School of Law Seminars and Events
The School of Law hosts a vibrant research seminar series and public events with leading scholars, practitioners and members of the judiciary, from both Australia and internationally.
For details about our research seminars, public seminars and research events, please contact ºÚÁÏÉç Law.Research: Law.Research@ºÚÁÏÉçSydney.edu.au
Past Seminars
2026 Past Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 23 September 2026 | Associate Professor Jason Donnelly | TCXM and its implications for Australia’s migration and human rights frameworks |
| 17 September 2026 | Dr Lowell Bautista, Dr Maria Bhatti, Dr Engi Messih | Learning and Teaching Forum |
| 9 September 2026 | Professor Vivienne Bath | From ports to supermarkets – national security and foreign investment in Australia |
| 26 August 2026 | Professor Jason Pandya Wood | The Kindness Fix |
| 5 August 2026 | Professor Sarah Joseph | Trans and DSD women in elite sport: the human rights view |
| 10 June 2026 | Dr Shreeya Smith | The Constitution in Democratic Context |
| 27 May 2026 | Dr John Azzi | Pacta Sunt Servanda and Treaty Overrides |
| 13 May 2026 | Professor Gavin Phillipson | Freedom of Speech and the Channels of Political Change: A Representation-Reinforcing Approach to Hate Speech at Strasbourg |
| 29 April 2026 | Justice Leeming | A Conversation with Justice Mark Leeming |
| 22 April 2026 | Associate Professor Holly Doel-Mackaway | Operationalising Article 12 of the CRC: Child-Led Research Methodologies and Children’s Participatory Rights in Public Law |
| 8 April 2026 | Dr Daniel Bogea | Judicial Resistance in Times of Democratic Backsliding: On-Bench and Off-Bench Strategies of High Courts |
2025 Past Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| 26 November 2025 | Dr Fady Aoun (University of Sydney) | Charting the corporate lives and entanglements of imperialist companies: A poke into the UK Archives |
| 19 November 2025 | A/Prof Maria Giannacopoulos (UNSW) | Economies of genocide or colonial debtscapes |
| 12 November 2025 | Dr Armin Alimardani | Assessing legal minds: Law schools need to confront generative AI’s increasing sophistication in legal reasoning |
| 5 November 2025 | A/Prof Liesel Spenser | Lunchboxes and law: Comparative regulatory approaches to feeding kids at school |
| 29 October 2025 | Peter Leonard, former partner of Gilbert + Tobin | Use of AI in legal practice |
| 8 October 2025 | Professor Michael Head | Revolution, Marxism and law: Evgeny Pashukanis revisited |
| 20 August 2025 | Aanya Alchemist | Artificial intelligence and the way forward: Law, education, and human futures |
| 30 July 2025 | Judge Ben Zipser | Legal unreasonableness and judicial review: New kid on the block or return of the Jedi? |
| 4 June 2025 | Prof Michael Legg (UNSW) | Future of legal practice and law school curriculum |
| 28 May 2025 | Justice Hammerschlag and The Honourable John Sackar AM KC | Equity in practice: Judicial insights |
| 21 May 2025 | A/Prof Chantal Bostock and Dr Anna Rowe (UNSW) | Learning and teaching: Class participation in Australia |
| 14 May 2025 | Dr Imran Lum (NAB), Dr Salim Farrar (University of Sydney) and Tasnia Alam Hannan (UNSW/WSU) | Panel discussion on Islamic finance, ethics, and financial inclusion |
| 30 April 2025 | Prof Juliette Overland and Prof Rehan Abeyratne | Managing negative review reports |
| 2 April 2025 | A/Prof Carolyn Mackay (University of Sydney) | Digital vulnerability and the digitalised spaces of criminal justice |
| 26 March 2025 | Dr Francine Hug | The DECRA application experience |
| 26 February 2025 | Prof Jeremy Farrall (ANU), Prof Pete Danchin (Maryland) and Chris Michaelsen | Grants tips and skills |