors use to limit the constitutional right to free press outside of those exceptions and by means of disproportionate decisions.
The Court made an open call to journalists, prosecutors, judges, and other interested parties to send short videos or writings with relevant information or their views concerning the issue at hand. The Court received 37 videos and writings. All materials were posted online, and people wrote comments on them. The Court was able to process those materials, which reveal that there was indeed and unconstitutional practice. However, the Court could have never processed that information, had it received hundreds or thousands of pieces of information.
This example illustrates how crowdsourcing can assist constitutional courts to overcome their epistemic deficiencies for solving constitutional cases. Those deficiencies can relate to factual or normative matters. Nevertheless, this advantage does not come without risks. Judicial crowdsourcing can be meaningless if it is misused as a mechanism of democratic window-dressing. This risk instantiates if, as it may happen with other mechanisms of digital democracy, it is entirely shaped and controlled by representatives of â€œexisting entrenched social and economic interestsâ€ or if constitutional procedural laws include an empowerment for judges to disregard or supersede outcomes of crowdsourcing processes without justification. Furthermore, power brokers can manipulate crowdsourcing mechanisms. Additionally, judicial crowdsourcing can be trivialized if citizens’ suggestions do not elicit deliberation among judges and remain only as an expression lacking any kind of impact. Finally, constitutional courts can use artificial intelligence to analyse big amounts of information that stake-holders submit in the crowdsourcing process. The use of artificial intelligence for those purposes also raises specific concerns of algocratia, opacity, and algorithmic discrimination.
Within the context, the aim of this presentation is to assess the advantages and disadvantages of the use of crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence by Constitutional Courts in complex cases of constitutional adjudication.
About the speaker:
Carlos Bernal
Carlos Bernal is Commissioner of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. He is professor of law at the University of Dayton (Ohio, USA) and Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). Between 2017 and 2020, he was Justice at the Colombian Constitutional Court. His qualifications include a LL.B. from the University Externado of Colombia (BogotÃ¡ – Colombia) (1996), a S.J.D. from the University of Salamanca (Spain) (2001), and a M.A. (2008) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (2011) from the University of Florida (U.S.A).
Prof. Bernal’s research focuses on constitutional rights’ interpretation, comparative constitutional change, general jurisprudence -in particular, on the intersection between social ontology and legal theory-, and the philosophical foundations of tort law. His work has been published in high-ranked peer-reviewed journals, books and edited collections in English, Spanish, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, and Russian.

Tuesday 23 May 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 hosted by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee's corporate insolvency inquiry
2023-05-24 17:30 - 19:00 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry
Hybrid event
This event will discuss the submissions made to the Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry that is due to release its report at the end of May. The speakers will consider the range of submissions made to the inquiry and discuss potential future law reform in insolvency law.
Speakers
Professor Jason HarrisÂ (Sydney Law School)
Michael MurrayÂ (Murrays Legal)
Chair: Lindsay PowersÂ (Minter Ellison)
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Wednesday 24 May, 2023
Time: 5.30-7pm
Venue:Â The University of Sydney Law School, Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD points:Â 1.5
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This event is proudly co-presented by the Association of Independent Insolvency Practitioners (AIIP) and theÂ Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation LawÂ at Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock
2023-05-26 08:00 - 09:00 | Corrs, Chambers Westgarth
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock
In-person event
â€˜Crowd-sourced funding’ is a new form of online venture capital stock market, open to all investorsâ€”retail and wholesaleâ€”that was only legally authorised in Australia five years ago. It’s like Kickstarter, except the backer gets a share in the company (not a t-shirt), which would be an illegal public offering of unregistered securitiesâ€”absent two acts of Parliament from 2017 and 2018. Since then, under the oversight of ASIC, and learning from experience in the United States, New Zealand, and elsewhere, the Australian crowd-sourced funding market has grown rapidly, doubling almost every yearâ€”yet the market still remains quite small.
This seminar will discuss the law and regulation of crowd-sourced funding in Australia, and compare it with international practice. It will also address the state of the Australian market and what it would take to achieve the full potential of crowd-sourced funding across this vast country.
About the speaker
Andrew A. Schwartz, Professor of Law at the University of Colorado, is a leading international scholar in the field of crowd-sourced funding, and the author of a new book on the subject, Investment Crowdfunding, due to be published by Oxford University Press in July 2023.
Commentator
Steven Rice (Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth)
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Friday 26 May
Time:Â 8-9am
Venue: Corrs, Chambers Westgarth, Level 37, Quay Quarter Tower, 50 Bridge Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.

Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual Causes
2023-05-29 17:30 - 19:00 | King & Wood Mallesons
Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual Causes
In-person event
Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and King & Wood Mallesons are proud to be presenting a seminar with Professor Jane Stapleton. The Law School welcomes the appointment of Professor Jane Stapleton as Honorary Professor of the University of Sydney.
About the seminar
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK Government decided to take swingeing lock-down measures in March 2020 which resulted in billions of dollars of business interruption loss to hundreds of thousands of enterprises in that country. In a landmark 2021 decision concerning insurance cover for such losses a unanimous UK Supreme Court confirmed that the law recognises that an unnecessary and insufficient factor may be a factual cause of an indivisible loss.
The talk, presented by Honorary Professor Jane Stapleton (University of Sydney) will describe the revolutionary procedure deployed in the case, how the Justices’ insightful introduction of non-insurance cases and commentary was crucial to the crafting of their decision and how profound an impact that decision may have across the landscape of the law.
The event will be chaired by the Honourable Justice Julie Ward, President of the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court of New South Wales.
About the speakers
Jane Stapleton KC (Hon), FBA
Jane Stapleton is an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney Law School and has held academic posts at Oxford, the University of Texas and the Australian National University as well as a number of visiting professorships including at Cambridge, Harvard, Columbia and the European University Institute. She has acted as a consultant in commercial, pharmaceutical, medical and environmental litigation in the US and UK.
She is an Emeritus Council Member of the American Law Institute, an Honorary Bencher of Gray’s Inn, an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. In 2020 she was appointed an Honorary Queen’s Counsel by HM Queen Elizabeth II. In 2022 she stepped down as the 38th Master of Christ’s College, Cambridge where she continues as a Life Fellow.
The Honourable Justice Julie Ward
Justice Ward completed her Bachelor of Laws at Sydney Law School in 1982 with first class honours and the University Medal for law. She was the youngest female partner to be appointed at Mallesons in 1998. In 2008, Justice Ward was the first female solicitor to be directly appointed to the Supreme Court bench.
In 2022, Justice Ward was appointed as President of the Court of Appeal in the Supreme Court of NSW, only the second female to be appointed as a President of the Court of Appeal.
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Monday 29 May 2023
Time:Â 5.30-7pmÂ (Registration from 5.30pm for a 5.45-7pm seminar. Cocktail function to follow.)
Venue:Â Level 61, Governor Phillip Tower, 1 Farrer Place, Sydney NSW 2000
CPD points:Â 1.25
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney, and King & Wood Mallesons.

