Strength-based governance and culture change in UK Prisons
The presentation will be a summary of my new book “The Social Contagion of Hope” which examines the ways that communities can support inclusion and reintegration of marginalised groups such as offenders and drug users. The focus is on developing a method to promote and sustain active community engagement in creating pathways to community assets and resources
“Being Affluent One Drinks Wine”: Wine counterfeiting in mainland China
In this seminar, Anqi Shen used wine counterfeiting in China as a case study to discuss: the definitional issue of product counterfeiting; the scope, scale and organisation of the counterfeiting business; and the policing of product piracy. Rather than focusing on the protection of intellectual property rights, there was emphasis placed on public health concerns with regard to dangerous counterfeit goods to attract public and law enforcement attention.
Contagion and Containment of Violence: the Case of Sorcery Accusations and Related Violence in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
How and why do particular forms of violence spread across populations during particular periods? This question is interrogated through an empirical account of the current epidemic of violence against individuals accused of practising sorcery in the Enga province of the Papua New Guinean Highlands.
Judging the Church: Legal Systems and Accountability for Clerical Sexual Abuse of Children
Meredith Edelman will make her final thesis presentation on “Judging the Church: Legal Systems and Accountability for Clerical Sexual Abuse of Children. Her work considers four different legal systems in two Catholic dioceses: the diocese of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia, and the diocese of Gallup in Northern New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. Each diocese has seen a relatively high number of victims come forward with allegations of abuse, and a range of different legal systems used to respond to those claims. The purpose of the thesis is to compare the legal systems. Meredith is supervised by Professor John Braithwaite.
Why and how Mexico said no to shale gas development and Australia said yes? The implications and challenges moving forward
Mexico and Australia have, respectively, the sixth and seventh unproved technically recoverable wet shale gas resources. Thus, what happens with these resources matters for their societies. It is also relevant for regional trade. And from a global perspective considering the impact of shale resources development on global warming. Whereas Mexico has stopped fracking, Australia is poised for large scale development of shale gas. Why and how, and the implications and challenges, to be presented.
Updates on socio-economic agenda and key legislative priorities of the Duterte administration:2019-2022
This presentation will highlight laws passed during the last three years (2016-18) of the Duterte’s administration in line with his 10-point socio-economic agenda including any variations thereof. The Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO), as the executive’s legislative arm in coordination with the Philippine Congress, monitors and tracks these priorities with various departments and government agencies. Further, PLLO will present the key legislative priorities of this administration for the remaining three years (2019-2022)
Roundtable with Dr Cathy Wilkinson: Environmental Regulatory Strategy
Join colleagues from the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) in an intimate roundtable event with Dr Cathy Wilkinson, CEO of EPA Victoria. There will be a brief presentation by Dr Wilkinson on environmental regulation strategy followed by Q&A.
Analysis of three Australian State-level Public Policies: Stakeholders’ Perspective
This research examines how various groups of stakeholders perceived Tasmania Together (TT), South Australia’s Strategic Plan (SASP), and Western Australia’s State Sustainability Strategy as an over-arching holistic sustainability public policy. It also investigates their opinions on the apparent political implications as well as the benefits of these policies.
Towards reinvigorating Australian foreign policy studies
The 2017 Foreign Policy White Paper highlighted how forces of change are challenging the rules-based global order upon which Australia’s security and prosperity has depended since the Second World War. At this moment of uncertainty in Australian foreign policy, how well-equipped are Australian academics to contribute to navigating a way forward? Asking this question invites reflection on the state of foreign policy studies in Australia as well as the extent to which the study and practice of foreign policy are (or could, or even should be) connected.
Protection from Refuge
In this seminar, Kate presents her doctoral research on the role courts play in one of the most significant problems facing the international refugee protection regime: that the places in which people seek refuge are often as dangerous and bleak as the conditions they fled. Kate’s case studies across four continents indicate that legal decision-makers have, at times, played a powerful role in facilitating refugees’ journeys in search of sanctuary but have ultimately compounded the difficulties inherent in finding genuine refuge.
