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2012
February 
Tomorrow  School Meetings
Meeting of the Disbursements Committee
194 (b) 09:00 to 10:00
Tomorrow  Europa Institute
'EU External Representation in the field of Shared Competence - Latest Developments'
Rok Zvelc, European Commission, DG Environment
Lorimer Room, Old College 18:00 to 19:00
The discussion will revolve around the document EU Statements in multilateral organisations that has been recently endorsed by the Council. Mr Zvelc will explain the background to and the importance of the document for external representation in the field of shared competence, in particular environmental policy. All Welcome. No booking is necessary
14 Feb 2012  RESEARCH WORKSHOP
Professor Jo Shaw
Neil MacCormick Room, Old College 12:00 to 14:00
15 Feb 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the School Management Group
Neil MacCormick Room 14:00 to 16:00
15 Feb 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
'Sovereignty as a Principle of Constitutionalism'
Nick Barber, Trinity College, Oxford
Lorimer Room, Old College 16:00 to 18:00
15 Feb 2012  Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group
Reading Group Meeting
Ken Mason Suite 16:45 to 18:15
Legal Theory Group
16 Feb 2012  SCRIPT
Protection of Personal Data in the Sector of Police Co-operation: Europol's role in the Fight Against Organised Crime and Terrorism
Daniel Drewer
Lecture Theatre 183, Old College 18:00 to 19:30
All welcome. No booking is necessary.
17 Feb 2012  Staff Seminars
'Collective redress in competition cases in the US and the EU: one question, many solutions?'
Arianna Andreangeli
Ken Mason Suite 13:00 to 14:00
17 Feb 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
The Political Communication of Crime
Gemma Flynn
Moot Court Room, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
17 Feb 2012  Centre for Legal History / Edinburgh Roman Law Group
“The Lex Dei on Male Homosexuality: A Reinterpretation of Leviticus and its Implications”
Professor Timothy Barnes (FBA, FRSC)
Lorimer Room, Old College 17:30 to 19:00
All welcome. It would be of great assistance if you would email Dr. Paul du Plessis or write or telephone to him at the School of Law, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL, U.K. ((0)131 6509701), if you wish to join us afterwards for dinner “aux frais des participants”. Lex Dei is another name for the Collatio legum mosaicarum et romanarum which is the subject of recent book by Robert Frakes:
20 Feb 2012  PGRC Academic Knowledge Exchange event
Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne, Dr Dan Carr, Alison Stirling and Nisha Patel
L05, Old College 16:00 to 18:00
Discussion about post-doctoral opportunities, such as fellowships, research and training posts fellowships. All welcome.
21 Feb 2012  Brodies Lectures in Environmental Law
“Water Law in a Globalised World: the Need for a New Conceptual Framework”
Professor Philippe Cullet (Professor of International and Environmental Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
LT175, Old College 18:00 to 19:00
All welcome.
24 Feb 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
Political rights of European citizens
Anja Lansbergen
Moot Court Room, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
24 Feb 2012  Scottish Centre for International Law
'The Use of International Law in the Scottish courts: past, present and future.'
Lord Bonomy, Michael Fordham QC, Shaheed Fatima and Dr Tzanakopoulos
Playfair Library, Old College 16:00 to 18:30
Chaired by Professor Alan Boyle. This SPLG Winter event will be about the use of international law in cases in the Scottish courts. The event is being held jointly with Edinburgh University Law School. Please email to book your place.
29 Feb 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the Law Library Committee
Lorimer Room 14:00 to 16:00
29 Feb 2012  Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group
Reading Group Meeting
Ken Mason Suite 16:45 to 18:00
Legal Theory Group
March 
1 Mar 2012  The Centre for Law and Society Seminar Series
'Mediating Conflict: a radical departure - or nothing new?'
John Sturrock QC
Moot Court Room, Old College 16:15 to 18:00
2 Mar 2012  Staff Seminars
'On Constitutionalism'
Cormac Mac Amhlaigh
Ken Mason Suite 13:00 to 14:00
2 Mar 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
The Reception of Foreign Laws in Thailand: An Analysis of Breach of Contract Rules
Munin Pongsapan
Moot Court Room, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
3 Mar 2012  Arbitration Event
7 Bristo Square 09:00 to 17:00
DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
4 Mar 2012  Arbitration Event
7 Bristo Square 09:00 to 17:00
DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
5 Mar 2012  Europa Institute
Europa Institute's Mitchell Lecture
Professor Alec Stone Sweet (Yale Law School)
LT175, Old College 18:00 to 19:30
Lecture will be followed by a wine reception.
