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Events archive 2016/17

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law hosts events that play a major role in policy debates & in the education of lawyers and law teachers from around the world.

Public lectures at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law in 2016/17 included:

Antje du Bois-Pedain 

Sonia Correa

Conor Gearty 

Fleur Johns 

Christopher Mollers 

Philippe Sands 

Olivier de Schutter 

Martha Spurrier 


For a complete listing of our events in 2016/17, including videos of some key lectures, please see below:

Michaelmas term 2016

Monday 12 September 2016   
CIS, DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW

Our starting point is that film - in the broadest sense of fiction, documentary, media reportage, and audiovisual court transmissions - is key to the scholarship and practice of international criminal justice. The workshop is a creative effort to analyse and make sense of disparate ways in which film and international criminal justice relate to each other with different logics, such as in aesthetic, truth, political and legal relations.
 
Thursday 22 September 2016   
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Implicit bias, self-defence, and the reasonable person
Jules Holroyd (Sheffield)

Tuesday 27 September 2016   
GOLEM EU LAW
Traditions and transformations: The rise of German constitutionalism
Dr Michaela Hailbronner (Munster)

Wednesday 5 October 2016   
LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY FORUM
Making sense of litigation under the Human Rights Act: Painting the big picture
Professor Conor Gearty (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Thursday 13 October 2016   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW & ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ GENDER INSTITUTE SEMINAR
Abortion frontlines: the Latin American context
Sonia Correa (research associate, Brazilian Interdisciplinary Association for AIDS; co-chair, Sexuality Policy Watch); Professor Emily Jackson (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), 
Chair: Professor Nicola Lacey (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
 
In this informal lunchtime seminar, Professor Sonia Corrêa will present a short paper on recent developments in abortion law and policy in Latin America and Professor Emily Jackson (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law) will discuss the public health implications of DIY abortion.

Thursday 13 October 2016   
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Understanding the police
Josh Bowers (Virginia)

Wednesday 19 October 2016   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW MATTERS

Martha Spurrier (Liberty)
Chair: Professor Conor Gearty (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
 
As the UK looks to its future, this talk will reflect on how human rights can offer a national identity of tolerance, diversity and equality. #ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳Spurrier

Tuesday 25 October 2016   
GOLEM EU LAW
The Brexit iceberg
Dr. Christopher Bickerton (Cambridge)

Thursday 27 October 2016   
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Thought crime
Gabriel Mendlow (Michigan)

Tuesday 1 November 2016   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ DEBATING LAW
When the people speak, what do they say? The meaning and boundaries of the 'popular mandate'
Professor John Curtice (Strathclyde); Professor Sionaidh Douglass-Scott (QMUL); Professor Katrin Flikschuh (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Government); The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve MP
Chair: Dr Emmanuel Melissaris (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
 
After every election, many will inevitably proclaim that 'the people have spoken' but what this means is far from clear, as recent experience shows. Our panel will shed some light on the 'popular mandate'. #ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳Mandate

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Wednesday 2 November 2016   
LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY FORUM
Legal authority and globalisation
Professor Hans Lindahl (Tilburg)

Monday 7 November 2016   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW MATTERS
East West Street: In conversation with Philippe Sands
Professor Philippe Sands (UCL)
Chair: Professor Gerry Simpson (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
 
Philippe Sands discusses his new book 'East West Street' that explores the creation of world-changing legal concepts following the unprecedented atrocities of Hitler’s Third Reich. #ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳Sands

Wednesday 9 November 2016   
LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY FORUM
Social norms
Professor Christoph Mollers (Humboldt)

Monday 14 November 2016   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ DEBATING LAW

Professor Christoph Mollers (Humboldt University Berlin); respondent Dr Jan Komarek (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
Chair: Professor Niamh Moloney (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
 
Who is politically responsible for acts of the 'EU'? There is no clear answer to that question. This uncertainty indicates confused policy preferences in the European electorates. #ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳Mollers

Monday 14 November 2016   
LABORATORY FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY and HELLENIC OBSERVATORY

George Katrougalos (Minister of Labour and Social Security, Greece and Professor of Public Law); discussant: Sarah Paterson (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law)
Chair: Professor Kevin Featherstone (European Institute, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Tuesday 15 November 2016   
GOLEM EU LAW
The democratic mandate of the ECB as supervising agency
Professor Christoph Mollers (Humboldt, Berlin)

Thursday 24 November 2016   
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
The Dual Penal State
Markus Dubber (Toronto)

Wednesday 30 November 2016   
LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY FORUM
Book Launch: The Meaning of Partisanship (Oxford 2016)
Dr Lea Ypi (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) and Dr Jonathan White (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Tuesday 6 December 2016   
GOLEM EU LAW
The experiment of European Union
Professor Neil Walker (Edinburgh)