Unpicking torts: Elements, standing requirements and conditions of actionability
2023-06-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Unpicking torts: Elements, standing requirements and conditions of actionability
In-person event

There is a fashion for thinking about torts in terms of recipes: as causes of action made up of a fixed set of ingredients. It is fashion that has adherents in both judicial and juristic circles. Typically, the things that a plaintiff must demonstrate in order to sue in tort are referred to as â€˜elements’ of a tort. But sometimes one comes across talk of the plaintiff’s need to satisfy either a â€˜condition of actionability’ or a â€˜standing requirement’.
This change in language when referring to what the plaintiff must show is ostensibly perplexing. It naturally raises the following questions: (1) how, do the three concepts come apart, and (2) what significance can be attached to any differences between them? These are the questions with which this paper wrestles.
The first contention advanced in the paper is this: while elements and conditions of actionability are in fact discrete juridical entities, standing requirements are not. The second is that recognising the difference possesses considerable practical and theoretical significance.
About the speaker:
Professor John MurphyÂ (The University of Hong Kong)
John Murphy is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong. He was educated in England and holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law. John specialises in the law of torts, and he has authored two monographs in the field:Â The Law of NuisanceÂ (Oxford University Press, 2010) andÂ The Province and Politics of the Economic TortsÂ (Hart Publishing, 2022). For over a decade he was the editor ofÂ Street on TortsÂ , and for even longer he has been one of small group of editors responsible for the production ofÂ Clerk and Lindsell on Torts,Â the leading practitioner work on tort law.
Commentator: Professor Peter CaneÂ (Sydney Law School)
Thursday 1 June 2023
Time:Â 6-7.30pmÂ AEST (Seminar from 6-7pm, with refreshments served afterwards)
Venue:Â Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1

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

Private International Law and Voices of Children
2023-06-01 18:00 - 19:30
Private International Law and Voices of Children
Online event
When making decisions, adults should think about how their decisions will affect children. Recent years have witnessed, in private international law cases and legislation, the protection of children is increasingly mingled with gender, indigenous issues, refugees, violence, war, surrogacy technology, etc. This is evidenced by the US Supreme Court 2022 judgmentÂ Golan v. Saada, the Australian caseÂ Secretary, Department of Communities & Justice v Bamfield, the 2023Â German Constitutional Court decision, theÂ Chinese Civil Code, the Australia Family Law (Child Abduction Convention) Amendment (Family Violence) Regulations 2022, and developments at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH Children Conventions) and the United Nations (Convention on the Rights of the ChildÂ and its additionalÂ Protocols).
On this International Children’s Day, let us join thisÂ CAPLUSÂ webinar in cooperation with conflictoflaws.net and American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group to hear voices of children in private international law.
Speakers

Ms. Anna Mary Coburn

After 22-years of public service as a U.S. Department of State Attorney-Advisor for Children’s Issues as well as a USAID Regional Legal Advisor/Senior Advisor for Children/Youth in Conflict, Anna has transitioned to practicing international family law with a focus on child rights cases and issues.

Mr. Philippe Lortie

Philippe is co-head of the International Family and Child Protection Law Division at the Hague Conference on Private International Law Permanent Bureau and has more than 30 years’ experience in the field of child protection.

Ms. Miranda Kaye

Ms Miranda Kaye is an academic at the Faculty of Law in the University of Technology Sydney in Australia and a member of Hague Mothers, a project aiming to end the injustices created by the Hague Child Abduction Convention. She also has experience in the public service (Law Commission of England and Wales) and as a practicing solicitor (family law in the UK).

Professor Lukas Rademacher

Lukas is a Professor of Private Law, Private International Law, and Comparative Law in Kiel, Germany. He studied law at the Universities of DÃ¼sseldorf and Oxford, and received his PhD at the University of MÃ¼nster. He wrote his postdoctoral thesis at the University of Cologne.

Ms. Haitao Ye

Haitao is a lawyer at the Shanghai Office of the Beijing Dacheng Law LLP specializing in marriage and family dispute resolution, family wealth inheritance and management. She is a former experienced judge in civil and commercial trials at the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court in China.
Moderators/commentators
â€¢Â Dr. Jie (Jeanne) HuangÂ (Associate Professor at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney)

Thursday 1 June, 6-7.30pm AEST
(4-5.30am Washington D.C./9-10:30am London/10-11.30am the Hague/4-5.30pm Beijing)

This event is proudly co-presented by theÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney, conflictoflaws.net and the American Society of International Law Private International Law Interest Group.

