Category: Forthcoming events

‘We are privileged to announce that our keynote speaker will be Michael Mansfield QC, raising the topic of ‘Undercover Policing and the Secret State’ Rt Hon. Sadiq Khan MP will chair the event. The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A.’

Date: 25th March 2014, 18.30-9.00pm

Location: TUC, Congress House, 23-28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS

Charge: £20, Student concession £5

More information can be found here.

‘Speaker: Dr Ian Cram, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law, Leeds University; IALS Visiting Fellow.’

Date: 13th February 2014, 12.30-1.45pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Charles Clore House, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘John Gardner FBA is Professor of Jurisprudence and a Fellow of University College. He was formerly Reader in Legal Philosophy at King’s College London (1996-2000), Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College, Oxford (1991-6) and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (1986-91). He has also held visiting positions at Columbia University, Yale University, the University of Texas, Princeton University, the Australian National University and the University of Auckland. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Law and Philosophy, and The Journal of Moral Philosophy. Called to the Bar in 1988, he has been a Bencher of the Inner Temple since 2002 (although he does not practice).’

Date: 28th April 2014, 6.00pm

Location: UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Our keynote speaker will be The Honourable Mrs Justice Rose, whose career has spanned the Independent Bar, the Public Sector and the Judiciary.

The keynote speech will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with:

Margaret Casely Heyford – Head of Legal, John Lewis

Clive Rich – Media Lawyer and Negotiator, involved in executive coaching of women in the City.

Kathleen Harris – Partner at Arnold & Porter LLP, White Collar Criminal Defence Practice Group.

Alison Levitt – Principal Legal Advisor to the Director of Public Prosecutions

Nicky Oppenheimer – Chair of Central Government and Head of International Arts and Heritage Practices, Odgers Berndtson.’

Date: 24th March 2014, 5.30-9.00pm

Location: Middle Temple Hall
Middle Temple Lane
EC4Y 9AT London
United Kingdom

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Life Cycles and Competition Law: How Systems Evolve by Bill Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy;Professor of Law; Director, Competition Law Center, The George Washington University, Washington DC.

Professor Alison Jones in the Chair.’

Date: 14th February 2014, 12.30-1.30pm

Location: Parliament Chamber, Inner Temple Hall, London EC4Y 7DA

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘The Inner Temple’s Employed Bar Forum is a new initiative that aims to bring together employed barristers for lectures, workshops and networking. It is open to all employed barristers and events are currently free to attend.’

Date: 3rd April 2014, 5.45pm

Location: Parliament Chamber, Inner Temple Treasury Building, London EC4Y 7HL

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘An opportunity for the whole Bar to address the harmful effects of the Government’s changes to legal aid.

Speakers will include:
• Nicholas Lavender QC
Chairman of the Bar
• Nigel Lithman QC
Criminal Bar Association
•Timothy Fancourt QC
Chancery Bar Association
• Sarah Forshaw QC
South-Eastern Circuit.’

Date: 8th February 2014, 9.30am

Location: Great Hall, Lincoln’s Inn, London WC2A 3TL

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

‘Non-Statutory Executive Powers in Five Regimes: Assessing Global Constitutionalism in Structural-Institutional Contexts.’

Date: 30th January 2014, 6.00-7.30pm

Location: Room 1.2, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London (Lincoln’s Inn Fields Campus), 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields London WC2A 3JB

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

‘The Death Penalty Project would like to invite you to a lecture by William Schabas, Professor of International Law, Middlesex University London.’

Date: 28th January 2014, 6.00pm

Location: Main Hall, Inner Temple, London EC4Y 7HL

RSVP nicola.goldfinch-palmers@smab.co.uk

‘The aim of this series is to initiate a dialogue between different areas of private law, between private lawyers and experts in other legal fields, as well as scholars in other disciplines in the humanities and social studies.

We believe that these ‘conversations’ can enrich the research and practice of private law, and shed light on its great contribution to, and influence on, other areas of scholarship and practice inside and outside the law.’

Date: 27th January 2014, 6.15-8.15pm

Location: SW1.18 (Moot Court Room), Somerset House East Wing, London WC2R 2LS

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Speaker: Mary B. Saltonstall Professor & Professor of Ethics and Population Health, Harvard’

Date: 19th March 2014, 4.00-7.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free, registration required

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‘Professor Elyn Saks will give the second in The John Toulmin Lecture in Law and Psychiatry lecture series.The series was set up following a gift by John and Carolyn Toulmin to the College with the aim of establishing a collaborative relationship between the College’s Dickson Poon School of Law and the College’s Institute of Psychiatry.

