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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.Ìý We also hold range of exciting events throughout the year.

• Ìý- view upcoming Sydney Law School events.
• Ìý- to be notified of future events.

Past events

• , Friday 28 February 2025 |Ìýview program

Watch recordings of our past events on YouTube:Ìý

• – seminar with SCIL's Rosemary Grey at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University, 3 February 2025.
• – with SCIL's Ben Saul at the UN Human Rights Council, 11 December 2024.Ìý
• Ìý– SCIL's Tim Stephens delivered the 2024 Royal Society of NSW Ideas@theHouse lecture at NSW Government House, 31 October 2024.
• – 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.
• – panel with SCIL's Mary Crock and Vasyl Myroshnychenko (Ukraine's Ambassador to Australia) at the University of Sydney Law School, 17 February 2023.
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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 Ìýand the relatedÌýÌýby SCIL professors Emily Crawford and Jacqueline Mowbray et al.Ìý

• , curated by Professor Emily Crawford.

• Ìý- hear Prof. Ben Saul onÌýJustice Info's podcast, 6 February 2025.
• Ìý- read Prof. Ben Saul's op-ed in theÌýSydney Morning Herald, 5 February 2025.
• Ìý- read Dr Tamer Morris's Conversation piece,Ìý5 February 2025.
• Ìý- hear Dr Rosemary Grey on ABC radioÌýdiscuss the ICC's moves to prosecute the Taliban for gender-based persecution in Afghanistan, 24 January 2025.
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Just Cause podcast

Catch up on the 2024 season of the Just Cause podcast by Sydney Law School's Social Justice Advisory Group.ÌýSCIL 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)Ìý,Ìýby , Cambridge University Press 2025).

• T. Morris,ÌýÌý(Brill 2024)

• D. Kinley,ÌýÌý(Johns Hopkins University Press 2024)

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

• D.R. Rothwell and T. Stephens,ÌýÌý(Bloomsbury 2023).

• N. Teramura, L. Nottage and B. Jetin,ÌýÌý(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.Ìý

For further information, visit theÌý.

In past years, our Centre internsÌýstudent interns have authoredÌý 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:

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,ÌýAustralian Year Book of International LawÌý(2023)Ìý


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,ÌýAustralian Year Book of International LawÌý(2022) 377


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'Ìý, vol. 40,ÌýAustralian Year Book of International LawÌý(2022)Ìý475


S.I. Strong, Kathryn McCormack, Dadar Ahmadi Pirshahid, Mrithika Sreenivasan Shankarla, and Ruoshui Zhang, 'Developments in Australian Private International Law 2020–2021', vol. 40ÌýAustralian Year Book of International LawÌý(2022)Ìý508.


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. 39ÌýAustralian Year Book of International LawÌý(2021)Ìý351.


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'Ìývol. 39ÌýAustralian Year Book of International LawÌý(2021)Ìý