Institute of Advanced Legal Studies PhD Masterclass: How to complete a PhD in 3 year Dr Mazhar Ilahi The PhD Masterclass What is it? An opportunity to discuss PhD research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in PhD research. The discussion is informal and round-table. Topics may be suggested in advance via the Convenor. Although colleagues may not be able to give expert advice on the specific subject matter of your PhD, they may be able to give advice on...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Policy Impact - Interview with Dr Lawrence McNamara Dr Lawrence McNamara (Deputy Director & Senior Research Fellow, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law)

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies PhD Masterclass: How to submit a thesis Ahmet Mustafa The PhD Masterclass What is it? An opportunity to discuss PhD research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in PhD research. The discussion is informal and round-table. Topics may be suggested in advance via the Convenor. Although colleagues may not be able to give expert advice on the specific subject matter of your PhD, they may be able to give advice on research...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies PhD Masterclass: Constructing a thesis Dr John Stanton-ife The PhD Masterclass What is it? An opportunity to discuss PhD research with colleagues, with expert input from senior academics experienced in PhD research. The discussion is informal and round-table. Topics may be suggested in advanced via the Convenor. Although colleagues may not not be able to give expert advice on the specific subject matter of your PhD, they may be able to give advice on...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Revisiting Hurst's legitimacy of corporations: utility-responsibility dichotomy in company law Dr Adaeze Okoye (School of Law, Canterbury Christ Church University; IALS Visiting Fellow) A revisit of Hurst's essay in 1970* could suggest probably reasons for why responsibility continues to play second fiddle to 'utility' as a legitimizer. This could explain why corporate social responsibility continues this tradition, with most components outside of...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies The Jury in Japan 1928-43 and its legacy Andrew Watson (Sheffield Hallam University)

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Specialized Adjudication in EU Administrative Law. The Boards of Appeal of EU Agencies Professor Paola Chirulli (Sapienza University of Rome; IALS Visiting Fellow) This seminar will address the following: 1. The origins, nature and role of EU Boards of Appeals. 2. Analogies with the system of Tribunals operating in the UK, with which they show important similarities, and with their US counterparts. 3. The specialised nature of the adjudicative...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Courts Reform Programs: The Malaysian Experience Justice Azahar Mohamed (Federal Court, Malaysia; Inns of Court Fellow) The seminar will address the key developments implemented by the Malaysian Judiciary towards achieving the objective of fair and efficient disposal of legal proceedings. A plethora of issues had dogged the Malaysian Judiciary prior to 2009. The Judiciary was burdened with massive backlog of cases and declining speedy delivery of...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies "Fixes, fudges and falling short"? The need to develop a coherent devolution settlement for Wales The 2016 Sir William Dale Annual Memorial Lecture Theodore Huckle QC (Counsel General, Welsh Government / Y Cwnsler Cyffredinol Llywodraeth Cymru) Chair: Dylan M Hughes (First Legislative Counsel, Office of the Legislative Counsel, Welsh Government / Y Prif Gwnsler Deddfwriaethol, Swyddfa y Cwnsleriaid Deddfwriaethol, Llywodraeth Cymru) Following the...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies The role and importance of the UN Convention on transparency for investor-state dispute settlement Dr Nikolaos Theodorakis (Lecturer and Fellow, University of Oxford; IALS Visiting Fellow) The new UN Convention on transparency for investor-state dispute settlement makes it easier to apply the UN's transparency rules to investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) carried out under existing investment treaties. Transparency and openness is key to ensure both...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies The Impact of Parallel Legal Systems on Fundamental Liberties in Multi-Religious Societies: An Inquiry Into Jurisdictional Conflict in Malaysia and Other Jurisdictions Justice Azahar Mohamed (Federal Court, Malaysia; Inns of Court Fellow) This seminar will involve a discussion on the parallel systems of law in Malaysia and its impact on fundamental liberties, in particular the right to freedom of religion. Malaysia is a multi-ethnic and...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Universities and Counter-terrorism: PREVENT in Practice Keynote Address Rt. Hon. Sir Vince Cable Chair: Dr Judith Townend (Director, Information Law and Policy Centre, School of Advanced Study) The Counter-Terrorism and Security Act received Royal Assent in February 2015. The legislation, which aims to combat the underlying ideologies which support and sanction terrorism, has placed new statutory obligations on a range of authorities and institutions –...