Let's Talk About Corporations: Rethinking accessorial liability in corporate law
2023-06-15 12:00 - 13:00
Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking accessorial liability in corporate law
Online event
This lunchtime webinar will discuss a paper by Dr Jason Harris, Professor of Corporate Law at Sydney Law School, that considers accessorial liability in corporate law for civil and criminal breaches of theÂ Corporations Act 2001Â (Cth). A review of recent cases will be undertaken with suggestions on how persons working within corporations can minimise the risk of accessorial liability.
About the speakers
Professor Jason Harris
Professor Jason Harris teaches and researches in the areas of Corporate Law, Insolvency Law, Commercial Law and Contracts. His research is focused on the public and private regulation of financially distressed companies, including debt restructuring, voluntary administration, corporate governance and directors’ duties during financial distress and the regulation of corporate groups. Jason’s research is frequently cited in Supreme Court and Federal Court decisions and has been cited in the High Court of Australia as well as in Commonwealth parliamentary committees and by academic works in Australia and internationally. Jason is an active participant in law reform initiatives through his policy work with theÂ Governance Institute of Australia, theÂ Australian Institute of Company DirectorsÂ and the Corporations and Insolvency Committees of theÂ Law Council of Australia. Jason has served on a number of editorial boards including for theÂ Australian Journal of Corporate Law, theÂ Australian Law JournalÂ and theÂ Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice. Jason is a former president of the Corporate Law Teachers’ Association and has previously held academic positions at UNSW, the ANU and UTS and has had visiting academic roles with Universities in England, Canada and the United States.
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 15 June, 2023
Time: 12-1pm AEST
Location:Â Online webinar via 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.

JSI Seminar | Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia?
2023-06-15 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia?
In-person event

On 28 November 2023, theÂ Voluntary Assisted Dying ActÂ will come into effect in NSW. The Act allows ill persons having decision-making capacity, acting voluntary, and with less than six months to live (12 months in the case of a neurogenerative illness) to request a prescription of a lethal substance to end intolerable suffering. If the medical practitioners responsible for the assessment of the request confirm that the eligibility conditions are satisfied, the patient may decide to self-administer the lethal substance or that the substance is to be administered to the patient by a doctor. TheÂ Voluntary Assisted Dying ActÂ was eventually approved on 19 May 2022 after an exhausting and hard-fought parliamentary debate.
One of the main reasons justifying the opposition to the bill was provided by a slippery slope argument: The legalization of assisted dying would be a first and decisive step towards the gradual acceptance by public opinion, medical professions, and political decision-makers of the medical killing of people unable to consent. Given that this outcome is morally disgraceful, assisted dying should not be permitted in the first place. Slippery slope arguments are popular in a wide range of debates across bioethics, law, and public policy, and are still extensively used to prevent the legalization of assisted dying in countries such as the UK, Germany and Italy. Besides, they are widely employed to prevent policymakers from extending the right to assisted dying to new categories of persons in those jurisdictions where that right is already recognized.
However, it is highly disputed whether arguments of this sort are able to support their conclusions or should rather be dismissed because ill-grounded. In this seminar I will try to answer this question. To do that, I will first show that various versions of the slippery slope arguments are actually present in the debate on assisted dying. I will then claim that the only version of the argument that is not ill-grounded supports the opposite conclusion, namely that the non-recognition of the right to assisted dying may be a first step on the slippery slope to unvoluntary euthanasia in many legal systems.
About the speaker:
Damiano Canale
Damiano Canale is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Critical Thinking at Bocconi University, Milan (Italy). His scholarship mainly focuses on legal reasoning and legal interpretation, the methodology of jurisprudence, the relationship between scientific knowledge and legal knowledge, and the history of legal concepts. He was visiting fellow at the Max-Plank-Institut fÃ¼r EuropÃ¤ische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt a.M.), the Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. He is the author of four books in Italian and his papers have been published in journals such as Law and Philosophy, Ratio Juris, the American Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence, Informal Logic, Argumentation.

Thursday 15 June 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 the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

JSI Workshop | Towards a Moralisation of Jurisprudence? Reflections on the Future of Legal Philosophy
2023-06-27 14:00 - 16:00
JSI Workshop | Towards a Moralisation of Jurisprudence? Reflections on the Future of Legal Philosophy
In-person event
There is a trend in current Anglo-American legal philosophy that is drawing the attention of legal scholars. We could label this trend â€œThe moralisation of jurisprudenceâ€. Its animating idea is as follows: The questions still left open in contemporary jurisprudence can only be addressed by moral theory. Thus, there is no longer room for legal philosophy as an autonomous field of enquiry. The seminar aims to critically discuss this thesis from different theoretical perspectives.
About the speakers:
Professor Damiano Canale
Damiano CanaleÂ is Professor of Philosophy of Law and Critical Thinking at Bocconi University, Milan (Italy). His scholarship mainly focuses on legal reasoning and legal interpretation, the methodology of jurisprudence, the relationship between scientific knowledge and legal knowledge, and the history of legal concepts. He was visiting fellow at the Max-Plank-Institut fÃ¼r EuropÃ¤ische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt a.M.), the Yale Law School and the University of Oxford. He is the author of four books in Italian and his papers have been published in journals such as Law and Philosophy, Ratio Juris, the American Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence, Informal Logic, Argumentation.
Dr Meir Yarom
Meir YaromÂ is the inaugural Julius Stone Postdoctoral Fellow. He has recently completed his PhD entitled ‘Reflections on Coherence in Law’ supervised by Jeremy Waldron at NYU School of Law.
Tuesday, 27 June 2023 2.00 – 4.00pm AEST
Venue: Â Board Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 1.5

