Past events
The legal determinants of health: COVID-19 and gender
This seminar presentation is co-sponsored with the School of Medicine, [ANU College of Health and Medicine](https://health.anu.edu.au/). COVID-19 has had starkly disproportionate impacts along...
Sharing human milk: challenging regulatory regimes for infant feeding in Australia
Human milk in suburban freezers is shared by mothers through communities, milk banks and international trade, raising concerns about safety, medical ethics, gendered exploitation and emerging...
The unruly dead: spirits, memory and state formation in Timor-Leste
This presentation explores local practices of remembering the violent Indonesian occupation of East Timor (1974-1999). Reflecting on findings from ethnographic research across 2015-19, Lia Kent...
Creative thinking: a tradition of international legal scholarship at ANU
The Australian National University boasts a long tradition of creative international legal scholarship. It is, for one, the only institution that counts among its ranks - past and present - three...
The governance of Constituency Development Funds in Solomon Islands
_**This seminar was originally scheduled for 19 April and has been rescheduled. We apologise for any inconvenience.**_ Derek Futaiasi’s PhD study seeks to explore whether expanding the study of...
Bioscience governance and global inequality: the Material Transfer Agreement in the Global South
This talk focuses on bioscience governance and global inequality and examines how legal instruments—such as Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs)—are enacted and implemented differently in the context...
Practising pluralism: regulating lawyer conduct in Pacific Island Countries
**This PhD Work-In-Progress presentation is only open to RegNet staff and students.** It presents tentative conclusions of research on how systems regulating lawyers in Pacific Island Countries (...
Modelling international development think tanks of the future
How is international development policy and strategy made? Who influences it and how? Where does that leave the relationship between research, government and development impact in the Indo-Pacific...
Macrocriminology and Freedom by John Braithwaite – Book launch
**The School of Regulation and Global Governance warmly invites you to the launch of John Braithwaite's new book, _[Macrocriminology and Freedom](https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/...
Targeted sanctions in Australia: what now?
In December 2021, Australia has expanded its targeted sanctions framework, which allows the government to impose asset freezes and travel bans on various categories of ‘undesirable’ foreigners (and,...
Catalytic diplomacy: accelerating cooperation in the Asia-Pacific
In recent years, countries in the Asia-Pacific have created a panoply of institutions across a range of different functional areas in order to harness cooperation within their broader institutional...
Complex designers and emergent design: reforming the investment treaty system
This seminar is co-sponsored by Centre for International Governance and Justice (RegNet, CAP) and the Centre for International and Public Law (CoL). How do actors undertake institutional design in...
COVID-19 and the pathologies of Australia’s regulatory state
Closed borders and lockdowns kept Australia’s COVID-19 mortalities and infections low right up until late 2021, but they masked a litany of policy and implementation failures shaped by the...
Transnational advocacy in the digital era, think global, act local
Digital advocacy organizations are a novel, significant addition to the international arena, and are shaping public opinion on many issues including climate change, trade, and refugees. Organizations...
The evolution of trade policy governance
The international trading system has undergone a radical shift over the twenty years. Multilateral trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization have generated only limited results while...
Individual beliefs and the creation of international organizations
States are traditionally considered the primary creators of international organizations (IOs). Recent research has added nuance to this view, highlighting the role of international bureaucrats in...
How China escaped the poverty trap: mapping the coevolution of property rights and the economy
Development is more than a problem of growing from poor to rich. Cast more precisely in game theoretic terms, development is a problem of making the transition from one self-reinforcing equilibrium (...
Regulation and relationship: glyphosate in Australia
Mary’s thesis explores the relational dimensions of regulation through the case study of glyphosate (commonly known as the weedspray RoundUp) in Australia. By exploring the regulation of...
Backstage orchestration: a new method of business influence
The pathways of business influence on policy and regulation are numerous. In this paper Jensen Sass will examine a new addition to that armoury - backstage orchestration. This practice sees a...
MCHG 2021 webinar series: Webinar 4 - Bureaucratic power: city planning minus the politics
In Webinar 4 of the Power and the People’s Health series, Patrick Harris will discuss how bureaucratic power has played out in the urban planning sector in Australia and what this means for the...
