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February 2012

Tuesday 14 February 2012  Week 5

Obligations Discussion Group
Good Faith in Contract Law
Speaker: The Hon Justice James Allsop , President, Court of Appeal of New South Wales
Corpus Christi College at 12:45
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Living With the Enemy: The Ethics of Belligerent Military Occupation
Speaker: Professor Cecile Fabre, Fellow in Philosophy, Lincoln College Oxford
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Law and Finance Workshop
"Contracting Co-Determination: An Analysis of Bargaining over Co-Determination Rules for a Societas Europaea" and "International Corporate Group Rescue and Insolvency: Principles, Models, Reform"
Speaker: Horst Eidenmuller, Professor of Private Law, German, European and International Company Law, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and Felix Steffek, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 13:00
Isaiah Berlin Lecture : A New World’ – Philosophical Idealism in America
Josiah Royce and the argument from error
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Winkler, Yale University
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series – Hilary Term 2012
From Condor to MERCOSUR: The Struggle for Accountability for Past Human Rights Violations in Uruguay
Speaker: Felipe Michelini, Deputy, Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies; Co-founder, Public Policy Institute of Human Rights Mercosur (IPPDH)
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D, at 17:00

Wednesday 15 February  Week 5

PCMLP Seminar Series
China's International Outreach: Soft Power and the Soft Use of Power
Speaker: Professor Gary Rawnsley, University of Leeds
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Regulation Discussion Group
“A Pragmatic Perspective on Democracy and Regulation”
Speaker: Professor Sid Shapiro, Wake Forest University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 17:30
Regulation Discussion Group
A Pragmatic Perspective on Democracy and Regulation
Speaker: Prof. Sid Shapiro, Wake Forest University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building E at 17:30
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Speaker: all
St Cross College Senior Common Room at 9:00

Thursday 16 February  Week 5

Public International Law Discussion Group
The Restitution of Removed Cultural Properties: a Historical Precedent
Speaker: Tullio Scovazzi, Professor of International Law, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Property Law Discussion Group
Property law terminology in European Union legislation
Speaker: Eveline Ramaekers, Maastricht University
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
Comparative Law Discussion Group
Love and law - romantic relationships from a comparative perspective
Speaker: Professor Anne Roethel, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
Institute of European and Comparative Law Seminar Room D (and IECL foyer for lunch from 12.30) at 1300
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Five Spaces of Cultural Criminology
Speaker: Keith Hayward, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Intellectual Property Law and the Problem of Aesthetic Progress
Speaker: Professor Barton Beebe, School of Law, New York University
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
Law and Finance Seminar Series
Why Bank Governance is Different
Speaker: Marco Becht, Professor of Finance and Economics, Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30

Friday 17 February  Week 5

Oxford Law Faculty
Treating like cases alike in the world
Speaker: Jeremy Waldron, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford (All Souls)
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 14:00
St Antony's College
Engaging with the DPR Korea through Education and Culture
Speaker: Dr. James Kim
St Antony's College The Buttery at 17:00
Oxford Lawyers Without Borders
Sex, Violence and Conflict in the Congo
Mansfield College Council Room at 19:15

Monday 20 February  Week 6

Borderlands: History, Identity, and the European Union
‘Joining Europe, adopting the rule of law. Why this is more complicated, and has less to do with law, than the EU, the Venice Commission, even you, think’
Speaker: Prof. Martin Krygier, Gordon Samuels Professor of Law and Social Theory University of New South Wales
St Antony's College Dahrendorf room at 13:00
Oxford Lawyers Without Borders
Imran Khan Talk
Speaker: Imran Khan
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:00
Oxford University
From Segregation to Inclusion: Is Education of Roma Children in Central Europe on the Right Track?
Queen Elizabeth House Seminar Room 3 at 17:00
Migration Law Discussion Group
Putting solidarity to the test: assessing Europe’s response to the asylum crisis in Greece
Speaker: Lilian Tsourdi, PhD Candidate, Law Faculty and Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30

Tuesday 21 February  Week 6

Obligations Discussion Group
Avoided Loss in Damages for Torts and Breach of Contract
Speaker: Mr Andrew Dyson , Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Corpus Christi College at 12:45
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
Tba
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1245
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Gendering Counterinsurgency
Speaker: Dr Laleh Khalili, SOAS
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Isaiah Berlin Lecture : A New World’ – Philosophical Idealism in America
Personalism, from Bowne and Howison to Martin Luther King
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Winkler, Yale University
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series – Hilary Term 2012
Transitional Justice as an Instrument for Political Struggles in Burundi
Speaker: Sandra Rubli, Research Analyst, Swisspeace
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D, at 17:00

