Venue: RPC offices, London

Lawyers from RPC’s civil fraud team, one of the largest and most highly rated in the City, will form the panel for Legal Cheek’s latest student event. They will be joined by a leading fraud barrister from Hardwicke.

RPC acts for individuals, corporates and insolvency office holders on large-scale, complex corporate investigations and fraud-related disputes (litigation and arbitration) in every region of the world. Indeed, although mostly conducted in the English courts, the majority of the firm’s fraud work involves a cross-border element. Hardwicke’s civil fraud and asset tracing team has similar and complimentary expertise.

The speakers will explain what it’s like to practice in this area, share anecdotes from some of their most interesting cases and look ahead to a potentially busy next few years.

They will reflect too on their own career journeys and offer advice to those hoping to follow in their footsteps. After the panel session there will be drinks and networking.

Those wanting to attend need to apply with a CV. See full details via the Legal Cheek website.

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Venue: Bush House, Strand, London, WC2R 1ES

The Pupillage Fair is the only recruitment fair run by the Bar, for the Bar of the future, and is free to attend. It forms a key part of the Bar's commitment to fair access and to a meritocratic culture, regardless of background. The 2018 event was attended by over 70 chambers, employed Bar organisations and Bar affiliated organisations; and by over 400 barristers. More than 2000 students registered to attend the fair.

Go to the Bar Council website to book your place and view the programme.

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Venue: City, University of London Atkin Lecture Theatre 4 Gray's Inn Square London WC1R 5DX

An evening with global legal practitioners, including:

• Richard Clayton QC (commercial)
• Prof Christine Goodman (academia)
• Shivani Jegarajah (human rights)
• Anesta Weekes QC (crime)

Free but you need to book on Eventbrite.

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Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building (LSE)

On this, her first visit to LSE, Lady Black will speak about her work as a judge, reflecting on her career in the law. 

Jill Margaret Black was appointed to the UK Supreme Court in 2017, only the second female judge to reach the position. Lady Black attended Penrhos College in North Wales before studying at Durham University. The first lawyer in her family, her initial career at the Bar involved a broad range of criminal and civil work, although she later specialised in family law. For a period in the 1980s she taught law at Leeds Polytechnic. She was a founding author of the definitive guide to family law practice in England and Wales, and continues to serve as a consulting editor. Lady Black was appointed to the High Court in 1999, assigned to the Family Division. In 2004 she became the Chairman of the Judicial Studies Board's Family Committee, until her appointment as a Judicial Appointments Commissioner in 2008, where she served until 2013. Lady Black was appointed a Lady Justice of Appeal in 2010. She was previously Head of International Family Justice.

• Zimran Samuel is a Visiting Fellow at LSE and a Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers.
• Conor Gearty (@conorgearty) is a Professor of Human Rights Law in the Department of Law at LSE. 

Entry is free and on a first-come, first-served basis - for more info see LSE Events.

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Venue: City 125 Suite, Whiskin Street Building City, University of London Whiskin Street London EC1V 0HB

Guest Speaker: Sir Geoffrey Nice QC

Sir Geoffrey Nice QC has practised as a barrister since 1971.  He worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia – the ICTY – between 1998 and 2006 and led the prosecution of Slobodan Miloševic, former President of Serbia. Much of his work since has been connected to cases before the permanent International Criminal Court – Sudan, Kenya, Libya – or  pro bono for victims groups – Iran, Burma, North Korea – whose cases cannot get to any international court.  He works for several related NGO’s and lectures and commentates in the media in various countries on international war crimes issues.  He has been a part-time judge since 1984 sitting at the Old Bailey and has sat as judge in other jurisdictions, tribunals and inquiries.  Between 2009 and 2012 he was Vice-Chair of the Bar Standards Board, the body that regulates barristers.

~ A drinks reception will follow ~

Book your ticket via City Events

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Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building (LSE)

October 31st has been set as the new deadline by which the UK will formally cease being a member of the European Union. By this stage, we may have a new Brexit agreement or a “no-deal”. This panel will assess developments to this point and the implications for the UK going forward. The panellists will bring together a range of expertise, covering British politics, knowledge of Whitehall, the economy, and UK-EU law.

