Tuesday 14 October 2014
LLM Seminar
Minilateralism: How trade alliances, soft law and financial engineering are redefining economic statecraft
Professor Chris Brummer (Georgetown Law)
Chair: Professor David Kershaw (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law)
Wednesday 15 October 2014
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ FORUM IN LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY
Law and democratisation: Protest and inclusion
Glenn Patmore (Melbourne)
Wednesday 15 October 2014
LAW MATTERS PUBLIC DEBATE
Professor Jeremy Horder
Respondents: Bernard Richmond QC; Professor Nicola Lacey
Thursday 16 October 2014
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
The responsible subject as dangerous subject: criminal law’s ambivalences
Dr Henrique Randau da Costa Carvalho (City University London)
Thursday 16 October 2014
SYSTEMIC RISK CENTRE
Johyn Danielsson (SRC) and Eva Micheler (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law)
Systemic financial risk can be caused by many factors such as: financial decisions, legal and accounting rules, and politics. While all of these factors can on their own trigger systemic events, it is the interaction between them which is especially dangerous because it creates new avenues for vicious feedback loops. Unfortunately, these channels for systemic risk are usually studied within disciplinary silos, giving us a rather fragmented understanding of how systemic risk is created. The aim of the conference is to bring together speakers from accounting, economics, finance, law and political science to break down these silos and present a more complete analysis of the nature of systemic risk.
Tuesday 21 October 2014
LAW MATTERS PUBLIC DEBATE
Rituals and ritualism in the international human rights system
Professor Hilary Charlesworth
Chair: Professor Susan Marks
Wednesday 22 October 2014
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SEMINAR
Ian Gilham (Chairman, Horizon Discovery Plc); Professor David Kershaw (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳); William Underhill (Partner at Slaughter & May)
Chair: Sir Geoffrey Owen (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳)
Tuesday 28 October 2014
LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Slavery and biographies at Jefferson's Monticello
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard)
Professor Annette Gordon-Reed will speak as part of Black History Month. Annette Gordon-Reed is Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School and Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History in the University of Oxford. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy (1997) and The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008), which won the Pulitzer Prize in history and the National Book Award for Non Fiction. She is also the author of Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History (2002).
Wednesday 29 October 2014
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ FORUM IN LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY
Rights adjudication in the UK and Canada: Engaging the legislature
Robert Leckey (McGill)
Thursday 6 November 2014
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC EVENT
Professor Conor Gearty
Chair: Keith Best (Heythrop College)
Monday 10 November 2014
LAW MATTERS PUBLIC DEBATE
Professor David Garland (Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, New York University)
Chair: Professor Craig Calhoun
Wednesday 12 November 2014
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ FORUM IN LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY
On theories of federalism
Stephen Tierney (Edinburgh)
Wednesday 12 November 2014
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
What is penal populism? Politics, the public and penological expertise
Professor David Garland (Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, New York University)
Event Co-organised with the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Mannheim Centre for Criminology
Monday 17 November 2014
TAXATION
Arbitration in international tax disputes: Why it works, and why having a permanent tribunal would further improve it
John Avery Jones (former Judge of the Upper Tribunal) and Hans Mooij (Independent international tax adviser)
Event Co-organised with STICERD/Financial Markets Group
Wednesday 19 November 2014
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC EVENT
Lee Jackson
Chair: Professor Nicola Lacey
Respondent: Sarah Wise
Thursday 20 November 2014
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Fair play without retribution
Dr Patrick Tomlin (University of Reading)
Monday 24 November 2014
LAW DEPARTMENT PUBLIC EVENT
Mr Pascal Lamy and Mr Ignacio Garcia Bercero
Chair: Ambassador Pekka Huhtaniemi (Finnish Ambassador to the UK)
Tuesday 25 November 2014
LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd
Chair: Mr Justice Ross Cranston
On 25 November, as part of the Legal Biography project, Sir Ross Cranston will interview the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, about his career in the law. Called to the bar in 1969, Lord Thomas practised as a commercial barrister, becoming a QC in 1984, before his appointment as a judge in the Queen’s Bench Division in 1996. After being appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2008, he became President of the Queen's Bench Division in 2011. In 2013, he succeeded Lord Judge as Lord Chief Justice, Head of Crimi