School of Law Events 2010
Full Listing of all 2010 School of Law Events
27 & 28 January 2010 Venue The Canada Room and Council Chamber, 9-5pm
Devolution, Policing and Justice
School of Law Annual Conference - Booking Form, Provisonal Programme
4 February 2010 Venue PFC/210, 7pm
Human Rights in Haiti
The School of Law Human Rights Centre
9 February 2010 Venue LAN/G9, 2-5pm
The NIO's Bill of Rights Proposals
The School of Law Human Rights Centre
10th February: Venue, Room 101, 27 University Square; Time, 12noon-1pm.
Six Observations in Search of an Act: Reflections on the Tercentenary of the Statute of Anne
Prof Ronan Deazley, School of Law, University of Glasgow
School of Law Seminar Series
20 February 2010 Venue LAN/G9, 9-2pm
Recent Developments in Disability Law
Booking Form
The School of Law Human Rights Centre
22 February 2010 Venue 27.101, 12:30-14:00
Migrants’ Criminalisation in Italy: Exploitation of Labour and Over-representation in Prisons
Dr Alvise Sbraccia, The School of Law ICCJ
24 February 2010 Venue Seminar room 1 Institute of Governance, 1pm
The Protection of Human Rights
Prof Yasuzo Kitamura - Chuo University (Tokyo), School of Law Seminar Series
25 February 2010 Venue LAN/G10N, 4-5:30pm
‘ What Drives Change in the Garda Síochána: Some Preliminary Observations ’
Professor Peter Manning, The School of Law ICCJ
26th February: Venue, The Inn of Court, Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast; Time, 6pm
Founding a Legal System – the Early Judiciary of Northern Ireland
The Rt Hon Lord Carswell, retired Lord of Appeal in Ordinary and former Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.
Spring Discourse of the Irish Legal History Society
5 & 6 March 2010
Annual Conference of Irish Society of Comparative Law
Hosted by the School of Law
10 March 2010 Venue Seminar room 1 , Institute of Governance, 12pm
‘Transnational Corporations and Human Rights’
Prof R McCorquodale, School of Law Seminar Series
15 March 2010 Venue 27.101, 4pm
‘Condemned, Rewarded and Punished: How rights consciousness created a Post-Disciplinary Society in Russian Prisons’
Laura Piacentini, School of Law Seminar Series
18 March 2010 The Great Hall, Lanyon Building, 5.30pm
The MacDermott Lecture
Lady Hale, Justice of the UK's Supreme Court
23rd and 25th March, Venue: Various, Queen’s University.
Abolition, Reform and the Politics of Global Incarceration.
Hosting of 13th International Conference on Penal Abolition
24th March: Venue, Seminar Room 1, Institute of Governance, 63 University Road, Belfast; Time, 10am to 4pm
Positive Obligations and the ECHR
School of Law’s Annual Workshop
15 April 2010, Venue: Welcome Centre, Book Launch :
Brice Dickson, The European Convention on Human Rights and the Conflict in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press; 2010)
Robin Hickey, Property and the Law of Finders (Hart Publishing, 2010)
Brian Jack, Agriculture and EU Environmental Law (Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009)
5 May 2010 Venue Room 101, 27 University Square, Time, 12noon-1pm
“Reigniting the Flame: Funeral Pyres, Law and Litigation in the UK 1884-2010"
Stephen White
20th May: Room 121, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University; Time, 5.30pm-6.30pm.
Re-conceptualising Fair Trial Rights for the 21st Century.
Professor John Jackson, School of Law, University College Dublin
Annual Lecture of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, School of Law
11 June 2010, 2.30pm, PFC Room 212
The conflict between religion and gender – the Malaysian legislative experience
Datuk Rafiah Salim, Director of the NAM Institute for the Empowerment of Women, Malaysia
The Malaysia Lecture Series at Queen’s
22nd June 2010, 2pm, IoG Seminar Room 1
Conflict transformation and change in Northern Ireland
Dr Zola Skeyiya, High Commissioner of South Africa
22 June 2010 @ 6.00pm, Welcome Centre
Book launch to mark the publication of The Blue Wall of Silence: The Morris Tribunal and Police Accountability in the Republic of Ireland by Dr Vicky Conway and Transitional Justice, Judicial Accountability and the Rule of Law by Dr Hakeem Yusuf
23 & 24 June 2010 , 9-5pm, The Canada room and Council Chamber
ICOPA XIII Abolition, Reform and the Politics of Global Incarceration
Professor Phil Scraton
25th June 2010, 1-3pm, Seminar Room 1, Institute of Governance, Coffee and tea available from 12.30pm
Affirmative Action: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities
Chair: Professor Colin Harvey, School of Law, QUB. Speakers: Professor Christopher McCrudden, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Ms Evelyn Collins, Chief Executive, Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, Professor Terence Gomez, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya
School of Law Seminar Series
June 28th 2010, 3.30pm, The Great Hall,
Report launch : Budgeting for Social Housing in Northern Ireland: A Human Rights Analysis.
