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Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2024: The significant origins of the modern corporation (9 October)
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: Non-consensual third party releases in insolvency - lessons from the Purdue Pharma Case in the US Supreme Court (25 September)
Book launch | Research Methods in Private International Law: Educating the Next Generation of Conflicts Lawyers (23 September)
Re-imagining the laws of nature – storying rules of hyperconnected futures (2 July)
How Canada Chose Exile: The decision to banish Japanese Canadians, 1946 (3 May)
JSI Seminar | Dominium in the Age of Neurotechnologies: Who Is the Subject of Neurorights? (15 April)
Let's talk about confidentiality: panel event on NDA use in sexual harassment settlements (6 March)
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Insolvency and Restructuring Reform in Europe: The Italian Experience (14 March 2024)
2024 Paul Byrne Memorial Lecture: The Rule of Law in Modern Australia (28 February 2024)
Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | A Comparative Consideration of Insider Laws of United States and Australia (8 February 2024)
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Watch on YouTube: Sydney Law School Distinguished Alumni Series: In conversation with Law School alumna Georgia Dawson (2 December 2023)
Watch on YouTube: The 2023 Kim Santow law and social justice panel: Is there a looming crisis in social justice recruitment? (30 November 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Navigating the Consumer Data Right: A Business Perspective (28 November 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Comparing Australia’s insolvent trading regime with New Zealand’s reckless trading regime (8 November 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Children’s Rights and Participation in Youth Justice Systems: An International Perspective (25 October 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Comparative History of International Arbitration: Australia, Japan and Beyond (21 September 2023)
Watch on YouTube: The Modern Slavery Act Review: Can the law drive meaningful change? (13 October 2023)
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Watch on YouTube: Copyright and Generative AI: Professor Mattew Sag and Dr Daniela Simone (12 October 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Law Reform & The PPSA: Why We Should Delete s 267 and Corporations Act s 588FL (3 October 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Corporations Law Lecture 2023: The responsibility of shareholders (26 September 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Criminalising Children: Should we raise the age of criminal responsibility? (19 September 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business Seminar | Insolvency and Tax Debts: the special position of the ATO (29 August 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Julius Stone Address: What is political progress? (29 August)
Watch on YouTube: Book launch: Comparing Online Legal Education (3 August 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Private International Law and Voices of Children (1 June 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar: The Parliamentary Joint Committee’s corporate insolvency inquiry (24 May 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Is sustainable finance nothing more than “woke capitalism”? (22 May 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Reflecting on 25 Years of the Young Offenders Act 1997 in NSW (3 May 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Stand-up, fight back: Defending protest in NSW (27 April 2023)
Watch on YouTube: The Voice Referendum - an information session (20 April 2023)
Watch on YouTube: In conversation with Elaine Pearson (19 April 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Small business restructuring: The US experience (21 March 2023)
Watch on YouTube: The Ross Parsons Tax Lecture | Income Taxation: An Institution in Decay – Still (8 March 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law and Business seminar | Development of the common law by analogy to statute (6 March 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Conflict-of-norms in the information society: national security and cross-border data flow (3 March 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Beyond Punishment Seminar: Transforming rehabilitation through digital technology (2 March 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Gender persecution: New frontiers in international criminal law (1 March 2023)
Watch on YouTube: SCIL Year in Review Panel: Russia's aggression in Ukraine (17 February 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Julius Stone Address: The Legal Experience of Injustice (8 December 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Kim Santow law and social justice panel: The promise and pitfalls of a marketised NDIS (1 December 2023)
Watch on YouTube: Building resilience in Australia's electricity infrastructure (10 November 2022)
Watch panel 1: Using the law to enhance resilience in the grid
Watch panel 2: Technologies for enhancing resilience
Watch panel 3: Planning for resilience in the future grid 2024
Watch panel 4: Building community resilience to electricity infrastructure failures
Watch on YouTube: Wingarra Djuraliyin: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law, First Law: A Climate Chance (8 November 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Theoretical Advances and Problems in the Sociology of Punishment, delivered by Professor David Garland (1 November 2022)
Watch on YouTube: In conversation with Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Governor of NSW (5 October 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Repatriating Cultural Heritage: Conflict of Laws, Archaeology, and Indigenous Studies (21 September 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Book launch: Gender and International Criminal Law (7 September 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: SPACs, Direct Listings, and SEC Reform (26 July 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Book Launch: Dynamic and Principled - The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason (6 July 2022)
