Page 1 of 221 to 10 of 214 Past Events
2024
February
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International Tax Law in a Changing Landscape
-The international tax legal system has seen huge changes since the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project was launched in 2013. In recent years, the issue of addressing tax challenges arising from digitalisation has been hotly debated under the auspices of the OECD. Among various proposals that have been...
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A Court of Specialists: Judicial Behavior on the UK Supreme Court
-Christopher Hanretty will present his monograph ‘A Court of Specialists: Judicial Behavior on the UK Supreme Court’ published with Oxford University Press in 2020. https://academic.oup.com/book/36761 Christoper Hanretty is Professor of Politics at the University of London. See his curriculum vitae here: http://chrishanretty.co.uk/cv.html
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International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability: In the Court's Shadow'
-Patryk's first book ‘International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability: In the Court's Shadow' (Oxford University Press) was published in 2023. His work has featured in the Leiden Journal of International Law, the Yale Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Criminal Justice....
January
2023
December
November
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Family Law Reform at the Scottish Law Commission: Civil Remedies for Domestic Abuse
-The Scottish Law Commission is currently conducting a review of the law of civil remedies for domestic abuse. This will consider how the law in this area can be simplified, clarified, and updated. At the moment, civil remedies for domestic abuse are spread over many different statutes, which makes it...
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Law Research Seminar: Entrenching Human Rights Protections in the UK's Devolved Nations
-In her seminar, Dr McCall-Smith will examine the future of increasing human rights protections in the devolved nations of the UK in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Incorporation Reference decision of October 2021. Firstly, the presentation will consider the entrenchment of human rights standards through incorporation as a means for implementation...
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Law Research Seminar: Climate Change and the European Convention on Human Rights
-Can the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) be used to combat climate change? Although human rights-based climate litigation is on the rise globally and has been used successfully in other jurisdictions to hold governments to account for their failures to mitigate against climate change, the European Court of Human...
October
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Law Research Seminar: International Refugee Law in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities
-Digital technology is omnipresent in the refugee’s migration journey. Thus, biometric registration of refugees is resorted to by the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees in camps and drones are used to map the latter. In addition, artificial intelligence is mobilized at borders and by asylum qualification bodies. This situation...
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Law Research Seminar: Legal Doctrinal Scholarship and the Social Sciences
-Sorting out the exact relationship between legal scholarship and the social sciences has been a challenge ever since the establishment of sociology as a new type of academic discipline in the 19th century. It has raised questions about the very viability of the academic practices of legal scholars. The formulation...