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Events archive 2017/18

LSE Law hosts events that play a major role in policy debates & in the education of lawyers and law teachers from around the world.

Public lectures already held at LSE Law in 2017/18 include:

Tuesday 19 September 2017
Law and Economics Forum
Economic Analysis of Eminent Domain Law: Takings of Land by Self-interested Governments 
Speaker: Dr Ram Singh


Thursday 28 September 2017
The role of the Attorney General: in conversation with Shami Chakrabarti 

Shami Chakrabarti will discuss her position as Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales with Professor Nicola Lacey, also taking questions from the audience and online. Shami Chakrabarti is Shadow Attorney General for England & Wales, a Visiting Professor in Practice at LSE Law and an alumna of LSE.Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy.

Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSEChakrabarti


Monday 9 October 2017 - 3 November 2017
Constitutions and law: Making Pakistan

On the 70th anniversary of the creation of Pakistan, this exhibition celebrates the critical role of Quaid-i Azam M A Jinnah as lawyer and statesman. Displaying documents from his time at Lincoln’s Inn, and his role as Privy Councillor in 1930s London, together with photographs, newspapers, and objects relating to her constitutional history, the exhibition highlights the long-standing relations between Pakistan and the UK. 

Twitter Hashtag for this exhibition: #LSEArts


Wednesday 11 October 2017
Mannheim/BSc Crimonology Seminar Series
The promise of ethnography: Gangs, active offenders and policy 
Speaker: Professor Scott Decker (Arizona)


Wednesday 11 October 2017
Legal and Political Theory Forum
Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments
Speaker: Yaniv Roznai (IDC Herzliya)


Thursday 12 October 2017
'The Internationalists'

Speakers: Professor Scott J. Shapiro (Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, where he is the Director of the Center for Law and Philosophy); Professor Gerry Simpson (Professor of Public International Law, LSE); Dr Catriona Drew (SOAS) 

The Internationalists presents a bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked treaty signed in 1928 was among the most transformative events in modern history


 

Wednesday 18 October 2017
Gender and Human Rights: Seeking Freedom Beyond the Liberal Imaginary
5:30pm to 7:00pm Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE

Speaker: Ratna Kapur  (Visiting Professor of Law, QMUL)
Chair: Sumi Madhok  (Associate Professor, LSE Gender Institute)

Human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. Yet more rights for women, sexual and religious minorities, have not necessarily produced more freedom. Campaigns for same-sex marriage, violence against women, and Islamic veil bans have had disempowering and exclusionary effects, illustrating how human rights can operate as a project of containment and unfreedom. I argue that the futurity of human rights rests in delinking the project from liberal freedom and exploring its relationship with non-liberal, alternative registers of freedom. In this presentation I offer some reflections on Foucault’s political spirituality and Eve Sedgwick’s Mahayana Buddhist epistemology, as examples of freedom beyond the fishbowl of the liberal imaginary.


Monday 23 October 2017

The Rise and Fall of Shareholder Rights in America

Shareholder suits occur much more frequently in the U.S. than in Britain or for that matter Europe.  The frequency of such suits masks the limited legal areas in which American shareholder pursue through litigation managers and controlling stockholders.  Professor James Cox will discuss several legal developments that occurred during what might be considered the “Golden Age” of American corporate law in which the courts created or strengthened various legal doctrines that protect and benefit shareholders and how this trend is now being reversed. 

Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSEJamesCox
Chair: Dr Carsten Gerner-Beuerle, UCL.


Wednesday 25 October 2017  4pm Moot Court Room, New Academic Building
Legal and Political Theory Forum
Book launch – Mere Civility (Harvard, 2017)
Speaker: Teresa Bejan (Oxford), with Baroness Onora O’Neill (commentator)


 

Wednesday 25 October 2017  5.30pm 8th Floor, New Academic Building
Book launch – Private Law and the Value of Choice (Hart, 2017)
Speaker: Emmanuel Voyiakis 


Thursday 26 October 2017 
Book launch: A Global Analysis of Tax Treaty Disputes

Associate Professor Eduardo Baistrocchi has just published A Global Analysis of Tax Treaty Disputesand will host a book launch at LSE on 26 October 2017. The book reviewers will be Dr John Avery Jones (Pump Court Tax Chambers); Professor Reuven Avi-Yonah (University of Michigan); Associate Professor Ian Roxan, (LSE Law); Professor Richard Vann (University of Sydney); and Pascal Saint-Amans (Director of the Center for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD, Paris). 

