Lawbore Legal Events Calendar

This lecture looks at the development of juries in the common law world, addressing key questions about the role of juries in England and Wales today. Juries in modern English law are mainly used in criminal trials, civil trials, and coroners’ inquests, and the English jury system differs from other common law jurisdictions, some of which use juries more, less, or not at all. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the jury system, and do jury trials or bench trials deliver fairer outcomes?

Speaker: Professor Leslie Thomas

Lecture Series: Reimagining the Law

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This international and multi-disciplinary series brings together experts from across academia and focuses on topics of public interest addressing the theme of what it means to be human in a world being redefined by cutting-edge developments in AI and digital policymaking. 

The report explores how Courts and data protection authorities across Europe and the UK have applied the GDPR (particularly Article 22) and protected human rights in specific sectors, including employment and payment in the gig economy, live facial recognition and profiling in schools, and credit scoring matters.

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Feminist Approaches to Sex and Gender in Law: Beyond Binaries and Legal Certification, the official launch of FRAN.

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This workshop will bring together scholars from King’s College London and Paris Panthéon-Assas University, as well as practitioners , highlighting the different perspectives regarding investment arbitration on the two sides of the Channel. Beyond arbitration, the workshop will enable discussions regarding the role of the EU in global economic governance, and the relevance of the EU as a global actor.

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Want to make the most out of your time at the Career Fair? Join this preparation session led by a City Career Consultant to:

- Get advice on what to do and what not to do at a Careers Fair

- How to arrive prepared with a good knowledge of the companies you will be speaking with

- How to make an impact on employers and network successfully

- What you can expect from the Fair

For more information and to book - https://careershub.city.ac.uk/students/events/Detail/862371

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The event will examine recent developments in extradition with a focus on the use of diplomatic assurances. The removal of the concept of mutual recognition in surrender between the UK and EU member states under the TCA and recent high profile extradition cases such as Assange [2021] EWHC 3312 (Admin) demonstrate the growing significance of diplomatic assurances in cases where an individual’s human rights would be otherwise be violated. This seminar will consider when assurances are required, what type of assurances can be given and how courts can be assured that they will be complied with.

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The City Career Fair gives excellent opportunity for students to meet recruiters,  find out what opportunities are available, what employers are looking for and how you can make your application stand out. This is a rare chance to meet with lots of companies within just a couple of hours and may well be your chance to make an impression on your future employer.

Companies attending looking to meet Law Students include:

·       Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

·       Clyde & Co

·       Essex Court Chambers

·       Blackstone Chambers

·       Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

·       Metropolitan Police

·       KPMG

·       Unlocked Graduates

For more information and to book - https://careershub.city.ac.uk/students/events/detail/861492

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The Centre of European Law is delighted to host Lucia Serena Rossi, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Law and Professor of EU Law at the University of Bologna. This public lecture, shedding light on the interface between EU fundamental values and national identities, will be chaired by Professor Sir Francis Jacobs KCMG QC.

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Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context (Hart, 2022), edited by Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Ta?c?o?lu brings together leading international socio-legal and medico legal scholars to explore the dilemma of how to support legal capacity in theory and practice.

The event will introduce the key themes and arguments presented in the book.

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Our Explore Options with a Law Degree connects you to industry professionals to give you an insight to where your degree can take you. We will be joined by City alumni and external guests, providing insights into their careers in both traditional and non-traditional paths with a Law degree.

Our Panellists

• Asha Balachandran (City LLB Alumna)
  • Policy Advisor – Civil Service Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy 
• Minhaal Datoo
  • Privacy and Information Law Solicitor – Fieldfisher
• Mohamed Fortia (City LLB and LPC Alumnus)
  • Governance Officer – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
• Sarah Lovelace (City LLB Aluma)
  • Paralegal – Macmillan Cancer Support
• Komal Patel (City BPTC Alumna)
  • Barrister – Senate House Chambers
• Chidima Atueyi
  • Trainee Solicitor – BCLP

For more information and to book - https://careershub.city.ac.uk/students/events/detail/861513

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A panel discussion and film screening organised by Dr Agnieszka Kubal for the SSEES Politics and Sociology seminar series at UCL.

The event consists of two parts: a discussion panel with academics and a screening of the documentary ‘Judges under Pressure’ followed by a Q and A with the film protagonists, director and producer.

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The event has arisen out of the arbitration history project based at IALS and will address themes related to arbitration, mediation and access to justice that are of historical interest and contemporary importance. This event will speak to the research interests of Derek Roebuck and Johnny Veeder, in whose memory the history of arbitration project is funded.

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The English courts have wrestled with challenges to the restrictions on euthanasia and assisted suicide for years, while the government has resisted calls to liberalise the law. Meanwhile, terminally ill people continue to travel overseas to clinics such as Dignitas, to end their lives. Assisted dying raises fundamental questions about respect for individual autonomy, protection of the vulnerable and the role the State should play.

This lecture will explain the law and explore arguments for and against liberalisation.

