Latest Past Events

2025 Sydney Centre for International Law “Year in Review”

Common Room, Level 4, New Law Building (F10), Eastern Avenue, Camperdown campus New Law Building, Camperdown

The Sydney Centre for International Law at Sydney Law School is delighted to present the tenth International Law Year in Review Conference, to be held at the Law School on Friday 28 February 2025. This annual ‘year in review’ conference gives participants insight into the latest developments in international law over the preceding year, including […]

Informers Up Close: Stories From Communist Prague

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Informers Up Close: Stories From Communist PragueIn-person event Informers are generally reviled. After all, ‘snitches get stitches’. Informers who report to repressive regimes are particularly disdained. While informers may themselves be victims enlisted by the state, their actions cause other individuals to suffer significant harm. Informers, then, are central to the proliferation of endemic human […]

Responding to repression and strengthening human rights systems | In conversation with Human Rights Watch’s Tirana Hassan

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

Responding to Repression and Strengthening Human Rights Systems | In conversation with Human Rights Watch’s Tirana HassanIn-person event The last few years have seen extensive human rights suppression and wartime atrocities. Selective government outrage and transactional diplomacy has carried profound costs for the rights of those not in on the deal. The drivers of these human […]