Thursday 8 December 2016   
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Bad character, tragic mistakes, and the puzzle of uncertainty
Liat Levanon (Brunel)

Thursday 8 December 2016   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW MATTERS

Professor Conor Gearty (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); respondents Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (QMUL); Professor Steve Peers (Essex)
Chair: Sir Stephen Sedley (judge, Court of Appeal 1999-2011; Visiting Professor, Oxford University)
 
Conor Gearty launches his latest book On Fantasy Island about rights and freedom in post-Brexit Britain. Will there be any place for human rights? #ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳BrexitVote

Lent term 2017

Tuesday 10 January 2017   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ SYSTEMIC RISK CENTRE & 
LAW AND FINANCIAL MARKETS PROJECT

Timothy G. Massad (Chairman, Commodity Futures Trading Commission)
Chair: Dr Eva Micheler

The global financial crisis caused massive unemployment, destroyed trillions in wealth, and triggered an international effort to strengthen the regulation of financial markets and institutions. Will the Brexit referendum and the 2016 U.S. election bring fundamental changes to that path?

Wednesday 11 January 2017   
GENDER INSTITUTE & ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW PUBLIC DEBATE

Hannah Hamad (UEA); Maria Miller MP (Chair, Women and Equalities Committee); Professor Diane Perrons (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Justine Thornton QC
Chair: Professor Tony Travers
 
A review of developments affecting gender inequality since the launch of the Gender, Inequality and Power Commission report in 2015. 

Thursday 12 January 2017   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW PUBLIC EVENT
The coming food Revolution: The transformative power of the right to food
Professor Olivier De Schutter (University of Louvain)
Chair: Dr Margot Salomon
 
Our food systems are failing to deliver what they promised. There is an ample supply of cheap calories. But there is undernutrition on a large scale in developing countries, obesity as a result of dietary patterns in rich countries, massive ecological destruction, and all over the globe a meticulous and systematic destruction of peasantry. Technical fixes will not suffice to ensure that food systems are reformed to deliver well-being and health, and that they respect ecological boundaries. What is needed is a combination of food democracy and social innovations. The human right to food can guide these efforts at transforming food systems.

Thursday 12 January 2017   
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Rethinking the moral grammar of penal justice
Alan Norrie (Warwick)

Thursday 19 January 2017   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW MATTERS

Rachel Merelie (Senior Director, Competition and Markets Authority); Paul Philip (Chief Executive, SRA); Niamh Dunne (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Catherine Dixon (Chief Executive, Law Society) 
Chair: Professor Julia Black
 
This will be the first public discussion of the Competition and Markets Authority report on the legal services market, which will impact on consumers and providers alike.

Tuesday 24 January 2017   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW MATTERS

Sandra Carlisle (Head of Responsible Investment, Newton Investment Management); Clare Chapman (Non-executive Director and Chair of the Renumeration Committee, Kingfisher); Will Hutton (political economist, writer, co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre); Professor David Kershaw (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Professor Colin Mayer (Oxford)

Chair: Simon Witney (consultant, King & Wood Mallesons)
 
Led by Will Hutton, panellists will debate a high profile report, The Purposeful Company, which recommends ways to increase long-term value creation in British companies.

Thursday 26 January 2017
PUÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳: PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AT ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Emotions, and the politics of attention in judicial reasoning
Emily Kidd White (NYU)

Monday 30 January 2017   
TAXATION SEMINAR
Trumpocalypse or gold-plated opportunity: Will US tax reform make BEPS Irrelevant?
John C. Taylor (King & Spalding International LLP)

Thursday 2 February 2017   
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Punishment and crisis: Politics, economy, and penalty in Italy since the euro crisis
Zelia Gallo (KCL)

Monday 6 February 2017   
LAW AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Transparency and its discontents in Mekong river basin development
Professor Fleur Johns (UNSW);
Commentators: Professor Andrew Lang (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Professor Tim Forsyth (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Monday 6 February 2017   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW PUBLIC EVENT

Antje du Bois-Pedain (Deputy Director, Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics, University of Cambridge)
Chair: Emmanuel Melissaris (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
 
Many crimes come to light long after they were committed. Should suspects still be prosecuted or are there good reasons for dealing with historic wrongs in alternative ways?

