Events Archive - 2018
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies Annual Lecture
26 June 2018, 17:30 - 19:00 | Lecture | Maurice Keyworth boardroom, Leeds Business School | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
On Tuesday 26 June the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies is hosting it's annual lecture entitled, 'Order, conflict resolution and crime: re-thinking the role of the state in the 21st Century'.Centre for Criminal Justice Studies Postgraduate Researcher Conference 2018
28 June 2018, 9:30 -17:00 | Conference | Baines Wing 4.12, University of Leeds | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
The annual CCJS PGR conference brings together postgraduate researchers and academic staff affiliated with the Centre to showcase the research of current PhD students.China And Hong Kong: Overcoming Disability Exclusion In Education
28 June 2018, 10:30 | Lecture | SSP seminar rooms 12.21 & 12.25, Level 12, Social Sciences Building, University of Leeds | Centre for Law and Social Justice
The University of Leeds Centre for Disability Studies’ U-Lead East Asia Disability Rights Forum & China Vision cordially invite you to a lecture, discussion and seminar exploring disability exclusion in China.‘Our Arts in the North’: A Multi-Disciplinary conference about copyright, the arts & cultural regeneration in the North of England
5 July 2018, 09:00 - 18:00 | Conference | Assembly Rooms, Newcastle
This conference examines the role that copyright laws might play in fostering (or indeed hindering) the arts and cultural regeneration in the North of England.School of Law Alumni Reception: September 15 2018
15 September 2018, 17:30 | Alumni Dinner | Liberty Building, School of Law
Alumni from the School of Law are invited to attend our annual networking event. Following two successful reunions in London we have decided to host this year’s reception at the University giving you a chance to relive your time on campus.Linguistic insights into the needs of International Law (LLM) students
13 June 2018, 13:00 -16:00 | Seminar | Moot Court Room (1.28), Liberty Building | CIRLE: Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education
This seminar reports on research into the vocabulary needed to study for an LLM in International Law. Drawing on data from the recently completed DSVC International Law corpus, it will be demonstrated that the students' needs extend far beyond the terminology contained in a Law dictionary or likely to be glossed by the lecturer.School of Law PGR Conference - Brexit and EU Law: A Way Forward
11 June 2018, 09:00 - 17:00 | Conference | Moot Court, Liberty Building
The outcome of the European Union membership referendum in 2016 has presented the United Kingdom with its greatest challenge of modern times. As negotiations for an exit strategy continue, the School of Law at the University of Leeds is keen to open up conversations on the socio-legal implications of such a monumental transition.Police use of Body-Worn Cameras and the prosecution of domestic abuse: policy, practice and research
5 June 2018, 9:15 - 16:00 | Conference | Room 1.33, Maurice Keyworth building | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
This event brings together policy-makers, practitioners and academics to share learning about the use of body-worn police cameras in police responses to and the prosecution of domestic abuse incidents. This is free conference funded by the N8 Policing Research Partnership and hosted by Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law.The Uberisation of Legal Practice
30 May 2018, 17:30 - 19:30 | Lecture | Moot Court, Liberty Building | Centre for Law and Social Justice, CIRLE: Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education
A lecture by Visiting Liberty Scholar, Professor Margaret Thornton, ANU on the ramifications of new technologies for legal practice.Horizontal network commercial relationships in logistics – a role for contract law
23 May 2018, 17:00 - 18:00 | Seminar | Seminar Room 1.05, Charles Thackrah Building, University of Leeds | Centre for Business Law and Practice
Marta Kolacz, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Visiting Research Assistant at the School of Law will give a presentation showing the horizontal network phenomenon in logistics and survey the English contract law in relation to it.Dirty Money: New Insights and Emergent Issues
17 May 2018 — 18 May 2018 | Seminar | Queen Mary University of London
Organised by Dr Colin King (Sussex University) and Professor Emeritus Clive Walker (School of Law, University of Leeds) this AHRC-funded conference will bring together emerging researchers in the fields of criminal assets, money laundering, terrorist financing, and their legislative, regulatory and policy responses, to offer new insights into a range of areas related to illicit finance and its control.Centre for Law & Social Justice Annual Lecture: Embodied Gender/Sex Identity: What is it and how does it form?
