Sydney Law School in Europe includes four units of study for 2010: Plain English in Legal Writing; Advanced Obligations & Remedies and International Structured Finance Law and Practice and Comparative Climate Law.
Second year Arts/Law student, Ramya Krishnan is a member of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition delegation attending the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen.
Applications for The Justice Peter Hely Scholarship are now open. The Scholarship was established by the Law School through contributions from the friends and colleagues of the late Justice Peter Hely to promote postgraduate study in the fields of commercial law and equity.
Professor Gillian Triggs says students should be especially careful to choose a well regarded LLM course from an institution that has a high reputation in the national, regional and international context.
The Dean, Professor Gillian Triggs, welcomed more than 250 alumni and friends to the launch of Sydney Law School's Social Justice Program (SJP) on Thursday 19 November.
Professor Mary Crock told a Federal Parliamentary Inquiry that families are abandoning their disabled children in order to fit into Australia's immigration criteria.
Sydney Law School extends its congratulations to Georgina Lloyd (BSc 2004, MEL 2005) on her Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to continue her work in intangible heritage law in Cambodia.
Fourth year Economics/Law student, Steve Hind, and final year Arts/Law student, Naomi Oreb, will be on opposing teams in this evening's debate at the Seymour Centre, alongside some of Australia's top educators.
Dr David Rolph discusses the "super injunction," one of the most effective tools powerful individuals and corporations reach for when they want to silence the media.
Associate Professor Gail Mason delivered this year's lecture presented by the Criminology discipline at the School of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
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The Library and Teaching Complex of the Sydney Law School received a National Commendation for Public Architecture at the 2009 Australian Institute of Architects Awards.
Sydney Law School congratulates Professor Ron McCallum AO on his appointment as Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for 2010.
Mario Emmanuel (Commerce/Law III) and Samuel Thampapillai (Economics/Law IV) discuss humanitarian intervention in the context of the Sri Lankan conflict in the latest edition of Dissent.
The Federal Government has appointed Professor Belinda Bennett to the National Health Medical & Research Council Embryo Research Licensing Committee for the 2009-2012 triennium.
The Sydney Law School expresses its condolences to the family and friends of His Honour Judge John Golding, who died on the evening of Tuesday, 6th October 2009.
Two Sydney Law School students attended the roundtable discussions in Canberra last week between international students and the Federal Education Minister, Julia Gillard.
Associate Professor Anne Twomey says giving more resources to ICAC would be less expensive than conducting a Royal Commission, in the wake of the murder of Sydney property developer, Michael McGurk.
It may claim independence from partiality, but the Independent Commission Against Corruption has never been far removed from politics, according to Professor Mark Findlay
Profesor Ron McCallum says that while the Rudd Government should modernise thousands of state and federal industrial awards, there is no need to tackle it so quickly.
The Dean, Professor Gillian Triggs comments on the issue of legal recruitment both here and abroad in a studio interview with Law TV on Sky News Business Channel.
Associate Barbara McDonald commented on the NSW Court of Appeal's ruling against two police officer who developed post traumatic stress disorder following the 2003 Waterfall train disaster.
Dr Thalia Anthony was named Young Australian of the Year in 1995 for environmental activism but these days her battles are for justice for indigenous people.
The Dean, Professor Gillian Triggs comments on Sydney Law School's increased postgraduate enrolment numbers in the latest edition of Australasian Legal Business.
Sydney Law School is pleased to announce the visit of Professor Deborah DeMott, Duke University to Sydney Law School as the 2009 McWilliam Visiting Professor in Commercial Law.
As part of a new Honours system which will be fully implemented in 2013 (in which only the top 20% of graduates will be awarded Honours), the Faculty has decided to amend the rules for regulating the award of Distinctions and High Distinctions in its LLB courses.
Dr Thalia Anthony says there were tens of thousands of indigenous workers across Northern Australia who worked for no pay except for meagre food and clothes rations.
