Events
The School of Law and its associated Centres host a diverse range of events, including workshops, lectures, seminars and reading groups. We welcome all those with an interest in law, so to find out more about a specific event, please click on the title of the series (to the left of your screen) or event (below).
Podcast of lecture by Geoffrey Robertson QC - Ending Impunity: the struggle for global justice
2012
January
18/01/12
February
01/02/12
- Author Meets Reader: Colonialism and international law
Matt Craven (SOAS)
01/02/12
- PG Research Students Research Seminar: Robert Murtfeld & Peter Brett
Robert Murtfeld & Peter Brett
02/02/12
- Gender Perspectives in Peacekeeping Law and Practice: Perspectives from the Pacific
Dr Gina Heathcote, School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Abstract: Gender Perspectives in Peacekeeping Law and Practice: Perspectives from the Pacific
08/02/12
08/02/12
- Towards Rio+20: Business, Natural Resources and Human Rights
Peter Frankental (Amnesty International)
Holding transnational corporations accountable for human rights - is the tide beginning to turn?
For further information contact Virginie Rouas: ledc@soas.ac.uk
09/02/12
- Book Launch: Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India (Princeton University Press)
Dr Prabha Kotiswaran, School of Law, SOAS
17/02/12
- The Legacy of Stephen Lawrence: Race and Justice in Modern Britain
Imran Khan- solicitor for the Lawrence family, Suresh Grover- Director of The Monitoring Group, Chair: Sham Qayyum
21/02/12
- Towards Rio+20: Business, Natural Resources and Human Rights
Salil Tripathi (Institute for Human Rights and Business)
Ending complicity in conflict: how international efforts have attempted to break the link between extractive industries and human rights abuses.
For further information contact Virginie Rouas: ledc@soas.ac.uk
22/02/12
- Panel: Approaching Law: Critically, socio-legally
Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck) and Amanda Perry-Kessaris (SOAS)
22/02/12
- PG Research Students Research Seminar: Khanapoj Joemrith & Artemis Kassi
Khanapoj Joemrith & Artemis Kassi
March
07/03/12
- Impact: (Well) Foucault to all that: human rights as practice
Fareda Banda (SOAS) and Lynn Welchman (SOAS)
07/03/12
- PG Research Students Research Seminar: Jean-Philippe Dequen & Janan Al-Asady
Jean-Philippe Dequen & Janan Al-Asady
07/03/12
- Prof Philippe Cullet Inaugural: Reforming Water Law and Policy in India
Professor Philippe Cullet
Prof Philippe Cullet Inaugural: Reforming Water Law and Policy in India
08/03/12
- State responsibility, corporate complicity and conflicts over land
Dr Usha Ramanathan (Independent Law Researcher, Delhi)
14/03/12
- Towards Rio+20: Business, Natural Resources and Human Rights
Krystyna Swiderska (Int'l Institute for Environment and Development)
Implementing the Nagoya Protocol's provisions on community protocols and prior informed consent: lessons and challenges.
For further information contact Virginie Rouas: ledc@soas.ac.uk
21/03/12
21/03/12
- Impact: Legal pluralism in Afghanistan
Martin Lau (SOAS)
21/03/12
- PG Research Students Research Seminar: Domenico Francavilla
Domenico Francavilla
21/03/12
- Towards Rio+20: Business, Natural Resources and Human Rights
Keren Adams (Leigh Day & Co)
Holding the giants to account: transnational human rights litigation in practice
For further information contact Virginie Rouas: ledc@soas.ac.uk
April
May
11/05/12
- Law, Governance and Development: The Transformation of Property Rights in Land and Property Law in China
Various speakers
Following its workshop on Law and Orientalism in 2011, CEAL, with the support of the Centre of Chinese Studies, SOAS, will hold a workshop on The Transformation of Property Rights in Land and Property Law in China.
14/05/12
- Africa and the ICC: Identity, Power and the Paradoxes of the African Renaissance
Dr Kurt Mills, Senior Lecturer in International Human Rights, University of Glasgow
24/05/12
June
25/06/12
- Shifting the Goalposts? International Pressure and Electoral Violence in Kenya
Stephen Brown, University of Ottowa
October
10/10/12
- Impact in human rights research: from theory to practice
Anicee Van Engeland
10/10/12
- Terrorism and Child Rights in Northern Nigeria: Deepening the Dilemma?
Presenter: Professor Bolaji Owasanoye, Visiting Research Associate
24/10/12
25/10/12
25/10/12
November
14/11/12
- Where Was the Buddha Born?
Andrew Huxley
14/11/12
- PG Research Student Seminar Series
Siavash Eshghi and Muin Boase
December
05/12/12
05/12/12
05/12/12
- PG Research Student Seminar Series
Virginie Rouas and Laila Fathi
