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May 2012

Criminal Law Discussion Group
Psychological harm and the English criminal law
Speaker: Maris Kopcke Tinture , Worcester College
All Souls College Hovenden Room at 12:00
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 16:00
Harris-Manchester College
Reform of the House of Lords
Speaker: Lord Kakkar of Loxbeare
Harris-Manchester College Old Dining Room at 17:30
RSC Public Seminar Series: Forward, backward, stalling? Critical reflections on the completion of the Common European Asylum System
Accessing international protection in Europe: Can EU policy be reconciled with EU law?
Speaker: Violeta Moreno-Lax, University of Oxford
Queen Elizabeth House Seminar Room 1 at 17:00
The 2012 John Locke Lectures: Truth and Content
Knowing About Things
Speaker: Professor Stephen Yablo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Merton College T.S. Eliot Theatre at 17:00
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Philip Strahan, Boston College
Said Business School Boardroom (joint with Finance) at 12:15
Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict & Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
Taking Soldiers Seriously
Speaker: Professor Cheyney Ryan , Oregon/ ELAC Visiting Fellow
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Labour Law Discussion Group
The concept of a social market economy and its impact on German labor law
Speaker: Professor Dr. Horst Call, Employment and Commercial Law at Brunswick European Law School (BELS)
Brasenose College Lecture Room XI at 13:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research
The Constitutional Accommodation of National Pluralism in Post-War Sri Lanka: The Lessons for the Present from Sri Lanka's Pre-Colonial Past
Speaker: Asanga Weikala
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Migration Law Discussion Group
Asylum from inhumanity: Enriching refugee protection standards through recourse to international humanitarian law
Change of venue
Speaker: Jean-François Durieux, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube - St Cross Building at 18:30
Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict
The ICC at 10
Speaker: Professor Jennifer Welsh, Dr David Rodin, and Dapo Akande Panel Discussion chaired by Dan Sarooshi (Professor of Public International Law, Oxford), University of Oxford
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room A at 12:30
Legalism
Harmony, law and the problem of representation in village Tibet
Speaker: Fernanda Pirie
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Oxford University
Self-Determination for West Papuans- Talk by Benny Wenda, West Papuan Independence Leader
Speaker: Benny Wenda, Charles Foster and Jennifer Robinson
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 16;00
Oxford University United Nations Association
International Court of Justice Simulation
St Edmund Hall Doctorow Hall at 20:00
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
Redirecting Fleet Street: Media Regulation and the Role of Law
Speaker: Panel
Wolfson College Haldane Room at 09:30
Oxford Human Rights Hub
Discussion Group
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 12:00
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
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
The Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions
Wolfson College The Buttery at 10:00
Public International Law Discussion Group
Customary Law in the International Criminal Tribunals
Speaker: Judge Theodor Meron, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict
Religion in War and Peace
Speaker: Professor Nigel Biggar (Oxford), Professor Tony Coady (CAPPE) and Dr Rama Mani (Oxford) Panel Discussion chaired by Professor Jennifer Welsh
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room A at 12:30
‘Mending the Tangled Web? Informational Privacy 3.0’
Data Protection in the Age of the Cloud
Speaker: Professor Christopher Millard, Queen Mary, University of London
Balliol College The Massey Room at 16:30
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
Lex Specialis Principle and Legal Reasoning
Speaker: Silvia Zorzetto, University of Milan
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:15
Law and Finance Seminar Series
The Political Economy of Dodd-Frank: Why Financial Reform Tends to be Frustrated and Systemic Risk Perpetuated
Speaker: John C. Coffee Jr. , Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Annual Lecture in Law and Society
The Strange History of the American Federal Bill of Rights: England, the United States, and the Atlantic World
Speaker: Pauline Maier, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jesus College Jesus College Ship St Centre at 17:30
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Conflict Resolution, Public Goods and Patent Thickets
Change of venue
Speaker: Dr Georg von Graevenitz , University of East Anglia
St Peter's College Theberge Room at 1715
The Youard Lecture in Legal History 2012
“Time in the Court of King's Bench”
Speaker: Professor Douglas Hay, Professor of Law and History at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Department of History, York University
Oxford Law Faculty Lecture Theatre II, St Cross Building, Manor Road Oxford at 17:00
Criminal Law Discussion Group
Locating The Presumption of Innocence
Speaker: Malcolm Thorburn, Queen's University, Canada
All Souls College Hovenden Room at 12:00
EU Law Discussion Group
The Regulation of State Aid in the EU: Is It Time to Give Up?
Speaker: Professor Andrea Biondi, King's College London
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 13:00
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 16:00
Taxation Law Guest Lectures
Seminar on Transfer Pricing
Speaker: Dr Michael Kobetsky, Melbourne Law School
Oxford Law Faculty at 17:00
Corporate and Business Taxation - Guest Lectures
Transfer pricing
Speaker: Dr Michael Kobetsky, Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne and a member of the United Nations Sub-Committee on Transfer Pricing.
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board room at 17:00
RSC Public Seminar Series: Forward, backward, stalling? Critical reflections on the completion of the Common European Asylum System
The perfect storm: the challenge of EU obligations on reception of asylum seekers and European human rights norms
Speaker: Professor Elspeth Guild, Radboud University Nijmegen & Queen Mary University
Queen Elizabeth House Seminar Room 1 at 17:00
The 2012 John Locke Lectures: Truth and Content
Confirmation and Verisimilitude
Speaker: Professor Stephen Yablo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Merton College T.S. Eliot Theatre at 17:00
Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Buyer Power in Competition Law
St Catherine's College Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre at 0930
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
Intellectual Property enforcement: The practical side of IP rights
Change of time
Speaker: Rosie Burbidge, Rouse
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 1000
Property Law Discussion Group
Property and Disagreement
Speaker: Professor Stephen R Munzer, UCLA School of Law
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 11:45
Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict & Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
The Kosova Liberation Army - a Living Inheritance?
Speaker: Professor James Pettifer , Oxford
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research
Challenges for Transitional Justice: The View from the Latin American Experience
Speaker: Marcie Mersky
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Obligations Discussion Group
Fiduciary Obligations
Speaker: Professor Lionel Smith, McGill; All Souls, Oxford
Corpus Christi College Rainolds Room at 12:45
Labour Law Discussion Group
The Social Right to Paid Annual Leave
Speaker: Mr. Michael Ford, Old Square Chambers Barrister
Brasenose College Medieval Kitchen at 13:00
Legalism
“Popular” and “official” justice in late 15th and 16th century London
Speaker: Martin Ingram
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Migration Law Discussion Group
The revolutionary approach to immigration in Argentina: What are the lessons for Europe?
Speaker: Dr Diego Acosta, University of Sheffield
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
Institute of European and Comparative Law
International Commercial Arbitration and Global Governance
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G
Comparative Law Discussion Group
Property, trust (fiducie) & Islamic finance
Speaker: Dr François Barriere, Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2)
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room D (and IECL Foyer for lunch at 12.30) at 1300
Centre for Competition Law & Policy
The Concept of Exclusionary Abuse under Article 102 TFEU
Speaker: John Temple Lang, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Centre for Competition Law & Policy The Cube, St Cross Building at 13:00
Oxford Law Faculty
The European Economic Area - An Alternative to the European Union? Advantages and Disadvantages of the EEA from the Viewpoint of States that do not want to be in the EU, and the role of the EFTA Court in ensuring
Speaker: Prof. J. Temple Lang, Prof. U. Bernitz, Dr K.S. Ziegler, Mr Martin Johansson and others, Oxford Law Faculty
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:00
Anglo-German State of the State Fellowship Programme, Third Conference,
'Transformations of the State'
Manor Road Social Sciences Building at 9:00
St Antony's College
Morocco and its Women's Rights Discourse: Between Amelioration and the Status Quo
Speaker: Katja Zvan Elliott
St Antony's College The Middle East Centre Library at 12:45
Public International Law Discussion Group
International criminal tribunals: Experiments? Works in progress? Institutions that are here for good? A practitioner's view
Speaker: Sir Geoffrey Nice QC, Temple Garden Chambers
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
Car Notches: Strategic Automaker Responses to Fuel Economy Policy
Speaker: James Sallee, University of Chicago
Said Business School Seminar Room 14 at 14:30
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
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Title TBC
Speaker: Christopher Dean, Extremism Team Lead, Interventions Unit, National Offender Management Service and Professor Peter Neumann, Director of The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence at Kings College London
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
The Political Approach to Human Rights: Matching Human Rights Morality with Human Rights Mechanisms
Speaker: Tom Campbell, Charles Sturt University
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:30
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
On the Role of Quality in Patent Systems
Speaker: Professor Bruno Van Pottelsberghe, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
Shearman & Sterling LLP
International Arbitration Public International Law
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:00
Migration Law Discussion Group
Separating the persecutors from the persecuted: a feminist and comparative examination of exclusion from the refugee regime
Change of time
Speaker: Kate Ogg, MSc student, St Cross College, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F - St Cross Building at 17:00
Protect the Human / Protect the Planet
Human Rights are Green Rights
Speaker: Kumi Naidoo, Executive Directive of Greenpeace International
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:30
Criminal Law Discussion Group
One Size Fits All? On Normative Theorizing in Criminal Law
Speaker: Claes Lernestedt , Uppsala University
All Souls College Hovenden Room at 12:00
Law and Finance Workshop
"Meta-Contracts, Corporate Governance and Regulation" and "The Regulation of Listed Firms in Latin America
Speaker: Alan Morrison and Jose Miguel Mendoza, Professor of Finance, Said Business School and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 12:00
Corporate and Business Taxation - Guest Lectures
HMRC Litigation and Settlement Strategy: ‘Sweetheart deals’? : The relationship between HMRC and business.
Speaker: James Bullock , Tax Partner in McGrigors (merging with Pinsent Masons).
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board room at 17:00
RSC Public Seminar Series: Forward, backward, stalling? Critical reflections on the completion of the Common European Asylum System
The future of international cooperation on refugee protection
Speaker: Dr María-Teresa Gil-Bazo, University of Newcastle
Queen Elizabeth House Seminar Room 1 at 17:00
Oxford Human Rights Hub
Judicial Conversation/Dialogue
Speaker: Kate O’Regan and Claire L’Heureux-Dube
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:00
The 2012 John Locke Lectures: Truth and Content
Extrapolation and its Limits
Speaker: Professor Stephen Yablo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Merton College T.S. Eliot Theatre at 17:00
Howard League for Penal Reform (Oxford Society)
Frances Crook OBE
Speaker: Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform
Trinity College SUTRO ROOM at 19:30
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
Speaker: Professor Brett Frischmann
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 1300
Environmental Law Discussion Group
The bats in the shed; the elephant in the room
Speaker: Professor Simon Gardner, Law Faculty, University of Oxford
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Seminar Room at 13:00
Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict & Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
Delegation of Powers and Authority in International Criminal Law
Speaker: Dr Shlomit Wallerstein , University of Oxford
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
H.L.A. Hart Memorial Lecture
Kantian Ethics, Animals, and the Law
Speaker: Chsitine Korsgaard, Harvard University
Christ Church Blue Boar Auditorium at 17:00
Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict
Curbing the Arms Trade
Speaker: Anna MacDonald (Oxfam), Professor Laurence Lustgarten (ELAC), Mark Pyman (Transparency International) and Caroline Smith (FCO) Panel Discussion chaired by Dr David Rodin
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 17:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research
The Nineteenth Century Slave Trading Trial of Joseph Peters & the Legacies of Silence in International Criminal Law
Speaker: Emily Haslam
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Oxford Pro Bono Publico
OPBP annual reception
Speaker: Justice Kate O'Regan, South African Constitutional Court
Pembroke College SCR Parlour at 17:00
Canada Seminar
Torture: Can International Law Prevent It?
Speaker: Professor Stephen J. Toope, President of the University of British Columbia
Lady Margaret Hall Simpkins Lee theatre at 17:15
Legalism
Law in indigenous Amazonia: an absent concept?
Speaker: Elizabeth Ewart
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Workshop on Vertical Restraints
Speaker: Molly Herron and Alex Long, Herbert Smith LLP
Centre for Competition Law & Policy The Cube, St Cross Building at 13:00
Oxford Human Rights Hub
Identities in International Human Rights
Speaker: Nazila Ghanea-Hercock
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 12:00
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
Public International Law Discussion Group
International Law and the Use of Force: What Happens in Practice?
Speaker: Sir Michael Wood KCMG, 20 Essex Street; International Law Commission; Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
Tax competition and risk-taking under cross-border loss offset
Speaker: Andreas Haufler, University of Munich
Said Business School Seminar Room 14 at 14:30
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
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Knowledge Gaps, Knowledge Traps? The Politics of Patents and Innovation in Latin America
Speaker: Dr Ken Shadlen, London School of Economics
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
Inaugural lecture for the Chichele chair
Political Political Theory
Speaker: Professor Jeremy Waldron, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory
Examination Schools South School at 17:00
Protect the Human / Protect the Planet
Realising Human Rights in a Finite World
Speaker: Professor Simon Caney
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Threatre at 5:30
The Regulatory Imagination
Reading Group meeting: Fiona Haines (2011) The Paradox of Regulation
Wolfson College Dining Hall at 13:00
EU Law Discussion Group
International Law and EU Law: Between Asymmetric Constitutionalisation and Fragmentation
Speaker: Dr Katja Ziegler, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 13:00
RSC Public Seminar Series: Forward, backward, stalling? Critical reflections on the completion of the Common European Asylum System
The Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights as refugee law courts
Speaker: Dr Cathryn Costello, University of Oxford
Queen Elizabeth House Seminar Room 1 at 17:00
The 2012 John Locke Lectures: Truth and Content
The Truth and Something But the Truth
Speaker: Professor Stephen Yablo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Merton College T.S. Eliot Theatre at 17:00
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
Copyright and Social Norms: The Case of Hebrew Authors in Mandate Palestine
Speaker: Professor Michael Birnhack
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 1300
Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict & Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
Detention in 21st Century Armed Conflict
Speaker: William Lietzau , US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Rule of Law & Detainee Policy
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Environmental Law Discussion Group
Environmental Impact, Knowledge Controversies, and Political Situations
Speaker: Professor Andrew Barry, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Seminar Room at 13:00
Oxford-Melbourne Intellectual Property Seminar
Hargreaves One Year On - An Assessment
Speaker: Professor Christine Greenhalgh (OIPRC, University of Oxford), Professor Sam Ricketson (IPRIA, University of Melbourne)
Baker & McKenzie LLP at 1730
Oxford Transitional Justice Research
Excesses of Responsibility and the Power of Political Approaches to Accountability
Speaker: Kirsten Ainley, Lecturer in International Relations London School of Economics
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Oliver Smithies Lectures
Law, Legalism and Democracy
Speaker: Professor Tom Campbell , Charles Sturt University, Australia
Balliol College Lecture Room XXIII at 17:00
Protect the Human / Protect the Planet
Human Rights and the Environment: Where Next?
Speaker: Professor Alan Boyle, University of Edinburgh
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Threatre at 5:30