Watch on YouTube: International Insolvency Research Symposium: “Insolvency Current Issues” (12 and 14 July 2022) | Program
Watch on YouTube: 2022 Paul Byrne Memorial Lecture, delivered by Justice Peter Hamill (22 June 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Trust in Knowledge Talks - Launch Event (19 May 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Pandemic Policing: Sydney Institute of Criminology panel discussion (18 May 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Legal Obligation of the Security Council’s mandate on the protection of civilians in UN peacekeeping operations (17 May 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Sharma: The future of climate litigation in Australia (13 May 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Distinguished Alumni Series: In conversation with the Hon Andrew Bell, Chief Justice of NSW Supreme Court (4 May 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Indo-Pacific Digital Trade and National Security: A China Context (28 April 2022)
Watch on YouTube: The Invasion of Ukraine: The Personal Cost – Refugees (13 April 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Central Bank Digital Currencies as a potential response to the financial inclusion challenges of the Pacific (5 April 2022)
Watch on YouTube: The Invasion of Ukraine: Legal, Political and Personal Consequences (22 March 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Sydney Centre for International Law Year in Review Conference (25 February 2022) | View the program (PDF)
- Watch the Keynote Address on YouTube: Public International Law and the Uluru Statement from the Heart (Prof Megan Davis, UNSW)
- Watch Panel 1 on YouTube: Australia's Year in International Law
- Watch Panel 2 on YouTube: Developments in Environmental Law
- Watch the International Law Literary Lunch on YouTube: “Non-Binding Norms in International Humanitarian Law” with author, Associate Professor Emily Crawford (Sydney Law School)
- Watch Panel 3 on YouTube: Developments in Private International Law
- Watch Panel 4 on YouTube: New Human Rights
- Watch the Book Launch on YouTube: Launch of “Non-Binding Norms in International Humanitarian Law” with author, Associate Professor Emily Crawford (Sydney Law School)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Reforming creditors’ schemes of arrangement: Lessons from the Netherlands (15 March 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Direct Jurisdiction in Asia (17 February 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Asia-Pacific Online Legal Education Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic (1 February 2022)
Watch on YouTube: Neurotechnology, Criminal Law and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (14 December 2021) Program
- Watch Presentation 1 on YouTube: NeuroRights: Human Rights Guidelines for Neurotechnology (Rafael Yuste)
- Watch Presentation 2 on YouTube: Mapping the emerging legal landscape for neuroprostheses: Human interests and legal resources (Jennifer Chandler and Tugba Basaran Akmazoglu)
- Watch Presentation 3 on YouTube: Neurotechnology’s Impact on U.S. and Australian Evidentiary Standards in Criminal Proceedings (Jared Genser and Stephanie Herrmann)
- Watch Presentation 4 on YouTube: Identity Integrity and the Criminal Brain (Fabrice Jotterand)
- Watch Presentation 5 on YouTube: The Human Rights Implications of Merging Humans and AI (Marcello Ienca)
- Watch Presentation 6 on YouTube: Neuroscience in the Dock: The absolute right to freedom of thought in the criminal justice context (Susie Alegre)
Watch on YouTube: ACCEL 2021 Distinguished Speaker Address – Can climate litigation save the planet?: the role of climate attribution science (9 December 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Vaccine mandates and public health orders: legal and ethical issues for business (9 December 2021)
Watch on YouTube: How Private International Law Can Make the UN Sustainable Development Goals a Reality (23 November 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business Seminar: Recent cases in banking and finance law (1 December 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business Seminar: Common mistakes in using national uniform legislation (25 November 2021)
Watch on YouTube: The Hague Judgments Convention and Commonwealth Model Law – A Conversation With Dr. Abubakri Yekini (11 November 2021)
Watch on The University of Sydney's YouTube: Public Lecture on Indigenous Peoples and Law: ‘Indigenous Women, Outlaw Culture and the Law’, delivered by Associate Professor Nicole Watson (3 November 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Cross-border flow of personal data: globalized Internet and fragmented (inter)national regulations (22 October 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Climate extremes on the road to Glasgow (18 October 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Private International Law and Intellectual Property: the ILA Kyoto Guidelines (15 October 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: The New Small Business Debtor in Possession Regime – Can it be made to work? (13 October 2021)
Watch on The Matilda Centre's YouTube: Addressing mental health and substance use in the youth justice setting (29 September 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Unilateralism in (International) Economic Law: The Case of Special Economic Zones (8 September 2021)
Watch on YouTube: JSI Seminar: Expertise for the End of History: The Rise of Comparative Constitutional Law in the 1990s (2 September 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Pandemic Pressure Points: Economics, Governance and Society in Japan (25 August 2021)
- Read the Japanese Law and the Asia-Pacific blog about the webinar.
