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Congratulations to Bega High on winning the 2012 Law Society of NSW... sydney.edu.au
Sydney Law School recently hosted the grand final of the Law Society...
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Vale John Mackinolty (LLM 1987, Hon Fellow 1991) sydney.edu.au
Alumni and friends of Sydney Law School will be saddened to learn of...
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Robert Bromwich, SC (LLM 1993) appointed Commonwealth Director of... sydney.edu.au
Sydney Law School would like to congratulate Robert Bromwich, SC (LLM...
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The Sydney Juris Doctor (JD) 2013
Last chance to register for this evening's Sydney JD Info Session - have all your questions answered about entry for 2013.
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The 2013 Sydney Juris Doctor (JD) Guide is now available to order or download online. The 44 page document outlines Sydney Law School's professional graduate entry law degree. The Guide includes information on the following:...
Law & Literature
Apply now for this early intensive - co-taught by author of The Reader, Professor Bernhard Schlink.
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Sydney Law School is pleased to announce this March 2013 intensive, taught by Professor Bernhard Schlink and Emeritus Professor Reg Graycar. The purposes of Law and Literature is to offer access to fundamental problems of legal...
Refugees, Detention and the United Nations
Professor Ben Saul is representing two refugees in detention in a case that now involves an ultimatum from the United Nations to the ...
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Professor Ben Saul outlines his involvement in the case of two refugees in detention that has attracted the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, the United...
New Technologies, Risk and Environmental Law
Next year we add Amsterdam as a location for the Sydney Law School in Europe Program with this new offshore unit in Environmental Law.
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This new offshore unit will take place in Amsterdam as part of the 2013 Sydney Law School in Europe Program. New Technologies, Risk and Environmental Law will assess the regulation of new technologies from a risk regulation and...
2012 Sydney Law School Postgraduate Information Evening
You can still register for tonight's Postgraduate Information Evening or turn up at the door.
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Attend the Sydney Law School Postgraduate Information Evening to find out more about your postgraduate study options for 2013. This event gives you the opportunity to talk directly to our experts about your postgraduate study...
2013 Sydney Law School Postgraduate Program
2013 Postgraduate Program and Timetable now available.
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Sydney Law School is pleased to announce its Postgraduate Program for 2013. Sydney Law School continues to offer one of Australia's largest postgraduate programs in law, with up to 180 units of study scheduled to be taught in...
Master of Law & International Development
We're excited to announce our new Masters degree which will be officially launched at this week's Postgraduate Information Evening.
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Sydney Law School's new Masters degree recognises the importance of law in international development while building on its reputation as Australia's leading Law School in international, global and transnational law. The Master...
The Sir Harry Gibbs National Constitutional Law Moot
More mooting success - Final year LLB student, Angus Abadee deserves special praise after winning national mooting competition by ...
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Congratulations to final year Economic and Social Sciences/Law student, Angus Abadee on winning the Sir Harry Gibbs National Constitutional Law Moot. The competition runs over a week and includes three preliminary rounds,...
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Australia is a worthy candidate for a seat on the UN Security Council, writes Professor Ben Saul. In an article for ABC Online's The Drum, Professor Saul examines the merits of Australia's performance as a good global citizen...
ASIO, Indefinite Detention and Refugees
"National security cannot be allowed to stand on the shoulders of everything else, including the right not to die in a detention centre, ...
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Decent democracies do not tolerate indefinite detention without trial, based on secret evidence, merely because it is convenient, and whatever the human costs, writes Professor Ben Saul in the wake of the High Court decision...
Faces of Nepal
Photographic exhibition at the Law School - 29 October to 9 November 2012.
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Sydney Law School will host a special photo exhibition by students of the 2012 Himalayan Field School on behalf of the School in the Sky Foundation. The School in the Sky Foundation was formed by students of Sydney Law School...
The legal framework for international sea rescue
Associate Professor Tim Stephens outlines Australia's legal obligations under the International Convention on Maritime Search and ...
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Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law, Associate Professor Tim Stephens, says the legal situation is not so clear cut when it comes to international sea rescue. According to reports, a former senior diplomat...
Australia's largest class action
"It's not an understatement to say that this will send shockwaves through the banking community," Professor Greg Tolhurst, Acting Dean.
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The Acting Dean, Professor Greg Tolhurst comments on the High Court's decision that ANZ's honour, dishonour or over-limit fees, charged when customers exceeded their account limits, could be characterised as a penalty rather...
The Sydney Juris Doctor (JD) 2013.
Don't forget to register for the Sydney JD Information Session, which takes place next Thursday, 13 September from 6-7pm.
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The 2013 Sydney Juris Doctor (JD) Guide is now available to order or download online. The 44 page document outlines Sydney Law School's professional graduate entry law degree. The Guide includes information on the following:...
Sir Anthony Mason and The Dismissal
Professor Anne Twomey argues that that reports suggesting Sir Anthony Mason set a precedent during the Dismissal are slightly ...
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Professor Anne Twomey comments on revelations by former Chief Justice, Sir Anthony Mason that he advised former Governor-General, Sir John Kerr that he should warn Gough Whitlam of his intention to sack his government in 1975....
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Dr Arlie Loughnan, Associate Professor Thomas Crofts and Graeme Coss have been invited to appear before the State Parliament's Select Committee on the Partial Defence of Provocation, chaired by the Reverend Fred Nile of the NSW...
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One of the most heartening aspects of the otherwise divisive debate on same-sex marriage has been the recognition on all sides of politics that marriage matters, writes Professor Patrick Parkinson, AM in an opinion piece for...
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Professor Ben Saul discusses the legal dimensions surrounding Britain's threat to enter Ecuador's embassy to arrest Julian Assange and Ecuador's granting of asylum to him in an opinion piece published in today's The Age....