Events archive In 'Law events' EventsResearch seminarsVideo recordingsEvents archive Back to 'Birmingham Law School' 2020 1st December - Institute of European Law Annual Lecture 20202nd November - Law PhD Proposals and Funding Applications Workshop17th October - Undergraduate Open Day15th October - 'Mutant Algorithms' and the Challenges of Responsible Data Science in Society28th September - China's National Security: Endangering Hong Kong's Rule of Law?22nd September - 'In conversation' with Jonathan Hall QC14th September - Law and Humanity: A PGR Research Carnival12th September - Undergraduate Open Day9th July - Patients not passports8th July - Postgraduate Offer Holder Day - College of Arts and Law25th June - Undergraduate Open Day24th June - Undergraduate Open Day11th June - High-level virtual convening on united nations counter-terrorism and human rights18th March - Global Legal Studies Group Talk 311th March - Postgraduate Open Day19th February - Global Legal Studies Group Talk 211th February - Citizen Science and DIY Diabetes: Ethical and Regulatory Challenges of Patient-led Innovation5th February - Disruptive Doctoral Research22nd January - Law and Tech Research Group20th January - Mind the Gaps: UK Law after Brexit15th January - Global Legal Studies Group Talk 2019 11th December - Interface China: Can it Integrate into the World Trading System?11th December - Christmas themes in Law11th December - Law PhD Proposals and Funding Applications Workshop11th December - Flexibility Provisions in Multilateral Trade Agreements10th December - The Retreat from Multilateralism and the Challenges of Global Economic Governance from an EU Perspective9th December - Everyday Cyborgs 2.0 - Alternative Legal Futures5th December - The Strategic Use of Public Procurement for Industrial Purpose in Emerging Economies5th December - Law PGR Career Development and Networking Event4th December - Theme event - Human Rights, Development, and Global Legal Studies27th November - Law and Language: Translating the EU Acquis for accession27th November - Law in Translation – the case of the Balkans27th November - Gender and Law Research seminar - Dr Kathryn McNeilly21st November - Leaders in Law: Simone George21st November - Being Human Festival 2019: 21st Century Body Panel Discussion with Q&A20th November - Global Patient Safety Law, Policy and Practice14th November - The EU, Eurasia and their Trade Relations13th November - Making / Protecting Time for Research and Scholarship13th November - Gender and Law Research seminar - Dr Flora Renz6th November - Theme event - Care, Relationships, Health30th October - Gender and Law Research seminar - Dr Katherine Brown25th October - Bal Sokhi-Bulley (Sussex) - Rights as a Relational Ethics of Friendship23rd October - Theme event - Violence, Crime, Justice with Rob Cryer and Carol Jones17th October - Leaders in Law Lecture: Edward Fitzgerald CBE QC16th October - Exploring Inspirational Teaching within BLS and how to get recognition for the same14th October - Reflections on reproductive rights in Ecuador9th October - Theme event - Law, Technology and Ethics2nd 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 law9th July - The response to HIV from Human Rights and the UN Strategy 90-90-9020th June - Birmingham Law School Conference18th June - Justice in Transitions30th May - International Economic Law working group29th May - Damages before the European Court of Human Rights15th May - Dynamic Justice Problems8th May - On teaching International Law7th May - Researching legal education4th April - The Impact of the medical profession on abortion laws in transitional and post-conflict societies21st March - Race, Inclusion and Excellence in Law Schools: A Perspective From Three Continents13th 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 UK6th March - Cultures of Interpretation. The Case of International Humanitarian Law27th February - Accountability for Counter-Terrorism27th February - Grenfell: from crime to social harm20th February - The French implementation of the EU CSR Directive6th February - Balancing Freedom of Conscience and the Right to Non-Discrimination on the Ground of Sexual Orientation: Beyond Ongoing Culture Wars23rd January - Race and the Law11th January - Reimagining Environmental Law 2018 12th December - Key pitfalls of requiring recourse to the criminal law through human rights: reflections on ECtHR doctrine12th December - Global Legal Studies Reading Group - December5th December - Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Sustainable Development: Law and Governance Innovations for Integrated Decision-Making5th December - Our research and Birmingham: past, present and future4th December - The NHS and Health Law Post Brexit: Views from Stakeholders and the Devolved Jurisdictions28th November - Minorities and the Ideology of the Postcolonial State in Indian Constituent Assembly Debates 1946-195028th November - EU citizenship as meaningful citizenship23rd November - Abortion Law Reform in Ireland North and South: Activism and Non-Legal Contributions21st November - Transnational Counter-Terrorism: The Urgent Need for Constitutionalist Attention21st November - Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism, the New Historiography, and the End of the Third World14th November - The problem with companies, sustainability and 'gender empowerment'7th November - Multi choice examinations7th November - Global Legal Studies Reading Group - November31st October - Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Locus of Constituent Power in the United Kingdom31st October - Concepts and Theories24th October - Deals, Disregard and Destitution: How our Criminal Justice Systems address Deviance and the Crimes We Ignore24th October - Pebblepad and personal tutees21st October - The Disappearance of Miss Bebb: A Celebrity Play Reading and Conference17th