On Friday 14 August Professor Lee Burns attended a lunch in the Sydney offices of TressCox Lawyers to honour the two recipients of this year's TressCox Scholarship in Law.
Professor Lee Burns provided the introduction to the launch of The World Bank Development Report: Reshaping Economic Geography, held as part of the World Bank - University of Sydney Discussion Series last week.
Professor Joellen Riley says she has received wide support for a new law covering public holidays as part of her forthcoming review for the NSW Government.
According to Professor Lawrence Gostin, the Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University's Law Center, there are powerful reasons why rich countries around the world should care more about the world's least healthy people.
Company directors should not jump to conclusions from the ''very special circumstances'' of the recent case against former James Hardie directors, says the prominent Melbourne barrister Neil Young, QC, speaking at the recent Supreme Court Annual Corporate Law Conference.
Registrations are now open for the 2009 Sydney Law School Postgraduate Information Evening, which takes place on Thursday, 17th September 2009 from 5:30pm to 7pm.
The Sydney Writers' Festival in conjunction with the Julius Stone Institute, the Sydney Law School, and Monash University present a forum on judicial values hosted by Damien Carrick, from Radio National's The Law Report.
Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, The Hon. Murray Gleeson, AC (BA 1959, LLB 1962, LLD 1999) will deliver a lecture on the contemporary importance of statutory interpretation, as part of the Sydney Law School's Distinguished Speakers Program for 2009.
International Commercial Litigation is scheduled for teaching at Humboldt University in Berlin in September as part of the 2009 Sydney Law School in Europe Program.
Australia's leading tax law and policy program has been further strengthened by the appointment of the Taxation Institute of Australia's Senior Tax Counsel, Dr Michael Dirkis as a Professor of Taxation Law.
Chief Justice of NSW and alumnus, James Spigelman will head a corruption inquiry for the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, the first time a NSW Supreme Court chief justice has taken up such a posting.
Stafford Smiley, a member in Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, DC office and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Tax LLM Program at Georgetown University Law Center, will teach US International Taxation in semester two 2009 as an intensive unit of study.
Investor Class Actions, edited by KE Lindgren, Justice of the Federal Court of Australia and Adjunct Professor, Sydney Law School was published on 9 July 2009 by the Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law.
Vivienne Bath commented on the continuing incarceration of a Rio Tinto mining executive arrested in Shanghai by secret police on charges of espionage and theft of state secrets.
Professor Jennifer Hill compared the financial systems of the United States and Australia, in the wake of global financial crisis and Bernie Madoff's recent conviction and 150 year gaol sentence for fraud.
Five Sydney Law School students have been awarded prestigious prizes for their written submissions in the Jessup International Law Moot, including best overall respondent memorial.
Five Sydney Law School students have been awarded prestigious prizes for their written submissions in the Jessup International Law Moot, including best overall respondent memorial.
Sydney Law School and Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) will deliver its intensive course in Administrative Law for a second time in September 2009.
Broad cultural change in the police force, not token hiring of Aboriginal police, is the answer to improving relationships with Indigenous communities, according to Dr Thalia Anthony.
Professor Patrick Parkinsons said it was important to listen to children's voices and understand how they were experiencing the separation. But the ultimate decision should rest with the judge or parents, not the child.
The new Sydney Law School Building won several awards and a commendation at the 2009 NSW Architecture Awards announced in a ceremony on Thursday evening, 18 June 2009
In a submission to the national human rights consultation, Dr Ben Saul argues that politicians have too much power and deserve less, and judges have too little and should have more.
Sydney Law School would like to extend its congratulations to John North (BA 1975, LLB 1983) on his appointment to the District Court of New South Wales
Emeritus Professor Ben Boer examines global environmental politics, environmental ethics, public participation and access to justice, in the context of the debate on environmental human rights, in this new second semester intensive unit.
Professor Belinda Bennett provides a critical analysis of the legal issues relating to reproduction in this second semester intensive Health and Medical Law unit.
