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Session 1: Wednesday 3rd April 13.30 - 15.00
CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE Roxanna Dehaghani and Daniel Newman Experiences of Criminal Justice in South Wales Matt Tidmarsh Professionalism in Probation Robyn Holder Democratising Justice: Rethinking Victim Inclusion
FAMILY LAW AND POLICY Session: Families, Conflict and Violence Chair: Anne Barlow Grace Tsai Women’s Socio-Legal Status and Experiences of Domestic Violence in the Atayal Tribes Sam Lewis Towards an Ethics of Care Approach to Child-to-Parent Violence Rachel Treloar The Interrelationship of Financial and Child Related Issues in Parents’ Accounts of High-Conflict Post-Separation Disputes: Gender Matters
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS Session: Children's Rights and Childhood Maria Forsman The Child, Children (in Vulnerable Situations) and the Child-in-Context: A Three-Dimensional View on Children’s Rights, to Focus Social justice and Empowerment Naomi Lott Establishing the Right to Play as an Economic, a Social and a Cultural Right Rebecca Thornburn Stern and Aoife Daly Treated Like a Child: Age Discrimination and Children’s Rights
LAWYERS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS Agnieszka Kubal Cause Lawyering 'with the grain'? Immigration and Refugee Lawyers in Russia Jo Wilding Legal Aid Lawyers and the ‘Boom and Bust’ Cycle Alex Batesmith True Believers: International Criminal Justice Practitioners and the Inversion of the ‘Cause Lawyer’ Paradigm
EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
Session: The Scope of Protection for People with Disabilities
Chair: David Barrett
Rhiannon Frost
Is Section 15 of the Equality Act 2010 Too Wide?
Peter McTigue
Rethinking Equality Protection for People Living with HIV
Anubhuti Jain and Shikha Rohra Discrimination against Leprosy Victims as a Violation of International Human Rights
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GRAPHIC JUSTICE: LAW, COMICS, AND RELATED VISUAL MEDIA Laura Kalliomaa-Puha, Eliisa Pitkasalo, and Anne Ketola Comic Contracts and Access to Social Rights: Can Comic-Style Communication Improve the Accessibility of Social Welfare Documents? Thomas Giddens The Law as Comics: Multimodality in the Motor Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 Hannah Baumeister Drawing on Genocide Angus Nurse Mothers and Daughters, Fathers and Sons: The Church as Political Oppressor in Dave Sim's Cerebus
REVISITING REFUGEE PROTECTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Session: Comparative International Refugee Protection 1 Chair: Dr Dallal Stevens Tamara A. Kool and Zina Nimeh The Conundrum of Palestinian Refugees: Citizenship and Inclusionary Practices in Jordan Ria Sunga Their Suffering is Our Suffering too”: The Indochinese Refugees, Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines as a Country of First Asylum
CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEMS & ADR Dr Kate Leader From the Bear-Gardens to the County Court: The Creation of the Litigant in Person Ms Lisa Gibb Tort Personal Injury Reforms; Ideological or Necessary? Is the Current System Fit for Purpose? Mr Masood Ahmed
Public Bodies and Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Civil Court Process
SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE Session: Universal credit Philip Larkin Old Inequality and New Contracts: Non-Regular Employment Contracts and Impediments to Welfare Policy Ciara Fitzpatrick and Alexandra Chapman In-Work Conditionality and the Ageing Worker in Northern Ireland Charlotte O’Brien The Two-Child Rule: an Aristocratic Turn in the Law
METHODOLOGY AND METHODS Rossana Deplano Quantifying International law? An Empirical Study of the Legal Effects of UN General Assembly Resolutions Steven Hoffman, Mathieu Poirier, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Prativa Baral and Lathika Sritharan Has the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Reduced Global Cigarette Consumption? Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluations Using Interrupted Time-Series Analysis and In-Sample Forecast Event Modelling Mary Guy EU Health – What Happens when Lawyers and Political Scientists Work Together?
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SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT Chair: Gavin Dingwall Fiona Donson and Aisling Parkes Framing Families as Interventions: Prison System Co-Option of Child and Family Contact with Incarcerated Parents Marie Hutton A Labour of Love: Prisoners’ Families and the Legal Repercussions of Shouldering the Burden of Care Guiseppe Zago A Thin Line between Protection and Isolation: Experiences of Imprisonment of Queer Individuals in English and Italian Prisons
MEDICAL LAW, HEALTHCARE AND BIOETHICS Session: Beginning of Life Debra Wilson Surrogacy and the Genetic Link Requirement Elizabeth Chloe Romanis Artificial Wombs, Terminating Pregnancies and the Abortion Act 1967 Samantha Halliday The Protection of Human Dignity at the Margins of Life INTERROGATING THE CORPORATION Session: Public and Governmental Interventions Tobore Okah-Avae The Corporate Objective: Shareholder Primacy, Executive Pay and Public Policy Colin Moore Cut the Bullshit! Legitimate Expectations between the Corporation and Stakeholders Durand Cupido Public Law Intervention into Company Operations: The Law of Salvage as a Case Study Metji Makgoba Constructing Black Economic Empowerment in South African Mining: Government v Corporate Discourse
GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW Chair: Flora Renz Tsachi Keren-Paz The Uniqueness of Harm in UDONI (Unauthorized Dissemination of Nude/intimate Images, a.k.a ‘Revenge Porn’) Sarah Singh Criminalising Vulnerability: A Feminist Approach to Women who Fail to Protect their Children from Harm Juliana Senra The Consequences of Defining Sexual Violence through the Concept of Constraint, Dismissing Consent - Reflections on the Portuguese Legislation Zulfia Abawe Legal Pluralism and Domestic Violence
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW Chair: Jasem Tarawneh Felipe Figueroa Popper's Three World Ontology as a Framework for IP Andrew Griffiths The Responsibility of Brand Owners for their Supply Chains: Potential Legal Liability and the Limits of Social Responsibility Smita Kheria An Exploration of the Dissonance between Protection of Moral Rights in the UK and Creative Practitioners’ Perspectives
LABOUR LAW AND SOCIETY Aneta Tyc The WTO Needs Reforms: Is there Space for Labour Rights? Daire McCormack-George On the Nature of Work and the Purpose of Labour Law Tor Brodtkorb A Comparative Analysis of Standards for Fair Dismissal in the UK and Australia
MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW Chloe Waterman Neuro-centrism within Mental Capacity Law: Evidence from Case Law Hope Davidson Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law Update – Ireland
INFORMATION Chair: Richard Hyde Andrew Noble Second Chances and Secrets: Reform of the UK Criminal Records Disclosure Regime Sean Whittaker Uncovering the Environment: The Use of Public Access to Environmental Information
PROPERTY, PEOPLE, POWER AND PLACE Chair: Jill Dickinson Sarah Keenan Timeless Land, Vacant Ownership: Property in the Wake of E-Conveyancing Molefhi Phorego Land Expropriation Without Compensation: Is it Constitutional? Joanna Kusiak Grassroots Expropriation? The German Constitution and the Civic Struggle for the Social Ownership of Housing in Berlin ______________________________________________________________________________________
Session 2: Wednesday 3rd April 15.30 - 17.00 CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE Holly Greenwood The UK 'Innocence Movement': Insights from Social Systems Theory Michelle Coleman What About My Rights? The Presumption of Innocence and #MeToo Samantha Pegg and Kirsty Welsh Threats to Disclose Intimate Images - Are We Failing Victims of Domestic Abuse?
FAMILY LAW AND POLICY Session: Family Relationships Chair: Annika Newnham Jan Macvarish and Daniel Monk Understanding Siblings: a Socio-Legal Perspective Stuart Bedston, Lindsay Youansamouth, Georgia Philip and Yang Hu Fathers, Mothers and Recurrent Care Proceedings Sarah Hansen Relationships Post-Adoption: the Operation of Article 8 of the ECHR and Adopters, BIrth-Parents and Children.
