Events archive

1st December - Institute of European Law Annual Lecture 2020

2nd November - Law PhD Proposals and Funding Applications Workshop

17th October - Undergraduate Open Day

15th October - 'Mutant Algorithms' and the Challenges of Responsible Data Science in Society

28th September - China's National Security: Endangering Hong Kong's Rule of Law?

22nd September - 'In conversation' with Jonathan Hall QC

14th September - Law and Humanity: A PGR Research Carnival

12th September - Undergraduate Open Day

9th July - Patients not passports

8th July - Postgraduate Offer Holder Day - College of Arts and Law

25th June - Undergraduate Open Day

24th June - Undergraduate Open Day

11th June - High-level virtual convening on united nations counter-terrorism and human rights

18th March - Global Legal Studies Group Talk 3

11th March - Postgraduate Open Day

19th February - Global Legal Studies Group Talk 2

11th February - Citizen Science and DIY Diabetes: Ethical and Regulatory Challenges of Patient-led Innovation

5th February - Disruptive Doctoral Research

22nd January - Law and Tech Research Group

20th January - Mind the Gaps: UK Law after Brexit

15th January - Global Legal Studies Group Talk

11th December - Interface China: Can it Integrate into the World Trading System?

11th December - Christmas themes in Law

11th December - Law PhD Proposals and Funding Applications Workshop

11th December - Flexibility Provisions in Multilateral Trade Agreements

10th December - The Retreat from Multilateralism and the Challenges of Global Economic Governance from an EU Perspective

9th December - Everyday Cyborgs 2.0 - Alternative Legal Futures

5th December - The Strategic Use of Public Procurement for Industrial Purpose in Emerging Economies

5th December - Law PGR Career Development and Networking Event

4th December - Theme event - Human Rights, Development, and Global Legal Studies

27th November - Law and Language: Translating the EU Acquis for accession

27th November - Law in Translation – the case of the Balkans

27th November - Gender and Law Research seminar - Dr Kathryn McNeilly

21st November - Leaders in Law: Simone George

21st November - Being Human Festival 2019: 21st Century Body Panel Discussion with Q&A

20th November - Global Patient Safety Law, Policy and Practice

14th November - The EU, Eurasia and their Trade Relations

13th November - Making / Protecting Time for Research and Scholarship

13th November - Gender and Law Research seminar - Dr Flora Renz

6th November - Theme event - Care, Relationships, Health

30th October - Gender and Law Research seminar - Dr Katherine Brown

25th October - Bal Sokhi-Bulley (Sussex) - Rights as a Relational Ethics of Friendship

23rd October - Theme event - Violence, Crime, Justice with Rob Cryer and Carol Jones

17th October - Leaders in Law Lecture: Edward Fitzgerald CBE QC

16th October - Exploring Inspirational Teaching within BLS and how to get recognition for the same

14th October - Reflections on reproductive rights in Ecuador

9th October - Theme event - Law, Technology and Ethics

2nd October - Special measures and humane treatment: The lost leg of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act (1999)

3rd September - Consultation event: building families through surrogacy: a new law

9th July - The response to HIV from Human Rights and the UN Strategy 90-90-90

20th June - Birmingham Law School Conference

18th June - Justice in Transitions

30th May - International Economic Law working group

29th May - Damages before the European Court of Human Rights

15th May - Dynamic Justice Problems

8th May - On teaching International Law

7th May - Researching legal education

4th April - The Impact of the medical profession on abortion laws in transitional and post-conflict societies

21st March - Race, Inclusion and Excellence in Law Schools: A Perspective From Three Continents

13th March - Left to figure it out for themselves: the formation of a hybrid or synthetic civic identity among undergraduate students at a university in the UK

6th March - Cultures of Interpretation. The Case of International Humanitarian Law

27th February - Accountability for Counter-Terrorism

27th February - Grenfell: from crime to social harm

20th February - The French implementation of the EU CSR Directive

6th February - Balancing Freedom of Conscience and the Right to Non-Discrimination on the Ground of Sexual Orientation: Beyond Ongoing Culture Wars

23rd January - Race and the Law

11th January - Reimagining Environmental Law

12th December - Key pitfalls of requiring recourse to the criminal law through human rights: reflections on ECtHR doctrine

