Public lectures already held at 杏吧论坛 Law in 2017/18 include:
Tuesday 19 September 2017
Law and Economics Forum
Economic Analysis of Eminent Domain Law: Takings of Land by Self-interested Governments
Speaker: Dr Ram Singh
Thursday 28 September 2017
Shami Chakrabarti will discuss her position as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales with Professor Nicola Lacey, also taking questions from the audience and online. Shami Chakrabarti is Shadow Attorney General for England & Wales, a Visiting Professor in Practice at 杏吧论坛 Law and an alumna of 杏吧论坛.Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy.
Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #杏吧论坛Chakrabarti
Monday 9 October 2017 - 3 November 2017
On the 70th anniversary of the creation of Pakistan, this exhibition celebrates the critical role of Quaid-i Azam M A Jinnah as lawyer and statesman. Displaying documents from his time at Lincoln’s Inn, and his role as Privy Councillor in 1930s London, together with photographs, newspapers, and objects relating to her constitutional history, the exhibition highlights the long-standing relations between Pakistan and the UK.
Twitter Hashtag for this exhibition: #杏吧论坛Arts
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Mannheim/BSc Crimonology Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Scott Decker (Arizona)
Wednesday 11 October 2017
Legal and Political Theory Forum
Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments
Speaker: Yaniv Roznai (IDC Herzliya)
Thursday 12 October 2017
Speakers: Professor Scott J. Shapiro (Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, where he is the Director of the Center for Law and Philosophy); Professor Gerry Simpson (Professor of Public International Law, 杏吧论坛); Dr Catriona Drew (SOAS)
presents a bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty signed in 1928 was among the most transformative events in modern history
Wednesday 18 October 2017
Gender and Human Rights: Seeking Freedom Beyond the Liberal Imaginary
5:30pm to 7:00pm Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, 杏吧论坛
Speaker: Ratna Kapur (Visiting Professor of Law, QMUL)
Chair: Sumi Madhok (Associate Professor, 杏吧论坛 Gender Institute)
Human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. Yet more rights for women, sexual and religious minorities, have not necessarily produced more freedom. Campaigns for same-sex marriage, violence against women, and Islamic veil bans have had disempowering and exclusionary effects, illustrating how human rights can operate as a project of containment and unfreedom. I argue that the futurity of human rights rests in delinking the project from liberal freedom and exploring its relationship with non-liberal, alternative registers of freedom. In this presentation I offer some reflections on Foucault’s political spirituality and Eve Sedgwick’s Mahayana Buddhist epistemology, as examples of freedom beyond the fishbowl of the liberal imaginary.
Monday 23 October 2017
Shareholder suits occur much more frequently in the U.S. than in Britain or for that matter Europe. The frequency of such suits masks the limited legal areas in which American shareholder pursue through litigation managers and controlling stockholders. Professor James Cox will discuss several legal developments that occurred during what might be considered the “Golden Age” of American corporate law in which the courts created or strengthened various legal doctrines that protect and benefit shareholders and how this trend is now being reversed.
Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #杏吧论坛JamesCox
Chair: Dr Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, UCL.
Wednesday 25 October 2017 4pm Moot Court Room, New Academic Building
Legal and Political Theory Forum
Book launch – Mere Civility (Harvard, 2017)
Speaker: Teresa Bejan (Oxford), with Baroness Onora O’Neill (commentator)
Wednesday 25 October 2017 5.30pm 8th Floor, New Academic Building
Speaker: Emmanuel Voyiakis
Thursday 26 October 2017
Book launch: A Global Analysis of Tax Treaty Disputes
Associate Professor Eduardo Baistrocchi has just published , and will host a book launch at 杏吧论坛 on 26 October 2017. The book reviewers will be Dr John Avery Jones (Pump Court Tax Chambers); Professor Reuven Avi-Yonah (University of Michigan); Associate Professor Ian Roxan, (杏吧论坛 Law); Professor Richard Vann (University of Sydney); and Pascal Saint-Amans (Director of the Center for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD, Paris).