Wednesday 22 February  Week 6

EU Law Discussion Group
Social Ideals of the European Court of Justice: an Approximation
Speaker: Professor Dagmar Schiek, University of Leeds
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube (with lunch from 12.30 in the Foyer of the IECL) at 1300
Comparative Law Discussion Group
Contemporary art and classic law: a challenge
Speaker: Professor Gianmaria Ajani , University of Turin
Institute of European and Comparative Law Seminar Room D (with lunch from 12.30 in the Foyer of the IECL) at 1300
The Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies Regulation Discussion Group Seminars
Regulatory imagination and the challenge of interdisciplinarity
Speaker: Professor Bob Jessop, Lancaster University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar room F at 16:00
The Regulatory Imagination
Regulatory imagination and the challenge of interdisciplinarity
Speaker: Prof. Bob Jessop, Lancaster University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building F at 16:00
PCMLP Seminar Series
Broadcasting the State: Tribe, Citizenship and the Politics of Radio Drama in Afghanistan
Speaker: Professor Marie Gillespie, Open University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Oxford Law Faculty
A Debate: The Future of Europe: Towards a Two-Speed EU?
Speaker: Jean-Claude Piris (author and former Director General of the Legal Service of the Council Secretariat), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (DPIR, CIS director), Pavlos Eleftheriadis (Law, Mansfield), Stephen Weatherill (Law, Somerville).
Christ Church McKenna Room at 17:00
Law and Finance Senior Practitioner Lecture
Strengthening the corporate governance of financial institutions: a hopeless but necessary task?
Speaker: Philip Heyes, Ex-partner Linklaters, director Bank Zenit
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Speaker: all
St Cross College Senior Common Room at 9:00

Thursday 23 February  Week 6

Public International Law Discussion Group
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: tbc
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Property Law Discussion Group
Pension plans, fiduciary duties and the thorny question of disclosure
Speaker: Justice Eileen E. Gillese, Ontario Court of Appeal
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
Louwes Lecture 2012
Accountability and International Law: Reflections from Water Projects
Speaker: Professor Edith Brown Weiss, Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law; Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Government; Georgetown University
Christ Church Blue Boar Lecture Theatre at 16:30
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
The Patent System and Climate Change
Speaker: Professor Josh Sarnoff , College of Law, DePaul University
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects lecture series
Israel and the European Left: Between Solidarity and Delegitimisation
Speaker: Professor Colin Schindler, SOAS
Lincoln College at 20:00

Friday 24 February  Week 6

Oxford Law Faculty
Democratic and textualist objections
Speaker: Jeremy Waldron, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford (All Souls
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 14:00
Neill Lecture 2012
The Legal History Nobody Knows
Speaker: Sir John Baker, QC, FBA , Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge
Examination Schools at 17:00

Monday 27 February  Week 7

The Holdsworth Society (St Johns)
Final of the Holdsworth Law Society Moot
St John's College

Tuesday 28 February  Week 7

ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Dr Antulio Echevarria II, US Army War College
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series – Hilary Term 2012
“Before, During and After:” Artistic Narrative Representations of Peru’s Internal Conflict
Speaker: Prof. Cynthia E. Milton, Professor of Latin American History, Université de Montréal
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D, at 17:00

Wednesday 29 February  Week 7

Institute of European and Comparative Law
Why there is no governing with judges
Speaker: Christoph Mollers, Humboldt University Berlin
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 1500
PCMLP Seminar Series
An Anthropological Analysis of the Use of the Media for Political Mobilization
Speaker: Dr John Postill, Sheffield Hallam University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Regulation Discussion Group
Regulation of Networked Industries: The Case of Slovak Postal Services and Berlin Water
Speaker: Martina Maier, McDermott Will & Emery
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:00
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Speaker: all
St Cross College Senior Common Room at 9:00

