Events Archive
Michaelmas 2010
Wednesday 8 September 2010 | 6.30pm-8pm | Sheikh Zayed Theatre
LSE PUBLIC LECTURE
'The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse '
Speaker: Geoffrey Robertson, QC
Wednesday 29 September 2010 | 6.30-8pm | Old Theatre, Old Building
GENDERING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES : DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT AND GENDER INSTITUTE PUBLIC LECTURE
'It's my body and I'll do what I Like with it'
Speaker: Professor Anne Phillips
Chair: Professor Emily Jackson
Wednesday 6 October | 5.00-7.00pm |
Moot Court Room (NAB 7th floor)
FORUM IN LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
'Islamists, Reformists and the Secular State: a Revolution in the Interpretation of the Qur'an'
Speaker: Antony Black (Philosophy, Dundee University)
Wednesday 6 October 2010 | 6.30-8pm | Sheikh Zayed Theatre
LSE LITERARY FESTIVAL
Speakers: Professor Costas Douzinas, Professor Conor
Gearty, Professor Francesca Klug, David Lammy
Monday 11 October 2010 | 6.00-7:30 pm | Graham Wallas Room, Old Building
GOLEM - Governance and Law in the European Market
Series of Workshops on Market Integration, EU Law and Social Conflicts
Gregoire Webber and Mike Wilkinson, LSE (Co-hosts)
Alexander Somek (University of Iowa)
'The Social Question in a Transnational Context'
Michelle Everson (Birkbeck College)
'"Towards a European Law of Suspicion" - The Need for a Critical School of
European
Law'
Thursday 14 October 2010 | 6.30pm – 8pm | Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
LECTURES SERIES: THE INDEPENDENCE OF LAW?
'Third World Approaches to International Law'
Speaker: Professor Tony Anghie (Samuel D. Thurman
Professor of Law at the University of Utah)
Chair: Professor Susan Marks, Professor of International Law, LSE
Tuesday 19 October 2010 | 6.30pm | Moot Court Room, 7th floor NAB
'Whatever happened to Miss Bebb?'
Speaker: Professor Rosemary Auchmuty (School of Law, Reading University)
Wednesday 20 October 2010 | 5.00-7.00pm | Moot Court Room (NAB 7th floor)
FORUM IN LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
'The Constitutional Implications of Anti-Slavery Ideology'
Speaker: Barry Cushman (Law, University of Virginia)
Thursday 21 October 2010 | 4pm-5:30pm | KSW.G108 (20 Kingsway)
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW PROJECT
'Obama's Drone Wars'
Speaker: Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell (University of Notre Dame)
Monday 25 October 2010 | 6.00-7:30 pm | Room J116, Cowdray House
GOLEM - Governance and Law in the European Market
Series of Workshops on Market Integration, EU Law and Social Conflicts
'Freedom of Choice and Freedom from Choice'
Speaker: Gareth Davies (Free University of Amsterdam)
'Assembling the European Fractured Consumer'
Speaker: Marco Dani (LSE)
Monday 1 November 2010 | 6.30-8.00pm | Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
LSE ARTS PUBLIC DISCUSSION
'Lady Chatterley's Lover : Fifty Years On'
Speaker: Geoffrey Robertson, QC [and others tbc]
Tuesday 2 November 2010 | 6:30pm-8pm | D202 Clement House, Aldwych
'War Crimes Trials, Solemnity and the Problem of Evil'
Speaker: Professor Gerry Simpson (University of Melbourne)
Wednesday 3 November 2010 | 6.00-8.00pm | Moot Court Room (NAB 7th floor)
FORUM IN LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY
LEGAL BIOGRAPHIES PROJECT
'The Union of Law and Letters: Dicey on Legal Method and Legal Literature'
Speaker: Mark Walters (Law, Queen’s University, Ontario)
Wednesday 10 November 2010 | 6pm-8.30pm | NAB 1.04
TRANSNATIONAL LAW PROJECT
'Investment Treaty Law after Lisbon'
Joined Workshop of the
Transnational Law Project
and
International Trade Policy Unit (IR). Dr. Steve Woolcock (LSE) and
Dr. Jan Kleinheisterkamp (LSE)
will be presenting a study for the European Parliament on the Commission’s
communication and
draft regulation relating to the future of
investment treaty law in Europe, followed by comments by Ms. Marta Busz (EU
Commission DG Trade), Mr. Simon Clodes (UK Department for Business, Innovation &
Skills), and Mr. Luis González García (Matrix Chambers). CPD certified.
Registration by email: click
here.
