Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law upcoming events

From Commitment to Change: Advancing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Australia and New Zealand (webinar co-hosted by the ANZSIL IHRL Interest Group) (05 Aug 2026)

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:30:00 GMT

In Conversation with Commissioner Rosemary Kayess and Commissioner Prudence Walker

We are pleased to invite you to join us for From Commitment to Change: Advancing the CRPD in Australia and New Zealand.

The event will open with an in-conversation session featuring Australian Disability Discrimination Commissioner Rosemary Kayess and New Zealand Disability Rights Commissioner Prudence Walker discussing Australia and New Zealand’s implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), including progress, gaps and roadblocks.

This will be followed by an interactive conversation with attendees

This discussion is part of a workshop being hosted by People with Disability Australia (PWDA), in partnership with the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) and the Western Sydney University School of Law (WSU) to mark the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

Event details

Date: Wednesday 5 August 2026
Australian Time: 9:30am – 11:30am (AEST)
New Zealand Time: 11:30am – 1:30pm (NZST)
Online via Zoom.

Access

This event will have live captioning and Auslan and NZSL interpretation. Attendees can advise of other access requirements when registering.

Event Recording

This online event will be recorded and a copy will be sent to everyone who registers. A recording of the event will also be available on the PWDA website and shared on social media.

Please advise of any accessibility requirements at the time of registration.

Further information about the event and registration details, is available via the registration button below.

ANZSIL and ICLC (La Trobe) International Law Careers Seminar 1: Georgia Hinds and Catherine Drummond (25 Aug 2026)

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

The Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) and the International Comparative Law Cluster (ICLC) at La Trobe Law School warmly invite you to a series of online seminars exploring careers in international law.

Each seminar features two international lawyers from Australia and/or Aotearoa New Zealand who will share their experiences and discuss the diverse pathways from studying to working in international law. The seminars include opportunities for audience Q&A and will also be recorded and made available via the ANZSIL website as a resource for international law teachers, students and recent graduates.

Seminar 1 features:

Georgia Hinds

Legal Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross

Catherine Drummond

Barrister 3VB London

Chair: Monique Cormier, Monash University

Date/Time: Tuesday 25 August 2026, 10AM CET/6PM AEST/8PM NZST

Please register here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/AUmGFbYPx1

Georgia Hinds is a Legal Adviser with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), working on the legal and humanitarian implications of autonomous weapons, AI, drones and other new technologies of warfare. She has worked in the ICRC in various positions since 2017, including as Legal Adviser to Operations in Lebanon, the Philippines and the Pacific. Prior to joining the ICRC, Georgia worked in the Office of International Law, Australian Attorney-General's Department, advising the Australian Government on public international law including international humanitarian and human rights law, and international criminal law. She practiced as a solicitor in commercial law in Brisbane, Sydney and Singapore, and has also served as a Reservist Officer with the Australian Army. Georgia holds a Master of Laws in International Law (Distinction) from the Australian National University, a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and a Bachelor of Arts from Griffith University and is admitted as solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Queensland and the High Court of Australia.

Catherine Drummond is a barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings (3VB) in London, specialising in public international law and international arbitration. She is regularly instructed in cases before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, the International Criminal Court, arbitration tribunals (inter-State, investor-State and commercial) and UN bodies, as well as UK courts on matters intersecting with international law. Her recent cases include acting for Belize in its territorial and maritime disputes against Guatemala and Honduras (ICJ); for the UK against the EU’s challenge to marine conservation measures (inter-State arbitration); for Antigua and Barbuda in the Climate Change Advisory Opinion proceedings (ICJ); in an inter-State case involving ethnic discrimination and fair trial rights (ECtHR); for State interveners in four proceedings concerning Palestine (ICJ); for an NGO challenging weapons exports decisions (UK); and for investors challenging the assertion of State immunity to prevent the enforcement of an ICSID award (UK). Previously, Catherine practised at Freshfields in Paris. She has taught international dispute settlement in Brisbane, Paris and Cambridge, and presently lectures in the Master of International Dispute Settlement at the University of Geneva. Catherine holds a BA/LLB (Hons) (UQ) and an LLM (Class I) (University of Cambridge).