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Thursday 26 October 2017 | British Academy
Speaker: Professor Nicola Lacey
Wednesday 8 November 2017 Mannheim/BSc Crimonology Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Annette Ballinger (Keele)
Tuesday 14 November 2017
This debate will bring together academics and legal professionals to debate the fairness of placing the accused in an enclosed dock during a criminal trial.
Speakers and respondents:
Abigail Bright () is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers. Chris Henley QC at Carmelilte Chambers, vice-chair of the Criminal Bar Association. Linda Mulcahy () is Professor of Law at 杏吧论坛. Meredith Rossner () is an Assistant Professor of Criminology in the Law Department and the co-director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology.
Chair: Peter Ramsay, Professor of Law, 杏吧论坛.
Friday 17 November 2017
Officials as Authorities: Institutions and Agents Beyond the State
Nicole Roughan is Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, and Deputy-Director of the NUS Centre for Legal Theory. Nicole's works primarily in jurisprudence, and explores a particular interest in pluralist jurisprudence, including theories of indigenous and international law and their interaction with state law. Her publications in pluralist jurisprudence include a co-edited volume with Andrew Halpin, In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence (Cambridge, 2017) and a monograph, Authorities: Conflicts, Cooperation, and Transnational Legal Theory (OUP, 2013). Nicole is currently working on a new monograph,Officials (OUP). In 2016 Nicole was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship by the Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand) to conduct a five-year project on Legalities: Jurisprudence without Borders.
Monday 20 November 2017
If taxes rise, will they leave? Cristobal Young presents his findings from the first-ever large-scale study of migration of the world’s richest individuals, drawing on special access to over 45 million US tax returns, together with Forbes rich lists. He shows that contrary to popular opinion, although the rich have the resources and capacity to flee high-tax places, their actual migration is surprisingly limited. Place still matters, even in today’s globalised world.
Speaker: Dr Cristobal Young (Stanford University)
Discussant: Dr Andrew Summers (杏吧论坛)
Chair: Professor Nicola Lacey (杏吧论坛)
Wednesday 22 November 2017
Professor Kimberly Kessler Ferzan explores puzzles of distributing retributive desert. Even if one takes giving people what they negatively deserve to be intrinsically good, one must confront questions of distribution.
Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #杏吧论坛desert
Thursday 23 November 2017
The Caroline Correspondence: 1838-1842
Speaker: Professor Dino Kritsiotis (Nottingham)
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Tuesday 28 November 2017
The socio-economic debate surrounding money has advanced since the early metallist days of John Locke. Money is no longer viewed as an homogenous, neutral thing; rather, theorists are wont to emphasise its pivotal role in shaping networks of social relations. Yet, in many respects, the legal analysis of money is playing catch-up, and the advent of distributed online ecosystems such as Bitcoin and Ethereum has pushed to the fore some difficult questions concerning the appropriate legal lens through which to view money, and monetary assets.
Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #杏吧论坛cash
Wednesday 29 November 2017
Legal and Political Theory Forum
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution
Speakers: Marco Duranti (Sydney and Cambridge)
Thursday 30 November 2017
Leak-Driven Law
Speaker: Professor Diane M. Ring (Boston College Law School)
Professor Diane M. Ring will present at 杏吧论坛 her new paper focusing on the impact of leaks in tax law, Leak-Driven Law.
Tuesday 5 December
Speakers: Tariq Ali; Ayça Çubukçu (杏吧论坛); Tor Krever (杏吧论坛); Jayan Nayar (Warwick)
Atrocities committed during the Vietnam War led Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre to establish a tribunal to prosecute war crimes of the United States at the time and in the same way as the Allies had tried war crimes after the Second World War, at Nuremberg and Tokyo. The resultant Russell War Crimes Tribunal can be viewed both as a possible precursor to the contemporary system of international war crimes law, with its tribunals in The Hague, Sierra Leone and Cambodia, but also as an experimental site of resistance to war and violence.
