Past Seminars
Past seminars include:
Human Rights and Utopianism’ (seminar series, with contributions from, inter alios, Roderick Bagshaw, David Campbell, John Harrington, and Markus Thiel) (February-March 2008))
‘Legal Scholarship and Conceptual Analysis’ (seminar series with contributions from NLS staff (October 2008-January 2009)).
‘After the War on Terror’ (symposium led by Conor Gearty (February 25th 2009)).
‘The Canengusian Connection: A Symposium on Tort Law and Judicial Discretion in the Common Law World’ (led by Allan Hutchinson and Derek Morgan and attended by Jenny Steele (July 6t 2009))
‘The Lisbon Treaty’ (seminar series, with contributions from, inter alios, Julie Dickson, Brigid Laffan, and Allan Rossas (April-May 2009))
‘Tort Law and Personal Responsibility’ (seminar series, with contributions from, inter alios, Chris Hodges and Jenny Steele (April-June 2009))
'Human Rights in Retreat' (seminar series, with contributions from Simon Caney, Liora Lazarus, and Eric Heinze (October-November 2009))
‘Human Rights – Drop of Liberation or Fig Leaf of Legitimation’ (symposium on David Kennedy’s ‘The International Human Rights Movement – Still Part of the Problem?’, with contributions from, inter alios, David Bonner, Keith Ewing, and Steven Wheatley) (January 23 2010)).
‘Liberty, Democracy, and the Political Constitution’ (symposium led by Peter Kellner (February 3rd 2010))
‘Law and the Modern State’ (seminar series, with contributions from, inter alios, Helen Fenwick, Martin Loughlin, and Jiri Pribban (April-June 2010))
‘The World Bank and Modern Law Review Conference on “International Legal Standards on Secured Transactions, Facilitation of Credit and Financial Crisis”’ (conference with contributions from, inter alios, Hugh Beale, Gerard McCormack, and Riz Mokal) (May 14 2010))
‘Law Beyond the Nation-State’ (symposium led by Andrew Halpin and Jo Shaw (May 19 2010))
‘“Strict Dixonian Legalism”: a Seminar on Judicial Discretion’ ( led by John Gava, with responses from, inter alios, Emilia Mickiewicz (NLS PhD candidate) (17 November 2010))
‘Human Rights: Critical Reflective Analyses’ (seminar series with, inter alios, Aaron Baker, Stuart Lakin, and Christian Mentel (December 2010-May 2011))
‘Agamben and the Future of Law, Politics, and Philosophy’ (symposium with contributions from, inter alios, Kevin Attell, Colby Dickinson, Anthony Downey, Paolo Palladino, Andrea Rossi, and Illan rua Wall (March 9 2011))
‘Reflections on the Financial Crisis’ (inaugural symposium of the new Humanities and Social Science research group in Finance and Financial Law) (keynote speaker, Charles Goodhart, with contributions from, inter alios, David Bholat and David Campbell) (June 6 2011))
‘A Sustainable Countryside? Regulating New Technologies for Food Farming and Ecology’ (conference, with contributions from, inter alios, Bryan Endres, Maria Lee, and Laszlo Mathe) (September 21 2011))