October - Tangled Webs and Distal Horizons12th-14th October - British Academy Writing Workshop - Dhaka, Bangladesh3rd October - Best practice in feedback and assessment3rd October - Global Legal Studies Reading Group - October28th September - Workshop on Counter-Terrorism Review11th September - Reimagining Health Law11th September - Stream in Honour of Professor Gordon R Woodman at the ASA 2018 conference4th-5th July - Policymakers Workshop on Cryptocurrency and the Blockchain Regulation2nd July - Enforcement and compliance on environmental matters in the face of Brexit26th-27th June - Critical Commercial and Corporate Law Symposium21st June - Interdisciplinary Reflections on Adversities, Trauma and Resilience13th June - Being Digital Scholars6th June - From PhD to Book31st May - Ireland's Referendum on Abortion: A Time for Change?30th May - Topic to be confirmed23rd May - Contemporary Challenges in Family Law16th May - Are British Overseas Territories modern day Colonies? A case study of Gibraltar9th May - Potluck & 'academic community' discussion2nd May - #MeToo, discussing sensitive issues in classroom settings25th April - LGBTQI Employment Discrimination Rights in the United States13th March - In Conversation with John Kendall6th March - Toward a Political Geography of Abortion1st March - Leaders in Law Lecture: Iryna Polovets, WTO28th February - Making a difference in the age of the neoliberal university27th February - Spatiality and Abortion Travel26th February - A Global Study of Same Sex Marriage: Universalism or Cultural Relativism?21st February - Normative Agency, Law, and Moral Holidays14th February - Anatomies of an Academic Career7th February - Nationalist Discourse and the Paradoxes of Postcolonial Statehood31st January - Methodological Reflections on Law as a Social Science24th January - Rethinking Vulnerability in Legal Research23rd January - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Postponed17th January - Interactivity in Teaching15th January - Leaders in Law lecture: Professor Nils Melzer10th January - Interdisciplinarity in research 2017 6th December - Briefing on HEFCE Update on REF4th December - China's National Security: Endangering Hong Kong's Rule of Law29th November - Law, Language and Translation27th November - Re-imagining EU Law: Brexit and the Law School22nd November - Perspectives on PhD Supervision21st November - Transgender Rights: A Personal Perspective15th November - Healthcare after Brexit: Building a Research Agenda8th November - Researching Lawyers and Lawyering1st November - Some Reflections on Methods in Analysing Law and Time25th October - Building an Inclusive Curriculum18th October - Pot Luck Lunch and Group Discussion: The Social Academic12th October - CEPLER Invitation to a Free Consultation on the Law of Wills11th October - Rethinking Assessment4th 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 Researcher27th September - Dr Laurens Lavrysen - Human Rights in a Positive State26th September - Re-imagining Land Law21st September - Law, translation and migration: an enlightening relationship20th September - Debt and Debt Relief15th September - Theory and Method in Doctrinal and Socio-Legal Studies24th-25th August - Criminal Justice Reform in Comparative Perspective22nd June - Homicide Post-Jogee13th 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 matters31st May - Reflection & Critique: Assessing Aspects of an Advocacy Module31st May - Distinguished Fulbright Lecture: Counter terrorism and the phenomenon of "suspect communities"26th May - Why we all have a duty to care about dementia24th May - Conceptualising Security23rd May - Polyphonic Discourses of Capacity: Consonance and dissonance in medico-legal interaction10th May - 3 Minute Thesis4th May - Health Law and the UK: Where Now After Brexit?4th May - Running the NHS After Brexit3rd May - Burying an agenda in Brussels: Law, information, and the fate of fiscal governance27th April - Brown Bag Lunch: Professor Robert Lee - What good is health care?26th April - Citizenship and Punishment22nd March - Planning for Promotions22nd March - Saul Lehrfreund MBE10th March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Dame Elizabeth Gloster8th March - REF Calibration1st March - Improving the Research Environment24th February - Post-Brexit Britain in A World of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs)22nd February - Managing an academic workload8th February - Ask the Editors8th February - Brexit and Article 50: The impacts on the Constitution and on Fundamental Rights7th February - Leaders in Law: Judge Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska1st February - 'Reflecting on a new core module... Talking About "Legal Communication and Writing26th January - Leaders in Law: Stephen Denyer25th January - Miller Case Rapid Reaction Roundtable18th January - Jus Cogens and International Crimes: Do they make a difference?'18th January - James Timpson OBE11th January - BLS after the QLD 2016 30th November - History in Legal Research: What? Why? How?24th November - Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture Series: Tim Moloney QC23rd November - Assessment and feedback18th November - Leaders in Law: Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma16th November - The Stern Report and the Future of REF9th November - US Election: Rapid Reaction Roundtable8th November - Q & A on the Brexit Decision3rd November - Leading public lawyers meet at Birmingham Law School to consider the British Bill of Rights and political constitutionalism2nd November - Encouraging Active Student Learners2nd November - Leaders in Law Lecture: Grace Ononiwu OBE26th October - Getting the Best out of Personal Tutoring25th October - Law virtual open day19th October - Brexit: The Implications for Legal Research13th October - Rehabilitation, Culture and Society12th October - What is Teaching Excellence in Law?5th October - Roundtable Reflections on Writing Academic Research28th September - Food Regulation and Scientific Expertise: Critical Reflections.7th-8th September - UK and Ireland Streetlaw Best Practices Conference 201623rd-24th June - More or less Europe?8th-9th June - Crime and Control Ethnography Symposium 20161st June - Law in the Time of Cholera4th March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Sir David Lloyd Jones3rd February - Dr Matthew Gibson: Rape and Mistaken Consent19th January - Lost in Translation? – From Science to Regulation 2015 10th December - Human Rights Day 20158th December - Leaders in Law: Judge Brian Barker QC25th November - Professor Yvonne Jewkes6th November - Public Lecture: Lady Hale - Appointing Judges to the UK Supreme Court6th-7th November - Appointing Judges in an Age of Diversity: An International Conference on the 10th Anniversary of the Judicial Appointments Commission4th November - Nick Hardwick, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons19th October - Professor Ian O'Donnell8th October - Lord Harris of Haringey14th September - Vulnerability and Resilience: An Emerging Paradigm3rd September - Postgraduate discussion group with Professor Martha Fineman, Emory University13th July - Law and Norms of Music Borrowing8th July - Virtual postgraduate open day29th-30th June - Corporate Lawyers and Corporate Clients: Power, Practice and Privilege12th June - Controlling Crypto-currencies - conference at Birmingham Law School9th June - Law's Impact in the Real World26th May - Capital punishment23rd May - Dementia and vulnerability18th-19th May - 'SHAPE': Enquiring into the Forces Shaping Subsidy and State Aid Laws30th March - Workshop: Re-imagining Clinical Legal Education6th March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Lord Hughes17th February - Documentary Screening: 12th & Delaware15th January - Postgraduate reading group with Anna Grear (Cardiff Law School)8th-9th January - Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Postgraduate Conference 2015 2014 10th December - World Human Rights Day: Tuesday 10th December4th December - Queer Inheritance, Kinship, Law21st November - Ebola: Towards an International Health Systems Fund21st-22nd November - Conference: A Critical Exploration of Global Health Law18th November - Young prisoners - A research discussion event18th November - Documentary Screening: The Edge of Joy4th November - The underlying principle in nuisance claims15th October - Rehabilitation revolution? Young prisoners experiences of re-integration and resettlement17th September - Workshop: Re-imagining the Teaching of Criminal Law26th-27th June - Reforming the EU: The Future of European Law & Policy25th June - Leaving Europe? The Legal, Political and Economic Implications of a UK Exit from the EU24th June - Dogs, Owners & Responsibility: Law in the Doghouse?19th June - Research seminar: The Silenced Citizens of Russia: Exclusion of Nonheterosexual Subjects From Rights-Based Citizenship13th June - Transcending Boundaries in the Law: Postgraduate Research Conference5th June - Care and Relationality Research Workshop14th May - Research seminar: Re-thinking the burdens of modern imprisonment7th May - Comparative legal and ethical issues surrounding assisted reproductive techniques in animals30th April - Towards a Theory of Legal Subjectivity26th March - Research seminar: title to be confirmed21st March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Lady Justice Hallett20th March - When Life means Death...19th March - Law In Practice: His Honour Judge Martin Cardinal12th March - Research seminar: title to be confirmed12th March - Leaders in Law: Professor Francois Crepeau5th March - Research seminar: title to be confirmed26th February - Is Humanity Now Enough? The Future of International Refugee Protection19th February - Research seminar: title to be announced12th February - Communication Challenges faced by Litigants in Person in the Adversarial Court Proceedings5th February - Why you don't want to own your body?29th January - Harmful Societies: Examining the production of harm in capitalist societies22nd January - UN Immunity or Impunity? 2013 19th November - Leaders in Law: Lord Justice Ward18th October - The Futures of Legal Education and the Legal Profession 2013 CEPLER Conference10th October - Ray Krone to speak about the death penalty9th September - Religion, Gangs, Community Cohesion and Youth Detention - a research discussion event21st-23rd March - Conference: the Challenges of Trans-national Investigations15th March - Holdsworth Presidential Address 2013: Lord Dyson25th 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 2012 23rd November - Access to Justice in an Age of Austerity: CEPLER conference19th October - The use of scientific evidence in criminal and civil litigation28th-29th June - Integration or Disintegration? The Future of European Law & Policy22nd 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 Law7th March - Sovereignty Re-visited2nd March - Holdsworth Presidential Address: Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury29th February - Going to bed with the chickens: the criminalisation of sexual acts with non-human animals and corpses15th February - Judicial activism and the ECJ: how should academics respond?9th February - Res Omnium Communes, Res Extra Commercium: The Common Heritage of Mankind1st February - Sexual Violence and the Possibilities of Restorative Justice25th 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 2011 7th December - Professor Thomas Giegerich - Staff Research Seminar30th November - Prosecution Policy-Making: The Case of Assisted Suicide and Mercy Killing in England and Wales23rd 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 Institution26th 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