ELSA London

The 2013 Quain Lectures (UCL) The Quain Lectures were founded as an annual event in 2012, with Professor Phillip Pettit of Princeton University being the inaugural speaker. This years lecturer, Joseph Raz, is one of the most important and influential figures in contemporary legal and political philosophy. He will deliver three one hour lectures on [...]

Regulatory Scientific Institutions and the Dilemmas of Hybrid Authority The main objective of this talk is to develop a better understanding of the structure of transnational regulatory scientific institutions (RSIs). We argue that the hybrid political-legal-epistemic nature of RSIs creates a continual tension between their hierarchical and policy-driven structure and the paradigms of objectivity, parallelism [...]

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 [...]

About the Speaker Eduardo Pérez Motta, International Competition Network Chair, President, Federal Competition Commission, Mexico. Eduardo Pérez Motta was appointed Chair of the ICN last year. In 2004 he became President Mexico’s Federal Commission on Competition (CFC). Before that, Pérez Motta was Mexico’s Ambassador to the World Trade Organization, in charge of preparing the Doha Ministerial Conference [...]

In December of 2012, the Commission on a UK Bill of Rights presented their findings in a paper marked by a deep lack of consensus. On the surface, this division was attributed to the polarized political standpoints within the Commission. For the minority, Philippe Sands QC, a Liberal Democrat adviser, opposed the introduction of a [...]

This lecture provides a special opportunity to hear from Judge Sir Kenneth Keith, a member of the International Court of Justice. There will also be time for questions at the end of the lecture. Judge Keith was elected to the ICJ, the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, in 2006 after a distinguished career [...]

Middle East Research Group seminar (KCL) Dr Alan Craig is the Pears Lecturer in Israel and Middle East Studies at the University of Leeds. His research focuses on the dynamic relationship between Israel’s construction of international humanitarian law (IHL), the conduct of its military operations and Israel’s state legitimacy. Case studies include targeted assassinations, the Second Lebanon [...]

Public Interest Environmental Law (PIEL) UK Conference The conference, currently in its 7th year, is aimed at students, academics, professionals, activists and members of the public. ‘Land grabbing’ is the large scale (and often transnational) acquisition of land for agriculture, mining and other development. Land grabbing raises a range of environmental, legal, social, economic and [...]

  Law Society Public Debate Series  It is well known that lawyers play a crucial role in upholding the rule of law, but just how far does that role go? Should lawyers be leading through best practice in the field of internal human rights policies? On 16 June 2011 the United Nations Human Rights Council [...]

- from the employee’s freedom to blow the whistle to the lawyer’s duty to report suspicions about clients in secret ‘Whistle-blowing’ has become a part of the language of England since it was imported from the US in the 1970s (when someone on a Sunday paper asked if it meant ‘folk music in America?’). It [...]