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS Session: The Child's Right to Education Bart Kleine Deters The Right to Education in Developing Countries: Does it Lead to Better Primary Education Outcomes? Amy Brown Sounds of Silence: Is Silence Voice? Seamus Byrne School Exclusions in England: An Escalating Children’s Rights Crisis Alison Struthers Teaching Fundamental British Values Through a Human Rights Lens in Primary Schools
VULNERABILITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE Session: Theoretical Frameworks of Vulnerability Chair: Jess Mant and Roxanna Dehaghani Ellen Gordon-Bouvier The Temporality of Vulnerability in Private Family Law Jenny Boddy Vulnerability as a Theoretical Framework for Interrogating Property Law Bryan Birtles Means v Ends, Procedural v Substantive, Donoghue v Stevenson
Session 2: Wednesday 3rd April 15.30 – 17.00
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LAW, POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY Session: Liberalism and Universalism Vy-Liam Ng Examining the “Asian Way” of Human Rights law: Is a First principle of Non-Interference a Legally Valid and Culturally Relative Approach in Matters Relating to Genocide? Ian Turner Liberal Legalism versus Critical Legal Studies: Critiquing Civil and Political Rights in the Age of Islamist Terrorism. Miroslaw Michal Sadowksi Law in the Service of Illiberalism: The Case of Central Europe
LAWYERS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS Andy Boon Lawyers and the Rule of Law Sophie Flemig, Neil Stevenson and David Cabrelli Reimagining Regulation - The Scottish Legal Profession Post-Roberton Review Emilia Korkea-Alo The Power of Law?: The Role of Legal Advisors in NGO Political Advocacy
EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW Session: Gender Equality Chair: David Barrett Rajnaara Akhtar and Kate Wilkinson Cross Patriarchy as Corruption: How Gender Imbalance Impacts on Rights in the Family and the Environment Nicola Barker Revisiting the Public/Private Divide in the Human Rights Act 1998 Gift Sotonye-Frank Eliminating Gender Stereotyping Underlying Adolescent Pregnant School Girls’ Exclusion Through a Human Rights Based Comprehensive Sex Education Under CEDAW
SOCIO-LEGAL ISSUES IN SPORT Chair: Simon Boyes David Mcardle Legal Responses to Sport-Related Concussion: A Pilot Study of Coaches’ Perceptions Ashley Lowerson Football Banning Orders: Are the Statistics Fit for Purpose? Ini-Obong Nkang “Trafficking? In Football?!” Factors Leading to the Trafficking and Exploitation of African Minors
REVISITING REFUGEE PROTECTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Session: Comparative International Refugee Protection 2 Chair: Dr Dallal Stevens Fitria Fitria The Role of Local Customary Law in Protecting Refugees: Case Study of Protection towards Rohingya in Aceh in 2015 Shahedul Khan Coexisting with the Rohingya refugees: Bangladesh Struggles for her Sovereignty. Renuka Balasubramaniam Refugee Protection in Malaysia and the Rule of Law
Session 2: Wednesday 3rd April 15.30 – 17.00
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CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEMS & ADR Dr Orhan Emre Konuralp Mandatory Mediation under Turkish Law Dr Ronán Feehily Mitigated Mandatory Mediation, Operating within the Contours of Acceptable Public Policy Professor Bryan Clark Court Based Mediation in Scotland
SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE Session: Administrative Justice in the Welfare State Paulien de Winter Enforcement Styles at Social Security Agencies Joe Tomlinson Developing the Concept of Design in Administrative Justice: A Case Study of Social Security Tribunal Reform
METHODOLOGY AND METHODS Alfonso Diaz Vera and Pablo Sanz Bayón A Critical Review on the Contemporary Epistemic Status in Law and Economics Allison Lindner A Methodology for an Econosociolegal Approach to the South African Waste Management Economy Alice Finden Counter-Mapping Experiences of Emergency Law: an Exploration of Critical Methods to Understand State Violence
SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT Chair: Tim Hillier Jose Pina-Sánchez and Lyndon Harris Sentencing Gender? Investigating the Extent and Origin of Sentencing Gender Disparities in the Crown Court Carly Lightowers, Jose Pina-Sánchez and Emma Watkins Contextual Culpability: How Alcohol Intoxication and its Social Context Impacts Sentencing for Violent Offenders Laura Sharp Sentencing Without Guidelines in Scotland: Why Freddie Pargetter would not have Received a Custodial Sentence if He had been Prosecuted in Scotland
MEDICAL LAW, HEALTHCARE AND BIOETHICS Session: Informed Consent (Montgomery) Craig Purshouse Informed Consent and Gay Conversion Therapy Matthew Watkins Rationalising the Autonomy in Montgomery: Clarifying the Legal Standard of Care for Information Disclosure Louise Austin Informed Consent and the Reasonable/Particular Patient: Protecting Procedural or Substantive Autonomy
Session 2: Wednesday 3rd April 15.30 – 17.00
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INTERROGATING THE CORPORATION Session: Extending Corporate Social Responsibility Verity McCullagh Is CSR still necessary? An Analysis of the EU Directive on Non-Financial Reporting and its Impact on Reporting Practices Neshat Safari Will the UK 2018 Corporate Governance Code Tame the Corporate Fat Cats? Miriam Nwachukwu and Simisola Akintoye The Nature and Extent of Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Corporations in Developing Economies
GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW Session: Roundtable on the Future of Legal Gender Project Chair: Flora Renz Emily Grabham Gender and the Politics of Legislative Drafting Davina Cooper Renewing the Place of Gender in Critical Public Life Flora Renz Legal Pluralism and Single-Sex Spaces Robyn Emerton Feminist Approaches to Law Reform
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW IN CONTEXT Chair: Meryn Martin Jennifer Lander Shifting States: The Constitutional Risks of Extractive Development Jing Wang, Nan Chen and Kevin Burns Examining the Effectiveness of the Tourism Law of China 2016 Mervyn Martin and Maryam Shadman-Pajouh Does Strategic Ambiguity have a Place in the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding?
LAW AND EMOTION Session: Launch of the International Society for Therapeutic Jurisprudence UK Chapter John Stannard The Epistemology of Therapeutic Jurisprudence Anna Kawalek Therapeutic Jurisprudence: The Application to an England and Wales Review Court
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW Chair: Jasem Tarawneh Yuanqiong Hu Realignment of Innovators: Patents, Norms and Social-Technical Creativities in Biomedicine Pradeepan Sarma The 'Integrity' of Canada's 'Users' Rights Doctrine'? A Dworkinian Approach Rebecca Moosavian Commodification of Image & the Privacy-Publicity Interface Jasem Tarawneh Due Cause and its Balancing Role within Trade Mark Law: a Reality Check
Session 2: Wednesday 3rd April 15.30 – 17.00
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INDIGENOUS RIGHTS Chair: Sarah Sargent Noelle Higgins and Gerard Maguire Enhancing the Participation of Indigenous Peoples at a UN level; A Critique of UN Resolution 71/321 John Harrington Sovereignty, Community and Development. The Normative Politics of Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge in Kenya Mark Harris Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights: the Fight of the Wangan and Jagalingou people in Queensland to Stop the Carmichael Mine Clay Wilwol Beyond Neoliberal Multiculturalism? Reflections on the Case of Cherán
LABOUR LAW AND SOCIETY Natalie Sedacca Migrant Domestic Workers and the Right to Work Yair Sagy and Faina Milman-Siva The ILO, Prison Labour, and the Private/Public Divide: A View From Israel Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth and Kata Konstantin Is it Worth to Work More? The New Aspects of the So-Called „Slave Law” in Hungary
MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW Thomas Webb A Postcode Lottery? Initial Findings of a Freedom of Information Act 2000 Study on the Administration of the s.23 Hospital Managers’ Discharge Power. Convening 'Socio-Legal Jurisprudence' Steam Jessica Fish The Culture of Expertise of Approved Mental Health Professionals
LEGAL EDUCATION Rachael O’Connor The Use of Reverse Mentoring as a Strategy to Address Issues Arising from Hierarchy and Implicit Bias in Higher Education in Order to Build an International Learning Community Rosie Taylor-Harding Students as Co-Producers of Learning Communities Craig Newbery-Jones Rethinking Time, Space and Jurisdiction: Chronotopes of Legal Education and Legal Practice in the Twenty-First Century
THE LAW(S) OF CONFLICT AND DISASTER Session: 'At its most Janus-Faced' Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen From Knives to Kites: Developments and Dilemmas around the Use of Force in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict since "Protective Edge" Alexandra Bohm The Responsibility to Protect: A Success for Conflict Management? Max Brookman-Byrne Narrating War: Legal Status, Character and Caricature in UK Ministry of Defence Airstrike Reporting'
Session 2: Wednesday 3rd April 15.30 – 17.00
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PROPERTY, PEOPLE, POWER AND PLACE Chair: Jill Dickinson
Sarah Blandy
Law and Lore in Uneasy Space
Antonia Layard The Bus Project Jed Meers and Caroline Hunter The Face of Property Guardianship: Online Property Advertisements and Googling your Next Home _______________________________________________________________________________________
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Session 3: Thursday 4th April
09.00 - 10.30
CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Jaime Waters, Jake Phillips, Chalen Westaby and Andrew Fowler
"I am kind of the vessel that just carries their emotions and feelings and just gets it out there really":
Emotional Labour and Criminological Research.
Cyrus Tata
How Do Criminal Justice Dis-Connections Generate ‘Ideal’ Penal Subjects?
Kate Leader
The Disappearing Defendant: Law, Presence and Access to Justice
FAMILY LAW AND POLICY
Session: Defining Family and Family Assets
Chair: Anne Barlow
Charlotte Bendall
“Me” versus “we”: Reconsidering the Law’s Understandings of Family Finances
Marie Fox, Mo Ray and Carol Gray
'Are we Family? Defining the Legal Family to Include Companion Species’
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
Session: Child Refugees
Ruth Brittle
An Introduction to the Climate surrounding Child Refugees
Jessica Brennan
Child Friendly Justice within the Irish Refugee Determination Procedure: An Idealism or a Concept Worthy
of Practical Implementation?
