Wednesday 12 October 2011  |   6.30pm – 8pm  |   Venue: Hong Kong Theatre

LSE DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE

‘What should we do about Google?’

Speaker: Professor Martin Cave

Professor Martin Cave is BP Centennial Professor at the LSE and has authored numerous works on regulation.

Tuesday 18 October 2011  |   6.30pm – 7.45pm  |   Venue: STC.S421, St Clements Building 4th floor

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW PROJECT

'Resource Wars: Law, Land and Conflict'

Speakers: Bruce Broomhall (University of Quebec at Montreal);  Balakrishnan Rajagopal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Chair: Dr Stephen Humphreys (LSE Law Department)

Tuesday 18 October 2011  |   6.30pm  |   Moot Court Room, 7th floor, New Academic Building

LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT

The Art of Justice: The Judge’s Perspective

Speaker: Dr Ruth Hertz (Former Judge and Associate at the Centre for Criminology, Oxford University)

Throughout his career in northern France, from 1930 to 1969, Judge Pierre Cavellat produced hundreds of drawings and paintings of courtroom scenes. The uncensored images give an unprecedented insight into how a judge perceives his profession and the institution of justice as a whole. Given the scarcity of autobiographies by judges as well as their reticence to expose their inner feelings and thinking, the images reveal in a candid and immediate fashion the deeply hidden emotions, ambiguities if not fantasies of a judge while going about his profession. By using the judicial way of thinking which judges learn during their education and training as a foil, Dr Hertz hopes to expose how personal background, history and experience play an additional, sometimes conflicting, role in ‘judgecraft’.

Wednesday 19 October 2011  |   5-7pm   |   Venue: Moot Court Room (NAB 7th floor)

LSE FORUM IN LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY

‘Athens Revolting: Disobedience, Insurrection, Right’

Costas Douzinas (Law, Birkbeck)

CIVIL SOCIETY AND HUMAN SECURITY RESEARCH UNIT PUBLIC LECTURE

'Building an International Rule of Law'

Speaker: Judge Patrick Robinson
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor

This event was originally scheduled to take place on Thursday 6 October.

Since its establishment in 1993, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia has irreversibly changed the landscape of international humanitarian law and provided victims an opportunity to voice the horrors they witnessed and experienced.

Patrick Robinson is president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Wednesday 2 November 2011  |   6.30pm – 7.45pm  |   Venue: Room CLM 7.02, Clement House (7th floor)

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW PROJECT

'Media and LOAC in International Criminal Tribunals'

Speakers: Predrag Dojcinovic (ICTY); Robert Heinsch (Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies)

Chair:  Professor Frédéric Mégret (McGill)

Monday 7 November 2011   |   6.30pm – 8pm  |   Old Theatre

LSE DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE

‘The Limits of Investigative Journalism’

Speaker: Peter Preston

Drawing on his vast experiences as a journalist and editor of one of the country’s biggest newspapers, Peter Preston’s lecture is particularly topical in the light of recent events at the News of the World.
    Peter Preston is a columnist for the Guardian and Observer, and was previously editor of the Guardian for 20 years, from 1975 to 1995.

Tuesday 15 November 2011   |   6.30pm   |   Hong Kong Theatre

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN RIGHTS

State Violence and the Responsibility to Protect: the role of the international community

Panel discussion with Dr Chaloka Beyani, Ignacio Llanos, Professor Sir Adam Roberts.

Wednesday 16 November  2011  |   5-7pm   |    Venue: Moot Court Room (NAB 7th floor)

LSE FORUM IN LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY

‘Distributive, Corrective and Reciprocal Justice’

Speaker: Garrett Barden (Philosophy, Cork)

Thursday 17 November 2011  |   6.30pm – 8pm    |    Hong Kong Theatre

LSE DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE

'Dreaming Transnational Law'

Speaker: Ralf Michaels

Ralf Michaels is professor of Law at Duke Law. He is an expert in comparative law and conflict of laws. His current research focuses mainly on three issues: the role of domestic courts in globalization, the potential of conflict of laws as a theory of global legal fragmentation, and the status and relevance of non-state law.

