Forthcoming Events
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May 2012
Monday 14 May 2012
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Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration
This is a five-day intensive course that is aimed at introducing participants to international commercial and investment arbitration. The course covers the foundations of arbitration, contractual issues, choice of law, appointment of arbitrators and their powers, conduct of proceedings and other procedural matters and the role of national courts. By the end of the course it is expected that participants will possess a solid understanding of arbitration law and practice.
The course is aimed at legal practitioners with little, or no prior, knowledge of arbitration and alternative dispute settlement who wish to gain knowledge and skill that will allow them to pursue a career in this field. Moreover, it is also aimed at non-lawyers, such as engineers, who are considering working as technical experts or arbitrators. Finally, the course is suitable for law students interested in a specialisation in arbitration.
For further information and a copy of the application form, please click here |
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Wednesday 16 May 2012
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18:30 |
A Wind of Change in the Middle East? Consideration of the Arab Spring and its impact on Human Rights
Dr Rosemary Hollis;
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC
Organised by the Oasis of Peace Lawyers' Group in association with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
Copy of poster and booking form attached here.
Dr Rosemary Hollis and Sir Geoffrey bindman will give their views on Arab uprisings in the Middle East and their impact on human rights.
Dr Rosemary Hollis is Professor of Middle East Policy Studies and Director of the Olive Tree Scholarship Programme at City University, London. Her research focuses on international political and security issues in the Middle East, particularly European, EU, UK and US realtions with the region and the imternational dimensions of regional conflicts.
Sir Geoffrey Bindman founded the prestigious firm of Bindmans in 1974 and throughout his long and distinguished legal career has specialised in civil liberties and human rights issues. He was knighted in 2007 for services to human rights and appointed honorary Queen's Counsel in 2011.
Questions and answers will follow.
Charges: £15.00; Concessions & students: £10.00.
Tickets available from: Oasis of Peace UK, 112 Station Road, Edgeware , Middlesex HA8 7BJ. Tel: 020 8952 4717. Email: british.friends@nswas.org. Website: www.oasisofpeaceuk.org.
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Thursday 17 May 2012
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11:30 |
Legislative Techniques and ICT
Ubena John, Law and Informatics Research Institute, Stockholm University
Sir William Dale Centre Graduate Series of Seminars |
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Friday 18 May 2012
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14:15 |
Imperial Encounters: colonialism and the law from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century
Dr Stacey Hynd, University of Exeter;
Dr Carol Tan, School of Oriental and African Studies;
Dr Nandini Chatterjee, University of Plymouth.
Dr. Stacey Hynd (Exeter): '"The Extreme Penalty for the Extreme Crime"? Capital Punishment and Colonial Law in British Africa, c.1900-50';
Dr. Carol Tan (SOAS): 'Colonial Public Health Laws and the Making of a European Summer Resort in North China';
Dr. Nandini Chatterjee (Plymouth): 'Indian Christians and British subjects: religion, race and jurisdictional conflict in early colonial India'.
This event is free.
REGISTRATION: Please register by using the automatic form below .
Organised in association with the London Legal History Seminar.
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Monday 21 May 2012
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18:00 |
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Lord Sankey’s 'living tree' theory of interpretation
Mr Justice Robert Sharpe, Judge of the Court of Appeal, Ontario.
On 29 October, 1929, John Sankey, England’s reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the ‘Persons Case’ that women were eligible for appointment to Canada’s Senate. The decision departed from a long line of cases excluding women from public office and established the organic theory of interpretation. In a memorable phrase, Lord Sankey described The British North America Act, 1867, Canada’s constitution, as ‘a living tree capable of growth and expansion within its natural limits’. The Privy Council rejected the proposition that the courts could not depart from the original intent of the framers. The Canadian constitution could no longer be viewed as fixed and unalterable, but had to be treated as a document that, in the words of Lord Sankey, was in ‘a continuous process of evolution.’