April 2012

Police and Policing Research Discussion Group
Police Professionalism Seminar
St Peter's College Dorfman Centre
Legalism
The lawbooks of medieval England: did they embody the law?
Speaker: Michael Clanchy
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Wadham College Law Society
A discussion of his role, followed by an opportunity to ask questions
Speaker: The Rt Hon Sir Christopher Rose, Chief Surveillance Commissioner, Office of Surveillance Commissioners
Wadham College Okinaga Room at 18:00
Migration Law Discussion Group
More unified policies, better human rights protection? The case of EU immigration and asylum policies
Speaker: Gjovalin Macaj, Free University of Brussels (VUB)
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
Oxford Graduate Legal Research Conference
CLRM Conference 2010
Corpus Christi College MBI Al Jaber Auditorium
Public International Law Discussion Group
Tackling Torture through Prevention: the experience of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture
Speaker: Professor Malcolm D Evans, University of Bristol
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Oxford Human Rights Hub
The role of the right to food in combating global hunger
Change of time
Speaker: Olivier De Schutter
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 14:00
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Title TBC
Speaker: Professor Dario Melossi, University of Bologna
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Patentability, the Public Interest, and Moral Pluralism: Further Reflections on the Brüstle Decision
Speaker: Professor Roger Brownsword, Kings College London
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
Department of Politics and International Relations
The Future of International Statebuilding: Lessons from the last two decades
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar room C at 17:00
Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Human Rights and the Post-Carbon Economy
Speaker: Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and Professor of Law at the University of Louvain (UCL)
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:30
'Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects'
The Use of Force in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Speaker: Professor Guglielmo Verdirame, Kings College London
Lincoln College at 20:00
Corporate and Business Taxation - Guest Lectures
The impact of Court of Justice decisions on EU corporate taxation
Speaker: Malcolm Gammie QC, One Essex Court; Research Director, Tax Law Review Committee; Deputy Judge of the Upper Tribunal and a Judge of the First-tier Tribunal.
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board room at 17:00
The 2012 John Locke Lectures: Truth and Content
Semantic Excuses
Speaker: Professor Stephen Yablo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Merton College T.S. Eliot Theatre at 17:00
Obligations Discussion Group
The Genesis of the Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945
Speaker: Professor Paul Mitchell, University College London
Balliol College Lecture Room 23 at 12:45
Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict & Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
Intervention in Libya: A Humanitarian Success
Speaker: Professor Alan Kuperman , Texas
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research
The Peacebuilding Dilemma: Peace, Justice and Warlords
Speaker: Djeyhoun Ostowar
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Oxford Graduate Legal Research Conference
Keynote Address to Oxford Graduate Legal Research Conference: ‘Criticism in Legal Scholarship’
Speaker: Professor Hugh Collins,, Professor of English Law, Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science
Corpus Christi College MBI Al Jaber Auditorium at 17:30
Oxford Amnesty Lectures
The Human Right to Water: What Does It Really Mean?
Speaker: Peter H. Gleick, Co-founder of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, Oakland, California
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:30
Oxford Law Faculty
Oxford Graduate Legal Research Conference
Corpus Christi College MBI Al Jaber Auditorium
Legalism
Ius Gentium and Legal Civilization
Speaker: Jeremy Waldron
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Oriel College
Memorial Service for Sir Zelman Cowen, Formerly Governor-General of Australia, Provost of Oriel College
Oriel College Chapel at 14:15
Oxford University
The Travers Smith Commercial Law Moot
Brasenose College LRXI at 17:00
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
Workshop: The Promise and Pitfalls of Federalism: Constitutional Development for the Twenty-First Century
The Queen's College Memorial Room at 10:00
Centre for Criminology
The Borders of Punishment: Criminal Justice, Citizenship and Social Exclusion
Manor Road Social Sciences Building
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
Europe on the Brink? Economic, Political, and Constitutional Issues
Wolfson College Haldane Rm at 17:30
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
Workshop: The Russian Socio-Legal Tradition
The Queen's College Memorial Room at 9:45
St Catherine's College
Oxford FHS IP Debate
Oxford

