Assize Seminars: Cutting Edge Criminal Law
Mark Dsouza (UCL) | Matthew Dyson (Oxford, Chair) | Paul Jarvis (CBA) | Rachel Tolley Clement (Cambridge)
The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic, in this case rotating between three leading academic institutions: Oxford, Cambridge and University College London, all with the support of the Criminal Bar Association. Each institution normally offers a speaker or commentator at each event, with the other half of the slots filled by academics, judges, practitioners, law reformers and others. Events attendance and speaker slots are open to all.
The next event will be at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 3pm on the 16th of May 2025. The timetable is below.
15.00 Welcome
15.05 The criminal justice system and second-class citizenship - can the law respond? Or can the law provide redress?, Dr Marianne Wade, University of Birmingham, with Professor Stephen Shute providing a comment.
16.10 Break
16.30 Recognising wrongs in the digital age: a case for a relational definition of personhood in criminal law, Dr Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and the Law, with Dr Carla Sepúlveda Penna providing a comment.
17.35 Break
17.55 Weaponizing self-defence, Paul Jarvis KC, 6KBW, with Dr Beatrice Krebs providing a comment.
19.00 Drinks
Details of the commentators will be publicised soon.
Places are limited. To apply for a place please fill in this form:
https://forms.office.com/e/Y2Q2DRQzi8
Other events:
May 2022: Hosted by the University of Cambridge.
May 2020: This Cambridge event was postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. However, we decided to hold it remotely, via Zoom, on Friday 20th November. The papers were recorded in advance, and comments and discussion carried out in person on the day. For more details, please see:
www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/assize-seminars
16th November 2019: Full details, including videos of the presentations and the materials available:
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/2019/nov/assize-seminar-cutting-edge-criminal-law
