SCIL News
Book launch: Commentaries on Selected Model Investment Treaties[17 April 2013]
Sydney Centre for International Law is pleased to announce the book launch of Commentaries on Selected Model Investment Treaties by Professor Chester Brown More
Opinion piece by Malcolm Jorgensen: Howard fails in his defence of road to war[17 April 2013]
In Malcolm Jorgensen's opinion, John Howard's decision to commit Australia to the 2003 Iraq war remains as indefensible as it was 10 years ago. More
SCIL International Law Year in Review Conference [5 February 2013]
SCIL is delighted to present the inaugural International Law Year in Review Conference on 22 February 2013. More
SCIL Talks: Big ideas from our experts in international law [5 February 2013]
Centre experts have presented four intriguing ideas in a series of short videos. More
Non-Legality in International Law [5 February 2013]
Associate Professor Fleur Johns' new book is an unprecedented study of that which international lawyers cast outside or against law. More
Refugees, Detention and the United Nations[21 November 2012]
Professor Ben Saul outlines his involvement in the case of two refugees in detention that has attracted the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. More
Does Australia deserve a seat on the Security Council?[23 October 2012]
Ben Saul examines the merits of Australia's performance as a good global citizen in the lead-up to the vote. More
Creating New Futures for All[23 October 2012]
Creating New Futures for All: Children, Youth, Disability and Situations of Forced Migration conference will be held from 28-30 November 2012 in the New Law Building, The University of Sydney. More
ASIO, Indefinite Detention and Refugees[23 October 2012]
Decent democracies do not tolerate indefinite detention without trial, based on secret evidence, merely because it is convenient, and whatever the human costs, writes Professor Ben Saul in the wake of the High Court decision concerning ASIO and indefinite detention of refugees. More
Trapped in the puzzle of security[8 October 2012]
Ben Saul writes in an opinion piece in the SMH that the focus on offshore processing has overshadowed a quieter humanitarian crisis in Australia's immigration detention centres. More
The Law of the Sea[27 September 2012]
Associate Professor Tim Stephens discusses public international law, national and international environmental law and the law of the sea with Margaret Throsby on ABC Radio Classic FM. More
The Persecution of David Hicks[13 September 2012]
The admission by prosecutors that evidence from Guantanamo probably would not pass muster in an Australian court is the closest we have come to a formal acknowledgment by any Australian authority that Hicks' military trial was defective by ordinary standards of justice, writes Professor Ben Saul. More