Assize Seminar May 2026

University of Cambridge (8 May 2026)

Speakers

1. Dr Matt Gibson (Birmingham Law School)
   Title: Killing Whilst Losing Self-Control: Three Conceptual Challenges
   Commentator: Professor Matt Dyson (University of Oxford)

    

2. Dr Kasja Dinesson (York Law School)
   Title: Doing it CT-Style: On the proliferation of counterterrorism-style laws and powers and its implications
   Commentator: Dr Daniella Lock (King’s College London)

    

3. Dr Matt Thomason (University of Nottingham)
   Title: Admitting Evidence of Prior False Allegations: Some Mistake, (S)Hurley?
   Commentator: Paul Jarvis KC (6KBW)