16 May 2018, 17:30 - 19:00 | Lecture | Moot Court, School of Law, University of Leeds | Centre for Law and Social Justice
The Centre for Law & Social Justice is pleased to welcome Professor Anne Fausto Sterling (Brown University) to deliver the Annual Lecture 2018.Researching the Judiciary through Pictures: some Reflections on Methods from Professor Leslie Moran
15 May 2018, 13:00 - 15:00 | Seminar | 1.32, Maurice Keyworth Building, University of Leeds | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, Centre for Law and Social Justice
Professor Leslie Moran will be discussing his methodological approach to his ‘Judicial Images’ project.The Role of Private Actors in Preventing Work-Related Risks
15 May 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 | Seminar | Seminar Room 1.33, Maurice Keyworth Building | Centre for Business Law and Practice
Professor Niels J. Philipsen considers the regulation of work-related risksm specifically, the role of employers and employees in the regulation and prevention of such risks. A law and economics perspective is taken and examples of private regulation will be presented.Frank Dawtry Memorial Annual Lecture
9 May 2018, 17:30 - 18:30 | Lecture | Moot Court, Liberty Building | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
Frank Dawtry Memorial Annual Lecture to be delivered by Professor Nick Hardwick, Professor of Criminal Justice, Royal Holloway, University of London and former Chair of the Parole Board.The challenges facing specialist cyber-crime units in Australia: An empirical analysis
8 May 2018, 16:00 - 17:30 | Seminar | The Boardroom, Liberty Building, University of Leeds | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
This seminar draws upon research into specialist cyber-crime units in Australia to highlight the issues and problems faced by police staff at the frontline of cyber-policing.Educating for Uncertainty: Education in Law and Criminal Justice in an Uncertain World
8 May 2018, 10:00 - 17:00 | Symposium | Liberty Building, University of Leeds | CIRLE: Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education
A one-day symposium to mark the establishment of the Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education (CIRLE), within the School of Law, addressing key contemporary questions in legal education, criminal justice education and the professional sectors of both fields.Social justice in the shadow of Grenfell
2 May 2018, 15:00 - 17:00 | Symposium | Moot Court, Liberty Building
The scenes from the Grenfell Tower fire on Wednesday 14 June 2017 shocked, troubled and angered many of us. Questions have been asked as to how this could happen, how such tragic events can be prevented from happening again, and what comes next for the former residents of Grenfell Tower? This interdisciplinary event seeks to explore these questions and to create the space for other perspectives.Aesthetics and Legal Pedagogy
25 April 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar | Seminar Room 1.05, Charles Thackrah building, University of Leeds | CIRLE: Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education
The Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education is pleased to announce Rosie Taylor-Harding will be delivering the latest work-in-progress seminar on 'Aesthetics and Legal Pedagogy'.Centre for Business Law and Practice Annual Lecture: Brexit, Ireland, Trade, Travel
25 April 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 | Lecture | Moot Court Room, Liberty Building, University of Leeds | Centre for Business Law and Practice
The aim of this lecture, delivered by Imelda Maher, Dean of Law at University College Dublin, is to explore the parameters of the emerging relationship between the UK and the EU through the lens of the Irish/UK borders: both land and sea.A conversation on Personhood: Animals, Law and Performance
25 April 2018, 13:00 - 15:00 | Symposium | Centre for Law and Social Justice
This interdisciplinary conversation will question the status of animals in law and critique contemporary understandings of legal personhood.Postgraduate Researchers: Academic Career Development Event
23 April 2018, 12:00 - 16:00 | Seminar | Seminar Room 1.13, Liberty Building
Current Postgradute Researchers and Early Career Researchers are invited to attend the School of Law's Academic Career Development event.Swimming a long way slowly: marathon swimming and the transformation of the body
19 April 2018, 15:00 - 17:00 | Seminar | Liberty Building, Room 1.14
For the first seminar of the student-run Law and Social Justice Seminar Series on Innovative and Analytical Approaches to Research, Dr Karen Throsby will demonstrate her (auto)ethnographic approach by drawing on her current research concerning marathon swimmers, and the embodiment of social inequalities.Policing Past and Present: Contemporary Crime Control in Historical Perspective
18 April 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 | Symposium | Moot Court, School of Law, University of Leeds | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
This symposium will discuss how new research on the history of policing shifts our understanding of crime control today.Government-in-Possession in Chinese Corporate Reorganizations
18 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:30 | Seminar | Liberty Building, Room G.33 | Centre for Business Law and Practice
