LLB Law Taster: When Does the Law Allow you to Break the Law?
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
What happens when people in desperate circumstances feel they have no option but to break the law?
The legal concept of Necessity has been applied to answer that question in a number of high-profile cases - from 19th century cannibalism, 1970s squatters and more recent medical operations.
This thought-provoking 1-hour session shows how law tells stories, how principles are applied to very different facts and wonders what the limits are to lawfully breaking the law and who determines them.
This talk connects directly with themes from the Legal Systems and Methods and Criminal Law modules on the LLB Law programme at Birkbeck, University of London, offering valuable context and deeper insight into the subject.
Contact name: Daniel Mullender
Speakers-
Prof Daniel Monk
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Daniel Monk joined the Law School as a Lecturer in January 2003 and was promoted to Professor of Law in 2017. From 1996–2002 he was a lecturer in law at Keele University. He qualified as a Solicitor in 1991 and was an articled clerk (trainee solicitor) at the West End entertainment law firm Clintons. He was an editor at Butterworths Publishers while studying part-time for his Masters degree.
He was one of the founder members of the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality (BIGS) which was established in 2008 and he was the Director from 2012-2015.
His research has explored a wide range of issues relating to families, children, education and sexuality. He has been awarded funding by the Nuffield Foundation, The Socio-Legal Studies Association, the Society of Legal Scholars, the British Academy and the International Institute for the Sociology of Law and has had Visiting Professorships at the University of Antwerp and Tel Aviv University. He has been awarded two Public Engagement awards in recognition of the impact of his research about both the treatment of siblings in the public care system (2019) and the regulation of Elective Home Education (2018).
He is currently writing about the relationship between law and art in the context of inheritance and family law, undertaking research about the regulation of school dress codes, and engaging with current reform of the laws about elective home education.
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