Professor Mark Findlay provides an examination of the the growing internationalisation of criminal justice, in this second semester postgraduate coursework unit.
Professor Henry T. Hu will deliver the 2009 Ross Parsons Address in Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law on 12 June 2009 titled: "Decoupling," Governance, and the World Financial Crisis.
Professor David Kinley writes on the trial of Royal Dutch Shell for its part in the torture, prosecution and execution by the Nigerian authorities in 1995 of the Ogoni 9.
This new Labour and Employment Law unit coincides with the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law XIX World Congress, to be held in Sydney in early September 2009
Rather than foster and support indigenous homeland communities and outstations, both the federal and Northern Territory governments have sought to undermine their existence, writes Dr Thalia Anthony
The Architecture Writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, Elizabeth Farrelly writes that the New Law School Building possesses "a town-gown interface whose glorious transparent walkways and subtle generosities effortlessly dignify staff, students and visitors."
New laws giving police the power to move on people who are slurring their words will cement a long tradition of criminalising Aboriginal people for public order offences, according to Dr Thalia Anthony.
Dr Brett Williams says that import restrictions on pork taken purportedly to protect against spread of swine flu are probably not consistent with WTO rules.
On 26-28 April, Professor Roger Magnusson attended and served as rapporteur for a consultation on public health law co-convened by the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO), the World Health Organisation, and the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.
Sydney Law School will introduce an important opportunity for students to gain practical legal experience and provide vital services to disadvantaged members of our community.
The assassination of a leading Afghan women's rights activist, Sitara Achakzai, this month was yet another tragic reminder that equality between the sexes is far from accepted in the world today, writes Professor Helen Irving
On 9 May 2009, Sydney Law School and Vanderbilt Law School will host an important Workshop on "International Executive Remuneration", to be held in Cambridge, England.
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Australia adopted, may provide an avenue to transcend the paradox in the Labor Government's Indigenous policy, according to Dr Thalia Anthony
Boat people might represent a political threat, but they are not a real threat to Australia's security writes Mary Crock, Professor of Public Law at the University of Sydney.
Postgraduate student, Joanna Obbink, presented a paper which was selected for inclusion at an international law conference held in New York State on 27-28 March 2009.
Associate Professor Anne Twomey says the impact of the High Court's judgement in favour of the Federal Government's $900 tax bonus will remain unclear until the full judgement's published.
The new laws passed by the NSW Government to target outlaw motorcycle gangs represent a concerning development, according to Sydney Institute of Criminology legal experts Professor Mark Findlay and Dr Arlie Loughnan.
Dr Simon Butt writes on the three Australians awaiting execution for their role in attempting to smuggle heroin from Indonesia into Australia in 2005, in today's edition of The Australian.
Sydney Law School is seeking motivated students to research and report on the banking sector for a CHOICE submission to a senate inquiry into banking competition.
Dr Murray Lee comments on the Justice Marcus Einfield sentence saying the fairness of the case inevitably rested on the context in which it was judged.
Associate Professor Anne Twomey believes the adoption of recall elections is a debatable alternative, following calls for it to be considered in New South Wales by the State Opposition.
Justice Gummow of the High Court recently opened a torts academic workshop at the new law school on the main campus, attended by leading torts scholars from around Australia and overseas.
Sydney Law School would like to congratulate co-author Associate Professor Cameron Stewart on the new third edition Ethics and Law for the Health Professions
Dr Ben Saul believes the confrontation between a US Navy surveillance ship and five Chinese vessels in the South China Sea exposed China's interference with the freedom of navigation by peaceful foreign warships on the high seas.
In association with the Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law and the Law Council of Australia, the Federal Court of Australia held a half day conference on Investor Class Actions on 10 March 2009.
