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Forthcoming Events
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March 2013
Wednesday 6 March 2013
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CANCELLED: Legal Education and Training Review: Picking up the Baton
We regret that this event has been CANCELLED
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CANCELLED: Showcasing the findings of the LERN research grant winners, 2012
We regret that this event has been CANCELLED.
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Thursday 7 March 2013
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18:00 |
Legal aspects of transatlantic relations: Transatlantic Cybercrime and cyber security in context
Dr Elaine Fahey, Centre of European Law and Governance, University of Amsterdam.
Discussant: Dr Theodore Konstadinides, University of Surrey.
Chair: Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas, Professor of European Criminal Law, Queen Mary, University of London.
The implementation of the European Union (EU) Internal Security Strategy has included the pursuit of many transatlantic Justice and Home Affairs measures, such as the EU-US Passenger Name Records, EU-US Terrorist Financial Tracking Programme Agreements and the EU-US Cyber Security and Cyber Crime Working Group. The success of the former has inspired the EU to pursue similar policies internally.
The legal objectives of the latest EU-US cooperation in Cybercrime and Cyber security appear curious in comparison with comparable internal EU policies. For example, the EU and US expressly aim to engage in global rule-making, including advancing EU ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Cyber-crime, of which the US itself is not a member and which several EU States have yet to ratify. By contrast, an EU Cyber Security strategy is still embryonic and the subject of interinstitutional disputes.
This paper considers legal aspects of EU-US Cybercrime and cyber security and comparable EU policies.
This event is FREE
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Monday 11 March 2013
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The Role of the Law and Lawyers in Governing the Global Economy
Professor Sol Picciotto, Emeritus Professor of Law, Lancaster University.
This lecture will cover some of the main themes of Sol Picciotto's recent book, Regulating Global Corporate Capitalism (CUP, 2011). It will focus on the role played by the law and lawyers in designing the main institutions of contemporary corporate capitalism, and for its regulation. It will adopt a broad historical and international perspective of the emergence of the corporation itself, corporate groups, and transnational corporations, as well as some key areas of economic regulation, such as intellectual property rights, corporate taxation, and the regulation of finance. It will also consider the changing nature of international business regulation, especially during the recent period of economic globalisation, from the traditional system of liberal internationalism, to multi-level governance through regulatory networks. |
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Wednesday 13 March 2013
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18:00 |
Privacy, secrecy and confidentiality: from the employee's freedom to blow the whistle to the lawyer's duty to report suspicions about clients in secret
James Michael, Senior Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
Chair: Lord Dyson, PC, Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice.
‘Whistle-blowing’ has become a part of the language of England since it was imported from the US in the 1970s (when someone on a Sunday paper asked if it meant ‘folk music in America?’). It now is a part of British law, in the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, monitored and implemented by the Public Concern at Work charity. When Scotland Yard Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn was charged with misconduct for unauthorised disclosure of official information about voicemail ‘hacking’, her (unsuccessful) defence was that she was ‘whistle-blowing’ about the diversion of police officers from counterterrorism to investgating unauthorised access to the voicemails of celebrities. The requirement of anonymous hotlines by the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Sox) for the EU subsidiaries of US companies has created problems in countries such as France, where the deep suspicion of anonymous denunciations goes back to the Terror, reinforced by the Nazi Occupation.
While whistle-blowing legislation protects those who volunteer information, money-laundering legislation now requires professionals and others to report on clients whom they should suspect of crimes, including tax evasion. The European Court of Human Rights has recently ruled that a French statute imposing such an obligation on lawyers does not violate the Human Rights Convention. The French law implements the EU Money-Laundering Directive, but with one important difference from the equivalent British statute.
This is the tenth annual lecture by James Michael, on various subjects relating to information and communication law.
James Michael is a Senior Associate Research Fellow at IALS. He has been a consultant to the Council of Europe, European Union and the OSCE, and was special advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on Freedom of Information. His publications include The Politics of Secrecy (Penguin) and Privacy and Human Rights (Dartmouth and UNESCO).
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 March 2013
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09:00 |
Development or Land Grabbing? Legal Challenges of the Global Land (PIEL UK Annual Conference)
The Public Interest Environmental Law Conference 2013 will be held on March 15th, 9am-6pm, at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, WC1B 5DR, London, on the subject of ‘Development or Land Grabbing? Legal Challenges of the Global Land Rush’.
Website: www.piel.org.uk.
The conference, currently in its 7th year, is aimed at students, academics, professionals, activists and members of the public. ‘Land grabbing’ is the large scale (and often transnational) acquisition of land for agriculture, mining and other development. Land grabbing raises a range of environmental, legal, social, economic and developmental issues, which will be explored throughout the day in presentations, workshops and panel discussions.
