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Forthcoming Events
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November 2012
Thursday 1 November 2012
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Advanced Use of Databases at IALS
This workshop aims to identify and use some of the advanced search techniques which are possible when using databases from the IALS Electronic Law Library. Please note that this session is not introductory and assumes that you already have a basic knowledge of Lexis Library and Westlaw UK.
The session take place in the Electronic Legal Research Unit on the fourth floor of IALS Library. Contact ials@sas.ac.uk to book a place, or phone 020 7862 5790. |
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Monday 5 November 2012
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10:30 |
Advanced Use of Databases at IALS
This workshop aims to identify and use some of the advanced search techniques which are possible when using databases from the IALS Electronic Law Library. Please note that this session is not introductory and assumes that you already have a basic knowledge of Lexis Library and Westlaw UK.
The session take place in the Electronic Legal Research Unit on the fourth floor of IALS Library. Contact ials@sas.ac.uk to book a place, or phone 020 7862 5790. |
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More about post-divorce financial arrangements: the Law Commission's supplementary consultation on property and needs
Professor Elizabeth Cooke, Law Commissioner, The Law Commission; Professor of Law, University of Reading
On 6 February 2012 it was agreed with the Ministry of Justice that the scope of the original project considering matrimonial property, needs and agreements should be extended to include a targeted review of two aspects of financial provision on divorce and the dissolution of a civil partnership. The Law Commission is reviewing the law relating to needs, examining the extent to which one spouse or civil partner should be required to meet the other's needs following divorce or dissolution. The other area under review is non-matrimonial property, a concept used by the courts to describe property that was acquired by either party prior to the marriage or civil partnership, or received by gift or inheritance at any time. The Law Commission is considering the way that such property should be treated on divorce or dissolution.
In this lecture Professor Cooke will introduce this supplementary consultation paper. The Law Commission invites comment and discussion on these issues. The consultation period finishes on 11 December 2012.
Further information is available on the Law Commission's website: www.lawcom,gov.uk.
This event has been accredited with 1 CPD hour from the Bar Standards Board.
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the automatic form below.
Organised in association with the Law Commission. |
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Wednesday 7 November 2012
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10:00 |
Religion and Belief, Discrimination and Equality Practitioner workshops
Information flyer [PDF]
Attendance at this workshop is by application and invitation only. For further information and to apply for an invitation please visit the project webpage.
In collaboration with the University of Derby. |
The Chancellor's Hall (Senate House, first floor) |
Thursday 8 November 2012
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18:00 |
Regulating (private) financial market gatekeepers - the case of credit rating agencies in the European Union
Professor Gudula Deipenbrock, Hochschule fürTechnik und Wirtschaft (HTW) , University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany
Credit rating agencies are functioning as information intermediaries. They are considered as gatekeepers, having played a significant role in the causation of the recent financial crises. The talk addresses a pivotal question in context with debates on prudent responses to the recent financial upheavals: Does the European regulatory and supervisory regime for credit rating agencies including its reforms in particular have the firepower to tackle sustainably the shortcomings of the credit rating sector?
Gudula Deipenbrock is a Professor of Business Law at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW) Berlin, University of Applied Sciences, Germany. She holds the degrees of 1st State Examination in Law (after law studies at University of Münster) and 2nd State Examination in Law and a PhD in Law (University of Münster). She is a member of the Editorial Board (continuous co-operation) of the law journal Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft (RIW). Before joining HTW Berlin in 1998, she was a corporate counsel and project manager in several German companies, especially large groups of companies, working particularly in the fields of international co-operation, mergers and acquisitions and national and international business law. She has published extensively, including numerous papers on the various legal aspects of the credit rating industry.
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the automatic form below.
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Monday 12 November 2012
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18:00 |
European Defence Cooperation in EU Law and International Relations Theory
Theodore Konstadinides, Lecturer in EU Law, University of Surrey; IALS Visiting Fellow 2012.
