Working papers
The Sydney Centre Working Papers Series publishes works in progress and pre-publication versions of research papers by Centre members.
Working Paper #31
Free Trade Agreement and Investment Treaty Innovations to Promote More Sustainable Financial Markets for Consumers
Professor Luke Nottage Nottage (manuscript for: Claudia Lima Marques et al (eds) The Global Financial Crisis and the Need for Consumer Regulation (Porto Alegre: Orquestra Editora, 2012) 493-500)
Working Paper #30
Innovative Mechanisms for Resolving or Avoiding Inter-State Trade Disputes in an Asia-Pacific Regional Free Trade Agreement
Dr Brett Williams, February 2012
Working Paper #29
Consumer product safety regulation and investor-state arbitration policy and practice after Philip Morris Asia v Australia
Dr Luke Nottage, August 2011
Working Paper #28
Drafting Arbitration Clauses to Minimise Costs and Delays in International Commercial Arbitration: An Asia-Pacific Perspective
Dr Luke Nottage, June 2011
Working Paper #27
The role of Practice in Legal Education:National Report for Australia
Justice James Douglas and Dr Luke Nottage, April 2010
Working Paper #26
Proposed Australian (and Canadian) Requirements to Disclose Consumer Product Related Accidents: Better Late than Never?
Luke Nottage, April 2010
Working Paper #25
Law, Public Policy and Economics in Japan and Australia: Reviewing Bilateral Relations and Commercial Regulation in 2009
Luke Nottage, August 2009
Working Paper #24
Consumer Law Reform in Australia: Contemporary and Comparative Constructive Criticism (revised and updated version published in 9(2) QUT Law and Justice Journal (2009) 111-136)
Luke Nottage, August 2009
Working Paper #23
Developments in International Commercial Arbitration: The Regulatory Framework
James Crawford, June 2009 updated in Luke Nottage & Richard Garnett (eds) "International Arbitration in Australia", Federation Press, November 2010, chapter 11
Working Paper #22
Comparing ADR in Australia and New Zealand: Introduction and Update
Luke Nottage, May 2009
Working Paper #21
Investment Arbitration for Japan and Asia: Five Perspectives on Law and Practice
Luke Nottage and Romesh Weeramantry, March 2009 (partially updated November 2010)
Working Paper #20
The Top Twenty Things to Change In or Around Australia’s International Arbitration Act (revised and updated version
published in 6 Asian International Arbitration Journal (2010) 1-43)
and further updated in Luke Nottage & Richard Garnett (eds) "International Arbitration in Australia", Federation Press, November 2010, chapter 8
Summary available here
Working Paper #19
Economics, Politics, Public Policy and Law in Japan, Australasia and the Pacific: Corporate Governance, Financial Crisis and Consumer Product Safety in 2008
Luke Nottage, November 2008
Working Paper #18
Human Rights Criticism of the World Bank's Private Sector Development and Privatization Projects
David Kinley and Tom Davis, February 2004
Working Paper #17
Viet Nam, Human Rights and Trade: Implications of Viet Nam's Accession to the WTO
David Kinley and Hai Thanh Nguyen, March 2008
Working Paper #16
Human Rights, Globalization and the Rule of Law: Friends, Foes or Family?
David Kinley, April 2003
Working Paper #15
Lawyers, Corporations and International Human Rights Law
David Kinley, 2004
Working Paper #14
Trading and Aiding Human Rights: Corporations in the Global Economy
David Kinley and Justine Nolan, January 2008
Working Paper #13
Engaging a Pariah: Human Rights Training in Burma/Myanmar
David Kinley and Trevor Wilson, May 2007
Working Paper #12
Human Rights and the World Bank: Practice, Politics, and Law
David Kinley, November 2006
Working Paper #11
From Talk to Walk: The Emergence of Human Rights Responsibilities for Corporations at International Law
David Kinley and Junko Tadaki, June 2004
Working Paper #10
Human Rights Fundamentalisms
David Kinley, December 2007
Working Paper #9
The UN Human Rights Norms for Corporations: The Private Implications of Public International Law
David Kinley and Rachel Chambers, October 2006
Working Paper #8
The politics of corporate social responsibility: Reflections on the United Nations Human Rights Norms for Corporations
David Kinley, Justine Nolan and Natalie Zerial, February 2007
Working Paper #7
The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts: What Do They Mean for Australia?
Michael Joachim Bonell, The Hon Justice Paul Finn, Adjunct Professor Don Robertson & Dr Luke Nottage, Seminar Papers (June 2008) Updated for the Australian Journal of International Law, 2010
Working Paper #6
Reforming International Commercial Arbitration (ICA) Law: The United Nations, New Zealand – Why Not Australia?
Associate Professor Luke Nottage, June 2008
Working Paper #5
Dumplings and Dodgy Foods in Japan: Implications for the Australia-Japan Free Trade Agreement
Associate Professor Luke Nottage and Joel Rheuben, June 2008
Working Paper #4
An Insecure Climate for Human Security?
Climate-Induced Displacement and International Law
Dr Jane McAdam and Dr Ben Saul, May 2008
Working Paper #3
Protecting Refugees in the Global “War on Terror”
Dr Ben Saul, January 2008
Working Paper #2
Between the Crime and the War Falls the Terror: Comment on Thomas v Mowbray
Dr Ben Saul, December 2007
Working Paper #1
The 8 February 08 Falconer Draft Text for the Doha Round WTO Negotiations on Agriculture
Dr Brett Williams, February 2008