Tanya Herring
The Refugee Child: Addressing the Prevention and Protections Against Exploitation
VULNERABILITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Session: Self-Representation in the Family Court after LASPO
Chair: Jess Mant and Roxanna Dehaghani
Jess Mant
Who Counts as Vulnerable?: Experiences of Litigants in Person in the Post-LASPO Family Court Process
Kerry-Ann Barry
Procedural Fairness and Litigants in Person: A Paradox or Possibility?
Elliot Ross
To What Extent are the Cuts to Legal Aid in Family Law, Effected since 2012, Compatible with Children’s
Rights and Access to Justice?
Session 3: Thursday 4th April 09.00 – 10.30
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LAW, POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY
Session: Theoretical perspectives
David McGrogan
International Law, the Conservative Disposition, and Conservative Critique
Luke Mason
Employing Conservative Ideas in Labour Law: the Employment Relation as a Stable Social Institution
Hamish Dempster
The Academic Lawyer and the Rule of Law
LAWYERS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS
Elaine Freer
Emotional Labour and the Criminal Bar: the Role of the Chambers Structure in Supporting Practitioners
Andrew Francis and Lydia Bleasdale
Great Expectations: Millennial Lawyers and the Structures of Contemporary Legal Practice
Bernadette Macdonald
“Do you want to be in my gang?” Can Legal Practitioners Better Reflect on Their Learning Needs within
Communities of Practice or is Reflection an Individualistic Endeavour?
EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
Session: Religious Freedom and Freedom of Expression
Chair: David Barrett
Ilias Trispiotis
The Wrongfulness of Religious Discrimination
Katie Hunt
Objections and Obstacles to Equal Pastoral Care for Non-Religious Prisoners
Felix Hempel
A Qualitative and Comparative Analysis of the Right to Reply in the Press in England and Germany
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ENVIRONMENT, LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Session: Reconceptualising environmental law
Anita Purewal
Environmental Protections and Sentimental Attachments: A Call for Global Unity
Kenneth Kang
Switching around the Constants and Variables in International Environmental Law
Marie Petersmann
The Use and Misuse by Human Rights Courts of the ‘General’ Interest in Environmental Protection:
Granting Legitimacy, Countering Indeterminacy and Constructing Commonality
Kate Wilkinson Cross
Technological Innovations Tackling Biodiversity Loss: Solutions or Misdirection?
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Session 3: Thursday 4th April 09.00 – 10.30
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CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEMS & ADR
Professor Kaijus Ervasti
Court-Connected Mediation and Change of Court Culture
Dr Tasnim Ahmed
Modern Dispute Resolution: Emergence of Regulatory Frameworks in the EU and Within the Context of
International Arbitration
Mr Morad El Kadmiri
The Use of the Comparative Method in International Commercial Arbitration
LAW AND LITERATURE
Thanos Zartaloudis
An Inquiry into the 'Origins' of Archaic Greek Practices of Supplication
Marie Hockenhull-Smith
"If the master's faults be ever so flagrant, he is not accountable for them to the insolence of a servant".
Secrets, Servants, and the Distribution of Rights
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SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE
Session: Citizenship and Responsibilities
Sasha Gillespie
Caring for the Disabled and Associative Disadvantage: to what Extent are Carers’ Rights as Citizens
Undermined by the Vital Role they Play?
Lisa Scullion, Peter Dwyer, Katy Jones, Philip Martin and Celia Hynes
Honouring the Armed Forces Covenant? Veterans’ Experiences in the UK Social Security System
Helen Carr and Ed Kirton-Darling
‘Tommy this and Tommy that’ - Mobilising Housing Rights and the Homeless Veteran in England and
Wales
METHODOLOGY AND METHODS
Steve Crawford
Making Things Visible and Tangible
Tatiana Tkacukova, Matt Gee, Bridgette Toy-Cronin and Bridget Irvine
Corpus Linguistics as a Methodological Tool for Socio-Legal Studies
Ieva Eskyte, Leonardo Sandoval and Anna Lawson
Videovoice in Participatory Action Research: Opportunities and Challenges
Michael Ashworth
A Spectacle and a Performance: Using Foucault and Goffman to Analyse Local Newspaper Coverage of the
First LGBTI Press Conference in Uganda
SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT
Chair: Gavin Dingwall
Anthea Huckleby
Tracking People: Controversies and Challenges
Jessica Gallagher
Identifying the Causes of the Prison Crisis in Order to Enable Meaningful Reform
Tim Hillier
Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word? Remorse, Guilty Pleas and the Penalties for Exercising the Right to
Trial
Session 3: Thursday 4th April 09.00 – 10.30
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MEDICAL LAW, HEALTHCARE AND BIOETHICS
Session: Health and Care
Vinny Kennedy
The Care Crisis – Will a Cap on the Cost of Care Contribute to a Financially Sustainable System?
Ouma Smith
Health Coverage from the Bottom: The Politics and Promises of Universal Health Coverage in Kenya
Jean McHale & Elizabeth Speakman
Public Health Law and the Devolveds: The Brexit Effect(s), Immediate, Intermediate, and Long-Term
INTERROGATING THE CORPORATION
Session: Directors’ Duties
Joan Loughrey, Andrew Keay and Terry McNulty
A Qualitative Study of Judicial Review of Directors’ Business Judgement
Oludara Akanmidu
Attaining Effective Enforcement of Directors’ Duties: the Deterrent Superiority of Public Enforcement
Alison Cronin
Corporate Criminality and Enforcement – Challenging the Assumptions
GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW
Chair: Flora Renz
Cameron Giles
Context and Character: The Potential Evidentiary Role of Mobile Dating Applications
Rosemary Hunter and Danielle Tyson
Post-Provocation Sentencing in Domestic Homicides: The Role of Mental Impairment in Defence Narratives
Allison Moore and Paul Reynolds
In Whose Best Interests? A Critical Analysis of the Contradictory Demands of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
and the Sexual Offences Act 2003 with Regards to Capacity, Sexual Autonomy and Autistic People
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW IN CONTEXT
Chair: Meryn Martin
Dania Thomas
Changing Debt Demand Dynamics, Race and Value Extraction: A Case-Study of ‘low income’ Sovereign
Debt Distress
Ernest Enobun
Normative Conflicts and the Complex Relationships between Treaties and International Organisations in
Energy Governance
LAW AND EMOTION
Lorenzo Cavalaglio and Adèle Julia Chenaux
“The Parents of the Trust were Fraud and Fear, and a Court of Conscience was the Nurse”. The Role of
Emotions in the Origins and in the Diffusion of Trusts.
Jen Neller
Emotion and Identity in the Passage of Hate Speech Legislation
Beth Duane
Prison Violence in Ireland: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis
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Session 3: Thursday 4th April 09.00 – 10.30
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
Chair: Rebecca Moosavian
Titilayo Adebola
Variations in Intellectual Property Governance in Africa: Attempts at Harmonisation
Louise Hatherall
Public Interest Challenges to Gene Patents: A Network Analysis Of Patent "Outsiders"
Sameer Avasarala and Samiya Zehra
Understanding “Subsequent Bad Faith” and the Trademark Holder Inclination in Domain Dispute
Resolutions under the UDRP in light of Trademark Act, 1999 & INDRP
Rachel Maguire
“You’re a hack”: Regulating the Use of Creative Works Shared in Online Communities
ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE
Chair: Richard Kirkham
Session: Digitisation and Administrative Justice
Paul Daly
Artificial Administration: Administrative Justice in the Age of Machines
Sarah Craig
Mis-Translation in Asylum and Immigration Decision-Making: Reflections on the Move towards the Digital
Tribunal
Stergios Aidinlis
Organisational Value Orientation in UK Administrative Data Sharing for Research
LABOUR LAW AND SOCIETY
Margaret Downie
Medical and Legal Approaches to Menopause in the Workplace
Lorna Dibble
The Role of the Third Sector in Employment Dispute Resolution
Wouter Verheyen and Fiona Unz
Risk Management Tools for the Protection of Gig Worker, Consumer and Third Parties in Crowd Mobility
and Crowd Logistics?
MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW
Eliza Varney
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and English Contract Law: A Tale of Two
Unfinished Bridges?
Daniel Bedford and Juliet Brook
Goodbye Banks v Goodfellow - Adopting the Mental Capacity Act 2005 as the Test for Testamentary
Capacity
Oliver Lewis and Genevra Richardson
What is the “Right to live in the Community”?