This event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

2023 ADM+S Symposium: Automated News & Media
2023-07-13 00:00 - 2023-07-14 00:00
2023 ADM+S Symposium: Automated News & Media
AboutÂ
The University of Sydney is one of 9 partner universities of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Through this partnership the University of Sydney is proud to host this event.
AI and automation are now part of the news and media industries. Digital platforms use automated systems to shape how we find and access information and entertainment, as well as to filter, fact-check and moderate content, and to serve advertising to their users. Newsrooms are producing stories without human intervention and using bots to collect newsworthy data.
As these sectors start to seriously grapple with AI, the dominance of major platforms and media organisations looks far less certain, thanks to a series of economic shocks and a renewed interest in alternative social media technologies.
This is a moment of possibility, and one that invites reflection and action.
Keynote Speakers
There will be a host of speakers from the ADM+S Centre and The University of Sydney including:
Professor Bronwyn Carlson
Bronwyn Carlson is the leading Indigenous scholar on Indigenous peoples use of social media for cultural, social, intimate, and political activism. She is widely published on these topics, including collaborations with other Indigenous scholars across the globe. Bronwyn is the recipient of three consecutive Australian Research Council Discovery Indigenous grants exploring Indigenous engagements across social media platforms.
She was also recently awarded a grant from Meta to explore the unique experiences of Indigenous women and LGBTQI+ people’s online. Bronwyn is the co-author ofÂ Indigenous Digital Life: The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social MediaÂ (2021) and co-editor and contributor ofÂ Indigenous People Rise Up: The Global Ascendancy of Social Media ActivismÂ (2021).
Bronwyn is the Director of the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Deputy Director Indigenous of the recently funded ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW) and a member of the Australian Academy of Humanities.
Professor Wiebke Loosen
Wiebke Loosen is a senior journalism researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Media Researchâ”‚Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) (Germany) as well as a professor at the University of Hamburg. Her major areas of expertise are the transformation of journalism within a changing media environment, theories of journalism, and methodology. Wiebke’s current research focuses on the changing journalism-audience relationship, the datafication of journalism, forms of, pioneer journalism’ and the start-up culture in journalism as well as the automation of communication.
Ms Tarunima Prabhakar

Tarunima is the research lead and co-founder of Tattle which builds citizen centric tools and datasets to respond to inaccurate and harmful content in India. Through Tattle, she focuses on the unique challenges of addressing inaccurate and harmful information in India and the Global South. Her broader research interests are in the intersection of technology, policy and global development. As a practitioner, she has worked on ICTD and Data driven development projects with non-profits and tech companies in Asia and the United States.
Assistant Professor Nick Seaver
Nick Seaver is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Tufts University in Medford, MA. His ethnographic research on the developers of algorithmic music recommendation has appeared in Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, and Big Data & Society. He is co-editor of Towards an Anthropology of Data (2021) and author of Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation (2022).
Speakers from the University of Sydney include:

Dr Olga Boichak
Professor Terry Flew
Dr Jonathon Hutchinson
Ms Rebecca Johnson

As well as speakers from ABC, Telstra, Sydney Morning Herald, The Conversation, Amazon, and Nvidia.
About the ADM+S Centre
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) is a new, cross-disciplinary, national research centre which aims to create the knowledge and strategies necessary for responsible, ethical, and inclusive automated decision-making. Funded by the Australian federal government through the Australian Research Council from 2020 to 2026, ADM+S is hosted at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, with nodes in seven other Australian universities including the University of Sydney, and partnerships with international universities and industry organisations. The Centre brings together leading researchers in the humanities, social and technological sciences in an international industry, research and civil society network. Its priority domains for public engagement are news and media, transport, social services and health.
This symposium brings together researchers, industry, advocacy groups and policymakers to address the most pressing challenges associated with AI and automation in news, media and entertainment.
Register now.
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13-14 July 2023
Time: Thursday 13 July – 9am to 5.30pm, Friday 14 July – 9am- 5pm
Venue: Online and In-person: New Law Building F10, University of Sydney, Camperdown, Gadigal Land, NSW 2006
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JSI Seminar: The stability of bad things
2023-07-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: The stability of bad things
In-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 we have.
But is stability always a good? What of the stability of systems of unfreedom, of forms of oppression and domination? Such systems are stable in the face of constant efforts to shift them. Why is this? Call this the question of the stability of bad things: why bad things are stable despite the fact that they are bad.
In this talk, I examine one central way in which systems of unfreedom are self-stabilizing: through shaping the moral psychology of agents within those systems. Unfreedom is not just a matter of having limited options for choice, but of the ways in which social systems foster in us particular ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. I argue that there are two ways in which this moral psychological shaping stabilizes systems of unfreedom. First, it generates support for those systems, by which I mean not just voluntary upholding of the system but a range of attitudes from consent to resigned participation. Second, it disrupts possibilities of collective resistance to those systems. Understanding these mechanisms of stability might better help us to first resist, and then transform, the systems of unfreedom to which we are all subject.
About the speaker:
Yarran Hominh
Yarran Hominh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bard College. His research sits at the intersection of social and political philosophy with moral psychology. He draws liberally from a variety of traditions of thought and practice, including the pragmatist tradition, the Black radical tradition, Buddhist modernism, and anti-racist, anti-colonial, and anti-imperial praxis from around the globe. He is working on a book entitledÂ The Problem of UnfreedomÂ and has papers recently published or forthcoming inÂ Philosophers’ Imprint, The Pluralist, the Journal of Legal Philosophy, Comparative PhilosophyÂ and theÂ Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture.Â He is also the Associate Editor of the APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies and is on the editorial board of The Philosopher.

Thursday 13 July 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 the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.Â

JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudence
2023-07-20 11:00 - 13:00 | Board Room, Level 4
JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudence
In-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 it is, a pure description of the law and its theory is untenable. This conversation will bring together legal and moral theorists to shed some novel light on an old problem.
Speakers

Associate Professor Kevin Walton (University of Sydney Law School)
Dr. Yarran Hominh (Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Bard College)
Dr. Alma Diamond (Postdoctoral Fellow in Law & Philosophy, University of Chicago)
Dr. Meir Yarom (Postdoctoral Fellow in Jurisprudence, the Julius Stone Institute, University of Sydney Law School)

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Thursday 20 July, 2023
Time: 11am-1pm
Venue: Level 4, Board Room, New Law Building (F10)
CPD Points: 2
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This event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.

