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This book talk on The EU as a Global Regulator for Environment Protection (Hart 2019) by Ioanna Hadjiyianni considers how the EU has been understood to have global effects through its environmental laws. City, University of London welcomes the author and discussants who are scholars from backgrounds in environmental law, EU studies and jurisdiction and territory with respect to international law to consider how global effects are considered. Discussants consider also comparative and transborder questions of the book generally, particularly as to US law and international law.
“What improvements, if any, should be made to the Human Rights Act 1998? Why are they needed?”
Join The Law Society as they examine this question posed in the 2021 Graham Turnbull essay competition, in partnership with the Graham Turnbull Memorial Fund.
With the Independent Human Rights Act Review underway and considering whether reforms are needed, they will be looking back at 20 years of the Human Rights Act and where we go from here. They will be joined by speakers to share their thoughts on the Review and the essay competition question.
The winner of the essay competition will be announced during the event. To find out more about the Graham Turnbull essay competition and details on how to enter, visit the Law Society website.
This event is held in memory of Graham Turnbull, an English solicitor who was killed while working as a UN human rights monitor in Rwanda. The Law Society honours Graham’s commitment to human rights through an essay competition and lecture, which encourages law students and junior lawyers to examine current pressing human rights issues and to consider their impact on the wider system of human rights and law.
April 2021
AfA talks to director of advocacy and policy at the RSPCA and former MP Heidi Allen about how groups can campaign effectively
This event considers the state of the art as to Facebook and the law, as its subject and object and putting it into the broader context of the global law of ‘big Tech’. It considers the operation of the Facebook Oversight Board and its characterisation in public law, private law and global governance.
Hosted by the University of Bristol, this workshop will examine the development of vicarious liability across the common law world.
Speakers include:
- Australia: Dr Christine Beuermann (Newcastle)
- Canada: Professor Jason Neyers (UWO)
- England and Wales: Professor Paula Giliker (Bristol)
- Hong Kong: Professor Rick Glofcheski (HKU)
- Ireland: Dr Desmond Ryan (Trinity College, Dublin)
- New Zealand: Professor Stephen Todd (University of Canterbury NZ)
- Singapore: Professor David Tan (NUS)
- Scotland: Dr Mat Campbell (Glasgow) and Dr Bobby Lindsay (Glasgow)
The Motion
“This House would prefer to be Governed by Algorithm direct, than by Politicians who are not ICT Professionals and who have never coded software to deliver a functionally useful Algorithm for any customer or user”.
Welcome and Introduction:
Dr Sam De Silva, FBCS, CITP, Partner, CMS UK, Chair of the SCL D&I Advisory Group and Chair, BCS Law Specialist Group
Motion Proposed by:
Dr Stephen Castell, CITP CPhys FIMA MEWI MIoD
Motion Opposed by:
Dr Nigel Young, CITP MBCS MMA FAE (Fellow of The Academy of Experts)
Moderator of the Debate:
Rachel Free, Partner, CMS UK
Seconder to Proposer of Motion:
Matthew Lavy, SCL Trustee, Barrister, 4 Pump Court
Seconder to Opposer of Motion:
Shobana Iyer, Barrister, Swan Chambers
This event, led by the BCS Law Specialist Group, will be a Debate under Chatham House Rules, open to all. The Motion is “This House would prefer to be Governed by Algorithm direct, than by Politicians who are not ICT Professionals and who have never coded software to deliver a functionally useful Algorithm for any customer or user”, and all participants will be encouraged to join in and contribute in insightfully robust and forthright fashion.
Thought-leaders, academics, students, citizens, politicians, professionals and practitioners active or interested in the increasingly confluent domain of ICT and the Law, in particular in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Data Science, Brain-Hacking, cyborgs, androids and avatars, are welcome to attend this online Debate.
The Proposers and Opposers of the Motion, and their Seconders, will speak for 30 minutes in total, and then the discussion will be opened for around 55 minutes to contributions by those attending, for vigorous and interactive discussion. A closing vote on the Motion will be taken: will you be persuaded away from the view you held at the start of the Debate, or will it have served only to strengthen your thinking and position?
