Events Calendar by Lawbore™

ADR Webinar with Dr Tariq Mahmood - Med-Arb-International, London, Brad Pomfret KC - 23 Essex Street Chambers, London, Hon. Barry Leon - Former BVI Commercial Court Judge - 33 Bedford Row, London; Arbitration Place, Toronto; Caribbean Arbitrators, BVI

Moderator: Dr Angelica Rutherford, Keele University

Organised by Keele Commerce and Business Law Team.

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Extending rights to non-human entities is an established, and limited, strategy for stemming the destruction of nature threatening all planetary life. The human-rights-for-nature approach has been criticized for its failure to problematize the liberal humanist figure at the core of modern rights and also for its vulnerability to supervenience by capital. This talk addresses the critique and proposes an alternative reconstruction of democracy and the democratic subject.

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Keele Commerce and Business Law Team has organised an ADR Webinar on 3 April 2025, 2-4pm.

Exploring Alternative Dispute Resolution: Challenges and Opportunities
with
- Dr Tariq Mahmood - Med-Arb-International, London
- Brad Pomfret KC - 23 Essex Street Chambers, London
- Hon. Barry Leon - Former BVI Commercial Court Judge - 33 Bedford Row, London; Arbitration Place, Toronto; Caribbean Arbitrators, BVI
- Moderator: Dr Angelica Rutherford, Keele University

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This book presents a set of related studies aimed at showing key points of intersection and common interest between jurisprudence and socio-legal studies, which are otherwise typically considered distinct fields. It reflects and draws on the author’s work in these areas over more than four decades.

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Join us for an unforgettable evening at stunning Bloomsbury Ballrooms in Holborn, for the City Law School Societies' Law Ball 2025!

This exclusive event brings together law students for a dinner and celebration. Enjoy a three-course meal, alcohol, music and dancing in one of London’s most iconic Art Deco venues. 

Date: 3rd April 2025

Time: 6pm - Midnight 

Location: Bloomsbury Ballroom, Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1B 4DA

Dress Code: Black tie & evening gown 

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Step inside the hidden world of MI5 and explore the extraordinary stories behind the security of a nation.

For the first time, MI5’s history will go on display to the public in a major new exhibition, made possible through an unprecedented partnership between the Security Service and The National Archives.

Explore the ever-changing world of espionage and security threats through original case files, photographs and papers, alongside the real equipment used by spies and spy-catchers over MI5’s 115-year history.

From counter-espionage and daring double-agents during the world wars, to chilling Cold War confessions and the counter-terrorism of recent times, this historic exhibition will take you behind the scenes of one of Britain’s most iconic institutions.

Keep your eyes peeled – a programme of online and on-site events will be announced soon...

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SOAS ICOP in collaboration with the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers are delighted to host:

Raji Sourani, a distinguished Gazan human rights lawyer, who has defended international law and promoted human rights for half a century. Sourani established and directs the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR). The PCHR documents and investigates human rights violations committed under Israeli occupation and has defended hundreds of prisoners, including before Israeli courts. The work of the PCHR and other human rights organisations catalysed the International Criminal Court ruling in 2021 that the ICC has jurisdiction over the Palestinian Territories occupied by Israel. Sourani is currently intimately involved in the work of the legal delegations at the ICJ and ICC. He was twice named as a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International for his detainment by Israel in the 1980s.

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Australia, like many other places, is in the thick of a housing crisis. The extent of this crisis is commonly framed as an expansion in the number of people for whom the prospect of home ownership is receding from view. This is coupled with an increasingly revanchist policy approach to public housing, with the largest program of public housing renewal ever undertaken currently underway in Melbourne. The routinely diagnosed solution is a hyperbolic call for ‘more supply’ – of public, social and ‘affordable’ housing. Yet hidden from view in all this policy and media noise is an enduring yet largely unspoken tension between the appropriate provision of shelter and the unreconciled matter of settler-colonial occupation.

Housing provisioned as a supply of shelter, land as an uncontested surface and belonging as privately acquired through possession are norms that saturate everyday urban life. But these norms also need to be sustained through distinct legal and material mechanisms. This seminar will present new analytical work using property title documents on one evocative public housing renewal site in inner Melbourne as a mechanism for thinking at the intersection of housing precarity, displacement and settler-colonial possessiveness. This provides a methodology and conceptual framework for deep historicization of the pronouncement of ‘housing crisis’ and who is really served through its diagnosis.