The Bangsamoro plebiscite: fault lines, connectors, and the role of civil society
After some ups and downs during the late Aquino and present Duterte era, the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) was finalized in 2018, followed with the ratification of the law by the people on 21 January 2019 and 6 February 2019. Whilst the first plebiscite already did result in the establishment of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) and the city of the Cotabato voted “Yes” in a surprising twist of events, the island town of Isabela City did not join the BARMM. Moreover, the province of Sulu voted for the No as well, albeit the island remains highly divisive. The 6 February plebiscite conducted in various barangays and towns of North Cotabato and the province of Lanao del Norte – both arguably arteries of the peace process, posed a reality check on the readiness of Mindanao’s tri-peoples to fully embrace the BOL as a key instrument for peace. The talk will focus on conduct, outcome and assessment of both plebiscites as well as potential scenarios for the future.
Compensation under Investment Treaties – as if Host Interests Mattered
In response to the growing crisis of legitimacy of the international investment treaty regime, we propose a new liability and compensation rule based on a law & economics understanding of the function of these treaties. While our rule does not always achieve a global first-best, it does ensure that participation in treaties brings benefits for both “host” and “source” states. This Pareto-improving property contrasts to the existing regime or previous canonical compensation rules.
Health governance in strengthening the referral system to reduce maternal mortality in local communities of Manila
Maternal mortality in the Philippines continues to be a significant public health concern even in metropolitan urban centres. Annually, 20-25 maternal deaths occur in Manila City despite the availability and access to significant health resources in public hospitals and maternity facilities. This ‘silent disaster’ needs to be addressed through a range of maternal health services, policies and programs. The untimely deaths of women during pregnancy is a tragedy for families and a social capital and economic productivity loss to the city and the country.
Can the authenticity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art be regulated?
In August 2017 the Minister for Indigenous Affairs instructed the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Indigenous Affairs to inquire and report on the growing presence of inauthentic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander style merchandise for sale across Australia; and to provide options for its restriction. In December 2018 the Committee’s report was completed. In this seminar I critically engage with the Committee’s recommendations and ask ‘Can the authenticity of Indigenous art be effectively regulated?
Addressing commercial influence and power imbalance in intersectoral governance
The noncommunicable disease (NCD) crisis in the Pacific is in close correlation with the increased demand and supply of unhealthy commodities in the region. Yet the governments of Pacific Island Countries struggle with regulating these goods, because commercial influence fragments, captures and limits policy makers. In her Mid-Term Review presentation, Dori Patay will present the early findings of her PhD research and will demonstrate the ways the persuading power of health can be strengthened in intersectoral policy making.
Escaping the Fractal Carbon Trap
This talk examines the analytic and practical impact of recasting the governance challenge of decarbonisation in terms of fractal systems. I explore the nature and politics of fractal carbon lock-in and discuss the preliminary results of a six-year project exploring diverse initiatives that seek to disrupt carbon lock-in and usher in decarbonisation.
Rethinking International Investment Governance: Principles for the 21st Century
Foreign Direct Investment and investment governance have become flash points for controversies over environmental protection, public health and policy autonomy. Battles between states and corporations over policies promoting renewable energy, reducing tobacco use, and keeping drugs affordable have been protracted and expensive. Rethinking International Investment Governance offers an exploration of how the system could be reimagined and reformed to better align with sustainable development goals.
Places of justice in Australian environmental law: Lessons from Victorian and NSW coal-mining towns
This talk will discuss the emergence of a concept of environmental justice in Victorian government policy and law reform following the Hazelwood coalmine fire in the Latrobe Valley and in the jurisprudence of the chief justice of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court in relation to proposed coal-mining activities in the Hunter Valley.
Solving the Climate & Health Crisis
The ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and the ANU Climate Change Institute (CCI) are joining forces to host this half day symposium to tackle the current climate and health crisis. Led by Professor Sharon Friel (Director, RegNet), the symposium will bring together experts from academia, civil society and government, with a focus on public health, climate science, regulatory governance, and public policy. The symposium will include a Radio National Big Ideas panel discussion hosted by Paul Barclay, and will conclude with a launch of Sharon Friel’s new book, Climate Change and the People’s Health (OUP), and networking drinks.