6 Mar 2012  Brodies Lectures in Environmental Law
'Devolution and the Development of Marine Policy in Scotland'
Linda Rosborough (Acting Director, Marine Scotland)
LT175, Old College 18:00 to 19:00
All welcome
7 Mar 2012  IP Workshop
GENE PATENTS: CURRENT DEBATES & LEGAL STATUS IN THE U.S. AND EUROPE
Prof. Robert Cook-Deegan, Prof. Priscilla Wald
Ken Mason Suite, Basement 10:00 to 17:00
This is a CLOSED/INVITE ONLY event
7 Mar 2012  School of Law Computing Committee
Sir Neil MacCormick Room, Old College 14:00 to 16:00
7 Mar 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the Computing Committee
Lorimer Room 14:00 to 16:00
7 Mar 2012  Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group
Legal Theory Group Paper Presentation Series
Dr Jen Hendry (University of Leeds)
Room 331, Old College 16:00 to 18:00
All welcome
7 Mar 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Private Law
Wilson Memorial Lecture 'On Law Commissioning and Other Things.'
Professor George L Gretton
LT175, Old College 18:00 to 19:00
Lecture will be followed by a wine reception. All welcome.
8 Mar 2012  The Centre for Law and Society Seminar Series
“Forces for Good? British Military Masculinities in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Dr Claire Duncanson
Moot Court Room, Old College 16:15 to 18:00
9 Mar 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
Understanding the relationship between masculinity and major mental illness in the context of violent offending behaviour
Christine Haddow
Moot Court Room, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
9 Mar 2012  Staff Seminars
'Litigating Constituent Power'
Christine Bell
Ken Mason Suite 13:00 to 14:00
9 Mar 2012  SCRIPT
Is there a Future for Absolute Product Patent Protection?
Dr Sven Bostyn (Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University of Liverpool)
Lecture Theatre 183, Old College 18:00 to 19:30
All Welcome! No booking is necessary.
12 Mar 2012  Bioscience Ethics Meeting
Neil MacCormick Room, Old College 14:00 to 16:30
13 Mar 2012  RESEARCH WORKSHOP
Sheila Thompson and Amy Cartwright
Raeburn Room, Old College 12:00 to 14:00
13 Mar 2012  SCRIPT
The Doha Declaration +10: Reflections on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health from a Human rights Perspective
Prof Duncan Matthews (Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary, University of London)
Lecture Theatre 183, Old College 18:00 to 19:30
All Welcome. No booking is necessary.
14 Mar 2012  Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group
Reading Group Meeting
Ken Mason Suite 16:45 to 18:00
Legal Theory Group
15 Mar 2012  The Centre for Law and Society Seminar Series
“Architects of Justice: The relationship between design, degradation and due process.”
Professor Linda Mulcahy
Moot Court Room, Old College 16:15 to 18:00
16 Mar 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
Workshop 2 - Scotland’s Constitutional Future
Playfair Library, Old College 09:45 to 17:00
Inter-Governmental Relations and External Affairs
16 Mar 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
Weblog (Blog) and Freedom of Expression: A Case Study in Malaysia
Nazli Ismail Nawang
Moot Court Room, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
20 Mar 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Private Law
'The continental drug? Abuse of rights in France and Germany'
Philipp Eichenhofer (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg)
Neil MacCormick Room, Old College 17:15 to 18:30
21 Mar 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the School Management Group
Neil MacCormick Room 14:00 to 16:00
22 Mar 2012  The Centre for Law and Society Seminar Series
“The struggle for ownership of justice: Legal pluralism, legitimacy and asymmetries of power in a Karen refugee community.”
Dr Kirsten McConnachie
Moot Court Room, Old College 16:15 to 18:00
23 Mar 2012  Staff Seminars
'Equitable influences in unjustified enrichment: the taxonomy of fairness?'
Dan Carr
Ken Mason Suite 13:00 to 14:00
23 Mar 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
China and the International Criminal Court
Dan Zhu
Moot Court Room, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
27 Mar 2012  SCRIPT
Cloud Computing: Risks, Rewards and Regulation
Prof Christopher Millard (Professor of Privacy and Information Law, Queen Mary, University of London)
Lecture Theatre 183, Old College 18:00 to 19:30
All Welcome. No booking is necessary.
28 Mar 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the Board of Studies
Lorimer Room 15:00 to 16:00
29 Mar 2012  The Centre for Law and Society Seminar Series
“The Institution of Criminal Law”
Prof Lindsay Farmer
Moot Court Room, Old College 16:15 to 18:00
30 Mar 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
Beyond the Liberal Paradigm: The Prospects for the Plurinational State in Conflict-Affected, Post-Colonial Democracies in Asia and Africa
Asanga Welikala
Moot Court Room, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
April 
4 Apr 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the School of Law
LT 270 Old College 14:00 to 16:00
5 Apr 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
Administrative moment’ and judicial review: outline of an analytical framework
Paolo Sandro
Moot Court Room, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
12 Apr 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
The moral wrong in exploitation and legal restrictions of exploitative transactions
Wendy van der Neut
Moot Court Room, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
13 Apr 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
'Have Human Rights Been Devolved Seriously? Bills of Rights, Devolution and the Supreme Court Debate in Scotland'
Lorimer Room, Old College 09:00 to 18:00
This workshop aims to bring together academics, practitioners, policy makers and human rights experts in order to discuss these issues and reflect on the best way of improving human rights protection in Scotland, while respecting the devolved settlement and the separate legal system.