Confirmed speakers include:
Surya Subedi OBE (Professor of International Law, University of Leeds and UN Special Rapporteur)
Liz Alden Wily (Independent Land Tenure Specialist)
Lorenzo Cotula (International Institute for Environment and Development)
Mattia Fosci (University of Nottingham)
Deborah James (Professor of Anthropology, LSE)
Sylvia Kay (Agrarian Justice Team, Transnational Institute)
Fred Pearce (Journalist and Author, The Landgrabbers)
Julian Quan (University of Greenwich, Mozambique Community Lands Initiative)
Sue Willman (Partner, Deighton Pierce Glynn)
Attendees will also have the opportunity to hear from a number of NGOs, which will be represented with conference stalls.
Tickets include admission to the conference and refreshments throughout the day. As the conference is a student run event, we have allocated 50 free tickets for students, which will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Student tickets thereafter are £5. Tickets for NGO representatives, academics and paid interns are £20. Tickets for professionals are £45. CPD points are available for legal professionals.
Tickets and further information are available from the conference website, www.piel.org.uk.
To register and for further information about the 2013 PIEL Conference please go direct to the PIEL Website: www.piel.org.uk or email PIEL UK at: pieluk@googlemail.com.
PIEL Registration Fees - Full Rate: £45.00. NGO/Academic/Intern Rate: £20.00. Student Rate: £5.00 (with the first 50 free for students).
This conference is organised by the Public Interest Environmental Law (UK) group, with support from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and others.
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Graduate Seminar in Legislative Drafting: Practical and technical issues
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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Saturday 16 March 2013
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10:30 |
How to get a PhD in Law: What legal research skills will I need? Literature reviews, qualitative and quantitative research and comparative legal research.
Professor Lisa Webley, Professor of Empirical Legal Studies, University of Westminster;
Professor Helen Xanthaki, Professor in Legislative Studies, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies;
Hester Swift, Foreign and International Law Librarian, IALS Library;
Steve Whittle, Senior 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:
Literature reviews and PhDs in Law - Professor Lisa Webley, Professor of Empirical Legal Studies, University of Westminster;
Qualitative and Quantitative Research for PhDs - Professor Lisa Webley;
Comparative Legal Research - Professor Helen Xanthaki, Professor in Legislative Studies, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies;
The Foreign, International and Comparative Law Research Collections at IALS Library - Hester Swift, Foreign and International Law Librarian, IALS Library;
Research resources: apps, articles and attribution - Steve Whittle, Senior Librarian, IALS Library.
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENTS: For on-line booking and payments please click here.
Registration fee for 16 March: £65.00
Other National Training Days in 2012-2013 are:
Friday 30 November 2012: Meeting the challenges of the first year
Wednesday 22 May 2013: Preparing yourself for your Vivas. 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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Tuesday 19 March 2013
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12:30 |
The Challenges of Language: re-shaping legislative discourse(s) and text(s).
Dr Giulia Pennisi. Aggregate Professor of Legal Language, University of Palermo, Italy; IALS Visiting Fellow.
Since the 1990s the discourse on the relationship between the EU and member states in the field of labour law has changed significantly and it has been increasingly supplemented by framework agreements between the EU and the actors involved in the labour law dialogue. From this point of view, the Green Paper on Modernising Labour Law invites member states, the social partners and other interested parties to participate in a consultation process and an open debate, in order to look at how labour law can help promote flexibility in conjunction with security, regardless of the type of employment contract.
The aim of this seminar is to explore how the labour law interactants re-shape their discourse(s) in the field of labour law in order to provide communicative response to the global socio-economic, change. In particular, the legislative documents will be presented as a combination of different discourses that are strategically exploited to mould the norms/conventions typical of public documents such as Green Papers and consultation documents to promote a positive image of the EU Institutions even in changing/challenging economic circumstances of communities and territories. |
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The story of Sergey Magnistky who died in pre-trial detention and is now on trial posthumously
A showing of the documentary:
"Justice for Sergey”
with comments and answers from Bill Browder, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Hermitage Fund.
Justice for Sergei is the shocking story of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer for the Hermitage Fund in Moscow, who uncovered the largest tax fraud in Russian history and blew the whistle on the Russian government officials responsible. He was subsequently arrested and sent for pre-trial detention without bail or trial. After a year, in November 2009, he died under excruciating circumstances in a Moscow detention centre, still awaiting trial. Prison officials rejected all requests for an independent autopsy. His death fuelled international outrage, but inside Russia the corrupt government officials responsible were never brought to justice.