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Session 3: Thursday 4th April 09.00 – 10.30
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LEGAL EDUCATION
Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, Heidi Poikonen, Taru Kekoni and Kaarina Mönkkönen
Social Law Clinic: Law and Social work students giving Counselling for Clients of Adult Social Work
Louise Crowley
The Family Law Clinic at University College Cork
Max Lowenstein
Mooting Learning Opportunities – Students’ Challenges, Emotions and Feedback for Improvement
THE LAW(S) OF CONFLICT AND DISASTER
Session: ‘At its Margins'
Adam Dalgleish
'Who are Refugees? Displacement, Development and Ethical Context'
Thomas Welch
'Protection and Assistance of Vulnerable Populations at Point of Transition: Statelessness and the
Rohingya'
Ben Hudson
'Migration in the Mediterranean: Exposing the Limits of Vulnerability at the European Court of Human
Rights (ECtHR)'
LAW, GOVERNANCE AND BELONGING
Chair: Devyani Prabhat
Sheona York
Global Compact on Migration December 2018 – Can a People-Centred Approach solve the “migrant crisis”?
Dominika Harasimiuk
Are We Citizens or are We Economic Migrants? EU Citizenship at its Constitutional Moment
Lisa Roodenburg
A Sense of Belonging in Hong Kong: Urban Identity as an Instrument for Human Rights Realization
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Session 4: Thursday 4th April
11.00 - 12.30
CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Panel session
Anthea Hucklesby, Loraine Gelsthorpe and Robin Moore
Influencing Criminal Justice Policy and Practice: the Role of Research
FAMILY LAW AND POLICY
Session: State Intervention
Chair: Rachel Treloar
Michelle Donnelly
Non-Cooperation as Justification for Compulsory State Intervention
Fatima Ahdash
Gender, Counter-terrorism and the Family in the UK: Narratives of Infantalisation and Demonisation
Liza Thompson
Impossible Expectations? A Study of Abused Mothers in the Child Protection System
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS
Session: Young Offenders’ Rights
Louise Forde
Welfare, Justice and Accountability in Youth Justice Systems: A Children’s Rights Perspective
Nessa Lynch
A Principled Framework for Serious Violent Offending by Children
David Ngira
Informal Justice Systems and the Protection of the Best Interest of the Child among the Kipsigis of Kenya
VULNERABILITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Session: Post-LASPO Advice Provision
Chair: Jess Mant and Roxanna Dehaghani
Tatiana Tkacukova, Hilary Sommerlad and Matt Gee
Role of McKenzie Friends on Social Media
Marie Burton
Breaking the Connection: Comparing Local Delivery with Telephone-Only Advice in Social Welfare Legal
Aid
Jane Krishnadas and Mavis Maclean
Mapping and Transforming Pathways to Justice Across the Public and Private Sector
LAW, POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY
Session: The Political
David Churchill
Democracy and Policing: Time, Process, Politics
Christos Boulakas
A Political Reading of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016
Gavin Anderson
The Law and Politics of Mindfulness
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Session 4: Thursday 4th April 11.00 – 12.30
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LAWYERS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS
Rachel Cahill-O'Callaghan
Judicial Dissent and Cognitive Bias: An Argument for Robust Opposition
Krzysztof Kozminski and Katarzyna Kowalska
Modern Technologies in the Area of the Judiciary and the Situation of People at Risk of Social Exclusion.
New Role of Legal Clinics?
Yuangiong Hu
The Role of Legal Profession and Expertise in Patent and Biomedical Innovation Discourse
EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
Lewis Graham
When Strasbourg Mumbles: ‘Dialogue’ between the ECtHR and the UK Supreme Court in an Era of
European Rights Scepticism
Kate Clayton-Hathway
Exploring the Public Sector Equality Duty as Reflexive Law: A Socio-Legal Case Study
David Barrett
Creating a Fertile Environment for Regulators and Inspectorates to Enforce Equality and Human Rights Law
ENVIRONMENT, LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Session: Reconceptualising Climate Change A
Daniel Kim
Science in Court: An Analysis of Climate Change Litigation in the US from 1990 to 2018
Muhammad Nurshazny Ramlan
Religious Law for the Environment: Comparative Islamic Environmental Law in Singapore, Malaysia and
Indonesia
Kate Wilkinson Cross
Comparing the Transformative Potentials of the FCCC AND THE CCD: An Ecofeminist Exploration
REVISITING REFUGEE PROTECTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Session: History, Agency, Journeys
Chair: Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax
Yewa Holiday
Voices of Refugees in the Legal Life of the Refugee Journey
Dr Nadine El-Enany
Migration, Law and the Politics of Recognition: From Empire to Windrush.
Dr Nafees Ahmad
Rethinking Refugee Protection in Post-Global Compact on Migration: Locating the Role of Refugees in their
Integration and Protection beyond the Current Crisis and Expanding the Grounds for Asylum beyond
Contemporary Conceptualization
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CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEMS & ADR
Dr Paolo Vargiu
Semiotics of Investment Arbitration
Ms Fikayo Taiwo
Liberal and Restrictive Approaches to Legal Representation in Arbitration Proceedings: A Case of the
Unintended Consequences of Nigeria’s Arbitration Rules
Ms Anna Liza Spiliakou
Assessing International Commercial Arbitration's Autonomy with the Use of Niklas Luhmann's Social
Systems Theory
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LAW AND LITERATURE
Agata Fijalkowski
Tadeusz Cyprian: Polish Criminal Lawyer and Photographer (1898-1979)
Benjamin Got
Literature and the Public in Aufklärung
Alexander Powell
Law and the Cultural Imaginary: A Queer Discursive Analysis of Victim (1961)
SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE
Session: Judicial Enforcement of Social Rights
Luciano Bottini Filho
Robin Hood in Reverse: Identifying Positive Impacts in Social Rights Litigation
Athanasios Psygkas
Extraordinary Statutes: The Constitution of the Welfare State
Gijsbert Vonk
The Rise of the Repressive Welfare State: Do Courts make a Difference?
METHODOLOGY AND METHODS ROUNDTABLE 1
Chair: Davina Cooper
Emilie Cloatre, Helen Carr, Thanos Zartaloudis, and Amanda Perry-Kessaris
At the Crossroads of Humanities and Social Sciences: Interdisciplinary Methods and Conversations
SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT
Chair: Jessica Gallagher
Cyrus Tata
The Sentencing Professions: Humanising, Individualising and Normalising Work
Gavin Dingwall
‘Dangerous’ Children: Reflections on Age-Specificity and the Legitimacy of Incapacitative Sentencing
MEDICAL LAW, HEALTHCARE AND BIOETHICS
Session: End of Life
Nataly Papadopoulou
Article 2 ECHR: A Breach of the Rights of those Wanting to End their Lives?
Glenys Williams
The Minimally Conscious State: A More Considered and Cautious Approach?
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INTERROGATING THE CORPORATION
Session: Stakeholders, Shareholders and Whistleblowers
Onyeka Nwoha
The Proposed European Union Directive on Whistleblowing: a New Dawn for Corporate Whistleblowers?
Maria Lucia Passador and Federico Riganti
Less is More in the Age of Information Overload: the Paradigm Shift from a Shareholder- to a Stakeholder-
Oriented Market
Ibukunoluwa Iyiola-Omisore
Making Corporate Law great again in Emerging Markets
GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW
Chair: Alex Powell
Zanele Nyoni
Same-Sex Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa: Dreaming the Impossible Dream?
Kay Lalor
‘Listening intently’ to LGBTI lives: Diplomatic Narratives of Listening and Hearing in LGBTI rights
Danish Sheikh
Privacy in Public Spaces: The Transformative Potential of Navtej Johar v. Union of India
Murry Darmoko
Preventive and Repressive Law on LGBT rights in Indonesia
EMPIRE, COLONIALISM AND LAW
Yair Sagy (co-authors: Eyal Katvan and Yoram Shachar)
Official Law Reporting in the British Empire: A View from Mandatory Palestine
Rachel Pougnet
The "national-subjet" under French Colonial Rule
Justine Collins
An Examination of the Transplantation & Use of English Policing Laws and Martial Law within the British
West Indies Societies 1650-1700s.
LAW AND EMOTION
Richard Collier
‘Surely Everyone Else is Coping, What is Wrong with Me?’ Legal Academics and the Legal Profession’s
Recent ‘Wellbeing Turn’ - The ‘Missing Piece of the Jigsaw’?
Elaine Gregerson
“So it’s just worry. Gnawing worry”. Using Auto-Ethnography to uncover Hidden Emotions in University
Law Clinic Supervision
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW
Chair: Smita Kheria
Ruth Flaherty
“If It Weren’t for You Meddling Kids!” An Empirical Look at Fanfiction, Pastiche and Fair Dealing in the
Digital Single Market
Shane Burke
Traversing Heritage: Sound and Intellectual Property Law
Emmanuel Oke
Defining Intellectual Property as an Investment. Should Contribution to Economic Development play any
Role?
ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE
Chair: Richard Kirkham
Session: Designing Administrative Justice Systems
Sarah Nason, Jonathan Roberts, Ann Sherlock, Helen Taylor and Huw Pritchard
Mapping Administrative Justice in Wales
Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth and Virág Kornélia Hellenbarth
Professionalization, or Undermining the Rule of Law? The Current Reform of the Hungarian Administrative
Justice
Gavin McBurnie
A General Theory of the Ombuds Role in System Improvement
ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE
Chair: Sophie Vigneron
Session: Trade
Anthony O'Dwyer
The Artists’ Resale Right Directive 2001/84/EC: A Means of Targeted Intervention for Visual Artists
Mirosław Michał Sadowski
(Il)licit Art Trade in South-East Asia: Hong Kong and Beyond
Caroline Cox
“No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant”. A Reflection on the Ivory Act 2019; its Aims,
Objectives and Potential Ompact.
MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW
Gillian Loomes
Mental Capacity, Advance Decision-Making, and Disability Politics: A Socio-Legal Exploration
Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Michael Dunn and Penny Cooper
Judging Values and Participation in Mental Capacity Law
Alex Ruck Keene
Reflections on Law Reform. An Insider Perspective Schedule
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LEGAL EDUCATION
Hilary Sommerlad
“But we want to come in the front door”. A Qualitative Study of ‘BAME’ Women Lawyers; Implications for
Legal Education
Chloe Wallace
Global Citizens or Displaced Students? Learning Communities and Study Abroad
Linda Chadderton
'Legally Bound.' The Escape Room Concept
THE LAW(S) OF CONFLICT AND DISASTER
Session: 'At its Intersections'
Michael Kearney
'Framing Resilience: From Disaster to Conflict via Austerity'
Amal Ali
'Demarginalising International Law: A Defense of Intersectionality'
LAW, GOVERNANCE AND BELONGING
Chair: Caroline Derry
Francesca Meloni
The Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth and the Politics of Invisibility in Canada
Shaimaa Abdelkarim
Denouncing the Mist of Nationalism through the Senses Belonging
Tracey Varnava
‘Dear neighbour…’ What Local Newsletters Reveal about Perceptions of Place, Space and Belonging in
Canterbury, UK
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Session 5: Thursday 4th April 14.30 - 16.00
CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE Richard Nobles and David Schiff The Cleansing Effect of The Guilty Plea Laura Sharp Criminal Responsibility and The Unconscious Driver in Scotland: The Case for Statutory Reform Louise Taylor and Lucy Justice Autobiographical Memory Misconceptions and the Police Investigative Response to Rape Complaints
FAMILY LAW AND POLICY Session: Family Property, Cohabitation and Caring Chair: Joanna Miles Anna Heenan Equal Sharing and the Invisibility of Caring Annika Newnham Journey to the Centre of the Common Intention Constructive Trust Anne Barlow Cohabitation Law Reform Debate Post-Equal Marriage and Equal-Civil Partnerships
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS Session: Child Exposure to Crime/Violence against Children Fiona MacDonald Violence Against Children: An International Comparison Searching for Better Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as Exampled Using the Cluster of Articles Titled ‘Violence Against Children’ Jamie-Lee Mooney Child Sexual Exploitation: Towards a 'Child-Centred' Protection System Avitus Agbar Tackling the Scourge of Child Marriages in Cameroon: A Socio-legal Perspective
VULNERABILITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE Session: Social Justice, Legal Empowerment and Communities Chairs: Roxanna Dehaghani and Jess Mant Sue Westwood Socio-Legal Pedagogy and Access to Justice: Mapping a Research Agenda Naomi Creutzfeldt and Chris Gill Access to Justice for Energy Poor and Vulnerable Consumers: Shifting the Responsibility from The National to the Local? Helena-Ulrike Marambio The Role of Legal Empowerment for Women with Physical Disabilities in Post-War Sri Lanka
Session 5: Thursday 4th April 14.30 – 16.00
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_______________________________________________________________________________________ LAW, POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY Session: Power Ohiocheoya Omiunu & Ifeanyichukwu Aniyie Foreign Relations Law: Perspectives from Nigeria Shelan Rasul & George Ndi The Power of Recognition in the Context of Self-Determination Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis The Power of British Judges: A Conceptual Framework
LAWYERS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS Richard Moorhead LawTech Lawyers: Dystopia, Utopia, and Empirical Perspectives Steven Vaughan More Than Just Document Monkeys? Exploring How Transactional Lawyers in the UK ‘Add Value’ Eleanor Rowan How Independent is Independent Legal Advice? Trevor Clark What Next? A Meta-Analysis of Empirical Research on Large Law Firms and Ethics
EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW Chair: Peter McTigue Anna Lawson and Maria Orchard Models for the Enforcement of Accessibility Rights: Synergies, Tensions and Opportunities Susan Bright and Sarah Nield Disability Adaptations in Residential Leasehold Buildings and the Contribution of Equality Law Agnieszka Kubal Who are the Humans Behind the Human Rights Cases? Migrations Cases from Russia to the European Court of Human Rights
ENVIRONMENT, LAW AND GOVERNANCE Session: Reconceptualising Climate Change Daniel Kim Science in Court: an Analysis of Climate Change Litigation in the US From 1990 to 2018 Muhammad Nurshazny Ramlan Religious Law for the Environment: Comparative Islamic Environmental Law in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia Kate Wilkinson Cross Comparing the Transformative Potentials of the FCCC AND THE CCD: An Ecofeminist Exploration _______________________________________________________________________________________
Session 5: Thursday 4th April 14.30 – 16.00
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_______________________________________________________________________________________ EXPLORING LEGAL BORDERLANDS Session: Borderlands of Political Economy Chair and Discussant: Pedro Fortes Ioannis Kampourakis The Blurring Boundary Between Legal and Social Norms in the Regulation of Transnational Corporate Activity Tomasz Braun Quasi-Legislative Measures of International Corporations Denis West Reconnecting Law, Accounting, and Organisation: The Origin and Evolution of Materiality Arwen Joyce Working Across Borders: Labour Law Theory and Low-Wage Migrant Workers
REVISITING REFUGEE PROTECTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Session: States, Responsibility and Refugee Law Chair: Yewa Holiday Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax Caring is Sharing? Insights from International Law on Solidarity as a (legally-binding) Duty of Enhanced Co-operation Nicolette Busuttil Rendering Visible the Migrant with Psychosocial Disabilities: Realising the Promise of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE Session: Localism and regionalism Jed Meers Discretion as Blame Avoidance: Passing the Buck to Local Authorities in ‘Welfare Reform’ Carla Reeson Homelessness Statistics: A "shambolic" Development Mark Simpson The Introduction of Universal Credit in Northern Ireland: Some Preliminary Findings
METHODOLOGY AND METHODS ROUNDTABLE 2 Matthew Jay, Rachel Pearson, Linda Wijlaars, Stu Bedston, Karen Broadhurst and Ruth Gilbert Legal Epidemiology: A Quantitative Approach to the Study Of Law
BANKING AND FINANCE Steven Montagu-Cairns Corporate Criminal Liability and the Failure to Prevent Offence: An Argument for the Adoption of an Omissions Based Offence in AML Mike Jide Ogunmiluyi A Comparative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Prosecution Approaches to Finance Related Crime in the UK and the US Alison Lui The Swiss Leaks Scandal: Legal and Ethical Dilemmas of Whistle-Blowing on Tax Evasion
Session 5: Thursday 4th April 14.30 – 16.00
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_______________________________________________________________________________________ MEDICAL LAW, HEALTHCARE AND BIOETHICS Christopher Boniface “The (Robot) Doctor will see you now”. Informed Consent and Artificial…. Lindsey Claire Hogg Under 16s as Living Non-Regenerative Tissue Donors in England and Wales Friso Jansen The Development of Medical Guidelines: Shifting Powers Jo Samanta and Ash Samanta To What Extent are Clinical Guidelines Used as a Proxy for the Standard Of Care in Clinical Negligence Litigation?