Thursday 17 - Saturday 19 November 2011  |   3 day conference   |   Birkbeck, University of London

BIRKBECK SCHOOL OF LAW; LEVERHULME TRUST; LSE LAW DEPARTMENT; BIRKBECK INSTITUTE OF THE HUMANITIES

'Being In-Human: The Critical Theory and Law of Human Rights'

Co-convener: Professor Conor Gearty

Wednesday 23 November 2011  |   5-7pm   |    Moot Court Room (NAB 7th floor)

LSE FORUM IN LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY

‘The Global Model of Constitutional Rights: The Right to Autonomy and the Right to Murder’

Speaker: Dr Kai Möller (Law, LSE)

Thursday 24 November 2011  |   5-7pm   |    Moot Court Room (NAB 7th floor)

EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW THEORY SEMINAR

'Top Secret Europe'

Speaker: Deirdre Curtin (Amsterdam)

Wednesday 30 November  2011  |   5-7pm   |   Moot Court Room (NAB 7th floor)

LSE FORUM IN LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY

‘What Makes People Commit Atrocities under Orders? A Psychoanalytical View of Arendt’s “Banality of Evil”’

Speaker: Coline Covington (Psychotherapist; former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Society)

Thursday 8 December 2011  |   6.30pm  |  Old Theatre

UN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY PUBLIC EVENT

Creating International Law: Gender as New Paradigm

Speaker: Professor Catharine MacKinnon

PLEASE NOTE: Free, but ticket required. Tickets available from 10am Wednesday 30 November from LSE Events)

Wednesday 18 January 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LSE LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY FORUM

'Contra Politanism: Against the Moral Teleology of Political Form'

Speaker: Jacob Levy (McGill)

Thursday 19 January 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW THEORY

'The point and limits of constitutional pluralism: Institutionalizing official disobedience and conscientious objection'

Speaker: Professor Mattias Kumm (NYU)

For further details, please contact Tom Poole.

Wednesday 25 January 2012  |   6.30pm – 8pm  |   Venue: Hong Kong Theatre

DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE

'Histories of International Law: dealing with Eurocentrism'

Speaker: Marrti Koskenniemi (director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights )

Chair: Prof Susan Marks

Friday 27 January 2012  |   6.30pm – 8pm  |   Venue: NAB1.04 (New Academic Building)

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW PROJECT

'The Fate of Human Rights in the 21st Century'

A dialogue between David Cole (Georgetown University Law Center & Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki & LSE Visiting Professor)

Chair: Professor Susan Marks (LSE Law Department)

Tuesday 7 February 2012  |   6.30pm – 8pm  |   Venue: New Theatre, East Building

DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE

'Does Law Have a Place in the Modern University?'

Speaker: Prof Roderick MacDonald (McGill University)

Chair: Prof Neil Duxbury

Wednesday 8 February 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LSE LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY FORUM

'On tolerance'

Speaker: Frank Furedi (Kent)

For further details, please contact Tom Poole.

Tuesday 14 February 2012   |    6.30pm    |    Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT

Justice Marcia Neave: Case Study of a Feminist Judge

Speaker: Prof Rosemary Hunter (Kent Law School)

Wednesday 22 February 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LSE LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY FORUM

'On the banality of evil'

Speakers: Coline Covington (British Psychoanalytic Society); Gerry Simpson (Melbourne)

For further details, please contact Tom Poole.

Wednesday 22 February 2012   |   6.30pm – 8pm  |   Venue: Hong Kong Theatre

LSE/HARVARD PUBLIC LECTURE ON ISLAMIC FINANCE

'Global Calls for Economic Justice: the potential of Islamic finance'

Speakers: Mukhtar Hussain (CEO HSBC Malaysia); Professor Volker Nienhaus (University of Reading)

Thursday 23 February   |  12:30-14:00   |    Venue: NAB.1.10

LLM SPECIALIST SEMINAR

'A Matter of Taste? Copyright and Culinary Creativity'

Speaker: Professor Christopher J. Buccafusco

For further details, please contact Anne Barron.

Tuesday 28 February 2012    |    6.30pm   |    Venue: Old Theatre

LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT

Lady Justice Arden in conversation with Mr. Justice Cranston

Wednesday 29 February 2012    |    6.30-8.00pm   |    Venue: NAB 1.09

TRANSNATIONAL LAW PROJECT

‘Already Transnational Private Law?’