Click here for video of speakers at this event.


Thursday 26 October 2017  |  British Academy
Women, Crime and Character in the Twentieth Century
Speaker: Professor Nicola Lacey


Wednesday 8 November 2017  Mannheim/BSc Crimonology Seminar Series
Women convincted of homicide 
Speaker: Dr Annette Ballinger (Keele)


Tuesday 14 November 2017
What if we abolished the dock? Rethinking court design and court ritual

This debate will bring together academics and legal professionals to debate the fairness of placing the accused in an enclosed dock during a criminal trial.  

Speakers and respondents:
Abigail Bright (@DoughtyStCrime) is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers. Chris Henley QC at Carmelilte Chambers, vice-chair of the Criminal Bar Association. Linda Mulcahy (@LindaMulcahy2) is Professor of Law at LSE. Meredith Rossner (@meredithrossner) is an Assistant Professor of Criminology in the Law Department and the co-director of the Mannheim Centre for Criminology.  

Chair: Peter Ramsay, Professor of Law, LSE. 


Friday 17 November 2017    
Officials as Authorities: Institutions and Agents Beyond the State

Nicole Roughan is Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, and Deputy-Director of the NUS Centre for Legal Theory. Nicole's works primarily in jurisprudence, and explores a particular interest in pluralist jurisprudence, including theories of indigenous and international law and their interaction with state law. Her publications in pluralist jurisprudence include a co-edited volume with Andrew Halpin, In Pursuit of Pluralist Jurisprudence (Cambridge, 2017) and a monograph, Authorities: Conflicts, Cooperation, and Transnational Legal Theory (OUP, 2013). Nicole is currently working on a new monograph,Officials (OUP). In 2016 Nicole was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship by the Royal Society Te Apārangi (New Zealand) to conduct a five-year project on Legalities: Jurisprudence without Borders.


Monday 20 November 2017
The Myth of Millionaire Tax Flight: How place still matters for the rich

If taxes rise, will they leave? Cristobal Young presents his findings from the first-ever large-scale study of migration of the world’s richest individuals, drawing on special access to over 45 million US tax returns, together with Forbes rich lists. He shows that contrary to popular opinion, although the rich have the resources and capacity to flee high-tax places, their actual migration is surprisingly limited. Place still matters, even in today’s globalised world.

Speaker: Dr Cristobal Young (Stanford University)
Discussant: Dr Andrew Summers (LSE)
Chair: Professor Nicola Lacey (LSE)


Wednesday 22 November 2017 
Distributing Retributive Desert

Professor Kimberly Kessler Ferzan explores puzzles of distributing retributive desert. Even if one takes giving people what they negatively deserve to be intrinsically good, one must confront questions of distribution.

Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSEdesert


Thursday 23 November  2017     
The Caroline Correspondence: 1838-1842
Speaker: Professor Dino Kritsiotis (Nottingham)

see also other seminars in the PULSE series 


Tuesday 28 November 2017
Cash: the future of money in the Bitcoin age

The socio-economic debate surrounding money has advanced since the early metallist days of John Locke. Money is no longer viewed as an homogenous, neutral thing; rather, theorists are wont to emphasise its pivotal role in shaping networks of social relations. Yet, in many respects, the legal analysis of money is playing catch-up, and the advent of distributed online ecosystems such as Bitcoin and Ethereum has pushed to the fore some difficult questions concerning the appropriate legal lens through which to view money, and monetary assets. 

Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSEcash

podcast of Cash: the future of money in the Bitcoin age is available here


Wednesday 29 November 2017
Legal and Political Theory Forum
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution
Speakers: Marco Duranti (Sydney and Cambridge)


Thursday 30 November 2017  
Leak-Driven Law
Speaker: Professor Diane M. Ring (Boston College Law School)

Professor Diane M. Ring will present at LSE her new paper focusing on the impact of leaks in tax law, Leak-Driven Law. 