March 2012

Thursday 1 March  Week 7

Public International Law Discussion Group
State Responsibility for International Terrorosim
Speaker: Dr Kimberley Trapp, College Lecturer in Law, Newnham College, Cambridge
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
Accepting the Limits of Tax Law and Economics
Speaker: Alex Raskolnikov, Charles Evans Gerber Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Said Business School Seminar Room 14 at 13:45
OxPILS seminar series
Reconciling ‘journalism’ and data protection- the European framework
Speaker: Dr. David Erdos, Katzenbach Research Fellow (Balliol College) at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Balliol College Master’s Dining Room at 16:30
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Patents and Clean Energy: Bridging the Gap between Evidence and Policy
Speaker: Dr Nikolaus Thumm, Chief Economist, European Patent Office
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
Law and Finance Seminar Series
Product Liability vs. Reputation
Speaker: Fernandez Gomez, Professor of Law and Economics, Universidad Pompeu Fabra School of Law, Barecelona
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30

Friday 2 March  Week 7

Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
Tax Collection and Corporate Governance: Evidence from French Small Businesses
Speaker: Laurent Bach, Stockholm School of Economics
Said Business School Andrew Cormack Room at 13:45
Oxford Law Faculty
Practical difficulties
Speaker: Jeremy Waldron, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford (All Souls
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 14:00

Monday 5 March  Week 8

Migration Law Discussion Group
Are All Refugees Equal Before the Law? The 1951 Refugee Convention and Article 26 of the ICCPR
Speaker: Marina Sharpe, Dphil candidate, Linacre College, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30

Tuesday 6 March  Week 8

Obligations Discussion Group
Thinking About Tort Law - Where Do We Go From Here?
Speaker: Mr Nicolas McBride , Pembroke College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College at 12:45
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
Tba
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1245
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Iran's Nuclear Programme and International Law
Speaker: Professor Daniel Joyner, University of Alabama School of Law
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Institute of European and Comparative Law
The Euro-crisis: law, politics and treaty reform
Speaker: Paul Craig, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Lecture Room 1 at 1300
Law and Finance Workshop
"Private equity backed IPOs" and "Private Equity Control over Portfolio Companies"
Speaker: Howard Jones and Ruediger Stucke, Senior Research Fellow in Finance and Research Fellow in Finance and Economics, Saïd Business School and Jeremias Prassl, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 13:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series – Hilary Term 2012
Challenges of Peace-Building in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
Speaker: Dr. Phil Clark and others
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D, at 17:00

Wednesday 7 March  Week 8

EU Law Discussion Group
The Protection of National Identity through EU Law: a "People's Europe" or a "Europe of Citizens"
Speaker: Dr Daniel Sarmiento, Court of Justice of the EU
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube (with lunch from 12.30 in the Foyer of the IECL) at 1300
The regulatory imagination
Regulatory imagination and reform: The Case of the Financial Crisis
Speaker: Prof. Michael Moran Manchester University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room F at 14:00
The Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies Regulation Discussion Group Seminars
Regulatory imagination and reform: The Case of the Financial Crisis
Speaker: Professor Michael Moran, Manchester University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar room F at 16:00
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
St Cross College Senior Common Room at 9:00

Thursday 8 March  Week 8

Public Law Discussion Group
Smoke and Mirrors: the Human Rights Act and the impact of the Strasbourg case law
Speaker: Richard Clayton QC, Barrister, 4-5 Gray's Inn Square and UK Representative to the Venice Commission, the Council of Europe’s advisory body on constitutional law
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30
Public International Law Discussion Group
International Energy Law for the 21st Century
Speaker: Professor Catherine Redgwell, Professor of International Law, UCL
New College Room 6 at 12:30
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
A Power Law of Death
Speaker: Frank Baumgartner, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Law and Finance Workshop
"Holding bank directors accountable: the role of boards, institutional shareholders and micro-prudential regulators", "Tug of War between an open market for corporate control and a long-term vision for UK firms: Revisiting the advisory role of target directors during a UK bid post the takeover of Cadbury's plc" and "What'’s (un)problematic about corporate power?"
Speaker: Andreas Kokkinis, UCL Faculty of Laws, Georgina Tsagas, QMUL School of Law and Marc Moore, UCL Faculty of Laws
London Seminar Room 6, Graduate Wing, UCL, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG at 15:30

Friday 9 March  Week 8

Oxford Law Faculty
Legal civilizations
Speaker: Jeremy Waldron, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford (All Souls
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 14:00

Monday 12 March  Week 9

Institute of European and Comparative Law
Oxford French Law Moot
Institute of European and Comparative Law

Friday 23 March until Saturday 24 March 2012  Week 10

Institute of European and Comparative Law
Legal Challenges Arising out of the Global Financial Crisis: Bail-outs, the Euro and Regulation
The Queen's College Memorial Room