March 2012

Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy
Law in India: Lunchtime discussion with AMARCHAND
Speaker: Mr. Shardul Shroff, managing partner of Amarchand Mangaldas
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room A at 13:30
Institute of European and Comparative Law
Legal Challenges Arising out of the Global Financial Crisis: the Euro, Bail-outs and Regulation
The Queen's College Memorial Room at 1400
Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre
Oxford International Intellectual Property Moot and Conversazione 2012
St Catherine's College
Property Law Discussion Group
Property law terminology in European Union legislation
Speaker: Eveline Ramaekers, Maastricht University
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board Room, St Cross Building at 12:30
Public Law Discussion Group
Democracy and the Justice-seeking Constitution
Speaker: Professor Larry Sager, Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair at The University of Texas School of Law at Austin
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 11:30
Environmental Law Discussion Group
Water, Law, and Policy In At Least Some of the United States Right Now: How Many Blinkered Projections, Constitutional Roadblocks, Democratic Manglings, Greedy Impulses, Historic Impasses, Hubristic Settlement Patterns, Market-based Distortions, Moth-Eaten Legal Conceits, and Let Us Not Forget Rampant Senses of Entitlement Can Swarm the Field of Adaptive Water Management?
Speaker: Professor Jane Cohen, Edward Clark Centennial Professor, University of Texas
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment Seminar Room at 13:00
Institute of European and Comparative Law
Oxford French Law Moot
Institute of European and Comparative Law
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
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; 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
Oxford Law Faculty
Strategising The End Game, Palliative Medicine and the Law
Speaker: Professor George P Smith
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian at 10:00
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
Migration Law Discussion Group
Security of Residence as a Human Right, or How Courts Should Regularise those Migrants Who are Here to Stay
Speaker: Cathryn Costello, University of Oxford
Pauling Centre Seminar Room 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
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Postponed
St Cross College Senior Common Room at 9:00
Obligations Discussion Group
Thinking About Tort Law - Where Do We Go From Here?
Speaker: Mr Nicholas McBride, Pembroke College, Cambridge
Corpus Christi College at 12:45
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
Moral Rights and Joint Authorship: Film, Indigenous Art, and other Complex Cases?
Speaker: Dr Mira T. Sundara Rajan
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 Internet Institute
Constructing Identity: Palestine Online
Speaker: Dr Miriyam Aouragh
Oxford Internet Institute at 16:00
Regent's Park College
The Many Faces of Freedom of Religion under the ECHR: How Much Difference Does Article 9 Make?
Speaker: Professor Renata Uitz, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, Central European University, Budapest
Regent's Park College at 17:00
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
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
What's the relationship between Product Liability and Product Safety Regulation?
Speaker: Professor Deborah Hensler, Stanford University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room B at 16:30
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
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 14:30
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Title TBC
Speaker: Professor Susan McVie, Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
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
Public Law Discussion Group
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: TBC
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 16:00
Oxford University
The Icc’s Evolving Roles in International and Domestic Politics
Speaker: Nicole De Silva, DPhil candidate in Politics and International Relations
Corpus Christi College Rainolds Room at 17:00
Oxford University
The Procedural Democratic Legitimacy of Constitutional Courts
Speaker: Ross Carrick, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:15
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
The Spanish Business Bankruptcy Puzzle
Speaker: Fernandez Gomez, Professor of Law and Economics, Universidad Pompeu Fabra School of Law, Barecelona
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30

February 2012

Labour Law Discussion Group
The Legal Notion of the Employer
Speaker: Proferssor Mark Freedland and Jeremias Prassl
Hertford College Lower SCR at 13:00
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
Oxford Law Faculty
Al-Khawaja v UK: a politic compromise which destroys the essence of a fair trial?"
Speaker: Laura Hoyano and Aileen Kavanagh
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F 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
Postponed
Speaker: all
St Cross College Senior Common Room at 9:00
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
Environmental Law Discussion Group
A Pragmatic Perspective on Democracy and Regulation
Speaker: Professor Sidney Shapiro, Professor, Wake Forest University School of Law
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment 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
St Anne's College
Sunset Clauses and the Rule of Law
Speaker: Antonis Kouroutakis
St Anne's College Seminar Room 1 at 17:30
The Holdsworth Society (St Johns)
Final of the Holdsworth Law Society Moot
St John's College
Migration Law Discussion Group & Refugee Studies Centre
How far does non-refoulement go? A discussion on Hirsi v Italy
Speaker: Madeline Garlick , Head of Unit, Policy & Legal Support, UNHCR Europe
Refugee Studies Centre Seminar Room 2 - Queen Elizabeth House (3 Mansfield Rd - Oxford OX1 3TB) at 17:30
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
Oxford Law Faculty
'Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Real Rights or Letters to Santa Claus?
Speaker: Professor Yvonne Donders, University of Amsterdam and Executive Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 16:00
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
Public International Law Discussion Group
The Jurisdictional Immunities case (Germany v Italy) - judicial development of natural law
Speaker: Dr Alexander Orakhelashvili, University of Birmingham
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
EU Law Discussion Group
Social Ideals of the European Court of Justice: an Approximation
Cancelled
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
Oxford University
Human Rights “question Time” Debate
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 18:00
Oxford University
Confronting Gender Inequalities: Women in the Developing World
Oxford Oxford Hub Event Space, Turl St. 16-17 at 19:30
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Speaker: all
St Cross College Senior Common Room at 9:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Lush Life: from Organised Crime to a Community of Practice
Speaker: Professor Richard Hobbs, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Oxford University
Incommensurability, Practices and Points of View: Revitalizing H.L.A. Hart's Practice Theory of Rules
Speaker: Eric J. Miller, University of Saint Louis University Law School
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:30
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
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
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
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
“Philip Selznick: Ideals in the World”
Speaker: Martin Krygier, Professor of Law and Social Theory University of New South Wales
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Oxford Bar Society
A Career at the Chancery Bar
Worcester College Lecture Room B at 18:00
Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects lecture series
The Arab Spring and its Implications in the Region: Perspectives from an Israel and a Palestinian
Speaker: Professor Shai Feldman & Dr. Khalil Shikaki, Brandeis University & Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research
Lincoln College at 20:00
Oxford University
Memorial Service for Lord Rodger
University Church of St Mary the Virgin at 14:00
Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
A GAAR for the UK? Building on overseas experience.
Speaker: Professor Ann O’Connell, Hon Justice Tony Pagone, Professor Graeme Cooper, Professor David Duff, Wayne Adams, Professor Craig Elliffe, Ed Liptak, Graham Aaronson QC, Philip Baker QC, Chris Davidson, Malcolm Gammie QC, John Bartlett, Professor Judith Freedman, Sir Launcelot Henderson, The Rt. Hon Professor Lord Hoffmann, Howard Nowlan, Professor John Tiley QC
London
Department of Politics and International Relations
Media, Democracy and the Rule of Law in Central Eastern Europe
Speaker: Hosted by Prof Martin Krygier, University of New South Wales and Prof Jan Zielonka, University of Oxford
St Antony's College
Oxford Law Faculty
Learning from other courts
Speaker: Jeremy Waldron, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford (All Souls
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 14:00
Humanitas lectures
Speak What We Feel Not What We Ought To Say: : Poverty, Land, and the Rule of Law - Part 2: Antony and Cleopatra
Speaker: Vanessa Redgrave
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 15:00
Public International Law Discussion Group
Another look at the interpretation of treaties
Speaker: Sir Frank Berman, Visiting Professor in International Law, All Souls College, Oxford
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Humanitas Lectures
Speak What We Feel Not What We Ought To Say: Poverty, Land, and the Rule of Law - Part 1: King Lear
Speaker: Vanessa Redgrave
Exeter College at 15:00
Lessons in Government Seminars
Talk by John Lyon
Speaker: John Lyon , Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards
Magdalen College Summer Common Room, at 17:00
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
The Steward: Legal Institution and/or Ethical Metaphor
Speaker: Uta Bindreiter, Faculty of Law, University of Lund
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:30
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Experiments on Creativity and Innovation for Intellectual Property Law
Speaker: Professor Christopher Buccafusco, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
EU Law Discussion Group
EU External Competence in the Field of International Investments: a Complex Take-over
Speaker: Professor Pär Hallström, Umeå University
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube (with lunch from 12.30 in the Foyer of the IECL) at 1300
The Regulatory Imagination
Corporate Governance and Bank Regulation
Speaker: Dr. Alan Morrison, Said Business School, Oxford 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 regulatory practice: UK Banking Regulation
Speaker: Dr. Alan Morrison, Said Business School, Oxford University
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar room F at 16:00
Media and Governance in Developing Countries: Networks of Power and Strategic Narratives
PCMLP Seminar Series
Speaker: Dr Ben O’Loughlin, Royal Holloway, University of London
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Law and Finance Senior Practitioner Lecture
Corporate Governance - why is it so fashionable and will it solve everything?
Speaker: Frances LeGrys, Hogan Lovells International
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
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
Startup Licensing in the Shadow of R & D Competition
Speaker: Dr Andreas Panagopoulos, Department of Economics, University of Crete
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room D at 1245
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
Understanding the size and profitability of firms: The role of a biological factor (Joint seminar with Finance Group)
Speaker: Luigi Guiso, European University Institute
Said Business School Boardroom at 12:15
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Letting Go and Staying Gone: Elements of Exit for post-Conflict Peacebuilders
Speaker: William Dutch, Senior Associate, Stimson Centre
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Isaiah Berlin Lecture : A New World’ – Philosophical Idealism in America
Henry David Thoreau
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Winkler, Yale University
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series – Hilary Term 2012
Title TBC
Speaker: Betty Bigombe, Ugandan MP, State Minister for Water Resources, and Ugandan Peace Negotiator
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D, at 17:00
Corporate Finance Lecture
Private Equity
Speaker: Chris Hale and Emma Watford, Travers Smith and Bridgepoint
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:00
Property Law Discussion Group
Condominium, Commonhold, and Legal Architecture of Private Property in the City
Speaker: Professor Douglas Harris, University of British Columbia
New College LR 4 at 12:45
Oxford Law Faculty
Graduate programmes available at the University of British Columbia Law School
Speaker: Professor Douglas Harris , University of British Columbia Law School
Oxford Law Faculty Lecture Room 1 at 17:00
Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict
‘Targeted Killing: Exploring its Legality, Morality and Effectiveness’
Speaker: Amos Guiora and Jeremy Waldron, University of Utah/University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:00
Oxford Law Faculty
Ius gentium: the law of nations
Speaker: Jeremy Waldron, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford (All Souls
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 14:00
A lecture to mark the contribution of Sir Jeremy Lever KCMG QC to European Law
The Future of European Integration and EU Law: Why and how a financial crisis has become a crisis in European integration
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
Plain talking about plain packaging laws
Speaker: Dr Andrew Higgins (Oxford), Professor Derrick Wyatt (Oxford), Associate Professor Robert Burrell (University of Queensland)
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 1200
Property Law Discussion Group
Jones v Kernott: discussion
Speaker: Mr William Swadling, Brasenose College, Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
Public International Law Discussion Group
The Place of National Preferences in International Trade Law
Speaker: Professor DU Ming Michael, Assistant Professor, Law Faculty, Chinese University of Hong Kong
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Public Law Discussion Group
Proportionality and incommensurability in human rights cases
Speaker: Professor Timothy Endicott, Fellow, Balliol College, Professor of Legal Philosophy and Dean, Law Faculty
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 12:45
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
Industry Structure, Executive Pay, and Short-Termism
Speaker: John Thanassoulis, Department of Economics, University of Oxford
Said Business School Seminar Room 14 at 13:45
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Power to the People: Democracy, Inequality and Criminal Punishment
Speaker: Lisa Miller, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University, USA, and Visiting Fellow, All Souls College
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Legitimacy and Immigration Detention
Speaker: Hindpal Singh Bhui, HM Inspectorate of Prisons and Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Mending the Tangled Web? Informational Privacy 3.0
Regulating Surveillance: Extending the Scope of Privacy Impact Assessment
Speaker: Professor Charles Raab, Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Fellow University of Edinburgh
Balliol College Master's Dining Room at 16:30
EU Law Discussion Group jointly with the Comparative Law Discussion Group
Common European Sales Law: Why, and Why Not
Speaker: Professor Hugh Beale (University of Warwick), Professor Stephen Weatherill (University of Oxford), Professor Simon Whittaker (University of Oxford)
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 1700
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
You've Gotta be Joking: Parody and Copyright
Speaker: Professor Lionel Bently, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
PCMLP Seminar Series
The Participation Ecology of Kenya
Speaker: Dr Vincenzo Cavallo, Cultural Video Foundation, Nairobi
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Speaker: all
St Cross College Senior Common Room at 9:00

