Past events

21
Mar
2023

Violence at work: reducing assault and abuse experienced by frontline staff in public service roles

Steve Munns

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...

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14
Mar
2023

Hold your friends close: countering radicalisation in Britain and America

Sarah Logan

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?...

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07
Mar
2023

Transnational legal order through rule of law? Australia and the United Nations Security Council, 2005-2022

Jeremy Farrall and Terence Halliday

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...

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03
Mar
2023

Mapping social cohesion

James O'Donnell

_This seminar is the second in the Migration, Mobility...

02
Mar
2023

Troubling 'kastom' as justice: women, hegemony and human rights in Vanuatu

Heidi Tyedmers

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...

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28
Feb
2023

Human migration, mobility and forced displacement since the pandemic

Alan Gamlen

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...

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24
Feb
2023

Can we rescue Australia's refugee politics?

Dr Kim Huynh

_This seminar is the first in the Migration, Mobility...

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21
Feb
2023

70 days in Canberra: how Australia shut its border to COVID-19

Nick Coatsworth

**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...

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16
Feb
2023

The VAT laggard: a comparative history of U.S. resistance to national consumption taxes

Ajay K. Mehrotra

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...

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14
Feb
2023

'A different kind of weapon?': Nonviolent action and the protection of civilians in violent conflict

Felicity Gray

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...

Closeup image of artwork commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Twickenham, UK by Andy Scott from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Twickenham,_Human_Rights_07.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
01
Dec
2022

TPR 2022: The governance of regional power trading in Southeast Asia

Hannah Lord

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...

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01
Dec
2022

TPR 2022: Policy change and methane emissions from oil and gas

Nikolai Drahos

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...

Image of natural gas flares from a flare-head at the Orvis State well on the Evanson family farm in McKenzie County, North Dakota, USA, by Tim Evanson (CC BY-SA 2.0) from Wikipedia Commons
29
Nov
2022

Rebuilding trust in electoral institutions

Therese Pearce Laanela

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...

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24
Nov
2022

Double agents and the making of globalization: how global boardrooms shape the world polity

Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School); Alexander E. Kentikelenis (Bocconi Uni)

**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—...

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22
Nov
2022

Governance on the ground: case study of sustainable palm oil value chains in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Depi Susilawati

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....

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17
Nov
2022

Digital regulation contested: the regulatory approaches of the US, the EU, and China to govern cross-border personal data transfers

Raymond Yang Gao

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,...

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15
Nov
2022

The influence of ‘securitization’ on biosecurity lawmaking and disease response in Australia (2003–2016)

Tim Vines

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...

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15
Nov
2022

New Directions in Memory Studies: MemoryHub@ANU Inaugural Symposium

Rosanne Kennedy (CASS); Shameem Black (CHL, CAP); Lia Kent (RegNet, CAP)

**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...

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08
Nov
2022

Regulatory system design in pluralist contexts: lawyer regulation in Fiji, Kiribati and Vanuatu

David Naylor

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...

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03
Nov
2022

Publishing interdisciplinary legal scholarship

Fiona de Londras, Rebecca Monson, Kate Henne and Tim Bonyhady

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...

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