Past events
Big Ideas: books, drugs and seeds: the politics of access
This work in progress looks at the extent to which intellectual property protection affects access to educational materials and digital media, medicines and medical devices, and germplasm and...
RegNet October 2016 School Meeting
All RegNet School of Regulation and Global Governance staff, visitors and students are welcome to attend our school meeting.
Commissioning civil society
Civil society advocacy is a familiar element of the transitional justice field today. From the United Nations to grassroots organizations, there is a popular, shared chorus advocating for civil...
Big Ideas: the rule of law: pasts, presents, and two possible futures
The recent rise of the rule of law, from controversial legal ideal to unopposed international cliché/slogan, has rendered increasingly murky what the concept might mean, what the phenomenon might be...
Recent developments in investment agreements: the trend towards greater government control in investor-state disputes
In recent years there have been growing concerns about the potential risks of investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) in relation to legitimate government regulation. Some of these concerns have...
Pathways to inclusion of refugee migrants
The increased demand for refugee admissions and resettlement in developed countries makes it important for the governments’ of host countries to understand the refugee integration process. Yet, the...
Anthea Roberts masterclass: the investment treaty system - claims and controversies
Since the 1990s, an investment treaty system has emerged that is based on thousands of bilateral investment treaties and free trade agreements and hundreds of investor-state arbitrations. While...
PhD midterm review: China: rule-maker or rule-taker in the international intellectual property system?
After the TRIPS Agreement, issues such as public health, biodiversity and human rights have become increasingly entangled with intellectual property (IP). Overlaps across these areas has caused the...
The lessons and experience of a policy advisor
Meredith Edwards, who has been both an academic and a senior policy advisor in the Australian Public Service, will address the following questions and more. * How can a public policy advisor have...
Is international law international?
International lawyers are familiar with the question: “Is international law law?” However, this seminar asks a different question: “Is international law international?” International law is...
Big ideas: achieving regulatory excellence
Regulators invariably confront society’s most challenging tasks and need to respond in the face of competing demands and interests. What makes a regulator excellent at its work? In this seminar,...
MCHP Seminar: an unprecedented global infant and young child feeding transition appears to be underway. What’s driving it? What can be done about it?
The United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Nutrition Targets recently committed governments to improving breastfeeding rates. This is given...
The commitment to sustainable development in three Australian states
The PhD midterm review seminar provides an opportunity for PhD scholars to give an update on the progress of their doctoral research and to receive feedback from beyond their supervisory panel. This...
Big Ideas: the vengeful state - responses by democratic governments to unauthorized public disclosure of national security information
Democracies are confronted by a troublesome paradox. Their proper functioning depends on an informed citizenry. Yet their security depends on a degree of secrecy. Such contradictions have proven...
Energy governance in China's SOEs: a city level look at how massive refineries and petrochemical plants respond to regulation in energy efficiency
The PhD midterm review seminar provides an opportunity for PhD scholars to give an update on the progress of their doctoral research and to receive feedback from beyond their supervisory panel....
RegNet August 2016 School Meeting
All RegNet School of Regulation and Global Governance staff, visitors and students are welcome to attend our school meeting.
Beyond best in class regulation workshop
Around the world, regulators confront immense challenges in balancing multiple objectives that hold major consequences for societies and their economies. The complexities and the range of players...
Hidden power: the strategic logic of organised crime
In this meet-the-author book seminar, James Cockayne, Head of the New York Office of the United Nations University, will introduce his new book _Hidden Power: The Strategic Logic of Organised Crime_...
Regulating capitalism's processes of destruction
Capitalism is generating three large scale processes of destruction: eco-processes collapse, techno-processes collapse and financial-processes collapse. At the same time capitalism is itself...
Bookclub: A culture of rights - law, literature, and Canada
In his new book, Benjamin Authers examines the unique rights landscape of Canada through the lens of law and literature, taking as his point of departure the enactment of the Canadian Charter of...