April 2012

Thursday 19 April until Friday 20 April 2012  Week 0

Centre for Criminology
The Borders of Punishment: Criminal Justice, Citizenship and Social Exclusion
Manor Road Social Sciences Building

Sunday 22 April  Week 1

Oriel College
Memorial Service for Sir Zelman Cowen, Formerly Governor-General of Australia, Provost of Oriel College
Oriel College Chapel at 14:15

Thursday 26 April  Week 1

Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects lecture series
The Use of Force in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Speaker: Professor Guglielmo Verdirame, Kings College London
Lincoln College at 20:00

Monday 30 April  Week 2

Police and Policing Research Discussion Group
Police Professionalism Seminar
St Peter's College Dorfman Centre

May 2012

Wednesday 2 May  Week 2

The Regulatory Imagination
Reading Group meeting: Fiona Haines (2011) The Paradox of Regulation
Wolfson College Dining Hall at 13:00

Thursday 3 May  Week 2

Public Law Discussion Group
The theoretical foundations of public authority tort liability
Speaker: Professor Peter Cane, Professor of Law, ANU and Joint A. L. Goodhart Visiting Professor in Legal Science 2011-2012, Cambridge
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Pluralism and its Discontents: A Reflection on Two Decades of Writing in the Sociology of Punishment
Speaker: Tom Daems, Faculty of Law, Ghent University, Belgium
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects lecture series
Tbc
Speaker: Professor Benny Morris, Ben-Gurion University
Lincoln College at 20:00

Friday 4 May  Week 2

Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Workshop on Vertical Restraints
Speaker: Molly Herron and Alex Long, Herbert Smith LLP
Centre for Competition Law & Policy at 13:00

Thursday 10 May  Week 3

All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Return of the Repressed? For Social Democratic Criminology
Speaker: Robert Reiner, Department of Law, London School of Economics
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30

Friday 11 May  Week 3

Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Hard Facts about European Commission’s Dawn Raids
Speaker: Peter Citron, Hogan Lovells
Centre for Competition Law & Policy at 13:00
Public Law Discussion Group
White, Oxbridge and male. Is a diverse judiciary on the horizon?
Speaker: The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley, The Hon. Mr Justice Singh and Professor Dame Hazel Genn
Mansfield College Mansfield College Chapel at 17:00

Tuesday 15 May  Week 4

Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Buyer Power in Competition Law
St Catherine's College Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre at 0930

Wednesday 16 May  Week 4

The Regulatory Imagination
The regulatory imagination in a global context: regulatory competition & transnationalism
Speaker: Dr. Veerle Heyvaert, LSE
Manor Road Social Sciences Building F at 14:00

Thursday 17 May  Week 4

Public Law Discussion Group
International law as a tool for judicial freedom
Speaker: Ms. Veronika Fikfak, Currently submitting her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford, Post-Doc at Sciences Po, Paris
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room

Wednesday 23 May  Week 5

The Regulatory Imagination
The regulatory imagination and the challenge of equality I: Gender & economic crisis
Speaker: Prof. Sylvia Walby, Lancaster University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building F at 14:00

Thursday 24 May  Week 5

7th Roger Hood Annual Public Lecture Series
7th Roger Hood Annual Public Lecture
Speaker: Professor Marie Gottschalk,, University of Pennsylvania
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 17:00

Wednesday 30 May  Week 6

The Regulatory Imagination
The regulatory imagination & the challenge of equality: Gender, regulation & the crisis in personal finance
Speaker: Prof. Toni Williams, Kent University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building F at 14:00

Thursday 31 May  Week 6

Public Law Discussion Group
Tbc
Speaker: Professor Cary Franklin, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas School of Law at The University of Texas at Austin
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30

June 2012

Tuesday 12 June  Week 8

Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects lecture series
Tbc
Speaker: Professor Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University
Lincoln College at 20:00

Wednesday 13 June  Week 8

The Regulatory Imagination
Who builds regulatory imagination? Climate engineering, regulation and public engagement
Speaker: Dr. Bronislaw Szerszynski , Lancaster University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building F at 14:00

July 2012

Monday 30 July  Week 15

Oxford Law Faculty
UNIQ summer schools 2012
Oxford

2013

2013  Week -1

Oxford Law Faculty
Conference on the future of the European patent system
Oxford

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