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LAW AND CYBERSPACE Session: Criminal Law and New Information Technologies Chair: Mark O’Brien Laura Bliss Legality, the Criminal Law and Social Media Maria Grazia Porcedda and David S Wall Data Crime and the Cascading Impact of the Cybercrime Chain Asma Vranaki Scarce Regulatory Resources: Tactical Enforcement and Hybrid Data Governance in the Cloud
GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW Chair: Flora Renz Pieter Cannoot The Pathologisation of Trans* persons in the ECtHR's Case Law on Legal Gender Recognition Alex Sharpe Legal Arguments that Gender Self-Declaration Will Undermine Cis Women’s Rights to Exclude Trans Women from Women-Only Spaces are Seriously Flawed Isabel Simonsen Carrascal A Queer Postcolonial Analysis of the Reports by the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Gloriana Rodriguez Queer Defiance in the Midst of Leviathan: Comparing Guatemala and Brazil
EMPIRE, COLONIALISM AND LAW Nadine El-Enany ‘The body belongs to the state’: Families’ Interrogation of Racial State Violence Elizabeth O'Loughlin The Emancipatory Potential of International Law in Domestic Courts: A Case Study of Kenya Ayse Sezgin Understanding Food Sovereignty through TWAIL: A Critical Approach to International Governance of Food
LAW AND EMOTION Neil Graffin The Emotional Demands of 21st century Legal Practice Emma Jones “Alcohol and Laughter”: Coping with the Emotional Demands of 21st century Practice Chalen Westaby and Andrea Subryan Emotional Labour and the Legal Profession: Form and Consequences of Performing Emotional Labour and Emotional Labour Conflict
Session 5: Thursday 4th April 14.30 – 16.00
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW Chair: Smita Kheria Rosemary Toll The Music Industry: An Industry in Transition Giulia Priora Copyright Rules in the News Industry under a Distributive Perspective. The Case for Empowering Reporters
ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE Chair: Richard Kirkham Session: Administrative Justice Institutions Jo Wilding Administrative Justice in Immigration Detention Caer Smyth ‘Tick the box and move on’: Specialised Argument in the Public Local Inquiry and its Impact on the Environment Dale McFadzean and Mhairi Campbell Public Interest Litigation in Scotland: Lowering the Bar?
ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE Chair: Janet Ulph Sarah Sargent Theoretical Approaches A Critical Legal Theory of Intangible Cultural Heritage Xiujuan Hu Would it be Difficult for China to Ratify the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention? Trish Luker What is a Signature? Law’s Documentary Practices
MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW Beverley Clough The Logics of Liberty in Mental Capacity Law Danielle Watson Here and Queer: How the CRPD uses a queer commentary perspective to protect minority rights Paul Skowron and Matt Matravers Mental Disability Law and the Liberalism of Fear
LEGAL EDUCATION Anthony Bradney What Can University Law Schools Say About Employability? What Should University Law Schools Say About Employability? Fiona Cownie An Alternative View of Graduate Attributes Jess Guth Is there Method in the Madness: The SQE and the Death of Law?
BREXIT, LAW AND SOCIETY ROUNDTABLE Kenneth Armstrong, Tamara Hervey and Anand Menon 'UK Futures after 29th March 2019' _______________________________________________________________________________________
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LAW, GOVERNANCE AND BELONGING Chair: Matt Howard Sofia Cavandoli Struggles for Self-Determination in International Law Yussef Al Tamimi How Human Rights Shape our Sense of Belonging: Mixed-Gender Swimming as an Integration Issue in Switzerland Keren Bright Belonging Emerging from Protest: The Curious Case of a House and a Shark _______________________________________________________________________________________
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Session 6: Thursday 4th April
16.30 - 18.00
CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Konstantinos Kalliris and Theodore Alysandratos
One Judge or Three Judges? Some Findings from a Recent Reform in the Greek Criminal Justice System
Caroline Sweeney
Accountability for Atrocities Committed in Syria: An Unattainable Ideal?
Yu Mou
Psychological Coercion and Police Interrogation in China
Avitus Agbor
Prosecuting the Offence of Misappropriation of Public Funds in Cameroon: Lessons From the Special
Criminal Court
FAMILY LAW AND POLICY
Session: Regulating Non-Traditional Families
Chair: Anne Barlow
Brian Tobin
Female Same-Sex Couples and the Non-Regulation of Home-Insemination in Ireland: The Case for Reform
Kathryn O'Sullivan
Posthumous Conception (& Inheritance) under Irish law: A Critique of Government Proposals for Regulation
Philip Bremner
Collaborative Co-Parenting and the Dutch Proposals for Multiple Parenthood
ENVIRONMENT, LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Session: Reconceptualising Climate Change B
Peter Oniemola
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change and United Kingdom’s Support for Developing Countries Post-
Brexit
Chitzi C. Ogbumgbada
Renewable Energy Promotion in the Age of Global Isolationism: The Enduring Role of International
Environmental Law
VULNERABILITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Session: Immigration, Asylum and Migrant Workers
Chair: Roxanna Dehaghani and Jess Mant
Lauren Cooper
Access to Justice for Asylum Seekers-Vulnerability in the Appeals Process
Sarah Turnbull
Vulnerability, Immigration Detention, and (Penal) Reform
Renuka T Balasubramaniam
Opportunities for Transforming the Social Protection of Workers and Communities in the Malaysian Palm
Oil Industry
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SEXUAL OFFENCES AND OFFENDING
Chair: Susan Leahy
Elizabeth Agnew
Towards a Gendered-Response to Sexting among Young People
Aravinda Kosaraju
A Critical Analysis of Children’s Subjectivities in Child Sexual Exploitation Discourses in England and Wales
Louise Crowley
Bystander Intervention at University College Cork
LAWYERS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS
Nikki Godden-Rassul
Portraits of Women in Law: Re-Envisioning Gender, Law and the Legal Profession in Law Schools
Julia Margaret Hammond
A Century of Women Solicitors in England and Wales: A Brief ‘herstory’ of Time.
EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW
Michele Tedeschini
Human Rights After Fukuyama: In Search of an Actually Existing Left
Louisa Riches
The Universal Periodic Review: Civil Society and Communities of Practice
Ahmed Almutawa
Human Rights in the Arab World: The Arab Court of Human Rights and the Enforcement of the Arab
Charter on Human Rights
EXPLORING LEGAL BORDERLANDS
Session: Borderlands of Digital Societies
Chair: Ioannis Kampourakis
Discussant: Mavis Maclean
Pedro Fortes
Law and Algorithms: Legal Borderlands in Digital Societies
Kira Almann
Connectivity Beyond Access: Crossing the Digital Divide in Search of a Human Right to the Internet
SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE
Session: Social Rights Protection in International Human Rights Law
Philip Alston
Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
Mike Adler
The Case for a Social Maximum
Luke D. Graham
Grounding Destitution Within the Sphere of Human Rights: Laying the Foundations for a Human Rights-
Based Definition of Destitution
METHODOLOGY AND METHODS ROUNDTABLE 3
Lawrence McNamara, Naomi Creutzfeldt, Jane Tinkler, Joe Tomlinson and Kathryn Wright
Impact: The Researcher Experience and the Implications if the Impact Agenda for Legal Research
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BANKING AND FINANCE
Andromachi Georgosouli
Market Change and the Adaptability of Financial Regulation
Richard Ridyard
Sovereign Fiscal Disruption and Deposit Insurance In The Eurozone
Tomasz Braun
Legal and Regulatory Compliance of Financial Institutions within Multi-Jurisdictional Environment: An
Accepted Fiction
JURISPRUDENCE OF THE BODY
Session: Limited and Unlimited Bodies
Chris Dietz and Ruth Pearce
Diagnosing Gender: Trans Health Law
Sam Lewis
Understanding and Challenging British Criminologists’ Antipathy Towards the Biosocial Turn.
Emilie Cloatre and Francesco Salvini Ramas
Law, Alternative Therapies and the Fluidity of Health/Care
Marie Jacob
The Watching of Sarah Jacob: Fasting, Imposture, and Proof
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LAW AND CYBERSPACE
Session: Generating Data: Legal Boundaries and Dilemmas
Chair: Maria Grazia Porcedda
Louise McNeil
Pervasive Surveillance: Legal Conundrums in the Globalised Era of Big Data
Allison Holmes
Law Enforcement Processing under the Data Protection Act: Dealing with Downstream Data Use
Simisola Akintoye
Cats Against Regulation: Algorithms and the GDPR in the Human Brain Project
GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW
Chair: Flora Renz
Alex Powell
I Want the Proof, the Whole Proof and Nothing but the Proof: Authenticity and Credibility in Sexual Identity
Asylum Claims
Christopher Wells
“Where do I put it?”: Bisexual Erasure, James Joyce’s Buck Mulligan and the Transitory Spaces of Bisexual
Identity in Contemporary Legislation.
Claire Horn
Artificial Womb Technology, Care, and the Law
Session 6: Thursday 4th April 16.30 – 18.00
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EMPIRE, COLONIALISM AND LAW
Jean Molloy
Imperialism and the Emergence of International Law
Anam Soomro
A Critical Inquiry into Freedom of Movement: Race, Colonialism and the Making of International Law
Brian Olunga
A Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) Critique of the Right to Adequate Housing:
Towards an Alternative Legal Edifice as a Solution to the Proliferation of Slums and Forced Evictions in the
Global South
LAW AND EMOTION
Caroline Strevens
Contradictory Messages: How does that make you feel?