10 November 2010, 6pm-8.30pm (NAB 1.04)
Monday 15 November 2010 | 6.00-7:30 pm | Graham Wallas Room, Old Building
GOLEM - Governance and Law in the European Market
Series of Workshops on Market Integration, EU Law and Social Conflicts
'Unity in Diversity as Europe’s Vocation and Conflicts Law as Europe’s
Constitutional Form'
Speaker: Christian Joerges (University of Breme)
'When Fights about the Future of Europe lead to Arguments about its Presence'
Speaker: Damian Chalmers (LSE)
Monday November 22 2010 | 6.30-8.00pm | NAB 1.09
FMG/LAW DEPARTMENT TAXATION SEMINAR
Speaker: Miranda Stewart (University of Melbourne)
Wednesday 24 November 2010 | 5.00-7.00pm | Moot Court Room (NAB 7th floor)
FORUM IN LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY (with LEGAL BIOGRAPHIES PROJECT)
'Who’s Afraid of Radical Pluralism? The Structure of Postnational Law and the Stability of Postnational Governance'
Speaker: Nico Krisch (Law, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin)
Wednesday 24 November 2010 | 7.15-9.00 pm | New Theatre, East Building
TRANSNATIONAL LAW PROJECT
'Unilaterally Appointed Arbitrators - A Good Idea?'
Speakers:
Alexis Mourre (Castaldi Mourre Paris) and Professor Jan Paulsson
CPD certified. Registration by mail:
click
here.
Tuesday 30 November 2010 | 6.00-7:30 pm | Graham Wallas Room, Old Building
GOLEM - Governance and Law in the European Market
Series of Workshops on Market Integration, EU Law and Social Conflicts
'Solidarity in the European Union'
Speaker: Andrea Sangiovanni (King's College London)
'Tiered Justice in Europe: Integrating National and Transnational Justice
Claims'
Speaker: Floris de Witte (LSE)
Tuesday 30 November
2010 | 6.30pm – 8pm | Hong
Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
LECTURES SERIES: THE INDEPENDENCE OF LAW?
‘The Importance of Being Independent: a regulator and female lawyer's view’
Speaker: Dame Janet Gaymer DBE QC (Commissioner for
Public Appointments in England and Wales and former Senior Partner of Simmons &
Simmons)
Chair: Professor Hugh Collins
Wednesday 1 December 2010 | 5.00-7.00pm | Moot Court Room (NAB 7th floor)
FORUM IN LEGAL AND POLITICAL THEORY (with LEGAL BIOGRAPHIES PROJECT)
'The Unfortunate Divide between Political and Economic Liberalism'
Speaker: Samuel Brittan (Financial Times)
Monday 6 December 2010 | 6:30-8pm | NAB1.09
FMG / LAW DEPARTMENT TAXATION SEMINAR
'Bank Taxes - Fit for Purpose?'
Speaker: Ian Menzies-Conacher (Barclays Capital)
Wednesday 8 December 2010 | 1pm-2pm | Thai Theatre
'Can nonviolent protest still make a difference?'
Speaker: Steve Cranshaw (Amnesety International); Chair: Professor Conor Gearty
Thursday 9 December 2010 | 6.30 pm | Sheikh Zayed Theatre
The Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke QC: A Legal Biography, in conversation with Mr Justice Cranston
Thursday 9 December 2010 | 6.00-7:30 pm | Graham Wallas Room, Old Building
GOLEM - Governance and Law in the European Market
Series of Workshops on Market Integration, EU Law and Social Conflicts
'What does Social Means when we Speak of Social Europe?'
Speaker: Miguel Maduro (EUI)
Thursday 13 January 2011 | 6.30pm - 8pm | New Theatre, East Building, LSE
A European Contract Law: a Cuckoo in the Nest?
Speaker: Professor Hugh Beale
A European Commission consultation paper suggests a single,
"European" law of contract for businesses and consumers across
Europe, which might supplant English law. Why?
Hugh Beale is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick. He was
appointed Honorary QC in 2002 and a Fellow of the British Academy in
2004.
Chair:
Professor
Linda Mulcahy, LSE Department of Law.
Tuesday 18 January 2011 | 6.30pm | Moot Court Room, 7th floor, New Academic Building
“Loy et Loyauté: Lord Sumner (1859-1934) –`Hopelessly reactionary’ political Law Lord or bold knight-errant of the Common Law and Constitution?”
Speaker: Professor Tony Lentin (author of The Last Political Law Lord: Lord Sumner (1859-1934), 2009)
Sumner was a controversial Law Lord and verdicts on him are overwhelmingly hostile. A formidable case can be made out against him on a number of grounds, especially his contentious interventions in the most sensitive political issues of his day. His biographer, Tony Lentin, asks whether Sumner’s rehabilitation is not overdue as a sound, pragmatic judge and a staunch defender of the Constitution and the sovereignty and independence of Parliament.
