Public lectures already held at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law in 2020/21 include:
9-10 September 2021
Legal Biography Workshops
- Lives in Context (9 September)
- Uses, Abuses and Methods in Legal Biographical Writing (10 September)
Thursday 2 September 2021 | 5pm to 6pm
Will Corporations Deliver Value to All Stakeholders?
Speaker: Roberto Tallarita
Chair: Professor David Kershaw
Thursday 17 June 2021 | 4pm to 5pm
Recovery or Radical Transformation: the effect of COVID-19 on justice systems
Speaker: Sir Geoffrey Vos
Chair: Professor Andrew Murray
15 June 2021 | 5 - 6pm
Book Launch hosted by GOLEM and Convene @ ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law
Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe
Speakers: Bojan Bugaric, Ruth Dukes, Michaela Hailbronner, Eva Nanopoulos, Alexander Somek, Neil Walker
Chair: Floris De Witte
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25 May 2021 | 1 - 2pm
Book Launch
A General Right to Conscientious Exemption: Beyond Religious Privilege by John Adenitire
Speaker: John Adenitire, Kai Möller, Sarah Trotter
Chair: Raffael Fasel
20 May 2021 | 5 - 6pm
ELLM Alumni Association Event
Regulation of Household Credit before the Financial Crisis
Speaker: Omar Salem (Linklaters)
Chair: David Kershaw
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12 May 2021 | 5 - 6.30pm
Public Lecture
What is to be Done About Fake News?
Speakers: Andrew Murray (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), Chi Onwurah MP (Shadow Minister for Science, Research & Digital), Kate Klonick (St. John's University)
Chair: Jeremy Horder (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
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12 May 2021 | 3 - 4pm
Defending Digital Rights: Strategic Litigation in Europe
Speaker: Julia Reda
Chair: Martin Husovec
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11 May 2021 | 5 - 6pm
Event Series: Political Authority and Constitutional Change in the 21st Century
The Constitution, Brexit and the Union: An Unravelling
Speaker: Helen Thompson (Cambridge)
Chair: Martin Loughlin
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Friday 7 May 2021 | 4pm | Open to all ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law students [Rescheduled from 1 April]
The Lewis Lectures Part 3: Deployment of AI and Ethics
Speaker: Mark Lewis
Chair: Martin Husovec
Hosted by Andrew Murray
21 April 2021 | 2 - 6pm
Joint ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law and IPKat Event
The CJEU's billion-dollar question - who gets a SEP licence and and when should an injunction be granted?
Speakers: The Rt Hon Sir Christopher Floyd, Pat Treacy (Deputy High Court Judge and competition partner, Bristows), Dr. Roman Bonn (Global Head fo IP, Continental AG), Alexandra Yang (Partner, Fangda Partners), Sven Volcker (Partner, Latham & Watkins), Rebekka Porath (Global IP Policy Director, Intel)
Chair: Luke McDonagh
The event is being moderated by James Nurton (co-founder of Lextel Partners)
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25 March 2021 | 5 - 6pm
ELLM Alumni Association Event
Social contract, financial management and transparent reporting in public finances during pandemic
Speaker: David Matthews, President, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
Chair: David Kershaw
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24 March 2021 | 5pm
Event Series: Political Authority and Constitutional Change in the 21st Century
Industrial Citizenship, Private Ordering and the Role of the State
Speakers: Professor Wolfgang Streeck (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne), Professor Ruth Dukes (University of Glasgow)
Chair: Martin Loughlin
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18 March 2021 | 6 - 7.30pm
Public Event hosted with the Department of Government
Celebrating Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1933-2020
Speakers: Kelsi Brown Corkran (Georgetown), Anne Phillips (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), Mona Pinchis-Paulsen (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
Chair: Nicola Lacey (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
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10 March 2021 | 5pm
Event Series: Political Authority and Constitutional Change in the 21st Century
Technopopulism: The New Logic of Democratic Politics
Speakers: Chris Bickerton (Official Fellow, Queens College Cambridge); Carlo Invernizzi Accetti (Associate Professor of Political Theory @The City College of New York)
Chair: Peter Ramsay
17 February 2021 | 6.30 - 7.30pm
LGBTQ+ History Month Event | All ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ staff and students welcome
Celebrating LGBT+ History Month: In Conversation with Brie Stevens-Hoare QC
Speaker: Brie Stevens-Hoare QC (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ alumna and property barrister at Hardwicke Chambers)
Chair: Megha Krishnakumar
13 January 2021 | 6 - 7.30pm
Book Launch
Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment in Private Equity by Dr Simon Witney
Speakers: Simon Witney, David Kershaw (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), Caroline Löfgren (HG Capital), Chloë Sanders (CVC)
Chair: Sarah Paterson (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
11 December 2020 | 5.00 - 7pm
ELLM Alumni Association Event
Brera: back to the future, museums in the time of COVID-19.