Zoom links will be sent to registered participants the day prior to the event.

To contact the event organisers, please email A.Ringin@latrobe.edu.au

ANZSIL and ICLC (La Trobe) International Law Careers Seminar 2: Phil Lynch and Rebecca McMenamin (26 Aug 2026)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Seminar 2 features:

Phil Lynch

Executive Director, International Service for Human Rights

Rebecca McMenamin

Former Judicial Fellow, International Court of Justice

Chair: Adrienne Ringin (La Trobe University)

Date/Time: Tuesday 26 August 2026, 10AM CET/6PM AEST/8PM NZST

Please register for the seminar here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/qyVSZ6DKeE

Phil Lynch is the Executive Director of the International Service for Human Rights, which supports human rights defenders in their work for freedom, equality, justice and accountability, and strengthens laws and mechanisms for their protection. Before joining ISHR in 2013, Phil founded and led the award-winning Human Rights Law Centre (2006-2012) and Homeless Law (2001-2005) in Australia. He is a member of the Global Board of the International Gender Champions and the Swiss Committee of World Bicycle Relief, and a former member of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency Advisory Board and the Australian Government Human Rights Grants Scheme Expert Panel. He has been conferred with numerous human rights and leadership awards. Phil commenced his legal career as a lawyer with Allens and holds an LLB (Hons) and an MPPM from the University of Melbourne.

Rebecca McMenamin has just completed a year-long Judicial Fellowship at the International Court of Justice, working with Australian Judge Charlesworth. Prior to that, she worked in international law academia in Europe, completing her Masters of Law at the University of Cambridge, working on her PhD at the University of Vienna, and lecturing in Vienna. She practiced human rights and constitutional law in New Zealand and clerked at the Supreme Court Te Koti te Mana Nui after graduating with a LLB(Hons)/BA from Victoria University of Wellington. She is returning to New Zealand to work as a barrister, and has been consulting on a potential international law claim by a Pacific Island and on international law aspects of climate rights litigation in New Zealand.

Zoom links will be sent to registered participants the day prior to the event.

To contact the event organisers, please email A.Ringin@latrobe.edu.au

Logics of Universality and Particularity: Exploring Discourses of Gender and 'Forced Marriage' at Hybrid Courts (ANZSIL GSIL Interest Group Work in Progress Seminar) (27 Aug 2026)

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT

The ANZSIL GSIL Interest Group warmly welcomes registrations to attend a Work in Progress seminar. These seminars are an opportunity for academics to present current works and receive feedback from the GSIL community.

Date: Thursday 27 August 2PM-3PM (AEST)/4PM-5PM (NZST)

Place: Online (via Zoom)

Presenter: Charlotte Carney (University of Technology Sydney)

Discussant: Adrienne Ringin (La Trobe University)

Title: Logics of Universality and Particularity: Exploring Discourses of Gender and “Forced Marriage” at Hybrid Courts

Abstract:

Amidst increasing disillusionment with ad-hoc tribunals, and permanent courts, hybrid courts have (re) emerged as a pathway for “justice”. Hybrid courts mix national and international processes, practices and personnel. Their potential lies in this mixedness. Yet, hybridity has a long history in institutional and cultural theorizations. Some post-colonial theorizations view hybridity as emancipatory due to how it disturbs colonial discourses which demand absolutes, and fixedness to justify dispossession. Instead, hybridity captures a complexity beyond these colonial, hegemonic imaginings. However, these emancipatory theorizations have been complicated when hybridity presents within institutional formations. Rather, hybrid mechanisms, outside of ICL, have been critiqued for continuing, rather than disturbing, colonial relations of power. Developing these examinations, I further interrogate the concept of hybridity within ICL, examining the discourses emerging from two hybrid courts: the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC); and the Special Court of Sierra Leone (SCSL). Specifically, I focus on discourses of “forced marriage” due to the centrality of this act at both hybrid courts under analysis. I found that their discourses around “forced marriage” were organised according to two exclusionary logics: logics of universality and particularity. These logics then constituted a broader colonial logic that organised the discourses of “forced marriage” at both courts. In surfacing these logics, I show the persistence of harmful discourses of “forced marriage” at these hybrid courts which negates their emancipatory potential. Instead, these discourses have implications for the (re) engagement with hybrid courts, calling into question the ideas they sustain around “forced marriage”, and ultimately, “justice”.

