Past Events
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March 2010
Friday 26 March 2010
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Public Interest Environmental Law Conference 2010 - ...
For futher information, please go to the PIEL(UK) website: www.piel.org.uk/index.html.
For a copy of the programme please click here: Programme for PIEL 2010.
For a copy of the PIEL poster, please click here: PIEL 2010 Conference Poster.
Speakers include:
RUFUS YERXA (Deputy Director General, WTO);
PROFESSOR DR GEERT VAN CALSTER (Head of European and International Law, K.U. Leuven, & lawyer at DLA Piper);
COLLEEN THERON (Lexis Nexis, & Director, CLT Envirolaw);
PROFESSOR JOHANNA GIBSON (Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, & Director, Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute);
FRANCESCO SINDICO (Lecturer, University of Surrey);
DUNCAN BRACK (Senior Research Fellow, Energy, Environment and Development Programme at Chatham House);
KATH DELMANEY (Policy Director, Sustainweb);
KRYSTYNA SWIDERSKA (Senior Researcher, Natural Resources Group, International Institute for Environment and Development);
TOM PICKEN (Friends of the Earth);
BEN BUNDOCK (ClientEarth);
TIM BAINES (Senior Advisor, Climate and Clean Energy, Norton Rose);
MALCOLM DOWDEN (Solicitor, Lexis Nexis Legal);
RICKY KNIGHT (Councillor, Green Party);
M J MACE, Environmental Law Consultant.
For further information, please go to the PIEL(UK) website: www.piel.org.uk/index.html.
For a copy of the programme please click here: Programme for PIEL 2010
For a copy of the PIEL poster, please click here: PIEL 2010 Conference Poster.
This year's annual Public Interest Environmental Law (PIEL) Conference will focus on the theme 'Trading Towards Unsustainability: The Legal Challenges'. With trade frequently demonised as a primary cause of environmental degradation, the aim is to look critically at the relationship between the two fields, the conflicts and convergence, and to explore the potential for trade law to reflect and contribute positively to addressing global environmental imperatives such as climate change.
FEES:
£5.00 for students;
£20.00 for practitioners.
To book your place and to arrange payment, please email: pieluk@googlemail.com.
The PIEL Conference is sponsored by: Friends of the Earth; Institute of Advanced Legal Studies; Pret A Manger; Centre for Law and the Environment, UCL. |
IALS |
Thursday 25 March 2010
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18:00 |
Legal change on new and controversial medical proced...
Professor Penney Lewis, Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London; University of London Research Fellow
Today, contraceptive sterilisation seems obviously to fall within the ‘medical exception’ which takes most medical treatment outside the criminal law. In addition to the patient’s consent, the medical exception requires a public policy justification. Contraceptive sterilisation was widely seen as unlawful in the UK until the late 1960s. This paper explores how legal change occurred in the absence of judicial or legislative intervention, contrasting the British experience with that of France, where a criminal prosecution for performing a vasectomy in 1937 meant that contraceptive sterilisation was seen as unlawful until eventual legislative intervention in 2001. I also examine the implications of this experience for legal change on other historically or currently controversial medical procedures including organ donation; non-therapeutic research; gender reassignment surgery; and amputation for body dysmorphia disorder (BDD) or body integrity identity disorder (BIID). |
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Tuesday 23 March 2010
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12:45 |
ECJ Cases Update II
IALS Lunchtime Tax Seminar.
All seminars will start at 12.45pm sharp.
For the full tax programme, please click here.
For further information about the MA in Tax (Law, Administration and Practice), please click here. |
IALS |
Monday 22 March 2010
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18:00 |
Adhering to traditional methods for modern reasons: ...
DAVID DODD, BL,
Barrister, Republic of Ireland
This lecture is organised in assoication withthe Statute Law Society |
IALS |
Friday 19 March 2010
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17:30 |
Bracton and the 3Rs in early modern common law: Read...
IAN S WILLIAMS,
Faculty of Law, University College London
Organised in association with the London Legal History Seminar |
IALS |
Thursday 18 March 2010
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18:00 |
Is there a chill in here? News and free speech in Au...
Professor Andrew Kenyon, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Media and Communications Law, University of Melbourne, Australia
News media in Malaysia and Singapore are often said to be constrained in covering political and public issues, in comparison with plural democratic states such as Australia. However, commentary also suggests that online communications are allowing more independent speech. This paper investigates whether such restrictions, and changes online, can be seen. Through analysing media content it illustrates factors relevant to the concept of a ‘chilling effect’ on public speech, including matters of law, media ownership, journalistic practices and civil society. While news is constrained in Malaysia and Singapore, it does seem that online media can be less limited. Rather than the internet being decisive, however, it is the extent of civil society and political opposition that appear more significant. |
IALS |
Wednesday 17 March 2010
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09:00 |
Tax Conference: 'ECJ: Judicial Activism or Judicial ...
Speakers include:
Professor Gerard Meussen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
Dr. Tom O’Shea, Queen Mary, University of London;
Mindaugas Lukas, PhD Student, Vilnius University, Lithuania;
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M.A. Tax Students of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies: Rachel Arning; Julie Bath; Michel Alves de Matos; Joel Phillips; Faiz Siddiqui;
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LL.M. Tax Students of Queen Mary, University of London: Gauthier Cruysmans; Jake Parma; Steff Floe Pedersen; Laima Siksnelyte; Sarah Van Leynseele.
Conference Fees: Full Rate: £75; Student Rate: £30.
Registrations should reach IALS no later than Friday 12 March.
Please click here for the programme/booking form for the conference on 'ECJ: Judicial Activism or Judicial Protection'
For the full tax programme of lunchtime tax seminars and conferences, please click here. |
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Tuesday 16 March 2010
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12:45 |
ECJ and Exit Taxes
IALS Lunchtime Tax Seminar.
All seminars will start at 12.45pm sharp.
For the full tax programme, please click here.
For further information about the MA in Tax (Law, Administration and Practice), please click here. |
IALS |
Monday 15 March 2010
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18:00 |
POSTPONED: Adhering to traditional methods for moder...
This lecture has been postponed to Monday 22 March, 6pm-7pm
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IALS |
Thursday 11 March 2010
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14:00 |
Corporate Death Penalty or Rehabilitation? Towards B...
SUSAN HAWLEY, Corruption Watch, on 'The EU procurements laws on debarment: Not fit for purpose?'; MONTY RAPHAEL, Special Counsel, Peters and Peters, on 'Debarment and self-reporting: issues in the UK'; IAN TRUMPER, FTI Consulting, on 'Debarment: a forensic accountancy perspective'; DR SIMONE WHITE, OLAF and IALS, on 'Debarment by the European Commission - issues, development. Outcome of the European Mediator enquiry'; SOPE WILLIAMS-ELEGBE, University of Nottingham, on 'Debarment: a comparative perspective'. Chairs: Simone White and Susan Hawley.
Please click here for a copy of the programme and information on 'Corporate Death Penalty or Rehabilitation? Towards Best Practice in Debarment' |
IALS |
Monday 1 March 2010
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18:00 |
CANCELLED: Preventative strategies and how local co...
Dr Martin Wright
We regret that this lecture has been CANCELLED |
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