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Upcoming Events 2007

Sydney Centre for International and Global Law invites you to a Public Seminar

Shakedown: Australia's Grab for Timor Oil - Author Meets Reader

Speakers:        Paul Cleary (Author)
                           Professor Gillian Triggs (Discussant)
                           Dr Christopher Ward (Discussant)        

Abstract:

In 2000 one of the poorest nations on earth began negotiations with Australia over rights to the lucrative oil and gas resources of the Timor Sea. With the revenue from the oil and gas fields, the young democracy of East Timor would have a chance to secure its economic future – if Australia would allow it. In an ironic twist of fate, East Timor found that Australia, the country which had delivered freedom to the Timorese by intervening against Indonesia's bloody attacks in 1999, was now trying to deny it a fair share of the profits. In Shakedown: Australia’s Grab for Timor Oil, Paul Cleary, a former East Timor government adviser, gives a gripping, insider's account of the six years of bruising negotiations between Australia and East Timor that followed the independence ballot. This seminar will involve a presentation and discussion of Paul Cleary’s book.

Speaker:

Paul Cleary began his career as an Australian journalist reporting on economic and social policy, and on Southeast Asia. After serving a decade in Australia’s national press gallery, he was awarded a Chevening Fellowship by the UK Foreign Office, and after completing studies in London was appointed by the World Bank as an advisor to the Prime Minister of East Timor on the Timor Sea oil and gas negotiations. He now lives in Sydney.

Discussants:

Professor Gillian Triggs is incoming Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney. Professor Triggs has published several papers on the international legal issues raised by the Timor Gap Treaty and the Sunrise ‘straddle deposit’ and has provided advice to resources companies and NGOs on the advantages of joint development of resources to which there are disputed sovereignty claims.

Dr Christopher Ward is a barrister with a specialist practice in public and private international law.  He is the President of the International Law Association (Australian Branch) and represented Petrotimor and Oceanic Exploration, Inc in relation to Timor Sea issues.  He was co-author with Commander Chris Carleton and Professor Vaughan Lowe of a joint legal opinion prepared in 2002 on East Timor’s maritime boundaries.

This event is jointly hosted by the

International Law Association
(Australian Branch)

Sydney Centre for International and Global Law

Sydney Centre for International and Global Law and ISKRA (Postgraduate Research Students Discussion Forums)

invites you to a Public Seminar

The Globalization of Hatred: Incitement to Genocide and the Migration of Transational Legal Norms

Speakers:        Professor Noah Novogrodsky
                              

Noah Novogrodsky is the Director of the International Human Rights Program at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown Univiversity Law Center. He has lived and worked in the United States, England and South Africa. In September 2003, Professor Novogrodsky founded Canada's first international human rights clinic at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. In addition to Mugesera, the clinic was granted intervener status in Charkaoui, the Canadian Supreme Court case striking down the use of security certificates, Outside of Canada, the clinic has actively litigated an aboriginal title case in Belize, an educational equality case in Singapore, the criminality of recruiting child soldiers before the Special Court of Sierra Leone and a minority rights claim before the European Court of Human Rights.

The talk uses the case of Citizenship and Immigration Canada v. Mugesera as a lens into the adjudication of incitement to genocide and the migration of transnational legal norms. The case, in which Prof. Novogrodsky and students appeared as interveners, required the Canadian Supreme Court to evaluate the content of a 1992 Kinyarwanda speech delivered in Rwanda to determine the deportability of a landed immigrant. In the process, the Court overturned Canada's crimes against humanity standard and engaged in a remarkable dialogue with the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia. The talk offers a theory of horizontal adoption to explain the convergence and resistance to international criminal law in domestic proceedings.

This event is jointly hosted by the

ISKRA (Postgraduate Research Students Discussion Forum)

Sydney Centre for International and Global 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

(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)

For more details click here.

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.