Dr Zinian Zhang, Lecturer in Commercial Law at the Centre for Business Law and Practice, presents a working paper using the results of an empirical study in corporate reorganizations in China.Law and Social Justice and Criminal Justice Studies Seminar: Professor Thomas Crofts
17 April 2018, 16:00 - 18:00 | Seminar | SR 1.11, Liberty Building
The Centre for Law and Social Justice and the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies are delighted to co-host a seminar by Professor Thomas Crofts (University of Sydney) on the afternoon of Tuesday 17 April.Technologies of Crime, Justice and Security Conference
19 March 2018 — 20 March 2018 | Conference | Moot Court, Liberty Building | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
The event brings together more than 30 leading European academics and practitioners from multiple countries across Europe with diverse backgrounds, ranging from Sociology, Law, Economics to Computer Science.Linking Claimant and Defendant in the Law of Unjust Enrichment
9 March 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 | Seminar | Liberty Building, 1.11 | Centre for Business Law and Practice
Professor Duncan Sheehan presents a working paper examining the different attributive techniques that the law of unjust enrichment employs to link the claimant and the defendant together.Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers Breakfast meetup
1 March 2018, 09:30 - 12:00 | Seminar | Liberty Building, School of Law
Join us for the first postgraduate and early career researchers breakfast meetup - an opportunity to showcase work, share ideas and foster collaboration between the School of Law and Leeds University Business School postgraduate research communities.Alumni Supper – Corporate Law
27 February 2018, 17:30 - 19:30 | Alumni Dinner
On Tuesday 27 February we will welcome back to the School Professor Paul Griffin, Senior Adviser and Counsel to the Global Oil and Gas Group at White & Cross LLP; Jade Murray, Partner at Addleshaw Goddard; and Justinia Lewis, Head of Commercial Law for Department for Work and Pensions for one of our popular Alumni supper events.When Politics, the Media and the Judiciary Collide: The Yarra Three as a Case Study in Contempt
16 February 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 | Seminar | Liberty Building, School of Law
As part of the Centre for Business Law and Practice Seminar Series, Professor David Rolph (University of Sydney), examines the jurisdiction to punish contempt of court, highlighting the fraught relationship between politicians and the judiciary as well as the tensions between the Federal and State levels of government in Australia.When Politics, the Media and the Judiciary Collide
16 February 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 | Lecture | Centre for Business Law and Practice
Professor David Rolph, University of Sydney, examines the jurisdiction to punish contempt of court, highlighting the fraught relationship between politicians and the judiciary as well as the tensions between the Federal and State levels of government in Australia.Settling International Trade Disputes at the World Trade Organization
15 February 2018, 17:30 - 18:30 | Lecture | Centre for Business Law and Practice
In this public lecture, Professor Gabrielle Marceau, Senior Counsellor, Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization and Associate Professor at the University of Geneva, discusses the practical changes to the World Trade Organization dispute settlement system in the last twenty years, and current proposals for change.Women Breaking Barriers Network Launch
10 February 2018, All day | Conference | Liberty Building, School of Law
The School of Law is hosting the launch of the Women Breaking Barriers Network. Female students from across the north of England will be invited to a one day launch event on Saturday 10 February at the School.Professor Richard Moorhead – Understanding the Ethical Inclination of In-House Lawyers
5 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 | Seminar | Liberty Building, G.32 | Centre for Business Law and Practice, CIRLE: Centre for Innovation and Research in Legal Education
The Limits of Press Accountability
31 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:30 | Seminar | Liberty Building, SR 1.09 | Centre for Business Law and Practice
Dr Paul Wragg, Associate Professor, at the Centre for Business Law and Practice, presents a working paper which aims to challenge conventional thoughts about the term ‘press accountability’.Leeds Historical Criminology Seminar Series: History and Criminal Justice Policy
24 January 2018, 10:45 - 16:00 | Seminar | Room G.32 Liberty Building, University of Leeds | Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
You are cordially invited to the inaugural event in the Leeds Historical Criminology Seminar Series. This exciting new venture aims to showcase research that uses historical perspectives to enrich understandings of crime, criminal justice and related issues in the present as well as the past.Boards of Directors: Composition and Process
15 January 2018 — 16 January 2018 | Conference | Moot Court Room, The Liberty Building, University of Leeds | Centre for Business Law and Practice
The Centre for Business Law and Practice, School of Law, University of Leeds, in partnership with Centre for Comparative Corporate Governance (Deakin Law School) and financial support by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is hosting this International Corporate Governance & Law Forum at Leeds from 15-16 January 2018.