This lecture, based upon Robert Sharpe and Patricia McMahon’s book length case study, The Persons Case: The Origins and the Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood, will examine the case in its historical context and explore its interpretive implications.
This event is free.
REGISTRATION: Please register by using the automatic form below.
Organised by the Statute Law Society with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
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Wednesday 23 May 2012
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09:15 |
Banking Law Conference 2012: Basel III, the Vickers Report and Regulatory Restructuring
Chair: Michael Ashe QC;
Deborah Sabalot, Principal, Deborah Sabalot Consulting
Patrick Fell, PriceWaterhouseCoopers;
Professor Andrew Haynes, University of Wolverhampton, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Macau, China and Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies;
Rachpal Thind, Sidley Austin LLP;
Jonathan Ward, Senior Adviser, Prudential Policy Division, Bank of England
Dr Costanza Russo, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
Nick Andrews, MPAC;
Dr Dalvinder Singh, Associate Professor, University of Warwick;
Richard Parlour, FMLI
For a copy of the programme for the 2012 Banking Law Conference on 'Basel III, the Vickers Report and Regulatory Restructuring', please click here.
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENTS: For on-line booking and payments please click here
Fees:
Full Rate £100.00;
Academic Rate £50.00;
Student Rate: £25.00 (please note, there are a limited number of places available at the student rate).
If you have any queries, please contact: Belinda.Crothers@sas.ac.uk
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How to get a PhD in Law: Preparing yourself for the Vivas. Getting yourself known - presenting skills, publishing your work, and networking.
Professor Avrom Sherr, Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Dr Constantin Stefanou, Senior Lecturer in Law, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; Dr Jane Winter, Head of Publications and IHR Digital at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London; Richard Hart, Managing Director, Hart Publishing, Oxford; Laura Griffiths, Academic Services Librarian, IALS Libary; Narayana Harave, Computing Services Librarian, IALS Library.
MPhil/PhD law students from across the UK are warmly invited to attend this specially tailored day of presentations and networking opportunities at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
Topics to be covered:
Preparing for the Mini Viva and the Viva - Professor Avrom Sherr, Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies;
Practical presenting skills for your work and yourself - Dr Constantin Stefanou, Senior Lecturer in Law, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies;
Getting your research published in journals, Dr Jane Winter, Head of Publications and IHR Digital at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London;
What books are law publishers looking to publish, Richard Hart, Managing Director, Hart Publishing, Oxford;
Tips ondefining and avoiding plagarism, Laura Griffiths, Academic Services Librarian, IALS Libary;
Tips on using Microsoft Word to write your thesis, Narayana Harave, Computing Services Librarian, IALS Library;
Preparing yourself for the Ethics Committee - Professor Avrom Sherr.
For a copy of the programme, please click here.
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENTS: For on-line booking and payments please click here
Fee: £65.00. Bookings and registration fees must be received by IALS by 18 May.
If you have any queries, please contact: Belinda.Crothers@sas.ac.uk
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Thursday 24 May 2012
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11:30 |
Quality of legislation and ways to address and operationalise it
Maria Mousmouti, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Sir William Dale Centre Graduate Series of Seminars |
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Three Visions of Transnational Economic Law
Professor Robert Wai,Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada; IALS Visiting Fellow
Transnational economic law concerns the complex, multilevel and plural orders of law – national and international, public and private, state and non-state – that affect the economy of contemporary global society. Among the challenges for the transnational law approach are the need for a parsimonious account of this complexity, the problem of accounting for relationship among plural orders, and the difficulty of identifying the place of politics in complex transnational order. The seminar considers these challenges by describing and contrasting how they are dealt with by three distinct visions for transnational economic law, each of which is inspired by important legal regimes relevant to the field: public law, private ordering (including lex mercatoria), and private law. It will be argued that a realist-pragmatic understanding of private law provides the best way to frame the plural nature of transnational economic law, including the sometimes conflictual relationship among different normative orders.
