Informers Up Close: Stories From Communist Prague
Informers Up Close: Stories From Communist Prague In-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 …
Responding to repression and strengthening human rights systems | In conversation with Human Rights Watch’s Tirana Hassan
Responding to Repression and Strengthening Human Rights Systems | In conversation with Human Rights Watch’s Tirana Hassan In-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 …
2024 SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference
2024 SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference In-person event The annual SCIL Year in Review conference will host a number of exciting panels covering major developments in international law in 2023. Our keynote is the newly-appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism, …
Business and Human rights: Recent Developments and Comparative Lessons
Business and Human rights: Recent Developments and Comparative Lessons In-person event Given that human rights abuses-linked to businesses are on the rise rather than in decline, it is no surprise that ‘business and human rights’ remains a rapidly evolving research field. There are various national initiatives (e.g. the French loi de vigilance, one of the …
Black Internationalism and International Criminal Justice
Black Internationalism and International Criminal Justice In-person event What are the possibilities of international criminal justice being informed by epistemologies that emerged from Black and African intellectuals’ historical engagement with the concept of ‘justice’? This paper responds with an intervention rooted in Black internationalism focusing on Pan-Africanist thinkers. The goals are threefold. First, it …
Works-in-Progress Conference
Works-in-Progress Conference Hybrid Event Works-in-Progress Event On Thursday, 16 February, the Sydney Centre for International Law hosts its first-ever works-in-progress conference in association with its annual International Year in Review conference. This hybrid afternoon event features authors from around the world workshopping papers dealing with the situation in Ukraine and interstate dispute settlement (ISDS), two …
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 …
SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference
SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference Hybrid Event The Sydney Centre for International Law at Sydney Law School is delighted to present the eighth International Law Year in Review Conference, to be held at the Law School on Friday 17 February 2023. This annual ‘year in review’ conference gives participants insight into the latest …
Climate change – adaptation – resilience – Sydney Law School has a Plan!
Climate change – adaptation – resilience – Sydney Law School has a Plan! In-person event An event to mark World Disaster Day 2022 Book launch and art exhibition: Professor Mary Crock Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of NSW, will launch Professor Mary Crock’s (Sydney Law School) first illustrated children’s book and …
Underutilisation of ADR in ISDS: Resolving Treaty Interpretation Issues
Underutilisation of ADR in ISDS: Resolving Treaty Interpretation Issues Online event Over the years, it has become evident that arbitration is the favoured dispute resolution mechanism over conciliation/mediation in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). This is due to the benefits of arbitration (binding process with final, enforceable award) over the shortcomings of conciliation/mediation (non-binding process with …