2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Assessing witness credibility: Is it possible to tell whether someone is lying or telling the truth?
2023-07-27 00:00
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 in miscarriages of justice. Thus, it is important for legal personnel and factfinders to be able to determine whether someone is lying or telling the truth.
In an interactive seminar, I will discuss research investigating behavioural and content indicators of deception. This seminar will help legal practitioners understand the difficulties in discriminating liars from truth-tellers as well as the evidence-base for various lie detection techniques.
Presenter
Helen Paterson is an Associate Professor in Forensic Psychology at the University of Sydney. She investigates the reliability and credibility of eyewitnesses. In particular, her research focuses on best practice techniques to collect accurate and complete accounts from eyewitnesses. She also studies lies and the detection of deception.

A recording of this webinar will be released on Thursday, 27 July 2023.
Find out more about the series.

JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance
2023-07-27 18:00 - 19:30 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance
In-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-victimsâ€”for example, the use of â€˜lived experience’ to resolve or terminate disagreements about social and political oppression. I am interested in whether epistemic privilege can be a basis for duties of mutual assistance between victims, where assistance is understood as mitigating the harms of oppression on other victims without necessarily targeting oppression itself. I outline the ways in which victims of oppression can be said to have epistemic privilege, the limits of this privilege, and what duties of assistance this privilege might ground.
About the speaker:
Ashwini Vasanthakumar
Ashwini VasanthakumarÂ is a political and legal theorist with research interests in political obligation and authority, migration, and the ethics of resistance.
She is currently an Associate Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in Legal & Political Philosophy at Queen’s Law School in Canada. She holds an AB from Harvard, an MA from Toronto, a JD from Yale Law School, and a DPhil from Oxford, where she studied as a Canadian Rhodes Scholar.
Previously, she has worked at King’s College London, the University of York, University College, Oxford, and Jindal Global Law School. She has also been a Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies (Stockholm) and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School (Berlin).

Thursday 27 July 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.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review
2023-07-31 13:00 - 14:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative review
In-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 of entities using business methods to achieve social good. After first identifying the key role of political, cultural and legal baselines in determining the space for and legal treatment of social enterprises, the paper explores the myriad specialized forms and certifications that have been developed to identify firms around the world as social enterprises.
Legal forms are offered exclusively by governments and relevant to a single jurisdiction, while certifications may or may not be public or jurisdiction-specific. Comparing these tools offers guidance to policymakers keen to continue evolving specialized social enterprise forms and certifications across jurisdictions. It also reveals how these identifiers for social enterprise are being used to incentivize the pursuit of social good using business methods. The assurances of trustworthiness provided by distribution constraints and regulatory oversight appear critical to support public subsidization or privileging of social enterprise. Without these protections in place, public incentives for social enterprise are largely absent
About the speaker
Dana Brakman Reiser holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she also served as Vice Dean. She teaches courses in Corporations, Nonprofit Law, Social Enterprise, Property, and Trusts and Estates. A globally recognized expert in the law at the intersection of business and charity, her work on the law of social enterprises – firms that pursue profits for owners and social good – defined the field. She has also written extensively on law and finance for philanthropic organizations and on sustainable investing.
She is a member of the American Law Institute and was an Associate Reporter for its project on the Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations, as well as a past-Chair of the Section on Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law of the American Association of Law Schools and a former member of the executive board of its Section on Business Law. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School.
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Monday 31 July, 2023
Time:Â 1-2pm
Venue:Â The University of Sydney Law School, Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
CPD points:Â 1
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This event is proudly presented by theÂ Ross Parsons CentreÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

The Charles Perkins Centre Annual Lecture 2023
2023-08-02 17:30 - 19:00 | Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed
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 scholarÂ ProfessorÂ Sheila Jasanoff, the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Drawing on varied policy responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, Professor Jasanoff argues that national health policies reflect underlying social compacts regarding the mutual obligations of citizens, experts, and the state. This approach helps make sense of wide divergences in measures taken by states worldwide to combat Covid-19 and ensure recovery.
ThisÂ talk challenges conventional understandings of modernity as the product of two trajectories that sustain each other and improve human futures: one of advances in science and technology and the other of social progress. Progress is here imagined as always in-the-making, riding on the wings of scientific enlightenment. There is no room for backsliding in this view, only the horizon of greater emancipation.
But what if this idea of modernity is itself an imaginary overlaid on less tidy epistemic and political commitments? What if, instead of perfection through knowledge and reason, modernity is a patchwork of opaque delegations whereby control over minds, bodies, and nature’s workings is handed over to experts with quasi-sovereign power to regulate their respective domains? Empirically exploring these questions provides insights into contemporary debates on populism and loss of trust in science.
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Wednesday 2 August, 2023
Time: 5.30-7pm AEST
Location: University of Sydney Camperdown campus: Venue to be confirmed
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This event is proudly co-presented by Sydney Law School and the Charles Perkins Centre.