Tuesday 5 December
Fifty Years after Russell: Tariq Ali on the anniversary of the Russell War Crimes Tribunal
Speakers: Tariq Ali; Ayça Çubukçu (LSE); Tor Krever (LSE); Jayan Nayar (Warwick)

Atrocities committed during the Vietnam War led Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre to establish a tribunal to prosecute war crimes of the United States at the time and in the same way as the Allies had tried war crimes after the Second World War, at Nuremberg and Tokyo. The resultant Russell War Crimes Tribunal can be viewed both as a possible precursor to the contemporary system of international war crimes law, with its tribunals in The Hague, Sierra Leone and Cambodia, but also as an experimental site of resistance to war and violence.

see also other seminars in the PULSE series


Wednesday 6 December 2017
Mannheim/BSc Crimonology Seminar Series
Political violence: a typology 
Speaker: Professor Vincenzo Ruggiero (Middlesex)


Thursday 25 January 2018
Panel debate | Business responsibility and the climate crisis: climate obligations for enterprises
Speakers: Veerle Heyvaert; Jessica Simor QC; Jaap Spier; Philip Sutherland; Nicola Swan


Wednesday 31 January 2018
Hart's Empire: An intellectual history of the concept of law
Speaker: Dr Coel Kirby 


Tuesday 6 February 2018
100 Years of votes for women: an LSE Law celebration 
Speakers: Baroness Hale; Baroness Chakrabarti; Professor Nicola Lacey; Professor Jeremy Horder


Tuesday 7 February 2018
Human rights in the neoliberal maelstrom
Speakers: Professor Samuel Moyn; Dr Ayça Çubukçu


Friday 9 February 2018
Democracy and Defiance in the Supreme Court of India
Speakers: Dr Aditya Sondhi, Dr Siva Thambisetty


Wednesday 14 February 2018 
Post-Beveridge international law
Speakers: Dr Tatiana Borisova; Professor Matthew Craven; Professor Gerry Simpson


Friday 16 February 2018
Christabel Pankhurst: A biography
Speaker: Professor June Purvis
Chair: Professor Linda Mulcahy


Thursday 22  February 2018
Launch event for Vol 8 of The UK Supreme Court Yearbook
Brexit Judicialised: Crown v Parliament
Welcome by Dr Daniel Clarry; Introduction by Lord Pannick QC; Key note address by Professor Sir Jeffrey Jowell QC; Reply by Professor Timothy Endicott


Tuesday 27 February 2018
The Impact of Brexit on London
Speakers: Naomi Clayton; Professor Niamh Moloney
Chair: Professor Tony Travers



Wednesday 28 February 2018
Crime and Global Justice
Speakers: Professor Daniele Archibugi; Alice Pease; Professor Christine Chinkin; Professor Richard Falk; Professor Mary Kaldor


Wednesday 7 March 2018
Separation of powers and constitutional review
Speaker: Dr Dimitrios Kyritsis 


Friday 9 March 2018 
Arbitration in London after Brexit? Party Autonomy and Rule of Law 

The second LCIA and LSE co-hosted annual debate. This event immediately precedes the annual LSE-LCIA London Vis Pre-Moot, held in preparation for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, which focuses on international commercial arbitration and the international sale of goods.  Moderated by Jonathan Mance, Massimo Benedettelli and Clare Ambrose will explore the different views on the future of international arbitration and commercial law in London after Brexit.

Tuesday 13 March 2018
London Review of International Law Annual Lecture
Images that resemble us too much: natives, corporations, humans, and other personified creatures of international law

Speaker: Joseph Slaughter Chair: Gerry Simpson.

Modern Euro-American law operates by fashioning legal persons as creatures endowed with rights and responsibilities. This figurative process of personification is a means of emancipation. Indeed, the fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution laid the legal groundwork not only for recognition of the full legal personality of ex-slaves; it also “emancipated” the business corporation, which possesses legal rights and responsibilities by way of analogy to the human, figured as a metaphorical assemblage of human body parts.


Tuesday 13 March 2018
Inventive Step in the UK and Use of Experts in Patent Litigation

Speakers: Dr Christopher Robertson; Sir Richard Arnold; Sir Colin Birss;  Dr Mathias Zigann  Chair: Dr Siva Thambisetty

This seminar brings together social scientists, lawyers and judges to explore the cognitive burden and mechanics of litigation strategies on inventive step. Inventive step standard is the corner stone of a patent system that incentivises the right kind of technical advances. However, using expert evidence for an objective view on inventive step can present practical difficulties with logical consequences for decision-making.


15 March 2018 
LSE Taxation Seminars 
“The non-recognition and reconstruction of transactions in transfer pricing:applying the presumption of legality to interpret domestic legislation”

Dr Amir Pichhadze(Deakin Law School, Melbourne)Discussant: Dr Ian Roxan (LSE) 


Monday 19 March 2018 
LSE Taxation Seminars
The next big explosion in tax – international arbitration and tax litigation
Liesl Fichardt and Epaminontas Triantafilou (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &Sullivan, LLP)


Tuesday 20 March 2018 
The Collaborative Economy and EU Law
Speaker: Vassilis Hatzopoulos (Panteion University, Athens) 


Wednesday 21 March 2018
EU Citizens Rights Post-Brexit: a right to remain in the UK?