Date: 18th March 2014, 7.30-9.30pm

Location: Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre King’s Building Strand Campus

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Saturday 29 March 2014 will see the first same sex wedding take place in England and Wales. Join the Law Society for an interactive panel event to celebrate this key step forward for LGB equality and to mark LGBT History Month 2014.

Our discussion event: Same sex marriage: job done for LGB equality? will examine the issue of LGB equality now that the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 has been passed through a ‘Question Time’ style live session with the audience.

Our distinguished panel includes:

Peter Tatchell, director, Peter Tatchell Foundation and leading political rights activist;
Rachel Woodd, partner, Jones Nickolds Family Law Solicitors;
Alistair Stewart, assistant director, the Kaleidoscope Trust; and
S.Chelvan, barrister, No 5 Chambers.’

CPD hours 2.0

Date: 20th February 2014, 6.00-9.00pm

Location: The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

‘Vera Baird QC was elected as Northumbria’s first Police and Crime Commissioner in 2012. Vera’s Police and Crime Plan focuses on five areas, Anti-Social Behaviour, Domestic and Sexual Abuse, Community Confidence, Reducing Crime and Putting Victims First. The Commissioner is working closely with the public to ensure the police deliver the priorities set down in the Police and Crime plan.’

Date: 4th February 2014, 6.30pm

Location: Arts2 Lecture Theatre, Arts2 Building, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Professor Andrew Burrows QC, University of Oxford.

The theme for the 2014 Lecture Series is “Recent Landmarks in the Law.”‘

Date: 17th February 2014, 6.30-7.30pm

Location: The Inner Temple

Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here.

‘Per Laleng, Inner Temple Academic Fellow, University of Kent.

The theme for the 2014 Lecture Series is “Recent Landmarks in the Law.”‘

Date: 20th January 2014, 6.30-7.30pm

Location: The Inner Temple

Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here.

‘Scepticism about desert has been common among theorists of justice, both those who favour a social contract account and those, like Hayek, who have a different view. Yet, although the concept of desert seldom figures in contemporary contract theories of justice, it is an element in the common sense morality of modern democracies. Can we reconcile common sense thinking and social contract theory in respect of the principle of desert?’

Date: 22nd January 2014, 4.00-7.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘In this talk, Professor Lessig introduces the idea of “institutional corruption,” and uses it to understand pathologies in important public institutions, especially the United States Congress.’

Date: 13th March 2014, 6.00pm

Location: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1, UCL Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘The notions of the reasonable and of the reasonable person are often attacked as decidedly not helpful to criminal law and criminal law theory (and often the claim is made with respect not just to criminal law, but law in general). I try to show that the reasonable has a great deal more going for it, for purposes of criminal law, than is often thought. Elsewhere I try to understand what the basis for the misgivings is. In this paper, I take a step back from the issues in law and criminal law theory and examine the everyday notion of reasonableness, and more specifically to reasonableness understood as a quality we attribute to (some but not all) persons. By giving it a close look we’ll be in a better position to reflect on the suitability (or lack thereof) of reasonableness for purposes to which it is put to use in the criminal law, e.g., the heat of passion defense and (the culpability level of) negligence.’

Date: 5th March 2014, 4.00-7.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Over recent years, CEO pay in public companies has increased at a stratospheric rate, while the real incomes of many private sector workers have either stagnated or fallen. Consequently, the issue of CEO/worker pay equity has become a politically live issue, both in the UK and internationally. Against this background, the seminar will explore the economic case for moderating intra-firm pay disparities. It will highlight the importance of manifestly fair organisational pay policies in sustaining the significant levels of trust and personal commitment that are necessary for the maintenance of productive employment relations. It will also demonstrate the broader function of pay equity in sustaining the corporate sector’s collective and publicly delegated license to determine prevailing private sector income distributions, outside of direct state control. Finally, the seminar will contend with the orthodox counter-argument that reduced income inequality is liable to undermine incentives for productive work practices, by showing that – contrary to popular belief – a decreased emphasis on pecuniary incentives will likely be conducive to greater levels of work effort on the part of both senior executives and ‘rank-and-file’ workers. On this basis, the claim will be advanced that achieving meaningful pay equity is important today not just as a means of achieving social justice, but also as an essential precondition for securing the continuing existence of private enterprise in its traditionally understood form.’

Date: 12th February 2014, 6.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.