Book launch: Comparing Online Legal Education
2023-08-03 17:30 - 18:30 | Law Lounge, Level 1
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 the Supreme Court of NSW, and previously part-time lecturer at Sydney Law School.
About Comparing Online Legal Education
This pioneering work by leading comparative lawyers examines developments in online legal education, particularly in universities but also in professional associations, before and especially after the COVID-19 pandemic.
The book posits and largely confirms that transformations are linked to the extent and scope of respective legal professions (often, but not always, correlating to common versus civil law traditions), funding and other aspects of university-level education, and information and communications technology infrastructure in each jurisdiction. It charts the dramatic shift to online legal education in almost all jurisdictions even with different levels of COVID-19 infections and deaths, or mobility restrictions imposed by law and/or social norms. It also details how law teachers and students adapted to the challenges and opportunities of new technologies and practices, sometimes benefitting from serendipitous earlier events supporting online legal education, and a considerable â€˜reversion to the mean’ as the pandemic has abated.
The special reports incorporate extensive empirical data, including surveys on online legal education experiences. They cover 13 jurisdictions across the Asia-Pacific region (Australia, Canada, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan and Pakistan), Europe and beyond (Croatia, Cyprus, Italy and Seychelles), ranging from micro-states to very large economies, at various stages of economic development and from different legal traditions. Comparing Online Legal Education provides rich resources and lessons for legal academics and professionals, as well as those involved in education policy.
Find out more about the book and order it online here.
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Thursday 3 August 2023
Time: 5.30-6.30pm (Cocktail reception to follow book launch)
Venue: Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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About the editors
Luke Nottage (PhD VUW, LLD Kyoto) is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Business Law at the University of Sydney, Associate Director of its Centre for Asian and Pacific Law (CAPLUS) and founding Co-Director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL). He is Honorary Professor at the University of Wollongong, Special Counsel with Williams Trade Law and a titular member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. Professor Nottage has published 19 books and taught law in Australasia, Southeast Asia, Japan, North America and Europe.
Makoto Ibusuki (LLD Hokkaido) is Professor of Law at Seijo University in Tokyo and ANJeL-in-Japan Program Convenor for the Australian Network for Japanese Law. His major areas of research, teaching and writing are in cyberspace law and criminal procedure. He was a founding director of the Hojohogakkai (Association for Legal Informatics) and a key member of a study group promoting IT issues in Japan’s major reforms to criminal and civil justice. Professor Ibusuki formerly taught at Kagoshima University in Kyushu (1990-2002) and at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto (2002-2008).
CPD Points: 1
This event and book project are supported by theÂ Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at Sydney Law School, and the Australian Network for Japanese Law (ANJeL).

2023 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law
2023-08-09 18:00 - 19:30 | Law Foyer, Level 2
2023 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law
Sydney 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 aÂ legal system free of systemic discrimination and structural bias against First Nations peoples – this commitment applies to legal education institutions.Â
The recent public lecture by Dr EddieÂ CubilloÂ addressed this topic, which is of considerableÂ public interest including within the legal academy.Â
We acknowledge the courage of Dr EddieÂ CubilloÂ to address the impact on First Nations Peoples.
Since the delivery of the lecture, the University has been informed of ongoing legal issues, which currently prevent the lecture recording being available for distribution.
In-person event

Sydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law.
In 2023, the lecture is “One more broken silence: an Indigenous academic encounters racism in the law school 2023”, delivered by Dr Eddie Cubillo (University of Melbourne Law School).
This event is being held to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, which is celebrated annually on 9 August.
2023 Lecture
One more broken silence: an Indigenous academic encounters racism in the law schoolÂ
In this lecture, I question why despite being white-qualified, having done an LLB, LLM, PhD, I am only seen as â€˜the culture guy’ and only respected enough to do â€˜smoking and acknowledgements’, why myself and other Blak academics continue to be subjected to casual and pervasive racisms as an everyday occurrence, and why some of our most prestigious academic institutions continue to be complicit in perpetrating and condoning racism despite all the rhetoric about standing for equity and justice.
In 2015, Wiradjuri man Stan Grant challenged Australians to consider that â€˜The Australian Dream is rooted in racismâ€¦the very foundation of the dream’. Recently, as Australia tracks towards a referendum on a First Nations Voice to Parliament that 80% of Indigenous people support, non-Indigenous author Richard Flanagan challenges us to â€˜confront th[e] most terrible truthâ€¦[that] racism experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peopleâ€¦is of a completely different orderâ€¦far more extremeâ€¦[and] so pervasive as to often be invisible to non-Indigenous Australians’.
The toxicity of the academy and whether it’s safe for Indigenous staff and students needs to be confronted. It needs to be highlighted that they often are not. First Nations academics often ask each other if it’s all worthwhile. As a country, we need to acknowledge that the places settlers/non-Indigenous Australians have built for themselves were established by,Â andÂ are sustained by, racial violence. InstitutionsÂ can beÂ unrelentingÂ inÂ theirÂ viciousness towards sovereign Black bodies,Â and this viciousness includes the silence of colleagues, their privilege and their â€˜unconscious biases’. As Richard Flanagan acknowledges â€˜Spend some real time with Aboriginal people and you’ll see how they are still made to live in another country, and it is frequently a cruel, pitiless and brutally destructive world.‘
So why am I still here? Why do I, and other Blak academics continue to subject ourselves to the viciousness and racial violence? For the same reason I call it out in this lecture – As a proud Larrakia, Wadjigan and Central Arrernte man I put up with the racism because of what I hear constantly from our people on the front-line advocating and delivering services trying their best in a racist world. If I can educate future leaders to respect my people, I will. My ancestors and elders have faced adversity, so that I can achieve, it’s my turn.

Wednesday 9 August, 6-7.30pm
CPD points =1.5

About the speaker
Dr Eddie Cubillo is a Larrakia, Wadjigan and Central Arrente man from the Northern Territory.
He is a long time advocate for Indigenous rights and is currently Associate Dean (Indigenous Programs) & Director of the Indigenous Law and Justice Hub at the University of Melbourne’s Law School, were he has his sights on the decolonisation of legal education and supporting graduates to work towards First Nations Justice.
Eddie’s other past roles include Anti-Discrimination Commissioner of the Northern Territory, Executive Officer of the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (NATSILS) and Director of Community Engagement in the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory.
Eddie has been a former Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) Yilli Rreung Regional Council, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency (NAAJA) and the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Committee and is currently on the Law Council of Australia’s – Indigenous Legal Issues Committee, National OPCAT Advisory Group, Justice Policy Partnership (JPP) under the National Agreement on Closing the Gap, and the Victorian Treaty Authority Panel.

Catch up on the 2022 lecture
In 2022, the Wingarra Djuraliyin lecture was presented by Professor Anne Poelina and Marlikka Perdrisat, who spoke on the topic of â€˜First Law: A Climate Chance’.
Watch here
This event is presented by the University of Sydney Law School in collaboration with the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Strategy and Services) at the University of Sydney.