This event is free.
REGISTRATION: Please register by using the automatic form below. |
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Monday 28 May 2012
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18:00 |
Rendition and Holding Secret Government to Account?
Rosa Curling, Leigh Day & Co.
Rosa Curling is an assistant solicitor with Leigh Day working in the Human Rights Department. She specialises in Public Law particularly Judicial Review and Human Rights cases.
She has been involved in many legal challenges to national bodies (for example, government departments, regulators, the NHS, local authorities, Ombudsmen) as well as international ones (for example, the European Council) concerning a variety of issues including health, education, freedom of information, environmental law, discrimination, civil liberties, community care and ‘the right to die’. She has also represented clients at inquests, SENDIST appeals and Best Interest proceedings.
Rosa has a BA in Anthropology and a Masters in Human Rights. She worked at several NGOs and charities before becoming a solicitor, including Liberty, the European Roma Rights Centre, ChildLine and the British Institute of Human Rights.
This event is free.
REGISTRATION: Please register by using the automatic form below.
Arranged with the Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS) and the Haldane Society of Socialist lawyers
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Tuesday 12 June 2012
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11:25 |
Reviewing Legal Education: The Way Forward
As the Legal Education and Training Review continues to make progress, the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) in associaotn with IALS is holding this one-day conference to facilitate input to the review process by all those interested in legal education.
Registration fee: £40.00. The programme and booking form may be downloaded from the SLS website www1.legalscholars.ac.uk.
The Academic Stage of Legal Education: Is it Fit For Purpose?:
Professor Anthony Bradney, Keele University, SLS Legal Education Committee.
Baroness Ruth Deech, Chair, Bar Standards Board.
Professor Anne Barlow, Exeter University, Vice Chair SLSA.
Chair: Professor Keith Stanton, President, SLS.
Update on progress of Legal Education & Training Review:
Sir Mark Potter, and Dame Janet Gaymer, Co-Chairs of the Legal Education & Training Review Consultation Steering Panel.
Chair: Professor Elizabeth Mytton, Co-Convenor, SLS Legal Education Section.
Facing the Future: Developing Academic Legal Education:
Professor Fiona Cownie, Chair, SLS Legal Education Committee.
Tony King, Chair, Education & Training Committee, The Law Society.
Chris Kenney, Chief Executive, Legal Services Board.
Chair: Professor Richard Taylor, Hon. Sec. SLS.
Reviewing Academic Legal Education: key issues:
Professor Andrew Sanders, Birmingham University, Chair of CHULS.
Richard Owen, Glamorgan University, Chair, ALT.
Antony Townsend, Chief Executive, SRA.
Chair: Professor Fiona Cownien Steering Panel.
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Thirty Years of Counterclaims in Investor-State Disputes: A Study of ICSID, UNCITRAL and Iran-US Claims Tribunal Jurisprudence
Dr Yarik Kryvoi, University of West London
Dr Kryvoi, a New York and Russian-qualified lawyer, has been practising international dispute resolution for several years with major law firms in Washington and London. He holds degrees from Harvard, Moscow, Nottingham and St Petersburg.
Dr Kryvoi serves on editorial boards of several international periodicals and publishes on international economic law and dispute resolution. He often acts as a consultant on issues of law and policy in the former Soviet Union countries.
His article "Counterclaims in Investor-State Arbitration" will be published by Minnesota Journal of International Law this year.
This event is free.
REGISTRATION: Please register by using the automatic form below. |
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Wednesday 13 June 2012
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Hamlyn Seminar 2012: The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property
Professor Jeremy Waldron;
Professor Leslie Green;
Professor Paul Kelly;
Professor James Penner.
Professor Jeremy Waldron (Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, University of Oxford, University Professor and Professor of Law, New York University) will launch the publication by the Cambridge University Press of his book on ‘The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property'.
Commentators will include:
Professor Leslie Green, University of Oxford
Professor Paul Kelly, London School of Economics and
Professor James Penner, University College, London.