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Priya Satia is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of three award-winning books: Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East (OUP, 2008); Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution (Duckworth, 2018); Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire (Penguin, 2020). Her work can also be found in the American Historical Review, Past & Present, Technology & Culture, Humanity, and other scholarly journals and edited volumes. Prof. Satia writes frequently for popular media, such as the Washington Post, Time Magazine, The New Republic, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and other outlets.

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Welcome to The City Law Review Launch Volume VII Launch Event 2025! Join us in person at City, University of London, City Law School Building for an exciting evening celebrating the release of our seventh volume. Be part of this special occasion where legal minds gather to discuss the latest trends and insights in the field. Don't miss out on this opportunity to network with professionals, academics, and fellow law enthusiasts. Save the date and be part of this memorable event!

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Sign up to attend the launch of Chloë Kennedy's new book Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (Cambridge University Press) followed by a panel discussion and drinks.

Speakers include:

• Chloe Kennedy: Professor of Law and History at the University of Edinburgh
• Mini Saxena: PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London
• Mark Dsouza: Associate Professor in Criminal Law at UCL
• Dr Rachel Clement Tolley: Associate Professor and John Collier Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge

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At City, University of London we understand the importance of choosing the right place and course to continue your studies.

Our online events provide the perfect opportunity for you to find out more about our postgraduate courses and what it's like to study with us from the comfort of your own home. Across the event, you will have the opportunity to attend online sessions on a range of subjects and courses across our Schools, ask questions and discover all the benefits of studying at City.

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Small states and territories have a long-standing reputation for adhering to the norms, practices and institutions of representative democracy. The state and practice of direct democracy in these jurisdictions are much less explored. In this conference, experts on direct democracy from academia, government and civil society examine and explain referendums from small states and territories around the world, including Gibraltar, Martinique, New Caledonia, Puerto Rico, Guernsey, Guyana and the Falklands, to better understand the role that direct democracy plays in the world’s smallest democracies.

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Squire Patton Boggs has teamed up with City Law School to present a workshop on

• Negotiation Skills
• Unique Selling Points
• Networking
• Elevator Pitches

Workshops will be in TG14

This looks set to be a highly interesting lecture, as a part of the 'The UK's Unwritten Constitution: Is It Worth the Paper It's (Not) Written On?' series by Gresham College.

Regarding the US Constitution, there is a major split between the Originalists (typically conservatives) and those who believe in an organic document that grows with the times. There have been enormous changes since 1789 – the internet is just one example – and the document must change one way or the other.

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This conference is for anyone with an interest in property law, who wants to learn, engage and grow. Whether you're a seasoned professional an academic or simply someone eager to deepen your understanding of property legislation, you are invited to join us to listen to the experts, learn and grow, participate in the conversations and expand your network. All you need to bring is your curiosity and enthusiasm.

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"In 2017, millions of women used the hashtag #MeToo to identify themselves as survivors of sexual violence and speak out about their experiences. These protests were inspired, in part, by the over twenty women who spoke during the 2016 election about sexual violence they had experienced from candidate Donald Trump. While much media coverage represented these events as simply unprecedented, in fact, they took part in an under-explored history of survivors coming forward publicly to advocate for social and legal change around sexual violence. This is a history I explore in my 2018 book, Speaking Out, which analyses the history of survivors ‘breaking the silence’ as a key feminist strategy in fighting sexual violence from the 1970s onwards. #MeToo erupted in my final months working on that book, and it and the 2016 election became its endpoints, exemplifying both the vast potential and the limitations of speaking out as a form of politics.

This talk draws on my ongoing research on public survivors to reflect on the legacies and ongoing dilemmas of survivor politics almost a decade later. Today, survivors continue to speak out against endemic levels of sexual violence in an era marked by political crises, including Donald Trump’s return to the White House. I ask about the future of survivor politics, and what it can tell us about feminist politics more broadly."

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There isn't much of a blurb available for this one online! I advise you keep an eye on the Gresham website for updates. Should be interesting in any case.

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Join us for 19th PIEL UK’s upcoming conference, where we’ll explore the Greenwashing, OMNIBUS regulation, and plastic governance.

We are aiming to present a range of perspectives at the conference to encourage a holistic analysis of emerging ESG.

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"The Posthumous Trust: From Dead Hand to Mortality Management."

