Intersections Seminars

As part of our aim of promoting discussion of jurisprudence both within and beyond the legal profession, the Institute holds regular 'Intersections' seminars. Each seminar is an informal, friendly discussion of issues in legal theory, based around a short piece of reading. Copies of the reading can be provided in advance on request, usually in electronic format. Everyone is invited to participate, and no expertise is required.

The seminars are held in the Minter Ellison Conference Room on level 13 of the Faculty of Law and last for approximately 90 minutes. Wine and cheese are served.

If you would like to receive notices about future seminars, contact the Julius Stone Institute.

Semester 1, 2008

The 'Intersections' Seminar Series has been suspended during Semester 1, 2008, but will resume in Semester 2.

The programme for semester 2 will appear on this website as soon as it is available, and will also be circulated to those on the Julius Stone Institute mailing list.

If you would like to receive notices about future Intersections seminars and other Julius Stone Institute events, please contact the Julius Stone Institute

All seminars will be held from 5.00 - 6.30pm in the Minter Ellison Conference Room, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, 173-175 Phillip St, Sydney.

Electronic copies of papers are available from Kevin Walton

Past Seminars

2008

Justice David Hodgson
Guilty Mind or Guilty Brain; Criminal Responsibility in the Age of Neuroscience

2007

Ben Saul,
Erika de Wet, 'The International Constitutional Order'

Jacqueline Mowbray,
Bourdieu on the Force of Law

Tim Stephens,
Richard & Val Routley, 'Human Chauvinism in Environmental Ethics'

Arlie Loughnan,
Intoxication and the Criminal Law

2006

Allan McCay,
Causation & Excuses in Criminal Law

Prof. David Kinley, Sydney Law School
Socialism & Human Rights

Dr Thalia Anthony, Sydney Law School
Comparative Analysis & the Sociology of Law

Dr Chris Birch SC, Sydney Law School
Death & Property

Kate Miles,
The Philosophy of Environmentalism

Dr Kristin Savell, Sydney Law School
Abortion & Morality

2004

David Goldman, Senior Associate, Deacons, Sydney
William Twining, Brian Tamanaha and Harold Berman on Reviving a ‘General Jurisprudence’ for Our Global Era

Richard Jones, University of Edinburgh
Who Regulates Cyberspace?

Jenni Millbank, University of Sydney
What is so fundamental about Marriage?Why should(n't) gay people be a part of it?

Luke Nottage, University of Sydney
Community and Modernity: The Hermeneutics of Japanese Law

Thomas Poole, University of Nottingham
What's God Got to Do with It? Waldron on the Christian Foundations of Equality

Alpana Roy, University of Sydney
Deconstructing Law: A Postcolonial Perspective

Caroline West, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Sydney
Justice as Fairness

2003

Kirsten Anker, University of Sydney
Chaos theory? Testing ideas of legal pluralism

Fleur Johns, University of Sydney
The Work of Legal Semiotics

Kevin Walton, University of Sydney
Chardonnay socialism: if you're an egalitarian, how come you're so rich?