The Life and Death of States: Author Meets Readers
2023-08-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School
The Life and Death of States: Author Meets Readers
In-person event
Natasha Wheatley’s bold new bookÂ The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern SovereigntyÂ (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 of singular sovereignty and the empire’s plural, layered legal order pushed politicians as well as scholars like Hans Kelsen toward bold new conceptions of the state and the nature of law. The book follows a recurring set of questions about the juridical birth, death, and survival of states through the creative experiments of Austro-Hungarian constitutional order and into the domain of international law following the empire’s collapse in 1918. These ideas would echo around the globe in the era of global decolonization that followed the Second World War, suggesting new ways of understanding Central Europe in the world.
About the speakers

Natasha WheatleyÂ is an historian of modern European and international history, with broad interests in intellectual and legal history, Central Europe, and the history of international law. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Sydney before joining the Princeton faculty as an assistant professor in 2017. She is the co-editor of the volumesÂ Power and TimeÂ andÂ Remaking Central Europe, and her writing has appeared inÂ Past & Present, History and Theory, Law and History Review,Â and theÂ London Review of Books, among other places.Â The Life and Death of StatesÂ is her first book.
Professor Lisa FordÂ is the prize-winning author of three monographs:Â Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836Â (Harvard UP, 2010);Â Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850Â (Harvard UP, 2016), co-authored with Professor Lauren Benton; andÂ The King’s Peace: Law and Order in the British EmpireÂ (Harvard UP, 2021). She recently co-editedÂ The Cambridge Legal History of AustraliaÂ (Cambridge UP, 2022). Her current project, on emergency in the British Empire is funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.
Professor Lea YpiÂ is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is the author ofÂ Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, The Meaning of PartisanshipÂ (with Jonathan White), andÂ The Architectonic of Reason.Â Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitledÂ Free: Coming of Age at the End of History,Â won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize and is being translated into more than twenty languages. Her academic work has been recognised with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and the Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She coedits The Journal of Political Philosophy and occasionally writes for The Guardian.

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Thursday 10 August 2023
Time:Â 5.30-7pm
Venue:Â University of Sydney, Level 4, Common Room, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown
This event is being held in-person at Sydney Law School.
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This event is proudly presented by theÂ Julius Stone InstituteÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

Let's Talk About Corporations: AI risks in the financial sector: consequences for companies and directors
2023-08-16 17:00 - 19:00 | Law Foyer, Level 2
Let’s Talk About Corporations: AI risks in the financial sector: consequences for companies and directors
In-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 use of ML and AI in this context.
About the speakers
Susan Bennett (Principal of Sibenco Legal & Advisory, Founder & Executive Director of InfoGovANZ, PhD Candidate, The University of Sydney Law School)

Susan’s focus is driving best practice holistic governance solutions aligning data, information, privacy and records with technology and regulatory compliance to achieve organisational goals. Â Recognised for her global thought leadership in information governance, Susan hasÂ deep commercial expertise on which she draws to work with cross-functional and multi-disciplinary teams to add value and deliver outcomes on major projects and objectives.Â Susan advises on information and data governance frameworks and policies, including cross-border data privacy and regulatory compliance, as well as acting in internal investigations and regulatory inquiries.
Susan holds a Master of Laws (Syd) and a Master of Business Administration (AGSM), and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional – Europe (CIPP/E). Â She is in the final stage of completing a PhD thesis on Privacy and Data Protection: the role of meta-regulation and information governance.Â Susan is a Fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia (FGIA), a member of the Asian Privacy Scholars Network (APSN), and a member of the EDRM Global Advisory Board.
Dr Zofia Bednarz (Lecturer, The University of Sydney)
Zofia is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, where she teaches and researches in the area of commercial and corporate law. She is also an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Zofia’s current research focuses on the use of new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, by financial firms and the implications it has for provision of financial services to consumers. She has published her research in leading international and Australian journals, and regularly contributes to government consultation processes on law reform and comments for the media. Zofia has got a PhD in commercial law from the University of Malaga, Spain, and has qualified as a lawyer (abogada) in Spain.
The Honourable Justice Michael Lee
Justice Michael Bryan Joshua Lee was born in Perth but was raised in Sydney. After graduating in arts (political science) and later in law from the University of Sydney, he commenced work as a solicitor in 1989 with a firm that later became one of Australia’s largest national partnerships. He was made a senior associate of the firm in 1992 and was appointed its youngest partner, in 1995. He eventually became a senior litigation partner and national practice group leader before coming to the New South Wales Bar in 2002.
While at the Bar, his Honour was involved in a number of high profile cases ranging from building and construction disputes, insurance cases and employment law and workplace safety prosecutions; additionally, he was briefed as leading counsel in a number of the most significant commercial actions in Australia.
Justice Lee was appointed to the Federal Court of Australia in 2017 and is also an Additional Judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory. His Honour deals with matters at both first instance and on appeal. He is also a National Coordinating Judge in the Federal Court’s Commercial and Corporations National Practice Area and also of the defamation work of the Court.
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 16 August, 2023
Time: 5-7pm AEST (Registrations from 5pm with the panel discussion to start at 5:30pm, followed by drinks and canapes.)
Location: University of Sydney, Law Foyer, Level 2, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown Campus
CPD points:Â 1.5 points
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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.

Can we accommodate independent legal representation for complainants of sexual violence in an adversarial system?
2023-08-18 12:30 - 14:30 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Can we accommodate independent legal representation for complainants of sexual violence in an adversarial system?
In-person event