Wednesday 26 January 2011 | 6pm - 8pm | New Academic Building 1.04, LSE
European Takeover Law - The Case for a Neutral Approach
Speaker: Professor Luca Enriques (Commissioner of the Italian securities regulator, Consob; Professor of Law at the University of Bologna; member of the European Corporate Governance Institute)
Tuesday 1 February 2011 | 6.30pm - 8pm | Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
The City of London and its Tax Haven Empire
Speakers: Nicholas Shaxson & Dr Maurice Glasman
The
City of London is an offshore island inside the British nation state, floating
partly free from the democratic rules and restraints that bind the rest of us.
It is fed by a network of tax havens around the world. Just three of them -
Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man - alone funnel hundreds of billions of
dollars to the City each year. But the City's global offshore network, which
emerged from the ashes of the British Empire, is far larger than that. Nicholas
Shaxson will look at how this secretive network emerged and came to underpin the
City's fearsome political and economic powers today.
Nicholas Shaxson is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of
International Affairs (Chatham House) and a journalist for the Financial Times
and The Economist.
Dr Maurice Glasman is Director of the Faith and Citizenship Programme at
London Metropolitan University.
Chair:
Dr Ian Roxan, LSE Department of Law
3 / 4 February 2011
Research Seminar: Corporate and Commercial Law
The LSE Law Department and the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna are holding a joint research seminar for students.
The seminar will be led by Eva Micheler (LSE) and Martin Schuaer (Vienna). It will take place on 3 and 4 February. The focus of the seminar is corporate and commercial law.
Click here for the full programme.
There are limited places available. Please register with e.micheler@lse.ac.uk
Tuesday 8 February 2011 | 5.30pm
A tour of judicial portraits at Lincoln’s Inn
Speaker: Professor Les Moran (School of Law, Birkbeck University of London)
Legal
biography is not the sole preserve of the written word. Portraits are an
important biographical form. But their study has been neglected by scholars and
portraits frequently dismissed as bland, predictable and bad art.
Professor Leslie Moran’s work on judicial portraits has explored the origins of
this state of affairs and its dangers. His research calls for an urgent
reassessment. Together with Guy Holborn of Lincoln’s Inn and drawing upon that
Inn’s rich collection of legal and judicial portraits Professor Moran will
explore the nature of legal portraiture as a biographical text and examine its
uses.
If you would like to attend this event then please contact Bradley Barlow at b.barlow@lse.ac.uk. Numbers for this event are strictly limited and admission is by ticket only.
Thursday 10 February 2011 | 6.30pm | New Academic Building 2.04, LSE
SUSTAINABLE FINANCE PROJECT
“The Equator Principles: their application and effectiveness in project finance"
Speaker: Paul Watchman
EXTERNAL EVENT
London Transitional Justice Network and the School of Law, SOAS
Thursday 10 February 2011 | 6pm-7.30 pm | SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre
"The passions of international criminal law"
Speaker: Professor Gerry Simpson (University of Melbourme; LSE)
Wednesday 23 February 2011 | 6.30pm | TW1.U8, Tower 1, LSE
LSE DEPARTMENT OF LAW / HARVARD PUBLIC LAW SCHOOL LECTURE
"Building Bridges Across Financial Communities"
Speaker: Iqbal A Khan (Chief Executive Officer, Fajr Capital Ltd); Shaykh Haitham Tamimi Shari’a (scholar based in London)
Monday 7 March 2011 | 1pm – 2pm | New Theatre, East Building, LSE
A Lunchtime Lecture by the OSCE Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
Maria Grazia Giammarinaro Since January 2010 Dr Giammarinaro has been the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)’s Special Representative for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings.
Chair: Christine Chinkin, Professor of Law, LSE
Wednesday 16 March 2011 | 6.30pm - 8pm | Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
The Globalisation of the Business of English Law
Speaker: Stuart Popham
Stuart Popham will discuss many of the changes which he has seen in his
35 year career.
Stuart Popham is the Senior Partner of Clifford Chance LLP, worldwide.