• Catherine Barnard (@CSBarnard24) is Professor of European Union and Labour Law at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
• Vicky Pryce (@realVickyPryce) is an economist and former Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service.
• Sir Ivan Rogers is the Former UK Permanent Representative to the EU.
• Tony Travers is Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy, LSE.
• Kevin Featherstone is Professor in European Politics and Director of the Hellenic Observatory, European Institute, LSE.

Entry is free and on a first-come, first-served basis. More info at LSE Events.

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Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

The Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies is pleased to announce the

Fifth Law Reform Project Workshop

Opening welcome and introduction
Enrico Albanesi, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Genova, and IALS Associate Research Fellow, University of London
Jonathan Teasdale, IALS Associate Research Fellow, University of London
Co-leaders of the Project 

Parliamentary scrutiny of law reform. A House of Lords’ perspective
Andrew Makower, Clerk of Legislation, Legislation Office, House of Lords
John Turner, Clerk of Legislation, Legislation Office, House of Lords 

Parliamentary scrutiny of law reform. A House of Commons’ perspective
Liam Laurence Smyth, Clerk of Legislation, Public Bill Office, House of Commons 

Parliamentary follow-up of Law Commission Bills. An Irish Law Reform Commission’s perspective
Ciarán Burke, Former Director of Research, Irish Law Reform Commission 

Coffee break

Parliamentary scrutiny of law reform in Albania
Oriola Sallavaci, Essex University Law School

Law reform and the role of Parliaments in the Arab region
Sara Razai, Judicial Institute, Faculty of Laws, University College of London 

Free but you need to book via the IALS.

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Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Speaker:  Dylan Hughes, First Legislative Counsel, Office of the Legislative Counsel, Welsh Government

Synopsis:
In recent decades statute law has increasingly been overriding the common law, often replacing long established and well understood principles. But are perceived benefits of legislation, such as clarity and comprehensiveness, being compromised by a proliferation of often lengthy, complex and interdependent statutes.

Event is free but you need to book via IALS Events

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Venue: Room R01 at the Women�s Library, (LSE Library) 4th Floor, 10 Portugal Street, London WC2A 2HD

In the centenary year of women’s formal admission to the legal profession, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies will host a series of talks exploring legal landmarks for women. All speakers were participants in the groundbreaking Women’s Legal Landmarks Project led by Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty.

Married Women's Property Act 1882 - Andy Hayward

Married Women's Property Act 1964 - Sharon Thompson

Organised in collaboration with the University of Kent and University of Reading.

The event is free but booking via IALS required

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Venue: Room 3.1, Third Floor Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) Queen Mary University of London 67-69 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3JB

The Criminal Justice Centre, Queen Mary University has organised a discussion of: Reasons to Doubt: Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Cases Review Commission by Carolyn Hoyle and Mai Sato (OUP 2019).

The discussion panel will consist of Professor Hoyle; Dennis Eady (Cardiff Innocence Project); Sharon Persaud (former Commissioner); and Stephanie Roberts (University of Westminster).

Find out more and book

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Venue: City Law School Atkin Building Gray's Inn London WC1R 5AT

The annual Lord Upjohn lectures reflect the focus of the ALT in promoting excellence in legal education, bringing together scholars, practitioners, policy-makers and other key stakeholders to debate and reflect on legal education discourse. Lord Upjohn was the first President of the Association of Law Teachers, serving from 1966 until his death in 1971.

The 2019 Lord Upjohn Lecture will be given by Christina Blacklaws, Immediate Past President of The Law Society of England and Wales.

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Venue: Atkin Building lecture theatre, City Law School, Gray's Inn

More details to come, but this event will be reserved for City BPTC students only.

Venue: Auditorium, Basement, Centre Building (LSE)

A discussion of possible solutions and proposed alternatives to the most important issue of the Brexit negotiations, the Irish border.

• Conor Gearty (@conorgearty) is Professor of Human Rights Law, Department of Law, LSE.

Hosted by the European Institute and the School of Public Policy

Entry is free but tickets must be requested. See the How can I attend? link at LSE Events.

