ELSA London

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 [...]

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 [...]

International Refugee Law seminar series Human trafficking raises potentially onerous protection obligations for States. Ryszard Piotrowicz explores the relevance of the Refugees Convention to those at risk of being trafficked, and considers possible entitlement to complementary protection. The content of such protection is then considered, in light of the decision in Rantsev v Cyprus and Russia (2010) [...]

Institute of Contemporary British History Seminar (KCL) All are welcome to attend this talk given by Simon James (formerly Cabinet Office) on ‘Implementing Labour’s Constitutional Reforms, 1997-98’ Not sure what the Reforms were? Visit the BBC website for an oversight Also, this historical essay “How effective have constitutional reforms been?“ may be useful preparation Want to keep up [...]

LSE 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. Dr Marko Milanovic is a lecturer in Law at the University of Nottingham. Dr James Ker-Lindsay he [...]

Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States seminar Parliaments have a poor record in the Middle East. However, since 2011 demands for representation in the region have tended to focus on the creation of mass political parties and an effective, and democratic, parliament. Greg Power examines the development of the parliamentary [...]

UCL Colloquium in Legal & Social Philosophy This paper (a) notes the striking congruence between contract as promise – the view defended in C . Fried, Contract as Promise – and the economic analysis of law; (b) seeks to explain that congruence as well as the divergence between the two accounts; and (c) considers the [...]

A UCL Centre for Commercial Law Seminar Some jurisdictions weathered the global financial crisis far better than others. Australia has attracted much attention in view of the fact that its economy performed particularly well during the crisis compared to the United Kingdom and the United States. This seminar explores why Australia fared so well in the [...]

This Seminar will explore the normative evolution and contemporary policy relevance of the Right to Development. In particular, it will examine debates surrounding its construction as a right, and especially the question of its normative and legal relationship to broader notions of international responsibilities to protect and promote human rights in development. Speakers:  Margot Salomon [...]

This seminar will examine the inter-relationship between the common law interpretation of the Refugee Convention 1951 and the case law from the European Courts on Article 3 ECHR and EU Qualification Directive 2004. It will focus on the practical aspects of asylum determination: credibility assessment, information on country of origin, risks from non state actors, [...]