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Conflict-of-norms in the information society: national security and cross-border data flow

Conflict-of-norms in the information society: national security and cross-border data flowOnline event National security has increasingly become a concern for cross-border data flow. In this panel discussion, we will survey the conflicts and potential collaboration between protecting national security and enhancing digital trade. Our distinguished panel will cover relevant laws and practices in big (the […]

Development of the Common Law by Analogy to Statute

Law Lounge, Level 1

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Development of the common law by analogy to statuteIn-person event In recent decades the importance of statute within Australian law has increased enormously. Legislation has proliferated in size, number and scope; and many of these statutes contain underlying policies, values and ideas which the common law is capable […]

The Ross Parsons Tax Lecture – Professor Graeme Cooper

The Ross Parsons Tax LectureIncome Taxation: An Institution in Decay – Still In 1986, on the eve of his retirement from Sydney Law School, Ross Parsons published a famous paper giving his caustic assessment of the body of law which had occupied so much of his professional life. Also on the eve of his retirement, […]

The Work of the Mental Health Review Tribunal

2022-23 Criminal Law CPD Series:The Work of the Mental Health Review Tribunal Professional Skills CPD Points: 1.5 About Balancing the competing priorities of offenders with mental health diagnoses, the community, and the criminal justice system more broadly, is complicated. At the intersection of those interests sits the Mental Health Review Tribunal. The Tribunal endeavours to […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Small business restructuring: The US experience

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Small business restructuring: The US experienceOnline event This webinar will consider the SME restructuring reforms introduced in 2020 in SubChapter V of Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code. The presenter will examine how the recent reforms have performed and compare this experience with other small business […]

[POSTPONED] Reflecting on 25 Years of the Young Offenders Act 1997 in NSW

Law Lounge, Level 1

Reflecting on 25 Years of the Young Offenders Act 1997 in NSWHybrid event **Please note that this event has now been postponed. A new date will be released shortly.** In April 1998, the Young Offenders Act 1997 commenced in New South Wales. It provided a legislative basis for the diversion of young people from formal […]

CBA and Crown Casino: Tales of Risk Governance Failures

Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed

Let’s Talk About Corporations: CBA and Crown Casino: Tales of Risk Governance FailuresIn-person event In this presentation Dr Vicky Comino reflects on the regulatory treatment of the CBA and Crown Casino and examines the challenges of addressing financial crime in corporate settings. She uses the investigations into the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Crown Casino […]

In conversation with Elaine Pearson

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

In conversation with Elaine PearsonIn-person event   Elaine Pearson will be in conversation with Professor Simon Rice and Dr Susan Banki on her new book, Chasing Wrongs and Rights, in which the Australia Director at Human Rights Watch shares her experiences defending human rights. Pearson, ranging across human trafficking in Nepal to the ‘drug war’ in […]

JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theory

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

JSI Seminar: Politics all the way down? A qualified defence of critical legal theoryIn-person event   In this talk, Dr Ntina Tzouvala sets out to defend the potential for legal theory of what Edward Said called ‘contrapuntal reading’, Louis Althusser (drawing from Jacques Lacan) described as ‘symptomatic read-ing’, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick denounced as ‘paranoid […]

Criminal Law Careers

Law Foyer, Level 2

Criminal Law CareersIn-person event   The Sydney Institute of Criminology will host a Criminal Law Careers Event on the 24th April, 12-2pm at the Sydney Law School. We welcome students interested in a career in criminal law practice to attend and learn more about the transition from University into criminal law practice, the requirements and […]

Stand-up, fight back: Defending protest in NSW

Law Lounge, Level 1

Stand-up, fight back: Defending protest in NSWIn-person event We know that activism changes history and the right to stand together and peacefully protest must be protected and defended for every citizen not pared back. Peaceful protestors should never face incarceration. Yet, both major parties in NSW joined forces a year ago to support draconian regulations […]

Reflecting on 25 Years of the Young Offenders Act 1997 in NSW

Law Lounge, Level 1

Reflecting on 25 Years of the Young Offenders Act 1997 in NSWHybrid event In April 1998, the Young Offenders Act 1997 commenced in New South Wales. It provided a legislative basis for the diversion of young people from formal court proceedings and introduced, amongst other things, youth justice conferences. A panel discussion involving key actors […]