Martin Regan
Law Students as Emotional Actors in a Subject Imbued with Psychological Significance
Clare Sandford-Couch and Helen Rutherford
The Reporting of Emotion in the Trial and Punishment of George Vass
SOCIO-LEGAL JURISPRUDENCE
Chair: Tom Webb
Lyla Latif
Finding the Interpretative Space within Human Rights Benchmarks to Introduce the Application of Islamic
Taxation
Kenneth Kang
Switching Around the Constants and Variables in International Environmental Law
Adrienne Barnett
‘Steering’ Law Through Science – The Globalisation of Parental Alienation
DECOLONISING LEGAL EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Session: De-Centering Perspectives
Chair: Nadine El-Enany
Ahmed Raza Memon
Resistance in Islamic Legal Thought: Juridical Encounter in Settler Colonies of the Empires in the 17th-18th
Century
Amrita Mukherjee
Challenging Mainstream Paradigms in International Law Learning and Teaching: The Place of Subaltern
Studies
Celine Tan
Telling Different Stories: Overcoming Methodological Othering and Epistemological Silences in
International Economic Law Scholarship
Session 6: Thursday 4th April 16.30 – 18.00
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ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE
Session: Urban and Built Heritage
Chair: Sophie Vigneron
Sara Ross
Putting the New Urban Agenda to Work for the More Equitable Governance of Arts, Culture, and Heritage
Spaces in the City
Omar El Masri
Urban Street Art and Spaces for Representation in Divided Cities: Beirut and Belfast
MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW ROUNDTABLE
Lucy Series, John Harrington, Gillian Loomes, Alex Ruck Keene
Rhetorical Capacities: Rhetoric and Persuasion in Mental Capacity Law
LEGAL EDUCATION
Morad al Kadmiri
Wigmore's PowerPoint and the Pre-Digital Era
Sarah Wilson
Teaching History in the Twenty-First Century Law School: Some Experience-Based Perspectives on the
Importance of Historical Approaches for the Study of Law
Victoria Ball, Arwen Joyce and Charlotte Mills
What are Undergraduate Law Students’ Perceptions of PhD Tutors Delivering Small Group Teaching?
BREXIT, LAW AND SOCIETY ROUNDTABLE
Katherine Tyler, Adrian Favell, Charlotte O'Brien Jeanette Edwards
Brexit, Rights and Structured Inequalities
PROPERTY, PEOPLE, POWER AND PLACE
Chair: Sarah Blandy
Harley Ronan
The ‘Ground Rent Scandal’ and Financialised Logics of Property
Helen Carr and Rowan Alcock
Understanding the (Re)Regulation of Private Renting in England: Karl Polanyi, the Rogue landlord, the
Responsible Tenant and the Decent Home
Emily Walsh
The Journey towards ‘Family Friendly’ Tenancies in the Private Rented Sector
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Session 7: Friday 5th April
10.00 - 11.30
CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Laurene Soubise
Regulating Prosecutorial Discretion: Professionalism or Bureaucracy?
Amanda Wilson
Reintegrative Guilting: Restorative Justice’s Hidden Other
FAMILY LAW AND POLICY
Session: Families’ Access to Justice or Mediation
Chair: Annika Newnham
Mavis Maclean
Digital Access to Family Justice post LASPO: Can a Website Have a Duty Of Care?
Rachael Blakey
Family Mediation after LASPO: the Underlying Messages in Codes of Practice
Donna Crowe-Urbaniak
Vulnerability, Autonomy, Power and Resilience: a Socio-Legal Examination of the Issues Faced by Military
Wives post-LASPO
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
Session: Child-Friendly Justice
Kathryn Hollingsworth and Helen Stalford
“This is a case about you and your future”: Towards Judgements for Children
Robert Porter
Recording of Children and Young People’s Views in Contact Decision Making
Aisling Parkes and Fiona Donson
Crime and Punishment: Tipping the Sentencing Threshold in Favour of Children’s Rights
VULNERABILITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Session: Vulnerability and Criminal Justice
Chair: Roxanna Dehaghani and Jess Mant
Roxanna Dehaghani and Daniel Newman
Criminal Legal Aid Lawyering in an Age of Austerity: the Vulnerability of the Professionals and the
Profession
Donna Peacock and Faye Cosgrove
Identifying ‘Vulnerability’ in Police Custody: The Impact of the 2018 Revisions to PACE code C for Police
Officer Decision Making
Session 7: Friday 5th April 10.00 - 11.30
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SEXUAL OFFENCES AND OFFENDING
Chair: Siobhan Weare
Eithne Dowds
Reflections on the Gillen Review into the Law and Procedures in Serious Sexual Offences in Northern Ireland
Susan Leahy
Current Debates and Controversies Regarding the Rape Trial Process in Ireland: An Overview
Grace Moyo
Degrees of (In)justice: Due Process in Adjudicating Campus Sexual Assault
APOLOGIES, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND 'REPAIRING' PAST HARMS IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
Anna Byson and Kieran McCovey
Apologies, Acknowledgement and 'Repairing' Past Harms in Ireland
Cira Palli-Aspero
Social Reconciliation and the Role of the Historical Method as a Tool for Transitional Justice
Thomas Bundschuh
Corporate Peace Making in Colombia: Where is Justice?
EXPLORING LEGAL BORDERLANDS
Session: Borderlands of Private Networks
Chair: Pedro Fortes
Discussant: Linda Mulcahy
Dominic Birch
'Gett the home and let this matter be taken up by your neighbours': Legal Pluralism in Early Modern
England and Virginia
Jed Meers
Pubs, 'Vertical Drinking' and Proxy Concepts
Ignacio Riquelme
Governing Intra-Family Violence Through 'Risk'
SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE
Session: European Social Citizenship
Victoria Hooton
The Price of Free Movement: Re-Thinking Restrictions on Residency and Welfare in EU Law
Bozena Sojka and Emma Carmel
Portability of Social Security Rights - Transnational Comparison of Healthcare Insurance
Charles O'Sullivan
Europeanisation as a Means to an End: A Case Study of the Habitual Residence Condition as Implemented
within Irish Law
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METHODOLOGY AND METHODS ROUNDTABLE 4
Session: Historical Approaches to Socio-Legal Studies: New Directions in Theory, Methods and Practice
Henry Yeomans
Law, History and Analysis: Incorporating Historical Time into Socio-Legal Studies
Sarah Wilson
Law and Long-Timeframe Analysis: Extending the Reach of Socio-Legal Studies through Envisioning an
‘Historical Criminology’ Agenda
Craig Newbery-Jones
Chatting Criminal History: Transmedia Public Engagement for the Twenty-First Century
Cerian Griffiths
Fraud and Punishment: Sentencing in Eighteenth-Century and Nineteenth-Century London
BANKING AND FINANCE
Ilias Kapsis
The EU Approach to Fintech: Balancing Innovation, Competition and Stability in Financial Markets
Zeynab Malakoutikhah
The International Regulation of Counter-Terrorism Financing
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JURISPRUDENCE OF THE BODY
Session: Bodies Modified and Unmodified
Michael Thomson, Marie Fox and Josh Warburton
Embodied Integrity, Shaping Surgeries, and the Profoundly Disabled Child
John Rumbold
Surgery or Serious Assault: Is There a Clear Limit to Acceptable Body Modification?