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Venue: AG07b (College Building) City, University of London Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB

Series: Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL) 

Guest Speaker: Dr Eleni Frantziou, Durham University

This presentation will discuss the speaker's recent monograph on the horizontal effect of fundamental rights in the European Union (OUP 2019). The book argues that the horizontal effect of fundamental rights (i.e. their application to disputes between private parties) cannot be usefully analysed based on the existing EU horizontality doctrine but, rather, requires a deeper engagement with the roots of horizontality in constitutional and human rights theory. 

Places are free but please sign up in advance.

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Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

This year’s ILPC Annual Conference and Lecture on ‘Digital Rights in Brexit: Changes and Challenges’ constitutes the Centre’s 5th annual event of this nature.  The conference seeks to consider the changes and challenges facing the protection and enjoyment of digital rights in the UK and elsewhere as a result of Brexit.

Policymakers, practitioners, industry, civil society, and leading academic experts will address and examine the key legal implications posed by Brexit to the enjoyment of digital rights in the UK and elsewhere.

Key speakers, chairs, and discussants at the Annual Conference will provide a range of national and international legal and policymaking insights from the UK and Europe including:

• Sophia Adams-Bhatti (Director of Legal and Regulatory Policy, The Law Society);
• Professor Alan Winfield (Ethical Robotics, University of the West of England, Bristol);
• Professor John Naughton (Senior Fellow, University of Cambridge);
• Roger Taylor, Director of Centre for Digital Ethics and Innovation, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS);
• Ali Shah (Head of Technology Policy, Information Commissioner’s Office);
• Professor Hamed Haddadi (Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London);
• Dr Adrian Weller, (Head of AI Research, Alan Turing Institute; Senior Fellow, University of Cambridge);
• Professor Orla Lynskey (Department of Law, LSE); and
• Dr Jay Fedorak, Jersey Information Commissioner.

Whether based on doctrinal analysis, or empirical research, the conference will explore original perspectives on the implications posed by Brexit. This scope covers both the impact on digital rights of an impending Brexit since the 2016 referendum to date, as well as the potential consequences for digital rights on leaving the EU for all individuals resident in the UK.

Topics of discussion include:

• online harms and the regulation of social media;
• surveillance and data privacy;
• data protection law and data transfers;
• AI, data ethics and innovation;
• employment and labour; and
• the rule of law and public international law.

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Venue: ELG01 Drysdale Building City, University of London Northampton Square London EC1V 0HB

A panel organised by the Gender & Sexualities Research Centre at City with Karen Boyle (Strathclyde) Julie Wheelwright (City) and respondents Sarah Banet-Weiser (LSE) and Jack Bratich (Rutgers)

Our speakers will discuss #MeToo in long historical perspective, from Mata Hari to contemporary media.

Karen Boyle, On silence breaking

In December 2017, Time magazine named the “Silence Breakers” – the women, and some men, speaking out about sexual harassment – their “person” of the year. This paper re-considers mediatized silence breaking in relation to a longer history of feminist speak outs, and critically examines the way in which feminism (and feminists) featured both in the 2017 stories and in Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s subsequent account of breaking the Weinstein story in She Said.

Julie Wheelwright, From Mata Hari to #MeToo: Reflections on Seduction, Harassment and Sexual Shame

A few months before the New York Times broke the story about Harvey Weinstein paying off his accusers for decades in 2017, a new publication of Mata Hari’s letters provided a historic perspective on the sexual harassment of female performers. Coinciding with the centenary of Margaretha Zelle MacLeod’s execution on espionage charges by the French on 15 October 1917, this presentation explores the contemporary relevance of her rejection of victimhood and sexual shame.

About the speakers

Karen Boyle is Professor of Feminist Media Studies at the University of Strathclyde. She is author of Media and Violence: Gendering the Debates (Sage) and Everyday Pornography (Routledge). Her new book #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism is out soon with Palgrave.

Julie Wheelwright is Director of the Creative Writing MA at City and author of The Fatal Lover: Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage (Harper Collins) and Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness (Pandora).

Sarah Banet-Weiser is Professor and Head of the Dept of Media and Communications at LSE. Her most recent book is Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny (Duke) and the article ‘From Pick-Up Artists to Incels: Con(fidence) Games, Networked Misogyny and the Failure of Neoliberalism’ with Jack Bratich

Jack Bratich is Associate Professor of Journalism & Media Studies at Rutgers. His work on social media and social theory includes the book Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture (SUNY).

Free event but you need to book via City Events.

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