Report launch | The risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing: A synthesis of evidence and the implications for Australia.
Report launch | The risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing: A synthesis of evidence and the implications for Australia In-person event This launch event will highlight the significance of the new report “The risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing: A synthesis of evidence and the implications …
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATO
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATO Online event The Australian Taxation Office is a creditor in almost three out of every four company insolvencies. Legislation in 1993 removed the last of what were seen as rights that elevated the ATO to the status …
Comparative History of International Arbitration: Australia, Japan and Beyond
Comparative History of International Arbitration: Australia, Japan and Beyond Hybrid event This hybrid-format webinar compares the historical trajectory of international arbitration law and practice in Australia and Japan in regional and global contexts. An aim is to explore the evolving images and contours of arbitration and scope for cross-border collaboration in promoting this popular but …
The Life and Death of States: Author Meets Readers
The Life and Death of States: Author Meets Readers In-person event Natasha Wheatley’s bold new book The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty (Princeton University Press 2023) rediscovers the multinational Habsburg polity as a hothouse for ideas that still shape our understanding of the sovereign state. The radical mismatch between …
Julius Stone Address: What is political progress?
Julius Stone Address: What is political progress? In-person event Progress is both a necessary and a dangerous idea. It is necessary if one is striving to improve the way things are, and it is dangerous because the pursuit of progress has historically often given rise to episodes of paternalism, colonial domination and narratives of …
Can we accommodate independent legal representation for complainants of sexual violence in an adversarial system?
Can we accommodate independent legal representation for complainants of sexual violence in an adversarial system? In-person event “The legitimate rights of the accused should be protected and fulfilled. So too the rights of the community.” – VLRC, 2021 Australia has not been immune from calls to strengthen its criminal justice system, with a series of inquiries over …
JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance
JSI Seminar: Epistemic privilege and duties of mutual assistance In-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, …
JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudence
JSI Workshop: Description and evaluation in contemporary jurisprudence In-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 …
2023 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law
2023 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law Sydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law. The Council of Australian Law Deans in 2020 expressed its commitment to a legal system free of systemic discrimination and structural bias against First Nations peoples – …
Meet the author | Reimagining Desistance from Male-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: The role and experiences of female victims-survivors
Meet the author | Reimagining Desistance from Male-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: The role and experiences of female victims-survivors Hybrid event Despite decades of research, our understanding of IPV desistance processes is very limited. In particular, understanding of the mechanisms that may account for why some men ‘stop’ abusing their partners and others persist, is under-developed. …