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A webinar series by the International Law and Affairs Group at City, University of London and the SCRAP Research Group at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS.This webinar series will explore the topic of general and complete disarmament (GCD), which has been the official ultimate goal of the United Nations (UN) disarmament efforts since the 1950s. Speakers for this webinar as follows:
Jason Ralph – University of Leeds
Emilia Justyna Powell – University of Notre Dame
Cecilia Marcela Bailliet – University of Oslo
Support Through Court has brought together a fantastic panel of speakers to discuss the Future of the Family Courts and the challenges they must overcome in a post-pandemic world.
Justice Baker will be providing a key-note speech followed by an expert panel including:
- Alexis Campbell QC, Co-Head of Chambers at 29 Bedford Row
- Antonia Felix, Legal Director at Mischon de Reya
- Amy Slingo, Barrister at 4BC
- Sarah Fairweather, Service Manager at Support Through Court Leeds
- Chaired by Barbara Mills QC, 4PB
How does the law consider children in cases involving medical consent?
This lecture will look at how doctors (and parents) should talk their children about illness. It will also consider what should happen when parents and doctors disagree about what a child should be told. The overall law on consent has changed markedly in England and Wales since Montgomery (2015), and requires doctors to share and explain risks, but it is not clear how far this applies to children, particularly older children.
Imogen Goold (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law at University of Oxford and Fellow of St Anne’s College) is the speaker at this lecture. It forms part of the https://www.gresham.ac.uk/series/medical-law/ series organised and hosted by Gresham College.
It can be attended in person and is also streamed live.
Panel event to celebrate the founding of the Free Representation Unit 50 years ago.
Khatuna Tsintsadze is Co-director of the Zahid Mubarek Trust and we meet her in this third edition of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies webinar series 'Lunch with...'.
September 2021
Exciting lineup of women joining the Women in Law Society and BAME Women Society to discuss what it means to be a woman in the 21st century, followed by an evening of conversation and networking.
This event, hosted by Gender and Law at Durham, centres on the importance of telemedicine in ensuring access to safe abortion. It draws on arguments from the newly published book ‘Early Medical Abortion, Equality of Access, and the Telemedical Imperative’ by Mr Jordan A. Parsons and Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis.
Access to safe abortion is essential and time-sensitive healthcare. Limited access is a serious threat to the health and lives of people who experience unwanted pregnancy. The COVID-19 pandemic has exemplified the importance of remote care by telemedicine to enable access. However, many of the socio-structural factors that make access to abortion difficult for individuals are not unique to emergency circumstances and existed long before the pandemic.
Progressive reform in some countries to make telemedical abortion legal is to be welcomed. Data emerging from remote care provision show that it is as safe as in-person care, acceptable to service users, and in many cases people prefer the privacy and autonomy afforded to them by telemedicine.
In this ‘In conversation’ Ian Hislop, writer, journalist and broadcaster will be talking with Frances Crook reflecting on her time as Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform and the state of the nation, as she prepares to retire.
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies hosts a monthly series of webinars. This one features Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform.
A webinar series by the International Law and Affairs Group at City, University of London and the SCRAP Research Group at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS.This webinar series will explore the topic of general and complete disarmament (GCD), which has been the official ultimate goal of the United Nations (UN) disarmament efforts since the 1950s. Speakers for this webinar as follows:
Jason Ralph – University of Leeds
Emilia Justyna Powell – University of Notre Dame
Cecilia Marcela Bailliet – University of Oslo
Speaker: Sir Jonathan Jones, KCB QC, former HM Procurator General, Treasury Solicitor and Head of the Government Legal Service
chaired by Denis Edwards, Deputy Chairman of the Statute Law Society
About the speaker:
Sir Jonathan Jones QC (Hon) was Treasury Solicitor and Permanent Secretary of the Government Legal Department from 2014-2020. Before that, in a long career as a government lawyer, he held senior posts in a number of departments including HM Treasury, the Home Office, the Department for Education and the Attorney General's Office. Earlier this year he joined Linklaters as a Senior Consultant in Public and Constitutional Law. He is also a Bencher of Middle Temple and an Honorary Professor at Durham Law School.
Commonwealth citizens once enjoyed the right to live, work and settle in the UK without any restrictions. But a racist backlash against Black and Asian immigration led to legislators introducing immigration controls in the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962, which were broadened by the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 to deprive East African Asians of the right to settle in the UK. Its shameful successor, the Immigration Act 1971 continues to form the basis of our xenophobic immigration laws today.
Professor Leslie Thomas QC is the speaker at this lecture. It forms part of the Race, Colonialism and Power in the Legal System series organised and hosted by Gresham College.
It can be attended in person and is also streamed live.