Tuesday 7 February 2017   
GOLEM EU LAW
Politics and the political in sociological constitutionalism
Dr Paul Blokker (Charles University, Prague)

Wednesday 8 February 2017   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW PUBLIC EVENT
From planning to prototypes: New ways of seeing like a state
Professor Fleur Johns (UNSW Australia); Respondent: Dr Stewart Motha (Birkbeck)
Chair: Stephen Humphreys (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Monday 20 February 2017   
TAXATION SEMINAR
International tax policy: Between competition, cooperation and anarchy
Professor Tsilly Dagan (Bar-Ilan University)

Thursday 23 February 2017   
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Criminalisation without punishment
James Edwards (Oxford)

Thursday 23 February 2017   
BOOK LAUNCH

Kai Möller (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Julian Rivers (Bristol); Martina Künnecke (Hull); Guglielmo Verdirame (KCL); Jo Eric Khushal Murkens (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Tuesday 28 February 2017   
GOLEM EU LAW
New challenges to the role of the individual in European legal integration
Dr Paivi Johanna Neuvonen (Leicester)

Tuesday 7 March 2017   
LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
The first female lawyer in Scotland
Alison Lindsay (National Records of Scotland)

Madge Easton Anderson was the first woman in Scotland and the UK to qualify as a lawyer. Later, she became the first woman to qualify in both Scottish and English jurisdictions. Yet very little is known about her, unlike her English contemporaries. The search for evidence about her life and career is a work in progress, and Alison will sharing her researches to date in piecing together the story of a pioneering Scottish lawyer.

Monday 13 March 2017   
TAXATION SEMINAR
What boundaries remain to the European Commission's state aid control over national taxation? A critical analysis of the Santander judgment and the tax ruling decisions
Conor Quigley, QC (Serle Court)

Tuesday 14 March 2017   
GOLEM EU LAW
EU sanctions, imperialism and the politics of EU law
Dr Eva Nanopoulos (Queen Mary)

Tuesday 14 March 2017   
LAW AND FINANCIAL MARKETS PROJECT
Corporate law in historical perspective

Thursday 16 March 2017   
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Criminal law, omissions, and the absence of action
Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov (Swansea)

Tuesday 21 March 2017   
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW and GRANTHAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Climate change litigation: Courts to the rescue
Professor Hari Osofsky (University of Minnesota); Gillian Lobo (ClientEarth)
Chair: Dr Veerle Heyvaert (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
Welcome by Dr Joana Setzer (Grantham Resaerch Institute)

Wednesday 22 March 2017   
LAW AND FINANCIAL MARKETS PROJECT
Short termism in financial markets: Fact and frenzy
Professor Mark Roe (David Berg Professor of Corporate Law, Harvard Law School)

Thursday 23 March 2017   
LAW AND FINANCIAL MARKETS PROJECT
Financial Institutions and human rights: What is the Dutch Banking Sector Agreement on human rights, and should UK financial institutions follow suit?
Sharon van Ede (Sustainability Advisor, Dutch Banking Association); Arnaud Cohen Stuart (Head of Business Ethics, ING); Simon Connell (Director, Sustainability, Standard Chartered)

Summer term 2017

Tuesday 25 April 2017   
LAW & ECONOMICS FORUM
EU State Aid Decision SA.3873 - Ireland Alleged aid to Apple
Dr Ian Roxan (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Dr Michael Engel (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP); Dr George R. Barker (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Visiting Fellow)

Thursday 27 April 2017   
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
The grounds for proportionate punishment
Ambrose Lee (Derby)

Tuesday 2 May 2017   
GOLEM EU LAW
The new terrain of social Europe: Free movement of working people and EMU
Professsor Claire Kilpatrick (European University Institute)

Thursday 4 May 2017   
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Questioning culpability: Lessons from soterial-legal history
Chloe Kennedy (Edinburgh)

Wednesday 17 May 2017
FRIENDS OF THE WOMEN'S LIBRARY
Helena Normanton: Pioneer woman lawyer 1882-1957
Dr Judith Bourne (St Mary's University Twickenham)

Tuesday 23 May 2017   
LAW & ECONOMICS FORUM
Say on pay: Do shareholders care?
Dr Carsten Gerner-Beuerle (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Dr Tom Kirchmaier (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Tuesday 6 June 2017   
LAW AND FINANCIAL MARKETS PROJECT
Unbundled commissions under MiFid II and their potential Impact on U.S. soft dollar arrangements
Howell Jackson (Harvard); John Armour (Oxford); Tim Tachi (TT International)
Chair: Philipp Paech (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Wednesday 7 June 2017   
LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY FORUM
What is law?
Professor Brian Tamanaha (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)

Monday 12 - Friday 30 June 2017    
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ ARTS / ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ LAW
EXHIBITION: The Itinerary - Tracing the refugee routes
Eleven photojournalists track the journey of refugees from their point of origin into Europe, recording their extraordinary struggle but also capturing everyday moments in their lives.

On Monday, 12 June at 6.30pm ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law will host an opening event and reception with introductions by Emmanuel Melissaris, Dimitrios Bouras, and Derek Hudson at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Atrium. The audience will also have the chance to discuss with the contributors to the exhibition about their work. 

Tuesday 20 June 2017   
CENTRE FOR WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY

Professor Christine Chinkin; Professor Mary Kaldor; Dr Javier Solana