Bio: Charlotte Carney (she/her) is a final year PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, completing her PhD in the discipline of Government and International Relations. She has research interests in international criminal law (ICL), and justice. Her research draws on anti-colonial and anti-carceral thought to critique the gendered, racialised and colonial operations of ICL. Specifically, Charlotte’s dissertation discursively interrogates hybrid courts, using post structural discourse analysis to examine the logics that organise these institutions.

Registration

Please register using this link.

The paper will be sent to all registered participants on Thursday 20 August 2026. As this is a work in progress, no publication or dissemination beyond this release is authorised. Please respect the work of the author.

The zoom link will be sent to all participants on Wednesday 26 August 2026.

To get in contact with the event organisers, please email gsilig@anzsil.org

The International Court of Justice at 80: 'In Conversation' with Judge Hilary Charlesworth (ANZSIL/AsianSIL webinar) (10 Sep 2026)

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:00:00 GMT

The International Court of Justice at 80: 'In Conversation' with Judge Hilary Charlesworth

The Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL) and the Asian Society of International Law (AsianSIL) are pleased to present this webinar with Judge Hilary Charlesworth of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in conversation with Professor Alison Duxbury, on the role of the ICJ in its 80th year.

Judge Hilary Charlesworth

Judge Hilary Charlesworth was re-elected to the International Court of Justice on 9 November 2023, having been elected on 5 November 2021 to serve the remainder of the late Judge James Crawford’s term. Prior to her election, Judge Charlesworth was Harrison Moore Professor of Law and a Melbourne Laureate Professor at Melbourne Law School. She was also a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University and has been a member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law and the American Society of International Law as well as President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. Judge Charlesworth is a member of the Institut de Droit International and the British Academy. She chaired the ACT’s Consultative Committee on the Introduction of a Bill of Rights in 2001 and was involved in the introduction of the ACT Human Rights Act 2002. Judge Charlesworth's research has included international and Australian human rights law, feminist approaches to international law, peacebuilding, and international institutions.

Professor Alison Duxbury is a member of faculty at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, the President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, and a former member of the Executive Council of the Asian Society of International Law.

The webinar will be chaired by Associate Professor Cheah W.L., a member of the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, and Secretary-General of the Asian Society of International Law.

Date: Thursday 10 September 2026 3-4PM SGT/5-6PM AEST/7-8PM NZST

Format: Webinar

Registration: Registration for this event is available to members/student associates of ANZSIL and AsianSIL. Please click on the register button on the left of the screen.

ANZSIL members will be able to log into their membership profile and register.

AsianSIL members will be prompted to enter a registration code, which the AsianSIL Secretariat will email to AsianSIL members.

You will receive an automated email once you have submitted your registration form. A Zoom link will be sent to your email address closer to the date of the webinar.

Care and International Law: Rethinking Responsibility and Global Justice (ANZSIL GSIL Interest Group Workshop) (29 Oct 2026)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Call for Papers

Workshop details

Organisers: Caitlin Biddolph (University of Technology Sydney) and Adrienne Ringin (La Trobe University)

Date: Thursday 29 October – Friday 30 October 2026, 9.30am - 5.00pm (AEST)

Place: Online (via Zoom)

Theme

In this time of global uncertainty and crisis, resisting militarist, colonial, capitalist, ecocidal, and cisheteropatriarchal violences is an ongoing challenge. When faced with the intersecting violences of this current moment, placing care and care work at the core of international law narratives is a radical proposition. It is also a vital one. As scholars across international studies have shown(1), building upon the everyday care activism and practices of Indigenous, Black, decolonial, feminist, queer, socialist, and crip communities, care is what sustains relations and underpins international practices. For example, academics such as Roxani Krystalli and Philipp Schulz are disrupting peace and conflict studies by studying the resilience of care and love in times of conflict(2). But while questions of care, broadly understood, have been the subject of international legal scholarship, only recently are scholars articulating an explicit research agenda for ‘centring care in international law’(3). Inspired by Catherine O’Rourke’s work, such an agenda ‘aims to reshape international law, putting care, not just harm, at its heart’(4). Putting care at the centre of international legal thinking offers opportunities to examine the pervasive structural inequalities and inequities that operate beneath the narrative of harm, demonstrating that harm prevention does not equate to liberation.

