2009 Events
March | April | Sydney Law School Open Day | May | Prizegiving Ceremony | June | July | August | September | October | November
March
'Hearing Voices' The Incarceration of Women
Professor Phil Scraton, Professor of Criminology, Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast
- 1 hr 6 min 29 sec
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Credit Derivatives & the Credit Crunch
JJ de Vries Robbé, Dutch Development Bank FMO
- 1hr 27 min 50 sec
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April
Judging in the International Court of Justice and Other national and international Courts and Tribunals
Sir Kenneth Keith ONZ KBE QC, Judge of the International Court of Justice
- 1 hr 15 min 22 sec
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An Australian Bill of Rights? Learning from the British Experience
Professor Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics.
- 48 min 44 sec
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Israel's War in Gaza and International Law
Professor Yuval Shany, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- 54 min
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Trust in justice and the legitimacy of legal authorities
Dr Jon Jackson, London School of Economics and Political Science
- 53 min 27 sec
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The New European Private International Law of Obligations: Marvel or Monstrosity?
Andrew Dickinson, Solicitor Advocate; Consultant to Clifford Chance LLP; and visiting fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law
- 1 hr 5 min 25 sec
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Sydney Law School Open Day - 30 April 2009
Are Companies Capable of Telling the Truth?
A provocative seminar exploring the excesses of executives..
- 1 hr 5 min 35 sec
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State Building: the New Imperialism
Who are we to impose our ideology of democracy, human rights and the rule of law on foreign countries? Experienced panelists will discuss the morality of law and development.
- 1 hr 14 min 36 sec
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May
Current issues in International Commercial Arbitration
Professor James Crawford, SC LLD FBA, Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge
- 1 hr 24 min 55 sec
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Prizegiving Ceremony 2009
Prizegiving Ceremony Welcome speech
Professor Gillian Triggs, Dean of the Faculty of Law
- 14 min 07 sec
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June
Inaugural Matt Laffan Address in Social Justice
Graeme Innes AM, Human Rights Commissioner and Disability Discrimination Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission
- 1 hour 13 min 44 sec
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July
Ethics and World Poverty
Professor Peter Singer
Ira W DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
- 1 hour 26 min 32 sec
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A Republican Law of Peoples
Professor Philip Pettit
LS Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University
- 1 hour 35 min 48 sec
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Reasonableness in Law and Politics
Professor Wojciech Sadurski
Challis Professor of Jurisprudence, Sydney Law School
- 1 hour 06 min 06 sec
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August
Global Health Beyond the Millennium Development Goals
Professor Lawrence Gostin Professors, Linda D and Timothy J O'Neill, Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Centre
Professor Daniel Tarantola, Health and Human Rights, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales
- 1 hour 27 min 18 sec
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Resuscitating Lost Causes: Confessions of a Legal Positivist
Professor Tom Campbell
Director, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
- 52 min 47 sec
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Are the WTO Negotiations Leading Nowhere? Arguments for a Critical Mass Approach
Andrew Stoler
Executive Director, Institute for International Trade and Former Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization
- 51 min 13 sec
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Towards a New Form of Flexicurity?: Fluctuating Employment System in Japan
Professor Kazuo Sugeno
Professor of Labor Law, University of Tokyo
- 1 hour 01 min 04 sec
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September
Legal interpretation: the bounds of legitimacy
Mr Murray Gleeson AC,
Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia; Adjunct Professor, Sydney Law School.
- 1 hour 03 min 46 sec
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Common Law Right to Confrontation: Meanings and Myths
Professor Ian Dennis,
Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Criminal Law, UCL and Editor, Criminal Law Review
- 1 hour 02 min 43 sec
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October
How The Earth Became a Collection of Land Uses
Professor Mariana Valverde
Director, Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto
- 55 min 37 sec
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Guantanamo Redux: The Obama Effect and its Significance for David Hicks and Australia
Kate Eastman, Barrister
Geoffrey Garrett, University of Sydney
Katie Wood, Amnesty International
- 50 min 09 sec
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The EU Emissions Trading Scheme: What Can Australia Learn?
Professor Dr.Kurt Deketelaere, Director, Institute for Environmental and Energy Law, Katolieke Universiteit Leuven
- 1hr 27 min 03 sec
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November
Julius Stone Address: Ius Gentium and Forms of Modern Power: The Legacy of 16th Century Spanish Scholasticism
Professor Martti Koskenniemi
Academy Professor, University of Helsinki
- 1 hour 03 min 08 sec
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The Forgotten Freedom: Freedom from Fear
The Honourable James Spigelman AC
NSW Supreme Court
- 1 hour 14 min 48 sec
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Exploring the Horizontal Application of the South African Bill of Rights to Corporations: a Model for Australia and International Law?
Dr. David Bilchitz
Director of the South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC)
- 44 min 29 sec
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Reconciliation and Injustice in Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations
Professor Jeremy Webber
Canada Research Chair in Law and Society, University of Victoria, Canada
- 1 hour 09 min 16 sec
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