12th December - Global Legal Studies Reading Group - December

5th December - Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Sustainable Development: Law and Governance Innovations for Integrated Decision-Making

5th December - Our research and Birmingham: past, present and future

4th December - The NHS and Health Law Post Brexit: Views from Stakeholders and the Devolved Jurisdictions

28th November - Minorities and the Ideology of the Postcolonial State in Indian Constituent Assembly Debates 1946-1950

28th November - EU citizenship as meaningful citizenship

23rd November - Abortion Law Reform in Ireland North and South: Activism and Non-Legal Contributions

21st November - Transnational Counter-Terrorism: The Urgent Need for Constitutionalist Attention

21st November - Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism, the New Historiography, and the End of the Third World

14th November - The problem with companies, sustainability and 'gender empowerment'

7th November - Multi choice examinations

7th November - Global Legal Studies Reading Group - November

31st October - Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Locus of Constituent Power in the United Kingdom

31st October - Concepts and Theories

24th October - Deals, Disregard and Destitution: How our Criminal Justice Systems address Deviance and the Crimes We Ignore

24th October - Pebblepad and personal tutees

21st October - The Disappearance of Miss Bebb: A Celebrity Play Reading and Conference

17th October - Tangled Webs and Distal Horizons

12th-14th October - British Academy Writing Workshop - Dhaka, Bangladesh

3rd October - Best practice in feedback and assessment

3rd October - Global Legal Studies Reading Group - October

28th September - Workshop on Counter-Terrorism Review

11th September - Reimagining Health Law

11th September - Stream in Honour of Professor Gordon R Woodman at the ASA 2018 conference

4th-5th July - Policymakers Workshop on Cryptocurrency and the Blockchain Regulation

2nd July - Enforcement and compliance on environmental matters in the face of Brexit

26th-27th June - Critical Commercial and Corporate Law Symposium

21st June - Interdisciplinary Reflections on Adversities, Trauma and Resilience

13th June - Being Digital Scholars

6th June - From PhD to Book

31st May - Ireland's Referendum on Abortion: A Time for Change?

30th May - Topic to be confirmed

23rd May - Contemporary Challenges in Family Law

16th May - Are British Overseas Territories modern day Colonies? A case study of Gibraltar

9th May - Potluck & 'academic community' discussion

2nd May - #MeToo, discussing sensitive issues in classroom settings

25th April - LGBTQI Employment Discrimination Rights in the United States

13th March - In Conversation with John Kendall

6th March - Toward a Political Geography of Abortion

1st March - Leaders in Law Lecture: Iryna Polovets, WTO

28th February - Making a difference in the age of the neoliberal university

27th February - Spatiality and Abortion Travel

26th February - A Global Study of Same Sex Marriage: Universalism or Cultural Relativism?

21st February - Normative Agency, Law, and Moral Holidays

14th February - Anatomies of an Academic Career

7th February - Nationalist Discourse and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Statehood

31st January - Methodological Reflections on Law as a Social Science

24th January - Rethinking Vulnerability in Legal Research

23rd January - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Postponed

17th January - Interactivity in Teaching

15th January - Leaders in Law lecture: Professor Nils Melzer

10th January - Interdisciplinarity in research

6th December - Briefing on HEFCE Update on REF

4th December - China's National Security: Endangering Hong Kong's Rule of Law

29th November - Law, Language and Translation

27th November - Re-imagining EU Law: Brexit and the Law School

22nd November - Perspectives on PhD Supervision

21st November - Transgender Rights: A Personal Perspective

15th November - Healthcare after Brexit: Building a Research Agenda

8th November - Researching Lawyers and Lawyering

1st November - Some Reflections on Methods in Analysing Law and Time

25th October - Building an Inclusive Curriculum

18th October - Pot Luck Lunch and Group Discussion: The Social Academic

12th October - CEPLER Invitation to a Free Consultation on the Law of Wills

11th October - Rethinking Assessment

4th October - Perspectives on 'Judicial Power'

4th October - Achieving Contextual Sentencing in the court room in Uganda through Community Impact Statements: whither kinship justice?

27th September - The Three Minute Researcher

27th September - Dr Laurens Lavrysen - Human Rights in a Positive State

26th September - Re-imagining Land Law

21st September - Law, translation and migration: an enlightening relationship

20th September - Debt and Debt Relief

15th September - Theory and Method in Doctrinal and Socio-Legal Studies

24th-25th August - Criminal Justice Reform in Comparative Perspective

22nd June - Homicide Post-Jogee

13th June - Freedom to Speak- or Freedom to Speak Up; Where now for whistleblowing in the NHS?