Chair:
Professor
Michael Bridge, LSE Department of Law
Monday 21 March 2011 | 6.30pm - 8pm | NAB1.09, LSE
Taxation Seminar:
'Getting Tax Administration Right - The Case of the Bank Payroll Tax'
Speaker: Chris Davidson CBE (HMRC Large Business Service) and Lucy Dasi-Sutton (Citigroup)
(nb. sandwiches and refreshments will be available from 6pm and during the seminar)
9 May 2011 | 6.30-8pm | STC.S300 (St Clements Building)
TAXATION SEMINAR
The Budget and the Finance Bill
Speakers: The discussion will be led by a panel comprising Timothy Lyons QC (15 Old Square Tax Chambers), Ian Roxan (LSE Law Dept), and Ian Young (ICAEW).
10 May 2011 | 6.30pm | New Academic Building, 7th floor, Moot Court Room
Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz
Speaker: Professor Barbara Babcock (Judge John Crown Professor of Law and author of Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Folz, Stanford University Press.)
Clara
Foltz became one of the first women lawyers in the United States when she fought
her way into the California Bar in 1878 as a 29 year old single mother of five.
In a career full of firsts, she was a trial lawyer before women could serve on
juries and a highly paid political orator before they could vote. The
introductory part of the seminar will introduce her as an extraordinary figure
in American legal history.
In addition to her law practice, Foltz was what we would call a public intellectual—a “thinker” in nineteenth century parlance. This seminar will focus on that part of her career. In the 1890s Foltz participated (as commentator, counsel, and shadow juror) in a series of cases in which women were accused of murder. Perhaps most famous of the “Victorian murderesses” was Florence Maybrick, an American woman married to a British Lord. Her supporters on both sides of the Atlantic urged that male justice was inadequate for a female accused, and that women should not be subjected to the death penalty for that reason. Foltz rejected such arguments, and argued for equal treatment of women in the criminal justice system.
We will look at the other famous murderesses and discuss the use of individual criminal cases in the rhetoric of the women’s rights movement. More generally, we will deal with Foltz’s thoughts and writings about the criminal justice system, and especially her conception of a public defender to match the public prosecutor.
If you would like to come to this event please email Bradley Barlow to reserve a place: b.barlow@lse.ac.uk
12
May 2011
Cross-jurisdictional netting and global solutions
A one day conference hosted by LSE/LFMP
The internationalisation of the financial market requires netting to connect
smoothly across jurisdictions so as to guarantee that netting agreements remain
enforceable even in the event of insolvency of one of the parties. Recent
legislation on bank resolution (e.g., in the UK, the Banking Act 2009) has
highlighted the potential incompatibilities of netting agreements with bank
resolution procedures. Against this background, international initiatives are
unfolding at present, as the European Commission and Unidroit are about
launching relevant projects in this area.
12 & 13 May 2011 | from 5.30pm | Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speakers: Professor Conor Gearty, Professor Emily Jackson
The Burning Issue is a ticketed series of three lectures being filmed for television over two nights in May. Intercut with location-filmed reports and offering the chance to take part in a live debate, these lectures are a novel and exciting departure for LSE.
16 May 2011 | 7pm-8.30pm | New Theatre
‘Arbitration and Financial Markets Dispute’
Speakers: Jeffrey Golden (LSE) and Jan Paulsson (LSE)
The 2nd LSE Arbitration Debate, which is jointly organised by the Transnational Law Project and the Law & Financial Markets Project, brings together Jeffrey Golden, the main author of the ISDA Master Agreements and the driving force behind efforts to set up an International Financial Court, and Jan Paulsson, who will take on Jeffrey’s question marks about the suitability of the general use of arbitration for financial market disputes.
CPD accredited. Registration by email: Law.TL.Project@lse.ac.uk (Subject line: “Register 16 May”) [see flyer]
23 May 2011 | 6pm – 8:30pm | New Theatre
‘Rethinking Investment Treaty Law – A Policy Perspective’
This colloquium unites government officials from Australia
(recently announced discontinuing the use of arbitration in investment
treaties), Ecuador (recently abandoned ICSID and started terminating its
BITs), South Africa (recently requested the renegotiation of most of its
BITs in the light of its black economic empowerment programme), Norway
(whose BIT review 2008-2009 was particularly heated), and the U.S.
(currently reviewing its model BIT, which was substantively modified in 2004
after the first NAFTA claims) to share and debate their national experiences,
discussions and policy choices.
CPD accredited. Registration by email:
Law.TL.Project@lse.ac.uk (Subject line: “Register 23 May”)
[see flyer]
23-24 May 2011 CONFERENCE
‘Navigating the New
Green Economy: the Challenges of Climate Change and the Opportunities for Clean
Energy’
One and a half day conference co-hosted by the LSE Law Department and
American Bar Association.