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Sydney Centre for International and Global Law invites you to a Public Seminar

Should we still look to America? The Australia-United States Alliance

Dr Michael Fullilove

Abstract:

Many Australians appear to agree with a maxim ascribed to the Duke of Marlborough: that in every alliance one party wears the boots and the spurs while the other wears the saddle. In this talk Michael Fullilove will test this claim against the reality of the longstanding alliance between the United States and Australia.

Speaker:

Dr Michael Fullilove, Program Director for Global Issues at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, has worked as a lawyer, a volunteer in the United Nations mission in East Timor, and an adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating. Michael graduated in international relations and law from the University of Sydney and UNSW, with dual university medals. He also studied as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he took a master’s degree in international relations and wrote his doctorate on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s foreign policy. His dissertation was awarded the annual prize for the best international history thesis in Britain. Michael’s work has appeared in publications such as Slate, The Financial Times, The National Interest and Foreign Affairs, and his first book, ‘Men and Women of Australia!’ Our Greatest Modern Speeches, was published recently by Vintage. 

Sydney Centre for International and Global Law invites you to a Public Lecture

Making War a Crime

Professor Gerry Simpson

Abstract:

In the past two decades there has been a revival of interest in international criminal law. This renaissance has been stimulated by the wars in Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq, and the establishment of the world's first permanent international criminal court. This lecture will consider a particular, and perhaps idiosyncratic, project within this field: namely, the attempt to criminalise war itself.

Speaker:

Professor Gerry Simpson is a Professor in Public International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004) (awarded the American Society of International Law's annual prize for Pre-eminent Contribution to Creative Legal Scholarship) and is co-editor (with Tim McCormack) of The Law of War Crimes: National and International Approaches. His most recent books were War Crimes Law Volumes I and II (Ashgate, 2005) and he is currently completing two books: Law, War and Crime (Polity, 2007) and Iraq and Just War (ed. Ashgate, 2007). 

Free Public Seminar

Sydney Centre for International and Global Law invites you to a Public Lecture

The Role of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security and the Accountability Framework for the Australian Intelligence Agencies

Ian Carnell

Inspector General of Intelligence and Security

About the Speaker:

Ian Carnell, was appointed as the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security in March 2004.  The Inspector-General is an independent statutory position located in the Prime Minister’s portfolio.  Its responsibility is to ensure that the six intelligence and security agencies (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Defence Signals Directorate, Defence Imagery and Geospatial Organisation, Defence Intelligence Organisation and Office of National Assessments) act legally and with propriety.

Prior to this appointment Ian was Deputy Secretary, Criminal Justice and Security in the Attorney-General’s Department.  Additional roles included Chairmanship of the CrimTrac Board of Management and the Critical Infrastructure Advisory Council, as well as membership of the National Counter Terrorism Committee and the Board of the Australian Institute of Criminology.

A career public servant since 1977, Ian held senior executive positions in the Departments of Social Security and Veterans’ Affairs from 1985 to 1998.  This included positions responsible for administrative law, for policy and program administration and for fraud control and investigations.

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Sydney Centre for International and Global Law invites you to a Public Lecture

The New System of International Justice in the Wake of the International Criminal Court

Dr Luis Moreno-Ocampo
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

About the Lecture:

"The International Criminal Court is the first ever permanent judicial body vested with jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.  The court has recently embarked on its first prosecutions, with the trial of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo in respect of crimes allegedly committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including recruitment of child soldiers, underway in The Hague and arrest warrants having been issued in respect of two individuals in respect of the situation in Darfur, Sudan, and five individuals regarding the situation in Uganda.  An investigation into crimes allegedly committed in the Central African Republic has recently commenced.  At the same time as the Court becomes operational, further countries are solidifying their support for the Court and recognising its role in promoting peace and security and the rule of law with Japan expected to accede to the Court's statute shortly.  The Court's Prosecutor, Mr Luis Moreno-Ocampo, will address the new system of international criminal justice being spearheaded by the Court."