1st June - Who our judges are and why it matters

31st May - Reflection & Critique: Assessing Aspects of an Advocacy Module

31st May - Distinguished Fulbright Lecture: Counter terrorism and the phenomenon of "suspect communities"

26th May - Why we all have a duty to care about dementia

24th May - Conceptualising Security

23rd May - Polyphonic Discourses of Capacity: Consonance and dissonance in medico-legal interaction

10th May - 3 Minute Thesis

4th May - Health Law and the UK: Where Now After Brexit?

4th May - Running the NHS After Brexit

3rd May - Burying an agenda in Brussels: Law, information, and the fate of fiscal governance

27th April - Brown Bag Lunch: Professor Robert Lee - What good is health care?

26th April - Citizenship and Punishment

22nd March - Planning for Promotions

22nd March - Saul Lehrfreund MBE

10th March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Dame Elizabeth Gloster

8th March - REF Calibration

1st March - Improving the Research Environment

24th February - Post-Brexit Britain in A World of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs)

22nd February - Managing an academic workload

8th February - Ask the Editors

8th February - Brexit and Article 50: The impacts on the Constitution and on Fundamental Rights

7th February - Leaders in Law: Judge Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska

1st February - 'Reflecting on a new core module... Talking About "Legal Communication and Writing

26th January - Leaders in Law: Stephen Denyer

25th January - Miller Case Rapid Reaction Roundtable

18th January - Jus Cogens and International Crimes: Do they make a difference?'

18th January - James Timpson OBE

11th January - BLS after the QLD

30th November - History in Legal Research: What? Why? How?

24th November - Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture Series: Tim Moloney QC

23rd November - Assessment and feedback

18th November - Leaders in Law: Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma

16th November - The Stern Report and the Future of REF

9th November - US Election: Rapid Reaction Roundtable

8th November - Q & A on the Brexit Decision

3rd November - Leading public lawyers meet at Birmingham Law School to consider the British Bill of Rights and political constitutionalism

2nd November - Encouraging Active Student Learners

2nd November - Leaders in Law Lecture: Grace Ononiwu OBE

26th October - Getting the Best out of Personal Tutoring

25th October - Law virtual open day

19th October - Brexit: The Implications for Legal Research

13th October - Rehabilitation, Culture and Society

12th October - What is Teaching Excellence in Law?

5th October - Roundtable Reflections on Writing Academic Research

28th September - Food Regulation and Scientific Expertise: Critical Reflections.

7th-8th September - UK and Ireland Streetlaw Best Practices Conference 2016

23rd-24th June - More or less Europe?

8th-9th June - Crime and Control Ethnography Symposium 2016

1st June - Law in the Time of Cholera

4th March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Sir David Lloyd Jones

3rd February - Dr Matthew Gibson: Rape and Mistaken Consent

19th January - Lost in Translation? – From Science to Regulation

10th December - Human Rights Day 2015

8th December - Leaders in Law: Judge Brian Barker QC

25th November - Professor Yvonne Jewkes

6th November - Public Lecture: Lady Hale - Appointing Judges to the UK Supreme Court

6th-7th November - Appointing Judges in an Age of Diversity: An International Conference on the 10th Anniversary of the Judicial Appointments Commission

4th November - Nick Hardwick, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons

19th October - Professor Ian O'Donnell

8th October - Lord Harris of Haringey

14th September - Vulnerability and Resilience: An Emerging Paradigm

3rd September - Postgraduate discussion group with Professor Martha Fineman, Emory University

13th July - Law and Norms of Music Borrowing

8th July - Virtual postgraduate open day

29th-30th June - Corporate Lawyers and Corporate Clients: Power, Practice and Privilege

12th June - Controlling Crypto-currencies - conference at Birmingham Law School

9th June - Law's Impact in the Real World

26th May - Capital punishment

23rd May - Dementia and vulnerability

18th-19th May - 'SHAPE': Enquiring into the Forces Shaping Subsidy and State Aid Laws