The evolution of the legal status of the EU Common Security and Defence Policy has generated responses from a relatively small number of legal scholars. Overall, legal research on security and defence takes the approach that EU law constitutes a viable tool for integration but focuses upon the demarcation of its inherent limits rather than providing a treatise of ‘defence integration’. As such, legal research omits to take into account the contribution of international relations theory and therefore fails to adequately distinguish between the degree of cooperation achieved via legal arrangements and that accomplished through political will. Hence the aim of this seminar is to link legal and international relations scholarship by undertaking a detailed exploration of the structural factors which facilitate and hinder closer cooperation in the field of defence. In summary, the capacity of legal analysis to shed important empirical light on the extent of the shift from the ‘sovereign’ to the ‘functional’ in European defence and of IR theory to enrich legal scholarship by contextualizing it within its political context makes this seminar of relevance to scholars from both disciplines. |
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Tuesday 13 November 2012
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18:00 |
Ethics, Sustainability and Eradicating Ecocide
Polly Higgins and Sue Willman.
Polly Higgins, barrister, international lawyer, award winning author of Eradicating Ecocide, and proponent of Earth Law, has proposed that Ecocide be recognised by the UN as the 5th Crime Against Peace at the 2012 Earth Summit, alongside Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes of Aggression and War Crimes. Ecocide is defined as the mass "damage, destruction to or loss of ecosystems of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been severely diminished.
Michael Meacher was educated at Berkhamstead School and attended New College, Oxford – he entered politics in the 1960s after working as a lecturer at York University and the London School of Economics – He has been the Member of Parliament for Oldham for 42 years (elected in 1970 after unsuccessfully fighting a by election two years earlier). He was made a privy councillor in 1997, He has served in several Labour Cabinets; he was a Minister in the Wilson-Callaghan Governments 1974-79 and then a member of the Shadow Cabinet 1983-97. He held a Front Bench position for 29 years and has held 7 portfolios either in Opposition or in Government - one of the most recent being as Minister for the Environment where he was responsible for implementing the Right to Roam Act. Since 2003 he has been very active on a number of domestic and international issues, especially the background to the Iraq War and its consequences, the economy, GM crops and climate change. He is Chairman of the All Party Group Parliament First which is working for further Parliamentary Reform. He is the author of several books including ‘Socialism with a Human Face’, ‘The Political Economy in the 1980s’, ‘Diffusing Power – the key to the socialist revival’ and more recently ‘Destination of the Species and the Riddle of Human Existence’.
Michael Meacher will be speaking about his experience in Government and around sustainability.
Sue Willman is a partner at Deighton Pierce Glynn. Sue is involved in WildLaw UK, a group of lawyers, activists, students, academics and others committed to securing laws that are for the Earth, not against it. She is interested in promoting the link between environmental rights and human rights law, particularly in the international and climate change context. Deighton Pierce Glynn uses public law and human rights/discrimination law arguments in domestic environmental and planning cases. Sue recently returned from a fact-finding trip to Colombia to investigate how UK lawyers can support Colombian NGOs tackle corporate environmental and human rights violations, as part of the Alliance for Lawyers at Risk group.
Sue Willman will speak about the impact of British corporations on the rights of nature in Colombia, focusing on the current struggles of the Wayuu indigenous community to prevent the diversion of the Rio Rancheria by the open cast coal mining companies. Sue is a founding Director of Colombian Caravana UK Lawyers Group.
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the automatic form below.
Arranged with the Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG), the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS) and the Human Rights Consortium.
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Wednesday 14 November 2012
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18:00 |
Freedom of Expression and the Internet
Professor Lorna Woods, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law, City University Law School
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the automatic form below. |
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Thursday 15 November 2012
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18:00 |
Private Desires and Public Law: Sir Edward Coke and Official Corruption (1594-1606)
Dr David Smith, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
Chair: Professor Michael Lobban, Queen Mary, University of London
Organised with the Legal History Seminar. |
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Friday 16 November 2012
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13:00 |
Graduate Seminar in Legislative Drafting: Drafting objectives/What's the job? - implementing policy - working with the constraints
Sir Stephen Laws KCB QC, former First Parliamentary Counsel
This is one in a series of seminars being given by Sir Stephen Laws on legislative drafting.
