The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the Society of Advanced Legal Studies are pleased to announce the following programme of events:
Wednesday 5 October 2011, 6pm
Title: Cloud Computing: Identifying and Managing Legal Risks
Speaker: PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER MILLARD, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/9779
(Venue: IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Organised with QMUL Cloud Legal Project)
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Tuesday 18 October 2011, 6pm
Title: Cloud Computing and Law Enforcement Access to Confidential Data
Speaker: PROFESSOR IAN WALDEN, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/9780
(Venue: IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Organised with QMUL Cloud Legal Project)
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Wednesday 19 October 2011, 6pm
Title: Bosnia – an Overview of the Historical and Current Situation
Speaker: ED VULLIAMY, Senior Correspondent, The Observer/The Guardian
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/9832
(Venue. IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk . Arranged with the Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies)
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Friday 21 October 2011, 2pm to 5.45pm
Title: EU Defence Rights
Speakers: DR SIMONE WHITE, OLAF; DR MARIANNE WADE, Birmingham; JODIE BLACKSTOCK, Justice; DANIEL MANSELL, Fair Trials International; PROFESSOR JOHN SPENCER, Cambridge.
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/9920
Venue: IALS. Admission Free – All Welcome. Advance Registration required. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Organised in association with University of Birmingham; European Criminal Law Association (UK); Fair Trails International; Justice)
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Thursday 27 October 2011, 6pm
Title: Islamic Family Law in Legal Practice
Speaker: AINA KHAN, Senior Consultant Solicitor, Family Law Department, Russell Jones & Walker Solicitors, London
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/9854
(Venue: IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk)
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Friday 28 October 2011, 6pm
Title: Overlaps and Undercurrents: Co-ordinating Tortious and Criminal Actions
Speaker: DR MATTHEW DYSON, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/10702
(Venue: IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Organised with the London Legal History Seminar)
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Monday 31 October 2011, 6pm
Sir William Dale Memorial Lecture 2011
Title: Drafting comprehensible legislation in a multi-lingual, multi-legal-system environment: some reflections on the EU drafting process and its consequences
Speaker: ELEANOR SHARPSTON, QC, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union
Chair: THE HON MR JUSTICE SALES
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/9842
(Venue: Chancellor’s Hall, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Admission Free – All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk)
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Tuesday 1 November 2011, 6pm
Title: Data Protection Jurisdiction in Cloud Computing and International Data Transfers
Speaker: DR JULIA HORNLE and KUAN HON, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/9781
(Venue: IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Organised with QMUL Cloud Legal Project)
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Wednesday 2 November 2011, 10am-4.30pm
Title: How to get a PhD in Law: Meeting the challenges of the first year . A National Training Day.
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/10468
(Registration Fee: £30. Programme and booking form available from the website.)
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Friday 4 November 2011, 9.30am-4.30pm
Title: Archives, Records and Repositories for Socio-Legal Research: A National Training Day
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/10455
(Registration Fee: £25. Programme and booking form available from the website)
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Monday 14 November 2011, 6pm
Title: Colombia’s Victims Law – pros, cons implementation, challenges for the future
Speaker: EDWIN RUBIO, President, Asociacion Colombiana de Abogados Defensores ‘Eduardo Umana Mendoza’ ACADEUM
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/10706
(Venue: IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Organised in association with the Colombia Caravana UK Lawyers Group)
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Wednesday 16 November 2011, 6pm
Title: The Situation in Belarus, is there any hope for democracy? The view from two prominent Belarus human rights lawyers
Speakers: HARRY POGINIAJLO, Head of the Legal Committee and Deputy Chairman of the Belarus Helsinki Committee, former Director of the Law Centre of Soviet District, Minsk and former President of the Alliance of Lawyers in Belarus; and ALEH VOLCHEK, Chairman of ‘Legal Assistance to the People’, former Senior Investigator in the Prosecutor’s Office, Frunzensky District, Minsk
NOTE: This lecture is subject to confirmation, please check the website
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/9833
(Venue. IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Arranged with the Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies)
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Thursday 17 November 2011, 5pm to 6.30pm
Title: The European Investigation Order: Progress Update
Speaker: KENNY BOWIE and SARA KHAN, Judicial Co-operation Unit, Home Office
Chair: PROFESSOR JOHN SPENCER, President of European Criminal Law Association
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/9911
(Venue: IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Organised with QMUL Cloud Legal Project)
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Wednesday 23 November 2011, 6pm
Title: The Role of the Banking Regulator in Preventing Financial Crime
Speaker: STEFAN GANNON, General Counsel, Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/10704
(Venue: IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk.)
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Friday 25 November 2011, 6pm
Title: Strange Bedfellows: A Brief History of Copyright in a Political Context
Speaker: BARBARA LAURIAT, School of Law, King’s College London
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/10703
(Venue: IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Organised with the London Legal History Seminar)
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Monday 5 December 2011, 6pm
Title: Russia’s Economy under Putin: Energy superpower or Oil-Dependent Laggard?
Speaker: SIMON PIRANI, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Energy Studies
Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/9855
(Venue: IALS. Admission Free, All Welcome. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Arranged with the Solicitors International Human Rights Group (SIHRG) and the Society for Advanced Legal Studies)
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Unless otherwise specified, lectures and seminars will be held at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR.
Further events are being arranged. Information may be found on our website at: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/list/ials_events.