About the Speaker:

On 21 April 2003, the Assembly of States Parties elected Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo of Argentina as first Chief Prosecutor of the Court. Mr. Moreno-Ocampo has a distinguished career as prosecutor, trial attorney, university lecturer and legal strategist on issues ranging from international criminal justice to human rights law, corruption control and journalists’ protection.  From October to April 1984, he led the investigations into the case against 9 senior Army commanders, including 3 former heads of state, from the military juntas which ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1980. The subsequent trial, which was held between October 1984 and April 1985 and led to the sentencing of the 5 of the accused, was the first case brought against individuals responsible for mass killings since the Nuremberg Trial of Nazi officers. During the proceedings, Mr. Moreno-Ocampo presented arguments for 700 counts of murder, kidnapping and torture, calling 835 witnesses and citing thousands of documents.  He later prosecuted those responsible for mass killings during the 1987 and 1992 military rebellions in Argentina. For a decade after the so-called Junta Trials, Mr. Moreno-Ocampo was involved in several high profile cases of international criminal justice, including the extradition of the former Nazi officer Mr. Erich Priebke to Italy, the trial of Chilean secret police for the murder of General Carlos Prats and case against military commanders accused of malpractice during the Malvinas/Falklands war. A member of the global board of Transparency International, Mr. Moreno-Ocampo has also been a visiting professor at both Stanford University and Harvard University. He has resigned from all of these institutions in order to remain impartial during his tenure as Chief Prosecutor of the Court.

Launch of SCIGL Research Programme in Public International Economic Law and Discussion Paper Series

About Discussion Paper No. 1: “How and Why the GATT Works – Or Doesn’t”

The paper proposes that there are three essential conditions for the success of the GATT system: reciprocity, a strict prohibition on quantitative restrictions and a strict non-discrimination rule. The paper explains how deviations from these three rules threaten the operation of the system. The paper uses the framework to consider such issues as multi-functionality, special and differential treatment and preferential trading arrangements. For more details, click here.

About the Speaker

Dr Brett G. Wiliams is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law where he teaches on the law of the World Trade Organization.

About the SCIGL Discussion Paper Series:

It is intended that the SCIGL Discussion Paper Series will comprise republications of works of Centre Associates or publications of working versions of research which may later form part of a journal publication. The Discussion Paper Series for the Programme in Public International Economic Law will comprise both theoretical and practical legal analyses of issues in international economic law, including the law of the World Trade Organization.

Chair In Human Rights - Inaugural Lecture

On 6 December 2006, Professor David Kinley, Australia's first Chair in Human Rights Law, the Sydney Law School's Professor David Kinley, presented his inaugural public lecture tonight titled "Human Rights Fundamentalisms".
Further information is available here

Annual Clayton - Utz Commercial Arbitration Lecture

On 27 September Dr Karl-Heinz Bocksteigel delivered the 2006 Clayton Utz Lecture in International Commercial Arbitration, titled "Enterprise vs
State: The New David and Goliath?" Further information is available here

The Trial of David Hicks

As part of a CLE programme at the Faculty of Law, the Centre co-sponsored this seminar, held on Wednesday 19 October 2005, 5:30 pm - 7:00pm

Moving On: Forced Migration and Human Rights

** Papers from this event now available under "Publications" **

Date: A one-day conference on Tuesday, 22 November, 2005 in the theatrette of NSW Parliament House, Sydney

Keynote speaker: Dr Guy Goodwin-Gill, University of Oxford

Dr Goodwin-Gill is one of the world¹s leading scholars in international refugee law. Currently a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College at the University of Oxford, he was previously the Professor of International Refugee Law at Oxford, the Professor of Asylum Law at the University of Amsterdam, and worked for over a decade for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. He is the author of the premiere refugee law text, The Refugee in International Law, and was the founding editor of the International Journal of Refugee Law. He has published extensively in the areas of refugee law, human rights, humanitarian law, migration, terrorism and electoral law. From time to time, he also practises as a barrister from Blackstone Chambers in London.

