Year: 2017

‘Landscape is not just physical, but also filled with symbolic, social and cultural attachments. The impacts of large wind energy projects on landscapes can be enormously contentious to the communities asked to host them. This lecture will examine how the legal process for consenting ‘nationally significant’ wind farms shapes our knowledge of landscape.’

Date: 28th February 2017, 1.15-1.55pm

Location: Darwin Lecture Theatre, Darwin Building, London WC1E 6BT

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

‘Sarah Nason, Bangor University Law School

With guest speakers:
Mr Justice Lewis, Administrative Court
Professor Rick Rawlings, University College London
Paul Bowen QC, Brick Court Chambers
Dr Dimitrios Kyritsis, University of Reading’

Date: 20th February 2017, 5.30-8.00pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Amicus runs a comprehensive bi-annual training programme in US capital defence law and procedure, legal research, evidence and professional conduct. It is attended by approximately 400 participants each year and held in London.’

Date: 10th-12th February and 4th-5th March

Location: Baker & McKenzie (100 New Bridge St, London EC4V 6JA)

Charge: See website for details

More information can be found here.

‘Speaker: Dr. Gwen Jordan is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Legal Studies Department at the University of Illinois Springfield and is currently a fellow at the IALS. She is also a part-time staff attorney for the Illinois Innocence Project where she represents individuals who were wrongfully convicted and is spearheading a policy reform initiative. Jordan’s scholarship focuses on the history of women lawyers’ local, national and international social justice activism. She is currently analyzing issues of race identity and strategies women lawyers of colour developed throughout the twentieth century to overcome legal and political discrimination at the intersection of race and gender.’

Date: 2nd February 2017, 12.30am-1.30pm

Location: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘As countries examine new ways of managing drug issues beyond the problematic and simplistic model of the ‘war on drugs’, this lecture will examine how LSE research, among others, can help impact and drive government policies. Drawing on a number of LSE IDEAS reports, including the Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy, a decision science based approach to ranking drug harms, the outcomes of the Lancet Commission on Drug Policy, and an examination of cannabis reclassification in the UK we will examine new methods for evaluating and managing global drug issues.’

Date: 15th February 2017, 6.30-8.00pm

Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

‘What is punishment? Why do we punish? Who gets punished? Based on a series of ethnographies conducted on policing, the justice system and the prison institution, this lecture will critically revisit theoretical discussions related to the definition, justification and distribution of punishment.’

Date: 16th February 2017, 6.30-8.00pm

Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

‘Antisemitism has figured in British political debates in the last year as never before. In this lecture, David Feldman examines the changing meanings of ‘antisemitism’ since the term was first coined. He reveals a new history of the Jews’ struggle for equality from the late-nineteenth century and explains why the politics of antisemitism today generate so much controversy.’

Date: 13th February 2017, 6.30-8.00pm

Location: Room B34, Birkbeck, University of London Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.