“The seminars will provide an authoritative and concise overview of the year’s most significant legal developments and will clearly set out their impact on the areas of law under discussion.

At each seminar, the two speakers will be Professor Charles Mitchell (an author of Goff and Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment and Underhill and Hayton: Law Relating to Trusts and Trustees) and Professor Ben McFarlane (an author of The Structure of Property Law and Land Law: Text, Cases and Materials).”

1.5 CPD hours

Date: Unjust Enrichment – 4th December 2013, 6.00-7.30pm

Land Law and Trusts – 11th December 2013, 6.00-7.30pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws – Graduate Wing, 1-2 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Single seminar: £100. Both seminars: £160.

More information can be found here.

“Both our common law constitution and human rights law treat liberty as a central value. Yet, immigration detention remains less constrained, both normatively and institutionally, than other forms of detention. International human rights bodies and courts, and indeed domestic courts, routinely review and indeed sometimes condemn detention of migrants. Yet, that jurisprudence has been subject to a convincing critique, for failing to properly scrutinise the necessity of immigration detention. Many scholars have thus pointed out the law’s anomalously indulgent approach to immigration detention, compared with other forms of deprivation of liberty. Yet, powerful as this critique is, it sometimes fails to address prior questions concerning the political purposes and legal grounds of detention. By examining these grounds and purposes, both legitimate and illegitimate, the lecture will aim to elucidate the manner in which immigration law produces reasons to detain, and thwarts any test of necessity from effectively constraining the state’s power to detain migrants. The diverse approaches of the UN Human Rights Committee, European Court of Human Rights and Court of Justice of the European Union will be contrasted. The likely impact of new EU norms on detention of asylum-seekers and pre-removal detention will also be explored.”

Date: Thursday 21st November 2013, 6.00-7.00pm

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

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“Social media has revolutionised the way we interact with each other and is increasingly being used by law firms and lawyers to communicate with their clients.

This seminar will explore how social media can assist with business development and how the personal brand of an individual solicitor can complement that of their firm’s. It will also promote discussion around core issues, including reputation management and ethics.

This will be an interactive seminar and you will be encouraged to tweet questions to the speakers at the end of each session.”

CPD hours 3.5

Date: 4th December 2013, 12.30-4.50pm

Location: The Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL

Charge: See website of details

More information can be found here.

“Of all areas of law, it is property – particularly as it relates to housing and home – that affects people most consistently and directly. Yet, while people are intensely interested in property, property – broadly understood as the laws, doctrines and policies that govern the acquisition, accumulation, management and transfer of resources – does not appear to reciprocate. This lecture explores how the traditional methodologies of property law scholarship – centred on the status quo of established rights, obligations and duties, and invoking the ‘property values’ of certainty, autonomy, efficiency – marginalise the human ‘subjects’ of the property system. The lecture seeks to raise questions concerning the role of property law and property scholarship: is it to understand and make the best out of the available material; to achieve change in a progressive (or progressive but incremental) way; or to contribute to, or at least not to prevent, progress towards greater substantive equality between property’s ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’? In exploring these questions, the lecture reflects on the hidden politics of property discourse and its impact on the (in)visibility of the property outsider’s human experience within legal analyses, arguments and decision-making. Finally, this analysis is related to a series of ‘property problems’ in which ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ compete for ownership or access to resources, with the aims of considering an alternative approach to problem-based property scholarship that starts from the person rather than the law, and reflecting on the implications of this approach for normative arguments invoking ‘property’s values’.”

Date: Thursday 5th December 2013, 6.00-7.00pm

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

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“‘Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’, wrote Santayana at the dawn of the twentieth century. And indeed, throughout history, politicians and policy-makers have — more or less self-consciously — turned to the lessons of their nation’s past to shape their judgement and inform their decision making. I shall be asking the question, ‘Is this a strategy which can be followed today?’ when the boundaries of nationhood are giving way to global histories and narratives in which forgetting is as important as remembering.”

Date: Tuesday 19th November 2013, 6.00-8.15pm

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

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.

“UCL is hosting a symposium on the occasion of the re-publication of Hersch Lauterpacht’s An International Bill of Rights of Man, with an Introduction by Professor Philippe Sands, UCL,
published by Oxford University Press

The symposium will have the participation of
Sir Elihu Lauterpacht QC CBE

And contributions from:
Lord Faulks QC
(1 Chancery Lane)
Baroness Helena Kennedy of the Shaws QC
(Labour Member, House of Lords)
Lord McNally
(Minister of State at the Ministry of Justice, and Deputy Leader of the House of Lords)
Stuart Wheeler
(Treasurer, United Kingdom Independence Party)

Chaired by
Professor Philippe Sands QC
(UCL / Matrix Chambers)”

Date: Thursday 31st October 2013, 6.30-7.30pm

Location: UCL Faculty of Laws – Graduate Wing, 1-2 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0EG

Charge: Free

More information can be found here.