Tuesday 19 January 2016
GOLEM EU LAW
Above and below the surface: Two models of subnational authorities in EU law
Michèle Finck (LSE Fellow)
Wednesday 20 January 2016
LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY FORUM
Reconciliation and alienation
Catherine Lu (McGill)
Thursday 21 January 2016
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Crimmigration in Sweden: bans on begging and the logic of benevolent violence
Vanessa Barker (Stockholm University)
Thursday 21 January 2016
LSE LAW, LRIL & OUP present the LONDON REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ANNUAL LECTURE
Subjects of reason: Goods, markets and imaginaries of the global future
Professor Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard Kennedy)
Chair: Professor Andrew Lang
The lecture will look at how discourses of exchange create commensurable systems of exchange across highly disparate regions and forms of life. Three legal encounters will be considered as points of friction: the creation of the single carbon market; the regulation of GMOs by the World Trade Organisation; and the Novartis-India litigation on the cancer drug Gleevec.
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Monday 25 January 2016
LSE PUBLIC LECTURE
A bridge too far? Critical thoughts on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Pierre Sauvé (Director of External Programmes & Academic Partnerships, World Trade Institute, University of Bern)
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is arguably the most ambitious of the newer generation mega-regional constructs at play in contemporary economic diplomacy. Dissecting the prospective agreement's underlying political economy, the presentation will offer a critical reading of the TTIP's chances of success, suggesting that a trade policy setting may be ill-suited both to the substantive objectives at play and the timetable within which such objectives are being pursued.
Monday 1 February 2016
LSESU United Nations Society, LSE Law and International Relations Public Conversation
In conversation with Dame Rosalyn Higgins
Dame Rosalyn Higgins; Dr Jens Meierhenrich (LSE)
Dame Rosalyn Higgins was the first female judge elected to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and was elected President in 2006. She will be sharing her experience as the first female president, discussing challenges she faced and glass ceilings she had to break through. Dame Rosalyn Higgins and Dr Meierhenrich will also address the question, 'is global governance effective?' They will discuss the theoretical merits of global governance versus the actualities of implementation.
Tuesday 2 February 2016
LSE DEBATING LAW PUBLIC EVENT WITH LSE SPECTRUM & LSESU LGBT ALLIANCE
Not yet over the rainbow: Contemporary barriers to LGBT+ equality in the legal profession
Claire Fox (Pump Court Chambers; co-chair, Bar Lesbian and Gay Group; member, Bar Council Equality and Diversity Committee ); Sarah Hannett is a Barrister at Matrix Chambers; Daniel Winterfeldt (Head of International Capital Markets, CMS Cameron McKenna LLP; founder & co-chair, Interlaw Diversity Forum)
Chair: Chris Thomas (LSE)
Drawing on a mix of personal experience and professional insight, speakers from the City, the bar and the bench will discuss contemporary barriers to the advancement of LGBT+ people in the legal profession and how those barriers may be overcome.
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Monday 8 February 2016
LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Lord Selborne: Churchman and lawyer
Dr Charlotte Smith (University of Reading)
Roundell Palmer, the first Earl of Selborne, was Lord Chancellor in Gladstone's governments in the 1870s and 1880s, and it was he who piloted the Judicature Bill of 1873 through parliament. He was also a zealous churchman, whose defence of the Anglican establishment contributed to his estrangement from the Prime Minister. In this paper, Dr Smith will explore the importance of Selborne's religious principles for his wider views.
Tuesday 9 February 2016
GOLEM EU LAW
In place of inter-state retaliation
Dr William Phelan (Trinity College Dublin)
Wednesday 10 February 2016
LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY FORUM
On the extraterritorial application of human rights
Nehal Bhuta (EUI)
Thursday 11 February 2016
LSE PUBLIC LECTURE ON ISLAMIC FINANCE
Revitalising Islamic and social finance: Rising to current humanitarian and development challenges
Prof M. Siraj Sait (Director, Center for Islamic Finance, Law and Communities, University of East London); Aamir A. Rehman (Managing Director, Fajr Capital Advisors, Dubai, UAE)
This lecture will argue for a paradigm shift in thinking about the Islamic financial system and for the inclusion of social and development impact metrics in the benchmark objectives for Islamic financial institutions. In addition, it will explore the potential for Islamic development finance and possible delivery strategies, looking at options to leverage Islamic social finance — such as almsgiving (zakat) and endowments (waqf) — to provide humanitarian assistance, foster greater financial inclusion, and achieve sustainability and development goals. The lecture will also discuss the possible contributions of Islamic land systems to address humanitarian challenges, especially in post-conflict situations.
