Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group
About the Group
The Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group meets a few times each term, usually Wednesdays, between 1-2pm in one of the seminar rooms in Social Science Manor Road Building. The meetings provide an opportunity for research students to present work-in-progress of a socio-legal nature. Light snacks are provided, and all faculty, graduate students and research staff are warmly welcome.
Convenors: Eleanor Pritchard, Justine Rogers, Rebecca Money-Kyrle
Senior member: Denis Galligan
Previous Group Events
June 2011
Wednesday 22 June 2011
- 'The Quest for Accountability in Transnational Regulatory Networks: the case of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
- Speaker: Andres Gonzales-Watty
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
Wednesday 15 June
- 'Political Risk Insurance: Could it Replace Host State Compensation for Expropriation of Foreign Investments?
- Speaker: Rishab Gupta
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Room E at 13:00
February 2011
Wednesday 16 February
- Mapping a discourse: The SABC and its crisis of independences
- Speaker: Bee Ngwenya
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
November 2010
Wednesday 24 November 2010
- 'the Missing State? (non) Regulation of China's Orphan Care Sector'
- Speaker: Anna Kloeden , University of Oxford
Mansfield College Room E at 13:00
Wednesday 10 November
- 'A Dispute Analysis of Medical Negligence Claims in Sri Lanka'
- Speaker: Avanti Perera , University of Oxford
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Room E at 13:00
June 2010
Wednesday 2 June
- Developing a Syntax of Accountability
- Speaker: Frances Foster-Thorpe, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
May 2010
Wednesday 12 May
- The Role of International Law in Establishing Corporate Accountability through Codes of Conduct
- Speaker: Sinisa Milatovic, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
February 2010
Wednesday 24 February
- Fig Leaves or Fortifications? National Security and the Case of Binyam Mohamed
- Speaker: Rebecca Money-Kyrle, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 1
2010
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- Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
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- Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
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- Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
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- Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
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- Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
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- Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
June 2009
Wednesday 10 June 2009
- Doctoring the Law: Medical Negligence Claims in Sri Lanka
- Speaker: Avanti Perera, DPhil Student, CSLS
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
May 2009
Wednesday 27 May
- Conflict resolution between customary and statutory land tenure systems in peri urban areas of Lesotho - TBC
- Postponed
Speaker: Makuena Leboela, DPhil Student, CSLS
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
Wednesday 13 May
- Order through Disputes in Ukrainian Business - TBC
- Speaker: Tatiana Kyselowa, DPhil Student, CSLS
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
March 2009
Wednesday 4 March
- Title to be confirmed
- Speaker: Tatiana Kyselova, DPhil Student, CSLS
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Room E, Manor Road Building at 13
February 2009
Wednesday 18 February
- Why Semi-Legal? Polish post-2004 EU Enlargement Migrants in the UK.
- Speaker: Agnieszka Kubal, DPhil Student, CSLS
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Room E, Manor Road Building at 13
Wednesday 4 February
- Law vs. Practice: human gene patents and genetic tests
- Speaker: Naomi Hawkins, DPhil Student, Law Faculty, Ethox Group
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Room E, Manor Road Building at 13
May 2008
Tuesday 20 May 2008
- 'A Poststructuralist Analysis of NGO Participation in the Treaty Making Process for the Disability Rights Convention'
- Speaker: Maki Tanaka, CSLS
Manor Road Social Sciences Building E at 13:00
Wednesday 7 May
- 'Emergency Powers, the Detention of Terror Suspects, and the Right to Liberty and Security: A Legal Perspective on Recent Proposals'
- Speaker: Rebecca Money-Kyrle, CSLS
Manor Road Social Sciences Building E at 13:00
April 2008
Wednesday 30 April
- ‘Security of Person and Securing Rights’
- Speaker: Rhonda Powell, CSLS
Manor Road Social Sciences Building E at 13:00
February 2008
Tuesday 12 February
- Pupillage: The Shaping of a Professional Elite
- Speaker: Justine Rogers, CSLS
Manor Road Social Sciences Building E at 13:00
January 2008
Wednesday 30 January
- The Committee System and Participatory Governance in the European Union
- Speaker: Justin Cohen, CSLS
Manor Road Social Sciences Building E at 13:00
November 2007
Wednesday 21 November 2007
- The Principle of Technological Neutrality: a Critical Examination in Light of VoIP Services Development
- Speaker: Tal Ofek
Manor Road Social Sciences Building E at 13:00
Wednesday 7 November
- Boundaries of Law: An Ethnographic Account of Law at the Northeastern Corner of South Africa
- Speaker: Sindiso Mnisi
Manor Road Social Sciences Building E at 13:00
October 2007
Wednesday 24 October
- Women's Rights NGOs between International Human Rights Law and Islamic Law: Possible Spaces for Manoeuvre
- Speaker: Marwa Sharafeldin
Manor Road Social Sciences Building E at 13:00
