ELSA London

A Junior Chamber International (Osaka branch) event What have Al Gore, Bill Clinton, John F Kennedy, Kofi Annan and half of the Japanese parliament got in common? They were all members of JCI – the Junior Chamber International. In the UK the JCI is also known as  the Junior Chamber of Commerce or the British [...]

Between 8 – 12 June 2013, the ASHA Centre (an international NGO based in Gloucestershire) will host a seminar on Education for Sustainable Development, funded by the European Union’s Youth in Action Training and Co-operation Plan (TCP). Selected participants will have the opportunity to take part in field trips across the Forest of Dean and to engage [...]

A Transatlantic Dialogue of Journalism and Law Is the proposed Royal Charter on Self-Regulation of the Press necessary to protect privacy and journalistic integrity?  Does it threaten freedom of the press?  The University of Notre Dame and the Human Rights Lawyers Association are delighted to present an exchange of views from prominent journalists and lawyers [...]

May 2013 marks five years since seven former leaders of the Bahá’í community in Iran were tried and sentenced to 20 years in prison for their religious beliefs. Their trial and sentencing is a concerning case of religious persecution, and is emblematic of wide scale abuses of due process in the Iranian justice system that [...]

A Law Society Event The Prize Giving event of the 2013 Graham Turnbull essay competition will be on the evening of Wednesday 8 May 2013 at the Law Society. To register attendance please click here. There will be presentations from Dr Hywel Francis MP and Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights and Roger Smith [...]

This is a free event organised by the Houses of Parliament Outreach Service Parliament formally opens for its 2013-2014 session with the Queen’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament on 8 May. The speech will set out the Government’s proposals for new laws to be examined by Parliament in the new session. Come to a [...]

The National Union of Students (NUS) has been awarded £5 million from HEFCE (The Higher Education Funding Council for England) to run a Students’ Green Fund. This will fund local collaborative sustainability initiatives through students’ unions, and is designed to ensure that sustainability remains a priority with higher education institutions. Applications open in summer 2013 The NUS will run [...]

Clifford Chance invites you to a private screening of the award-winning film Call Me Kuchu proudly hosted in association with the Human Dignity Trust. The film explores the consequences of the criminalisation of homosexuality as it follows the human rights activist David Kato’s attempts to prevent the infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda becoming law.  David [...]

The Conversation with Diplomacy project, headed by Professor Michael Kerr, is part of King’s College’s Centre for the Study of Divided Societies (CSDS), supported by the Middle East and Mediterranean Studies (MEMS) programme. Conversation with Diplomacy focuses on key areas of international concern through an extended series of engagements with the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and foreign diplomats. The project aims to bring [...]

LSEE-Research on South East Europe research seminar The LSEE Visiting Speaker Programme is a regular series of research seminars aimed at bringing research and scholarship by academics, policy professionals and other South Eastern Europe experts to a wider audience. Jasna Dragovic-Soso is a senior lecturer in International Relations at Goldsmiths University. James Ker-Lindsay is a [...]