The Criminal Appeals Lawyers Association and Garden Court Chambers have organised this seminar in association with Crime in Mind. Here's what they say about the event:
The recently published White Paper on mental health acknowledges the government’s determination that individuals who meet the criteria for detention under the Mental Health Act are not being held in prisons inappropriately. There is a requirement for the court to ensure it has relevant medical evidence in respect of any person who appears to be suffering from a mental disorder at the date of sentencing and the Sentencing Council’s guideline on Sentencing offenders with mental disorders, developmental disorders, or neurological impairments (in force since October 2020) provides greater clarity on the considerations that apply in such instances.
However, there will be occasions where that does not happen or it later becomes clear that a person ought to have had a hospital order rather than a prison sentence or a hybrid order. Correcting the sentence can make an enormous difference a person’s welfare and prospects of rehabilitation.
In the guideline case of R v Vowles [2015] EWCA Crim 45 the Court of Appeal considered the correct approach to take in such cases. Since then there have been a dozens of further cases that have refined and clarified the law in this important and complex area.
This webinar will provide attendees with:
- Why ensuring the correct sentence is passed is so important
- An overview of the Sentencing Council’s guideline on sentencing people with mental disorder
- An update on the law in Vowles and subsequent Court of Appeal decisions
- An overview on the medical evidence required to support Vowles appeals
- Practical steps to be taken to identify and prepare Vowles appeals
The multidisciplinary Panel will include contributions from:
- Her Honour Judge Rosa Dean, Resident Judge at Harrow Crown Court and member of the Sentencing Council
- Stella Harris, barrister at Garden Court Chambers
- Dr Laura Janes, solicitor and legal director at the Howard League for Penal Reform
- Dr Richard Latham, consultant forensic psychiatrist
- Professor Pamela Taylor, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Cardiff University and Vice-Chair, Crime in Mind
This book talk on The EU as a Global Regulator for Environment Protection (Hart 2019) by Ioanna Hadjiyianni considers how the EU has been understood to have global effects through its environmental laws. City, University of London welcomes the author and discussants who are scholars from backgrounds in environmental law, EU studies and jurisdiction and territory with respect to international law to consider how global effects are considered. Discussants consider also comparative and transborder questions of the book generally, particularly as to US law and international law.
What will the world look like after the Covid-19 vaccine has been fully rolled out and the pandemic has passed?
This is the question facing businesses across the globe as they plan ahead for a future shrouded in an unusual mixture of uncertainty and optimism.
Certain sectors, such as technology, have thrived over the last year amid national lockdowns, while other more traditional areas like industrials and travel, have been hit hard. Will we now see a reversal of fortunes? Or has the pandemic set in place longer term trends - around working from home, for example - that are only just beginning?
Elite full-service international law firms like White & Case - which has 44 offices in 30 different countries across the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe - have an interesting vantage point at times like this, deeply connected as they are to businesses operating across the global economy.
Legal Cheek will be bringing together a number of the firm’s lawyers, each based in a different location working in a different practice area, to get their views on what to expect after the pandemic. What does ‘building back better’ mean to them and their clients? How will business travel look in the future? And which are the hot practice areas to watch?
The speakers
- Ola Sanni, associate in the firm’s capital markets practice (Dubai office)
- Wiesia Wagstyl, associate in the firm’s global real estate industry group (London office)
- Thorsten Rohde, associate in the firm’s M&A/corporate practice group (Frankfurt office)
3 papers in this event:
Women, Violence and Protest in Times of COVID-19
Kim Barker, The Open University
Olga Jurasz, The Open University
COVID-19 has highlighted the fragility of women’s rights protection. Whilst the predominant focus has fallen on the reporting of domestic violence, there are ‘untold’ narratives about how laws and regulations are used to further restrict women’s rights in times of pandemic; the role and remit of emergency legislative measures; women’s activism – including online protest - to protect their rights in times of pandemic; and the role of women politicians in raising these issues. This contribution explores the ‘untold story’ of the gendered dimension of COVID-19, with a particular focus on women’s activism online and the backlash suffered as a result.
