Past events
Living democracy - transformative change begins at the edge
In this talk, Tim Hollo characterises the defining features of an ecological and anti-ecological worldview, examining how they conflict with each other in contemporary politics and policymaking....
At the margins for globalization: Indigenous Peoples and international economic law
Despite the tremendous progress in the development of scientific knowledge, the understanding of the causes of poverty and inequality, and the role of politics and governance in addressing modern...
Mega renewable projects on Indigenous land: prospects for real benefit?
In the last few years there has been a rapid growth in the spatial jurisdiction of Indigenous lands and renewed appeals for native title rights and interests to include forms of property with...
Planetary Health Equity Hothouse - lecture and launch
The new Planetary Health Equity Hothouse (the Hothouse) is an interdisciplinary initiative focused on three major and interconnected challenges – a rising public health burden, inequality and climate...
What is the impact of intellectual property rules on access to medicines? Findings from a systematic review
The World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) requires Member States to implement minimum standards of intellectual property protection...
Women's access to transitional justice in Timor-Leste: the blind letters
By discussing the findings of a long term research project on women’s experiences of transitional justice - recently published as [_Women's Access to Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste: The Blind...
Indigenous Australian medicines: innovation on regulatory and governance pathways to market
Indigenous peoples in Australia continue to prepare and use Indigenous medicines in their communities, as they have done for tens of thousands of years. There are significant barriers for Indigenous...
COVID, cartels and collusion
_‘If it smells like a cartel, looks like a cartel, and acts like a cartel, then it probably is a cartel’_ At first glance, the ongoing inequities in global access to effective vaccines against...
Building a roadmap to evaluate power and privilege
Insufficient progress has been made towards reducing health inequities, due in part to a lack of action on the root causes – the differential distribution of power and resources across dimensions of...
Market adjustments to import sanctions: lessons from Chinese restrictions on Australian trade, 2020-21
This presentation investigates and explores the conditions under which high levels of export concentration in a single market generate vulnerability to coercive economic power, by examining the...
China: A powerhouse and resistor of restorative justice
China has the largest and most diverse restorative justice (RJ) programs in the world, which, however, is “the elephant in the room” for the social movement for RJ. This thesis contributes to...
Twenty-first century capitalism: a research agenda
**This presentation is only open to RegNet staff and students.** This seminar will present a research agenda for twenty-first century capitalism in the interests of identifying, examining, and...
Global Health Watch 6 - book launch
Please join the [Menzies Centre for Health Governance](https://regnet.anu.edu.au/research/centres/menzies-centre-health-governance), RegNet and People's Health Movement Australia for this launch...
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 (...
