Just Cause Season 2 launch: Celebrating social justice at Sydney Law School
Just Cause Season 2 launch: Celebrating social justice at Sydney Law School In-person event Join us to celebrate the launch of season 2 of ‘Just Cause,’ a podcast created by staff and students affiliated with the Sydney Law School Social Justice Advisory Board. Learn more about the exciting new season and get a glimpse into …
JSI Seminar: Natural Law to Natural Rights to Human Rights
JSI Seminar: Natural Law to Natural Rights to Human Rights In-person event **Please note this event date has been moved to one day earlier than originally advertised.** Natural law and natural rights are frequently discussed as if they are tightly connected, and human rights are presented as natural rights in a new label. But the …
2024 Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law
2024 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. In-person event Sydney Law School is proud to host the annual Wingarra Djuraliyin public lecture, which showcases Indigenous perspectives on law. In 2024, the lecture is …
Julius Stone Address: Law, Philosophy, and the Susceptible Skins of Living Beings
Julius Stone Address: Law, Philosophy, and the Susceptible Skins of Living Beings In-person event Catherine the Great (apparently) wrote to the French philosopher Diderot something along the lines of: “You philosophers are fortunate. You write on paper, and paper is patient. Unfortunate emperor that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living …
The Past, Present, and Future of the Palestine Investigation
The Past, Present, and Future of the Palestine Investigation In-person event On May 20th, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan KC, announced that his Office had applied for arrest warrants against three senior Hamas leaders and two high-ranking Israeli government officials. This talk, which is based on Professor Kevin Jon Heller’s role …
JSI Seminar: Social Rights and Proportionality
JSI Seminar: Social Rights and Proportionality In-person event This seminar outlines a model of proportionality analysis for the adjudication of positive constitutional economic and social rights [hereinafter: social rights]. Three distinctions are the basis of this model: (i) the distinction between empirical and normative aspects of the adjudication of social rights; (ii) between the level …
JSI Seminar: A republican case for regulatory juries
JSI Seminar: A republican case for regulatory juries In-person event The idea of administrative juries was proposed by David Arkush in 2013, drawing on the republican revival in public-law theory. These proposed juries would make some key policy choices especially underlying delegated lawmaking in the US. The paper challenges some criticisms that have been made …
JSI Seminar: On Constitutional Review
JSI Seminar: On Constitutional Review In-person event Constitutional review is a continental European instrument of checking the parliamentary legislation for its compliance with the constitution. This practice has a long history traced from ancient Greek democracy to the French and American Revolutions up to the 20th century culminating in Constitutional Courts. The Czechoslovakian experience of …
Workshop: The Future of the Criminal Law
Workshop: The Future of the Criminal Law In-person event In the current moment, it is little exaggeration to say the criminal law, and criminal justice more broadly, is in crisis. In liberal legal systems such as that of NSW and other Australian jurisdictions, the idea of a minimalist criminal law (which maximises liberty for individuals) …
Peace in the Ancient Near East: Insights into the world’s first attested peace treaty
Peace in the Ancient Near East: Insights into the world’s first attested peace treaty In-person event This seminar gives some background to the first attested peace treaty in world history, between Ramses II of Egypt and Hattusili III of Hatti. This treaty survives in several copies, in two languages (Ancient Egyptian and Akkadian) and in …