Research seminars In 'Law research' ResearchPublic EngagementSpotlightsBrexitResearch videosResearch seminarsDoctoral researchersVisiting scholars Back to 'Birmingham Law School' Every Wednesday during term, the Birmingham Law School faculty and graduate students meet for an informal seminar, reflecting on issues relating to our research, teaching innovation and excellence. These internal seminars complement the research seminars and activities that are carried out throughout the year, from guest lectures to major conferences and smaller research seminars, and at which external speakers are invited to join, provoke curiosity and reflection, and engage with the academics and graduate students at BLS. Wednesday afternoon seminars are held in the Senior Common Room in the Law School from 1-2 pm.. Forthcoming seminars:RSS FeedAtom Feed There are no seminars currently on the schedule. Please check back when the new semester begins. Research seminar archive: 2019 11th December - Interface China: Can it Integrate into the World Trading System?11th December - Christmas themes in Law11th December - Flexibility Provisions in Multilateral Trade Agreements5th 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 McNeilly20th 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 Jones16th 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)29th May - Damages before the European Court of Human Rights15th May - Dynamic Justice Problems8th May - On teaching International Law13th 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 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 future28th November - Minorities and the Ideology of the Postcolonial State in Indian Constituent Assembly Debates 1946-195028th November - EU citizenship as meaningful citizenship21st November - Transnational Counter-Terrorism: The Urgent Need for Constitutionalist Attention14th 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 - Pebblepad and personal tutees17th October - Tangled Webs and Distal Horizons3rd October - Best practice in feedback and assessment3rd October - Global Legal Studies Reading Group - October13th June - Being Digital Scholars6th June - From PhD to Book30th 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 States28th February - Making a difference in the age of the neoliberal university21st 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 Research17th January - Interactivity in Teaching10th January - Interdisciplinarity in research 2017 6th December - Briefing on HEFCE Update on REF29th November - Law, Language and Translation22nd November - Perspectives on PhD Supervision15th 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 Academic11th October - Rethinking Assessment4th October - Perspectives on 'Judicial Power'27th September - The Three Minute Researcher31st May - Reflection & Critique: Assessing Aspects of an Advocacy Module24th May - Conceptualising Security10th May - 3 Minute Thesis3rd May - Burying an agenda in Brussels: Law, information, and the fate of fiscal governance26th April - Citizenship and Punishment22nd March - Planning for Promotions8th March - REF Calibration1st March - Improving the Research Environment22nd February - Managing an academic workload8th February - Ask the Editors1st February - 'Reflecting on a new core module... Talking About "Legal Communication and Writing25th January - Miller Case Rapid Reaction Roundtable18th January - Jus Cogens and International Crimes: Do they make a difference?'11th January - BLS after the QLD 2016 30th November - History in Legal Research: What? Why? How?23rd November - Assessment and feedback16th November - The Stern Report and the Future of REF9th November - US Election: Rapid Reaction Roundtable2nd November - Encouraging Active Student Learners26th October - Getting the Best out of Personal Tutoring19th October - Brexit: The Implications for Legal Research12th October - What is Teaching Excellence in Law?5th October - Roundtable Reflections on Writing Academic Research28th September - Food Regulation and Scientific Expertise: Critical Reflections. 2014 19th June - Research seminar: The Silenced Citizens of Russia: Exclusion of Nonheterosexual Subjects From Rights-Based Citizenship14th May - Research seminar: Re-thinking the burdens of modern imprisonment30th April - Towards a Theory of Legal Subjectivity26th March - Research seminar: title to be confirmed12th March - Research seminar: title to be confirmed5th 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? 2012 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 Law7th March - Sovereignty Re-visited29th 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