Bahraini Family Laws During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Questioning the Re-emergence of Gendered and Sectarian Identities
Fatema Hubail, Georgetown University in Qatar
With the emergence of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the questions of gender, sect, and class are re-introduced in Bahraini media. Individuals and groups belonging to a specific gender, sect, or class are transformed in the media as examples, spectacles, and objects of critique. The implications of the family laws already pose risks on women and the family structure, but the COVID-19 pandemic magnifies these implications, further reifying the existing sociopolitical conditions. The pandemic does not only carry a health risk, but it has also become a means of social-conditioning, surveillance, and the reification of difference on the basis of gender, sect, class, and nationality. This research explores: to what extent has the COVID-19 pandemic amplified the inequalities and expectations present within the Bahraini Family Law of 2017? Through rereading and analyzing the family law articles, this research will show the implications of these articles on women in light of the pandemic. The Unified Family Law deviates from the Sunni and Shi’ite juristic traditions, and carefully imbues sociopolitical difference through the way the state legally imagines and codifies the ideal Bahraini family structure. With the pandemic, these differences are central in the representation of communities, as Shi’ite groups have experienced retaliation in Bahrain due to travels to Iran early in 2020. The case of the Unified Family Law in Bahrain complicates the lives of women, where the state imagines unification, but the reality suggests that women are found at the intersection of gender, sect, structures of kin, and lastly, the sociopolitical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Law’s Invisible Women: The Unintended Gendered Consequences of the COVID-19 Lockdown
Lynsey Mitchell, University of Abertay
Michelle Weldon-Johns, University of Abertay
This paper examines the unintended gendered consequences of lockdown on women’s rights, particularly those related to women’s health and wellbeing. Situating this assessment within wider feminist legal scholarship, which exposes the gendered nature of law and the tendency to legislate in a way that prioritises a privileged male legal subject, we argue that the legislation and guidance fail to centre women’s lived experiences and so deprioritise women’s needs. We ultimately argue that lessons need to be learned regarding how future emergency responses are implemented to mitigate the impacts on women and ensure gender is mainstreamed within the law-making process.
Living Room Law takes place virtually on the afternoon of April 22 2021, it features a series of talks by solicitors and barristers who are doing things differently. In some cases they are combining their legal work with other passions, in others handling City of London deals and cases from far-flung and unconventional locations. We’ll also be hearing from lawyers who have scaled the heights of the profession while managing family commitments.
It features a series of talks by solicitors who are doing things differently. In some cases they are combining their legal work with other passions, in others handling City of London deals and cases from far-flung and unconventional locations. We’ll also be hearing from lawyers who have scaled the heights of the profession while managing family commitments.
The speakers:
- Anjalee Mead, project finance lawyer working remotely from Zimbabwe including via Re:link Linklaters as a consultant
- Salome Coker, Re:link Linklaters finance lawyer, who balances her legal work with her ventures as a creative entrepreneur and artist
- Martin Laing, Re:link Linklaters’ senior client development manager
- Deepak Sitlani, partner in capital markets at Linklaters
- Alexandra Gladwell, senior commercial litigation lawyer, who launched a legal consulting career with Peerpoint by Allen & Overy in 2015
- Lisa Mulley, senior lawyer with a diversity of experience gained from working in a magic circle law firm, in-house in financial services and as a legal consultant to Peerpoint by Allen & Overy
- Morris Bentata, sports lawyer, co-founder of Level, dad of three, author and speaker, working flexibly since 2015
- Rowena Samarasinhe, commercial sports lawyer at Level, business owner, splits her time between London and Verbier, working from anywhere since 2017
- James Hall, barrister at Hardwicke specialising in commercial and property litigation, who has been running his practice whilst living in Wales
- Lucy Jay, consultant in Travers Smith's dispute resolution team, who has been working remotely from rural Scotland since 2010
- Alex Wade, lawyer, journalist, author and surfer, who is currently working remotely from the South of France for Reviewed & Cleared
- Penny Angell, UK managing partner at Hogan Lovells
“What improvements, if any, should be made to the Human Rights Act 1998? Why are they needed?”
Join The Law Society as they examine this question posed in the 2021 Graham Turnbull essay competition, in partnership with the Graham Turnbull Memorial Fund.
With the Independent Human Rights Act Review underway and considering whether reforms are needed, they will be looking back at 20 years of the Human Rights Act and where we go from here. They will be joined by speakers to share their thoughts on the Review and the essay competition question.
The winner of the essay competition will be announced during the event. To find out more about the Graham Turnbull essay competition and details on how to enter, visit the Law Society website.
