ELSA London

The Middle Temple is organising an Open Day on Saturday 26 March 2011, aimed at students with an interest in a career at the Bar. Experienced practitioners as well as students will be on hand to provide information on all aspects of training for and a career at the Bar. REGISTRATION REQUIRED e.chapman@middletemple.org.uk

The ELSA Human Rights Project is organising a fundraiser on Thursday 24th March 2011. The event is to raise money for BID. Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) is an independent charity which was set up in 1998 in order to challenge immigration detention in the UK.

The ELSA Human Rights Project (HRP) is pleased to announce an academic event on Thursday 10th March, which will be held at City University. Speaker: Dr Carmen Draghici
This will be a talk followed by a student panel discussion. The students will talk about Children’s rights as obtains in Canada, Afghanistan and S.E Asia. ALL are very welcome to attend!

Professor Heng Wang, Southwestern University of Political Science and Law, China is giving a talk on service schedule interpretation and how it may be approached. Presented with the WTO Scholars’ Forum.

UCL’s Centre for Law and Governance in Europe and the Institute of Global Law present a lecture discusssing issues about the difficulty of protecting TV show formats with IP laws and possible routes which can be taken. Presented by Professor Stefan Bechtold, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

One of the theoretical challenges for international criminal law is how to account for and adequately label the responsibility of highest-ranking leaders, often far removed from the actual physical commission of crimes. This can be called a problem of collective responsibility, because normally the responsibility is seen as shared among those in a position of military and political control within an armed movement, a regional government or a State. There is now an open dispute between the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the theorisation of commission in collective responsibility cases. This lecture will consider the origins, claims and limitations of each approach. Presented by Dr Douglas Guilfoyle, UCL.

As part of the UCL Colloquium in Legal & Social Philosophy 2011 Samuel Freeman will be holding a seminar discussion discussing his paper on the issues facing attempts to justify rights in democracies using a consequentialist framework.