Past events
Gender responsive budgeting and breastfeeding policies: insights from the Asia-Pacific region
Global progress in improving infant and young child feeding practices has been hindered by a lack of funding of national breastfeeding policies and there are renewed calls at the international level...
Sexual assault and harassment on university campuses: Changing the course
In February 2016 all 39 Australian university Vice-Chancellors launched a new initiative ‘Respect, Now, Always’ to address sexual assault and sexual harassment and build on work by individual...
The corrupt cannot fight corruption
In this seminar, the speaker will draw from the literature on experiences of anti-corruption agencies and his own experience as the former head of Papua New Guinea’s anti-corruption Investigation...
International law at a crossroads in the United States
The Trump Administration, Nationalist Populism, and the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States Presented by Attorney-General’s Department in association with the...
Marawi: Behind the Headlines
The Marawi crisis looms to be the biggest - and most problematic armed incident in the history of the Mindanao conflict. Marawi City has been under siege since 23 May 2017, with an ongoing battle...
Rule of Law or Rule by Lawyers? On the Politics of Translating in International Law
What is it about the rule of law that has endowed this ambiguous concept with such normative currency, resilience, and power so that it is increasingly used to justify international interventions and...
Confronting wicked problems: Climate, energy and environmental governance
"'Wicked' problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergent public values to generate contentious political...
RegNet August 2017 School Meeting
All RegNet School of Regulation and Global Governance staff, visitors and students are welcome to attend our school meeting.
Law, space, and time
Where and when is law? Asking this question means engaging with the boundaries, orientations, perspectives, and scales of law. Setting law in space and time calls for a study of law in context....
Valverde & O'Malley masterclass - after governmentality: new questions and approaches
Governmentality, as a mode of analysis, has enjoyed considerable prominence over the past twenty-five years or so. While there was never an orthodoxy about what it entailed, its main characteristic...
Beyond demands for more transparency: the importance of scale in institutional information practices
A detailed study of how public-private infrastructure partnerships are governed and rendered visible, mainly in Canada, shows that accountability is not reducible to the availability of information...
How do the world’s Indigenous communities use law, culture and collective action to reduce alcohol-related harm?
Public health laws in areas such as alcohol and tobacco control, road safety and infectious disease control exemplify some of the biggest success stories in disease and injury prevention. However...
Facts alone are not enough
Why is it that people smoke, infant formula is readily available, eleven million hens producing eggs live in battery cages and cattle and sheep are exported for slaughter overseas? The evidence of...
(State) crime and political party regulation
Case studies undertaken for the 'Responsibility of Political Parties for Criminal Offences'* research project suggest that some of the most serious crimes that mankind could imagine were acts...
Measuring economic progress: breastfeeding and lactation work, or the sex-and drug-trades as worldwide indicators of economic well-being
###### _Map visualising data on the proportion of worldwide women’s earnings measured in local purchasing power, earned there. © Copyright Benjamin D. Hennig ([Worldmapper Project](http://www....
Climate Wars: Mark Butler MP in conversation with Mark Howden
[Mark Butler](https://markbutler.net.au/), Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy, will be in conversation with Mark Howden, Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, on Mark Butler's new...
Researching sorcery accusation related violence in PNG
Sorcery accusation related violence is a significant concern across many parts of Papua New Guinea (PNG) today. It leads to death, torture, displacement of people and pervasive fear and insecurity...
The rise of security state and parents of missing children in China
Using data collected from online ethnography, participant observation of parents’ self-help activities to look for missing children, as well as over fifty in-depth interviews with parents, activists...
Holding security sector institutions responsible for international crime
### This seminar has been rescheduled to Thursday 21 September, 12.30-1.30pm. The venue remains unchanged. Security sector institutions were implicated in international crimes in the conflict...
Improving health and justice through partnership
Across Australia, 8.5 million people will have three or more legal needs in a given year. Many of them are some of the most vulnerable and marginalised in our community – making them hard to reach....