Speaker: Robert Wai (Osgoode Hall Law School)

Thursday March 1 2012    |    11.00am   |    Venue: Shaw Library

LSE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE / APCO Worldwide Perspectives / LSE DEPARTMENT OF LAW

'The importance of strong data protection rules for growth and competitiveness'

Speaker: Viviane Reding (EU Commissioners for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship)
Chair: Professor Andrew Murray

Thursday March 1 2012    |    6.30pm   |    Venue: Vera Anstey Room, Old Building

DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE

'Why Germany is the real heir to the old English constitution'

Speaker:  Prof Pasquale Pasquino (NYU)

Chair: Prof Martin Loughlin

Wednesday 7 March 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LSE LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY FORUM

'On legal pluralism'

Speaker: Klaus Günther (Frankfurt)

For further details, please contact Tom Poole.

Thursday 8 March 2012   |   5pm-7pm  |   Venue: MCR

EUROPEAN PUBLIC LAW THEORY

'Three “Bills of Rights” for the European Union'

Speaker: Dr Robert Schuetze (Durham)

Tuesday 13 March 2012  |   6pm-7.30pm   |   Venue: Room 3.04, Clement House

LLM SPECIALIST SEMINAR

'Justifying Criminal Law by a Responsibility to Protect?'

Speaker: Klaus Günther (Frankfurt)

For further details, please contact Peter Ramsay or Anne Barron

Wednesday 14 March 2012   |   6.30pm-8pm  |   Venue: CLM7.02 (Clement House), LSE

INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW PROJECT

A dialogue between Professor William Schabas (Middlesex University) and Professor Charles Garraway (Chatham House)

Chair: Louise Arimatsu

Tuesday 20 March 2012   |   6.30-8pm   |   Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE

LSE HUMAN RIGHTS: THE POLITICAL QUARTERLY ANNUAL LECTURE

'Citizens' Privileges or Human Rights? The Great Bill of Rights Swindle'

Speaker: Shami Chakrabarti
Respondent: Francesca Klug

Monday 2 April 2012  |  6.30-8pm  |  Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE

LSE PUBLIC LECTURE

'What would an evidence-based copyright law look like?'

Speaker: William Patry
Chair: Dr Luke McDonagh

Tuesday 24 April 2012  |  6.30-8pm  |  Venue: NAB 1.07

TRANSNATIONAL LAW PROJECT

'Investment Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty'

Speaker: Graham Coop (former General Counsel of the ECT Secretariat)

Wednesday 2 May 2012    |    6.30-8.00pm   |    Venue: NAB 1.09

TRANSNATIONAL LAW PROJECT

'Collective Redress in the United States in the Wake of AT&T Mobility, Stolt-Nielsen and Dukes'

Speaker: S.I. Strong (University of Missouri)

Thursday 3 May 2012    |    6.30-8.00pm   |    Venue: Hong Kong Theatre

DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE

'Detention of Terrorists in 21st Century Armed Conflict'

Speaker: William Lietzau is a former Marine Corps colonel, Judge Advocate General Corps, former legal adviser to the White House and a current political appointee with the title of US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rule of Law & Detainee Policy.

Thursday 10 May 2012    |    6.30-8.00pm   |    Venue: Wolfson Theatre

DEPARTMENT OF LAW PUBLIC LECTURE

'Filling the Black Hole:  the PRIME Finance initiative for resolving complex financial disputes'

Speaker: Sir David Baragwanath is a retired New Zealand judge, appointed to the High Court of New Zealand bench in 1995 and the New Zealand Court of Appeal in 2007, stepping down from the bench in July 2010. He currently serves as President of the United Nations Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

Monday 21 May 2012    |    4.00-5.30pm    |    Venue:  Thai Theatre, New Academic Building

TRANSNATIONAL LAW PROJECT

'Conservation and the Military: In Times of Peace, and In Times of War’

Speaker:  Alexander Gillespie (Waikato University, New Zealand)

International and transnational efforts of environmental protection are continually hampered by 'exceptions' which allow countries to avoid obligations designed for the common good. An striking example is the military necessity exception, in times of war and peace, where transnationally articulated needs for conservation typically become a distant second to the preparation and practice of conflict. From the testing of sonars through to the bombing of oil facilities, this talk will examine whether progress has been made in any of these areas, and what the outlooks for the future are likely to be.

Tuesday 22 May 2012    |    6.30pm    |    Venue:  Moot Court Room, 7th Floor, New Academic Building

LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT

A.W.B. Simpson in Context: The Life of Brian

Speaker:  Professor David Sugarman (University of Lancaster)

Wednesday 23 May 2012    |    6.30-8.30pm   |    Venue: New Theatre

TRANSNATIONAL LAW PROJECT

'Unlawful Laws - How far can arbitrators go?'