Motivated by these provocations, this call asks: what is possible when we shift dominant narratives of international law and enliven alternative accounts which focus on the structures and imbalance that underpin them? This workshop will explore these questions by bringing together papers and reflections on themes including but not limited to:

Conceptual approaches to care and centring care in international law
The political economy of care, including but not limited to care and social reproduction, care labour, violence and carelessness in global supply chains and neoliberal capitalism
Care and international law beyond the human: post-human, other-than-human, more-than-human, multispecies, ecocentric, planetary, blue, and wild law approaches
Rewriting care into legal judgements, decisions, and processes
Prefigurative feminist legal projects and alternatives to justice and international law that centre care as a basis for lawmaking
Practices of care within the international legal profession and academy, including care in teaching international law
Practices of care, love, pleasure, and dignity in times of genocide, authoritarianism, and crisis
Queer and trans approaches to care, including queer kinship and care in international law
Care as forms of resistance, mutual aid, and survival, including from abolitionist and decolonial approaches
Caring and care-full methodologies for the study and practice of international law
The paternal and colonial violence of international law invoked through narratives of care
Care and health in international law, including women’s health and reproductive and sexual health rights
Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing care in and beyond international law
Care and disability justice in international law

Submissions

We welcome submissions from doctoral researchers, established scholars, and practitioners. Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words and biographies of up to 200 words to gsilig@anzsil.org by 31 August 2026. Please indicate your time zone in your submission.

Successful applicants will be expected to submit draft papers of between 6,000 and 8,000 words by 1 October 2026. Our aim is for the workshop to result in an edited collection or journal special issue. All papers will go to peer review prior to publication.

This Workshop is organised by the ANZSIL Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group.

(1) See for example: Maggie FitzGerald, Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics. Bristol: Bristol University Press (2022); Shirin M. Rai, Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring. Oxford University Press (2024); Fiona Robinson, Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory, and International Relations. Boulder: Westview Press (1999)

(2) Roxani Krystalli and Philipp Schulz, ‘Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence’, International Studies Review (2022): 10.1093/isr/viac003

(3) Catherine O’Rourke, ‘Centring Care in International Law’, Horizon Europe Grant, European Research Council, https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101171364

(4) Ibid.

ANZSIL History and Theory of International Law Interest Group Workshop (10 Dec 2026)

Wed, 09 Dec 2026 22:00:00 GMT

Call for Papers

The ANZSIL History and Theory of International Law Interest Group invites proposals to participate in its third biennial Workshop, to be held in person on Thursday 10 December 2026 at the University of Technology Sydney with an option for remote participation for those unable to travel.

Co-convened by Amanda Alexander, Wanshu Cong and Kathryn Greenman, the workshop will provide a collegial environment in which to get feedback on new research in history and theory of international law. Selected participants will be invited to submit work in progress of 2,000–6,000 words. Standard as well as non-standard research outputs are welcome provided that the work is at a stage where feedback might be meaningfully incorporated.

Researchers at all levels working with issues of history and theory of international law broadly understood are welcome to submit a proposal to participate. If the Workshop is oversubscribed, preference will be given to early and mid-career researchers working in Australia and New Zealand.

Thanks to ANZSIL’s generous sponsorship, a limited number of travel bursaries are available for early career researchers without access to other sources of institutional funding. Please indicate in your proposal if you would like to be considered for a bursary and confirm that you meet the criteria.

Proposals should be submitted to htilig@anzsil.org by Friday 14 August 2026, in the form of a single Word document that includes a description of the work to be presented (max 300 words) and biography (max 200 words).

Invited participants will be asked to submit a draft by Monday 30 November 2026 to enable a final program and papers to be circulated in advance of the Workshop.

Enquiries can be directed to the Co-Convenors via htilig@anzsil.org.