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a centre of excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in international and global law

Welcome to the Sydney Centre for International and Global Law. The Centre was established in 2003 as a centre of excellence in research and teaching in international law.

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The Centre aims to provide a fresh focus for international legal research and practice in Australia. It operates within the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Law and builds upon the Faculty’s well-recognised history of research, scholarship and teaching in the areas of public and private international law.

 

The Sydney Centre for International and Global Law and the International Development Law Organization invites you to a Free Public Seminar on 22nd November 2007

The July 2007 Falconer Draft Text for the World Trade Organization Negotiations on Agricultural trade

Brett Williams , Senior Lecturer, & Programme Director, Sydney Centre for International & Global Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney

Paper presentation: 

“The Falconer Draft Text for the Doha Round WTO Negotiations on Agriculture – A “Ha’porth of tar” to save the Vessel from Sinking or Just a Dab of paint on an Irreparably Broken Hull”  (published in (2007) 30(2) UNSWLJ 368-408)

John Finn , Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of International Trade, University of Adelaide (on leave from position as Counsellor, Agriculture and Commodities Division, World Trade Organization)  

Comments on the Paper Presentation and some Observations on Negotiating Economically Useful Outcomes in the Real World of Micro – Legal Issues and Macro Political Factors

Date: Thursday, 22 November 2007
Time: 4:00 - 5:45 PM
Venue:

General Lecture Theatre N205, Main Quadrangle Building
Parramatta Road, Camperdown, University of Sydney

(Enter at the first Gate on Parramatta Road coming from the city, walk through the main (clocktower) archway into the main  quad, walk straight across to the other side of the quadrangle and look to your right to find the entrance to a corridor which leads to Lecture Theatre N205)

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RSVP: This event is free but RSVP to law.scigl@usyd.edu.au so that we can add you to our mailing list for future events.

In the Media

Dr Luke Nottage contributed the National Report on Australia for the European Commission's comparative study on "An analysis and evaluation of alternative means of consumer redress other than individual redress through ordinary judicial proceedings".
Report
July 2007

Dr Luke Nottage contributed the National Report on New Zealand the forthcoming OECD comparative study on "Reviewing Approaches for Improving Consumer Contracts" Project DTSI CP (2006)
OECD
July 2007

Dr Luke Nottage contributed part of the National Report on Australia for the Kyoto Comparative Law Center's comparison of "Representative Actions for Monetary Remedies", forthcoming for the Japanese Cabinet Office
(in Japanese)
July 2007

Dr Ben Saul writes in the Sydney Morning Herald about war crimes prosecutions for the Balibo killings,
June 2007

 Dr Ben Saul talks on ABC Radio about possible war crimes prosecutions for the killings of journalists at Balibo, May 2007

Dr Ben Saul provides a legal opinion to the NSW Coronial Inquest into the Deaths of Five Journalists at Balibo, East Timor, in 1975, on the International Protection of Journalists, April 2007

Dr Ben Saul provides a legal opinion on the prospects for war crimes prosecutions in Australia concerning the Deaths of Five Journalists at Balibo, April 2007

Dr Ben Saul makes a submission to a Senate Committee inquiry into cluster bombs, February 2007

Dr Ben Saul makes a submission to a Joint Parliamentary Committee inquiry into the Australia-Indonesia Security Treaty, February 2007

Dr Ben Saul talks on ABC Radio about war crimes prosecutions concerning the “Balibo 5” in East Timor, February 2007

Dr Jane McAdam & Associate Professor Mary Crock quoted in a Senate Committee Report on proposal to process asylum seekers who arrive by boat on Nauru, June 2006

Submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Anti-Terrorism Bill, November 2005

 

 

 

Upcoming Events

Negotiation and Arbitration competition

In December in Tokyo another "Team Australia" of law students from USydney, UNSW and ANU (founding partners in the Australian Network for Japanese Law - ANJeL) will defend the trophy won last year in a major Negotiation and Arbitration Competition. We welcome again any financial and in-kind support, including assistance particularly in practice arbitrations beforehand (applying the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts): please see www.law.usyd.edu.au/anjel/content/anjel_teaching_comp.html or contact Dr Luke Nottage (L.Nottage@usyd.edu.au).

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