Wednesday 15 January 2014
杏吧论坛 FORUM IN LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY
Westernization as barbarization: A Chinese theory of self-other transformation
Speaker: Leigh Jenco (杏吧论坛)
Thurdsay 16 January 2014
杏吧论坛 DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC EVENT
In conversation with Joshua Rozenberg
Speaker: Joshua Rozenberg (writer for The Daily Telegraph and the Guardian, and host of Radio 4’s 'Law in Action')
Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
Wednesday 22 January 2014
LAW AND FINANCIAL MARKETS PROJECT
Modern issues in international commercial law: Can we hold a legal dialogue across the Channel?
Speaker: Jean-François Riffard (University of Auvergne, School of Law)
Chair: Eva Micheler (杏吧论坛, Law Department)
Is a dialogue between civil law and common law lawyers possible? Comparative law scholars have discussed this question for several decades. 'Law' is not a uniform concept. Each legal system is the result of a historical and religious heritage. Legal systems' 'styles' are different. Precisely in consideration of the differences between the French and English styles, some authors have denied the mere possibility of a legal dialogue. Today, this approach appears obsolete. At the time of globalization and convergence of legal models, the question should no longer investigate whether a dialogue is possible, but how it can be hold. Through the examples of the unification of the law of sales in the European Union and the harmonization of secured transactions law by UNCITRAL at the international level, the seminar will present the worst and best methods to hold such a dialogue.
Thursday 23 January 2014
GOLEM & EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW THEORY
The composite approach to constitutional authority
Speaker: Dr Adam Tucker (York)
Tuesday 28 January 2014
SYSTEMIC RISK CENTRE
The next crisis
Speakers: Julia Black (Department of Law, 杏吧论坛); Charles Goodhart (Systemic Risk Centre and Financial Markets Group, 杏吧论坛); Jon Danielsson (Co-Director of the Systemic Risk Centre, 杏吧论坛)
Wednesday 29 January 2014
杏吧论坛 SPECTRUM & 杏吧论坛 DEPARTMENT OF LAW
Pride and propaganda: LGBT rights in Russia today
Speakers: Peter Tatchell (renowned LGBT rights campaigner; Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation); Jonathan Cooper, OBE (international human rights law practitioner; Chief Executive of the Human Dignity Trust); Kseniya Kirichenko (Legal Assistance Program Coordinator for the St Petersburg LGBT organisation 'Coming Out')
Chair: Professor Susan Marks
Wednesday 5 February 2014
杏吧论坛 FORUM IN LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY
Workshop on proportionality and constitutional culture
Speakers: Moshe Cohen-Eliya and Iddo Porat (both College of Law & Business, Jerusalem), Jacco Bomhoff and Kai Möller (both 杏吧论坛)
Wednesday 5 February 2014
DEBATING LAW
What have you got to hide?
Speakers: Hazel Blears, MP; Annie Machon ((Director of LEAP Europe and former intelligence officer for MI5); Professor Sir David Omand (First UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator and visiting professor at KCL); Matthew Ryder QC (Barrister, Matrix Chambers)
Chair: Dr Andrew Scott
Thursday 6 February 2014
GOLEM & EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW THEORY
Europe in the making. The history of the negotiations of the institutional and legal features of the Treaty of the European Economic Community, 1955-1958
Speaker: Professor Morten Rasmussen (Copenhagen)
Wednesday 12 February 2014
ISLAMIC FINANCE LECTURE SERIES
Risk sharing and cooperative finance
Speaker: Farmida Bi (Partner and European Head of Islamic Finance, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP); Dr Paul Mills (Senior Economist, International Monetary Finance, London Office)
Thursday 13 February 2014
ISLAMIC FINANCE LECTURE SERIES
Harvard-杏吧论坛 workshop: Use and abuse of limited liability
Thursday 13 February 2014
杏吧论坛/MATRIX SEMINARS ON CURRENT CASES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
Debating Kadi II : UN Ombudsperson v judicial review in Security Council sanctions decision-making
Speakers: Judge Kimberly Prost (UN Ombudsperson); Professor Carol Harlow (杏吧论坛); Ben Emmerson QC (UN Special Rapporteur for Counter-terrorism and Human Rights)
Thursday 13 February 2014
TRANSNATIONAL LAW PROJECT
Book launch event to celebrate the publication The Idea of Arbitration (OUP 2013) by Jan Paulsson (U Miami / 杏吧论坛).
