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 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 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?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 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 jurisprudenceâ€. Its animating idea is as follows: The questions still left open in contemporary […]
2023 ADM+S Symposium: Automated News & MediaAbout 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 […]
JSI Seminar: The stability of bad thingsIn-person event Political philosophers have long been concerned with how best to ensure the stability of social orders. Stability is assumed to be a good, whether because whatever is good is better for being stably so, or because stability enables cooperation in the pursuit of whatever other goods […]
JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudenceIn-person event Modern jurisprudence has been tormented by a divide between description and evaluation in legal theory. Proponents argue that the distinction is essential to any clearheaded discussion of law itself and its relation to adjacent normative systems, especially morality. Opponents insist that being the necessarily normative practice […]
2023 Criminal Law CPD Series: Assessing witness credibility: Is it possible to tell whether someone is lying or telling the truth? Substantive Law Professional Skills CPD Points: 1.5 About Witness testimony can be extremely influential in legal investigations and trials; however, sometimes witnesses lie. Such deception can be detrimental to due process and can result […]
JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistanceIn-person event Victims of oppression are sometimes said to have epistemic privilege in virtue of their marginalised social position into the operation and impact of oppressive social structures. Epistemic privilege sometimes is cited as a basis for deference in social relations between victims and non-victims—for example, the […]
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Social enterprise law: A multijurisdictional comparative reviewIn-person event This 24-nation review of social enterprise law analyzes data developed by a team of academics and practitioners with deep expertise regarding jurisdictions on six continents. Each responded to the authors’ detailed questionnaire inquiring into the relevant jurisdiction’s legal treatment […]
The Charles Perkins Centre Annual Lecture 2023Public health sovereignty and public reason: A comparative perspective In-person event You are warmly invited to the Charles Perkins Centre Annual Lecture 2023 presented by visiting scholar Professor Sheila Jasanoff, the Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the Harvard Kennedy School. Drawing on varied policy responses to the Covid-19 […]