January 2012

ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Targeted Killing in War and Peace: A Philosophical Analysis
Speaker: Professor Fernando Teson, Florida State University College of Law
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Isaiah Berlin Lecture : A New World’ – Philosophical Idealism in America
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Winkler, Yale University
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series – Hilary Term 2012
Victim Participation in International Criminal Proceedings: Are Retributive and Restorative Principles Enhancing the Prospect for Justice?
Speaker: Rudina Jasini, DPhil Candidate in Law, University of Oxford; Legal Officer at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D, at 17:00
Russian And Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Night Seminar series
After twenty years: Russia, human rights, and legal reform
Speaker: Professor Jeffrey Kahn , Law School, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
St Antony's College Nissan Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Lessons in Government Seminars
Talk by David Laws MP
Speaker: David Laws
Magdalen College Magdalen Auditorium, at 17:00
Migration Law Discussion Group - Hilary Term 2012
External State Protection and the Predicament of Recognised Geneva Convention Refugees
Speaker: Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler , Dphil candidate, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
Oxford Law Faculty
The foreign law controversy in American courts
Speaker: Jeremy Waldron, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, Oxford (All Souls
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 14:00
Oxford University
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Baroness Ruth Deech
St Anne's College Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre at 18:00
Public Law Discussion Group
Revisiting `The Coalition and the Constitution'
Speaker: Professor Vernon Bogdanor CBE, FBA, Research Professor at the Institute for Contemporary History, former Professor of Government at Oxford University
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30
Public International Law Discussion Group
Investment Treaty Arbitration: The (New) Law of State Responsibility?
Speaker: Dr Martins Paparinskis, Junior Research Fellow, Merton College, University of Oxford
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Comparative Law Discussion Group
Unfair Prices in Salvage Contracts in English and French Law
Speaker: Ciara Kennefick, University of Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Law Seminar Room D (with lunch from 12.30 in the Foyer of the IECL) at 1300
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Is the Dragon Learning to Fly? An Analysis of the Chinese Patent Explosion
Speaker: Dr Markus Eberhardt, School of Economics, University of Nottingham
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects lecture series
Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Territorial Dispute: The Case for Arbitration
Speaker: Dr. Asaf Siniver, Birmingham University
Lincoln College at 20:00
EU Law Discussion Group
Competition Law and Public Policy as a Sliding Scale: the Example of Environmental Protection
Speaker: Julian Nowag, University of Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube (with lunch from 12.30 in the Foyer of the IECL) at 1300
Labour Law Discussion Group
International regulation of maritime labour
Speaker: Dr. Irini Papanicolopulu, Marie Curie Fellow and Senior Researcher in international law at the University of Milano-Bicocca (currently on leave), where she has been teaching international law of natural resources, international law of armed conflicts and international law cases.
Hertford College Lower SCR at 13:00
The Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies Regulation Discussion Group Seminars
Regulatory imagination and regulatory reform: the future of principles based regulation
Speaker: Professor Julia Black, LSE
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar room F at 16:00
The Regulatory Imagination
Learning from failures: ‘New governance’ techniques and the financial crisis
Speaker: Prof. Julia Black, LSE
Manor Road Social Sciences Building F at 16:00
PCMLP Seminar Series
The Use of ICTS for Political Mobilization and Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Speaker: Dr Sharath Srinivasan, Dr Florence Brisset-Foucault, University of Cambridge, Dr Iginio Gagliardone, University of Oxford
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Faculty of Philosophy
Foundations of Rights of Access to the Benefits of Science in International Law
Speaker: Prof Aurora Plomer, Chair in Law and Bioethics, University of Sheffield
Oxford ., Seminar Room 1, Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad St at 17:00
Oxford University
An audience with Michael Mansfield QC
Speaker: Michael Mansfield QC
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 18:00
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Speaker: all
St Cross College Senior Common Room at 9:00
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
Counterfeiting and Anti-Counterfeiting in China
Speaker: Professor Daniel Chow, The Ohio State University
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1245
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Ending Wars in a Wilsonian World: Sovereignty at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
Speaker: Professor Leonard Smith, Oberlin
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Isaiah Berlin Lecture : A New World’ – Philosophical Idealism in America
Edwards and continuous creation
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Winkler, Yale University
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series – Hilary Term 2012
Amnesties and Human Rights Fundamentalism: What Has Happened to Transitional Justice?
Speaker: Dr. Mark Freeman, Founder of the Institute for Integrated Transitions (IFIT); Former Director of External Relations at the International Crisis Group
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D, at 17:00
Oxford University
Threats to Judicial Independence: The Enemy Within
Speaker: The Hon Justice Dyson Heydon AC, Justice of the High Court of Australia
Keble College O’Reilly Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Law Society President’s Annual Oxford Lecture
Fission or Fusion; Independence or Constraint?
Speaker: John Wotton, President of the Law Society
Said Business School Lecture Theatre 5 at 18:00
Lessons in Government
Talk by Lord Judge
Speaker: Lord Judge , Lord Chief Justice
Magdalen College Summer Common Room at 17:00
Refugee Studies Centre & Migration Law Discussion Group - Hilary Term 2012
Is UNHCR becoming a migration agency? An analysis of UNHCR's engagement in mixed movements
Speaker: Anja Klug , United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Refugee Studies Centre Seminar Room 2 - Queen Elizabeth House (3 Mansfield Rd - Oxford OX1 3TB) at 17:00
Oxford University
Lunchtime talk: EU ban on hESC Patents: A Threat to Science and the Rule of Law
Speaker: Prof Aurora Plomer, Chair in Law and Bioethics, University of Sheffield
Oxford Seminar Room 1: Oxford Martin School Old Indian Institute, 34 Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BD. at 12:30
Public International Law Discussion Group
The Role of the International Court of Justice in the Formulation and Development of Fundamental Norms of International Law
Speaker: Vera Gowlland Debbas, Emeritus Professor of Public International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and a Visiting Professor at University College London
New College Room 6 at 12:30
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
Services Reform and Manufacturing Performance: Evidence from India
Speaker: Beata Javorcik, Professor of International Economics, University of Oxford
Said Business School Seminar Room 14 at 13:45
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Inventing Drugs: The Birth of the Drug Problem
Speaker: Toby Seddon , School of Law, University of Manchester
All Souls College at 15:30
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
American Exceptionalism in Crime and Punishment
Speaker: Professor Nicola Lacey, University of Oxford, and Professor David Soskice, Duke University
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
The Anglo-German State of the State Fellowship Programme Lecture Series
The European Union, Post-Sovereignty Studies and their Systems Theoretical Critique
Speaker: Jiří Přibáň, Cardiff Law School
Oxford Law Faculty Lecture Room 1 at 1500
Lessons in Government
Talk by Frank Field MP
Speaker: Frank Field , Former Minister of Welfare Reform
Magdalen College Summer Common Room, at 17:00
Obligations Discussion Group
Panel Discussion on 'Rights and Private Law'
Corpus Christi College Al Jaber Auditorium at 17:15
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Speaker: all
St Cross College Senior Common Room at 9:00
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Humanitarian Ethics in Armed Conflict: Aid Agency Dilemmas and Responsibility
Speaker: Dr Hugo Slim, ELAC Visiting Fellow
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Isaiah Berlin Lecture : A New World’ – Philosophical Idealism in America
Jonathan Edwards's early proofs of immaterialism
Speaker: Professor Kenneth Winkler, Yale University
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series – Hilary Term 2012
The Arab Spring: Transitional Justice for a Just Transition
Speaker: Dr. Larbi Sadiki, Senior Lecturer, Middle East Politics, University of Exeter
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D, at 17:00
Oxford University
Unanimity or univocality: Jones v Kernott and other recent decisions of the UK Supreme Court
Speaker: Lord Kerr, Justice of the Supreme Court
Exeter College Saskatchewan Lecture Room at 18:15
Oxford Law Faculty
European Methods and Interactions in the Field of Intellectual Property Law
Jesus College