ADMISSION FREE - ALL WELCOME |
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13:45 |
Conflicts of interest: the ethical thin red line between conflict and crime
Chair: Rosalind Wright CB QC, Chair, Fraud Advisory Panel; William Dinan, ALTER-EU; Monica Macovei, MEP; Philippa Foster Back OBE, Director, Institute of Business Ethics; John Burbidge-King, Founder and CEO, Interchange Solutions Ltd. Professor Jean-Bernard Auby, SciencesPo, Paris; Director, Mutations de l’Action Publique et du Droit Public.
Programme:
Lobbies and conflicts of interest, William Dinan, ALTER-EU;
The European Parliament’s response to conflicts of interest, Monica Macovei, MEP;
Business ethics and conflicts of interest, Philippa Foster Back OBE, Director, Institute of Business Ethics;
Conflicts of Interest in doing business abroad ….. where Culture and Ethics Clash, John Burbidge-King, Founder and CEO, Interchange Solutions Ltd.
The Debate on Conflicts of Interest in France, Professor Jean-Bernard Auby, SciencesPo, Paris; and Director, Mutations de l’Action Publique et du Droit Public;
Chair: Rosalind Wright CB QC, Chair, Fraud Advisory Panel.
For a copy of the programme and information about the speakers, please click here.
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the the automatic form below.
Bar Standards Board accreditation for 3 CPD hours has been applied for.
Organised in association with ALTER-EU (the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation), Fraud Advisory Panel, SciencesPo-MADP, Paris. |
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Tuesday 20 November 2012
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16:00 |
'Civis Europeus Sum' - Is There A European Citizen Yet?
Professor Estella Baker, De Montfort University;
Anand Doobay, Peters & Peters;
Chair: Professor John Spencer, Cambridge University.
Can EU citizens invoke that status in order to oppose any violation of fundamental rights, or is this still a forlorn hope? There is a growing body of EU law that tackles the interrelationship between citizenship of the Union, criminal law and fundamental (human) rights. How far are we from having a portable suitcase of EU rights to take with us on holiday?
Programme:
16.00 -1615 Introduction by the Chairman Professor John Spencer.
1615 – 1700 Professor Estella Baker: 'The positives and negatives of citizenship'.
1700 – 1730 Anand Doobay: 'Can we rely on a package of fundamental rights wherever we go in the EU ?' .
1730 – 1800 Questions and conclusions.
Professor Estella Baker is Professor of European Criminal Law & Justice at Leicester De Montfort Law School. Formerly Professor of European Criminal Law and Justice at the University of Sheffield, she has researched the impact of the European Union on criminal law and justice matters since 1993. Her other primary field of research is punishment and sentencing. During the 2011/12 academic year she was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to work on a major project entitled 'The EU as a penal actor: an investigation of policy-making and governance'.
Anand Doobay is a Consultant with the law firm Peters & Peters. He is the author of the chapter on extradition in Blackstone’s Criminal Practice and is a member of the Law Society’s EU Criminal Law Working Group. Anand was a member of the Panel appointed by the Home Secretary to carry out the recent Review of the UK’s Extradition legislation; is a trustee of Fair Trials International and a Council Member of Justice.
Professor John Spencer is a Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Cambridge University Centre for European Legal Studies and President of the UK European Criminal Law Association. He writes and lectures extensively on EU and domestic criminal law and evidence. In 1997 he was part of the team responsible for the Corpus Juris project. He is a QC (honoris causa), an Academic Bencher of the Inner Temple and holds an Honorary Degree from the University of Poitiers.
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the automatic form below.
Arranged with the European Criminal Law Association (UK).
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Wednesday 21 November 2012
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18:00 |
Trusts, sham trusts and statistics
The Hon Justice O'Regan, President of the Court of Appeal, New Zealand; IALS Inns of Court Fellow.
Discretionary family trusts can have ramifications in a number of contexts: relationship property disputes, creditor claims, insolvency and income tax. They can also affect eligibility for Government funded old age care, other social welfare benefits and legal aid. These issues are of some significance in New Zealand because of the popularity of trusts in New Zealand: it is estimated that there is one trust for every seventeen New Zealanders.