Watch on YouTube: Beyond Punishment Seminar Series: The Role of Victims in the Criminal Justice System: Participants or Observers? (17 August 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Australian Criminal Legal Scholarship – Past, Present and Future (29 July 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Covid-19 in Asia: Law and Policy Contexts - China, Japan, Indonesia, and Malaysia in focus (27 May 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Julius Stone Address 2021: Can the People be Sovereign? (6 May 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Ross Parsons Centre Law & Business seminar: Re-examining India’s insolvency regime under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (3 May 2021)
Watch on Vimeo recorded by Insight Exchange: In Conversation with Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law (Emerita) Julie Macfarlane (28 July 2021)
Watch on Youtube: COVID-19, Criminal Justice and Carceralism: Launch of COVID Special Issue of Current Issues in Criminal Justice (29 April 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Law & Business seminar: Does Australia need a treating customers fairly (TCF) regime for the financial industry? (31 March 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Sydney Centre for International Law (SCIL): Year in review conference (26 February 2021)
View the program (PDF)
- Keynote: International Law and the case of Julian Assange
- Panel 1: Australia's Year in International Law
- Panel 2: International Criminal Law
- Literary lunch with Cassandra Pybus
- Panel 3: International Environmental Law,
- Panel 4: Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of people with Disability
- Panel 5: Private, Commercial, and International Investment Law
Watch on YouTube: Law & Business seminar: Recent cases on PPSA fundamentals (15 March 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Asia-Pacific Commercial Dispute Resolution in the Aftermath of the Pandemic (12 March 2021)
Watch on YouTube: Book Launch of The Vanishing Criminal, by Don Weatherburn and Sara Rahman (17 February 2021)
Australian Equality and Law Forum 2021 (26 November 2020) View the program (PDF)
- Watch on YouTube: Session 1: Race
- Watch on YouTube: Session 2: Disability
- Watch on YouTube: Session 3: Insights from race and disability equality advocacy
Watch on YouTube: Singapore’s insolvency reforms (25 November 2020)
Watch on YouTube: SME Restructuring and Insolvency (24 November 2020)
Listen to Protest in a time of pandemic on the School of Social and Political Sciences SoundCloud.
Watch on YouTube: Judicial oversight of insolvency practitioner discretions (12 November)
Watch on YouTube: Digital trade and digital sovereignty: Navigating best practice for cross border data transfers (16 October)
Watch on YouTube: Employees duties under Ch2D of the Corporations Act (14 October 2020)
Watch on YouTube: Schemes of arrangement and debt restructuring (28 September 2020)
Watch on YouTube: Exploring the impact of bankruptcy and other consumer debt options (14 September 2020)
Watch on YouTube: "Ross Parsons Law & Business Seminar: Exploring the impact of bankruptcy and other consumer debt options" (14 September 2020)
Watch on YouTube: "2020 Virtual Prize Giving Ceremony" (26 August 2020)
Watch on YouTube: "Ross Parsons Law & Business Seminar: Commercial leasing and the COVID-19 reforms" (10 August 2020)
Watch on YouTube: "Beyond the Pandemic: New Frontiers in Asia-Pacific International Dispute Resolution" (4 August 2020)
Watch on YouTube: "Ross Parsons Law & Business seminar: Continuous disclosure laws in Australia" (29 July 2020)
Watch the webinar: "The Future of Law Reform - Defamation" (produced by Wolters Kluwer, CCH. Link will expire after 6 months.) (27 July 2020)
Watch on YouTube: "National Security Law of Hong Kong: Legal and Social Implications" (head to the China Studies Centre podcast page) (23 July 2020)
Watch on YouTube: "Law & Business seminar: Re-packing the pre-pack? What future for connected party sales in administration?" (14 July 2020)
Watch on YouTube: "Law & Business seminar: The ever expanding compliance obligations of Australian Directors" (7 July 2020)
Watch YouTube: "Law & Business seminar: Reshaping insolvency and restructuring in the UK - The emperor's new clothes?" (30 June 2020)
Watch YouTube: "Law & Business seminar: Boards and AI" (16 June 2020)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Queer Law in Emotional Times" (4 March 2020)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Building safer communities - current and future trends" (24 February 2020)
