ANZSIL Zoom Keynote Lecture Series

  • 29 Jun 2020
  • 1:00 PM
  • 03 Jul 2020
  • 2:00 PM
  • Online Event

Six speakers across five lunchtime seminars will share their research and current thinking on topics ranging from the geopolitics of space, biological weapons and the international law implications of COVID-19. The programme is available here.

29 June 2020: 1pm AEST/ 3pm NZ

The Geopolitics of Outer Space and International Law: Square Peg in a Round Hole?

Professor Steven Freeland, Western Sydney University


30 June 2020: 1pm AEST/ 3pm NZ

International Law on Biological Weapons: Fit for Purpose?

Associate Professor Treasa Dunworth, University of Auckland


1 July 2020: 1pm AEST/ 3pm NZ

Transboundary Harm and the Pandemic – Lessons from State Responsibility and International Environmental Law 

Professor Tim Stephens, University of Sydney


2 July 2020: 1pm AEST/ 3pm NZ

An International Fact-finding Commission Inquiry into COVID-19?

Professor Chester Brown, University of Sydney


3 July 2020: 1pm AEST/ 3pm NZ

International Law in the Time of COVID

Victoria Hallum (MFAT, NZ) and Sue Robertson (Attorney General’s Department, Australia) in conversation with Karen Scott (ANZSIL President)

Please send questions IN ADVANCE to karen.scott@canterbury.ac.nz


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