2012

EU Law Discussion Group
Title to be confirmed
Oxford Law Faculty
The 2012 John Locke Lectures: Truth and Content
Title to be confirmed
Merton College
The 2012 John Locke Lectures: Truth and Content
Title to be confirmed
Merton College
The 2012 John Locke Lectures: Truth and Content
Title to be confirmed
Merton College
The 2012 John Locke Lectures: Truth and Content
Title to be confirmed
Merton College
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

December 2011

Institute of European and Comparative Law
European Legal Culture
Trinity College at 0830
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
Tax Collection and Corporate Governance: Evidence from French Small Businesses
Cancelled
Speaker: Laurent Bach, Stockholm School of Economics
Said Business School Andrew Cormack Room at 13:30
PIL Lunchtime Discussion Group
The Autonomy of EU Law and International Human Rights Law
Speaker: Professor Piet Eeckhout, King's College London
New College 6 at 12:30
Comparative Law Discussion Group jointly with the Property Law Discussion Group
The Concept of Ownership - How Functional is the Functional Approach?
Speaker: Professor Göran Millqvist, University of Stockholm
Institute of European and Comparative Law Law Board Room (with lunch at 12.30 in the foyer of the IECL) at 1300
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Should Criminal Prosecutors Stand for Election?
Speaker: Richard Lippke, Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, USA
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Criminal Law Discussion Group
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Professor Paul. H. Robinson, University of Pennsylvania Law School
All Souls College at 17:00
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Maris Kopcke Tinture, ellow in Law,Worcester College, University of Oxford
Balliol College Massey Room at 17:15
Criminal Law Discussion Group
Are We Responsible for Who We Are? The Challenge for Criminal Law Theory in the Defenses of Coercive Indoctrination and "Rotten Social Background"
Speaker: Professor Paul H. Robinson, Colin S. Diver Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School
All Souls College Old Library at 17:15

November 2011

Public International Law Discussion Group
International Law and the Middle East: A Conversation with Ambassador Daniel Taub
Speaker: Ambassador Daniel Taub, Israeli Ambassador to the UK
Oxford
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Presenting DNA Evidence
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Room A at 13:00
EU Law Discussion Group
Criminal Law Beyond the State: the European Model
Speaker: Dr Massimo Fichera, University of Helsinki
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube with lunch from 1230 in the IECL Foyer at 1300
Socio-Legal Studies Student Discussion Group
QT and Confirmation of Status processes: preparation, expectations and experiences
Speaker: Dr Rebecca Money-Kyrle and Anna Kloeden, CSLS
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
Interdisciplinary Law Discussion Group
Title to be confirmed
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room B at 17:00
Law and Finance Senior Practitioner Lectures
Recent Trends in Public M&A: the US Perspective
Postponed
Speaker: Stephen Fraidin, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance
Additional information
Speaker: every participant
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room St. Cross Building at 9:00
Oxford Law Faculty
Second workshop on Legal Principles Underlying the Law on Storage of Human Tissue
Jesus College
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
The Confusion Trap: Rethinking a Parody Defense in Trademark Law
Speaker: David A. Simon, University of Cambridge
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1245
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
The Law of War and its Pathologies’
Speaker: Professor George Fletcher, Columbia Law School
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series
The Search for Truth and Justice: The Experience of Kenyaʹs Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission
Speaker: Dr. Gabrielle Lynch, Senior Lecturer in Africa and the Politics of Development, University of Leeds
Manor Road Social Sciences Building  Seminar Room D at 17:00
The Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies Seminar Series
The King’s Colonial Peace: Magisterial Jurisdiction and the Transformation of the British Empire after 1800
Speaker: Dr Lisa Ford, Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Migration Law Discussion Group
Citizenship, refugees and protected persons
Speaker: Ms Anne Neylon, University College Cork, Ireland
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
Oxford Law and Religion Conference
New Frontiers of Protection of Freedom of Religion or Belief Under International Law - 30 Years after the 1981 Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief
Balliol College LR 23 at 10:00
PIL Lunchtime Discussion Group
A Political Theory of International Law and Human Rights
Speaker: Professor Bill Bowring, University of London
New College 6 at 12:30
Public Law Discussion Group
The equality duty case law in administrative law - Too hot, too cold, or just right?
Speaker: Dr. Tom Hickman, Blackstone Chambers
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 16:30
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
To be confirmed
Speaker: Claire Lelarge, Le Centre de Recherche en Économie et STatistique (CREST)
Said Business School Economics Department at 16:30
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
Title to be confirmed
Balliol College Massey Room at 17:15
Law and Finance Seminar Series
Bank CEO Turnover
Speaker: Thomas Kirchmaier, Lecturer in Business Economics and Strategy, Manchester Business School
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
The Informativeness of On-Line Advertising
Speaker: Dr Greg Taylor, University of Oxford
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
‘Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects’ lecture series
A Shattered Dream: What is Left from Oslo's Breakthrough?
Speaker: Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor, University of Hull
Lincoln College Oakeshott Room at 20:00
Oxford University Careers Service
Pinsent Masons career event
Socio-Legal Studies Student Discussion Group
Returning from the Field: what next?
Speaker: Dr Agnieszka Kubal, CSLS / Queen Elizabeth House
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room E at 13:00
Interdisciplinary Law Discussion Group
Law historically (i)
Speaker: Magdalena Walczak, Balliol College
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 17:00
Rothermere American Institute
Law and Politics on the U.S. Supreme Court
Speaker: Michael A. Bailey , John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government, Rothermere American Institute and Balliol College
Rothermere American Institute at 17:00
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Permissible Preventive Cyberwar
Speaker: Professor George Lucas, United States Naval Academy
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Migration Law Discussion Group
Beyond the hukou: the regulatory spider-web that affects China'’s rural migrant workers
Speaker: Ms Mimi Zou, St John’s College & Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Hertford College Lower Senior Common Room at 13:00
Labour Law Discussion Group
Beyond the hukou: the regulatory spider-web that affects China'’s rural migrant workers
Speaker: Mimi Zou, St John’s College & Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Hertford College Lower SCR at 13:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series
Uruguay: Struggles against Impunity and Barriers to Justice for Crimes under International Law
Speaker: Dr. Francesca Lessa, Research Assistant, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford; Christopher Hall, International Justice Team, Amnesty International
Manor Road Social Sciences Building  Seminar Room D at 17:00
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance
Change of date
Speaker: every participant
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube, St. Cross Building at 9:00
Obligations Discussion Group
Difficulties with Defective Building Litigation
Speaker: Professor Stephen Todd, University of Canterbury (New Zealand), University of Nottingham
Corpus Christi College Rainolds Room at 12:45
The Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies Seminar Series
The politics of technology in contemporary Ethiopia
Speaker: Dr Iginio Gagliardone, British Academy Post‐Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
OUCS
Zen and the art of presenting with impact: Principles and techniques for increased engagement
Speaker: Garr Reynolds, Associate Professor of Management at Kansai Gaidai University
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 16:30
Oxford Law Faculty
Governing Forced Migration by Sea: A Legal Perspective
All Souls College
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
The Infringement Procedure and its Role in the Elimination of Fiscal Barriers in the European Union
Speaker: Anzhela Yevgenyeva, Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
Said Business School Board Room at 13:30
Lessons in Government Seminars
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Kate Allen , Director of Amnesty International UK
Hertford College Baring Room at 17:00
PIL Lunchtime Discussion Group
The Presidency of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the 'National State Extension' Concern
Speaker: Professor Sienho Yee, Fowler Hamilton Visiting Research Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford; Changjiang Xuezhe Professor and Chief Expert, Wuhan University Institute of International Law
New College 6 at 12:30
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Beyond Lamentation: Remaking a Social Democratic Approach to Crime and Justice
Speaker: Professor Ian Loader, Director, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Oxford Privacy Information Law and Society Seminar
“Privacy 3.0”
Speaker: Simon Davies , Director, Privacy International
Oxford Law Faculty Lecture Room 1 at 16:30
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
To be confirmed
Speaker: Fabiano Schivardi, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
Said Business School Economics Department at 16:30
Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict
The Prosecutor - Film Screening and Discussion
Speaker: Deputy Prosecutor Bensouda, International Criminal Court
Magdalen College The Auditorium at 17:00
Jurisprudence Discussion group
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Andrew Gold, Hart Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford ; Professor of Law, DePaul College of Law, Chicago
Oxford TBC at 17:15
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
