Consultancy Information

Members of the Sydney Centre have extensive experience as consultants to or experts for governments, international organisations, non-government organisations and in courts and tribunals. Below are some of the services offered by the Centre:

• Legal Training and Education
• Research Consultancy
• Expert Opinions, Advice and Litigation

 

Legal Training and Education

Members of the Sydney Centre have extensive experience in designing and delivering practical legal training and education to a variety of different audiences, including government ministries and departments, foreign services and diplomats, militaries, police forces, non-government organisations, international organisations, and refugees, among others. In particular, the Centre has extensive training expertise in:

• international human rights law;
• international humanitarian law and military law;
• international criminal law;
• international refugee law;
• anti-terrorism and security law;
• international economic law;
• international law of the sea;
• World Trade Organization Law.

Research Consultancy

Centre members are available to undertake major research or policy studies, reports and reviews in a wide range of international law and law reform areas. Please contact law.scil@usyd.edu.au to discuss your needs.

Expert Opinions, Advice and Litigation

Centre members are available to provide expert opinions, legal opinions and strategic advice on litigation. A number of Centre members are practising barristers in Australia and in international tribunals, and some have extensive experience in international public interest litigation, including with the Oxford Pro Bono Publico and the Centre for Constitutional Rights in New York. Centre members have been involved in cases in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Israeli Supreme Court, the South African courts, the Australian High Court, and the US Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, among others. Please contact law.scil@usyd.edu.au to discuss your needs.

 

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