Concerns about the impact of trusts on the rights of third parties and on the public purse have led to attempts to persuade courts to "look through" a trust. The court is asked either treat the trust as invalid (a “sham trust”) or treat trust property as property of the settlor or other party exercising effective control of the trust (an “alter ego trust”).
This raises issues about what impact these developments may have on the law of trusts. And whether they are likely to have a real effect on the issues highlighted above, other than in isolated cases. Wider questions also arise. Why are family trusts so popular? Does it matter? If it does, what should be done about it?
This lecture will address these issues, from the point of view of a non-specialist Judge who, having dealt with these issues in individual cases, has now turned his attention to the broader picture.
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the the automatic form below. |
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Thursday 22 November 2012
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18:00 |
The Law Commission and the implementation of law reform
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Lloyd Jones
The Sir William Dale Annual Memorial Lecture 2012
Lord Justice Lloyd Jones was appointed Chairman of the Law Commission from 1 August 2012. He was appointed a judge of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division in 2005 and a Lord Justice of Appeal in October 2012. He is a Master of the Bench of the Middle Temple and a Member of the Advisory Council of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Between 2008 and 2011 he was a Presiding Judge of Wales. Before becoming a High Court judge he was Chair of the Bar European Group (2004-5) and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge (1975-91). |
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Monday 26 November 2012
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18:00 |
Through A Glass Darkly: Transposing EU drafting into English statutes - Choices, Teleology and True Meaning (Annual Lord Renton Lecture)
Advocate General Eleanor Sharpston QC, Court of Justice of the European Union.
Annual SLS Lord Renton Lecture
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the the automatic form below, or email: statutelaw@aol.com.
Organised by the Statute Law Society (www.statutelawsociety.org) with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
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Thursday 29 November 2012
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18:00 |
Stewardship and the Insolvency Practitioner
Professor David Milman, School of Law, University of Lancaster and IALS Visiting Fellow 2012.
David Milman will consider a number of contemporary legal issues raised by the regulation of insolvency practitioners, with particular focus on recent judicial decisions. He will draw comparisons with the stewardship obligations of company directors. Professor Milman is co-editor (with Len Sealy) of the Annotated Guide to Insolvency Legislation (15th ed, 2012) (Sweet and Maxwell) and is completing a monograph for Edward Elgar on the Governance of Distressed Firms.
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the the automatic form below. |
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Friday 30 November 2012
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10:00 |
How to get a PhD in Law: Meeting the challenges of the early years
Professor Helen Xanthaki, Professor of Law, IALS;
Professor Avrom Sherr, Director, IALS;
Steve Whittle, Senior Librarian, IALS; Joe Ury, Executive Director, BAILII;
Hester Swift, Senior Librarian, IALS.
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.
Friday 30 November will be of particular relevance to applicants and early PhD researchers. The day will include:
The challenges of researching a PhD in the first year: where to start? – Professor Helen Xanthaki, Professor of Law, IALS;
Handling the Supervision Relationship – Professor Avrom Sherr, Director, IALS;
Free law e-resources available from IALS including the BAILII gateway – Steve Whittle, Senior Librarian, IALS & Joe Ury, Executive Director, BAILII;
Student led discussion – Chair: Professor Helen Xanthaki;
IALS Global Law Library, making the most of electronic resources – Hester Swift, Senior Librarian, IALS;
The particular challenges of being an overseas PhD student – Rachel Strickand, Deputy Registrar, School of Advanced Study;
Tours of the IALS Library led by senior library staff.
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENTS:
For on-line booking and payments please click here.
Registration Fees: 1) Friday 30 November 2012: £30.00; 2) Saturday 16 March 2013; £65.00; 3) Wednesday 22 May 2013: £65.00; and 4) All three training days booked together: £120.00 (no refunds available on this discounted price).
Further National Training Days are planned for:
Saturday 16 March 2013: What legal research skills will I need? Literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative research and comparative legal research.
Wednesday 22 May 2013: Getting yourself known: Publishing your work, presenting skills and networking.
Those wishing to receive further information should contact Belinda.Crothers@sas.ac.uk.
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