‘Hart Publishing is very pleased to announce that Professor Thomas Pink will deliver a lecture entitled: ‘Law and the normativity of obligation’ at the 4th Annual Jurisprudence Lecture.’

Date: 31st January 2014, 6.00pm

Location: Clement House, Room 6.02 at the London School of Economics

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.

‘When determining whether a civil society organisation has charitable status, the orthodox position has it that the activities carried on in pursuit of its purposes are not relevant, save in very limited circumstances. This lecture will consider the extent to which this is correct, and whether the reluctance to consider the nature of the activities carried on by a potential charity should be revisited in light of the regulatory consequences of charitable status, outside of which the legal definition of charity has no real meaning.’

Date: 6th February 2014, 6.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free, registration required

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‘The CCLS Open Lecture Series: Ethics in Business and Finance presents Dr Kara Tan Bhala, President of Seven Pillar Institute and University of Kansas, Ethics and the financial sector.’

Date: 30th January 2014, 2.00-4.00pm

Location: Lecture Theatre, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB

Charge: See website for details

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‘This paper starts from the assumption that (legitimate) states have a general right to control their borders and decide who to admit as future citizens. These decisions, however, should be guided by principles of justice. But which principles? To answer this we have to analyse the multifaceted relationships that may hold between states and prospective immigrants, distinguishing on the one hand between those who are either inside or outside the state’s territory, and on the other between refugees, economic migrants and ‘particularity claimants’. The claims of refugees, stemming from their human rights, are powerful though limited in scope: they hold against receiving states generally rather than the specific one to which they apply for asylum. Economic migrants cannot claim a right to be admitted as such, but only a right to have legitimate criteria of selection applied to them. In the case of particularity claimants, such as those seeking redress for harms inflicted on them or reward for the services they have rendered to the state, the main question is why awarding a right to enter should be the appropriate response to their claims. The paper concludes by asking how far principles of justice can be used to establish priorities between these different categories of migrants.’

Date: 5th February 2014, 4.00-7.00pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free, registration required

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‘This is the ninth year that the anniversary of the Avoir Fiscal judgment has been celebrated with an EU Tax Conference.’

Date: 31st January 2014, 8.00am-7.30pm

Location: Lecture Theatre, Rotblat Building, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ

Charges: See website for details

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‘The rule of law promises protection and recourse against the arbitrary exercise of power. The guiding aim of the rule of law ideal is served when law’s rule extends to all forms of power in the polity, social as well as political. This paper argues that the rule of law takes hold in a polity only when law is planted firmly in a commonwealth of mutual faithfulness to the differentiated and interconnected responsibilities of fidelity to law. Law rules not only when government officials are held accountable for the discharge of their duties under law, but also when ordinary citizens structure their relationships by law and hold each other accountable to the common, public terms that the law provides.’

Date: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM (GMT)

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws, Bentham House, Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free, registration required

More information can be found here.