Beyond the Pandemic: New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Dispute Resolution
Beyond the Pandemic: New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Dispute Resolution What are the current and potential repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, for international dispute resolution especially in the Asia-Pacific region? What are the impacts on regional supply chains and FDI? Will foreign investors really be able to bring many ISDS claims under investment treaties against …
SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference
SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference 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 21 February 2020. This annual ‘year in review’ conference gives participants insight into the latest developments in …
Protectors of Predators or Prey: Bystanders and Upstanders amid Sexual Crimes
Protectors of Predators or Prey: Bystanders and Upstanders Amid Sexual Crimes Speaker: Zachary D. Kaufman, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Law and Political Science, University of Houston Law Center In the wake of widespread revelations about sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, Larry Nassar, and others, the United States is reckoning with the past and …
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, …
Challenges and opportunities for Asia-Pacific international arbitration – symposium
Challenges and opportunities for Asia-Pacific international arbitration – symposium Building on Reyes & Gu (eds), The Developing World of Arbitration: A Comparative Study of Arbitration Reform in the Asia-Pacific (Hart, 2018), this symposium examines more recent challenges for international commercial arbitration (ICA), especially the proliferation of international commercial courts, the 2018 UN Convention on enforcement …