Gender persecution: New frontiers in international criminal law
Gender persecution: New frontiers in international criminal law In-person event The Sydney Centre for International Law warmly invites Sydney Law School staff, students and external guests to this conversation on the crime against humanity of ‘gender persecution’, which is currently being prosecuted for the first time in the International Criminal Court. This event is …
Climate litigation against companies in a comparative perspective
Climate litigation against companies in a comparative perspective In-person event In this seminar, Prof M Marc-Philippe Weller (Heidelberg University) takes the spectacular 2021 Milieudefensie v Shell ruling from a first instance court in The Hague as an opportunity to identify cross-jurisdictional problems of civil climate change litigation from a comparative perspective. The Shell case was the first …
Book launch: Gender and International Criminal Law
Book launch: Gender and International Criminal Law Sydney Centre for International Law is excited to host a panel on the new book ‘Gender and International Criminal Law’ (Oxford University Press 2022), edited by Indira Rosenthal, Valerie Oosterveld, and Susana SáCouto. In this panel, participants will hear from some of the book’s Australian authors and participate …
Sydney Centre for International Law (SCIL): “year in review” conference
Sydney Centre for International Law (SCIL): “year in review” conference SCIL’s annual ‘year in review’ conference explores the developments in international law over the preceding year, especially those most salient for Australia. Join us for presentations on: “International law and the case of Julian Assange”, by Jennifer Robinson (Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers; Counsel for …
Gender-based crimes in the Khmer Rouge period: Justice and Healing
Gender-based crimes in the Khmer Rouge period: Justice and Healing In this public lecture, Cambodian psychotherapist Yim Sotheary will reflect on working with survivors of Khmer-Rouge era sexual and gender-based crimes. She will be introduced by SSEAC Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Rosemary Grey (Sydney Law School), whose research focuses on the prosecution of war crimes, …