Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock
2023-05-26 08:00 - 09:00 (Australia/Sydney) | 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.

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.