Climate Change and the People's Health (Book Launch)
Climate Change and the People’s Health is part of the Oxford University Press series “Small Books Big Ideas in Population Health”. The book focuses on climate change’s contribution to health inequities and introduces the concept of ‘consumptagenic systems’ – a new framework for understanding the common drivers of climate change, social inequity and poor health – how they interact and amplify one another. A key feature of the book is not on the problem but on pathways forward, using systems approaches to understand what can be done to mitigate future harm, and drawing on political science to understand the processes involved in moving this agenda forward.
Covert online "stings": What are the legal issues?
This presentation explores the use of covert investigative techniques by law enforcement, principally in the area of online child sexual exploitation, as well as the legal position of service providers and individuals. How do online “sting” operations overcome legal restrictions? Can private actors use similar deceptive techniques? What role do service providers have, given increasing regulatory pressures to participate in the detection of harmful online content?
The new geoeconomic world order
How are economics and security colliding in the US-China tech/trade war? How will this reshape the field of international economic law?
Sympathy for the devil: State collaboration with criminal organisations
Governments have long relied on non-state entities to assist in the implementation of public policy. They have also engaged criminal actors to this end. This presentation will provide examples of such collaboration. It will discuss strategic considerations giving rise to these engagements, pitfalls that beset them, and ethical considerations that might inform the decision to form state-criminal partnerships.
Applying the social identity approach to understand social conflict: A wind energy case study
Social conflict about land use change is regularly dysfunctional; people focus on defeating their opponents at the expense of securing a workable solution to how we should manage our land. Wind energy development has been especially prone to dysfunctional social conflict. In this talk, we explore how social identity helps to explain dysfunctional social conflict and consider its promise as part of a solution.
Organised Crime Research Forum 2019
The Australian Institute of Criminology has once again teamed up with the Australian National University to host the 2019 Organised Crime Research Forum on 30 - 31 May. The primary purpose of the forum is to help build Australia’s research capacity focused on organised crime by bringing together academics to discuss their work in this area.
Underdogs, Boosters and Regulators
This talk argues that the unlikely success of organised labour in the drafting of the ISO 26000 social responsibility guide illuminates the interactive dynamics of regulatory legitimation and enrolment, suggesting a generalisable triadic strategy in which a regulatory underdog exploits legitimation differentials between a legitimacy-poor regulator and a legitimacy-rich booster to advance its interests in transnational governance.
Reflections on Interdisciplinary Research
In this panel leading scholars from the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) will reflect on the nature of interdisciplinary research. Bringing together insights from a plurality of methods applied across a range of important policy domains, including health, criminology and the environment, the panel will consider: What is interdisciplinary research? How do you do it? When does it work? And, when does it not?
Populism, fake news and policy implementation
“Fake news” is not new. However, with the advent of social media the ability to circulate “fake news” has had a major impact on decision making nationally and internationally. The seminar will examine examples from Australia and overseas where misinformation has had an impact on policy outcomes and will examine how public health advocates can counter this type of populism.
Taking a people-centre approach to delivering on SDG 16.3: Report of the Task Force on Justice
Join us for a discussion with David Steven, Associate Director of the Center for International Cooperation at New York University and Head of the Secretariat of the Task Force on Justice – an initiative of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies. David will discuss the findings of the Task Force’s report on taking a different approach to delivering on SDG 16.3 by putting people at the centre of justice systems and justice at the heart of sustainable development. The final Task Force report is to be presented at the High-Level Political Forum on SDG 16 at the United Nations in July.
Is there Impunity in Chile?
In this seminar, Javier explains the main reasons why, almost 30 years after the return of democracy in Chile, there seems to be a level of impunity negatively affecting the accountability cases for the massive violations of human rights perpetrated during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (September 11th, 1973 – March 10th, 1990).
Bougainville’s autonomy arrangements: implementation dilemmas
This seminar assesses implementation of the autonomy provisions of the Bougainville Peace Agreement.