Ownership ceases with death. Like all powers – to vote, enter a contract or marry, the power to exert private control over property dies with the owner. This truism, however, did never stopped owners from trying to influence (or dictate) the afterlife of their property. In allowing trusts to operate after the final departure of the settlor, equity provides them with a most powerful tool for satisfying such hopes. The way in which the trustee must follow the deceased settlor’s wishes triggers a unique and serious ‘dead hand’ problem since the equitable title bestowed on beneficiaries is severely restricted by the trustee’s management powers as these are designed by the (now dead) settlor. From the beneficiaries’ perspective, the posthumous trust can be seen as an exercise in overcontrol or an expression of a pathological refusal to reconcile to the fact of one’s mortality. I wish to offer two ways of conceiving these trusts as a justifiable extension of the power of ownership: one is to see these trusts as expressive of the stake people have in what happens in the world after they die. The other is to conceptualise them as a valid response to the way we navigate the consciousness of mortality.

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This hyrbid roundtable brings together researchers working in international, environmental and criminal law, to take stock of these ongoing international and national initiatives. Building on the recent report by the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland, the discussion will interrogate the challenges, promises and ways forward for these legislative initiatives in Scotland and internationally.

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Contemporary forms of slavery and exploitation, including forced labour, debt bondage, and domestic servitude, are some of the most pressing human rights issues of today. In this webinar, Professor Tomoya Obokata, the current UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery since 2020, will discuss his mandate and views on states’ and non-state actors' responses to these concerns.

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While cultural critics like Tricia Rose have charted the complex racial, class, and gendered terrain inhabited by rap artists, and legal scholars like Paul Butler have turned to hip hop as a resource to reimagine justice, this paper explores the role that rap music plays in reimagining the bounds of legal personhood. By examining the intersection of policing, rap music, and race, this paper examines the “necrosonics,” that chronicles Black precarity in the shadow of law enforcement. Necrosonics is music that navigates the death-dealing Leviathan state. It is the sound of objection – the uncanny reminder that “objects can and do speak.” Rap music provides a particularly fecund sonic archive that provides a window into police brutality against young Black men.

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A distinguished group of experts will discuss Professor Judy Fudge's new book Constructing Modern Slavery: Law, Capitalism and Unfree Labour (Cambridge 2025).

The book argues that modern slavery laws are a response to global capitalism, which undermines the distinction between free and unfree labour and poses intense challenges to state sovereignty. Instead of being a solution, Constructing Modern Slavery argues that modern slavery laws divert attention from the underlying structures and processes that generate exploitation.

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This workshop is on OSCOLA citing and referencing.

It is aimed at those who have an understanding of using OSCOLA but would like a refresher on it in advance of assessments, or further guidance and tips and tricks on how to use it. 

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"Talk of rights permeates philosophical, legal, and everyday discourse. And yet there is surprisingly little agreement about what rights are. This debate has long been dominated by two main accounts of rights – Interest Theory and Will Theory. I argue that the most common counterexamples to both theories are less significant than their detractors generally take them to be. I suggest a different way of evaluating competing accounts of rights, one that is less focused on the search for counterexamples and more focused how the respective theories construe the role of rights in our practical deliberations. I then propose a distinctive account of rights, which I call Action Theory. I argue that Action Theory captures the role of rights in our practical deliberations better than either of its rivals."

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About the Session: Talk of rights permeates philosophical, legal, and everyday discourse. And yet there is surprisingly little agreement about what rights are. This debate has long been dominated by two main accounts of rights – Interest Theory and Will Theory. I argue that the most common counterexamples to both theories are less significant than their detractors generally take them to be. I suggest a different way of evaluating competing accounts of rights, one that is less focused on the search for counterexamples and more focused how the respective theories construe the role of rights in our practical deliberations. I then propose a distinctive account of rights, which I call Action Theory. I argue that Action Theory captures the role of rights in our practical deliberations better than either of its rivals.

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The innumeracy of wrongful convictions and exonerations:
How probabilistic concepts and epidemiologic data and methods are misused in the prosecution and defense of criminal matters

• A talk by Professor Michael Freeman, Royal College of Physicians
• Chaired by Professor David Ormerod, UCL Laws

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Inducing Intimacy traces the development of a range of civil and criminal laws across c. 250 years, showing how using deception to induce intimacy has been legally understood, compensated and punished. It offers an original interpretation of the form and function of these laws by situating them in their social and cultural contexts. It argues that prevailing notions of what makes intimacy valuable, including the role it plays in self-construction, have shaped and constrained the laws' operation. It shows how deceptively induced sex has come to be treated more seriously while the opposite is true of deceptively induced relationships and concludes by presenting a new framework for deciding whether and when deceptively induced intimacy should be regulated by law today.