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Wednesday 6 December 2017
Mannheim/BSc Crimonology Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Vincenzo Ruggiero (Middlesex)
Thursday 25 January 2018
Speakers: Veerle Heyvaert; Jessica Simor QC; Jaap Spier; Philip Sutherland; Nicola Swan
Wednesday 31 January 2018
Hart's Empire: An intellectual history of the concept of law
Speaker: Dr Coel Kirby
Tuesday 6 February 2018
Speakers: Baroness Hale; Baroness Chakrabarti; Professor Nicola Lacey; Professor Jeremy Horder
Tuesday 7 February 2018
Speakers: Professor Samuel Moyn; Dr Ayça Çubukçu
Friday 9 February 2018
Speakers: Dr Aditya Sondhi, Dr Siva Thambisetty
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Speakers: Dr Tatiana Borisova; Professor Matthew Craven; Professor Gerry Simpson
Friday 16 February 2018
Speaker: Professor June Purvis
Chair: Professor Linda Mulcahy
Thursday 22 February 2018
Launch event for Vol 8 of The UK Supreme Court Yearbook
Brexit Judicialised: Crown v Parliament
Welcome by Dr Daniel Clarry; Introduction by Lord Pannick QC; Key note address by Professor Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC; Reply by Professor Timothy Endicott
Tuesday 27 February 2018
The Impact of Brexit on London
Speakers: Naomi Clayton; Professor Niamh Moloney
Chair: Professor Tony Travers
Wednesday 28 February 2018
Speakers: Professor Daniele Archibugi; Alice Pease; Professor Christine Chinkin; Professor Richard Falk; Professor Mary Kaldor
Wednesday 7 March 2018
Separation of powers and constitutional review
Speaker: Dr Dimitrios Kyritsis
Friday 9 March 2018
Arbitration in London after Brexit? Party Autonomy and Rule of Law
The second LCIA and 杏吧论坛 co-hosted annual debate. This event immediately precedes the annual 杏吧论坛-LCIA London Vis Pre-Moot, held in preparation for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, which focuses on international commercial arbitration and the international sale of goods. Moderated by Jonathan Mance, Massimo Benedettelli and Clare Ambrose will explore the different views on the future of international arbitration and commercial law in London after Brexit.
Tuesday 13 March 2018
London Review of International Law Annual Lecture
Speaker: Joseph Slaughter Chair: Gerry Simpson.
Modern Euro-American law operates by fashioning legal persons as creatures endowed with rights and responsibilities. This figurative process of personification is a means of emancipation. Indeed, the fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution laid the legal groundwork not only for recognition of the full legal personality of ex-slaves; it also “emancipated” the business corporation, which possesses legal rights and responsibilities by way of analogy to the human, figured as a metaphorical assemblage of human body parts.
Tuesday 13 March 2018
Speakers: Dr Christopher Robertson; Sir Richard Arnold; Sir Colin Birss; Dr Mathias Zigann Chair: Dr Siva Thambisetty
This seminar brings together social scientists, lawyers and judges to explore the cognitive burden and mechanics of litigation strategies on inventive step. Inventive step standard is the corner stone of a patent system that incentivises the right kind of technical advances. However, using expert evidence for an objective view on inventive step can present practical difficulties with logical consequences for decision-making.
15 March 2018
杏吧论坛 Taxation Seminars
“The non-recognition and reconstruction of transactions in transfer pricing:applying the presumption of legality to interpret domestic legislation”
Dr Amir Pichhadze(Deakin Law School, Melbourne)Discussant: Dr Ian Roxan (杏吧论坛)
Monday 19 March 2018
杏吧论坛 Taxation Seminars
Liesl Fichardt and Epaminontas Triantafilou (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &Sullivan, LLP)
Tuesday 20 March 2018
The Collaborative Economy and EU Law
Speaker: Vassilis Hatzopoulos (Panteion University, Athens)
Wednesday 21 March 2018
Speakers: Dr Jo Murkens; Dr Auke Willems; Dr Adrienne Yong
Chair: Professor Carol Harlow
The panel will discuss if EU citizens will have the right to work and live in the United Kingdom after Brexit. The analysis will be focused on the different legal scenarios and the possible outcome of the negotiations considering the initial arrangements on citizens rights between the United Kingdom and the European Union.