This event is held in memory of Graham Turnbull, an English solicitor who was killed while working as a UN human rights monitor in Rwanda. The Law Society honours Graham’s commitment to human rights through an essay competition and lecture, which encourages law students and junior lawyers to examine current pressing human rights issues and to consider their impact on the wider system of human rights and law.
Organised by the City Law School and the Senior European Experts Group this webinar will discuss British, EU and World Trade Policy.
The speakers are:
Sir Jonathan Faull, Director-General Internal Market & Services, European Commission 2010-15; member of the Senior European Experts Group
Professor Joost Pauwelyn, Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute, Geneva & Co-Director of the Centre for Trade & Economic Integration
Professor Katy Hayward, Professor of Political Sociology, Queen’s University, Belfast & Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe
John Cooke, Chair, Liberalisation of Trade in Services Committee, TheCityUK 2010- and former Under-Secretary for International Trade Policy, UK Department of Trade & Industry; member of the Senior European Experts Group
Panellists will examine the following:
- What should trade policymakers try to do next?
- Can they fix the much-criticised but essential role of the WTO?
- Can they navigate a way through the trade disputes between the US and China?
- Can the EU, now debating its future trade policy, bridge its internal divisions over trade openness and the fear of a dominant China?
- And what of the UK, which is struggling to adapt to its new trading relationship with the EU whilst seeking new markets for its goods and services?
This event has been funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
Addleshaw Goddard is hosting an Applications Workshop on 29th April 2021 - and you're invited to attend!
They are a premium international law firm with an exceptional breadth of services. Their reputation for outstanding quality is built upon long-term relationship investment and a deep understanding of client markets. This, together with their high-calibre expertise, straight-talking advice and collaborative team culture, means they are here for their clients, whenever and however they need them; from everyday queries to high-value strategic advice, they are proud of the consistently excellent, relevant and focussed service thei people provide.
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This event is co-sponsored by the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, George Washington University (GWU).
In this webinar the panel will discuss the implications and issues of the Transatlantic Trade and Technology Council as part of the EU's proposed EU-US Joint Agenda for Global Change.
May 2021
Join for an evening celebrating the work in Volume III of the City Law Review. This year they are delighted to be joined by Dr S Chelvan, Sara Hossain and Sunita Chawla who will be taking about their experience with intersectionality and the changing face of law.
Dr S Chelvan - a globally recognised legal expert on refugee and human rights claims based on sexual or gender identity and expression. Chelvan has practised in the field of LGBT+ asylum since 2001 and has earned a reputation for being the leading legal expert in the UK.
Sara Hossain - a lawyer at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and an honorary executive director of Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust. Hossain was one of the recipients of the U.S. Secretary of States' International Women of Courage Award. Hossain played a key role in drafting Bangladesh's first comprehensive legislation on violence against women, which went on to become law in 2010.
Sunita Chawla - with over 20 years of experience at BCLP LLP, Sunita has extensive experience in advising on the acquisition, development and financing of complex real estate assets. Sunita led the real estate aspects of each of Tesco Plc’s six CMBS transactions, together worth approximately £3.6 billion.
Want a chance to ask world-renowned human rights barristers and solicitors your questions? Sign-up now and submit your questions for the panel.
Do not miss out on this great opportunity to get inspired and celebrate Volume III.
This event features 3 papers:
Ethical Limits of Pandemic Governance: International Refugee and Human RIghts Law Redefined?