Speakers:   Pierre Mayer (Paris I ) and Jan Paulsson (LSE)
Moderator:   V.V. Veeder (Essex Court Chambers)

 This 3rd LSE Arbitration Debate will focus on the question whether international arbitrators can consider some otherwise applicable laws to be unlawful , as argued by Paulsson in his 2009 Lalive lecture and challenged by Mayer in an article in the Revue de l'arbitrage.

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Tuesday 29 May 2012

LSE LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY FORUM

Conference on Adam Smith

Speakers include Fonna Forman-Barzilai (San Diego); Foniti Vaki (Corfu), Lisa Herzog (Munich), Craig Smith (St Andrews) and Chandran Kukathas (LSE).

For further details, please contact Tom Poole.

Thursday 7 June 2012  |  5pm-7pm  |  Moot Court Room, 7th Floor New Academic Building

LSE SEMINAR AND BOOK LAUNCH

'The Insecurity State: Vulnerable Autonomy and the Right to Security in the Criminal Law'

Speakers: Peter Ramsay, Nicola Lacey, Alan Norrie

Thursday 7 June 2012   |  6.30pm-8pm  |  Venue: tbc

LSE PUBLIC LECTURE

BBC Reith Lecture

Speaker: Professor Niall Ferguson

Chair: Sue Lawley

Niall Ferguson’s Reith Lecture 2012 series, entitled The Rule of Law and its Enemies, will demonstrate that historical change in the modern period – from economic growth to democratization – has been driven mainly by institutions: those complex, man-made organisations that lie somewhere between great men and impersonal historical forces. Ferguson’s lectures aim to push beyond naïve ideas about the success of capitalism and democracy over the past two centuries, and especially in the years since the Cold War. He will deliver the lectures in London, Edinburgh and New York, with audience contributions from the Middle East.

Tickets - see http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2012/06/20120607t1830vLSE.aspx

Monday 11 June 2012     |    6.30pm   |    Venue: TW1.U203 (Tower 1, LSE)

TAXATION SEMINAR

'The long-term sustainability of the UK tax base - challenges and opportunities.'

Speakers: Edward Troup and Matthew Toombs (HM Treasury)

Tuesday 12 June 2012     |    6.00pm   |   Venue: Shaw Library

41st ANNUAL CHORLEY LECTURE

'The Tragedy of the Anticommons : Gridlock in the Innovation Economy'

Speaker: Professor Michael A. Heller (Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School)

NOTE: Please RVSP to Bradley Barlow, b.barlow@lse.ac.uk

Monday 25 & Tuesday 26 June 2012 | Venue: tbc

FOURTH ANNUAL ISHTIP WORKSHOP

'Intellectual Property as Cultural Technology'

The fourth annual workshop of ISHTIP, the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property, will be held on 25-26 June 2012 at the Department of Law, London School of Economics London. Further details regarding the call for papers and registration are available here.

Tuesday 26 June 2012    |    6.30-8.00pm   |    Venue: Wolfson Theatre

LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT

Justice Edwin Cameron in conversation with Professor Linda Mulcahy

An intimate interview with prominent South African Constitutional Court judge Justice Edwin Cameron as part of LSE's ongoing Legal Biography Project.

Described by Nelson Mandela as "One of South Africa's new heroes" Edwin was a leading human rights lawyer during the apartheid era and has received many honours for his legal work, including a special award by the Bar of England and Wales in 2002 for his ‘contribution to international jurisprudence and the protection of human rights’. He was a powerful critic of President Mbeki’s AIDS-denialist policies and has written a prize-winning memoir, “Witness to AIDS”, which is now in its fourth edition. Edwin is the only person in public office in South Africa to acknowledge having HIV/Aids.

Tuesday 3 July  |  6pm  |  Change of Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE

Bill Wedderburn

(Professor Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, QC, FBA)

An event to celebrate the life of Bill Wedderburn, Cassel Professor of Commercial Law 1964-1992 and Honorary Fellow, will take place on 3 July in the Shaw Library of the London School of Economics, starting at 6pm.

The chair will be taken by Lord Grabiner of Aldwych, QC.

If would like to attend, please RSVP to b.barlow@lse.ac.uk by Monday 25 June.

We look forward to welcoming you.