Past events
Violence at work: reducing assault and abuse experienced by frontline staff in public service roles
Australian Public Service (APS) staff employed in frontline roles are often subjected to verbal and physical aggression. Given the risks of harm, workplace aggression is a significant challenge for...
Hold your friends close: countering radicalisation in Britain and America
Why does the UK spend counterterrorism funds on football competitions between police and young Muslim men? Why does the US use counterterrorism funds for debate programs for young Muslim Americans?...
Transnational legal order through rule of law? Australia and the United Nations Security Council, 2005-2022
Although the UN champions the rule of law worldwide, can rule of law temper the extensive powers of the UN Security Council (UNSC) itself? This paper draws on extensive research inside the UNSC by...
Troubling 'kastom' as justice: women, hegemony and human rights in Vanuatu
In Vanuatu, efforts to expand the role of _kastom_ and the ‘power of chiefs’ in key justice and governance spaces in the state are increasingly evident. This presentation will argue that this embrace...
Human migration, mobility and forced displacement since the pandemic
Covid-19 has caused drastic and complex changes to most forms of human migration, mobility, and movement. These transformations continue to raise profound regulatory and governance challenges in...
Can we rescue Australia's refugee politics?
_This seminar is the first in the Migration, Mobility...
70 days in Canberra: how Australia shut its border to COVID-19
**CHANGE OF TIME: This seminar was originally scheduled for 12.30-1.30pm, but is now scheduled for 1.00-2.00pm.** In 2019, Australia’s pandemic influenza plan specified that border control...
The VAT laggard: a comparative history of U.S. resistance to national consumption taxes
The United States is the only advanced industrial country without a value-added tax (VAT). This project explores why the U.S., unlike many other countries such as Australia, continues to reject a...
'A different kind of weapon?': Nonviolent action and the protection of civilians in violent conflict
Even amid the most egregious violence, people find ways to protect themselves and their communities using nonviolent strategies. This presentation considers the use of one such strategy, unarmed...
TPR 2022: The governance of regional power trading in Southeast Asia
As a region, Southeast Asia is on track to become the fourth largest economy in the world, and a major source of global greenhouse gas emissions. Addressing the goals of the Paris Agreement will...
TPR 2022: Policy change and methane emissions from oil and gas
Of all the pressing climate policy challenges, methane is perhaps the most urgent. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas – every tonne lifts global temperatures by over 80 times more than carbon...
Rebuilding trust in electoral institutions
With a backdrop of relentless political pressure and external threats, electoral management bodies (EMBs) are adopting new strategies and tactics for building trust in response to new risks and...
Double agents and the making of globalization: how global boardrooms shape the world polity
**This event is hosted jointly by the [Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs](https://bellschool.anu.edu.au/) and RegNet.** Globalization is underpinned by international organizations—...
Governance on the ground: case study of sustainable palm oil value chains in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Global demand for palm oil has been increasing over the past decades. Indonesia is the largest producer and exporter of palm oil worldwide. In 2021, the production of Crude Palm Oil (CPO) reached 46....
Digital regulation contested: the regulatory approaches of the US, the EU, and China to govern cross-border personal data transfers
As data is acclaimed as the new oil in the digital era, the regulatory battles among great powers over international personal data transfers increasingly intensify. Focused on the cases of the US,...
The influence of ‘securitization’ on biosecurity lawmaking and disease response in Australia (2003–2016)
Three years into a global pandemic, it is all too clear how infectious diseases can threaten human health and individual and community wellbeing. While some have us have experienced COVID-19 as an...
New Directions in Memory Studies: MemoryHub@ANU Inaugural Symposium
**This inaugural symposium of the MemoryHub@ANU brings together researchers working in the dynamic field of memory studies to share their research in an interdisciplinary and international...
Regulatory system design in pluralist contexts: lawyer regulation in Fiji, Kiribati and Vanuatu
This seminar reports on the results of an in-depth study of lawyer regulation in three Pacific Island countries (PICs) Fiji, Kiribati and Vanuatu. The main argument presented is that regulatory...
Publishing interdisciplinary legal scholarship
In this joint [**ANU College of Law**](https://law.anu.edu.au/) and RegNet event, Fiona de Londras, Rebecca Monson, Kate Henne and Tim Bonyhady will be in conversation reflecting on their diverse...