Speakers include: Lord Anthony Giddens, Professor Lisa Heinzerling (former US
EPA Assistant Administrator; chief architect of US climate change policy) , Mr
Simeon Thornton (DECC Chief Economist), Mr Davyth Steward (Senior Campaigner,
Climate Change and Forests, Global Witnes, UK), Professor Benjamin Richardson
(Senior Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia), and many more.
For conference and registration details, please
click here.
24 May 2011 | 12-1pm | Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
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DEPARTMENT
OF LAW PUBLIC CONVERSATION
Speaker: Sandra Day O'Connor
Chair: Professor Jeffrey Golden, Visiting Professor of Law at LSE
Sandra Day O'Connor is an American jurist who was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. Justice O'Connor was appointed an Associate Justice by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, a position she held for 25 years until her retirement in 2006. Viewed as one of the most influential Justices to serve on the modern US Supreme Court, Justice O'Connor became the "swing opinion" in the often divided Court on which she sat in the later years of her tenure. Prior to Justice O'Connor's appointment to the Court, she was an elected official and judge in Arizona.
Justice O'Connor is Chancellor of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and serves on the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On August 12, 2009, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honour of the United States, by President Barack Obama.
[image © Dane Penland,
Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.]
25 May 2011 | 6.30pm | New Theatre, East Building
Eradicating Ecocide: laws and governance to prevent the destruction of our planet
Speaker: Polly Higgins (barrister, author and international environmental lawyer)
Polly Higgins advocates a different approach to preventing the destruction of our planet. Instead of our laws protecting the property rights of the few, we can shift to laws that impose responsibilities, duties and obligations for the benefit of the many.
Polly Higgins is a barrister, author and international environmental lawyer, voted by the Ecologist as one of the 'Worlds Top ten Visionary Thinkers' for her earlier work advancing the Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights.
26 May 2011 CONFERENCE
David Hume and the Law
A Conference sponsored by the LSE Legal and Political Theory Forum
2011 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of David Hume. The purpose of this conference is to examine a relatively neglected aspect of Hume's thought: his philosophy of law. There will be five papers presented over the course of the day, with ample time for questions and discussion.
Conveners: Chandran Kukathas (Government) &
Thomas Poole (Law)
Registration: Please confirm your interest by email to
B.Barlow@lse.ac.uk
Program:
9.00am Coffee and registration 9.30am Gerald Postema (Philosophy, University of North Carolina), 'Making resentment felt: Hume on the environment of justice' Response: Alison Mallard (Government, LSE)
Chair: Tom Poole (Law, LSE)
10.45am COFFEE/TEA 11.15am Neil McArthur, (Philosophy, University of Manitoba), 'Constraints on Convention: 'Hume on Equity, Nature and the Law' Response: Paul Kelly (Government, LSE)
Chair: Kristen Rundle (Law, LSE)
12.30pm LUNCH 2.00pm Camillia Kong (Philosophy, Essex), 'Humanity, Sociability and Benevolence: The Missing Pieces of Humean Justice' Response: James Gledhill (Government, LSE)
Chair: Esha Senchaudhuri (Philosophy, LSE)
3.15pm COFFEE/TEA 3.30pm James Harris (Philosophy, Edinburgh), 'Hume's Peculiar Definition of Justice' Response: Katrin Flikschuh (Government, LSE)
Chair: Philip Cook (Politics, Leicester)
4.45pm REFRESHMENT BREAK 5.00pm Chandran Kukathas (Government, LSE), 'Hume and the State' Chair: Martin Loughlin (Law, LSE)
6.00pm Close of conference and drinks reception
9 June 2011 | 6.30pm - 8pm | Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE
'A Fair Trial for the Human Rights Act'
Speaker: Sadiq Khan MP (Shadow Lord Chancellor and Shadow Secretary of State for Justice)
Chair: Professor Francesca Klug, LSE
14 June 2011 | 6pm | New Theatre, East Building
40TH ANNUAL CHORLEY LECTURE
'Political questions, the social question and other quandaries: Reflecting on the first 15 years of the South African Constitutional Court'
Speaker: Kate O'Regan (Former judge in the Constitutional Court of South Africa)
For further information, please contact Bradley Barlow, LSE (b.barlow@lse.ac.uk)
17 June 2011 CONFERENCE
Conference on Private Norms and Public Interests in Transnational Economic Law
Transnational law evolves in a field of tension between local and globalised concerns and on the fault line of public and private law, thus blurring traditional distinctions between horizontal and vertical relationships and defying acquired understandings of regulation. As a result, there is a need for reflection on the calibration of public interests in these predominantly private processes and on the reconciliation of the needs both of a globalised economy and local societies. This conference aims to address these issues by way of a series of case studies, both from the view of theory and practice.
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about the conference
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