Past events
Gas security in the land of insecurity: Governance challenges of shale gas development in Mexico
This article identifies the governance challenges of shale gas development. Mexico has vast shale gas reserves and production and exploration of natural gas were liberalised after the energy reform...
New directions for asylum seeker policies?
Australian discussion of asylum seekers is polarised between slogans of ‘Stop the Boats’ and ‘Bring them here’. Both sides have good arguments – and both have their blind spots. And both are ill...
The end of impunity: Why some states are so violent and how their societies can recover
The most violent country in the world today is not Syria, but Brazil, where gangs, organized crime, regular crime, and state brutality create a pall of fear over daily life. Why are so many...
Thesis Proposal Review Day 2017
RegNet PhD scholars present their thesis proposals to their supervisors, peers and other RegNet scholars. **For catering purposes please RSVP with any dietary requirements by 6 October** ####...
How could the ‘internet of things’ revolutionise environmental governance?
The ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) is the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles, buildings, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity...
Re-examining security-based approaches to countering violent extremism
Based on ethnographic research over the past two years, Clarke Jones argues that Western governments have made very little headway to address violent extremism because of the lack of genuine...
Weighing the Evidence: Justice Antonio Carpio on South China Sea
The South China Sea (SCS) dispute has become one of the most contentious international legal disputes in the world at present. The Philippines and China have competing claims over a large maritime...
The role of investment treaties in investment liberalisation
Investment treaties grant international legal rights to foreign investors. Historically, investment treaties focused exclusively on the protection of existing investments from adverse government...
Holding security sector institutions responsible for international crime
Security sector institutions were implicated in international crimes in the conflict in Timor-Leste. This phenomenon is not confined to Timor-Leste; it recurs in both developing and developed states...
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Australian youth justice: A Western Australian prevalence study
The Telethon Kids Institute has conducted the first Australian study to examine the prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and other cognitive disorders at Banksia Hill Detention Centre –...
States and peoples in conflict
This event marks the launch of ‘States and Peoples in Conflict: Transformations of Conflict Studies’, edited by Michael Stohl, Mark Lichbach, and Peter Grabosky. The book explores the origins,...
Centre for Research Excellence in the Social Determinants of Health Equity: Project update
The social, cultural and economic forces that shape people’s daily living conditions are called the ‘social determinants’ or the ‘causes of the causes’ of health. When these determinants result in an...
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.