30th March - Workshop: Re-imagining Clinical Legal Education

6th March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Lord Hughes

17th February - Documentary Screening: 12th & Delaware

15th January - Postgraduate reading group with Anna Grear (Cardiff Law School)

8th-9th January - Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Postgraduate Conference 2015

10th December - World Human Rights Day: Tuesday 10th December

4th December - Queer Inheritance, Kinship, Law

21st November - Ebola: Towards an International Health Systems Fund

21st-22nd November - Conference: A Critical Exploration of Global Health Law

18th November - Young prisoners - A research discussion event

18th November - Documentary Screening: The Edge of Joy

4th November - The underlying principle in nuisance claims

15th October - Rehabilitation revolution? Young prisoners experiences of re-integration and resettlement

17th September - Workshop: Re-imagining the Teaching of Criminal Law

26th-27th June - Reforming the EU: The Future of European Law & Policy

25th June - Leaving Europe? The Legal, Political and Economic Implications of a UK Exit from the EU

24th June - Dogs, Owners & Responsibility: Law in the Doghouse?

19th June - Research seminar: The Silenced Citizens of Russia: Exclusion of Nonheterosexual Subjects From Rights-Based Citizenship

13th June - Transcending Boundaries in the Law: Postgraduate Research Conference

5th June - Care and Relationality Research Workshop

14th May - Research seminar: Re-thinking the burdens of modern imprisonment

7th May - Comparative legal and ethical issues surrounding assisted reproductive techniques in animals

30th April - Towards a Theory of Legal Subjectivity

26th March - Research seminar: title to be confirmed

21st March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Lady Justice Hallett

20th March - When Life means Death...

19th March - Law In Practice: His Honour Judge Martin Cardinal

12th March - Research seminar: title to be confirmed

12th March - Leaders in Law: Professor Francois Crepeau

5th March - Research seminar: title to be confirmed

26th February - Is Humanity Now Enough? The Future of International Refugee Protection

19th February - Research seminar: title to be announced

12th February - Communication Challenges faced by Litigants in Person in the Adversarial Court Proceedings

5th February - Why you don't want to own your body?

29th January - Harmful Societies: Examining the production of harm in capitalist societies

22nd January - UN Immunity or Impunity?

19th November - Leaders in Law: Lord Justice Ward

18th October - The Futures of Legal Education and the Legal Profession 2013 CEPLER Conference

10th October - Ray Krone to speak about the death penalty

9th September - Religion, Gangs, Community Cohesion and Youth Detention - a research discussion event

21st-23rd March - Conference: the Challenges of Trans-national Investigations

15th March - Holdsworth Presidential Address 2013: Lord Dyson

25th February - A Question of Sport and the Law: What now for sport in Britain and beyond?

20th February - Contempt of Court in the Age of the Internet

23rd November - Access to Justice in an Age of Austerity: CEPLER conference

19th October - The use of scientific evidence in criminal and civil litigation

28th-29th June - Integration or Disintegration? The Future of European Law & Policy

22nd March - International Arbitration: an alternative to the courts or a forum in its own right?

14th March - Fulfilling its Purpose for the 21st Century? English Family Law and the Debate on the Accommodation of Shari'a Law

7th March - Sovereignty Re-visited

2nd March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury

29th February - Going to bed with the chickens: the criminalisation of sexual acts with non-human animals and corpses

15th February - Judicial activism and the ECJ: how should academics respond?

9th February - Res Omnium Communes, Res Extra Commercium: The Common Heritage of Mankind

1st February - Sexual Violence and the Possibilities of Restorative Justice

25th January - Spare Organs, Spare Tissue, Spare Genes?

18th January - Are Labour Rights Human Rights?

11th January - Beyond acts, circumstances and results: A fourth ulterior element

7th December - Professor Thomas Giegerich - Staff Research Seminar

30th November - Prosecution Policy-Making: The Case of Assisted Suicide and Mercy Killing in England and Wales

23rd November - Race, Racism, and the "Vexatious Litigant"

9th November - What Conscience Can Do for Equity?

2nd November - Boys to Men: Negotiating Agency and Identity in a Young Offender Institution

26th October - Procedural Fairness in Sanctions Decision-making: A Good Idea in Theory?

12th October - The Potential of and the Pitfalls for a European Public Prosecutor?

5th October - Exploring the Nucleus of an Internal Regime of Minority Rights in the EU