Latest Past Events

Julius Stone Address: The Legal Experience of Injustice

Camperdown Campus – venue to be confirmed

Julius Stone Address: The Legal Experience of InjusticeIn-person event In The Faces of Injustice, Judith Shklar criticizes the ‘normal model’ of justice which views injustice as ‘a prelude to or a rejection and breakdown of justice, as if injustice were a surprising abnormality’. Her central insight is that ‘the real realm of injustice … does not […]

JSI Seminar: Lawmativity

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

JSI Seminar: LawmativityHybrid event   Explaining the normativity of law – how it guides action by giving reasons – is one of the central questions of general jurisprudence. It is also one of the topics on which there is least agreement. In the first half of the talk, Alex Horne offers a diagnosis as to […]

JSI Seminar: Children, families, and immigration enforcement

Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School

JSI Seminar: Children, families, and immigration enforcementSpeaker: Associate Professor Matthew Lister, Bond University What might otherwise seem like straight-forward instances of immigration enforcement can give rise to both practical and moral complications when the objects of the enforcement measures are children and/or have close family ties to citizens or legal permanent residents. In the case […]