School of Law Events 2013

Full Listing of all 2013 School of Law Events

23 January 4.00p.m. (27 University Square, room 101) 
"Disciplining Spaces of Dissent: The Rioter, The Occupier and the Regulation of Resistance"
Lecture audio file
Dr Sarah Lamble (Birkbeck College, University of London)

23 January 5.30p.m. (Canada Room and Council Chamber) 
"'Grooming' and the Sexual Abuse of Children: Institutional, Internet and Familial Dimensions"
Dr Anne-Marie McAlinden (Queen's University Belfast)

1 February 5.00p.m. (Canada Room and Council Chamber) 
"The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary (OUP)"
                                                          &
"Slavery in International Law: Of Human Exploitation and Trafficking (Martinus Nijhoff)"
Professor Jean Allain (Queen's University Belfast)

4 February 1.00p.m. (27 University Square room 101) 
"From Imago Dei to Mutual Recognition: the Evolution of the Concept of Human Dignity in the Light of the Defence of Religious Freedom". Further Information
Professor Sergio Dellavalle (University of Turin and Max Planck Institute)

1 March 2.00p.m. (27 University Square room 101) 
"The Effect of Death in the Context of the Law of Succession"
Professor Roddy Paisley

11 March 1.00p.m. (27 University Square room 101) 
"Democracy: False Hopes or a False God?"
Dr Roslyn Fuller

25 & 26 March (27 University Square room 101) 
"The Emotional Dynamics of Law and Legal Discourse"
Conference Accommodation
Conference Abstracts
Final Conference Programme
Dr John Stannard & Dr Heather Conway

11 April 09:00a.m. (Lanyon Building, Ground Floor, room 74 North)
"New Frontiers of the Dark Figure: Measuring Hidden Crimes"
Various Speakers

17 April 09:00a.m. (Canada Room and Council Chamber, Queen's University, Belfast) 
"The Kurdish Question in Turkey"
Various Speakers
Conference Report now available 

26 April 09:00a.m. (The Great Hall, Queen's University, Belfast) 

"Mapping the Rollback? Human rights provisions of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement 15 years on"
Various Speakers

02 May 12.00p.m. (The Senate Room, Queen's University, Belfast)
"Higher Education, Globalisation and the Critical Emergence of Diversity"
Dr Peter Hershock, University of Hawaii

02 May 1.00p.m. (The Great Hall, QUB)
The MacDermott Lecture 2013
"Reflections on Human Rights Law and the War on Terror with particular consideration of the Right to a Fair Trial"
The Right Hon the Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore - Justice of the The Supreme Court

15 May 13:00 (27 University Square room 101, Queen's University, Belfast) 
"Lessons from the UK for Cartel Criminalisation"
Dr Andreas Stephan, University of East Anglia

21 May 09:30 (Exhibition Centre, Europa Hotel, Belfast) 
"Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland: Law, Prosecutions and Truth Recovery".
Various Speakers

21 May 17:30 (Canada Room and Council Chamber, Queen's University, Belfast) 
ICCJ Annual Lecture "Public Criminology and the Civic Reintegration of Ex-Prisoners"
Professor Chris Uggen, University of Minnesota

30 May 17:30 (Great Hall, Queen's University, Belfast) 
School of Law and ISCTSJ "International Law as Smart Power"
Professor Harold Koh, Yale Law School

12 June 18:30 (Lanyon Building 01.052, Queen's University, Belfast) 
School of Law "Premiere screening of his climate change feature, ‘Occupy Love’"
Award winning documentary film maker, Velcrow Ripper

5 - 7 September 2013 (TBC)
Critical Legal Conference
"Reconciliation and Reconstruction"