School of Law

Recent Events

• Sociological Perspectives on European (EU) Studies - Dr Ulrike Vieten (Speaker), Professor Mark Priestley (Chair)

  08 February 2012 | The Liberty Building, School of Law, University of Leeds | Seminar

  This seminar introduces into the relatively new research discipline “Sociology of the European Union” from a critical perspective, again highlighting potential for legal research project.

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• 10 Things A Business Lawyer Must Know About Property Law

  06 February 2012 | The Liberty Building, University of Leeds | Seminar

  As part of the public lecture series organised by the Centre for Business Law and Practice, Andrew Todd, Partner in the Property Litigation Team at DWF, will be speaking on recent developments in property law with reference to the commercial sector.

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• Centre for Criminal Justice Studies Annual Lecture 2012 - Re-shaping the Police Landscape: Earthquakes and Glaciers

  31 January 2012 | School of Law, The Liberty Building, University of Leeds | Seminar

  The Lecture willbe given by Professor Lawrence Sherman, University of Cambridge. The response will be given by Sir Norman Bettison, Chief Constable, West Yorkshire Police.

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Older Events

• Think Before you Drink. Alcohol and the Historical rise of Precautionary Governance
• The European Union’s economic and social model – still viable in a global crisis?
• Trial by Jury and The State of Exception: Lessons in Anti-terrorism Law and Politics From Ireland and New Zealand
• Referendums and Europe: Filling the Democratic Gap / Professor Stephen Tierney (University of Edinburgh)
• The Mixed Economy of Criminal Justice
• Europeanisation/European integration theory for PhD researchers
• Global Capital Markets and Regulatory Policy
• Sentencing Panel
• Creditors' Committees in Corporate Insolvency
• Training to be a Barrister
• The EU and the Regulatory Challenges posed by New Technologies / Professor Han Somsen
• Open House
• Frank Dawtry Memorial Lecture 2011
• Talk by Ronnie Teeman
• Law and Experimentalism
• Human Rights in the Digital Era
• Penal Reform and Service Provision
• Responding to Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour
• Mentoring in Criminal Justice
• Volunteering in Criminal Justice
• EU Industrial Relations Beyond Viking/Laval
• Barely (Il)legal: The Problematic Definition of "Child" Pornography
• Policing Against Terror
• Pathological Tendencies in Public Law Scholarship
• Launching 'EU Non-Discrimination Law and Intersectionality'
• Annual Lecture 2011: Should UK Prisoners Vote? An American Perspective
• Symposium on Confiscation of Criminal Assets
• ONS Wellbeing Consultation: University of Leeds
• Comparative and European law methods workshop
• The New Political Economy of Private Security
• Debt capital markets and funding a UK plc
• Building Sustainable Societies Master Class Series
• Ordering Things: Thinking Sociologically About The Consumption of Security
• Postcolonial Approaches to European Law
• Changes in financial services regulatory architecture
• UK Insolvency Law Reform: Former British Colonies
• Carrots and Sticks: Regulating the Behaviour of Problem Drug Users Through Welfare Reform
• Equality – A New Legal Framework
• The Third Sector and Criminal Justice - A Critical Relationship
• “New Terrorism” and Crime Prevention Initiatives Involving Muslim Young People in the UK
• Financial Crisis: EU Response to Law Reform
• The EU and Fundamental Rights
• CCJS/Frank Dawtry Memorial Lecture 2010
• Dealing with Bank Failure:UK Law
• Going, going, gone: principle, procedure and proportionality in the 'recovery' of the proceeds of crime
• Chasing Assets: Piercing the Corporate Veil
• Political Constitutionalism and the Human Rights Act
• Representing the interests of the applicants: lawyers and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)
• Police in the Network Society: The Rotterdam Harbor
• Achieving Equality - Equality Bodies
• Directors Duties and Shareholder Litigation in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
• The Role of the Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council in the Development and Promotion of International Human Rights Norms
• The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better For Everyone
• Victims' Access, Representation and Reparations in International Criminal Justice: A Critical Review of Recent Progress and Achievements
• The Return of the Contract in European Constitutionalism: Professor Günter Frankenberg
• Beyond the Human Rights Act
• 10 Years EU Non-Discrimination Law - Back To The Future?
• Theorising and Researching Police Legitimacy
• CfIG Annual Lecture
• A Practitioner's View of Financial Services Law and Market Changes in 2010.
• Developing a Culture of Rights in Civil Society
• Youths' Experiences of Discrimination, Social Marginalization and Violence
• Gender Employment Equality in Japan - EU Law as a Model?
• Understanding the Financial Crisis: Pay, Risk and Responsibility in the 21st Century
• How Tony Blair Fed The Feral Beast of The Media And Savaged The Criminal Justice System
• Bills of Rights-Talk
• The Criminal Assets Bureau
• Consumer Protection in Europe
• CCJS/Frank Dawtry Memorial Lecture 2009
• Civic Integration in the EU (Kostakopoulou)
• Death And Life Of A Great European Standard
• Legal Capital In The UK
• Groups And Violence In The Night-Time Economy
• Imprisonment and Penal Culture
• Behind The Judicial Curtain
• Human Rights in Cambodia
• Euro Area Deposit Compensation Schemes
• Crime And The Camera
• EESCATL mid-term project conference
• The Future of Forensic Bioinformation: two day international symposium
• Legitimacy and Compliance in Criminal Justice
• After the Human Rights Act
• The Future of Forensic Bioinformation: internationalisation and exchange
• Situating Anti-Social Behaviour and Respect
• The Future of Forensic Bioinformation: evidence and assessment (evaluation)
• Second European Conference on Multidimensional Equality Law
• The Future of Forensic Bioinformation: integrity and integration
• Comparative Experiences of Governing Anti-Social Behaviour and Disorder
• International and Comparative Criminal Justice
• Diversity and Anti-Social Behaviour
• Anti-Social Behaviour, Urban Spaces and the Night-time Economy
• Governing Anti-Social Behaviour through Schooling, Parenting and the Family
• Anti-Social Behaviour in Housing and Residential Areas