To Protect or not to Protect? The Eligibility of Commercially-used Short Verbal Texts for Copyright and Trade Mark Protection
Speaker: Dr Jennifer Davis, Professor Alan Durant , University of Cambridge, University of Middlesex
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
Oxford University Careers Service
CMS Cameron McKenna LLP
Oxford The Old Bank Hotel at 18:00
‘Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects’ lecture series
‘The Ethics of Academic Boycotts’
Speaker: Professor Michael Yudkin, Kellogg College, Oxford University
Lincoln College Oakeshott Room at 20:00
Criminal Law Discussion Group 2011-12
Adjudication Error, Finality, and Symmetry in the Criminal Law
Speaker: Professor Richard Lippke, University of Indiana
All Souls College Hovenden Room at 12:00
Oxford University Careers Service
Mayer Brown JSM careers event
Oxford The Old Bank Hotel at 12:30
EU Law Discussion Group
The Court of Justice as a Labour Court
Speaker: Professor Anne Davies, University of Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube with lunch from 1230 in the IECL Foyer at 1300
Interdisciplinary Law Discussion Group
Law and LGBTQ
Speaker: Ben Smith and Rachel Clement , Wadham College
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 17:00
Oxford University Careers Service
Herbert Smith LLP
Freud at 18:00
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance
Speaker: every participant
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room St. Cross Building at 9:00
Law and Finance Workshop
"Corporate Law and Externalities" and "The Causal Effect of Bankruptcy Law on the Cost of Finance"
Speaker: John Armour, Hogan Lovells Professor of Law and Finance, University of Oxford and Nicolas Serrano-Velarde, Research Fellow, Centre for Business Taxation, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 12:00
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
Making New Law: Test Cases and Novel Points
Speaker: Michael Edenborough QC, Serle Court
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1245
Obligations Discussion Group
Void Contracts and Voidable Contracts: A Question of Relativity
Speaker: Professor John Cartwright, University of Oxford
Corpus Christi College Rainolds Room at 12:45
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Does COIN Have a Future?’
Speaker: Etienne De Durand, Security Studies Centre IFRI (Paris)
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
The Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies Seminar Series
Title to be confirmed
Cancelled
Speaker: Dr Vuk Radmilovic, SSHRC Post‐Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Oxford University Careers Service
Allen&Overy LLP
Randolph Hotel at 18:00
Migration Law Discussion Group
"The proliferation of human rights: when do moral rights become legal rights?"
Speaker: Ms Michele Morel, Ghent University, Belgium.
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room - St Cross Building at 18:30
Oxford University Careers Service
Law Fair
Examination Schools at 11:00
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
To be confirmed
Speaker: Nicolas Serrano-Velarde, Centre for Business Taxation
Said Business School Andrew Cormack Room at 13:30
PIL Lunchtime Discussion Group
Military Necessity and International Humanitarian Law
Speaker: Dr Anthony Cullen, University of Leeds
New College 6 at 12:30
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
Electing Prosecutors: An Exploration of the Issues
Speaker: Richard L. Lippke, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Criminology Senior Scholar, Dept of Criminal Justice, Indiana University
Balliol College Massey Room at 17:15
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
EU Accession to the ECHR: Implications for European Patent Law
Speaker: Professor Aurora Plomer, University of Sheffield
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
Oxford University Careers Service
Mayer Brown International LLp
Oxford Grand Cafe at 18:30
Talking Law and Ethics
Making Trials Work in Developing Countries
Speaker: Dr Trudie Lang, Head of the Global Health Clinical Trial Research Programme
Oxford Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus at 13:00
Interdisciplinary Law Discussion Group
Law and artificial intelligence
Speaker: TBC
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 17:00
Oxford University Careers Service
Weil,Gotshal &Manges
Oxford TBC at 18:00
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance
Speaker: every participant
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room St. Cross Building at 8:00
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Does War have a Meaning?’
Speaker: Professor Michael Boylan, Marymount-
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Oxford Pro Bono Publico
OPBP Sandwich Lunch in commemoration of National Pro Bono Week
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room, Law Faculty at 13:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series
Effectiveness of the International Prohibition on Amnesty for Serious Human Rights Crimes: The Case of Burundi
Speaker: Dr. Stef Vandeginste, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation ‐ Flanders (FWO) at the Faculty of Law
Manor Road Social Sciences Building  Seminar Room D at 17:00
Oxford University Careers Service
Linklaters
Randolph Hotel at 18:00
Oxford University Careers Service
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (Hong Kong)
Oxford Law Faculty at 13:00
Oxford University Careers Service
Preparing for the Law Fair & Law presentations
Oxford University Careers Service at 13:15
The Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies Seminar Series
Laws of war in practice: the evolution of prisoners of war in the eighteenth century
Speaker: Dr Erica Charters, University Lecturer in the History of Medicine, Faculty of History
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Oxford University Careers Service
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Randolph Hotel at 18:30
Said Business School
From the Financial to the Sovereign-Debt Crisis: Changing Patterns of Public and Private Law
Speaker: Professor Giulio Napolitano and Professor Andrea Zoppini, University of Roma Tre
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 11:00
Oxford University Careers Service
Baker&McKenzie LLP careers event
Malmaison Hotel at 12:30
PIL Lunchtime Discussion Group
Palestine, Statehood and the Challenges of Representation
Speaker: Professor Goodwin-Gill, All Soul's College, University of Oxford
New College 6 at 12:30
Property Law Discussion Group
Making Land Work: Easements, Covenants and Profits a Prendre
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Cooke, Law Commission for England and Wales
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
Comparative Law Discussion Group
Of Islands and the Ocean: the Two Rationalities of European Private Law
Speaker: Professor Ralf Michaels, Duke University
Institute of European and Comparative Law Law Board Room (and IECL foyer for lunch from 12.30) at 1300
Law and Finance Seminar Series
Regulating Global Financial Institutions: The Unresolved Challenge
Speaker: Emilios Avgouleas, Professor of International Financial Markets & Financial Law, Director of the LLM Programme, University of Manchester
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
Are Legal Rules Content–Independent Reasons?
Speaker: Noam Gur, Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Balliol College Massey Room at 17:30
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
How Idiosyncratic is Patent Value? Exploring the Importance of Firm Characteristics in Patent Valuation
Speaker: George Chondrakis, Said Business School, University of Oxford
St Peter's College Theberge Room at 1715
Oxford University Careers Service
Travers Smith LLP Careers event
Oxford Malmaison Hotel at 18:00
‘Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects’ lecture series
Iranian Nuclear Ambitions: Where are we now?
Speaker: Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi, Foundation for Defence of Democracies
Lincoln College Oakeshott Room at 20:00
Public Law Discussion Group
The Partial Constitutionalisation of Equality
Speaker: Colm O'Cinneide, Reader in Laws at UCL
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30
Talking Law and Ethics
Making it up as you go along: how to maintain collaboration in large informal research networks’
Cancelled
Speaker: Prof Mark McCarthy, Robert Turner Professor of Diabetic Medicine, Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism
Oxford Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus at 13:00
EU Law Discussion Group
The Relationship between Private and Public Enforcement
Speaker: Dr Assimakis Komninos, White & Case LLP and Visiting Fellow, UCL
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube with lunch from 1230 in the IECL Foyer at 1300
Interdisciplinary Law Discussion Group
Law, language and literature
Speaker: Dr Yoonyoung Min, Korea University Legal Research Institute; Aaron R. Hanlon, Linacre College
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 17:00
Centre for Criminology
Seminar for "Where Next for Criminal Justice" Book Launch, Authors: David Faulkner and Ros Burnett
Speaker: Dame Anne Owers and Professor Andrew Ashworth
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Oxford University Careers Service
Norton Rose LLP Careers event
Oxford Malmaison Hotel at 18:00
Corporate Finance Discussion Group
Corporate Finance
Speaker: every participant
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room St. Cross Building at 9:00
Obligations Discussion Group
Fiduciary Duties
Speaker: The Hon Justice James Edelman, Supreme Court of Western Australia
Oxford Law Faculty Law Board Room at 12:45
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Security Sector Reform – How Does it Contribute to Development, National Security and Democracy?
Speaker: Peter Wilson, Coffey International Development Ltd
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Labour Law Discussion Group
The impact of the recent Jivraj v Hashwani case on the definition of ‘employment’ for the purposes of equality law in the UK
Speaker: Professor Christopher McCrudden, Professor McCrudden is currently William W. Cook Global Law Professor (currently on leave) and an elected fellow of the British Academy. Additionally, he is a barrister at the English Bar (Grays Inn), a Non-Resident Tenant at Blackstone Chambers and has been called to the Northern Ireland Bar.
Hertford College Lower SCR at 13:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series
The Virtuous Silence? Buddhism and the Unforgetting of the 1976 Massacre in Bangkok
Speaker: Prof. Thongchai Winichakul , Professor of History, University of Wisconsin‐Madison
Manor Road Social Sciences Building  Seminar Room D at 17:00
Oxford University Careers Service
Hogan Lovells International LLP
Modern Art Oxford at 18:30

