Number Fifty-four Spring 2017 ISBN 0967 2184 Editorial

Our last issue of The Reporter continued with a series of articles considering the impact of Brexit upon different areas of law in the . A year ago, The Reporter’s coverage of such considerations was novel. Today Brexit is ever-present in popular and academic discourse. Even a cursory reading of the Constituency News in this issue indicates that most, if not all of you, have now conducted, hosted or participated in Brexit consideration panels and seminars conducted across the length and breadth of the nation. This is entirely appropriate for law will be central to this process and the new directions possible (either positive or negative) are still innumerable. Your editor suspects, though, that a certain Brexit fatigue may well have set in amongst readers. In addition, publication times for The Reporter make it diffi cult to properly keep on top of such a complex and ever-changing topic. We have, for example, gone from proposals about a Norway-style arrangement with the European Union to the distinct possibility of a severance from virtually all the European Union’s institutions at a breathtaking pace. This issue is, thus, largely Brexit-free. The editor draws your attention, though, to an important series of events sponsored by the Society of Legal Scholars and held in six universities across Britain from May to July this year in which the impact of Brexit upon British law schools is considered. Further details can be found within this issue. Moving from a direct consideration of Brexit, this issue takes as its organizing theme Marshal McLuhan’s thoughts concerning technology and humanity. The tags of the ‘global village’ and ‘the medium is the message’ are often used to refer to McLuhan’s theories. While McLuhan wrote primarily in the 1960s, his work does give some coherence to our current situation, both nationally and at a particular level in modern legal academia. McLuhan himself was fortunate not to have existed as a scholar in a Research Excellence Framework (REF) era (given the postmortem impact of his theories decades after his death). Within this issue the impact of technology and the changes it brings in how we live our lives and perceive ourselves is considered in three separate articles.

The fi rst of these articles is one the editor hopes will become a new feature of The Reporter, the IN THIS ISSUE observations of the Undercover Legal Academic. The Undercover Legal Academic is an academic at a British university although it is intended that Changes in Legal Academia Over this anonymous role will change issue by issue the Last Decade: A Report from amongst particular authors as different views and the Undercover Legal Academic 2 experiences are related. In this issue, our Under- cover Legal Academic describes those changes Observing Law — Developing the Ials which have occurred in their institution over Open Book Service for Law 4 the past decade. Central to these changes — and The Reform of Professional Legal the substantive impact they have had upon the Education in and Wales: Undercover Legal Academic’s relationship with the Story so Far 5 students, colleagues and administration — is the Brexit and the 6 rise of information technology. Many of these changes are not positive developments and the Giving Expression to the Diverse Unities issues raised by this Undercover Legal Academic of the Law in Times of Brexit Professor call upon us to consider what we can do to amelio- Imelda Maher 6 rate this situation. Is it time to return to McLuhan Constituency News 8 for answers to these problems? Research Grant Reports 25 Our second article provides a much more positive assessment of the possibilities of information

1 technology. In ‘OBserving Law’, Steven Whittle, require careful consideration by our members for the Institute for Advanced Legal System’s (IALS) it has the potential to change dramatically the way Information Systems Manager informs us of how in which we teach students law. And in so doing, the IALS’s Open Book Service for Law is being it has the further potential to change our, or our developed as part of the IALS’s Humanities Digi- institutions’ perception, of the central functions of tal Library. This initiative provides a new resource a university law faculty. Our last article is the for academics, an open access publication with President’s speech at the annual SLS President’s Reception, held in the splendid surroundings of digital versions of existing print titles that are the Irish Embassy in . The warm hospital- now freely available to all. This is an information ity of the Irish Ambassador and his staff was technology development that positively enhances greatly enjoyed by all who attended. the ability of legal academics to undertake legal research. It is becoming apparent that dispassion- There is one fi nal yet important point. If you enjoy ate and critical analysis of the law is now needed the views of the Undercover Legal Academic, more than ever before. Our third article continues please contact the editor (catharine.macmillan@ the considerations of the most recent changes kcl.ac.uk). Your editor is actively seeking another proposed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority’ (anonymous) author to undertake this article for (SRA) in relation to the education of solicitors. the Winter 2017 issue. These proposals are possible as a result of modern Catharine MacMillan information technology. The proposals do, though, Editor

