17 January 2012
Welcome to the Sydney Law School events e-newsletter.
This edition covers events for the period 17 - 30 January, with a selection of other upcoming events now open for registration.
Unless otherwise advertised, events are free of charge and held at the Sydney Law School building on the University's Camperdown campus.
The majority of advertised events are MCLE/CPD eligible where they relate to your area of professional practice. Please refer to the individual articles below for points values and details, or click here to view a calendar of eligible events.
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Dr Rachel Armitage |
9am-5pm, Tue 24 January
This one-day conference will explore recent developments in crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) practice and theory and will bring together an exciting array of international and local academics and practitioners. National trends and local case studies will reveal different approaches and innovative developments in CPTED practice from numerous jurisdictions.
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4th ANJeL Australia-Japan business law seminar
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2-5.30pm, Sat 11 February
The fourth ANJeL continuing legal education seminar in Japan, aimed especially at Australian practitioners in Japan and Japanese practitioners interested in Australian law and the economy, introduces new Australian developments in labour law and consumer law, including dispute resolution aspects, and also comparing some developments in Japanese law and practice.
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International law and the periphery |
Fri 17-Sun 19 February
One year on from the 'Arab Spring', join us in Cairo to explore contemporary geographies of international law. The International law and the periphery conference will be held at the American University in Cairo, Egypt on 17-19 February 2012.
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Surveillance and/in everyday life |
Mon 20-Tue 21 February
The University of Sydney's Surveillance and Everyday Life Research Group is hosting a two-day international conference entitled, Surveillance and/in everyday life: monitoring pasts, presents and futures. This two-day international conference will bring together key international scholars, policy makers, practitioners, artists and social commentators to discuss the social, cultural, historical, political, legal, economic and technical dimensions of surveillance.
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Prof Nicholas Bala
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Distinguished Speakers Program: Professor Nicholas Bala
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6-7pm, Wed 22 February
Professor Nicholas Bala of Queens University, Kingston, Ontario will deliver the first lecture as part of the Sydney Law School Distinguished Speakers Program 2012. The title of the lecture will be 2011 family law amendments and family violence: has parliament finally got it right?
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Socio-legal norms in preventing and managing disasters in Japan: Asia-Pacific and interdisciplinary perspectives
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9.30am-5pm, 1-2 March
Early bird rates available until 27 January
This conference provides Asia-Pacific and social science perspectives on the preparedness for large-scale disasters and subsequent responses in Japan, focusing on the '3-11' events: the earthquake and tsunami that devastated north-east Japan on 11 March 2011 and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant radiation leaks.
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Prof Alan Sykes
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Research symposium on international economic law |
9am-5pm, Fri 2 March
This full day event on international economic law provides an opportunity to engage with new research in the field. Papers will cover a range of issues in international economic law. Topics to be covered will span international trade in goods, international intellectual property and international investment treaties.
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Drugs, crime and brief interventions for young offenders |
9am-5pm, Wed 11 April
This course will provide an update on the drug use of young people, available intervention options, and how those who come into contact with young offenders who use drugs may be able to provide helpful evidence-informed and brief interventions.
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Employment Relations and the Law 2012 |
21 March-30 May
This annual course of ten evening seminars provides an introduction to the regulation of employment and labour relations in Australia today. Topics covered include employers’ and employees’ rights and obligations under the Fair Work Act and the common law of employment, anti-discrimination law, occupational health and safety and the regulation of collective bargaining and industrial action.
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In 2012 we are privileged to welcome eminent law professionals from around the world as part of our annual Distinguished Speakers Program.
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Sustainable Development Law in China provides an introduction to the legal and institutional framework of environmental law and policy in China. It analyses Chinese environmental law and policy from jurisprudential and comparative law perspectives.
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In December the Sydney Law School hosted a workshop on 'Polar Oceans Governance'. Supported by conference funding from the Government of Canada and the Law School the workshop examined the governance challenges facing the oceans in the Arctic and Antarctic.
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