Events Calendar by Lawbore™

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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Join us on Tuesday 22 April for a celebration of the publication of 'Identification of Customary International Law' (OUP, 2024) by Sir Michael Wood and Dr. Omri Sender.

The book provides authoritative guidance on determining the existence of customary international law rules, building on the UN International Law Commission's work in this area. Sir Michael Wood KC, former Legal Adviser to the UK Foreign Office and UN International Law Commission member, along with Dr. Omri Sender, Partner and Chair of the Public International Law Practice Group at S. Horowitz & Co., will present key findings from their work.

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Join the HRLC for our upcoming event on 'Defending the Right to Protest: A Conversation on Marfa Rabkova, Belarus, and Political Repression'. Organised by Nottingham Students for Scholars at Risk, this event addresses the ongoing efforts to support and secure the release of Marfa Rabkova, a Belarusian human rights defender and coordinator of Viasna's Volunteer Service. Marfa was arbitrarily detained on 17 September 2020, and has been imprisoned since, facing fabricated charges for her efforts in monitoring and documenting human rights violations in Belarus.

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In litigation and arbitration, optimism about outcomes can be powerful, but at what cost? Studies show that lawyers, irrespective of intelligence or demographic status, consistently exhibit unwarranted confidence in their client’s case even when presented with the same facts and legal rules. This bias inflates judicial outcome expectations, reduces settlement rates, and prolongs and escalates costly conflicts.

This interdisciplinary panel, featuring experts from law, psychology, academia, and practice, will explore why myside bias arises, its profound implications for litigation and dispute resolution, and practical strategies that lawyers, judges, and negotiators can use to mitigate bias and achieve fairer outcomes.

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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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This paper argues that rap music constitutes a site of what I call, “necrosonics,” an artistic channel that Black rap artists use to grapple with the death-dealing violence of the carceral state. In singing about police brutality, rap artists have come under increasing scrutiny from law enforcement with a range of legal consequences.

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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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This session discusses the JCLS and its role in a wider ecosystem of scholarship. We also discuss the submissions and peer review process.  Overall, this session aims to demystify the editorial processes. It is hosted online on April 30th 13:00 BST. The Zoom details will be sent out a few days before.

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Following the publication of its Consultation Paper in February 2025, the Law Commission is consulting on reforms to the law governing criminal appeals, including the tests applied by appeal courts and the Criminal Cases Review Commission, post-trial retention of and access to evidence, and compensation and support for the wrongly convicted.

This is a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to help reshape the criminal appeal system and a must for those who wish to respond to the Consultation which closes on 30 May 2025.

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Despite frequent calls to integrate the study of law into broader scholarship on the ancient world, the study of law and legality often remains isolated. This seminar series, ‘Performing normativity in the ancient world’, seeks to move away from the traditional, narrow conception of ‘capital-L’ Law and hopes instead to focus on the performance, construction, negotiation, and enforcement of regimes of normativity across various spheres of human action by encouraging participants to explore a wider array of consolidated arrangements of “discourses, norms, practices, and institutions” (Duve, 2023) and their functions within the societies in which they emerged and operated. These spheres might include, but ought not be limited to, magic, religion, politics, theatre, literature, and art.

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This presentation examines the evolution of constitutional justice in Mexico over the last 30 years, starting with the judicial reform of 1994, which created a Constitutional Court. The analysis highlights key milestones in the Court's operations, including the 2011 human rights reform. The discussion then focuses on how Andrés Manuel López Obrador's election in 2018 changed the relationship between the Court and the Executive Power, leading to a confrontation. As part of this confrontation, the judiciary developed jurisprudential mechanisms to challenge certain government policies, such as suspending laws and rulings with general effects. In response, the government proposed a package of constitutional reforms targeting the judiciary.

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Across many countries of the world we are experiencing polarization and division in our politics with migration as a flashpoint. Migrants are represented as competitors with citizens for the privileges of membership. In this context, citizenship is a fantasy, offering access to rights and equality, whereas the reality is banal, with many citizens finding themselves trapped in poor work or low benefits and subject to discriminatory treatment. In this presentation I will argue that recognising the banality of citizenship can help to reframe debates on migration. 

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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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The concept of ‘safe countries’ has long been used by States to distinguish between and deny protection to asylum claimants on the basis that they have or may have protection in another country. However, there is little analysis from a gender-sensitive perspective within the literature and policy guidance in this area.  Join us for this online panel discussion where we will consider this concept in the context of protecting refugee women.

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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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'How politicians took the EU away from its citizens and how to win it back'.

Discussants

Professor Alberto Alemanno, Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law, at HEC Paris and College of Europe

After seventy years of unprecedented socioeconomic integration, the European Union continues to evolve through processes that largely neglect people’s input. This is by no means new. Yet the problem is only set to worsen. Amid the continent’s epochal transformations, the EU is expected to gain — not lose — power, thus increasing its influence over its citizens without offering them a corresponding expansion of democratic opportunities.