October 2021
This seminar will discuss the operation of these regimes: have they presented difficulties for the Irish central authority? Are there obstacles where the information sought is to be found in multiple member states? How are requests under TCA playing out? The seminar will give an overview of the various instruments and then examine the issues from the perspective of the Irish central authority and Eurojust.
The free online event is open to all students (both undergraduates and postgraduates) and gives students from all universities the opportunity to meet nearly 70 of the nation’s leading law firms.
The following firms will be participating at the October Virtual Law Fair:
- Accutrainee
- Addleshaw Goddard
- Akin Gump
- Allen & Overy
- Ashurst
- Baker McKenzie
- Barbri
- Bates Wells
- BCLP
- Bird & Bird
- BLM
- Burges Salmon
- Clifford Chance
- Clyde & Co
- CMS
- COLP
- Davis Polk
- Dechert
- Dentons
- DLA Piper
- Eversheds
- Fieldfisher
- Fletchers
- Freshfields
- Fried Frank
- Gateley
- Gibson Dunn
- Gowling WLG
- Herbert Smith Freehills
- HFW
- Hill Dickinson
- Hogan Lovells
- Irwin Mitchell
- Kingsley Napley
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Latham & Watkins
- Level
- Linklaters
- Macfarlanes
- Mayer Brown
- Mills & Reeve
- Mishcon de Reya
- Norton Rose Fulbright
- Nottingham Law School
- Osborne Clarke
- Penningtons Manches
- Pinsent Masons
- Ropes & Gray
- RPC
- Russell-Cooke
- Shoosmiths
- Simmons & Simmons
- Skadden
- Slaughter and May
- Squire Patton Boggs
- Taylor Wessing
- TLT
- Travers Smith
- ULaw
- Vantage
- Vinson & Elkins
- Weil
- WFW
- White & Case
- Wiggin
- Willkie
- Withers
- Womble Bond Dickinson
The free online event gives students from all parts of the UK the opportunity to meet leading chambers from their laptops. Students based overseas who intend to practise as barristers and are eligible to work in the UK, are also encouraged to attend.
Each participating chambers has a virtual booth with a livestream that allows students to join in video chats with barristers, pupils and pupillage committees. Students can also submit written questions in the live chats and browse custom chambers content.
The following chambers will be exhibiting at the October Virtual Pupillage Fair: 2 Temple Gardens, 4 New Square, 4 Pump Court, 5 Essex Court, 3 Paper Buildings, Atkin Chambers, Cornerstone Barristers, Crown Office Chambers, Devereux Chambers, Exchange Chambers, Francis Taylor Building, Hailsham Chambers, Hardwicke Chambers, Henderson Chambers, Keating Chambers, Kings Chambers, Landmark Chambers, Littleton Chambers, Quadrant Chambers, Radcliffe Chambers, Serjeants' Inn, Serle Court, South Square and Wilberforce Chambers.
Support Through Court has brought together a fantastic panel of speakers to discuss the Future of the Family Courts and the challenges they must overcome in a post-pandemic world.
Justice Baker will be providing a key-note speech followed by an expert panel including:
- Alexis Campbell QC, Co-Head of Chambers at 29 Bedford Row
- Antonia Felix, Legal Director at Mischon de Reya
- Amy Slingo, Barrister at 4BC
- Sarah Fairweather, Service Manager at Support Through Court Leeds
- Chaired by Barbara Mills QC, 4PB
A webinar series by the International Law and Affairs Group at City, University of London and the SCRAP Research Group at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS.This webinar series will explore the topic of general and complete disarmament (GCD), which has been the official ultimate goal of the United Nations (UN) disarmament efforts since the 1950s. Speakers for this final webinar in the series as follows:
Henrietta Wilson – University of Bristol
Clara Portela – University of Valencia
Benoît Pelopidas – Sciences Po
Dan Plesch – SOAS
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies webinar series features Pragna Patel, who is a founding member and director of Southall Black Sisters’ (SBS) advocacy and campaigning centre, and Suresh Grover, who is Co-Director of The Monitoring Group, one of the oldest anti-racist grassroots groups in Britain.
How does the law consider children in cases involving medical consent?
This lecture will look at how doctors (and parents) should talk their children about illness. It will also consider what should happen when parents and doctors disagree about what a child should be told. The overall law on consent has changed markedly in England and Wales since Montgomery (2015), and requires doctors to share and explain risks, but it is not clear how far this applies to children, particularly older children.
Imogen Goold (Associate Professor, Faculty of Law at University of Oxford and Fellow of St Anne’s College) is the speaker at this lecture. It forms part of the https://www.gresham.ac.uk/series/medical-law/ series organised and hosted by Gresham College.