Dr Ben Saul comments on objections raised by the United Nations against the International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
Semester One 2009 sees the return of a unit that has proved very popular in earlier years - Executive Employment - taught by newly appointed Professor Joellen Riley
Sydney Law School would like to congratulate Professor Ron McCallum AO on his appointment as the inaugural rapporteur to the United Nations Disabilities Convention
Investor Class Actions is a conference organised by the Federal Court of Australia in conjunction with the Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law and the Law Council of Australia.
Australia's tax policy has a negative impact on women's entire life cycle by making it difficult for them to work when they have young children, argues Professor Patricia Apps
A new postgraduate intensive unit will examine international petroleum transactions, taught by Professor John Lowe and Professor Owen Anderson from the United States.
Sydney Law School alumnus, James Cockayne is the inaugural winner of University of Sydney-WUN International and Comparative Criminal Justice Network Fellowship.
Associate Professor Patricia Loughlan says India's move to stop western drug companies from slapping patents on its medical treatments is a massive step forward for countries which are trying to protect their intellectual property.
Sydney Law School is pleased to annouce a new unit in Taxation, The Business of Tax Administration, taught by Mr Carson McNeil of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as part of its 2009 Postgraduate Program.
Sydney Law School and Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) are still accepting enrolments for its week-long Administrative Law intensive course in 2009.
Sydney Law School relocates to a new and exciting Law School Building on the University's main campus in Camperdown on 10 February 2009. The Information Counter will be open for business from 9am to 5pm on Tuesday, 10 February 2009.
Sydney Law School is pleased to announced a new specialised taxation unit, Japanese International Taxation, taught by Professor Yoshirio Masui from the University of Tokyo
The Dean, Professor Gillian Triggs, spoke of her aim to make law at Sydney "a truly international and globalised degree," in a feature article published in Campus Review
The law should be utilised to combat obesity by influencing healthier choices, rather than regulating individual behaviour, argues Professor Roger Magnusson
Sydney Law School would like to congratulate Professor Patrick Parkinson AM and Adjunct Professor The Hon. Justice Ronald Sackville AO QC on their respective Australia Day honours.
Natasha Simonsen (BEcSocSci '07, LLB '08), winner of the 2009 NSW Rhodes Scholarship, recently spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald about her experiences with working for the UN in Pakistan.
A team from Sydney Law School consisting of Callista Harris (4th Year Science/Law), Sofia Yiannikas (BA 2005, LLB 2007, Current Master of International Law (MIL) student) and Hamish White (BA 2004, final year Graduate Law) progressed to the international rounds of the Jean Pictet International Humanitarian Law Competition recently.
Madura Wijewardena (BEc 1995, LLB 1997) profiled in today's Sydney Morning Herald in relation to his role in the campaign for American President-Elect, Barack Obama
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Sydney Law School in Europe includes four units of study for 2010: Plain English in Legal Writing; Advanced Obligations & Remedies and International Structured Finance Law and Practice and Comparative Climate Law.
Congratulations to final year law student, Alison Eveleigh (BCom '09) on receiving an Internship from Reprieve Australia.
The most crucial issues facing people suffering from mental illness are their treatment and social functioning, according to Professor Terry Carney.
It has been 25 years since the worst corporate calamity of modern times, writes Professor David Kinley.
Second year Arts/Law student, Ramya Krishnan is a member of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition delegation attending the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen.
Congratulations to Zelie Wood (BA '06, LLB '08) on receiving a General Sir John Monash Award for 2010.
Sydney Law School would like to congratulate Andreas Heger (BA '06, LLB '08) on winning the 2010 Rhodes Australia-At-Large Scholarship.
Associate Professor Ian Lee of the University of Toronto will present this special seminar at the St James Campus next week.
Professor Gillian Triggs says students should be especially careful to choose a well regarded LLM course from an institution that has a high reputation in the national, regional and international context.
The Dean, Professor Gillian Triggs, welcomed more than 250 alumni and friends to the launch of Sydney Law School's Social Justice Program (SJP) on Thursday 19 November.