This paper intends first to explore the neglected historical and structural conditions that have hindered democratisation in the EU. It analyzes the role played by national political leaders, showing how they have systematically prevented the emergence of an EU-wide political competition — and genuine European political party system — capable of fostering a genuine transnational space for debate and dialogue across borders rather than within them. Secondly, the paper presents a set of proposals to overcome these structural obstacles to EU democratisation. These intend to restore and revamp the original democratisation dynamics expected from the politicisation of the EU by ensuring that, this time, they may transcend national borders.

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South Africa has one of the world’s most generous Bills of Rights including socio-economic rights that are either immediately enforceable or subject to progressive realisation. Section 172 of the Constitution requires a court, when adjudicating matters of constitutional rights, to declare conduct inconsistent with the Constitution to be invalid to the extent of its inconsistency and to make any order that is just and equitable.  Broad those these powers are, they fall to be exercised in a context where the Constitution also recognises and was based upon the separation of powers. The Constitutional Court recognises that this imposes limits on judicial authority, but has not articulated principles to guide courts in not trespassing beyond their authority.

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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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The study of cultural techniques explores how infrastructures enable worlds and make actions in the world appear meaningful through operations that process distinctions. In the case of constructs that have a universalistic character, such distinctions produce the figure of the included excluded; in the case of the “international community” or “mankind”, that included excluded is the pirate. The talk sketches the mutations that the enemy of mankind has undergone as his maritime environment has changed from the Oceans of Law in the 17th and 18th centuries to the seas of the big city in the 19th century and to the Seas of Data in the 20th and 21st centuries.

The focus here is on the association of the enemy of mankind with his environment, from which he is becoming increasingly indistinguishable. Does the enemy of all dwell in the discrete, computable continuum of the “digital quagmire” today?

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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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CALA and YLAL are delighted to invite you to an evening panel event designed to provide delegates with an insight in to criminal appeals work. Confirmed speakers so far include:

• Henry Blaxland KC, Garden Court Chambers
• Matt Foot, APPEAL
• Tejal-Roma Williams, City Law School
• Sian Hukin, Young Legal Aid Lawyers

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

Chat to Kristy about:

• Commercial contracts (e.g. with suppliers, manufacturers and retailers)
• Food law, including health and nutrition claims and label requirements
• Legal requirements needed to sell food online
• Use and collection of customer data
• Intellectual property
• Advertising and marketing, including the use of social media to promote your business
• How to legally run promotions

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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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In this masterclass, senior associate Kata Szeidovitz and trainee Osama Aslam will provide a detailed introduction of corporate private equity funds (PEF) at Baker McKenzie, while discussing some of the key challenges and issues that they face when working on international PEF projects.

The panellists are:

• Kata Szeidovitz – senior associate, Baker McKenzie
• Osama Aslam – trainee, Baker McKenzie

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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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This event will introduce habilitationism—an alternative approach to criminal law that argues punishment should enhance an individual's ability to participate in society rather than further exclude them. From this perspective, incarcerated individuals are entitled to societal participation as much as—if not more than—other members of society. To achieve this, access to meaningful work opportunities during incarceration is essential.

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John Creaney QC (1933-2008) was one of the most important figures in the legal system of Northern Ireland during the past four decades – serving as a Senior Prosecuting Council from 1978 until his death. His unique career spanned the gamut of provincial and international terrorism – from the Malvern street murder of 1966 to Ulster's first Al Qaeda trial in 2005. 

This series of lectures – held in his memory by Policy Exchange – are devoted to discussion of matters of law, counter-terrorism and national security.

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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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This event will invite reflection on both the role that movement plays in the way law operates and is experienced, and the methodological role that movement can play in our study of law.

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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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Prof Veronika Fikfak will deliver her inaugural lecture on the topic of "Hope in Human Rights and International Law", followed by a drinks reception. This special event honors her contributions to the fields of international law, human rights, and public law.

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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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Arrests are fundamental features of most legal systems. They are the basic mechanism by which a person is brought into the criminal (and sometimes civil) legal process. But we know relatively little about them. What makes an arrest different to an assault or a kidnapping? How do arrestees and arrestors understand arrests differently? Is an arrest an event or a process? When does it start, when is it over, and what happens if it fails?

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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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UCL’s Legal History Research Group (LHRG) is pleased to host presentations of recent research in Early Modern English Legal History.
This workshop comprises presentations by: Dr Joanna McCunn (Bristol) and Dr David Foster (UCL).

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What are legal principles? Where do they come from? What is their role in legal argument? What challenges and difficulties do they pose for jurisprudence? A principle may be a norm—a discrete individual norm like a particular rule or standard. It may be a thread that holds several legal positions together, making sense of them as a “principled” whole. A legal principle may be a way of describing or characterizing an entire legal system. It may be the declaration of some grand moral position. Or it may embody a whole theory of government, as when we talk about the principle of the separation of powers.

This lecture series will consider difficulties and complexities of all these various kinds, showing that the bare idea of a legal principle offers much less to jurisprudence than some legal theorists have supposed. Still, it is worth exploring their domain in as much as they help constitute the environment in which other less question-begging forms of legal reasoning are developed.

