Events

Our main annual event is the "Sydney Centre for International Law Year-In-Review Conference", where experts from government, academia and civil society catch up on major developments in the past year.  We also hold range of exciting events throughout the year.

• Events calendar - view upcoming Sydney Law School events.
• Register for an email alert - to be notified of future events.

Past events

• 2025 Sydney Centre for International Law "Year in Review", Friday 28 February 2025 | view program

Watch recordings of our past events on YouTube: 

• Gender in the proposed Crimes Against Humanity Convention – seminar with SCIL's Rosemary Grey at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University, 3 February 2025.
• UN panel on human rights violations in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territories – with SCIL's Ben Saul at the UN Human Rights Council, 11 December 2024. 
• The big thaw: Who governs Antarctica's ice? – SCIL's Tim Stephens delivered the 2024 Royal Society of NSW Ideas@theHouse lecture at NSW Government House, 31 October 2024.
• Gender persecution: New frontiers in international criminal law – seminar with SCIL's Rosemary Grey and Lisa Davis (Special Advisor to the International Criminal Court Prosecutor) at the University of Sydney Law School, 1 March 2023.
• Russia's aggression in Ukraine – panel with SCIL's Mary Crock and Vasyl Myroshnychenko (Ukraine's Ambassador to Australia) at the University of Sydney Law School, 17 February 2023.
   

Exhibitions

• 'Cocktails at the Erga Omnes Lounge' (2025), curated by Professor Emily Crawford, Professor Jessie Hohmann, A/Professor Daniel Joyce and Professor Jacqueline Mowbray.

• Visit the online exhibition At the Vanishing Point: Encounters with the Souvenirs, Merchandise, and Memorabilia of International Law and the related catalogue and curatorial essay by SCIL professors Emily Crawford and Jacqueline Mowbray et al. 

• Iconic: The Use and Misuse of the Red Cross Emblem, curated by Professor Emily Crawford.

• Accountability for Australian Special Forces' war crimes in Afghanistan - hear Prof. Ben Saul on Justice Info's podcast, 6 February 2025.
• Nations such as Australia must push back against Trump's illegal Gaza scheme - read Prof. Ben Saul's op-ed in the Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February 2025.
• Trump wants the US to 'take over' Gaza and relocate the people. Is this legal? - read Dr Tamer Morris's Conversation piece, 5 February 2025.
• ICC prosecutor seeks arrest of Taliban leaders - hear Dr Rosemary Grey on ABC radio discuss the ICC's moves to prosecute the Taliban for gender-based persecution in Afghanistan, 24 January 2025.
   

Just Cause podcast

Catch up on the 2024 season of the Just Cause podcast by Sydney Law School's Social Justice Advisory Group. SCIL members feature in the following episodes:

• Episode 3 | Mary Crock: The politics of migration law
• Episode 4 | Tim Stephens: Treaties and triumphs in Antarctica
• Episode 11 | Rachel Killean in conversation with Julie McLean: Supporting complainants in sexual offence matters

• K. McLoughlin, R. Grey, L. Chappell and S. Varrall (eds) Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the International Criminal Court, by , Cambridge University Press 2025).

• T. Morris, The Protection of Civilians in Peacekeeping Operations (Brill 2024)

• D. Kinley, The Liberty Paradox Living with the Responsibilities of Freedom (Johns Hopkins University Press 2024)

• E. Crawford, A. Pert and B. Saul, Public International Law (Cambridge University Press 2023).

• D.R. Rothwell and T. Stephens, The International Law of the Sea (Bloomsbury 2023).

• N. Teramura, L. Nottage and B. Jetin, Corruption and Illegality in Asian Investment Arbitration (Springer 2023).

Sydney Centre for International Law (SCIL) offers internship positions to Sydney Law School students each academic year as an opportunity for interested students to advance their legal research and writing skills, gain exposure to developments in international law, and develop their curriculum vitae. 

For further information, visit the Law Student Portal via Canvas.

In past years, our Centre interns student interns have authored  two articles for the Australian Year Book of International Law. One summarises decisions by Australian courts that consider international law; the other summarises international legal proceedings involving Australia. The articles can accessed through a subscription to the Year Book of International Law, and SCIL has made select articles available free of charge at:

Article on international law in Australian Courts in 2022
Rosemary Grey, Mary Crock, Jemima Back, Alistair Boyd, Niamh Callinan, Emma Clark, Timothy Collins, Julian Edwards, Joseph Harman, Mun K. Lee, Catherine Nguyen, Ibrahim Taha, Yuanhang Wang and Liuyuwen Yang, 'Cases before Australian Courts and Tribunals concerning Questions of Public International Law 2022', vol. 41, Australian Year Book of International Law (2023) 

Article on international law in Australian courts in 2021
Mary Crock, Mia Bridle, Ben Dajkovich, Bridget Hackett, Emily Halloran, Louisa Lemm, Adam Liskowski, Kathryn McCormack , George Napier , Madeline Pfeffercorn, Mrihika Sreenivasan Shankarla, and Alicia Vakalopoulos, 'Cases before Australian Courts and Tribunals concerning Questions of Public International Law 2021', vol. 40, Australian Year Book of International Law (2022) 377

Article on Australia's role in international legal proceedings in 2021
Mary Crock, Mia Bridle, Ben Dajkovich, Emily Halloran, Kathryn McCormack , Eden McSheffrey, Madeline Pfeffercorn, and Alicia Vakalopoulos, 'Cases before International Courts and Tribunals concerning Questions of Public International Law Involving Australia 2021' , vol. 40, Australian Year Book of International Law (2022) 475

Article on Australia and private international law in 2020 and 2021
S.I. Strong, Kathryn McCormack, Dadar Ahmadi Pirshahid, Mrithika Sreenivasan Shankarla, and Ruoshui Zhang, 'Developments in Australian Private International Law 2020–2021', vol. 40 Australian Year Book of International Law (2022) 508.

Article on international law in Australian courts in 2020
Mary Crock, Rosemary Grey, Freya Appleford, Wendy Chen, Sarah Charak, Christian Cieplik, Anisha Gunawardhana, Jake Jerogin, Adam Liskowski, Jessica Mitchell, Olivia Morris, Anh-Tuan Nguyen, Bianca Tini-Brunozzi, Alexandra Touw and Kevin Zoum 'Cases before Australian Courts and Tribunals concerning Questions of Public International Law 2020’ vol. 39 Australian Year Book of International Law (2021) 351.

Article on Australia's role in international legal proceedings in 2020
Mary Crock, Rosemary Grey, Freya Appleford, Anisha Gunawardhana, Miranda Hutchesson, Jake Jerogin, Emma Kench, Maxine Lucy McHugh, Olivia Morris, Alexandra Touw and Kevin Zou, 'Cases before International Courts and Tribunals Concerning Questions of Public International Law Involving Australia 2020' vol. 39 Australian Year Book of International Law (2021)