‘Prof. Hugh Hansen is a Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he teaches courses in IP Law, Copyright Law, Trademark Law and EU and International Intellectual Property Law. He also taught U.S. Constitutional Law for over 25 years. He is the founder and director of both the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute and the Fordham Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law and Policy, now in its 22nd year. Managing Intellectual Property magazine named him in 2010 and again in 2013 as one of the 50 most influential people in IP in the world. In doing so it characterized him as an “IP provocateur” and “the ringmaster who pulls together one of the IP world’s must-attend events.” In 2007, Chief Judge Paul Michel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit presented Prof. Hansen with an award for “his contribution to the legal community’s understanding of international intellectual property law.” ‘

Date: 25th June 2014, 6.00-7.15pm

Location: UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre, UCL Main Campus, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘The Chorley Lecture is an annual lecture inaugurated in 1972 and named in honour of Lord Chorley of Kendal, the founding editor of The Modern Law Review. The Lecture, which is normally delivered in late May or early June at the London School of Economics & Political Science, is the most important occasion in the calendar of The Modern Law Review. A version of the lecture is subsequently published as the lead article in the January issue of the following year’s Review.’

Date: 17th June 2014, 6.00-7.00pm

Location: Shaw Library, Od Building, London School of Economics

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

‘Organised with the London Legal History Seminar.’

Date: 23rd May 2014, 6.00-7.30pm

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

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘Keynote Speaker: Professor Malcolm Dando, Professor of International Security, University of Bradford, on “Threats of dual use biomedical research – when national security and public health collide”.

NATIONAL SECURITY PANEL

Chair: Dr Peter Lee
Dr Dina Hadad: “States of Exception and National Security: Exceptional Threat vs. Exceptional Rights”
Dr Myriam Feinberg: “Conflicts of Sovereignty in International Counterterrorism: the Kadi Case”
Solon Solomon: “National Security Debates in the Framework of Israeli Constitutionalism”
Dimitrios Kagiaros: “The Assessment of Damage to National Security in Disclosures from Whistleblowers in the Security and Intelligence Community in the UK”
Professor Jonathan Hafetz: “Targeted Drones Strikes and the Future of International Human Rights”

PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL

Chair: Dr John Coggon
Dr Brigit Toebes: “The Right to Health, National Security and Public Health: An Uneasy Relationship”
Dr Laura Niada: “Individual v public health in the human right to medicines: the problematic identification of ‘essential medicines’”
Dr Simisola Akintola: “Public Health versus Human Rights: An examination of the tensions between Individual Rights and Public Health in Biobanking Research”
Dr Dobrochna Bach-Golecka: “Public Health and Private Health: The Impact of EU Law on Healthcare in the Member States”
Professor Joachim Sanden and Dr Sacha-Dominik Bachmann: “The Right to Liberty and Security, Public Health and Disease Control”
Dr Andraz Zidar: “WHO International Health Regulations, the Rule of Law and the Protection of International Human Rights”

Conference Convenors: Dr Myriam Feinberg and Dr Laura Niada.’

Date: 29th May 2014, 11.00am-6.00pm

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

Charge: Full Rate: £75.00, Students: £40.00.

More information can be found here.