Speakers: Dr Jo Murkens; Dr Auke Willems; Dr Adrienne Yong
Chair: Professor Carol Harlow

The panel will discuss if EU citizens will have the right to work and live in the United Kingdom after Brexit. The analysis will be focused on the different legal scenarios and the possible outcome of the negotiations considering the initial arrangements on citizens rights between the United Kingdom and the European Union.


Thursday 12 April 2018

CONFERENCE:

2nd Conference on the impact of Brexit on the UK and European energy markets

This conference aims to consider the wide-ranging impact of Brexit on the UK and EU energy markets, from a legal and economic perspective, and assess the developments and challenges which have emerged over the past year.


Thursday April 26 & Friday 27 April 2018 
Workshop on Bernard Williams


Monday 30 April 2018 
LSE Taxation Seminars 

Can We Incorporate Fairness into the Economic Analysis of Taxation?
Speaker: Professor François Maniquet (CORE, Université catholique de Louvain)


Tuesday 1 May 2018 
Is International Law 'International'?

Speakers: Associate Professor Anthea Roberts; Professor Rein Müllerson; Associate Professor Marko Milanovic
Chair: Associate Professor Devika Hovell


Tuesday 8 May 2018
Laying Down the Law: Americans as makers of legal worlds in occupied Germany and Japan

Speaker: Professor Rande Kostal
Chair: Professor Michael Lobban


Wednesday 9 May 2018
Can Markets Pursue Social Values?

Speakers: Professor Julia Black; Professor Martin Cave; Professor Simon Deakin; Sean Ennis

Theresa May’s claim that free market capitalism constitutes “the greatest agent of collective human progress ever created” raises a complex question: can markets pursue social values? 


Friday 11 May 2018
Pragmatism in Commercial Law : A Symposium in Honour of Michael Bridge

Speakers: Professor Hugh Collins (Oxford); Dr Solène Rowan (LSE); Dr Andy Summers (LSE);  Louise Gullifer QC;  Professor Philip Rawlings (Queen Mary); Professor Robert Stevens (Oxford); Professor Jonathan Harris (KCL); Professor Djakhongir Saidov (KCL);  Professor Ingeborg Schwenzer (Basel); Dr Orkun Akseli (Durham); Professor Gerry McCormack (Leeds); Professor Catherine Walsh (McGill)

This event is free and open to all however pre-registration is required. To register email law.events@lse.ac.uk


Wednesday 14 May 2018
Book Launch: 'A Critical Account of Article 106(2) TFEU' by Jarleth M. Burke


Wednesday 16 May 2018  
Democratic Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Speaker: Ian Shapiro (Yale)


Monday 21 May 2018
LSE Taxation Seminars The Principal Purpose Test: One Ring to Bind Them All?

Speaker: Professor Craig Elliffe (Director of the Master of Taxation Programme, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland)


Tuesday 22 May 2018
Amnesty International's Salil Shetty on Decolonising Human Rights
Speaker: Salil Shetty (Amnesty International)

Chair: Professor Susan Marks (LSE) 


Wednesday 23 May 2018  
Fiduciaries of Humanity: How International Law Constitutes Authority (Oxford, 2016)

Speaker: Professor Evan Fox-Decent (McGill University)
Discussants: Carmen Pavel (KCL) and Gerry Simpson (LSE)


Thursday 24 May 2018   
Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation (Cambridge, 2018)

Speaker: Grégoire Webber (Queens)
Discussants: Ioanna Tourkochoriti (NUI Galway); Gavin Phillipson (Durham)


Thursday 14 June 2018   
LSE Lawyers' Alumni Group: GDPR Round Table
Speaker: Steven Taylor (LLM 2012)


Wednesday 27 June 2018
Closing gender gap by 2030: Lessons from Japan and UK
Speakers: Rosy Cave (Head of the Gender Equality Unit, FCO); Asako Osaki (Visiting Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University, School of Policy Studies); Elena Gentili (Gender Equality Delivery Unit, Governance Reviews and Partnerships Division, OECD)


Monday 2 July
Book launch: HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship
Speakers: Nadine Strossen; Jodie Ginsberg; Joanna Williams.
Chair: Professor Peter Ramsay