Professor Ben Saul and Dr Tim Stephens contribute to this new book which aims to provide a clear, balanced account of the science on climate change, how it is affecting the planet and Australia, and the policy options available to Australia and the world to deal with it.
Labour and the Opposition have made a right political meal of the appropriate response to the off-shore processing of Asylum Seekers, write Professor Mary Crock and Anna Boucher in the The Canberra Times.
Ben Saul is co-ordinating a complaint on behalf of 38 asylum seekers to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, after ASIO declared them threats to national security.
On 22 July, the Law School co-hosted with Harvard University and the US Studies Centre an international conference entitled: Fault-lines in Immigration Policy: The Harvard-Sydney Immigration Summit 2011.
On 16 May, the Sydney Centre for International Law presented a seminar on The future of private international law in Australia. Papers and a podcast are now available online.
On 22 June 2011, David Unterhalter, Member of the World Trade Organization will give a public lecture on the various aspects of disputes in the WTO dispute settlement system.
During May 2011 Centre member Ben Saul met Iranian President Ahmadinejad in Tehran, as a speaker at the International Conference on Global Alliance against Terrorism for a Just Peace.
Was America's killing of Osama Bin Laden lawful or an extrajudicial assassination? The answer depends on two key areas of international law, the use of force, and international humanitarian law writes Ben Saul in The Drum.
Dr Ben Saul writes in The Drum Opinion that the discrediting of a Sydney local council and the Greens for proposing to boycott Israel has been savage and effective.
In late February 2011, Associate Professor Ben Saul visited Cambodia as an international law delegate of the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London.
Associate Professor Ben Saul's research on anti-terrorism in law has influenced two recent decisions of foreign courts. In February 2011, the Appeals Chamber of the United Nations Special Tribunal for Lebanon drew on Dr Saul's research in considering whether terrorism is now a crime under customary international law.
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Professor Ben Saul and Dr Tim Stephens contribute to this new book which aims to provide a clear, balanced account of the science on climate change, how it is affecting the planet and Australia, and the policy options available to Australia and the world to deal with it. 
Professor Ben Saul represents David Hicks in his complaint against Australia to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva. 
Conference - International Law and the Periphery 17-19 February 2012 at American University in Cairo, Egypt