Year: 2017

‘Daniel Monk has researched and published on a wide range of issues in the field of child and family law: from school exclusions and home education to Marriage and Civil Partnership disputes. His recent work explores inheritance conflicts and questions the extent to which people should be free to do what they want with their estates after they die.’

Date: 8th February 2017, 6.00-8.00pm

Location: 639 Enterprise Centre, 639 High Rd, London N17 8AA

Charge: Free, registration required

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‘Professor Kate Bowers will discuss how crime rates have dropped over the past few decades, and what we need to do to keep them down. Some research on crime control challenges our assumptions about blame and responsibility, the role of the police, and our own impact.’

Date: 7th February 2017, 1.15-1.55pm

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

Charge: Free

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‘Cyberspace must not be an unpoliced area of society – it is much too important for that. But the courts have ruled that mass surveillance of citizens by their Government is disproportionate and unacceptable in a democracy. After Edward Snowden revealed the existing extent of surveillance, Internet experts have strengthened encryption and the security services say that their ability to disrupt criminals have been weakened.’

Date: 7th February 2017, 6.00pm

Location: Museum of London

Charge: Free

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‘In bilingual countries like Canada, translators must be sensitive to the structural and cultural differences between legal systems and languages. How does one translate common-law concepts into French when they have evolved over the centuries in English? Must the common law be expressed only in English and the civil law only in French?’

Date: 6th February 2017, 12.30am-2.30pm

Location: Quebec House, Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JH

Charge: Free, registration required

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‘Although civil law claims are subject to some temporal constraints, when it comes to criminal offences there is generally no limitation to prosecution and trial. The question of whether such time limitations should be available in the criminal law has become particularly topical in light of the large number of crimes, mainly historic sexual offences and particularly against children, alleged, and in some cases proven in court. Are there good reasons to still prosecute in such circumstances or do crimes ever go too stale? Should they be dealt with in alternative truth-finding procedures such as the, so far ill-fated, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse?’

Date: 6th February 2017, 6.30pm

Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

Charge: Free

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‘Attendees will gain insights into how electronic corpora can be used to study the language used in legal texts of all kinds.

This workshop will be of interest not only to legal translators, but also to those analysing legal language for other purposes.’

Date: 3rd February 2017, 3.30-5.30pm

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

Charge: Free, registration required

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‘This talk will be a practically oriented overview of major challenges and quality parameters in institutional legal translation in the European Union institutions.’

Date: 3rd February 2017, 5.30pm

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

Charge: Free, registration required

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‘Systems of contract law can be analysed in terms of various benchmarks. First, whether the system prefers a more textual approach to contractual undertakings – concentrating on the actual language of the parties’ documents – or inclines towards a more contextual approach, interpreting the deal in the light of the surrounding circumstances and business common sense.’

Date: 2nd February 2017, 6.00pm

Location: UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Charge: Free, registration required

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‘The study of ‘policy transfer’ has recently been subject to sustained criticism, not least by by human geographers and ‘critical policy studies’ scholars. This might reasonably lead some criminologists to question the continued utility of such work in scholarly discussions of crime control and penal policy-making. I will argue that a concern with what traditionally has been called ‘policy transfer’ is potentially more important than ever, though there may be some need to reconsider the terminology used. Building on recent critiques, the paper argues that a growing recognition of the importance of the ‘proximate causes’ of penal change offers potentially fertile ground for work that focuses on the mobility of policy.’

Date: 2nd February 2017, 6.30pm

Location: LGO4, Bedford Way, UCL

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.