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SUMMARY:The environmental damage of rare earth mining: Regulatory challenges in China
DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nRare earth elements (REE) are critical raw materials essential for manufacturing wind turbines\, solar panels\, and electric vehicles. As nations strive to meet net-zero emission targets under the Paris Agreement\, the global demand for REE is expected to surge in the green energy transition. However\, rare earth mining and processing often result in significant and sometimes irreversible harm to the ecosystem. \n\n\n\nChina\, the global leader in REE extraction and production\, has dominated the industry for decades\, largely on the strength of historically unregulated mining practices. This seminar will explore the environmental damage of REE extraction and production in China and examine the regulatory challenges in the implementation of permit control\, environmental impact assessment\, and eco-environmental remediation. By engaging with case studies involving courts\, agencies and procuratorates as well as the central and local governments\, we will gain a better understanding of the real-world complexity and the Chinese approach to pollution prevention and environmental remediation. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nYuhong Zhao is an associate professor from the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. She teaches Chinese Civil Law and Chinese Environmental Law on both the LLB and the LLM programmes. Her research interests are Chinese environmental law\, climate law and policy\, and comparative environmental law. She is the author of Chinese Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press\, 2021) and has published extensively with prestigious academic law journals on issues of climate change\, environmental enforcement\, environmental impact assessment\, environmental dispute resolution\, land contamination\, and biodiversity conservation. \n\n\n\nWedneday 5 March\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Room TBC\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\nThis event is proudly co-presented by the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney Law School\, and The China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/rareearthminingchina/
LOCATION:Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown\, NSW\, 2006\, Australia
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Democracy’s people
DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nIn the Voice Referendum\, one major reason for voting No was the conviction among some Australians that the Australian people ought to be seen as single and undivided; for these Australians\, the recognition of divisions within the polity would be inconsistent with the equal\, democratically-grounded citizenship of all Australians. \n\n\n\nIn this seminar I explore the relationship between democracy and how one defines “the people”. A common approach suggests that “the people” ought to be defined only by the scope of the institutions themselves. On this view\, for the purposes of democratic governance\, the people are a purely institutional creation\, formed by the rules that determine the boundaries of the state (“the institutionalist position”). A second common approach treats “the people” as formed exogenously. Peoples are defined pre-politically\, typically in cultural terms. Those peoples possess the right to self-determination; they determine their own political structure (“the culturalist position”). \n\n\n\nEach of these positions is over-simplified. I advance a “hybrid position”\, which recognizes (in response to the culturalists) that there are often multiple potential definitions of the people\, that “the people” is not purely pre-political\, and that the value of democratic self-government can help us to weigh those potential definitions; and (in response to the institutionalists)\, that democratic self-government is inevitably shaped by cultural factors\, and thus\, for reasons internal to democratic theory\, the structure of democratic institutions can legitimately include certain adaptations to those factors. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nJeremy Webber is Professor Emeritus of Law at the University of Victoria (Canada) and Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has written widely in legal theory\, constitutional theory\, Indigenous rights\, federalism\, cultural diversity\, and constitutional law in Canada and in relation to other countries (especially Australia). \n\n\n\nProfessor Webber began his career at McGill University (1987-1998)\, was Dean of Law at the University of Sydney (1998-2002)\, then Canada Research Chair in Law and Society at the University of Victoria (2002-2014)\, until he surrendered that chair to become Dean of Law at UVic (2013-2018) and finally Professor Emeritus from 2023 until now. He was appointed a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation in 2009\, Fellow of Royal Society of Canada in 2016\, and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne in 2023. \n\n\n\nThursday 6 March 2025\, 6-7.30pm AEDT\n\n\n\nVenue: Level 4\, Common Room\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1.5 \n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-democracys-people/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia
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SUMMARY:JSI Seminar | Polyvocal constitutionalism
DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nConstitutional theory increasingly recognizes that constitutional norms are shaped and implemented by a broad range of actors – at different levels of government\, across different institutions\, and from the “top down” and “bottom up”. Polyvocal constitutionalism of this kind also has a range of advantages: it has potential epistemic benefits\, can enhance the political and sociological legitimacy of the process of constitutional construction\, and increase support for core democratic norms. At the same time\, there is clear scope for debate about how constitutionalism should work in a polyvocal world: should poly-vocalism\, for example\, be premised on ongoing constitutional contestation or a preference for the resolution of constitutional controversies? And within this spectrum\, what values or ethos should guide courts as they engage with other actors: for example\, deference\, collaboration or democratic responsiveness? This article explores these questions\, and offers a partial defence of responsiveness as the most desirable model of polyvocal constitutionalism\, in a world of rich choice. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nRosalind Dixon is a Scientia Professor and Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law Sydney. \n\n\n\nFriday 14 March\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence at The University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/jsi-seminar-polyvocal-constitutionalism/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Professionalising bank culture
DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nThis talk is a critical examination of the cultural impact of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) in the UK and the Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR)\, recently expanded into the Financial Accountability Regime (FAR)\, in Australia. Though various reports in the UK and Australia have determined that these IARs are already starting to have a positive impact on the culture of the financial services sector\, there are also some indications to the contrary\, which are often minimised. \n\n\n\nDrawing on legal and regulatory theory\, criminological theory\, and behavioural psychology\, this talk explores how these IARs can work better in practice\, setting out a normative roadmap for both regulators and financial institutions to consider when implementing and executing these regimes. It explores\, for example\, the case for implementing a “process sandbox” to provide guidance on the operation and implementation of IARs\, where there is a lack of clarity as to how provisions of the IAR will be interpreted by regulators. This would provide the opportunity to increase mutual understanding of regulatory expectations thereby enhancing the probability that regulatory objectives will be met. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the talk explores the case for further professionalising the banking sector\, as recommended by the UK Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards in 2013 and the Australian Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking\, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry in 2019. In particular\, it employs regulatory theory (meta-regulation)\, behavioural psychology (groups as moral anchors)\, and criminological theory (stakes in conformity)\, to explore how increased professionalisation is a form of control and attachment\, creating particular group dynamics which can inform individual decision-making processes and help to generate more ethical actions to prevent wrongdoing. It is argued that professionalism can be enhanced by educational requirements that emphasise members’ commitment to serve a positive social purpose\, beyond profit-maximisation\, and through mechanisms for members to be disciplined by their community for failing to honour their duties. \n\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n\nJoe McGrath is an Irish Research Council Scholar\, an Ireland-Canada Scholar\, a Fulbright Scholar\, and an Associate Professor of Law at the Sutherland School of Law\, University College Dublin\, Ireland. He researches corporate governance\, financial regulation\, and white-collar crime. He is the author and editor of several books and publishes in the leading-peer reviewed journals in Ireland\, Europe\, Australia\, and the USA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday 18 March\n\n\n\nTime: 1-2pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is proudly presented by the University of Sydney Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/professionalising-bank-culture/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building (F10)\, Eastern Avenue\, Camperdown campus\, New Law Building\, Camperdown\, 2006\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Let’s Talk About Corporations: From Monopoly to Lego: Building a more competitive economy from the ground up
DESCRIPTION:In-person event \n\n\n\nIn his 2023 launch of Let’s Talk About Corporations (a series of boardroom conversations organised by the Sydney Law School and the University of Queensland Law School)\, the former Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission\, Professor Rod Sims AO called for a revitalisation and reform of competition law and policy in Australia.Join us for the inaugural Let’s Talk About Corporations event of 2025 with a talk by the The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP\, Assistant Minister for Charities\, Treasury and Competition\, Assistant Minister for Employment discussing the recent policy focus on fostering competition across industries. \n\n\n\nPresenter\n\n\n\nAndrew Leigh is the Assistant Minister for Competition\, Charities\, Treasury and Employment\, and Federal Member for Fenner in the ACT. Prior to being elected in 2010\, Andrew was a professor of economics at the Australian National University. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard\, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in Arts and Law. Andrew is a past recipient of the Economic Society of Australia’s Young Economist Award and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday 19 March 2025\n\n\n\nTime: 5-6.30pm \n\n\n\nVenue: Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus \n\n\n\nCPD Points: 1.5 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Let’s Talk About Corporations series is a joint project of Sydney Law School and UQ Law School.
URL:https://law-events.sydney.edu.au/event/monopoly-to-lego/
LOCATION:Common Room\, Level 4\, New Law Building\, Eastern Avenue\, University of Sydney\, Camperdown campus
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