Associate Professor Cameron Stewart discusses the importance of medical patients having an Advanced Care Directive (ACD).
Professor Patrick Parkinson AM comments on whether religious organisations should comply with anti-discrimination law.
Professor Michael Dirkis comments on the Australian Taxation Office's unprecedented action against TPG over the $2.4 billion Myer float.
Professor Mary Crock told a Federal Parliamentary Inquiry that families are abandoning their disabled children in order to fit into Australia's immigration criteria.
Sydney Law School extends its congratulations to Georgina Lloyd (BSc 2004, MEL 2005) on her Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to continue her work in intangible heritage law in Cambodia.
A report by Associate Professor Anne Twomey suggests a state-based ban on political donations may be "constitutionally invalid".
Sydney Law School is pleased to announce this new unit as part of its Postgraduate Program for 2010.
Associate Professor Gail Mason delivered this year's lecture presented by the Criminology discipline at the School of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
The new Master of Global Law is profiled in the 2nd November 2009 edition of the Sydney Morning Herald.
The Library and Teaching Complex of the Sydney Law School received a National Commendation for Public Architecture at the 2009 Australian Institute of Architects Awards.
Professor Alvin Warren, Ropes & Gray Professor at Harvard Law School, delivered a highly successful Ross Parsons lecture on Monday 19 October 2009. 
Sydney Law School congratulates Professor Ron McCallum AO on his appointment as Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities for 2010.
Mario Emmanuel (Commerce/Law III) and Samuel Thampapillai (Economics/Law IV) discuss humanitarian intervention in the context of the Sri Lankan conflict in the latest edition of Dissent.
The Federal Government has appointed Professor Belinda Bennett to the National Health Medical & Research Council Embryo Research Licensing Committee for the 2009-2012 triennium.
The lessons of the Haneef case are being ignored, writes Dr Fleur Johns.
Dr Murray Lee says there is no straightforward relationship between high-risk predictors and future criminal behaviour.
Professor David Kinley's new book was recently launched in New York by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School.
The latest Faculty Research Report is now available to download.
Professor Helen Irving commented on the National Human Rights Consultation report, chaired by Father Frank Brennan AO.
Celeste Black on Sydney Law School's course in Carbon Trading.
Professor Mark Findlay says the costs of organised crime are largely speculative and that big financial collapses have a greater economic impact.
Dr Thalia Anthony comments on the recently released Federal Parliament Report by the Queensland Family Responsibilities Commission. 
A record number registered for this year's event, held for the first time at the Sydney Law School's New Building.
Sydney LLM Program Coordinator, Dr Arlie Loughnan comments on the growing popularity of this flagship coursework degree.
Two Sydney Law School students attended the roundtable discussions in Canberra last week between international students and the Federal Education Minister, Julia Gillard.
Latest edition of Architectural Review Australia profiles the Law School.
Join your alumni colleagues for a day of celebration, friendship and renewal of old ties at the University of Sydney on 19 September 2009.
Applications are now open for Sydney Law School's Offshore Program in Japan.
Profesor Ron McCallum says that while the Rudd Government should modernise thousands of state and federal industrial awards, there is no need to tackle it so quickly.
Find out more about this new degree as well as full details on the 2010 Postgraduate Program.
Associate Barbara McDonald commented on the NSW Court of Appeal's ruling against two police officer who developed post traumatic stress disorder following the 2003 Waterfall train disaster.
Alumnus, Cho Yuen Yee (BEc 1990, LLB 1992), is profiled in Malaysia's The Star Online.
New photography of the Law School Building by acclaimed photographer, John Gollings is now available to view online.
Sydney Law School is pleased to announce the visit of Professor Deborah DeMott, Duke University to Sydney Law School as the 2009 McWilliam Visiting Professor in Commercial Law.
On Friday 14 August Professor Lee Burns attended a lunch in the Sydney offices of TressCox Lawyers to honour the two recipients of this year's TressCox Scholarship in Law. 
