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Forthcoming Events
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February 2013
Tuesday 5 February 2013
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18:00 |
21st century lawyers: champions of business and human rights
Adrienne Margolis, founder and editor of Lawyers for Better Business (L4BB),
Chair: Ruby Sandhu, SIHRG Business Ethics and Sustainability Working Group.
Adrienne Margolis is founder and editor of Lawyers for Better Business (L4BB), a website and global network to keep lawyers one step ahead of developments in business and human rights. She is a journalist and consultant with a wealth of writing and project management experience. Adrienne has edited magazines for the Financial Times, Thomson Reuter, UBS and several trade unions. She has written for international legal and professional publications on corporate responsibility, supply chain management and business and finance and has advised blue chip companies, government departments and NGOs on communications strategies.
For further information about the SIHRG Business Ethics and Sustainability Worksing Group, contact ruby@sihrg.org or bes@sihrg.org.
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) and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS).
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Thursday 7 February 2013
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18:00 |
Human Assisted Reproduction: Development in Law and Jurisprudence in Europe
Professor Ismini Kriari, Professor of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens;
Professor Alessia Valongo, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Social Science, University of Perugia.
Organised in association with Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens and the Univeristy of Perugia Faculty of Social Science.
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 15 February 2013
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12:00 |
Graduate Seminar in Legislative Drafting: Working in teams to produce legislation
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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Monday 18 February 2013
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16:30 |
EU Criminal Law Update
Professor John Spencer, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Centre of European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge; President of the European Criminal Law Association (UK).
CPD accreditation has been applied for from the the Bar Standards Board.
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the the automatic form below.
Arranged with the European Criminal Law Association (UK).
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Tuesday 19 February 2013
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18:00 |
Lessons drawn from the Khulumani (Apartheid) ACTA case: an international law perspective
Ingrid Gubbay, Head of Human Rights and Environmental Law, Hausfeld & Co LLP.
This Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid sued five corporations for their role in South Africa during apartheid regime. Khulumani brought the case to the US and sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act (ACTA), which allows non-US citizens to charge grave offenders of human rights in a US federal court.
Ingrid Gubbay is currently head of Human Rights and Environmental Law in the claimant only law firm Hausfeld & Co LLP. Her role includes advising on various aspects of international and governing law issues on global cases and investigations being conducted in house, including in competition law. As a specialist claimant lawyer she has also had substantial input into a number of high level Government initiatives in the UK and EU aimed at developing accessible court procedures and affordability for claimants particularly on behalf of victims of human rights abuses by multinational companies operating abroad. She recently acted for the CORE coalition comprising 13 NGO’s in this regard , lobbying Government against the unintended impacts of the changes to the costs rules set to come into force in April 2013.
Prior to joining Hausfeld & Co, Ingrid was the legal advisor to the campaigns section of the largest Consumer Association in Europe, Which? on whose behalf she brought the UK’s first antitrust representative action for damages on behalf of consumers (direct purchasers) under new legal powers. In 2003 Ingrid taught the international human rights of woman course on the Essex University LLM course. She had an extensive background in practice and academia in Australia, as an in -house funded solicitor at the NSW Legal Aid Commission for five great years. There, she led test cases and group actions under the Federal Court Rules (Cmth), where it was deemed there was ‘a substantial benefit to the wider public’ for example, on extending the limitation periods for Aboriginal victims of the ‘Stolen Generation’. In 2010, She won an award for the most outstanding achievement in the 30 years history of the NSW Legal aid Commission for a group action which led to systemic change in the insurance sector in 1999.
She is a member of the British Institute of Advanced Comparative law (BIICL) and was an appointed member of the comparative law group of the UK Civil Justice Council (working on collective actions) from 2006-2009.
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) and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS).
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18:00 |
Resolution of Jewish Disputes in England 1154-1290
Professor Derek Roebuck, IALS Senior Associate Research Fellow, and author of 'Mediation and Arbitration in the Middle Ages: England 1154-1558' (Arbitration Press, 2013).
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the the automatic form below.
A Lecture in a Series of Occasional Lectures in Jewish Law in the names of Leah and Alexander Woolf.
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Friday 22 February 2013
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18:00 |
Emmanuel College v Evans and the true origins of mortgage law
David P. Waddilove, St John's College, Cambridge.
Chair: Dr Ian Williams, University College London.
Organised with the London Legal History Seminar.
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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Monday 25 February 2013
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18:00 |
An Oxymoronic endeavour? A General Anti Abuse Rule for taxation to give effect to the will of Parliament by overriding Parliament's statutes
Graham Aaronson, QC, Barrister, Pump Court Tax Chambers.
CPD accreditation of one hour has been applied for from the 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 by the Statute Law Society (www.statutelawsociety.org) and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
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Wednesday 27 February 2013
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18:00 |
The Challenge of International Merger Regulation
Dr Julie Clarke, Deakin University, Australia; IALS Visiting Fellow.
The seminar will discuss the current approach to regulating transnational mergers in a competition law context. A merger is considered transnational if it has the potential to impact upon competition in more than one jurisdiction. The proliferation of pre-merger review systems over the past two decades has prompted several proposals for supranational solutions, ranging from proposals for an international law and adjudicative body to more modest proposals for soft harmonization. Although there has been an increase in the level of ‘soft’ harmonization, largely attributable to the work of the International Competition Network, significant differences remain and compliance costs continue to rise as more jurisdictions adopt pre-merger notification regimes.
The seminar will identify key points of convergence and divergence between national merger regimes and discuss whether or not it is possible or desirable to further streamline the current multi-national merger review process to improve economic and social outcomes.
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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