FORUM COORDINATORS
Department of Law
Dr Emmanuel Melissaris (LSE Law)
Dr Federico Picinali (LSE Law)
FORUM MEMBERS
Dr Leonidas Cheliotis (LSE Social Policy)
Jonathan Fisher QC (LSE Law)
Dr Janet Foster (LSE, Sociology)
Prof. Jeremy Horder (LSE Law)
Prof. Jon Jackson (LSE, Methodology)
Dr Insa Koch (LSE Law)
Prof. Nicola Lacey (LSE Law)
Prof. Jill Peay (LSE Law)
Dr Peter Ramsay (LSE Law)
(LSE Law)
Prof. Robert Reiner (LSE Law)
Prof. Paul Rock (LSE Professor Emeritus of Sociology)
Dr Meredith Rossner (LSE Law)
Prof. David Soskice (LSE Government)
SEMINARS 2016/17
For further information regarding the seminar series, please contact the Forum co-ordinators.
22 September 2016
Jules Holroyd (Sheffield)
'Implicit Bias, Self-Defence, and the Reasonable Person'
13 October 2016
Josh Bowers (Virginia)
'Understanding the Police'
27 October 2016
Gabriel Mendlow (Michigan)
'Thought Crime'
24 November 2016
Markus Dubber (Toronto)
'The Dual Penal State'
8 December 2016
Liat Levanon (Brunel)
'Bad Character, Tragic Mistakes, and the Puzzle of Uncertainty'
12 January 2017
Alan Norrie (Warwick)
'Rethinking the Moral Grammar of Penal Justice'
2 February 2017
Zelia Gallo (KCL)
'Punishment and Crisis: Politics, Economy, and Penalty in Italy since the Euro Crisis'
23 February 2017
James Edwards (Oxford)
'Criminalisation without Punishment'
16 March 2017
Bebhinn Donnelly-Lazarov (Swansea)
'Criminal Law, Omissions, and the Absence of Action'
27 April 2017
Ambrose Lee (Derby)
'The Grounds for Proportionate Punishment'
PAST EVENTS
2015/16
1 October 2015
Ngaire Naffine (University of Adelaide)
'Incompatible ideas in criminal legal thought about the law of rape'
29 October 2015
Antje du Bois-Pedain (University of Cambridge)
'The philosophical foundations of humane punishment'
12 November 2015
Stefano Zirulia (Università degli Studi di Milano)
'Toxic torts or toxic crimes? The Italian approach to toxic disasters and
their victims'
9 December 2015
Youngjae Lee (Fordham University)
'Reasonable doubt and epistemology of disagreement'
21 January 2016
Vanessa Barker (Stockholm University)
'Crimmigration in Sweden: bans on begging and the logic of benevolent
violence'
18 February 2016
Hannah Maslen (University of Oxford)
'Mercy, mitigation, and remorse'
10 March 2016
Lindsay Farmer (Glasgow)
Book launch and discussion:
'Making the modern criminal law: criminalization and civil order'
17 March 2016
Abenaa Owusu-Bempah (City University, London)
'Defendant participation in the criminal process'
28 April 2016
'Criminalization from a public law perspective’
2014/15
16 October 2014
Dr Henrique Randau da Costa Carvalho (City University London)
The responsible subject as dangerous subject: criminal law’s ambivalences
12 November 2014
Prof. David Garland (Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology, New York University)
What is penal populism? Politics, the public, and penological expertise
Event co-organised with the LSE Mannheim Centre for Criminology
20 November 2014 -
Dr Patrick Tomlin (University of Reading)
Fair play without retribution
4 December 2014
Dr Kimberley Brownlee (University of Warwick)
The social contribution injustice of punishment
15 January 2015
Prof. Ian Loader (University of Oxford) and Dr Adam White (University of York)
Private security and regulatory space: in search of the public interest
29 January 2015
Prof. Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
Wrongs and crimes
19 February 2015
Prof. Elaine Player (King’s College London) and Elaine Genders (University College London)
Rehabilitation, risk and rights: a gendered approach to therapeutic interventions in prison
26 February 2015
Dr Christopher Bennett (University of Sheffield)
The authority of the criminal law
12 March 2015
Dr Ely Aharonson (University of Haifa)
From slave abuse to hate crime: the criminalization of racial violence in American history
Seminar and book launch
23 April 2015
Prof. Mariana Valverde FRSC (Professor of Criminology, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto)
Seeing crime and managing security: reflections on the criminological gaze
30 April 2015
Prof. Mike Redmayne (Professor of Law, LSE Law)
Character in the criminal trial
Seminar and book launch
17 June 2015
Prof. Tracey Meares (Yale Law School)
Legitimacy and Criminal Justice
Chair: Professor Robert Reiner
Respondents: Professor Mike Hough; Professor Alison Liebling; Professor
Andrew Gamble
Event co-organised with the LSE Mannheim Centre for Criminology
2013/14
5 November 2013
Dr Massimo Renzo (University of Warwick)
Democratic authority and the duty to fight unjust wars
19 November 2013
Prof. Stuart Green (Distinguished Professor of Law and Nathan L. Jacobs Scholar, Rutgers School of Law)
What are the sexual offences?
3 December 2013
Dr Arlie Loughnan (School of Law, University of Sydney)
Historicising criminal responsibility: what about the twentieth century?
21 January 2014
Dr Michele Pifferi (University of Ferrara)
The roots of different penological identities in Europe and the U.S.
11 February 2014
Dr Alejandro Chehtman (School of Law, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires)
The criminal jurisdiction of occupation courts under law and morality
25 February 2014
Prof. David Ormerod (Law Commissioner for Criminal Law and Evidence and Professor of Criminal Justice, QMUL School of Law)
Contempt of court
18 March 2014
Prof. Paul Roberts (Professor of Criminal Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of Nottingham)
The presumption of innocence: lost and found?
8 May 2014
Prof. Andrew Ashworth (Oxford) and Prof. Lucia Zedner (Oxford)
Seminar and book launch
Discussants: Prof. Nicola Lacey (LSE), Prof. Jeremy Horder (LSE), Dr Peter Ramsay (LSE)