Politics of nanotechnology innovation in Asia-Pacific: tiny technology meets transnational governance
Nanotechnology, the tiny technology that allows matter to be manipulated at the atomic level, has entered the complex global market. Over 60 countries created new nanotechnology programs, yet few countries created nanotechnology regulations. How have these patterns in nanotechnology innovation emerged? This paper analyses how politics, through transnational networks and national regimes, shape nano innovation in the Asia-Pacific region.
Averting climate catastrophe: extinction rebellion, business & people power
In 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that we have only 12 years at current global greenhouse gas emissions rates before our chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C are seriously at risk. So we have a brief window in which to act, and to do so with enough force, commitment and ambition to achieve a rapid decarbonisation of the global economy. But how might such a fundamental shift - from business as usual to transformative change - be achieved?
Manila Conference 2019: Pathways to Peace and Development in the Philippines
The Manila Conference 2019 seeks to chart the peace and development pathways of the Philippines in the next three years and beyond.
The conference will draw from a wide range of perspectives as well as provide a platform for academic and policy discussion between Philippine and Australian academics, policymakers and practitioners on important economic, political and security issues.
Book launch: From Aquino II to Duterte (2010-2018)
This volume focuses on four critical areas- politics and governance, economic governance, Mindanao peace process, and international relations - to illustrate continuities or discontinuities in policies and governance of institutions to explain the dynamics of change in the Philippines.
Regulatory stewardship: will it strengthen Aotearoa/New Zealand’s social license to regulate?
Since 2013, Regulatory Stewardship is a statutory obligation for government departments in Aotearoa/New Zealand. This seminar explores the history, current state of affairs, and future of regulatory stewardship as a means for the Aotearoa/New Zealand government to strengthen its social license to regulate.
Cascades of crises: great power collaboration in prevention
The greatest danger to great powers is not each other; it is crises enabled by failures to collaborate with each other to counter threats from third sources. Climate crises, economic crises, and security crises are the big three threats to the survival of our grandchildren. These crisis risks are increasingly interrelated. The best way to prevent tomorrow’s crises of all three kinds is to prevent today’s crises of all three kinds. 10 points are advanced on how global civil society might encourage this.
How effective are police ‘hacks’ of 'Darknet' opioid markets
This seminar will examine the impact of transnational police Operation SaboTOR (March 2019) on opioid supply on Darknet Markets. Such operations attempt to undermine trust among illicit market actors. Previous research shows displacement to new or non-targeted Darknet Markets is likely rather than deterrence. We observe the impact of SaboTOR on the availability of opioids, in particular fentanyl and the countermeasures used by market vendors.
Influencing nutrition policy in Australia
This seminar will explore the power of interest groups and their influence on public health nutrition policy in Australia, the barriers advocates face and the enablers they can use to influence public and political will, and future steps in this body of research.
LRSJ/RegNet Justice Careers Seminar: Working Against the Death Penalty
LRSJ will be holding a light lunch for students to meet and chat with two of the world’s leading advocates against capital punishment, Zainab Mahboob and Sara Kowal.
LRSJ/RegNet Seminar: Litigating against the Death Penalty – The Justice Project, Pakistan
Join Zainab Mahboob, Head of Legal at the Justice Project Pakistan, as she shares her experiences of litigating against the death penalty in Pakistan. Together with Professor Donald Rothwell, Professor of International Law at the ANU College of Law, Zainab will explore Pakistan’s use of the death penalty, which is amongst the harshest in the world, accounting for 13% of global executions and 14% of worldwide death sentences. Dr. Mai Sato will be chairing this event.
Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission
This book club is hosted by the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), ANU. Dr Mai Sato will introduce the key findings from her co-authored book (with Carolyn Hoyle) on the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Dr Rachel Dioso-Villa (Griffith University) and Dr Gregory Stratton (RMIT University) will act as commentators.
China in Global Governance of E-commerce
Cross-border e-commerce has surged in recent years and China has been a big player in this area. This presentation explores how a China-led agenda on the global governance of e-commerce has emerged. In addition to this state-led agenda, the corporate-led initiative on e-commerce by Alibaba will shed light on the role of China in global governance.
Examining Mexico's Energy Policy under the 4T
Mexico’s 4T has changed the path dependence on energy policy of previous governments. This seminar will examine these policies and ways to improve their chances of success.