Richard Gibson
No Harm, No Foul? Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Metaphysics of GBH
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LAW AND CYBERSPACE
Session: Constructing the Law’s Dealing with Information Technologies and Cyberspace
Chair: Allison Holmes
Rachel Allsopp
Big Data Practices in the Online Gambling Industry: a Foucauldian Perspective on the Production of the
‘Responsible Gambler’
Heather Whitney and Robert Simpson
Search Engines and Free Speech Coverage
Cameron Giles
Ambiguity in Mobile Dating Application Profiles: Implications in Criminal Cases Relating to HIV
Transmission
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GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW
Chair: Chair: Flora Renz
Daniela Nadj
Gender Justice, the Nobel Peace Prize and the case for a Convention on the Prohibition of Violence against
Women
Faye Bird
The UN Security Council and the ISIS ‘Crisis’ of its ‘21st Century Slave Trade’
Qudsia Mirza
Justice and Gender Equality in Islamic Law
Elizabeth Carthy
Exploring and Defining Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Aid Workers in International Law
EMPIRE, COLONIALISM AND LAW
Radha D'Souza
Colonialism and the Emergence of Transnational Corporations as Organisational Form
Ronald Roberts
The Property Identity Nexus through a Late Apartheid Lens
Raza Saeed
The Ubiquity of State Fragility and the Present Absence of Colonialism
SOCIO-LEGAL JURISPRUDENCE
Chair: Tom Webb
Steve Crawford
Socio-Legal Jurisprudence and Constitutional Transition
Lee McConnell
Law as 'Identity-Thinking': Social Change and the Limits of Legal Strategy
Alex Green and Jen Hendry
Legal Pluralism & Political Legitimacy
DECOLONISING LEGAL EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Session: Challenging Canonical Pedagogy
Chair: Sarah Keenan
Michelle Burgis-Kasthala & Christine Schwoebel-Patel
Decolonising the International Law Curriculum
Luis Eslava and Rose Parfitt
Teaching International Law Internationally: Pedagogy in the Global Colonial Present Tense
Amanda Perry-Kessaris
Model-Making as Decolonisation Strategy
Session 7: Friday 5th April 10.00 - 11.30
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MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW
Ailbhe O'Loughlin
The Treatability of Personality Disordered Offenders Under the Mental Health Act 1983: A Malleable
Concept
Claire Hogg
Thoughts on Insanity Defence Jurisprudence in Light of Articles 12 and 14 of the CRPD
Leona Mydlowski, Douglas Morrisson
A Qualitative Study into Registered Sexual Offenders Capacity to Respond to Questions under Mental
Capacity Act 2005
LEGAL EDUCATION
Simon Sneddon
The Battle for BAT TEL
Sonya Onwin
Marmite Subjects: Teaching Academic Skills to Russell Group Students Blended; Foundational Legal Skills;
Transitioning to University
Margaret Downie & Robert Craigmyle
Pathways to Higher Education and the Legal Profession: Transitioning from Further Education to Higher
Education
BREXIT, LAW AND SOCIETY
Session: Brexit, Governance and Legitimacy
Tamara Hervey, Mark Flear and Matthew Wood
Exploring Legitimacy of Health Governance after Brexit through Law and Language: Methodological
Reflections
Djordje Sredanovic
Brexit and Naturalisations: the Implementation and the Lived Experiences of Citizenship Laws
Paul James Cardwell
Brexit, Migration and Governance in the UK
PROPERTY, PEOPLE, POWER AND PLACE
Chair: Caroline Hunter
Dave Cowan and Barbara Hardy Spatial Precarity: A Case Study of Regulatory Obscurity Tola Amodu
Where is My/Our Place? The Role of Public Participation in Navigating Plannings Examinations in Public
Session 8: Friday 5th April
12.00 - 13.30
CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Steven Cammiss, Brian Doherty and Graeme Hayes
“This is no more than a litigation of political opinion.” The Trial of the Stansted 15: Narrating Politics in the
Criminal Trial
Jen Hendry and Colin King
Procedural Hybrids and the Rule of Law: An Empirical Evaluation of Civil Recovery in Practice
Colin Moore
The Pre-History of Women Police: Matrons, Welfare, and the Criminal Justice System
FAMILY LAW AND POLICY
Session: Changing Families and Changing Law
Chair: Mavis Maclean
Amy Summerfield
Developing the Family Justice Evidence Base from within the MoJ: the Day Job of a Government Social
Researcher
Martha Ceballos
The Silent Change of Parental Orders
Louise Crowley
The Times They Are A-Changin……
SEXUAL OFFENCES AND OFFENDING
Chair: Susan Leahy
Siobhan Weare
Barriers to Male Victims Engaging with the Criminal Justice System in Forced-to-Penetrate Cases in the UK
Jennifer Hamilton
Intimate Citizenship and Marital Rape: The Institution of the Family and the Oppression of Marital Rape
Victims
Hannah Baumeister
Sexualised Crimes, Armed Conflict and the Law: The International Criminal Court and the Definitions of
Rape and Forced Marriage
APOLOGIES, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND 'REPAIRING' PAST HARMS IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE
Luke Moffett
Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups during Conflict: Buying off Victims or Building Legitimacy
Ebba Lekball
Reparation in Transitional Justice: Challenges to the Implementation of International Standards for
Reparation Redressing Mass Violations of International Human Rights Law
Sunneva Gilmore
Victim, Survivor or Patient: The Role of Identity in Repairing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Asli Ozcelik-Olcay
Negotiating Justice in the Shadow of International Law
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Session 8: Friday 5th April 12.00 - 13.30
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EXPLORING LEGAL BORDERLANDS
Session: Borderlands of Civil Society and Democratic Discourse
Chair: Susan Bright
Discussant: Ioannis Kampourakis
Ashley Rogers and Tony Ward
Legal Consciousness, Civil Society, and Dialogical Spaces
Maureen Duffy
Immigration and Fear in Global Anti-Democratic Narratives
Sila Ulucay
Civilian Checks on the Exercise of the Freedom of Expression in Turkey
Sapna Reheem Shaila
All Good Things Come to Those Who Wait - Building an 'Independent' Body of Judicial Actors in a Post
Independent East Timor
SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE
Session: Social rights of non-nationals
Graham Tegg
Better Out than In? The Rights of EU Citizens Living in the UK to Social Assistance post Brexit
Giulia Dugar
The Empowerment of Local Citizenship in 21st Century Japan - Local Practices Emerging from the CSOs to
Ensure Rights for Newcomer Immigrants in the Kōbe Case Study
Claire Lougarre
The Socio-Economic Rights of Non-Nationals in Human Rights Treaties
BANKING AND FINANCE
Maria Lucia Passador
In Vogue Again: The Re-Rise of Spacs in the IPO Market
John Wood
Creative Destruction and the Need to Rethink the Value in Corporate Rescue
Samet Caliskan
Individual Behaviour, Company Liability and Risk: Exposure of Company to Risk of Undesirable Behaviour of
Directors
JURISPRUDENCE OF THE BODY
Session: Bodies in and of Time
Mitchell Travis and Fae Garland
Bodies in time(s): Intersex Embodiment and the Logic of Emergency
Elizabeth Chloe Romanis and Claire Horn
Artificial Wombs and the Problem with Problematising Abortion
Caterina Milo
Abortion and Autonomy: is Bodily Autonomy Enough? Proposing a Model of Authentic Autonomy
Jonathan Brown
‘There can be no property in a corpse’. Venerable Principle, or Communis Error?
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Session 8: Friday 5th April 12.00 - 13.30
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LAW AND CYBERSPACE
Session: Negligence, Contract and Commerce in Cyberspace
Chair: Mark O’Brien
Petros Terzis
Centre for Information Rights, ‘The reasonable coder’
Robert Herian
Smart Contract Performance and the Rise of Restitution
Hebah Alkhaldi
Cyber Security Threats to Kuwait E-commerce
GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW
Chair: Flora Renz
Kcasey McLoughlin
Women Chief Justices in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom
JoAnna Wall
How the United States Judiciary Became the Last Hope for Saving Women’s Reproductive Rights
Rachel Heah
Reforming Relationships and Sex Education in English Schools – Perspectives from Secondary School Pupils
EMPIRE, COLONIALISM AND LAW
Louise McNeil
Colonial Impacts on Surveillance Techniques and the Radical Changes of the Twenty-First Century
Jhuma Sen
Early Portias and the Colonial Bar in India: Towards the Legal Practitioners' (Women) Act 1923
Vasja Badalič
The Redefinition of ‘Imminent Threat’ and the Preventive Use of Force in the 'War on Terror'
SOCIO-LEGAL JURISPRUDENCE
Chair: Adrienne Barnett
Richard Nobles and David Schiff
Applying Systems Theories to Socio-Legal Studies: Complexity Theory vs Autopoietic Theory – What’s the
Difference?
William Linton
Legal Validity and Social Modernity - A Luhmannian Approach
Thomas E Webb
Legal Complexity, Myth and Certainty
Session 8: Friday 5th April 12.00 - 13.30
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DECOLONISING LEGAL EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION
Session: Beyond Law
Chair: Suhraiya Jivraj
Dave Thomas and Barbara Adewumi
Epistemic Inequality in Education
Patricia Tuitt
Decolonising without Law?
Sheree Palmer
Legal Education: “How can I increase my impact as a teacher upon WP and BME students?”
Iyiola Solanke
Decolonising the Classroom - the Black Female Professors Forum
MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW
Tania Barton
On Being a Consumer with Dementia: a Qualitative Study
Helen Taylor
Lost and Confused? The Enduring Conundrum of How the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Applies in Clinical
Practice: A Case Study
Rosie Harding
Making the Case for a Nominated Supporter Scheme in English Law
LEGAL EDUCATION
Chris Ashford, Laura Graham and Samantha Rasiah
Feminist and Queer Legal Zines as Pedagogy: Student Voice and the Law School Community
Verona Ni Drisceoil
Moving Beyond Text and Embracing the Visual in Legal Education: Is it really worth it?
Michael Fay and Yvonne Skipper
“Why not me?” – The Extent to which Students’ Academic Identity Impacts their Sense of Community and
Mental Health
BREXIT, LAW AND SOCIETY
Session: Brexit and the UK Territorial Constitution
Colin Murray
The Strange Case of the Disappearing Rights: Northern Ireland under the Draft EU-UK Withdrawal
Agreement
Gareth Evans
Brexit and the Break-Up of Britain: Assessing the Constitutional Legacy of Brexit in Scotland and Wales
Daniel Wincott, Jo Hunt and Charles Whitmore
Brexit: Civil Society and Constitutional Change
Gregory Davies
Brexit, the Media and the Territorial Constitution
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