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Consent plays a crucial role in our lives. Using someone’s body or property without their consent is typically a serious moral wrong. However, even consensual interactions can be morally problematic in certain ways. This paper explores an underexamined form of defective consent: moot consent. Moot consent occurs when an individual’s consent is given, but it ultimately makes no difference to how others act. 

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15 different writers, from chambers to firms and university law clinics, from solicitors and barristers to paralegals and building managers, write about the experiences of their work, class relations, exploitation and organising in their sector. The launches will hear from the editors of the book in conversation with several of the writers of the collection about their contributions, the process of writing their pieces, and what future challenges worker organising in the legal sector faces.

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At City, University of London we understand the importance of choosing the right place and course to continue your studies.

Our online events provide the perfect opportunity for you to find out more about our postgraduate courses and what it's like to study with us from the comfort of your own home.

Upcoming online events

Our postgraduate online information sessions are scheduled throughout the year and range from subject/course specific sessions to general advice ones – all designed to give you further guidance about life at City, student experience and support available to you.

Postgraduate Virtual Fair

Hosted over three days, our Postgraduate Virtual Fair is a great way to explore postgraduate study at our University from the comfort of your own home, on your preferred devices.

Across the event, you will have the opportunity to attend online sessions on a range of subjects and courses across our Schools, ask questions and discover all the benefits of studying at City.

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The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory

Feminist political economy approaches centred on social reproduction provide us with an alternative framework to read the features and processes shaping capitalism and the global development process. Drawing from Social Reproduction Theory (SRT), Early Social Reproduction Approaches (ESRA) and Raced Social Reproduction Accounts of Slavery and Indenture, and inspired by feminist legal approaches to reproductive justice, this talk sketches the contours of a global feminist political economy framework able to capture various key features of contemporary capitalism, including its extractive reproductive architecture, the centrality of reproductive work to all forms of exploitation, and the drive towards the regeneration of multiple surplus populations. The talk reflects on some of the legal implications of this framework, in the realms of social provisions, labour, and reparations.

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Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation are delighted to host Professor Chris Evans as part of the Wilberforce Institute's Public Lecture programme, in association with Hull Museums.

This paper being discussed deals with three cousins who found it impossible to disentangle themselves from slavery, despite a family tradition of anti-slavery activism. One cousin was a prominent businessman who became a corporate enslaver in Cuba in the 1830s. Another was a High Church naval chaplain, sailing out of Cape Town in the 1840s, who came to reject the British policy of intercepting slave ships headed for Cuba or Brazil. The third was a ne'er-do-well who embraced Southern nationalism in the 1860s and fought with the Confederate States Army. Their experiences reveal the limitations of Britain’s Age of Emancipation.

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The Graduate Entry LLB (GE LLB) provides a fast track for non-law graduates to attain a senior status law degree in just two years, as opposed to the typical three. This programme offers a comprehensive exploration of legal foundations and specialised fields, equipping you with essential legal skills such as mooting, research, and debating.

Our The Graduate Entry LLB Online Event is a perfect opportunity to find out if The City Law School is the right choice for you. You will be able to:

• Learn about the GELLB course we offer
• Ask your queries directly to staff teaching on the course
• Get answers to your questions about the course structure, application process, entry criteria, fees and scholarships available.

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This workshop is on OSCOLA citing and referencing.

It is aimed at those who have an understanding of using OSCOLA but would like a refresher on it in advance of assessments, or further guidance and tips and tricks on how to use it. 

Find out more on their event details page (external site).

This conference will focus on addressing these issues by bringing together academics and practitioners, and will interest contract drafters, legal advisors, litigation lawyers, barristers, judges, and academics. Papers, written by an academic, will be commented upon by a practitioner, and will be distributed before the conference. Panels will be chaired by judges.

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The Birkbeck Law School Annual Law Lecture 2025 will be delivered by Professor Patricia Williams. The title of the lecture is: 'Theatre of the Upside Down: Performative Chaos and the Law'.  The lecture will take place on Friday 16 May at 6pm in the Clore Lecture Theatre, followed by a wine reception.

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The Intersection between Tort and Insurance Law – Insurance Brokers’ Liabilities and Subrogation

Specialist contract law principles govern insurance contracts. Moreover, the actors involved in the insurance arrangements may be subject to tort law liabilities. Often the question becomes how general principles are fed into insurance context. Notably, the English courts have considered such matters in two of their recent decisions which subsequently inspired an idea for this half-day conference.