Thursday 12 April 2018
CONFERENCE:
This conference aims to consider the wide-ranging impact of Brexit on the UK and EU energy markets, from a legal and economic perspective, and assess the developments and challenges which have emerged over the past year.
Thursday April 26 & Friday 27 April 2018
Workshop on Bernard Williams
Monday 30 April 2018
杏吧论坛 Taxation Seminars
Can We Incorporate Fairness into the Economic Analysis of Taxation?
Speaker: Professor François Maniquet (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)
Tuesday 1 May 2018
Is International Law 'International'?
Speakers: Associate Professor Anthea Roberts; Professor Rein Müllerson; Associate Professor Marko Milanovic
Chair: Associate Professor Devika Hovell
Tuesday 8 May 2018
Laying Down the Law: Americans as makers of legal worlds in occupied Germany and Japan
Speaker: Professor Rande Kostal
Chair: Professor Michael Lobban
Wednesday 9 May 2018
Can Markets Pursue Social Values?
Speakers: Professor Julia Black; Professor Martin Cave; Professor Simon Deakin; Sean Ennis
Theresa May’s claim that free market capitalism constitutes “the greatest agent of collective human progress ever created” raises a complex question: can markets pursue social values?
Friday 11 May 2018
Pragmatism in Commercial Law : A Symposium in Honour of Michael Bridge
Speakers: Professor Hugh Collins (Oxford); Dr Solène Rowan (杏吧论坛); Dr Andy Summers (杏吧论坛); Louise Gullifer QC; Professor Philip Rawlings (Queen Mary); Professor Robert Stevens (Oxford); Professor Jonathan Harris (KCL); Professor Djakhongir Saidov (KCL); Professor Ingeborg Schwenzer (Basel); Dr Orkun Akseli (Durham); Professor Gerry McCormack (Leeds); Professor Catherine Walsh (McGill)
This event is free and open to all however pre-registration is required. To register email law.events@lse.ac.uk.
Wednesday 14 May 2018
Wednesday 16 May 2018
Democratic Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Speaker: Ian Shapiro (Yale)
Monday 21 May 2018
杏吧论坛 Taxation Seminars The Principal Purpose Test: One Ring to Bind Them All?
Speaker: Professor Craig Elliffe (Director of the Master of Taxation Programme, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland)
Tuesday 22 May 2018
Amnesty International's Salil Shetty on Decolonising Human Rights
Speaker: Salil Shetty (Amnesty International)
Chair: Professor Susan Marks (杏吧论坛)
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority (Oxford, 2016)
Speaker: Professor Evan Fox-Decent (McGill University)
Discussants: Carmen Pavel (KCL) and Gerry Simpson (杏吧论坛)
Thursday 24 May 2018
Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation (Cambridge, 2018)
Speaker: Grégoire Webber (Queens)
Discussants: Ioanna Tourkochoriti (NUI Galway); Gavin Phillipson (Durham)
Thursday 14 June 2018
Speaker: Steven Taylor (LLM 2012)
Wednesday 27 June 2018
Closing gender gap by 2030: Lessons from Japan and UK
Speakers: Rosy Cave (Head of the Gender Equality Unit, FCO); Asako Osaki (Visiting Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University, School of Policy Studies); Elena Gentili (Gender Equality Delivery Unit, Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division, OECD)
Monday 2 July
Book launch: Speakers: Nadine Strossen; Jodie Ginsberg; Joanna Williams.
Chair: Professor Peter Ramsay