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Black Internationalism and International Criminal Justice

Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed

Black Internationalism and International Criminal JusticeIn-person event   What are the possibilities of international criminal justice being informed by epistemologies that emerged from Black and African intellectuals’ historical engagement with the concept of ‘justice’? This paper responds with an intervention rooted in Black internationalism focusing on Pan-Africanist thinkers. The goals are threefold. First, it tentatively […]

Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate law

Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking federal enforcement of corporate lawOnline event In this seminar, Kerry Abadee will consider proposals for the reform of the regulatory architecture including the Hayne Royal Commission’s proposal for a new federal civil law enforcement body for corporate law. About the speakers Kerry Abadee Kerry is a graduate of Macquarie University […]

JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courts

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

JSI Seminar: Crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence in constitutional courtsIn-person event In Judgment SU-151/2020 the Constitutional Court of Colombia rendered its decision on a constitutional complaint of a group of journalists. They claim that in certain criminal cases concerning possible corruption by government officials, prosecutors and judges were unsatisfyingly prohibiting the press to attend public criminal […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry

Law Lounge, Level 1

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiryHybrid event This event will discuss the submissions made to the Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry that is due to release its report at the end of May. The speakers will consider the range of submissions made to the inquiry and […]

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking Stock

Corrs, Chambers Westgarth

Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Five Years of Crowd-Sourced Funding in Australia: Taking StockIn-person event ‘Crowd-sourced funding’ is a new form of online venture capital stock market, open to all investors—retail and wholesale—that was only legally authorised in Australia five years ago. It’s like Kickstarter, except the backer gets a share in the […]

Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual Causes

King & Wood Mallesons

Unnecessary and Insufficient Factual CausesIn-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 […]

Unpicking torts: Elements, standing requirements and conditions of actionability

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Unpicking torts: Elements, standing requirements and conditions of actionabilityIn-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 […]

Private International Law and Voices of Children

Private International Law and Voices of ChildrenOnline 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 […]

Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking accessorial liability in corporate law

Let’s Talk About Corporations: Rethinking accessorial liability in corporate lawOnline 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 the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). A review of recent cases will be undertaken with […]

JSI Seminar | Legalizing Assisted Dying: Are We On A Slippery Slope To Involuntary Euthanasia?

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, the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 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 […]

JSI Workshop | Towards a Moralisation of Jurisprudence? Reflections on the Future of Legal Philosophy

JSI Workshop | Towards a Moralisation of Jurisprudence? Reflections on the Future of Legal PhilosophyIn-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 “The moralisation of jurisprudence”. Its animating idea is as follows: The questions still left open in contemporary […]