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)

Thursday 27 October 2011  |   6.30pm – 8pm  |   Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, NAB

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   |   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   |   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-convenor: 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)