Other speakers included: Justice Tony North (Federal Court of Australia), Rodger Haines QC (NZ), Assoc Prof Arthur Glass (UNSW), Assoc Prof Mary Crock (Sydney), Assoc Prof Susan Kneebone (Monash), Dr Pene Mathew (ANU), Dr Savitri Taylor (La Trobe), Dr JP Fonteyene (ANU), Dr Ben Saul (UNSW), Dr Jane McAdam (Sydney) and Jennifer Burn (UTS).

• Summary of Keynote Address (doc)
• Programme (pdf)

Corporate World and Human Rights

As a part of CLE programme at the Faculty of Law, the Centre co-sponsored
"Bhopal, 20 Years On: Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights Violations Today". The seminar was held on 1 December from 5pm-7.30pm.

10th Anniversary Law of the Sea Convention Symposium

This event, entitled "Strategic Directions for Australia and the Law of the Sea" was jointly hosted by the Centre and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
It was held in Canberra on 16 November 2004.
The Hon Alexander Downer MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs, was a keynote speaker. Other guests included Prof Ivan Shearer AO, Bill Campbell QC, Emeritus Prof Victor Prescott, Dr Greg French and Centre`s Director Prof Don Rothwell.

Australia's Antarctic Agenda

Invitation-only symposium involving Centre Associates and colleagues from the University of Tasmania. Various topics included Continental Shelf and Deep Sea, Bioprospecting, Climate, Whaling, Sub-Antarctic Environmental Management.
This conference was held on 4-5 November 2004.

The ACT Human Rights Act Seminar, Friday 29 October.

The Centre, in conjunction with the Gilbert+Tobin Centre of Public Law at the UNSW, held this event, entitled "The ACT Human Rights Act 2004: Australia`s First Bill of Rights", on Friday 29 October at Theatrette, New South Wales Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney.
Please click the link for a brochure.
Paper presented by Dr. Helen Watchirs is available here.

The Future of Refugee Protection in Australia

with Graham Thom (Amnesty International) and Dr. Mary Crook (Faculty of Law, University of Sydney).
This Thursday luncheon seminar was held at the Assembly Hall, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, on Thursday 28 October at 12.30pm.

The Legal Dimensions of Australia's Foreign Policy

A series of landmark public forums in the lead-up to the 2004 Federal Election at which Australian political leaders will present their views as to the interface between Australian foreign policy and international law.

Senator Aden Ridgeway (Australian Democrats) and Tanya Plibersek MP (Labor, Member for Sydney).
"Human Rights and International Law in Australia: At the Crossroads"
Senator Aden Ridgeway`s speech can be found here.
Wednesday 6th October 2004, 1.15pm

Senator Kerry Nettle, Australian Greens, Senator for New South Wales
"Australian Foreign Policy and International Law"
Wednesday 25 August 2004, 1pm

 

The Hon Alexander Downer MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs
"Harnessing the International System for Peace and Prosperity"
Friday 13 August 2004, 1.15pm

Clayton Utz/University of Sydney International Arbitration Lecture

Professor William R Park
"Apes, Neanderthals and Missing Links:
Evolution in International Business Arbitration"
Wednesday 11 August 2004, Banco Court, NSW Supreme Court

Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law
2004 Annual Conference, 18-20 June

Conference Program
Conference Information

2004 Julius Stone Address

Professor David Kennedy (Harvard Law School)
17 June 2004, "Challenging Expert Rule: The Politics of Global Governance"

International Law Seminar Series

The Trials of David Hicks and Saddam Hussein, 7 June 2004

Maritime Law and International Security, 24 May 2004

The Australia/US Trade Agreement, 12 May 2004

Why have a World Trade Organization?
Focussing on the Welfare Effects of the Law of the WTO

A Symposium jointly hosted by the Institute for International Business, Economics and Law and the Sydney Centre for International and Global Law
Wednesday, 25th February 2004, National Wine Centre of Australia - Adelaide
Papers presented at the Symposium are now available.