Professor Lee Burns provided the introduction to the launch of The World Bank Development Report: Reshaping Economic Geography, held as part of the World Bank - University of Sydney Discussion Series last week. 
Dr Ben Saul argues that the killing of the Balibo Five occured in the direct context of a military operation and could be classified as a war crime.
Professor Joellen Riley says she has received wide support for a new law covering public holidays as part of her forthcoming review for the NSW Government.
According to Professor Lawrence Gostin, the Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University's Law Center, there are powerful reasons why rich countries around the world should care more about the world's least healthy people. 
Professor Jennifer Hill argues that the regulation of executive pay is not a one way street.
Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, The Hon. Murray Gleeson, AC (BA 1959, LLB 1962, LLD 1999) will deliver a lecture on the contemporary importance of statutory interpretation, as part of the Sydney Law School's Distinguished Speakers Program for 2009.
International Commercial Litigation is scheduled for teaching at Humboldt University in Berlin in September as part of the 2009 Sydney Law School in Europe Program.
Investor Class Actions launched by the Hon. Murray Wilcox QC.
Chief Justice of NSW and alumnus, James Spigelman will head a corruption inquiry for the Government of Antigua and Barbuda, the first time a NSW Supreme Court chief justice has taken up such a posting.
Dr Peter Cashman appointed to the Inaugural Kim Santow Chair in Law and Social Justice.
On Monday, 13th of July the Sydney Law School hosted Professor Peter Singer as part of the Distinguished Speakers Program 2009. 
Stafford Smiley, a member in Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, DC office and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Tax LLM Program at Georgetown University Law Center, will teach US International Taxation in semester two 2009 as an intensive unit of study.
Former Supreme Court Justice, Roderick Meagher is to bequeath his vast art collection to the University of Sydney
Vivienne Bath commented on the continuing incarceration of a Rio Tinto mining executive arrested in Shanghai by secret police on charges of espionage and theft of state secrets. 
Anna Rose, winner of the Young Alumni Award for Achievement, will be honoured at the Alumni Awards Ceremony on Friday 11 September, 2009.
Graeme Innes AM gives the innaugal Matt Laffan Memorial Address in Social Justice, with recollections by Nick Farr-Jones AM.
The new Sydney Law School Building won several awards and a commendation at the 2009 NSW Architecture Awards announced in a ceremony on Thursday evening, 18 June 2009
Professor Gillian Triggs met with Prince Turki al Fasail of Saudi Arabia during his recent visit to the University of Sydney
Sydney Law School would like to extend its congratulations to John North (BA 1975, LLB 1983) on his appointment to the District Court of New South Wales
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Justice Brian Tamberlin delivers this new intensive unit concerning the WTO Dispute Settlement Body (DSB).
Professor Belinda Bennett provides a critical analysis of the legal issues relating to reproduction in this second semester intensive Health and Medical Law unit.
This unit explores the ecological determinants of crime and its governance. 
Professor Mark Findlay provides an examination of the the growing internationalisation of criminal justice, in this second semester postgraduate coursework unit.
Australia's taxation system is sexist, according to Professor Patricia Apps
Professor Henry T. Hu will deliver the 2009 Ross Parsons Address in Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law on 12 June 2009 titled: "Decoupling," Governance, and the World Financial Crisis.
This intensive unit of study examines the design of Australia's GST jurisdictional rules and how they compare with international practice.
The 2010 Sydney Law School Undergraduate Guide is now available to view online or download as a PDF.
This new Labour and Employment Law unit coincides with the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law XIX World Congress, to be held in Sydney in early September 2009
Sydney Law School is pleased to announce the visit of Professor Malcolm Gammie CBE QC, a leading tax practitioner and teacher from the United Kingdom
Dr Brett Williams says that import restrictions on pork taken purportedly to protect against spread of swine flu are probably not consistent with WTO rules.
This new intensive unit of study explores the extent and mechanisms of harmonisation within the Asian region.