Nergis Canefe, York University
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a vast array of social, economic and legal implications. In addition to political and civil rights such as liberty and privacy had to be curtailed in the name of public health, legal responses to the pandemic continue to have a far greater impact upon populations on the move, displaced communities and refugees in radically unequal ways. The dimensions of their subjectification include nationality, legal status, race, gender, disability, vulnerability and social class. Legal interventions causing further hardship in their plight is presented as unequivocal and beyond public debate. Making sense of the relationship between law and the pandemic requires us to re-contextualize the use of law in novel ways to limit, to exclude, and to create exceptions as well as the lacunae created by the anxious and panicked publics’ lack of responses to it. The coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID 19) pandemic created multifaceted crisis responses affecting every aspect of social life. Measures adopted by domestic authorities across the globe included a broad spectrum of restrictions including mandatory quarantines and isolations of individuals, blanket travel bans and cordoning-off of cities and, in many cases, countries. In turn, these measures unprecedented consequences for the displaced populations and refugee communities, particularly those who survive under the conditions of the war nexus. As governments declared states of emergency and assumed exceptional powers, the relevant obligations, principles of protection and procedures under public international law pertaining to refugees and asylum seekers have been suspended. The strongest instrument of pandemic governance is national legislation. However, the effects of national pandemic governance upon displaced and dispossessed populations is far from clear. Legal analysis and empirical evaluation of implementation of national pandemic measures and exceptional policy guidelines require a comprehensive mapping of events unfolding in global refugee hubs, such as Turkey, Lebanon, Tunisia, India, Columbia and South Africa to create the necessary comparative data for critical legal analysis of repercussions of national legislation’s compliance/lack of compliance with established international obligations and ethical principles in the area of forced migration.
Pandemic, Humanities and the Legal Imagination of the Disaster
Valerio Nitrato Izzo, University of Naples Frederico II
In this proposal I would like to engage the pandemic situation making bridges between the idea of catastrophe and its meaning for law and works from literature and other form of art that pioneered questioning both pandemics and disasters. Pandemic would not be the end of the world or the end of the world as we know it, but it is an important occasion for re-thinking how law can contribute to imagine other ways of being together. For this we need to re-think a legal imagination of the disaster from which it will be possible to learn other legal senses of and for the law.
The Pandemic and the Ship
Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbia
Mikki Stelder, University of British Columbia & University of Amsterdam
The COVID19 pandemic has brought oceans and maritime legalities sharply into view. This paper will examine the pandemic from the vantage point of ships at sea - cruise ships, naval vessels, and migrant boats. How does turning to oceans, ships and international and maritime law provide a different framework for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic? What does an oceanic framework reveal about the geo- and necropolitics of containment and contamination? What can turning to ships and oceans in viral times tell us about law, migration, leisure, militarism, imperialism, colonialism and labor? Ships are not only viral hotspots and carriers of disease, they present interesting and generative microcosms for the study of the virus and its social, political, and global implications.
June 2021
Join the Secret Barrister and Alexandra Wilson to celebrate the publication of Fake Law and In Black and White.
Here's what the organisers say:
Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches every area of our lives: from intimate family matters to the biggest issues in our society.
In conversation for this exclusive event, the two junior barristers will share their experiences of the law, and how it is broken – even more so, for both barristers and the public, if they are black, working class, or both.
As a junior criminal and family law barrister, Alexandra found herself navigating a world and a set of rules designed by a privileged few. Speaking with raw honesty, Alexandra will open up about being a mixed-race woman from a non-traditional background in a profession that is sorely lacking in diverse representation, working within a justice system in which a disproportionately large number of black and mixed-race people are charged, convicted and sent to prison. She’ll share stories from her time in court – how it feels to defend someone who hates the colour of your skin or being mistaken for a defendant three times in one session purely because of your race.
The Secret Barrister returns to reveal the stupidity, malice and incompetence behind many of the biggest legal stories of recent years. They’ll highlight how our unfamiliarity with the law makes us vulnerable to political lies and media spin, allowing the powerful and the ignorant to corrupt justice without our knowledge. Touching on the recent news agenda – whether it's the parole of John Worboys, the case of Shamima Begum or the never-ending saga of Brexit – the Secret Barrister will consider how a big story shows how much we care, but how little we understand the law and how it functions.
Taking you from your own home to the halls of Westminster, this is the truth about justice and the justice system, as entertaining as it is vital.
July 2021
This event will focus on the place of the EU and US in the world and the rising significance of global challenges in particular to the transatlantic alliance and salient legal instruments, practices and developments.
The Ecclesiastical Law Society is hosting a zoom webinar on the subject of Religion and Marriage Law: The Need for Reform, when an expert panel will mark the launch of Professor Russell Sandberg’s new book.
The discussants will be:
Professor Gillian Douglas, formerly Dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London
Baroness Hale of Richmond, formerly President of the United Kingdom Supreme Court
Professor Jane Mair, Professor of Private Law, University of Glasgow
Moderator: Professor Mark Hill QC, Chairman, Ecclesiastical Law Society