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Seminars Semester 2 2025/2026
The Elusive Justification for Vicarious Liability - A Matter of Proof?
Dr Christine Beuermann, Newcastle University, UK
Lawfare, Accountability and the Conservative Governments of 2010-2024
Dr Conall Mallory, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland UK
A house built on sand: A Thomist critique of Common Good Constitutionalism
Dr Josh Jowitt, Newcastle University, UK
Mapping Discrimination: Building a New Taxonomy for Intersectional Justice
Bernardo Carvalho de Mello, PGR Student, Newcastle University, UK
Unpacking deference in EU fundamental rights law
Dr Francesco De Cecco, Newcastle University, UK
Public authorities as private landowners: protest, positive obligations and the university campus
Dr William Norcup-Brown, Newcastle University, UK
School Seminar Series
2025/26 Law & Literature
Bleak Liberalism, Deconstruction, and Tension in the Law
Presented by Professor Richard Mullender, Newcastle University, UK
Slippery Supplements: Law, History, Text
Presented by Professor Ian Ward, Newcastle University, UK
Shelley's Poetical Pisgah: The Visionary Capacity of Poetry
Presented by Dr Jon Quayle, Newcastle University, UK
Authoring the Nation: Madame de Staël and the Literary Origins of the State
Presented by Dr Adam Rowe and Dr Ruth Houghton, Newcastle University, UK
The Form of the English Nation: Law, Morphology and the Poetry of John Clare
Presented by Professor Matteo Nicolini, University of Verona, Italy
Law and Business Group
2025/2026
Competition Law and Collusion in Public Procurement
Dr Penelope Giosa, University of Reading, UK
Paws, claws and market flaws: A tail of walkies through the UK veterinary sector
Dr David Reader, University of Glasgow, UK
2024/25
2023/24
Challenges (and Benefits) of Promoting Gender Equality in the Private Equity Sector
Professor Marc Moore, University of Nottingham, UK
Build back safer? A doctrinal assessment of construction regulation
Dr David Christie, Robert Gordon University, UK
Your university is a charity: does that matter?
Dr Mary Synge, Consultant and Author in Charity Law, UK
Reasonable AI: A Negligence Standard
Professor Mihailis Diamantis, The University of Iowa, USA
2022/23
The European Union Representative Redress Action in Irish Financial Services
Dr Karen Lynch-Shally, Maynooth University, Ireland
Re-scaling Land Ownership in the Network Society: From Platform Real Estate to Housing Hactivism
Dr Marc Roark, The University of Tulsa, USA
Constitutionalism and Governance Group
2025/26
2024/25
PGR workshop: "Musical Papers" Seminar
Extrajudicial and the ex-judicial: when retired judges talk
Dr Hélène Tyrrell, Newcastle University, UK
The general principle of Equality vs discrimination on protected grounds
Dr Barbara Havelkova, University of Oxford, UK
Possible Futures in Law Workshop
Dr Ruth Houghton, Dr Michael Ashworth, Mauricio Figueroa Torres, and Bernardo Carvalho de Mello, Newcastle University, UK
And… Utopia: Fiction, failure, and the anti-carceral imagination
Dr Phil Crockett Thomas, University of Stirling, UK
2023/24
Between malaise and autocratization: the global dimension of the crises of democracy
Dr Murilo Gaspardo, Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil
Trollope, the Body Politic and the Victorian Constitution
Professor Matteo Nicolini, University of Verona, Italy
Identities in Constitutionalism and Governance Workshop
PGR Workshop: Using Critical Approaches in Constitutionalism and Governance: International Law
2022/23
The Role of International Law in an Online Mis-/Disinformation Age
Dr Ruth Houghton and Dr Nora Jansen
The Disempowerment of Inclusion: Children and Peace Agreements
Dr Sean Molloy, Newcastle University, UK
Re-imagining Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean 1780-1870
Professor Eduardo Zimmerman
Coloniality of Constitutionalism in Africa
Dr Martha Gayoye
Ministerial Irresponsibility and the Ministerial Code: Constitutional Accountability after May and Johnson
Professor Mike Gordon
Constitutional identity and political closure
Dr Julian Scholtes
Non/human Group
2025/26
If the World is a Family, What Kind of Family is it?
Professor Susan Marks, London School of Economics, UK
2024/25
The Coloniality of Measuring Famine
Dr Lys Kulamadayil, Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland
Sustainable Development, International Law, and a Turn to African Legal Cosmologies
Dr Godwin E Dzah, University of British Colombia, Canada
Non/human: Water and Oceans Research Showcase
2023/24
Re-enclosure in the Stack? Digital violence in neofeudal times
Professor Alison Phipps, Newcastle
Lawyering and Justice Group
2024/25
Mediation in Cypris
Dr Nicolas Kyriakides
2023/24
The Parameters of the Modern Slavery Defence: Anglo-American Perspectives
Dr Bethany Simpson, Newcastle University, UK
Trauma-informed lawyering in the context of civil claims for sexual violence
Dr Nikki Godden-Rasul, Newcastle University, UK
Access to justice for women in the armed forces
Neil Wilkinson, Newcastle University, UK
2022/23
Postcoloniality and patents in a pandemic
Dr Bronwen Jones, Newcastle University, UK
A Love-Hate Relationship? Judges and Commercial Arbitration in Europe
Dr Myriam Gicquello, Newcastle University, UK
Views from the coal face: interviews with international commercial mediators
Professor Bryan Clark, Newcastle University, UK
Why universal civil marriage is not the answer
Professor Rebecca Probert, University of Exeter, UK
Law and Emerging Technologies Group
2024/25
Futures of Hyperlegality: Procedure, Bureaucracy and Automation
Dr Mitchell Travis, University of Leeds, UK
Recognising Legal Personality through Private Law
Dr Joshua Jowitt, Newcastle University, UK
Regulating Hope: Promissory Discourse and Longevity markets
Dr Ilke Turkmendag, Newcastle University, UK
Regulatory Mercantilism and the Geopolitics of Technology Control
Professor Ben Farrand, Newcastle University, UK
2023/24
Patents & Bioethics within the European Biotech Directive: The Case of Synthetic Human Embryos & IVG - Asking the Wrong Questions amidst Institutional Inertia?
Prof. Aisling McMahon, Maynooth University, Ireland
Is AI Creative? A Copyright Approach about Human and Artificial Creativity,
Martina Recena, Visiting PGR, Newcastle University, UK
Robots, AI, and Criminal Law: Crimes Against Robots
Dr Kamil Mamak, Helsinki University, Finland