Public lectures already held at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law in 2018/19 include:
9 October 2018
The overwhelming majority of women in our prisons are serving very short sentences for non-violent offences frequently associated with mental ill health, abuse, addiction and poverty. Every year, about 17,000 children are affected by their mothers’ imprisonment, and, far too often, the family link is broken forever. Baroness Corston will re-visit her ground-breaking 2007 report, and discuss subsequent developments.
Speaker: Baroness Jean Corston
Chair: Professor Jill Peay
10 October 2018 co-hosted with the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ European Institute
Based on his experience as Judge in the Court of the European Union, Vassilios Skouris will explore the differences between how judgements are made in the common law and civil law legal systems.
Speaker: Judge Vassilios Skouris
Chair: Neil Duxbury
26 October 2018
Book launch: International Tax Policy: Between Competition and Cooperation by Tsilly Dagan
Speakers: Eduardo Baistrocchi (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Rdoardo Traversa (Catholic University of Louvain); Yariv Brauner (University of Florida); Ana Paula Dourado (University of Lisbon); Miranda Strewant (University of Melbourne)
Chairs: Ian Roxan (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Judith Freedman (Oxford)
A transcript is available here.
1 November 2018
Defending Liberty and Democracy in the Age of Trump: The Role of Civil Society
The election of Donald Trump, like the vote for Brexit in the UK, has had wide-ranging ramifications for the US and the world. Some see both votes as part of a rise of anti-immigrant, populist, and anti-egalitarian politics in many western democracies. In the US, the ACLU has been at the forefront of the fight to preserve democratic and constitutional traditions and norms in the wake of Trump’s election. Cole and Sands will talk about how Americans are fighting back, what lessons we might draw from the resistance, and what is at stake for all of us in the rise of populism.
Speakers: David Cole (ACLU National Legal Director); Professor Philippe Sands (Professor of Law, UCL, QC)
Chair: Minouche Shafik, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Director
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8 November 2018
An expert panel will discuss the links between human rights and climate change, and whether rights-based climate change claims are one future path to spurring climate action.
Speakers: Commissioner Roberto Eugenio T. Cadiz (focal commissioner for Business and Human Rights; Environment and Sustainable Development Goals at the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) of the Republic of the Philippines); Kristin Casper (Litigation Counsel for Greenpeace's Global Climate Justice and Liability Project at Greenpeace Canada); Dr Luke Harrington ; Researcher and College Lecturer, University of Oxford
Chair: Stephen Humphreys
14 November 2018
Can companies do business with Israeli settlements in Occupied Palestinian Territory while respecting human rights?
Speakers: Peter Frankental, (Economic Relations Programme Director Amnesty International, UK); Dr. Jan Kleinheisterkamp, (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Department, Transnational Law Project); Dr. Phyllis Starkey, (Independent Policy Adviser and Former MP); Peter Webster, (CEO of the EIRIS Foundation)
Chair: Andrea Shemberg, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Visiting Fellow, Laboratory for Advanced Research on theGlobal Economy
16 November 2018
To mark a century since the formal beginnings of the Department of Law at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, we welcome visitors to join our open house event on the ground floor of the New Academic Building.
We will celebrate our centenary by revisiting pinnacle historical moments that took place one hundred years ago from a legal perspective, such as women’s suffrage and post-war treaty making. Students will Moot on a contentious topic, overseen by Sir Ross Cranston. Our ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of Law centenary timeline and biographies of staff, alumni and students will be exhibited. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law research will be displayed, followed by a drinks reception.
The open house event will see the Law Department take over the ground floor of the NAB to celebrate the teaching and study of law through the decades, and will mark the start of a series of events over the coming year.
26 November 2018
The event will address the evolving role of money in society. Money used to be gold and is now fiat. Electronic transactions mean we have all but stopped carrying cash. The three panellists will discuss how new financial technology is set to change how money and payment systems are organised, if cryptocurrencies will displace fiat money and if banks will be replaced by technology providers?
Speakers: Jon Danielsson (Co-Director of the Systemic Risk Centre; Associate Professor of Finance at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Eva Micheler (Co-investigator of the Systemic Risk Centre; Associate Professor in Law at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law); Nikola Tchouparov (CEO, Moneyfold Ltd)
4 December 2018
In 2018 Rokhaya Diallo challenges the stereotypical view of “La Parisienne” by bringing together diverse groups of people in the famous Parisian landscape. She seeks to deconstruct the norm and show that various skin tones and hair textures are valuable, despite the standard view of Parisian womanhood. She makes minorities visible as a way to give them room in the in the collective imagination of Paris.