Telling stories about law and development 26 -10-17 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies https://www.sas.ac.uk/institutes/inst... Chair: Professor Rick Rylance, Dean, School of Advanced Study, University of London Speaker: Professor Diamond Ashiagbor Diamond Ashiagbor is Professor of Law and Director of Research at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study. She was previously Professor of Labour Law at SOAS University of London, and Reader in Law at University...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies EU Capital Markets Union: Contents and Discontents Reservations: 2. Can CMU deliver? Tensions, conflicts, flaws Dr Dieter Pesendorfer (Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Queens University Belfast) Conference - Highlights - Expert legal, regulatory and political analyses of the European Union's plans for Capital Market Union - Overview of views expressed to European Commission's recent public consultation. Prioritisation of proposals. What next. -...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies EU Capital Markets Union: Contents and Discontents Reservations: 3. What about the banks? CMU and global banks Dr Daniela Gabor (Associate Professor, Bristol Business School, University of the West of England) Conference - Highlights - Expert legal, regulatory and political analyses of the European Union's plans for Capital Market Union - Overview of views expressed to European Commission's recent public consultation. Prioritisation of proposals. What...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies EU Capital Markets Union: Contents and Discontents Policy priorities Policy prioritisation criteria? Nicholas Dorn (IALS) Main takeaways from the public consultation on CMU Gundars Ostroviskis (DG-FISMA, European Commission) Prioritisation arguments Panel to include Ismail Ertürk (Senior Lecturer, Manchester Business School) Conference - Highlights - Expert legal, regulatory and political analyses of the European Union's plans for Capital Market...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies EU Capital Markets Union: Contents and Discontents The policy and legal contexts of CMU Importance of the CMU for the UK George Ringe (Professor of International Commercial Law, Department of Law, Copenhagen Business School) Conference - Highlights - Expert legal, regulatory and political analyses of the European Union's plans for Capital Market Union - Overview of views expressed to European Commission's recent public consultation. Prioritisation of...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies EU Capital Markets Union: Contents and Discontents The policy and legal contexts of CMU CMU: where it comes from, what it is, relationship to the crisis-era reforms Niamh Moloney (Professor of Law, School of Law, London School of Economics) Conference - Highlights - Expert legal, regulatory and political analyses of the European Union's plans for Capital Market Union - Overview of views expressed to European Commission's recent public consultation....

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies EU Capital Markets Union: Contents and Discontents Reservations: 2. Can CMU deliver? Focus on secularisation Dr Vincenzo Bavoso (Lecturer in Commercial Law, University of Manchester and Research Associate, Institute of Hazard Risk & Resilience, Durham University) Conference - Highlights - Expert legal, regulatory and political analyses of the European Union's plans for Capital Market Union - Overview of views expressed to European Commission's...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies EU Capital Markets Union: Contents and Discontents Reservations: 3. What about the banks? CMU and Banking Union Kern Alexander (Professor of Law & Finance, Faculty of Law, Zurich University) Conference - Highlights - Expert legal, regulatory and political analyses of the European Union's plans for Capital Market Union - Overview of views expressed to European Commission's recent public consultation. Prioritisation of proposals. What next. -...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Data of our lives: Global Privacy, Reputation and Freedom of Expression A global perspective on privacy, reputation and the right to be forgotten Frank LaRue (former UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression) It is just over one year since “the right to be forgotten” became firmly established in media discourse, following the European Court of Justice’s decision in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González and its ruling that the company, and...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Data of our lives: Global Privacy, Reputation and Freedom of Expression European legal framework for data privacy/social and cultural impact David Banisar (Senior Legal Counsel, Article 19) It is just over one year since “the right to be forgotten” became firmly established in media discourse, following the European Court of Justice’s decision in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González and its ruling that the company, and other search engines,...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Women's Legal Landmarks Archival Training Day Workshop 3: The British Library Jonathan Sims (Content specialist, Law and Socio-Legal Studies) This workshop has been designed to complement the Women's Legal Landmarks project commemorating the centenary of women's admission into law in the UK and Ireland in 1919. All interested researchers are welcome to attend. The Women's Legal Landmarks project involves about 100 scholars identifying, researching and...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Data of our lives: Global Privacy, Reputation and Freedom of Expression European legal framework for data privacy/social and cultural impact Anya Proops (Barrister) It is just over one year since “the right to be forgotten” became firmly established in media discourse, following the European Court of Justice’s decision in Google Spain v AEPD and Mario Costeja González and its ruling that the company, and other search engines, must respond to users’...

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Women's Legal Landmarks Archival Training Workshop Workshop 1: National Archives David Foster (The National Archives, Kew) Alison Lindsay (National Records of Scotland) This workshop has been designed to complement the Women's Legal Landsmarks project commemorating the centenary of women's admission into law in the UK and Ireland in 1919. All interested researchers are welcome to attend. The Women's Legal Landmarks project involves about 100 scholars...