Speakers: James M. Bradburne (Director, Pinacoteca di Brera)
Chair: Professor David Kershaw (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
10 December 2020 | 8.30 - 19.00 (ECT)
Online Conference
Coordinators: Edoardo Traversa (UCLouvain), Miranda Stewart (University of Melbourne), Eduardo Baistrocchi (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
8 October 2020 | 5pm - 7.00pm
Shareholder Claims: Reflective loss after Sevilleja v Marex Financial Ltd
Speakers: Sophie Weber, One Essex Chambers
Chair: Eva Micheler (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law)
14 October 2020 | 6.30pm - 8.00pm
Climate Change, Displacement and International Justice
Speakers: Professor Conor Gearty (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law); Professor Tahseen Jafry (Glasgow Caledonian University); Professor Chukwumerije Okereke (University of Reading)
Chair: Dr Robert Falkner (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment)
15 October 2020 | 4pm - 5.30pm
Is it Time to Cancel Household Debt?
Speakers: Professor Laura Bear (Department of Anthropology, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Sarah-Jayne Clifton (Director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign); Professor Deborah James (Department of Anthropology, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); Dr Johnna Montgomerie (Reader in International Political Economy, King’s College London)
Chair: Dr Joseph Spooner (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law)
21 October 2020 | 6.30pm - 8pm
The "State of Emergency" as the Rule and Not the Exception: crisis conditions and exploitative lawmaking during COVID-19 and beyond
Speakers: Dr Sinan Antoon (Gallatin School, NYU); Carly A. Krakow (PhD candidate, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law); Professor Vasuki Nesiah (Gallatin School, NYU)
Chair: Professor Gerry Simpson (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law)
22 October 2020 | 5.30 - 7pm
In celebration of Black History Month
Black in Law: A Conversation with ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Alumni
Speakers: Joy Adeniran, Tosin Murana, Laura-Ann Royal, Josiah Senu.
Chair: Dr Abenaa Owusu-Bempah
23 October 2020 | 5pm - 6pm
Space, Trace and Balance: the new dance we must learn to stay safe from Coronavirus
Speakers: Dr. Margaret Ann Harris (WHO)
Chair: Professor David Kershaw (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law)
29 October 2020 | 6pm - 7.30pm
Occupying the Pedestal: cultural heritage, protest, and the law
Speakers: Dr Tatiana Flessas (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law); Jonathan Jones; Dr Sarah Keenan (Centre for Research on Race and Law, Birkbeck); Dr Luke McDonagh (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law); Cllr Asher Craig (Deputy Mayor, Bristol City Council)
Chair: Dr Siva Thambisetty (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law)
12 November 2020 | 6.30 - 8pm
Lawyers Alumni Group (LAG) Event
Data: Ubiquitous and unique, but how to regulate it?
Speakers: Niamh Dunne (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), Orla Lynskey (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳) and Liza Lovdahl Gormese (BIICL)
Chair: Andrew Murray (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
19 November 2020 | 5.00 - 6pm
ELLM Alumni Association Event
Data-informed responses to the pandemic: What role for EU data protection law?Speakers: Orla Lynskey (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
Chair: David Kershaw (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
23 November 2020 | 6.00 - 7pm
Book Launch
Europe's Passive Virtues: Deference to National Authorities in EU Free Movement Law by Jan Zglinski
Speakers: Jan Zglinski, Stephen Weatherill (Oxford), Urška Sadl (EUI)
Chair: Floris De Witte (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
30 November 2020 | 6.30 - 8pm
Public Lecture
Working from Home: legal issues arising from the 'new normal.'
Speakers: Alice Carse (Devereux Chambers), Nicola Lacey (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), Astrid Sanders (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳), Sarah Trotter (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
Chair: Hugh Collins (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)