Announcements

The con­ven­tional wis­dom is that cor­por­a­tions should aim to max­im­ise share­holder value. Fol­low­ing the fin­an­cial crisis, has this idea failed? Do we need to gen­er­ate new ways of think­ing about the ulti­mate pur­pose of the corporation? Speaker(s) Mod­er­ator: Joris Luy­endijk, the Guardian’s Bank­ing blogger Pro­fessor Igor Filo­tochev, Asso­ci­ate Dean, Cass Busi­ness School Pro­fessor Paddy Ire­land, Kent Law School Pro­fessor Colin Mayer, Past Dean of the Said Busi­ness School at Oxford University Dr Arad Reis­berg, Dir­ector of the Com­mer­cial Law Centre at UCL Dr Andre Spicer, Pro­fessor of Organ­isa­tional Beha­viour, Cass Busi­ness School Dr Daniel Sum­mer­field, Head of Respons­ible Invest­ments at USS Descrip­tion The idea that cor­por­a­tions should aim to max­im­ise share­holder value seems to be under attack from many corners. Com­ment­at­ors ...
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What is Law’s rela­tion­ship to senses? In a sense, Law, the anaes­thetic par excel­lence, is con­stantly engaged in numb­ing the senses into com­mon­sense; manip­u­lat­ing, chan­nel­ling and con­trolling the sens­ible; insert­ing prop­er­ties and for­bid­ding con­tacts; dis­sim­u­lat­ing viol­ence, reg­u­lat­ing sounds and defin­ing taste. How­ever, senses are not static. Rather, they are shift­ing and elu­sive qual­it­ies, con­stantly reshuffled by socio-​cultural and tech­no­lo­gical changes, always dis­lo­cat­ing Law’s norm­ativ­ity towards new poten­ti­al­it­ies. In this other sense, Law emerges from the senses, and whereas senses are a con­stant arena of legal machinations, they are also Law’s con­stant blind spot and ines­cap­able excess. Is there then a legal sens­ing, an illegal sens­ing, or even per­haps a sens­ing bey­ond the Law? How does Law sense? Can Law hear, taste, smell, touch, see? Can Law ...
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Gilad explores his first encounter with Jazz music and its impact on his eth­ical and philo­soph­ical stand. The talk will explore the medium in which aes­thet­ics is trans­formed into mor­al­ity in par­tic­u­lar as instan­ti­ated in new per­spect­ives on the rela­tions between the Jew­ish and Zion­ist questions. I real­ized that I have given up on the primacy of the eye and rever­ted to the primacy of the ear. I didn’t look for an inspir­a­tion in the manu­script, in the music notes or the chord sym­bol. Instead, I was listen­ing to my internal voice. Strug­gling with Arabic music reminded me why I did start to play music in the first place. At the end of the day, I heard Charlie Bird Parker in the radio rather ...
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The Aus­tralian Fem­in­ist Law Journal is seek­ing art­icles for pub­lic­a­tion for a Spe­cial Issue of the Journal, ‘Gar­dens of Justice’, namely Volume 39, Decem­ber 2013. The theme ‘Gar­dens of Justice’ sug­gests a plur­al­ity of justice gar­dens that may func­tion together but at times also may be at odds with each other. We invite you to think freely and crit­ic­ally about the con­crete and meta­phor­ical garden. We invite art­icles that address ques­tions of law and justice as spa­tial and spa­tial­iz­ing struc­tures, as social topo­graphy and geo­graphy, as polit­ical car­to­graphy on a global scale, as places where sym­bolic orders and dis­orders become vis­ible and may be acted out, as mech­an­isms of inclu­sion and exclu­sion, as mas­cu­line and fem­in­ine and as social uto­pia. This spe­cial ...
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When: Wed­nes­day, March 20th, 2013 Where: Queen Mary Charter­house Cam­pus, Sir Anthony Dawson Room, ground floor, Dawson Hall. Time: 10am – 5pm Sponsored by: Legal The­ory and Legal His­tory Research Group, Queen Mary School of Law, and the Centre for Eth­ics and Polit­ics, Queen Mary, Uni­ver­sity of London The work­shop is free but regis­tra­tion essen­tial. Please rsvp to: postcoloniallegal@​gmail.​com  The Work­shop: Over the past twenty-​years a field of crit­ic­ally engaged legal schol­ar­ship that places the colo­nial at the fore­front of its ana­lysis of mod­ern law has emerged. Lead­ing schol­ars in the field will address themes of decol­on­iz­ing legal know­ledge, tem­por­al­it­ies of law in the set­tler colony, and regimes of colo­nial governance. Pro­gram details: 10am – 10:15am: Open­ing Remarks and Welcome Brenna Bhandar (QM Law) 10:15am – 12:15pm: Colo­nial ...
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Legal schol­ar­ship on the rela­tion­ship between private law and human rights is dom­in­ated by (i) ‘con­sti­tu­tion­al­isa­tion’; the idea that private law will absorb human rights norms over time (ii) the instru­mental use of private law to enforce com­pli­ance with human rights norms. But in many respects private oblig­a­tion stands apart from human rights law, and as an altern­at­ive to it, because it encom­passes notions of inter­per­sonal care, reli­ance and respons­ib­il­ity over time (and indeed, of blunt eco­nomic effi­ciency) which may sit uneas­ily with tra­di­tional lib­eral con­cep­tions of human rights. How should we con­ceive of the rela­tion­ship between private law and human rights? In think­ing through these prob­lems, our focus will be on the use of private law to seek repar­a­tions for human rights abuse. Speak­ers include: Daniel Leader (Bar­ris­ter, ...