Investor Bill Browder devoted himself to publicising the case. As a result, the US has passed a dramatic human rights law - the so-called “Magnitsky Law” that provoked in return an angry reaction of the Russian authorities that rushed through Duma (Parliament) a law banning adoption of orphans by the US citizens. The story goes on and Sergey Magnistsky was recently put on trial posthumously and Bill Browder himself is on trial in absentia.
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend MUST register in advance. To register, please use the automatic form below or on the SIHRG Website
Arranged with the Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG), Speak Up!, and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS).
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Wednesday 20 March 2013
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14:30 |
Copyright and Digital Media - the view from Japan
Chair: Jonathan Griffiths, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London;
Professor Tatsuhiro Ueno, Rikkyo University, Japan;
Associate Professor Ryu Kojima, Kyushu University, Japan;
Dr Toshiya Kaneko, Meiji University, Japan;
Senior Fellow Dr Kazuhiro Ando, Waseda University, Japan;
Dr Tetsuya Imamura, Associate Professor, Meiji University, Japan; Visiting Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies,
and others to be confirmed.
Chair: Jonathan Griffiths, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London;
Professor Tatsuhiro Ueno, Rikkyo University - "Copyright Law in the "Cloud" Environment: Should services such as online video recorder and music locker be considered as copyright infringement?"
Associate Professor Ryu Kojima, Kyushu University - "The Role of Public Libraries in an Era of Digital Publishing".
Dr Toshiya Kaneko, Meiji University - "Criminal Enforcement of Copyright in Japan".
Dr Kazuhiro Ando, Senior Fellow, Waseda University - "Right of Book Publishers under Japanese Law".
Dr Tetsuya Imamura, IALS Visiting Fellow - "The Emerging Legislative Discussion on New Neighboring Rights for Publishers".
Professor Ueno examines current problems in the "cloud" environment with regard to the making available right, by reviewing the differences in the substantive scope of the making available right as implemented in national laws, and by referring to current developments in Japanese case-law.
Associate Professor Kojima discusses digital publishing mainly from the perspective of copyright and cultural policy, focusing on the role of publishers and libraries.
Dr Kaneko is concerned with copyright infringement in Japan and will speak about statistics on the criminal enforcement of copyright, the Winny case, ratification of ACTA and the issue of ex officio criminal enforcement for copyright.
Dr Ando explains rights of book publishers under the Japanese Copyright Act and contents of the contracts between writers and publishers, comparing to those in the United States. He will also talk about a current debate about whether a neighbouring right should be given to publishers in Japan to protect them from growing online piracy.
Dr Imamura discusses the emerging discussion on the potential introduction of new neighbouring rights for publishers in Japan. Recently, Japanese publishers have lobbied to establish new rights with regard to rights/neighbouring rights in books. Debates over the pros and cons of establishing such new rights or of extending their existing rights will be considered.
This event is FREE but those wishing to attend should register in advance. To register, please use the automatic form below.
Organised by: Queen Mary, University of London; Intellectual Property Law and Policy Institute (IPLPI) at Meiji University, Japan; and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
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Thursday 21 March 2013
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Legal aspects of corporate sustainability: The German Sustainability Code as a model instrument
Professor Gudula Deipenbrock, Hochschule fürTechnik und Wirtschaft (HTW) , University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Germany.
Legal aspects of corporate sustainability have long been discussed mainly from the perspective of environmental law. The concept of sustainability is crucial in context with tackling the ecological crisis. The same is true for the design of measures in response to the financial market crisi(e)s. In addition, responsible investment - an investment approach that acknowledges in particular the importance to the investor of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors - has increasingly gained momentum in capital markets. This investment approach calls for instruments reliably assessing corporate sustainability performance. Apart from relevant tools such as corporate sustainability ratings, the German Sustainability Code might be considered an innovative instrument to make sustainability performance of companies (and organisations) measurable and comparable. The talk will introduce to the fundamentals of the German Sustainability Code from a broad legal perspective. It will focus in particular on the question whether the Code might serve as a ‘Legal Transplant’ or model instrument for assessing corporate sustainability in other Member States of the European Union (Union) or at Union or even international level, too.
Gudula Deipenbrock is 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). She is a Consultant General Editor of the International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal. 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. Her research areas including manifold publications cover particularly National Business Law, International Business Law, Company Law, European Union Law, Foreign Business Law, Comparative Law and Capital Market Law. Her scholarship in financial market regulation includes numerous papers on the various legal aspects of the credit rating industry. Her scholarship in company law and sustainability includes papers on sustainability rating and corporate sustainability from the perspective of German company law.
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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