Watch YouTube: "Law & Business seminar: Blockchain and company law: An EU perspective" (3 December 2019)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Future crime problems and security solutions - How to anticipate them and what to do about them" (25 November 2019)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Can we eliminate crime?" (4 November 2019)
Watch on YouTube: "Law & Business seminar: Insolvency and restructuring law reform in Spain" (30 September 2019)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Beyond Punishment Seminar Series 2019: Benefits of community based correctional orders" (24 September 2019)
Watch on YouTube: "Law & Business seminar: Trusts and insolvency in the High Court: The Carter Hold Case" (19 August 2019)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Social Justice Series: Law and social movements" (14 August 2019)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Social Justice Series: Using the law as a tool for social and climate justice" (24 July 2019)
View the program and listen to the recordings on SoundCloud: "Children, migration and the right to health conference" (25-26 July 2019)
Listen on SoundCloud: "The UNCITRAL Model Law on cross-border insolvency: Neither a law nor much of a model" (9 July 2019)
Watch on YouTube: Law & Business seminar: "Extensions of time to register on the PPSR: Recent cases and commentary" (29 May 2019)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Where are the Italian mafias in Italy and abroad?" (28 May 2019)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Beyond Punishment Seminar Series 2019: Aboriginal women in the criminal justice network" (23 May 2019)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Disaster in the Murray Darling Basin: Explanations and consequences" (9 May 2019)
Listen on SoundCloud: "George Winterton Memorial Lecture: The mysteries of judicial power: Defining the relationship between law and power in the modern state" (14 February 2019)
- Speaker: The Honourable Thomas Frederick Bathurst AC, 17th Chief Justice of New South Wales
Listen on SoundCloud: "Matt Laffan Memorial Address on Social Justice: Toeknism doesn't enable us to live our fullest lives" (27 February 2019)
- Speaker: Carly Findlay, writer and appearance activist
Listen on SoundCloud: "Manslaughter by gross negligence, or systemic failure? Implications of the Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba case" (8 November 2018)
- Speaker: Professor Ian Freckelton QC
Listen on SoundCloud: "Protecting children from unhealthy food marketing: Learning from the past, ideas for the future" (7 November 2018)
Listen on SoundCloud: "2018 Paul Byrne Memorial Lecture: Our First Nations People in custody: A national disgrace" (24 October 2018)
- Speaker: Phillip Boulten SC, Forbes Chambers
Listen on SoundCloud: "Public health law and health leadership in the United States: What can Australia learn?" (19 July 2018)
- Speaker: Professor Tina Hunter, University of Aberdeen
Listen on SoundCloud: "2018 Prize Giving Ceremony: student address delivered by University Medallist for Law, Zubin Bilimoria" (31 May 2018)
Listen on SoundCloud: "The role of sovereignty in Indigenous child welfare" (18 April 2018)
- Speaker: Professor Marcia Zug, University of South Carolina
Listen on SoundCloud: "Percy Valentine Storkey - the Sydney law student who won a Victoria Cross" (11 April 2018)
- Commemorative address by Rear Admiral the Hon. Justice M.J. Slattery RANR. View the presentation slides.
Listen on SoundCloud: "Distinguished Speaker Lecture: Sticky Citizenship" (15 March 2018)
- Speaker: Professor Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto
Listen on SoundCloud: "Beyond Punishment Seminar Series: Technologies in prisons: Digital interfaces for prisoners" (18 October 2017)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Racist stereotypes, resistance and reclaiming dignity" (6 July 2017)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Penal populism: The end of reason" (18 May 2017)
- Speaker: Professor John Pratt, Victoria University of Wellington
Listen on SoundCloud: "2017 Prize Giving Ceremony: Welcome speech by Dean and Head of Sydney Law School, Prof Joellen Riley" (25 May 2017)
Listen on SoundCloud: "2017 Prize Giving Ceremony: Student address delivered by University Medallist for Law, Daniel Farinha" (25 May 2017)
Listen on SoundCloud: "Distinguished Speaker Lecture: The Trump transition and American administrative law" (20 March 2017)
- Speaker: Professor Peter Strauss, Columbia Law School
Listen on SoundCloud: "Distinguished Speaker Lecture: Gamblers and gentlefolk: Money, law and status in Trollope's England" (30 March 2017)
- Speaker: Professor Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics