Law Research Seminar Series

This free lecture series, which is open to the public, is held on Wednesdays at lunchtime. For more information please contact us.

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2018

• 31 October 2018: Bernard Keenan, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Above and Below The Waterline: Law, Mass Media and Mass Surveillance'
• 14 November 2018: Jessica Whyte, Western Sydney University, 'The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and Neoliberalism' 
• 28 November 2018: Guido Comparato, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Systems and Individuals: From Economic Organicism to Financial Bio-capitalism' 
• 12 December 2018: Jeremy Pilcher, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Voteauction: Encountering The Aporia Of The Demos' 
• 21 February 2018: Chiu Man-Chung Andy, Beijing Normal University, 'Re-Engineering Children-Adult/Parents Dyad'  
• 7 February 2018: Frederick Cowell, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Why Stay, Why Leave? Traversing "the New Sovereigntism" and Its Impact on International Human Rights Institutions' 
• 17 January 2018:  'Reparations for Colonial Wrongs: What is the Appropriate Measure of Loss for a Transhistorical Debt of Conscience?' 

2017

• 13 December 2017: Nathan Moore, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Coal Seams and Bit Streams: Two Recent Cases On the Conceptual Difficulty of Being and/or Having' 
• 29 November 2017: Maria Drakopoulou, University of Kent, 'Foucault's First Choice: Of Biopolitics, the Canon, and Doing History Otherwise' 
• 15 November 2017: Samera Esmeir, Berkeley, University of California, 'Confronting Conscription: On the Possibilities of Ottoman Rebellions' 
• 1 November 2017: Shaun McVeigh, University of Melbourne, 'Conditions of Carriage: Formulations of Office and Place in Minor Jurisprudences of London' 
• 22 March 2017: Carey Young, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, and Birkbeck, University of London, 'Palais de Justice' 
• 1 March 2017: Noémi Lévy-Aksu, Boğaziçi University, 'The Power of Discretion: Regimes of Exception in the Late Ottoman Empire' 
• 8 February 2017: Elena Loizidou, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Without Law' 
• 18 January 2017: Avery F. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara, 'Letters from the Hawthorn Archive' 

2016

• November 2016: 'Law and Body Secrets: The Fantasy Structure of Genes and Brains' 
• October 2016: 'Lives That Slide Out of View: Law and Poverty' 
• March 2016: 'Violence and Spirituality: Cosmography Beyond Governmentality at the Turkish/Syrian Territorial Interface' 
• February 2016: 'Feminist Literary Theory, Legal Texts: An Encounter' 
• January 2016: 'Sovereignty Enisled' 

2015

• December 2015: 'Accusation and Expanding Crime-Control Networks; 
• October 2015: 'Stop and Search: Drawing the Line Between Submission and Consent' 
• September 2015: 'What the Police Saw?: The Camera, Domestic Violence and Viewing Interpersonal Violence' 
• February 2015: 'Public Legal Education and Social Justice: Connecting University and Community' 

2014

• December 2014: 'The Ambivalent Subject of Criminal Law' 
• November 2014: 'Academic Judgement and the Force of Law' 
• October 2014: 'Urban Commons and Communities' 
• January 2014: 'Offices, Dignities, Jurisdictions and Jurisprudences' 

2013

• October 2013: 'If We Know, Then We Must Fight: Legacies of 1970s Radical Criminology in the United States'