When property rights and environmental legislation clash, what side should the Rule of Law weigh in on? It is from this point that Jeremy Waldron explores the Rule of Law both from an historical perspective – considering the property theory of John Locke – and from the perspective of modern legal controversies. This critical and direct account of the relation between the Rule of Law and the protection of private property criticizes the view – associated with the 'World Bank model' of investor expectations – that a society which fails to protect property rights against legislative restriction is failing to support the Rule of Law. In this book, developed from the 2011 Hamlyn Lectures, Waldron rejects the idea that the Rule of Law privileges property rights over other forms of law and argues instead that the Rule of Law should endorse and applaud the use of legislation to achieve valid social objectives.
This event is free.
REGISTRATION: Please register by using the automatic form below.
Organised in association with the Hamlyn Trust. Further information about the Hamlyn Trust is avaialable at: http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/law/hamlyn/
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Friday 15 June 2012
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Terrorism & Security Research in the UK: Using and Understanding Legal Resources
This day has been organised by the “Law, Terrorism and the Right to Know Project at the University of Reading in association with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
This training is designed for PhD candidates and early career academics from any discipline in social sciences, arts or humanities. It may also interest those in research-related positions outside academia. It will suit researchers with law backgrounds as well as researchers who have no legal qualifications and are working in other disciplines. It will also provide an opportunity to develop and expand research networks.
Speakers from academia, NGOs, the media and parliament, and guest speaker David Anderson QC (the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation) will address:
Methodology: what makes good academic research in this area?
Legal and ethical issues
Court-based resources: what types of cases and courts may be of interest, and how do you access reports and documents
Parliamentary resources, government resources and scrutiny of government, reviews of terrorism laws
Using freedom of information
How to contribute to current debates, policy and law reform
Using media reports and social media
Conducting and understanding participant-based research: observation, interviews and documents; police and communities; government; judiciary, courts and lawyers.
For a copy of the outline programme, please click here. A full programme will be avialable soon
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENTS: For on-line booking and payments please click here
Fees - Full Rate: £30.00; or Student Rate: £20.00 (for students of Essex, Kent, Reading, Royal Holloway, Surrey and Sussex Universities only). Bookings and registration fees must be received by IALS by 11 June.
Registration inquiries: Belinda Crothers, IALS, belinda.crothers@sas.ac.ukCourse inquiries: Dr Lawrence McNamara, l.mcnamara@reading.ac.ukTravel subsidies for PhD students: http://www.reading.ac.uk/LTRK/Events/ltrk-events.aspxTwitter: @UniRdg_LTRK
The training is hosted by the ESRC/AHRC-funded Law, Terrorism and the Right to Know project at the University of Reading. |
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Monday 18 June 2012
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Why is law reform so difficult?
Professor Elizabeth Cooke, Law Commissioner.
This event is free.
REGISTRATION: Please register by using the automatic form below.
Organised by the Statute Law Society with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
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Tuesday 19 June 2012
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The truth about the rule of law, democracy and human rights in Ukraine. Recent cases - what can we learn from them?
Valentyna Telychenko
with additional commentary by Miroslava Gongadze.
Valentyna Telychenko is well-known as the defence lawyer of Myroslava Gongadze in the murder case of her husband, journalist Georgiy Gongadze. Recently, Ms. Telychenko has taken on the case of Yuriy Lutsenko (former Minister of Interior) and Yulia Tymoshenko (Ukraine's former Prime-Minister) in the European Court of Human Rights.
In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Telychenko has extensive experience in human rights campaigns and public activity ranging from membership of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union (UHHRU) during the perestroika of the 1980s, to participation in the updating of election legislation. She has written numerous analytical reports on judicial reform, human rights and the rule of law in Ukraine.
Miroslava Gongadze will also contribute to the talk and will answer questions.
This event is free.
REGISTRATION: Please register by using the automatic form below.