Speaker: Prof Imogen Goold 

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The event will address one of the most important legislative approaches to artificial intelligence worldwide. By narrowing the perspective to its (legal) implications for the financial sector it will allow specific insights into how the rapidly further progressing digital transformation of the financial sector is responded to by the law. The pivotal realm of financial technology, here use cases of artificial intelligence in the realm of financial services and products, is of utmost important not only for regulators and supervisors, but for the finance industry and thereby for London particularly in the aftermath of Brexit. 

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We aim to foster a dialogue across disciplines, with the hope that a legally-oriented conceptualisation of listening may be influenced by existing theory and practice from related disciplines including philosophy, sociology, literary, cultural and media studies and politics.

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The ILPC’s 7th Annual Conference will explore the impact of policymaking focused on ensuring 'online safety' and the increased use of data-driven systems that are increasingly connecting all aspects of society, particularly the implications of these changes for the rights and responsibilities of individuals and organisations. Panels will address the development and future of these developments for regulation, policymaking, and governance within the UK and internationally.

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Alexei Navalny is the leading opposition leader in Russia. He is also currently serving a lengthy prison sentence in a Russian correctional colony.

This lecture will look at the use of the processes of the law by the Russian state to silence and isolate Navalny and to neutralise other forms of internal dissent. It will consider more widely the state of the rule of law in Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.

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The 1950s tend to be regarded as a very conservative decade, in contrast to the more radical 1960s and 1970s; yet there was considerable legal development, for example in the use of equity in the courts, in the movement for divorce and homosexual law reform, in the admission of women to the judiciary and the House of Lords, and in ideas about criminal justice.  Legal issues arising in the 1950s can be drawn from almost any area of legal study, and this conference offers participants the opportunity to explore this under-researched decade from whatever perspective they find most interesting. 

This conference therefore contributes to the development of a humanities-based approach to interdisciplinary research.  In addition, promoting a better understanding of historical method among lawyers and of legal interpretation among historians is an important goal that contributes to the general development of this field.

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This year's annual Garner lecture at the UKELA is given by Peter Kellett, Head of Legal at the Environment Agency, as our distinguished speaker.

Peter studied environmental science, qualified as a solicitor and has a masters in environmental law.  Peter worked in the City, in Government on the design of environmental law and at the Environment Agency on its implementation where he was its Director of Legal Services for a decade until retirement in October 2022. Recently Peter has been part of the Law Society’s Climate Change Working Group which prepared its landmark 2021 Climate Change Resolution and is now drafting guidance for solicitors on climate conscious lawyering under that resolution.

Join the lecture in person or, if you aren't able to be there, watch via a livestream. The lecture will also be recorded. A drinks and canapes reception will take place after the lecture.  

Tickets are normally £20 for non-members of UKELA but there are a limited number of free tickets available to students. Get in quick!

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This lecture brings the insights of feminist legal history to bear on arguments for judicial diversity. Beginning with women’s formal entry into the legal profession in 1919, it explores a centenary of arguments for diversity and suggests that these arguments continue to matter because, in the end, they take us in different directions, leading to different ideas of judicial diversity and differently constituted judiciaries.

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How does everyday medical practice get interpreted in the courtroom?

In cases of child protection, do everyday decisions made in a resource-limited NHS stand up to cross-examination? Does the duty of care in hospital also extend to collecting evidence, and are the obligations of the doctor looking after a child different to the obligations of the expert commenting on them in retrospect? How does this affect the number of medical personnel willing to come forwards to give expert evidence?

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What are the strengths and weaknesses of the distinction between solicitors and barristers? What is the purpose of the independent Bar in our legal system today? How does England and Wales compare with common law jurisdictions which have abandoned, or have never had, a split profession?

Is the Bar’s history as a bastion of privilege, its various historical monopolies and prerogatives, and its culture and organisation problematic? What are the benefits of an independent Bar?

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What is the adversarial tradition in English criminal and civil procedure, and how does it compare with the inquisitorial systems found in some civil law jurisdictions? What are the strengths and weaknesses of adversarial and inquisitorial jurisdictions? Does our adversarial system truly deliver equality of arms between the powerful and the powerless? Have modern fair trial standards, such as those required by the European Court of Human Rights, -and other developments - brought the two families of systems closer together?

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Gene editing technology gives us the ability to change our DNA – removing, adding and replacing parts of our genetic code. These technologies have been emerging and improving for some decades, but since the development of CRISPR-based editing technologies, our capacity to edit our DNA has become both more accessible, more accurate and consequently, more powerful. Gene editing could be used to prevent genetic diseases but also alter traits like height and intelligence, presenting both legal and ethical issues.

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What is the role of criminal law in society, and do we need it? How did English criminal law develop? The traditional justifications for criminalisation are retribution, deterrence, containment and control: do they stand up to scrutiny? What are the alternatives to criminalisation, such as restorative and transformative justice? Should we abolish or reform criminal law? How should a just legal system respond to harm and conflict?

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Since the death of George Floyd in May 2020, some have asked whether we need a police force.

This lecture will examine the role and purpose of the police in our society. What do the police do? What is their historical and social context? Does the current system of policing work? If so, for who? Are all citizens in our society policed fairly? Should we defund the police? If there were no police what might replace them? Are the alternatives realistic?

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