Invited Speakers : Alex Attwood, MLA, Minister for Social Development, Alyson Kilpatrick, BL, Commission on the Future for Housing in Northern Ireland, Dr Padraic Quirk, Programme Executive, Reconciliation and Human Rights, Atlantic Philanthropies
1 July 2010 5.30 - 7pm, The Bookshop at Queen's
Book launch to mark the publication of Abandoning Historical Conflict? Former Political Prisoners and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland by Dr Pete Shirlow.
17 September, 10am to 12:30pm, The Canada Room, Lanyon Building, QUB,
Dissemination seminar : Opting Out of Religious Education
Contact Yuko Chiba – y.chiba@qub.ac.uk
5th October 2010 5.30pm, The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast.
"Keeping up with the Neighbours - Equivalence of Human Rights Protection since the Agreement" View lecture
Speaker: Michael Farrell, Irish Human Rights Commission and Senior Solicitor, Free Legal Advice Centres (FLAC)
Stephen Livingstone Lecture 2010
11 October at 1.00pm, Old Common Room, Queen’s University Belfast
"Facing our Future, Addressing our Past"
20 October at 1.00pm, Institute of Governance, seminar room 1, 63 University Road, Queen's University Belfast.
'Breaking Down the Fence: Addressing the Illegality of Family Separation in the Occupied Syrian Golan'.
Speaker: Hannah Russell, former QUB Law LLM Human Rights student.
21 October 2010, 20:45, Elmwood Hall.
Amnesty International Annual Lecture in association with the Human Rights Centre at QUB
- 'Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence' Speaker: Colm O'Gorman
26 October at 1.00pm, Lanyon Building, room G9.
Subject: Working in the Field of Human Rights.
Speaker: Ms Melissa Ruggerio, International Legal Officer, Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a former QUB Law LLM student.
27 October at 1.00pm, Institute of Governance, seminar room 1, 63 University Road, Queen's University Belfast.
'Precedent in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights'.
Speaker: Professor Alistair Mowbray (School of Law, Universityof Nottingham)
5 November at 5.30pm, PFC/02/026
"International Criminal Law: What.....and Why?"
Speaker: Judge Howard Morrison (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia)
9 November at 4:30pm, 27 University Square room 101.
'Concern Risk and Early Intervention Towards a New Paradigm in Governing Nordic Childhood'.
Speaker: Dr Tim Harrikari
10 November at 1.00pm, Institute of Governance, seminar room 1, 63 University Road, Queen's University Belfast.
"What is a political constitution?" A seminar on political constitution
Speaker: Dr Grégoire Webber (LSE)
17 November at 1.00pm, Institute of Governance, seminar room 1, 63 University Road, Queen's University Belfast.
"The Death Penalty in the United States: A Defense Attorney's Perspective"
Speaker: Gary Proctor, Attorney at Law.
24 November at 4.00pm, Room 101, 27 University Square, Queen's University Belfast.
"Prisons, court and memory:Robben Island and Beyond?"
Speaker: Professor Fran Buntman (George Washington University)
26 November at 1.00pm, Lanyon Building room G/9, Queen's University Belfast.
"Gaza - A View from Inside"
Speaker: Mr John Ging, U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees.
26 November at 2.30pm-3.30pm in The Council Chamber, Lanyon Building.
“Welcome To The United Kingdom Supreme Court ?”
Baroness Hale (The Right Honourable Lady Hale of Richmond and Justice of the UK’s Supreme Court)
30 November at 3.00pm, Institute of Governance, seminar room 1, 63 University Road, Queen's University Belfast.
Title: "Governing Electronically: E-Government and the Reconfiguration of Public Administration, Policy and Power".
Speaker: Dr Paul Henman
1 December at 5.00pm, Lanyon Building Room G9, Queen's University Belfast.
"Litigating Irish Travellers' Human Rights"
Speaker: Ramona Quinn, Mary Kitson, Stephen Cottle and Sinead Mulhern.
10 December at 1.00pm, Peter Froggatt Centre, room 2.18, Queen's University Belfast.
"The Right to Life: Human Rights at Birth and Death."
Speaker: The Honourable Mr Justice McCloskey (Chairman of the Northern Ireland Law Commission).
1 CPD point is awarded for participating in this seminar.
10 December at 4.00pm, Lanyon Building, room G/9, Queen's University Belfast.
Roundtable discussion on the theme of "Human Rights in the Recession."
Speakers include: Ms Anna Lo MLA and representatives from NICCY & NIHRC.