On 26-28 April, Professor Roger Magnusson attended and served as rapporteur for a consultation on public health law co-convened by the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO), the World Health Organisation, and the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. 
The University of Sydney's new Law School on the Camperdown Campus officially opened on Thursday, 30th April 2009.
Sydney Law School is still accepting applications for mid year entry into its Postgraduate Coursework Program.
Australia has one of the most signiļ¬cant stakes in addressing the problem of ocean acidiļ¬cation, according to Dr Tim Stephens
A law degree opens a world of career choices outside the practice, according to the Dean Professor Gillian Triggs and Lecturer, Dr Thalia Anthony
Applications are open for the Connecting with Law Film Competition, where students are invited to submit a short film about law or the study of law.
Dr Simon Butt writes on the three Australians awaiting execution for their role in attempting to smuggle heroin from Indonesia into Australia in 2005, in today's edition of The Australian.
A new unit in commercial dispute resolution is scheduled to by taught in May be some of Australia's leading practitioners in the field.
International Sports Arbitration is scheduled for teaching at Cambridge University in July as part of the 2009 Sydney Law School in Europe Program.
Dr Jacqui Mowbray is the recipient of the Teaching Award for 2008.
Dr Brett Williams will deliver two specialised units in WTO Law as part of Sydney Law School's 2009 Postgraduate Program
Sydney Law School would like to congratulate co-author Associate Professor Cameron Stewart on the new third edition Ethics and Law for the Health Professions
Professor Graeme Cooper says there's no silver bullet where tax is concerned, in reference to the Henry Review of Taxation.
In association with the Ross Parsons Centre of Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law and the Law Council of Australia, the Federal Court of Australia held a half day conference on Investor Class Actions on 10 March 2009. 
Sydney Law School is pleased to announce its Taxation Seminar Series for 2009.
The latest images of Sydney Law School's New Law Building are available to view online.
Semester One 2009 sees the return of a unit that has proved very popular in earlier years - Executive Employment - taught by newly appointed Professor Joellen Riley
A new book by Dr Tim Stephens provides the first comprehensive examination of international environmental litigation
Sydney Law School is pleased to host Professor Geoffrey Miller of New York University (NYU) Law School
The new Sydney Law School in Europe Brochure for 2009 is available to download
A new postgraduate intensive unit will examine international petroleum transactions, taught by Professor John Lowe and Professor Owen Anderson from the United States.
Sydney Law School alumnus, James Cockayne is the inaugural winner of University of Sydney-WUN International and Comparative Criminal Justice Network Fellowship.
Associate Professor Patricia Loughlan says India's move to stop western drug companies from slapping patents on its medical treatments is a massive step forward for countries which are trying to protect their intellectual property.
Sydney Law School is pleased to annouce a new unit in Taxation, The Business of Tax Administration, taught by Mr Carson McNeil of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), as part of its 2009 Postgraduate Program.
The latest edition of the Sydney Law School's Faculty and Alumni journal, JuristDiction, is now available.
Sydney Law School relocates to a new and exciting Law School Building on the University's main campus in Camperdown on 10 February 2009. The Information Counter will be open for business from 9am to 5pm on Tuesday, 10 February 2009.
Sydney Law School is pleased to announced a new specialised taxation unit, Japanese International Taxation, taught by Professor Yoshirio Masui from the University of Tokyo
The Dean, Professor Gillian Triggs, spoke of her aim to make law at Sydney "a truly international and globalised degree," in a feature article published in Campus Review
Sydney Law School is pleased to announce a new intensive unit in carbon trading as part of its 2009 Postgraduate Program
Natasha Simonsen (BEcSocSci '07, LLB '08), winner of the 2009 NSW Rhodes Scholarship, recently spoke to the Sydney Morning Herald about her experiences with working for the UN in Pakistan.
Professor Mark Findlay welcomes comments by the NSW Opposition to "end the law and order auction" in an opinion piece in today's Sydney Morning Herald