Newcastle Law School Research Seminars 2012-2013 (provisional list)

The following seminars are taking place in the Law School in 2012/13. All seminars are taking place in the Staff Common Room unless otherwise stated.

November 8th 2012 (Mooting Room)

Stuart P.M. Mackintosh, Executive Director, Group of Thirty 

'Crisis response and the global financial regulatory redesign: The power and politics behind ideas and paradigm shifts in international financial diplomacy'.

November 14th 2012

 Richard Collier, Newcastle University

 'I don't see much of the kids, but that's fine. It's just how it is': Fatherhood, Masculinities and family practices in large law firms - Men (Re)negotiating work and home.

November 22nd 2012

Hilary Sommerlad, Leicester University 

'Whatever happened to work-life balance?' The casualisation of legal labour and the impact on personal life.

December 5th 2012

Professor Nettesheim, Tuebingen University 

'The Future of the Euro Zone - Political Options and Constitutional Law Restraints'.

December 8th 2012

(Saturday) Workshop on Displacement

'Displaced persons and armed conflict: The right to property and to return home under contemporary international law'.

13th December 2012

Julian Sidoli del Ceno, Birmingham City University

'Responsibility to Protect' Series

9th January 2013

Dr Nadine El-Enany, Brunel University

'Responsibility to Protect' Series

January 17th 2013

Les Moran, Birkbeck College, London 

'Ordinary, Albeit Intelligent Members of Society: Reflections on Contemporary Judical Virtues'.

January 24th 2013

Alison Diduck,  UCL, London 

'Family Just De-legalised: Vulnerability, Autonomy and Fairness'.

January 30th 2013

Fiona Cownie, Keele University 

'Living with the Law: The Public and Private Lives of Legal Academics'.

February 7th  2013

Chris Ashford, Sunderland University 

'Family and the Homonormative: Where Now for Queer Legal Identities?'.

February 13th 2013 

Professor Sue Farran, Northumbria University

'Responsibility to Protect' Series.

February 20th 2013

Ian Ward, Newcastle University

'At home with the Dombeys'.

February 27th 2013

Melanie Williams, Exeter University

'Feminist Science Fiction and the Flight from Hegemony'.

February 27th 2013

Geoffrey Samuel, Kent Law School 

'Discussion o Geoffrey Samuel's recent paper 'Is Legal Knowledge Cumulative?' (2012) 32(3) Legal Studies 448'.

March 6th 2013

Maria Aristodemou, Birkbeck College, London 

'Three Close Ups In Search of Truth: :aw, Psychoanalysis, Cinema'.

March 13th 2013

Robin Lister, Bradford University 

'Common Law, Cricket and Literature'.

March 20th 2013

Alice Harrison, University of Southampton 

'Responsibility to Protect' Series.

April 17th 2013

Paul Raffield, Warwick University 

'Law and the Equivocal Image: Sacred and Profane in Royal Portraiture'.

April 24th 2013

Gary Watt, Warwick University 

'Futures of the Legal Imagination'.

May 1st 2013

David Gurnham, Southampton University 

'Intersections of Gender, Class and Sade in the Rochdale 'on-street grooming' Case'.

May 8th 2013

Professor Oren Ben-Dor, University of Southampton 

'Responsibility to Protect' Series.

May 9th 2013

Professor Kathryn Haynes, Newcastle University 

'Responsibility to Protect' Series.

May 15th 2013

Richard Mullender, Newcastle University 

'Law, Literature and the Bi-Hemipsherical Brain'.

May 16th 2013

Dr. Aoife O’Donoghue, Durham 

'Responsibility to Protect' Series. 

published on: 8th November 2012