It can be attended in person and is also streamed live.
Goblin Market is a narrative poem by Christina Rossetti of some 570 lines published by Macmillan in 1862 as part of Rossetti’s first public collection of her work. The poem explores the twilight adventures over a period of months of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, and their friend, Jeanie, at a fruit market run by ‘Goblin’ men. (Note there is no need for any prospective attendee to read the poem in advance; Professor Wheeler will tell its story in the course of her paper).
Notwithstanding Rossetti’s own assertion that Goblin Market was nothing more than a children’s story, critics have offered a range of allegorical interpretations of it ranging from, inter alia, a story about fallen women, a Tractarian soliloquy, an ode to sisterly love and a tale of the Feminine Christ. Whatever interpretative frame we put around Goblin Market the denouement of its story is the redemptive action that Lizzie takes to save her sister, Laura, through her brave encounter with the Goblins where she tries unsuccessfully to buy their fruit.
Goblin Market has never been considered as a contract text. However it offers us the opportunity to compare and contrast a number of contractual settings some of which come within the bounds of contract law, others of which sit squarely outside this but within the life world of human experience. In this paper I identify and explore four distinctive transactions with different phases and degrees of completeness. They are, in broad terms, the status contract of marriage and the consequences that flow from that, the (un)enforceable prostitution contract, the contract for the purchase of goods and the relational social contract of obligation between sisters. All of these are influenced by the subtext of what it means for women to operate in the market place as subject or object.
Speaker: Professor Sally Wheeler, College of Law Australian National University
Chair: Professor Carl Stychin, Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and professor of law
The in-person event will explore pressing issues affecting women in prison, against the backdrop of the government's planned expansion of the women's estate.
Chaired by Allison Bailey, the current lineup of speakers includes:
- Charlie Weinberg (Chair of Trustees, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies)
- Frances Crook OBE (Howard League for Penal Reform)
- Cátia Freitas (WPUK)
- Professor Jo Phoenix (The Open University)
November 2021
The exhibition takes places entirely online between 1-5 November 2021 and is organised by Chris Monaghan (University of Worcester) and Prof Matthew Flinders (University of Sheffield).
Keynote speakers include Baroness Hale (former President of UK Supreme Court), Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Lord David Blunkett (former Home Secretary), Prof Bruce Ackerman (Yale), Prof Margit Cohn (Hebrew University), Prof John Keane (Sydney), Prof Conor Gearty QC (LSE), Prof Vernon Bogdanor (King's College London), Baroness Manningham-Buller (former head of MI5 and current chair of Wellcome).
Highlights include the:
- Keynote Lecture on Impeachment in a Comparative Context (1 November)- this will be delivered by Prof Tom Ginsburg (Chicago) and with a response by Prof Anibal Perez-Linan (Notre-Dame).
- Keynote Panel Discussion on Judicial Review and Accountability (2 November)- this will include Baroness Hale, leading academics and lawyers and will be chaired by David Lock QC (Landmark Chambers).
- Keynote Speakers Event (3 November)- the speakers are drawn from around the world and will discuss various aspects of accountability.
- Keynote Panel Discussion on Impeachment (4 November)- speakers include Joshua Matz (the US House Judiciary Committee prosecution counsel in both Trump impeachments) and Karen Popp (Associate White House Counsel during the Clinton impeachment).
Register your place via emailingQofA2021@worc.ac.uk<mailto:QofA2021@worc.ac.uk
The role of cities in redefining international law and international relations is increasingly a subject of interest. Whether tackling climate change through city networks or acting as “sanctuary” cities, cities have found innovative ways to (re)assert their role as international actors. Yet the role of border cities in international law remains underexplored. Border cities, often considered marginal or even suspect, have unique practical interactive and interpretive experiences on international law and international relations which provide insight into governance in borderlands and beyond.
Panel event to celebrate the founding of the Free Representation Unit 50 years ago.
The first lecture in the 2021 Hamlyn Series will celebrate advocacy: that controversial legal issues are decided in court after reasoned argument in which the participants refrain (usually) from shouting, personal insults or threats, and the points on each side of the debate are tested for their relevance, their accuracy and their strength. The art of persuasion is now less valued in politics, but it remains of central importance to law. This lecture will seek to identify the central characteristics of good and bad advocacy with the aid of examples from courtrooms here and abroad. Though none of them will identify the machine by the secret use of which it was said that the 19th century advocate, James Scarlett (later Lord Abinger), "could always make the head of a judge nod assent to his propositions".
Khatuna Tsintsadze is Co-director of the Zahid Mubarek Trust and we meet her in this third edition of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies webinar series 'Lunch with...'.