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Past Events
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February 2012
Friday 24 February 2012
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Crime and Criminal Process in Historical Perspective
Henry Mares, University of Oxford;
Dr Ruth Paley, History of Parliament;
Phil Handler, University of Manchester.
The following papers will be given:
Henry Mares pm the Star Chamber, King's Bench and the Criminal Information of the Attorney General in the Seventeenth Century;
Ruth Paley on Uncovering the History of Certiorari;
Phil Handler on Intoxication and Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth Century England.
Organised with the London Legal History Seminar. |
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Wednesday 22 February 2012
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18:00 |
A Legal History of an inventive solution to the pro...
Dr Chagit Blass.
Chair: Professor Avrom Sherr
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Accessing Justice: Rights, Responsibilities and Effe...
Lord Bach, House of Lords Opposition Spokesperson on Justice, on The Practicalities of Legal Aid;
Professor Avrom Sherr, Director, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies - on Legal Aid;
Professor Barry Godfrey, Professor of Criminology, Keele University on The role of the modern magistracy;
Oliver Blaiklock, CCLS, King's College London, on The Citizens Advice Bureau;
Dr Tom Smith, Plymouth University, on Ethical Dilemmas for Criminal Defence Lawyers;
Dr Judith Rowbotham, Nottingham Trent University, on Protests and Access to Justice;
Vikram Sachdeva and Victoria Butler Cole, 39 Essex Street Chambers, on Justice for ‘Outsiders’;
Round Table Discussion: Effective Alternatives to State Provision – or Not? (Chair: Dr Kim Stevenson, Plymouth)
Registration Fee: £65.00. Academic/NGO Rate: £40.00. Student Rate: £20.00.
For a copy of the programme and booking form for Accessing Justice, please click here
For queries, please contact: Belinda.Crothers@sas.ac.uk.
This is the 6th Annual Experiencing the Law Conference. The conference is an initiative between SOLON, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the Centre for Contemporary British History at King's College London. |
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Tuesday 21 February 2012
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18:00 |
The Changing Landscape of Women in the Professions: ...
Carroll Seron, Professor of Criminology, Law & Society and Sociology and Law, University of California, Irvine; IALS Visiting Fellow.
Chair: Professor Avrom Sherr, Director, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
Today, the legal profession in the US and the UK enjoys gender parity in education and at career launch, though questions of equity persist at later stages in the life course. By contrast, engineering in the US and the UK has remained what might be described as a white, male bastion. What explains the persistent underrepresentation of women in engineering? Do findings from a recent study of US engineers suggest lessons for explaining women’s disproportionate departure from law at mid-career?
Professional socialization is organized around the cultivation of professional role confidence: at career launch there is the expectation that newly minted professionals enjoy “expertise confidence,” or confidence in the broadly-defined competencies and skills required of practice as well as the somewhat more amorphous but equally important “career–fit confidence” that one’s current career plans suit one’s individual interests and values. Findings from a study of engineers in the US at the point of career launch show that while men and women enjoy equal endowments of expertise confidence, women’s career-fit confidence is significantly less than their male counterparts. In part these differential patterns between men and women unfold through work experiences.
I conclude by considering how the concept of career-fit confidence might inform our understanding of women’s mid-career departure from law. |
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Monday 20 February 2012
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18:00 |
The Democratic Legitimacy of International Human Rig...
Richard Bellamy, University College London
Organised by the Statute Law Society with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. |
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Thursday 9 February 2012
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18:00 |
The UN War Crimes Commission of 1943-1948
Dr Dan Plesch,
Director, Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies.
Dr Plesch will discuss the history and implications for modern International Criminal Law of the work of the UN War Crimes Commisson (UNWCC) based in the Royal Courts of Justice and of the many national tribunals it supported which were at work in the later 1940s. His work draws on work on the generally inaccessible and overlooked files of the Commission in New York. These concern the development and implementation of law concerning; crimes against states' own citizens, wars of aggression, environmental destruction, abuse of cultural practices and sexual violence before and alongside the Nuremburg and Tokyo processes. |
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Wednesday 8 February 2012
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18:00 |
Restricting the use of the Death Penalty: the releva...
Saul Lehrfreund MBE, Simons Muirhead and Burton; Executive Director of The Death Penalty Project.
Saul Lehrfreund is the co-founder and an Executive Director of the Death Penalty Project an international NGO based at Simons Muirhead & Burton. He has been running the Death Penalty Project since its inception in 1992. In November 2000, Saul was awarded an MBE for services to international human rights and in July 2009, he received an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Reading.
Saul specialises in constitutional and international human rights law and has represented prisoners under sentence of death, inter alia, before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; and the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He also provides legal assistance to British prisoners facing the death penalty as a member of the Pro Bono Panel of the UK FCO.
In 1995 the Death Penalty Project won the category of best pro bono activity” at the inaugural UK Lawyer Awards, and in the same year Saul received an individual award from the International Bar Association for his contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights. In 1999, he and Parvais Jabbar were joint winners of the Times/Justice Young Lawyer of the Year award.
Saul is a member of the FCO Minister of State's Expert Group on the Death Penalty and was a founding member of previous Death Penalty Panel advising the Foreign Secretary.. He was appointed as the UK nominated representative at the EU-China Human Rights Dialogue Seminar held in Beijing in June 2005. Saul is a member of the University of Reading's Law School Pro Bono Steering Committee and in 2009, he was invited to join The Times Law Panel.
He has published and lectured extensively on capital punishment and human rights.
Arranged with the Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies (SALS)
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Monday 6 February 2012
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17:00 |
EU Criminal Law: What's New for 2012?
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).
Organised with the European Criminal Law Association (UK). |
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