Arranged with the Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS) and the Haldane Society of Socialist lawyers
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Thursday 21 June 2012
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Turning Around Troubled Families Affected by Imprisonment; A fresh approach to integrated working between prisons and community
Programme and registration fees to follow
Organised in association with PACT (Prison Advice Care Trust). |
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Tuesday 26 June 2012
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Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (W G Hart Legal Workshop 2012)
Peter Andreas, Brown University; Margaret Beare, Osgoode Hall, York University; Roger Cotterrell, Queen Mary, University of London; Bill Gilmore, University of Edinburgh; Chris Harding, Aberystwyth University;Michael Levi, Cardiff University; Alison Liebling, University of Cambridge; Dario Melossi, University of Bologna; David Nelken, Universities of Cardiff and Macerata; Michael O'Kane, Peters & Peters; Mark Pieth, Basel University; Robert Reiner, London School of Economics; Richard Sparks, University of Edinburgh; Takis Tridimas, Queen Mary, University of London; John Vervaele, University of Utrecht.
The WG Hart Legal Workshop 2012 will address the multifarious relationship between globalisation, on the one hand, and criminal law and justice, on the other hand. At a time when economic, political, and cultural systems across different jurisdictions increasingly become or are perceived to be parts of a coherent global whole, it appears that the study of crime and criminal justice policies and practices can no longer be restricted within the boundaries of individual nation-states or even particular transnational regions
In addition to the plenary sessions, the Workshop will address the following themes in panel sessions:
Transnational Crime and Globalisation
The Impact of Globalisation on Domestic Criminal Law and Justice
Globalisation and EU Criminal Law from Practitioners’ Perspective
Human trafficking and globalisation
Globalisation and Comparative Criminal Justice I, II and III
Globalisation and European Criminal Law: The European Arrest Warrant and Suspects’ Rights
Globalisation and the Political Economy of Punishment
Globalisation and the Interplay between Criminal and Administrative Law
Criminalisation and Enforcement in European Criminal Law
Globalisation, Criminalisation and Judicial
The Academic Directors of the 2012 Workshop are:
Peter Alldridge, Queen Mary, University of London
Valsamis Mitsilegas, Queen Mary, University of London
Julian Roberts, University of Oxford
Leonidas K. Cheliotis, Queen Mary, University of London
For a copy of the programme, please click here.
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENTS: For on-line booking and payments please click here
Fees:
Full Rate: £250 for all three days or £100 per day;
Academic/NGO/Charities Rate: £100 for all three days or £50 per day;
Postgraduate Student Rate: £75 for all three days or £35 per day;
If you have any queries, please contact: Belinda.Crothers@sas.ac.uk
For a copy of the Workshop 2012 poster, please click here
For a copy of the orignal Call for Papers, please click here
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Wednesday 27 June 2012
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Modern Activism
Venue: The conference will take place in Liverpool, across a number of venues including Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Liverpool.
This conference will address a range of issues relating broadly to modern activism. The three broad conference strands are
Activism, Rights, Conflict and Crisis (managed by SOLON @ Liverpool John Moores);
Criminal Justice's History of Activism (managed by Liverpool);
Histories of Contemporary Activism and Its Impacts (managed by the CCBH @ KCL, and constituting its annual summer conference).
For a copy of the programme, please click here. For a copy of the booking form, please click here
Conference Website and Online Payments: http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/conferences/modernactivism/
For booking enquiries please contact the Conference Administration team at Liverpool John Moores University: Conference and Event Services, Liverpool John Moores University, Egerton Court, 2 Rodney Street, Liverpool L3 5UX. Tel: +44 (0)231 3668. Email: modernactivism@ljmu.ac.uk
This interdisciplinary conference is a joint initiative between SOLON at Liverpool John Moores, the Centre for Contemporary British History at KCL and Liverpool University, with the involvement of the ESRC, the History and Policy Unit at KCL and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
For a copy of the orignal Call for Papers, please click here. |
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