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A Mas­ters Stu­dent Symposium  Organ­ised by the Stu­dent Salon of the Centre for the study of Colo­ni­al­ism, Empire and Inter­na­tional Law (CCEIL) at SOAS, Uni­ver­sity of Lon­don, 16 March 2013  The pur­pose of this sym­posium is to assess crit­ic­ally the role of law as a tech­no­logy in imper­i­al­ist pro­jects and in shap­ing world inequal­it­ies. While our use of the term ‘tech­no­logy’ is informed by Fou­caul­dian ideas of power struc­tures it also sig­ni­fies the tan­gible tools used to pur­sue imper­i­al­ist endeav­ours. It is within the inter­stices cre­ated by these two defin­i­tions that the sym­posium will approach the notions of tech­no­logy. The event is inten­ded to provide a space for inter­dis­cip­lin­ary dia­logue on the inter­sec­tion of imper­i­al­ism, law, and inequality. This sym­posium is for ...
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What is Law’s rela­tion­ship to senses? In a sense, Law, the anaes­thetic par excel­lence, is con­stantly engaged in numb­ing the senses into common-​sense; manip­u­lat­ing, chan­nel­ling and con­trolling the sens­ible; insert­ing prop­er­ties and for­bid­ding con­tacts; dis­sim­u­lat­ing viol­ence, reg­u­lat­ing sounds and defin­ing taste. How­ever, senses are not static. Rather, they are shift­ing and elu­sive qual­it­ies, con­stantly reshuffled by socio-​cultural and tech­no­lo­gical changes, always dis­lo­cat­ing Law’s norm­ativ­ity towards new poten­ti­al­it­ies. In this other sense, Law emerges from the senses, and whereas senses are a con­stant arena of legal mach­in­a­tions, they are also Law’s con­stant blind spot and ines­cap­able excess. Is there then a legal sens­ing, an illegal sens­ing, or even per­haps a sens­ing bey­ond the Law? How does Law sense? Can Law hear, taste, smell, touch, ...
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Law and Bound­ar­ies is an inter­dis­cip­lin­ary yearly con­fer­ence that aims to dis­cuss and pro­pose new per­spect­ives on the chal­lenges the legal dis­cip­line is facing regard­ing its object, its func­tion, its the­or­et­ical found­a­tions and its prac­tical outcomes. The focus of this year’s con­fer­ence is the idea of “con­flicts” and the ways law and the neigh­bor­ing dis­cip­lines account for the notion and its mani­fest­a­tions, par­tic­u­larly when it comes to con­flicts embed­ded within the glob­al­iz­a­tion processes. We expect young schol­ars from all dis­cip­lines to sub­mit their abstracts (250 – 300 words) before March 15th. Papers (max. 7000 words) will be cir­cu­lated among par­ti­cipants dur­ing the con­fer­ence and should be sent by May 5th. A lim­ited num­ber of papers will be selec­ted for publication. To sub­mit an abstract, click here We ...
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If you see a house, take it and let the law do its damned­est. (Dwor­kin 1988, 13) This sem­inar has been put together at a timely junc­ture to inter­rog­ate the chan­ging land­scapes of prop­erty and law within legis­la­tion, within build­ings, within his­tory, within con­fig­ur­a­tions of space and time, and to high­light the import­ance of ques­tion­ing the shaky scaf­fold­ing of prop­erty rights as a whole. Rela­tions of prop­erty in land struc­ture the way we organ­ise and behave, the way we inter­act, under­stand and com­modify our envir­on­ment and its con­nec­tion with ourselves and our com­munit­ies. Accord­ing to Carl Schmitt in his now highly influ­en­tial ‘Nomos of the Earth’, the earth is the mother of all law, thus “… fences, enclos­ures, bound­ar­ies, walls, houses and other con­structs ...
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Starts: 24 Janu­ary 2013 06:00 PM Fin­ishes: 24 Janu­ary 2013 08:00 PM Venue: The Sweden­borg Hall, 20 – 21 Blooms­bury Way, Lon­don WC1A 2TH Book­ing details: Free entry; regis­tra­tion required: register here On the occa­sion of the 20th anniversary of the Birk­beck Law School, aca­dem­ics who have influ­enced legal schol­ar­ship reflect on the his­tory and pro­spects of crit­ical edu­ca­tion, research and pub­lic engagement. Speak­ers: Cos­tas Douz­i­nas (Birk­beck) David Kennedy (Man­ley O. Hud­son Pro­fessor of Law and Dir­ector of the Insti­tute for Global Law and Policy Har­vard Law School) Nic­ola Lacey (All Souls Col­lege, Oxford) Alan Nor­rie (Pro­fessor of Law, Uni­ver­sity of War­wick) Chair: Patri­cia Tuitt (Birkbeck) Seat­ing is lim­ited (100) so book in advance to ensure a seat. Jointly organ­ised by Birk­beck School of Law and Birk­beck Insti­tute of the Humanities If you have fur­ther ...
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