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The ‘rule of law’ has long been a fundamental principal of good government, a tradition in England which largely stems from the Magna Carta in 1215. In an era of volatility, in which shifting societal and geopolitical norms and rapid technological advancement seem to challenge the long-accepted values of democratic societies, politicians and critics from all sides frequently appeal to the ‘rule of law’ as justification for their views and actions.

In this Magna Carta Lecture, former Attorney General for England and Wales, The Rt Hon Victoria Prentis KC, explores why adherence to the ‘rule of law’ still matters when the goalposts feel like they are shifting, and how we can grasp this nebulous concept to ensure that democratic societies emerge stronger from a turbulent period.

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Drawing upon research conducted in the Caribbean, this paper will explore the multitude of ways in which contemporary ID systems, while promoting social and financial inclusion, can also exclude marginalised and vulnerable populations from essential state services, voting rights and healthcare. The talk will explore the concept of ‘statelessness-like experiences’ (Hayes de Kalaf, 2025) to consider how people can experience exclusion in ways that do not always fit comfortably within the legal parameters of citizenship deprivation, yet can have an overwhelmingly detrimental impact on an individual’s wellbeing and legal personhood. The research presented will highlight how, for the people who experience contemporary ID systems, historical forms of racial and ethnic exclusion remain very much embedded within new technological infrastructures and state architectures. 

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A media history of how the UK and US governments have surveilled citizens by intercepting their private communications.

It may not be Big Brother (yet), but the state is watching you—watching all of us, in fact, systematically intercepting our private communications and putting them to work in its own interests. In Interception, a media genealogy of the surveillance state at its most intimate, Bernard Keenan investigates the emergence of this practice as a governmental power and the secret role it has played in the development of communication systems and law. His book exposes the complex, largely obscure history of a covert and fundamental connection between the secret powers of the state and the means by which we communicate our everyday lives.

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About the Lectures:

What are legal principles? Where do they come from? What is their role in legal argument? What challenges and difficulties do they pose for jurisprudence? A principle may be a norm—a discrete individual norm like a particular rule or standard. It may be a thread that holds several legal positions together, making sense of them as a “principled” whole. A legal principle may be a way of describing or characterizing an entire legal system. It may be the declaration of some grand moral position. Or it may embody a whole theory of government, as when we talk about the principle of the separation of powers.

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

What are legal principles? Where do they come from? What is their role in legal argument? What challenges and difficulties do they pose for jurisprudence? A principle may be a norm—a discrete individual norm like a particular rule or standard. It may be a thread that holds several legal positions together, making sense of them as a “principled” whole. A legal principle may be a way of describing or characterizing an entire legal system. It may be the declaration of some grand moral position. Or it may embody a whole theory of government, as when we talk about the principle of the separation of powers.

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Legal Action Group's annual Housing Law Conference on 13th June 2025 promises an exciting and diverse programme covering the latest developments in housing law. Please join us for this one day in-person conference which will be held at BPP University.

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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).

Judicial dialogue is a concept that has gained academic and institutional attention for decades. There are various forms of cooperation conducive to judicial dialogue, including judges’ associations, as well as international organisations. Entire systems are premised on such dialogue, such as the European Union, whose preliminary ruling procedure has helped the development of a legal order as well as the socialisation of national judges thereto. Whilst many studies are dedicated to demonstrating the consequences of judicial dialogue, or the way in which judicial dialogue occurs in various fora, there is little systematic inquiry with regards to how to make such judicial dialogue effective for the good development of the law and promoting rule of law values.

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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).

Despite frequent calls to integrate the study of law into broader scholarship on the ancient world, the study of law and legality often remains isolated. This seminar series, ‘Performing normativity in the ancient world’, seeks to move away from the traditional, narrow conception of ‘capital-L’ Law and hopes instead to focus on the performance, construction, negotiation, and enforcement of regimes of normativity across various spheres of human action by encouraging participants to explore a wider array of consolidated arrangements of “discourses, norms, practices, and institutions” (Duve, 2023) and their functions within the societies in which they emerged and operated. These spheres might include, but ought not be limited to, magic, religion, politics, theatre, literature, and art.

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

Debate on legislative expression has long been preserved for the drafting academic and practitioners. But in doing so they have failed the super goal of producing good laws. And they now need to confess that they do not have the answers to everything and collaborate with linguistics to learn from, and borrow, know-how, experience, and resulting successes. 
Indeed, there are inherent difficulties in the drafting of legislation. The drafter is not a mere scribe, and drafting is affected by the environment of the Parliamentary (or legislative) process.
If an instrumental position is taken, the background can be seen to include recognition of a problem, determination of objectives, and the choice of means for their achievement. 

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The law often seeks to keep sound contained and fixed, but sound has a way of leaking out. From the acoustic design of courtrooms to rules of evidence and norms of decorum in trial, the law determines what should be heard and what should not, in legal process as well as in everyday life. Sound can be an evanescent and unruly object, however, evading or penetrating our ears in unexpected ways. As a result, the law applies what I refer to as fictions of hearing – assumptions, ideas, and rules about sound that aim to manage it, but don’t always succeed. Through three examples, I show how such fictions of hearing clash with the human perception of sound. These examples reveal the limitations of legal imagination and understanding of sound and listening.

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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. 

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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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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.

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