â€œThe legitimate rights of the accused should be protected and fulfilled. So too the rights of the community.â€Â -Â VLRC, 2021
Australia has not been immune from calls to strengthen its criminal justice system, with a series of inquiries over the past seven years considering matters affecting complainants of sexual violence. Despite relying on victims to report crime and cooperate so that the state may prosecute, the mistreatment of victims remains a subject of academic criticism.
Independent legal representation has surfaced as a major factor in reducing secondary victimisation and attrition. While often positioned as solely in the interests of the victim, it can support the state’s prosecution efforts and lead to improved substantive justice outcomes.
On behalf of With You We Can, this event co-ordinates advocates, lawyers and academics to discuss models of independent legal representation for victims abroad, and how we might apply similar principles in Australia. The discussion will be preceded by a short screening of Suzie Miller’sÂ Prima Facie, a powerful tool to create more developed understanding of our justice system in these contexts.
Speakers will be consulting victimologistÂ Michael O’Connell AM APM, who served as the inaugural Commissioner for Victims’ Rights,Â Associate Professor Kerstin Braun, who teaches criminal law and procedure in the School of Law and Justice at the University of Southern Queensland,Â Eleanor Danks, an advocate who went through the legal system as a survivor of intimate partner sexual violence while working at the Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions, andÂ Sarah Rosenberg, Director and Co-Founder of With you We Can.
*With You We Can is a victim-led organisation pulling together victims, advocates and experts to demystify the police and legal processes while working to improve them.
Program
12.30-1.30pm Screening ofÂ Suzie Miller’s film Prima Facie
1.30-2.30pm Panel discussion

Friday 18 August 2023, 12.30-2.30pmÂ AEST
Venue:Â Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building Annex (F10A), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus
CPD Points:Â 2

This event is proudly presented by theÂ Sydney Institute of Criminology The University of Sydney Law School.

Meet the author | Reimagining Desistance from Male-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: The role and experiences of female victims-survivors
2023-08-24 18:00 - 19:15 | Law Lounge, Level 1
Meet the author | Reimagining Desistance from Male-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: The role and experiences of female victims-survivors
Hybrid 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 â€˜stop’ abusing their partners and others persist, is under-developed. Because IPV occurs within a dyadic and domestic context, women who are subjected to IPV are not only in a unique position to observe their partner’s behaviours (and how they change over time), but also to implement strategies to initiate and support their partner’s desistance.
This study involved semi-structured interviews with 40 female victims-survivors of male-perpetrated IPV, 15 of whom had experienced the cessation or reduction of abuse perpetrated against them for a period of six months or longer. Focusing on the period where participants relationships with abusers were still intact, the analysis found that victims-survivors were highly agentic actors who implemented a range of strategies to both mitigate their day-to-day risk of violence and support their partners’ long-term behavioural changes. Even in situations where the violence did not stop entirely, the strategies participants implemented were important for inhibiting escalating patterns of violence and abuse within their relationship. Although their understanding of abusers’ thought processes and motivations was limited by contextual awareness, participants’ narratives suggested that desistance would not have occurred, but for their actions.

About the author
Dr Hayley Boxall is a criminologist who has been undertaking research on domestic and family violence (including intimate partner violence) and sexual violence for over 10 years. She has published extensively on these topics, and been a primary investigator on a number of projects focused on criminal justice responses to DFV, pathways/trajectories into DFV offending and intimate partner femicide, offending and reoffending patterns of DFV perpetrators and the exploring the nature and prevalence of different forms of DFV and sexual violence. Since 2020 Hayley has been the Manager of the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Violence against Women and Children Research Program, and is a Course Convenor at the University of Sydney and Griffith University.
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Thursday 24 August 2023
Time: 6-7.15pm (Refreshments to be provided)
Venue: Level 1, Law Lounge, New Law Building Annex (F10A)
CPD points:Â 1.25
This event is being held in-person and online at Sydney Law School. Please indicate your viewing preference at registration.
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This event is presented by theÂ Sydney Institute of CriminologyÂ at the University of Sydney Law School.

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATO
2023-08-29 18:00 - 19:00
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATO
Online event
The Australian Taxation Office is a creditor in almost three out of every four company insolvencies. Legislation in 1993 removed the last of what were seen as rights that elevated the ATO to the status of priority creditor. Yet it continues to enjoy rights that other creditors do not have.
In this Webinar, Adjunct Associate Professor Lindsay Powers will explain these rights and how they impact the corporate insolvency process. He will be joined by experienced insolvency lawyer and MinterEllison partner Michael Hughes who will discuss the findings and recommendations of the recent Parliamentary Joint Committee Report on Corporate Insolvency in Australia in relation to the ATO as a creditor.
Speakers

Lindsay PowersÂ (Senior Legal Consultant MinterEllison and Adjunct Associate Professor Sydney Law School)
Michael HughesÂ (Partner, MinterEllison)

Chair: Dr Jason HarrisÂ (Professor of Corporate Law, Sydney Law School)
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Tuesday 29 August
Time: 6pm
Venue: Online webinar
CPD Points: 1
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This event is proudly presented by the Ross Parsons Centre at Sydney Law School.

Julius Stone Address: What is political progress?
2023-08-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Lecture Theatre 101, level 1, New Law Building F10A, Campderdown Campus
Julius Stone Address: What is political progress?
In-person event

Progress is both a necessary and a dangerous idea. It is necessary if one is striving to improve the way things are, and it is dangerous because the pursuit of progress has historically often given rise to episodes of paternalism, colonial domination and narratives of civilizational superiority. In my talk, I will present some first thoughts on how to defend a more critical account of progress. I will start by distinguishing between moral and political progress, then explore the relation between political progress and justice. I will suggest that we make political progress not when we approximate an ideal of justice that is always already known to us, but when the political institutions we construct reflect what we learn from the trials and failures of the past.
About the speaker
Professor Lea Ypi
Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is the author ofÂ Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, The Meaning of PartisanshipÂ (with Jonathan White), andÂ The Architectonic of Reason. Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitledÂ Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize and is being translated into more than twenty languages. Her academic work has been recognised with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and the Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She coeditsÂ The Journal of Political PhilosophyÂ and occasionally writes forÂ The Guardian.

Tuesday 29 August, 2023
Time:Â 6-7.30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre 101, Level 1, New Law Building Annex (F10A)

This event is hosted by theÂ Julius Stone Institute of JurisprudenceÂ at The University of Sydney Law School.
The Julius Stone Address is generously sponsored by the Educational Heritage Foundation. It is named to commemorate the life and work of Professor Julius Stone, Australia’s foremost legal philosopher and for many years Challis Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney.

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 | 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.