October 2011

Obligations Discussion Group
Unnecessary Causes
Speaker: Professor Jane Stapleton
Corpus Christi College Rainolds Room at 12:30
The Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies Seminar Series
Bounty hunters again? CFA's, contingency fees, and third party funders in civil litigation
Speaker: Professor Christopher Hodges, Head of the Civil Justice Programme, Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Oxford University Careers Service
Slaughter and May Careers event
Modern Art Oxford at 18:30
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
Transparency, Tax Pressure, and Access to Finance
Speaker: Andrew Ellul, Indiana University
Said Business School Board Room at 14:45
CMS Research Programme on Civil Justice Systems
THE HIDDEN WORLD OF CONSUMER ADR: REDRESS and BEHAVIOUR
Jesus College at 9:00
PIL Lunchtime Discussion Group
A Reluctant Guardian? The International Court of Justice and the Concept of 'International Community'
Speaker: Dr Gleider Hernandez, Durham University
New College 6 at 12:30
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Proportionate Sentencing and the Rule of Law
Speaker: Malcolm Thorburn , Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
“The strength of moral duties in a partial-compliance world”
Speaker: Eduardo Rivera-Lopez, Hart Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Law, Universidad Torcuato di Tella
Balliol College Massey Room at 17:15
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Pivotal Concepts long overlooked? The Work and Authorship in EU Copyright Law
Speaker: Dr Mireille van Eechoud, University of Amsterdam
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
Oxford University
Careers at the Bar
Oxford Divinity School, Bodleian Library at 18:30
‘Israel: Historical, Political and Social Aspects’ lecture series
‘Technological Challenges to the Right to Privacy: the Israel Case’
Speaker: Professor Michael Birnhack, Tel Aviv University
Lincoln College Oakeshott Room at 20:00
Criminal Law Discussion Group 2011-12
'Addiction and Responsibility in Criminal Law'
Speaker: Alan Boggs and Jonathan Herring, Oxford
All Souls College Hovenden Room at 12:00
Talking Law and Ethics
Pre-Nups. Why they are important in research and how to get them in place
Speaker: Dr Richard Liwicki, Deputy Director Research Services, Head of the Medical Sciences Office, University of Oxford (note different time 12-1pm
Oxford Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus at 13:00
Interdisciplinary Law Discussion Group
Law and narcotics
Speaker: Nessa Carson, University College; Ben Southwood, Lincoln College
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room F at 17:00
Law and Finance Senior Practitioner Lectures
One Step Ahead - Hedge funds and private equity funds after the Global Financial Crisis
Speaker: Timothy Spangler, Kaye Scholer LLP
Oxford Law Faculty The Cube at 17:30
Obligations Discussion Group
Reconceptualising Contract Law’s Expectation Principle
Speaker: Mr David Winterton, University of Oxford
Corpus Christi College Rainolds Room at 12:45
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
The Shadow of the ICC: Positive Complementarity and the Situation in Kenya
Speaker: Professor Chandra Sriram, SOAS
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series
Symposium ‐ The 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran: A Quest for Justice
Speaker: Symposium speakers include Geoffrey Robertson QC (Doughty Street Chambers), Abdolkarim Lahidji (International Federation for Human Rights), Ladan and Roya Boroumand (Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation), Carla Ferstman (REDRESS), Corinna Mullin (SOAS) and Wolfgang Kaleck (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights)
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 14:30
The Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies Seminar Series
What is Law's Function?
Speaker: Dr Maris Kopcke Tinture, Fellow in Law, Worcester College and Lecturer in Law, Brasenose College
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
Income taxation and business incorporation: Evidence from the Early Twentieth Century
Speaker: Li Liu, Centre for Business Taxation
Said Business School Seminar Room 14 at 13:30
PIL Lunchtime Discussion Group
The Al-Skeini decision of the EuropeanCourt of Human Rights - a Landmark on the Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Law?
Speaker: Dr Ralph Wilde, University College of London
New College 6 at 12:30
Public Law Discussion Group
Proportionality: transatlantic perspectives
Speaker: Professor Denise Réaume, Professor at University of Toronto - Faculty of Law and Visiting Professor, Oxford Law Faculty
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30
Obligations Discussion Group
Peter Birks and Comparative Law
Speaker: Professor Lionel Smith, McGill University, Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
Institute of European and Comparative Law Foyer at 12:30
Comparative Law Discussion Group jointly with the Obligations Law Discussion Group
Peter Birks and Comparative Law
Speaker: Professor Lionel Smith, McGill University
Institute of European and Comparative Law Seminar Room D (and IECL Foyer for lunch at 12.30) at 1300
Oxford University Careers Service
Finance Sector Fair
Oxford Town Hall at 14:30
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
Special Panel Discussion: “The Status of the Human Embryo in UK Law and Public Policy:Gradualist Language but Instrumentalist use”
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 16:45
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
Functionality
Speaker: Professor Stacey Dogan, Boston University
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 1715
Talking Law and Ethics
‘The Structure of Good Collaboration: using governance mechanisms to your advantage’
Speaker: Dr Jane Kaye, Director, HeLEX Centre for Health Law and Emerging Technologies
Oxford Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus at 13:00
EU Law Discussion Group
Varieties of Capitalism and the Limits of European Economic Integration
Speaker: Professor Jukka Snell, Swansea University
Institute of European and Comparative Law The Cube with lunch from 1230 in the IECL Foyer at 1300
Interdisciplinary Law Discussion Group
Law and poverty
Speaker: Insa Koch, Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room D at 17:00
Trinity College
Babyboomers, the Balkans and Milosevic
Speaker: Sir Geoffrey Nice and Sir Ivor Roberts
Trinity College Danson Room at 17:00
Law and Finance Workshop
"Toward a Supply-side Theory of Financial Innovation" and "Patent Information and Corporate Credit Ratings: An Empirical Study of Patent Valuation by Credit Rating Agencies"
Speaker: Dan Awrey, University Lecturer in Law and Finance, University of Oxford and Carl Frey, Visiting Doctoral Student, Oxford Intellectual Property Research
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room D at 12:00
Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
“Using these powers too often or too seldom”; the “care and management” of taxes and the settlement of tax disputes in New Zealand and the United Kingdom
Speaker: Shelley Griffiths, University of Otago
Said Business School Andrew Cormack Room, at 12:30
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
IP Abuse Prevention and Competition Laws: A Comparative Study of Australia, China and Japan
Speaker: Dr George Yijun Tian, University of Technology (Sydney, Australia), visiting research fellow at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 1245
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century
Speaker: Commodore Steve Jermy, Royal Navy
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series
OTJR Information and Drinks Evening
Manor Road Social Sciences Building  Seminar Room D at 17:00
The Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies Seminar Series
Civil Courts in Ukraine: Window into Society
Speaker: Dr Marina Kurkchiyan, Law Foundation Fellow, Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Antitrust Economics
Speaker: Mark Williams, NERA
Centre for Competition Law & Policy at 17:00
Centre for Business Taxation Research Seminar Series
An Optimal Tax System
Speaker: Louis Kaplow , Harvard University
Said Business School Board Room at 13:30
PIL Lunchtime Discussion Group
A Mechanism for UN Accountability for Violations of Human Rights: The Kosovo Human Rights Advisory Board
Speaker: Professor Christine Chinkin, London School of Economics
New College 6 at 12:30
All Souls Criminology Seminar Series
Risk and Protective Factors for Offending
Speaker: David Farrington, University of Cambridge
All Souls College Old Library at 15:30
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
“Assertions de sententia pendente”
Speaker: Andrej Kristan, Faculty of Law, University of Genoa
Balliol College Massey Room at 17:15
Talking Law and Ethics
Ethics in emerging forms of global health research collaboration
Speaker: Professor Mike Parker, Professor of Bioethics and Director of the Ethox Centre and Dr Kirk Rockett, Research Manager MalariaGEN
Oxford Richard Doll Building, Old Road Campus at 13:00
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
Risk Versus Hazard: Hypocrisy in Policy
Wolfson College Haldane Room at 17:30
ELAC Lunchtime Seminar Series
‘None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture’
Speaker: Joshua E. S. Phillips, Journalist
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 13:00
The High Sheriff's Law Lecture
Should the law be certain?
Speaker: The Right Honourable The Lord Mance Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
University Church of St Mary the Virgin at 15:30
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series
The Politics of International Criminal Law
Speaker: Courtenay Griffiths, Queen's Counsel (Joint-head of Garden Court Chambers), Defence Lawyer for Charles Taylor
Manor Road Social Sciences Building  Seminar Room D at 17:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research
Book Launch: State Control over Private Military & Security Companies in Armed Conflict
Speaker: Dr. Hannah Tonkin, Lawyer at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 13:00
The Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies Seminar Series
Delegating Rights Protection
Speaker: Dr David Erdos, Katzenbach Research Fellow, Centre for Socio‐Legal Studies; Discussants: Dr Rebecca Money‐Kyrle, Research Officer, Civil Justice Programme and Dr Lisa Vanhala, University College London
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 16:30
Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict
Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict: The Legacy of 9/11
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 17:00

September 2011

Institute of European and Comparative Law
The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships
St Anne's College
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
Constructing Legal Culture through Institutional Reforms: The Russian Experience
Wolfson College Haldane Room at 10:00
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
The Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions
Wolfson College Haldane Room at 9:30
Oxford Law Faculty
Third Project Conference for The Draft Common European Sales Law and its interaction with English and German Law
Humboldt-University of Berlin
Oxford
Final Open Day of 2011
Oxford Law Faculty at 1400
Oxford Law Faculty
Legal Principles Underlying the Law on Storage of Human Tissue
St Anne's College
Oxford Law Faculty
Strengthening the International Framework for Corporate Compliance with Agreed International Norms and Standards
St Anne's College

August 2011

Oxford Law Faculty
Oxford University Alumni Reception in Sydney - 2nd August 2011
at 18:00

July 2011

Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation Summer Conference
Said Business School
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
The Court of Public Opinion: Justice, the Media and Popular Will
The Queen's College The Memorial Room at 10:00
Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation
Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation - Summer Symposium 2011
Said Business School
Oxford Law Faculty
'Economic and Social Rights in a Time of Austerity'
Change of date
Oxford Law Faculty SCR

