Rethinking Legal Insanity: Exploring Options for Insanity Defence Reform in Light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Name: Rethinking Legal Insanity: Exploring Options for Insanity Defence Reform in Light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
Start: 2023-06-15
End: 2023-06-16

Speaker(s):

Professor Ronnie Mackay (de Montfort Leicester) Professor John Child (Birmingham) Dr. Charles O’Mahony (Galway) Eilís Ni Chaoimh (Galway) Dr. Jane Richards (Leeds) Dr. Luke Noonan (Dublin City) Dr. Claire Hogg (UCL) Dr. Leora Dahan Katz (HUJI) Dr. Tova Bennet (Bergen) Professor Linda Gröning (Bergen) Professor Anna Lawson (Leeds) Professor Peter Bartlett (Nottingham) Professor Penney Lewis (Law Commission; KCL)

About the event

Event date:

15 - 16 June

Event time:

10:30 - 16:00

Oxford week:

TT 8

Audience:

Anyone

Venue:

[For Thurs 15 June] Room 106 Gordon House, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6AE; [For Fri 16 June] Room G11, Senate House Building, London WC1B 5DP; and online

Registration:

Rethinking Legal Insanity

Organised by:

UCL (Roots of Responsibility)

Who to contact:

Claire Hogg

The aim of this workshop is to explore potential directions for the reform of legal insanity, with a focus on the potential development of disability-neutral models that meet the requirements for compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). It will feature nine presentations across two days, followed by a summative panel discussion and Q&A.

This event is supported by UCL Public Policy and Research England QR Policy Support Fund.

Theme:

Criminal Law