Friday 14 February 2014
杏吧论坛 EUROPEAN INSTITUTE AND DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE
Speaker: José Manuel Barroso
Tuesday 18 February 2014
LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Late medieval and early modern legal prosopography
Speaker: Sir John Baker (University of Cambridge)
Thursday 20 February 2014
GOLEM & EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW THEORY
Workshop on 'Escaping from the Euro-crisis'
Tuesday 25 February 2014
GOLEM & EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW THEORY
Surprise, what surprise?: The old 'new' nationalisms in post-security Europe
Speaker: Professor Mabel Berezin (Cornell)
Wednesday 26 February 2014
DEPARTMENT OF LAW; GRANTHAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE; IPA 杏吧论坛 LITERARY FESTIVAL'BABY BOOMERS ON TRIAL' FRINGE EVENT
“What is to be done?” A participatory event on the environment, tax and social justice
Speaker: Polly Higgins, advocate for the International Law of Ecocide;Supporting speakers: Richard Murphy (Tax Justice Network); Andrew Simms (New Economics Foundation); Neal Lawson (Compass); Rev Angus Ritchie; Tim Aldred (Progressio); Vicki Hird (Friends of the Earth); Sam Lund-Harket (World Development Movement); Rachel King (Greenpeace); Diana Vogtel (Oxfam)
In this unique event in support of the forthcoming Baby Boomers on Trial, experts on the environment, tax justice and social justice will explore together with the audience how we can move towards compassionate, sustainable societies that promote the benefit of inter-dependent eco systems.
Friday 28 February 2014
DEPARTMENT OF LAW; GRANTHAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE; IPA 杏吧论坛 LITERARY FESTIVAL
Speaker: Richard Hermer QC (Prosecution); Alice Stapleton (Prosecution); Richard Gordon QC (Defence); Zahra Al-Rikabi (Defence); Professor Oriana Bandiera (Expert Witness); Emma Soame (Expert Witness)
Wednesday 5 March 2014
杏吧论坛 FORUM IN LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY
Ordained power: The rule of law's bold claim
Speaker: Gerald Postema (North Carolina)
Wednesday 5 March 2014
LAW MATTERS PUBLIC LECTURE
A question of law
Speakers: Dr Chaloka Beyani (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons; 杏吧论坛); Professor Julia Black (Director of the Law and Financial Markets Project; 杏吧论坛); Professor Emily Jackson (member of the British Medical Association Medical Ethics Committee; Head of the Department of Law); Dr Peter Ramsay (Reader in Law, 杏吧论坛, specialising in criminal law)
Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
Thursday 6 March 2014
LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
In conversation with the first women law professors
In celebration of International Women’s Day the Legal Biography Project is hosting a public lecture in which Professors Linda Mulcahy and Fiona Cownie will interview Professors Brenda Barrett, Carol Harlow and Dawn Oliver.
These three women were amongst the first women law professors ever to be appointed in the UK. The event will be followed by a drinks reception to mark the re-launch of the University of London Women in Law network.
Tuesday 11 March 2014
杏吧论坛 DEPARTMENT OF LAW, GENDER INSTITUTE AND MANNHEIM CENTRE FOR CRIMINOLOGY
The policing and prosecution of rape: What do we know, and how should our knowledge shape policy and practice?
Speaker: Betsy Stanko (Honorary Professor of Criminology, Royal Holloway, University of London; Assistant Director, Planning and Portfolio, Metropolitan Police Service (and soon to join the Mayor's Office on Policing and Crime as Head of Insight and Evidence)
Chair: Christine Chinkin (Professor of International Law; Acting Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights)
Panellists: Louise Ellison (Professor of Law at University of Law); Martin Hewitt (Dept. Asst. Commissioner, Specialist Crime and Operations, Metropolitan Police Service); Harriet Wistrich (Birnberg Peirce & Partners)
Thursday 13 March 2014
GOLEM & EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW THEORY
Judicial diversity in the CJEU: Challenges and opportunities
Speaker: Dr Iyiola Solanke (Leeds)
Thursday 13 March 2014
TAXATION EVENT
Litigating tax disputes in the UK: In conversation with Sir Andrew Park and David Goldberg QC
Chair: Michael Blackwell
Friday 14 March 2014
LABORATORY FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Speaker: Dr Robert Lepenies
Commentators: Dr. Andrew Lang and Professor Leif Wenar
Tuesday 18 March 2014
LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Neil MacCormick and Scotland
Speaker: Dr Maksymillian Del Mar (Queen Mary, University of London)
Tuesday 18 March 2014
CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE GROUP & MANNHEIM CENTRE FOR CRIMINOLOGY
Presumption of innocence lost ... and found?
Speaker: Professor Paul Roberts (University of Nottingham, University of New South Wales)
Thursday 20 March 2014
杏吧论坛 LAW & AFRICA TALKS
Fire in the blood
Chair: Dr Siva Thambisetty
An intricate tale of 'medicine, monopoly and malice', Fire in the Blood tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments aggressively blocked access to low-cost AIDS drugs for the countries of Africa and the global south in the years after 1996 - causing ten million or more unnecessary deaths – and the improbable group of people who decided to fight back. Followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with Dr Yusuf Hamied and Dr Ken Shadlen.
Monday 24 March 2014
CONFERENCE
Intermediated securities and investor rights