June 2011

Discrimination Law in Theory and Practice
'Evaluating the Equality Act 2010'
Cancelled
Speaker: Professor Sandy Fredman, Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 16:00
Discrimination Law in Theory and Practice
Discrimination litigation: practical lessons
Speaker: Paul Goulding QC
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 16:00
Public Law Discussion Group
Same-Sex Marriage and Adoption in the European Court of Human Rights
Speaker: Professor Robert Wintemute, Professor of Human Rights Law, School of Law, King's College London
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30
The Socio-Legal Discussion Group Seminars
'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
Legalism Seminar Series
Is the ‘principle of legality’ a Chinese invention?
Cancelled
Speaker: Jérôme Bourgon , ENS, Lyon
St John's College Research Centre's Seminar Room, 45 St Giles at 16:00
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
Puzzling About State Excuses as an Instance of Group Excuses
Speaker: François Tanguay-Renaud, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School; H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow, Oxford CEPL
University College Goodhart Seminar Room at 19:45
Intellectual Property Discussion Group
Graffiti rules: Parallel norms of intellectual property in public space
Speaker: Marta Iljadica, King's College, London
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room C at 13:00
Oxford Law Faculty
Human Rights Judging: Assessing Michael Kirby's International Legacy
Speaker: Professor AJ Brown, Griffith Law School, Griffith University
Corpus Christi College Auditorium at 17:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series
Between Collectivism and Individualism: the Reflection of the Israeli– German Relationship in Israeli Dance from 1970’s –present
Speaker: Dana Mills , DPhil Candidate in Political Theory University of Oxford
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
The Oxford Programme on the Changin Character of War Annual lecture
In times of war, the law must not fall silent
Speaker: Professor Philip Bobbitt
Merton College T.S Eliot Theatre at 17:00
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
The Social and Political Foundations of Constitutions
Jesus College at 10:00
Discrimination Law in Theory and Practice
Indirect discrimination: hairdressers, pools and the problem of flexible working arrangements”
Speaker: Andrew Scott/Fraser Campbell, Oxford and Blackstone Chambers
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 17:00
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
Constitutions and the Media: How the Media Presents and Reports on Constitutional Affairs
Jesus College at 10:00
Department of Politics and International Relations
Recent developments in the doctrine of inequitable conduct before the US Patent Office
Speaker: Prof. Christian E. Mammen , University of California Hastings College of the Law
University College Winter Common Room at 10:30
Property Law Discussion Group
Pitt v Holt: is there still a rule in Re Hastings-Bass?
Speaker: Mr Michael Ashdown, Somerville College, Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:30
HLA Hart Memorial Lecture
Equality and Differences
Speaker: John Finnis
Merton College T S Eliot Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre
Justifying Intellectual Property
Speaker: Professor Robert Merges, Berkeley Law, University of California
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room C at 13:00
The Socio-Legal Discussion Group Seminars
'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
Legalism Seminar Series
Codified law, social reality and judicial practice: the adjudication of illegal wife sales in Qing county courts
Speaker: Matthew Sommer, Stanford University
St John's College Research Centre's Seminar Room, 45 St Giles at 16:00
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
Annual Lecture in Law and Society : The Indirect Origins of the Juridical Constitution
Speaker: Professor Denis Galligan, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University
Jesus College at 17:00
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
Risking Future Generations
Speaker: Rahul Kumar, Associate Professor, Queen's University; H.L.A. Hart Visiting Fellow, Oxford CEPL
University College Goodhart Seminar Room at 19:45
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Legal theory and empirical research
Speaker: Professor Denis Galligan, Dr paul Dresh, Professor Leslie Green, Dr Fernanda Pirie
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room G at 16:00
JDG Special Event
A Panel Discussion on John Finnis' Philosophy of Law
Speaker: Prof John Finnis, Prof Matthew Kramer, Prof Hillel Steiner
Oxford Law Faculty Lecture Theatre II at 16:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
Aftermaths: South Africa after Transitional Justice
Speaker: Professor Paul Gready, Director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
Obligations Discussion Group
The Buncefield Litigation
Speaker: Mr Laurence Rabinowitz QC, One Essex Court
Jesus College Habbakuk Room at 18:00
The Oxford Legal History Forum
Misdemeanour in 18th-century King's Bench
Speaker: Professor Douglas Hay, Osgoode Hall, York University
University College Swire Room at 12:45
Discrimination Law in Theory and Practice
The Equality Duty and the Interface with Administrative Law
Speaker: Tom Hickman, Blackstone Chambers
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 17:00
Law and Finance Seminar Series
Market Efficiency after the Financial Crisis
Speaker: Ronald J. Gilson, Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business, Columbia Law School
Said Business School Founders Room at 17:30
Legalism Seminar Series
Legalising criminal law? Formalisation and professionalisation in 19th century England
Speaker: Nicola Lacey , University of Oxford
St John's College Research Centre's Seminar Room, 45 St Giles at 16:00
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
A positivist route for explaining how facts make law
Speaker: David Plunkett, Postdoctoral scholar in Law and Philosophy, UCLA School of Law
University College Goodhart Seminar Room at 19:45
Oxford Law Faculty
'The Role of the Judge in Public Law Litigation'
Speaker: Justice K ate O’Regan of the South African Constitutional Court and Justice Robert Sharpe of the Ontario Court of Appeal
Oxford Law Faculty Lecture Room 1 at 11:30
Law and Finance Workshop
"Risk-Decoupled Shareholders in Corporate Governance" and "A Rejected Transplant: explaining the failure of company liquidation law in India"
Speaker: Wolf-Georg Ringe, DAAD Lecturer in Law, University of Oxford and Kristin van Zwieten, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty History of the Book Room, at 12:00
Obligations Discussion Group Trinity Term 2011
Causation and Transfers of Value in the Law of Unjust Enrichment
Speaker: Professor Charles Mitchell (UCL) and Mr Stephen Watterson (LSE)
Jesus College Habakkuk Room at 12:45
Oxford Transitional Justice Research
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room D at 17:00
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
The Foundations of Law: Legalism in the ancient world, Europe and Asia
St John's College
Principles of Financial Regulation Addional Lecture
Resolving Failing Banks in the Public Interest: the UK's Special Resolution Regime
Speaker: Alec Brown, Financial Services Authority
Oxford Law Faculty Seminar Room C at 17:00
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society
What Good Did Roman Law Do the Romans?
Speaker: Professor Bruce W. Frier, Professor of Classics and Roman Law, University of Michigan
Jesus College Ship Street Lecture Theatre at 17:30
Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Seventh Symposium on Trends in Retail Competition: Private Labels, Brands and Competition Policy
Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Discrimination Law in Theory and Practice
Recent Developments in Religion and Belief Discrimination
Speaker: Professor Chris McCrudden, Oxford and Blackstone Chambers
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 17:00
2011 Annual Uehiro Lecture Series Making Good: The Challenge of Robustly Demanding Values
Lecture 3 - Virtues, Norms and Consequentialism
Speaker: Professor Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Law and Finance Seminar Series
Securities Holding Through Intermediaries U.S. Law under U.C.C. Article 8
Speaker: Professor Jim Rogers, Boston College
Jesus College Habbakuk Room at 17:30
Centre for Competition Law & Policy
Vertical Competition
Speaker: Robert L. Steiner
Centre for Competition Law & Policy Seminar Room C at 12:00
Centre for Competition Law & Policy
The Role of Vertical Competition in Consumer Goods Industries
Centre for Competition Law & Policy at 12:00
Public Law Discussion Group
Towards a Legal Constitution: One more step
Speaker: Dr. Tarunabh Khaitan, Penningtons Student in Law, Christ Church
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30
2011 Annual Uehiro Lecture Series Making Good: The Challenge of Robustly Demanding Values
Lecture 2 - The Robust Demands Served by Norms
Speaker: Professor Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
THE ANNUAL ISAIAH BERLIN LECTURE
Reasoning and Disagreement
Speaker: Professor Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy, Harvard University
Wolfson College The Hall at 18:00
2011 Annual Uehiro Lecture Series Making Good: The Challenge of Robustly Demanding Values
Lecture 1 - The Robust Demands Served by Virtues
Speaker: Professor Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian at 14:30
Legalism Seminar Series
The location of the rules in international business
Cancelled
Speaker: Malcolm Chapman, University of Leeds)
St John's College Research Centre's Seminar Room, 45 St Giles at 16:00
Legalism Seminar Series 2011
Navigating the law in Mid-Tudor England:1540-1570
Speaker: James McComish, University of Oxford
St John's College Research Centre's Seminar Room, 45 St Giles at 16:30
Principles of Financial Regulation Additional Lecture
The Short Long. Market Myopia: new evidence, implications and policy ideas
Speaker: Richard Davies, Bank of England
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:00
John Locke Lectures : Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life
Platonism as a Way of Life.
Speaker: John Cooper, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
Recidivism, Retributivism, and the Labor Market
Speaker: Christopher Lewis, Balliol College, Oxford
University College Goodhart Seminar Room at 19:45

May 2011

Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
Legacies of Conflict: Healing Complexes and moving forwrd in Afganistan
Speaker: Emily Winterbotham, Researcher in Transitional Justice, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar room D at 17:00
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
IP Policy and Economic Research
Speaker: Tony Clayton, Intellectual Property Office
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 17:15
Discrimination Law in Theory and Practice
Territorial Jurisdiction: who ought to be able to bring a discrimination claim in England?
Speaker: Sarah Wilkinson, Blackstone Chambers
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 17:00
All Souls College
The Seductiveness of Ideology in Politics
Speaker: Mr Frits Bolkestein
All Souls College Old Library at 17:00
Oxford Public International Law Discussion Group
International Criminal Justice vs. the Arms Trade: Two Elements of Globalization Collide
Speaker: Prof James Stewart, University of British Columbia
New College Lecture Room 6 at 12:30
Principles of Financial Regulation Additional Lecture
The Relationship between the Modern State and its Banks
Speaker: Charles Aldington, Former Chairman, Deutsche Bank, London
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 17:00
Reading 'The Concept of Law'
Chapter I: How Persistent are Hart's 'Persistent Questions'?
Speaker: Pierluigi Chiassoni, John Finnis, Nicola Lacey, Frederick Schauer
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminars
Reparation and Reconciliation in Post-Conflict Bosnia and Serbia: What Role for Socio-Legal Studies?
Speaker: Professor Stephan Parmentier, Professor of Criminology Leuven Institute of Criminology, K.U.Leuven
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Seminar Room C at 17:00
Oxford Intellectual Property Invited Speaker Seminar Series
The Social Value of Patent Disclosure
Speaker: Professor Dietmar Harhoff, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
St Peter's College Dorfman Room at 17:15
Criminal Law Discussion Group
'Committing crimes while intoxicated: time for a new approach?' (work in Progress)
Speaker: Dr Rebecca Williams, Pembroke College
St Peter's College Dorfman Cntre at 12:00
EU Law Discussion Group
Multilingual EU Law: on the Significance of Translation for Legal Harmonisation
Speaker: Dr Sieglinde Pommer, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Institute of European and Comparative Law Room 19 and IECL Foyer for lunch at 12.30 at 13:00
Women's Rights Research Seminar
'Women in Islamic Jurisprudence and Law'
Speaker: Speaker: Tariq Ramadan; Chair: Nazila Ghanea
St Antony's College The Dahrendorf Room at 13:00
Legalism Seminar Series
Philosophy, Politics, and Law in the Age of Khubilai Khan: Competing Visions and Moral Dilemmas in the Application of Marriage law in Mongol- Yuan China (1260-1368)
Speaker: Bettine Birge, University of Southern California
St John's College Research Centre's Seminar Room, 45 St Giles at 16:00
Foundation for Law, Justice and Society workshop
Constitutions as Contracts, Constitutions as Charters
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Room A at 16:30
6th Roger Hood Annual Public Lecture
Influence and Impact in Contemporary Criminology: The Question of Feminism
Speaker: Professor Frances Heidensohn, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics
Manor Road Social Sciences Building Lecture Theatre at 17:00
John Locke Lectures : Ancient Greek Philosophies as a Way of Life
The Stoic Way of Life.
Speaker: John Cooper, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre
Emerging IP Monetization Solutions: The Institutionalization of an IP Exchange
Speaker: Gerard Pannekoek, Founding President and Chief Executive Officer of IPXI Holdings
Oxford Law Faculty Room 19 at 17:30
Jurisprudence Discussion Group
Raz's authority-based argument for the sources thesis: a critical analysis
Speaker: Paul Brady, Balliol College, Oxford
University College Goodhart Seminar Room at 19:45

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