Speaker: Rokhaya Diallo Chair: Dr Sonya Onwu (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
6 December 2018
Nuclear Weapons, Collective Security and the use of force after WWII: Some ideas on the history of international law
It was clear to the Roosevelt Administration by 1941 that it would soon be playing a fighting role in WWII and that, for it to be worth it, the result would have to be a world made new: A fundamental transformation of international law that would help to make the world safe for democracy and help realize the basic rights of human beings.
Speaker Professor Mattias Kumm. Kumm joined NYU School of Law in 2000 after studies in law, philosophy, and political science in Kiel, Germany, and Paris and doctorate work at Harvard University.
Chair: Dr Kai Möller
7 December 2018
21 February 2019
Seventy Years of Nuclearism: a Cold War retrospective
This instalment of the Cold War International Law project will explore the implications of nuclearism for international law, for planetary survival and for cold wars, old and new.
Speakers: Professor Ruth Buchanan, Professor Matthew Craven, Professor Sundhya Pahuja
Chair: Professor Gerry Simpson
6 March 2019 | 6-8pm | Weston Café, Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Book Launch Party with Dr Insa Koch
Join us in celebrating Dr Insa Koch's new book Personalizing the State: an anthropology of law, politics and welfare in austerity Britain.
Speakers: Dr Insa Koch, Professor Nicola Lacey, Professor Deborah James, Professor Tim Newburn
7 March 2019 | 6.30pm-8pm | Shaw Library, Old Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Law in a world of struggle
Speaker: Professor David Kennedy (Harvard)
Chair: Professor Gerry Simpson (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
22 March 2019 | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
The third annual LCIA-ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ co-hosted debate on the topic, 'Arbitrator appointment and challenges: Lessons from Halliburton, for London and beyond.
When is too much knowledge a dangerous thing?'
Opponets: Bruce Harris, Quandrant Chambers, London; and Nigel Rawding QC, Freshfields, Bruckhaus, Deringers, London
Moderator: Suber Akther, Siemens plc. London
25-26 April 2019 | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Populism and Constitutionalism
A conference jointly hosted by ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Department of Law, German Law Journal and Cambridge University Press.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Nicola Lacey
29 April 2019 | ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Strategic Human Rights Litigation
In Conversation with Professor Helen Duffy about her new book, - ‘Strategic Human Rights Litigation: Understanding and Maximising Impact'
Chair: Professor Gerry Simpson
01 May 2019 | 6.30pm-8pm | Shaw Library, Old Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Oral History Research: illuminating the past
Speakers: Lesley Dingle, Dr Dvora Liberman, Mary Stewart
Chair: Professor Michael Lobban
22 May 2019 | 6.30pm-8pm | Weston Café, 6th floor, Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Speakers: Dr Immi Tallgren, Dr Christine Schwöbel-Patel
Chair: Professor Gerry Simpson
30 May 2019 | 6.00pm to 8.00pm| Shaw Library, 6th Floor, Old Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Countering Colourblindness: intersectionality and post-racialism
Speakers: Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, Dr Luke Charles Harris, Professor George Lipsitz
Chair: Dr Abenaa Owusu-Bempah, Dr Sonya Onwu
19 June 2019 | 1.00pm to 2.00pm| Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
On the Regulation of Algorithms
Speaker: Professor Arno R. Lodder
Chair: Professor Andrew Murray
25 June 2019 | 3-4pm, Moot Court Room, 7.02, New Academic Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Hosted by , don't miss the opportunity to hear from two directors from the UK Competition and Markets Authority who will share valuable insights on competition law enforcement in the UK, Brexit and merger control analysis in the digital economy.
Speakers: Andrea Gomes da Silva & Sorcha O' Carroll, CMA
Chair: , Associate Professor of Law
24-25 July 2019 | 9am-5pm | Moot Court Room 7.02, New Academic Building, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
Literature and International Law: at the edge
A two-day workshop organized by Joseph Slaughter (Columbia University), Vasuki Nesiah (New York University), Gerry Simpson (London School of Economics) and Christopher Gevers (University of KwaZulu-Natal).