19 Apr 2012  Europa Postgraduate Research Reading Group
Where Now for the Social Dialogue?
Dr Ruth Dukes
Neil MacCormick room, Old College 01:00 to 02:00
Dr Ruth Dukes is is a Senior Lecturer in Employment Law at Glasgow University. Ruth Dukes’ research interests lie in the field of labour law, particularly collective labour law, and theories and systems of worker representation. She has published work on trade union law, employee information and consultation, and British and German industrial relations history.
19 Apr 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
Cities of Light: civil law and civic life in Edinburgh and Leipzig 1707-1806
Michael Fry
Moot Court Room, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
20 Apr 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
Seminar on Deliberative Democracy, Constitutional Referendums and E-Democracy
Ron Levy, Griffith University, Australia
Raeburn Room, Old College 13:00 to 17:00
(co-organised with Elections, Public Opinion and Parties research group in SSPS)
25 Apr 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the Postgraduate Taught Committee
Lorimer Room 14:00 to 16:00
26 Apr 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law
Plenary speakers: Gerard McMeel (Bristol) and Eric Clive (Edinburgh)
Raeburn Room, Old College 14:00 to 17:30
Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law. Common Core of European Private Law. Meeting on Interpretation of Contract.
27 Apr 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law
Raeburn Room, Old College 09:00 to 18:00
This is a closed/invite only event. Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law. Common Core of European Private Law. Meeting on Interpretation of Contract. Discussion of Questionnaire with National Reporters.
27 Apr 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
Deconstructing Patents at the Edge of Reason
Maureen O’Sullivan
Moot Court Room, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
27 Apr 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the Undergraduate Studies Committee
TBC 14:00 to 16:00
May 
2 May 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the Research Committee
Lorimer Room 14:00 to 16:00
4 May 2012  Third year PhD Presentation Series
The Effect of the Interplay of EU law and International Law on consistency of EU Foreign Policy
Young Lo Ko
Room 331, Old College 13:00 to 14:00
9 May 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the School Management Group
Neil MacCormick Room 14:00 to 16:00
29 May 2012  Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group
Legal Theory Spring Workshops
Raeburn Room, Old College 10:00 to 18:00
30 May 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the Disbursements Committee
194 (b) 09:00 to 09:45
30 May 2012  Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group
Legal Theory Spring Workshops
Raeburn Room, Old College 10:00 to 18:00
31 May 2012  Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group
Legal Theory Spring Workshops
Raeburn Room, Old College 10:00 to 18:00
June 
4 Jun 2012  African Studies Event
Lorimer Room, Old College 09:00 to 18:00
DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
6 Jun 2012  SCRIPT
Making Connections 2012: Conceptual transformations in biobank governance
McEwan Hall Reception Room 09:00 to 18:00
DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
7 Jun 2012  Gerald Gordon Seminar
Raeburn Room, Old College 11:00 to 17:30
8 Jun 2012  Scots Law Research Conference
Keynote Speaker: Professor Kenneth Norrie, University of Strathclyde
Raeburn Room, University of Edinburgh 09:00 to 19:00
Following previous conferences in 2008 and 2010, the 2012 Scots Law Research Conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh on Friday 8th June. The conference will be a day-long event, with presentations invited on any topic related to Scots law. Lunch will be provided and a wine reception will follow at the end of the conference. The purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for academic discussion and debate, and to facilitate greater co-operation between those working within the Scottish legal community. It is aimed at all those who have an interest in the development of Scottish legal scholarship.
13 Jun 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the School of Law
LT270 Old College 14:00 to 16:00
September 
6 Sep 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
Nationalism and Globalisation
Raeburn Room, Old College 09:00 to 17:00
2 day event. DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
7 Sep 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
Nationalism and Globalisation
Raeburn Room, Old College 09:00 to 17:00
2 day event. DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
13 Sep 2012  CLASF Workshop
Lorimer Room, Old College 09:00 to 18:00
Details to be confirmed.
18 Sep 2012  Inaugural Lecture
Professor Kenneth Reid
LT270, Old College 17:15 to 18:15
October 
12 Oct 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Private Law
'The Consequences of Possession'
Raeburn Room, Old College 09:00 to 19:00
DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
13 Oct 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Private Law
'The Consequences of Possession'
Raeburn Room, Old College 09:00 to 19:00
DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
December 
8 Dec 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
150th Anniversary Lorimer event
Raeburn and Lorimer room TBC 09:00 to 18:00
DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED
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