Law Research Seminar Series

This free lecture series, which is open to the public, welcomes scholars from around the world to discuss their latest research. For more information please contact the convenor, Dr Giulia Claudia Leonelli.

UPCOMING EVENTS

13 January 2021 The Legal 'Readymade' and Other Terms of Art Manu Luksch (Artist in Residence at the School of Law, Birkbeck)

3 February 2021 What Is Wrong with Investment Arbitration? Evidence from a Set of Behavioural Experiments Dr Maria Laura Marceddu (King's College London, University of Edinburgh) and Dr Pietro Ortolani (Radboud University)

17 February 2021 Expulsion and 'Legal Otherness' in Times of Growing Nationalism Dr Kathrin Hamenstaedt (Brunel University)

3 March 2021 Critical Hate Studies in Theory and Praxis: Myth, Identity and Order Dr Jennifer Neller (Birkbeck, University of London)

PAST EVENTS

2020

9 December 2020 Connal Parsley, University of Kent Meaningful Inhuman Control: Legal thinking and automated decision-making beyond the regulatory paradigm
25 November 2020 Vidya Kumar, University of Leicester On Revolutionary Failure: Time, History and International Law
28 October 2020 Tarik Kochi, University of Sussex Global Justice and Social Conflict: Questioning the Foundations of Liberal Order and International Law
19 February 2020 Radha D'Souza, University of Westminster, 'What's Wrong With Right?'
5 February 2020 Flora Renz, University of Kent, 'The Findings to Date and Ideas Behind the Future of Legal Gender Project'
15 January 2020 Bal Sokhi-Bulley, University of Sussex, 'Rights as a Relational Ethics of Friendship: 'Making Trouble’ in the Hostile Environment'

2019

11 December 2019 Dr Hyo Yoon Kang, University of Kent 'Legal Materiality: Genealogies, Working Definition, Critiques'
4 December 2019 Ayça Çubukçu, LSE, 'Arendt, Race and Civil Disobedience'
27 November 2019 Charis Papacharalambous, University of Cyprus, 'Criminal Law Guilt Versus Ontological Guilt: A Heideggerian Perspective'
13 November 2019 Anthea Vogl, Crimmigration and Refugees in Australia
15 May 2019 Trish Luker, University of Technology, Sydney, 'The Court As Archive'
27 March 2019 Jacopo Martire, 'A Foucauldian Interpretation of Modern Law'
6 March 2019 Kojo Koram, Birkbeck, University of London, 'The War on Drugs And The Global Colour Line'
20 February 2019 Charis Papacharalambous, University of Cyprus, 'The Criminal Law of the Enemy and its Legal-Political implications: The Schmittian Dimension'

2018

12 December 2018: Jeremy Pilcher, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Voteauction: Encountering The Aporia Of The Demos'
28 November 2018: Guido Comparato, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Systems and Individuals: From Economic Organicism to Financial Bio-capitalism'
14 November 2018: Jessica Whyte, Western Sydney University, 'The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and Neoliberalism'
31 October 2018: Bernard Keenan, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Above and Below The Waterline: Law, Mass Media and Mass Surveillance'
7 March 2018: Joseph Slaughter, Columbia University 'Hijacking Human Rights: Neoliberalism, the New Historiography, and the End of the Third World'
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'
7 June 2017: Julia Eckert, University of Bern, 'The Politics of Help'
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'