Past Law on Trial events

You can read about past Law on Trial events below. In addition, you can also view videos, podcasts and images for past events.

2023

11 June 2018: 'Othello on Trial' (performance and symposium discussion)
12 June 2018: 'Public Opinion and the Politics of Punishment' (panel discussion)
13 June 2018: Daniel Monk, Birkbeck, University of London, 'School Dress Codes: In Whose Best Interests?' (response from Laura Lundy, Queen’s University, Belfast and Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Children’s Rights)
14 June 2018: 'Punishment on Trial' (panel discussion)
15 June 2018: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, CUNY Graduate Center, Dr Beth E. Richie, University of Illinois, and Deborah Coles, INQUEST, 'Building the World We Want: Prison Abolition and Gender, Racial and Economic Justice'

12 June 2017: Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University, 'Why Does Liberalism Find It So Hard To Cope With Religious Identity?'
13 June 2017: Dr Kevin Barker, University of Suffolk and Kwame Dawes, poet and author, 'Babylon System: Prophecy and Political Advocacy in Marley’s Lyric (video)'
14 June 2017: 'Islamic Law and Gender Justice (video)' (panel discussion)
15 June 2017: 'Islamic Finance: The Middle East, Malaysia and the West (video)' (panel discussion)
16 June 2017: Marinos Diamantides, Birkbeck, University of London, and Dr Anton Schutz, Birkbeck, University of London 'Demystifying Secularisation (video)'

15 June 2015: 'The Islamophobic University (video)' (panel discussion)
16 June 2015: 'Barring Access: Criminal Convictions, Risk Management and Higher Education (video)' (panel discussion)
17 June 2015: Adam Gearey, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Lives That Slide Out of View: Jurisprudence and Poverty (video)'
18 June 2015: 'Scholars, Intellectuals and Research Evaluation Exercises (video)' (panel discussion)
19 June 2015: 'The End(s) of the Legal Academy (video)' (workshop), featuring:
- Richard Collier, Newcastle University, 'Wellbeing in the Legal Profession: Law Firms, Law Schools and the (Un)Happy Lawyer (or, What Do We Talk About, When We Talk About Wellbeing in Law?)'
- Patricia Tuitt, Birkbeck, University of London,'The Law School and the Force of Law'
- Soo Tian Lee, Birkbeck, University of London, ' The Structure of a University: Instrumentalism, Idealism and Forms of Life'

16 June 2014: Renata Salecl, Birkbeck, University of London, 'What’s On My Mind? Law, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis'
17 June 2014: 'Justice and Research Evidence: Examining the Use of Research Evidence to Police Rape Cases'
18 June 2014: 'Forensic Futures'
19 June 2014: 'State Violence Under the Microscope'
20 June 2014: 'The Power of Experts'

17 June 2013: Adam Gearey, Birkbeck, University of London, 'The Utopian Law School and the Fate of the University'
18 June 2013: 'Legal Education: Socialist Survivors'
19 June 2013: 'New Foundations: Re-Designing the Academic Stage of Legal Training'
20 June 2013: Lisa Webley, University of Westminster, 'Cultural Capital, the Legal Profession and Indirect Discrimination'
21 June 2013: 'Dream a Little Dream of Law'

18 June 2012: Matthew Weait, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Unsafe Law: Public Health, Human Rights and the Legal Response to HIV'
19 June 2012: Kat Craig, Christian Khan Solicitors, and Owen Greenhall, Garden Court Chambers, 'Protesting in a Time of Cuts: A Clampdown on Civil Liberties?'
20 June 2012: Tim Newburn, London School of Economics, 'Reading the Riots'
21 June 2012: John Pitts, University of Bedfordshire, 'Spinning the Crisis: Riots, Politics and Parenting'
22 June 2012: Simon Fulford, Khulisa UK, and Amanda Nelmes, LEAP Confronting Conflict, 'Empowerment as Resistance: Critical Praxis in an Age of Incarceration'

Information will be added when available.

Information will be added when available.