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Tuesday 16 February 2016
GOLEM EU LAW
The geography of public law
Professor Mike Dowlde (National University of Singapore)
Thursday 18 February 2016
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Mercy, mitigation and remorse
Hannah Maslen (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 23 February 2016
GOLEM EU LAW
Politicising EU law-making: The Spitzenkandidaten experiment as a cautionary tale
Dr Marco Goldoni (Glasgow)
Wednesday 24 February 2016
LSE LAW LITERARY FESTIVAL FRINGE EVENT
Disaster capitalism
Antony Loewenstein; Dr Brenna Bhandar (SOAS); Dr Marsha Henry (LSE)
Chair: Dr Devika Hovell
LSE Law is delighted to host a conversation between Antony Loewenstein and Dr Brenna Bhandar (SOAS) & Dr Marsha Henry (LSE) on his latest book, Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out Of Catastrophe (Verso, 2015)
Friday 26 February 2016
LSE LAW LITERARY FESTIVAL EVENT
The United Nations on trial
Judge: The Hon. Mr Justice Jay;
Prosecution including: Grainne Mellon, Professor Gerry Simpson;
Defence including: Paul Clark, Natalie Samarasinghe
Chair: Dr Emmanuel Melissaris
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Wednesday 2 March 2016
LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY FORUM
Artificial morality: Property and promise
Liam Murphy (NYU)
Wednesday 2 March 2016
LSE DEBATING LAW
A question of law and wealth
Professor Jonather Fisher QC; Dr Eva Micheler; Professor Niamh Moloney; Dr Joseph Spooner
Chair: Dr Emmanuel Melissaris
How does law regulate wealth and the ways in which wealth reproduces itself? LSE Law’s experts share their research and answer the audience’s questions.
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Monday 7 March 2016
LSE LAW AND DEPARTMENT OF MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS ANNUAL LECTURE
From a culture of connectivity to a platform society
Professor José van Dijck (University of Amsterdam; President of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences);
Professor Andrew Murray (LSE Law); Professor Sonia Livingstone OBE (Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and Communications, LSE)
Over the past decade, social media networks and digital platforms have transformed the everyday lives of citizens. In this culture of connectivity, data are the new currency and power belongs to those who connect data points. Online platforms increasingly penetrate the organization of societies, disrupting private sectors, such as the hospitality sector (Airbnb) and the transportation sector (Uber). But what is the impact of digital platforms on the governance of public sectors, such as education and health? How do American-based platforms, rooted in the principles of datafication and commodification, affect the distribution and affordance of public goods? The emerging ‘platform society’ has profound implications for the organization of public life and, eventually, social order and democracy.
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Thursday 10 March 2016
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Book launch and discussion: Making the modern criminal law: criminalization and civil order
Lindsay Farmer (Glasgow)
Tuesday 15 March 2016
GOLEM EU LAW
The migrant and the refugee: Debunking the distinction
Dr Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck)
Tuesday 15 March 2016
LSE LAW MATTERS
Reconstructing the law of voyeurism and exhibitionism
Professor Stuart Green (Rutgers)
Chair: Professor Jeremy Horder
Professor Stuart Green discusses his book-project Criminalising Sex: A Unified Theory and how voyeurism and exhibitionism raise important questions about the scope of criminal law.
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Wednesday 16 March 2016
LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY FORUM
On Augustine and civic peace
Michael Lamb (Oxford)
Thursday 17 March 2016
CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY FORUM
Defendant participation in the criminal process
Abenaa Owusu-Bempah (City University, London)
Monday 21 March 2016
LSE/MATRIX SEMINAR SERIES
The liability of empire: Mau Mau, Batang Kali and other colonial claims
Professor Caroline Elkins (Harvard University and Pulitzer prize-winning historian); Richard Hermer QC; Liora Lazarus (University of Oxford)
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Tuesday 22 March 2016
LEGAL BIOGRAPHY PROJECT
Sir Jeffrey Gilbert and the common law
Professor Michael Lobban (LSE)
Sir Jeffrey Gilbert (1674-1726) was a judge of the Court of Exchequer, first in Ireland and then in England. Asa judge, he is best known for his role in Annesley v Sherlock in which the British House of Lords asserted its jurisdiction as final court of appeal over Irish cases. However, he is best known to posterity for the large number of legal treaties he composed. This talk will explore how Gilbert came to write these works, and what vision of the common law they contain.
Wednesday 23 March 2016
LEGAL & POLITICAL THEORY FORUM
What's wrong with ritual male circumcision?
Kai Moller (LSE)