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Drawing on novel archival evidence that sheds light on Anglo-Italian diplomatic relations and the French-Italian contest for power in the Adriatic, Constitutional Innovation and Same-Sex Desire in D’Annunzio’s Fiume, 1919–1920 recounts the story of decadent poet Gabriele D’Annunzio’s occupation of Fiume. Determining the fate of this Italian enclave in coastal Croatia had proved impossible at the Paris Peace Conference. In September 1919, D’Annunzio and his ‘legionnaires’ installed themselves in Fiume in a bid to embarrass Italy into declaring its annexation.

In addition to offering the most comprehensive and detailed analysis to date of the Carnaro Charter, the book shows what has eluded all historians of D’Annunzio’s Fiume: that the sublimation and discursive circulation of same-sex desire was integral to shaping and sustaining the political and legal order of the occupation, and that D’Annunzio’s love-lore in Fiume was continuous with broader homoerotic preoccupations in his oeuvre.

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The ELI Dispute Resolution SIG is set to be relaunched under a new chairmanship: Prof Dr Ana Keglevic, Prof Dr Maud Piers and Mr John Gaffney. To celebrate this occasion, they will host a webinar:

Debate 2: ‘Truth on Trial: Deepfakes, the Liar’s Dividend, and the Future of Evidence in Arbitration’.

This session provides an excellent opportunity to explore how digitalisation is reshaping dispute resolution, from AI and blockchain to the evolving role of human judgment in an increasingly technological landscape.

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This looks set to be a highly interesting lecture, as a part of the 'The UK's Unwritten Constitution: Is It Worth the Paper It's (Not) Written On?' series by Gresham College.

The U.S. Constitution had to be formed through debate before it could be ratified. Mirroring this, a British constitution must emerge through debates held by the next generation. This lecture indicates schools are a good environment to foster this. For students, there are many contentious issues that tap into discussions at the heart of writing a constitution. Students being punished for swearing raises questions of limits to free speech. Students wishing to intervene when an unpopular peer is bullied would be empowered by constitutional duty obliging them to do so.

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Something slightly different for you here! This is a part of the 'Lawgivers in Political Imaginations' series by Professor Melissa Lane at Gresham College.

For many modern thinkers, the lawgiver has been important as a founding figure of civic identity and cultural values. Rousseau analysed the legacies of Solon and Lycurgus, believing in the need for a lawgiver to make a true social contract possible. By contrast, Nietzsche felt it necessary to seek a lawgiver in history who was also a poet and prophet. This lecture uses their perspectives and others to explore how the figure of the lawgiver has encapsulated key debates in modern political philosophy.

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During our Postgraduate Open Evening you will learn more about our postgraduate courses and discover all the benefits of studying at City, University of London. Our spring Open Evening on Wednesday 4 June 2025 provides you with the perfect opportunity to get a taste of our campus and what it's like to study with us.

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Something slightly different for you here! This is a part of the 'Lawgivers in Political Imaginations' series by Professor Melissa Lane at Gresham College.

How have lawgivers featured in modern revolutions? This lecture considers key moments in revolutions, including seventeenth-century Britain, eighteenth-century France and (what would become) the United States, and twentieth-century Iran. The appeal to lawgivers (including ancient ones from many cultures) in revolutionary visions and in consolidating new constitutions is a striking feature of modern politics.

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At City, University of London we understand the importance of choosing the right place and course to continue your studies.

Our postgraduate online information sessions are scheduled throughout the year and range from subject/course specific sessions to general advice ones – all designed to give you further guidance about life at City, student experience and support available to you.

Find out more on their event details page (external site).

At City, University of London we understand the importance of choosing the right place and course to continue your studies.

Our postgraduate online information sessions are scheduled throughout the year and range from subject/course specific sessions to general advice ones – all designed to give you further guidance about life at City, student experience and support available to you.

Find out more on their event details page (external site).

At City, University of London we understand the importance of choosing the right place and course to continue your studies.

Our online events provide the perfect opportunity for you to find out more about our postgraduate courses and what it's like to study with us from the comfort of your own home. 

Find out more on their event details page (external site).

A paid event this time, but tickets for students are only £10. Worth if you are interested!

Please join Leigh Day for an afternoon conference covering topics with our inspiring speakers.

Followed by a drinks reception 5-7pm with guest speaker.

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