Seminars and Lectures
Newcastle Law School regularly hosts conferences and seminars on a wide range of important legal, political, economic and social issues. Recent speakers have included Stanley Fish (Florida International University), Charles Goodhart (LSE) and David Kennedy (Harvard Law School). The seminar series programme is organised by Dr. Patrick O'Callaghan, while other members of staff frequently organise conferences or one-day events on their own areas of expertise.
Forthcoming Events
Interdisciplinary and Law: Seminar Series (2012-2013)
In 2012-2013 the law school will be hosting a seminar series on interdisciplinary research in which we aim to explore what interdisciplinary research means for law as a 'discipline' and consider the limits (if any) of this type of scholarship. Each session will be led by a staff member at NULS and will include discussion of canonical texts, research methods and exercises. Further details will be available on this page soon.
Provisional List of Seminars (2012-2013)
Key for Seminar Series
Law, Families, Personal Life: New Reflections Seminar Series (LFPL)
Law and Literature Seminar Series (LL)
Finance and Financial Law Group (FFLRG)
Human Rights and Social Justice Forum (HR)
North-East Regional Obligations Group (NEROG)
All seminars to take place in Staff Common Room, Newcastle Law School unless otherwise indicated.
November 8th 2012 at 5pm (Mooting Room)
Stuart P.M. Mackintosh, Executive Director, Group of Thirty, Washington DC, 20036 and PhD student Department of Politics, Newcastle University (FFLRG)
‘Crisis response and the global financial regulatory redesign: The power and politics behind ideas and paradigm shifts in international financial diplomacy’.
November 14th 2012 (Wednesday 1pm)
Richard Collier, Newcastle University (LFPL)
‘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 (Thursday 4pm)
Hilary Sommerlad, Leicester University (LFPL)
‘Whatever Happened to Work-Life Balance? The Casualisation of Legal Labour and the impact on Personal Life
December 5th 2012
Professor Nettesheim, Tuebingen University, Germany (HR)
‘The Future of the Euro Zone - Political Options and Constitutional Law Restraints’
December 8th 2012 (Saturday)
Workshop on Displacement (HR)
‘Displaced persons and armed conflict: The right to property and to return home under contemporary international law’
December 13th 2012 (Thursday)
Julian Sidoli del Ceno, Birmingham City University (HR)
‘Responsibility to Protect’ Series
January 17th 2013 (Thursday 4pm)
Les Moran, Birkbeck College, London (LFPL)
'Ordinary, Albeit Intelligent Members of Society: Reflections on Contemporary Judicial Virtues’.
January 24th 2013 (Thursday 4pm)
Alison Diduck, UCL, London (LFPL)
'Family Justice De-legalised: Vulnerability, Autonomy and Fairness'
January 30th 2013 (Wednesday 1pm)
Fiona Cownie, Keele University (LFPL)
'Living with the Law: The Public and Private Lives of Legal Academics'
February 7th 2013 (4pm)
Chris Ashford, Sunderland University (LFPL)
‘Family and the Homonormative: Where Now for Queer Legal Identities?’
February 13th 2013 (Wednesday)
Professor Sue Farran, Northumbria University
‘Responsibility to Protect’ Series
February 20th 2013
Ian Ward, Newcastle University (LL)
At Home with the Dombeys
February 27th 2013
Melanie Williams, Exeter University (LL)
Feminist Science Fiction and the Flight from Hegemony
February 27th 2013
Geoffrey Samuel, Kent Law School (NEROG)
Discussion of Geoffrey Samuel's recent paper ‘Is Legal Knowledge Cumulative?’ (2012) 32(3) Legal Studies 448.
March 6th 2013
Maria Aristodemou, Birkbeck College, London (LL)
Three Close Ups In Search of Truth: Law, Psychoanalysis, Cinema
March 13th 2013
Robin Lister, Bradford University (LL)
Common Law, Cricket and Literature
March 20th 2013 (Wednesday)
Alice Harrison, University of Southampton (HR)
‘Responsibility to Protect’ Series
April 17th 2013
Paul Raffield, Warwick University (LL)
Law and the Equivocal Image: Sacred and Profane in Royal Portraiture
April 24th 2013
Gary Watt, Warwick University (LL)
Futures of the Legal Imagination
May 1st 2013
David Gurnham, Southampton University (LL)
Intersections of Gender, Class and Sade in the Rochdale ‘on-street grooming’ case
May 8th 2013 (Wednesday)
Professor Oren Ben-Dor, University of Southampton (HR)
‘Responsibility to Protect’ Series
May 9th 2013 (Thursday)
Professor Kathryn Haynes, Newcastle University (HR)
‘Responsibility to Protect’ Series
May 15th 2013
Richard Mullender, Newcastle University (LL)
Law, Literature and the Bi-Hemispherical Brain
May 16th 2013 (Thursday)
Dr. Aoife O’Donoghue, Durham (HR)
‘Responsibility to Protect’ Series