CHANGES IN LEGAL ACADEMIA OVER THE LAST DECADE: A REPORT FROM THE UNDERCOVER LEGAL ACADEMIC

My institution has proved to be uncharacteristi- know how to fi x anything, and even fewer whose cally useful to me today. It has gifted me, not only job it apparently is to do so. with the time to write this piece, but also with a fruitful theme to explore: the impact of technology I begin with the impact upon tutorials of light- upon academic life. To explain, I cannot currently weight laptops, and of students who are appar- access any of the fi les I have stored on the central ently surgically attached to them. Gone are the server, which the university has ‘encouraged’ all days when I could actually see students’ faces in staff to use in preference to other forms of storage. tutorials, or, more usually, the tops of their heads Nor can I resolve this problem since, following a as they stared fi xedly at the table and shuffl ed drive for effi ciency savings, IT support has been their notes while praying that someone else would centralised and restructured. The inevitable result answer the question. Today, I confront a bank is that there are very few people left who actually of laptops and the tap, tap, tap of feverish note- taking as I endeavour to encourage discussion and debate. The physical barrier of laptop screens fundamentally changes the dynamics of classroom interaction. Be your classroom layout and teach- ing style never so democratic, it is diffi cult to over- come a sense of ‘them and us’, and even a creeping adversarial spirit, (or, whisper it, a nagging temp- tation to slip into ‘lecture mode’) when the stu- dents sit one side of a visible barrier and you the other. I should be grateful that they are (I think) note-taking, and not busy checking for updates on social media. They reserve that for lectures. Still, when I am not trying to convince them that the primary purpose of tutorials is not at all costs to compile the best set of notes possible, I do fi nd myself somewhat irrelevantly wondering why it is that students never seem to use iPads, or even,

2 heaven forbid, pen and paper. Both are, after all, of forgetting your phone are just two of my favou- rather less cumbersome to lug about. Maybe, for rites. Another effective method is to delete out of as much as they claim that they value small group hand any email the contents of which are tedious, teaching and classroom discussions, they value irritating or diffi cult to tackle. A surprising num- rather more the impenetrable shield created by a ber of these are never followed up, and, if some- laptop screen. thing is really important, generally someone will eventually pick up the phone or knock on your I pass on from laptops to email. I have no experi- door. ence of what some consider to have been the hal- cyon age of academia, before the advent of email, Finally, no discussion of the changing use of tech- and I love it as much as the next person. It is great nology is complete without mention of the dread- for keeping in touch with far-fl ung friends, and ed PowerPoint. What happened in the last ten just as handy for imparting information in circum- years? Once upon a time you were viewed as a stances where it might conceivably be uncomfort- technological wunderkind and academic eager able to be compelled to speak to the person beaver if you used even the most basic of Power- concerned. It can also be really useful for creating point presentations in the course of a conference strategic paper trails, though the temptation to paper. Today you risk being identifi ed as a fusty relict of a bygone age if you do not have an all- click ‘send’ on rash — though cathartic — singing-all-dancing and fully branded presenta- missives must ever be guarded against. Yet these tion to distribute to interested parties. Even the advantages come at a cost. Gone are the days tweediest of our brethren seem to have succumbed when you might reasonably expect your institu- to the siren call of the bullet point and the illustra- tion to leave you to get on with your job without tive image. reiterated and increasingly menacing inquiries about your REF return, the number and status of Thinking about the pervasive use of PowerPoint your funding applications, and the satisfaction in teaching, I can barely repress a shudder. To with which your students view your teaching. start with, you can bet your bottom dollar that if Today, in a world in which seemingly never a your lecture depends on it then the technology month goes by without some sort of REF dry run, will collapse at the crucial moment. And then inquisition about impact, or interrogation of teach- there is the troubled relationship between lecture ing practices, email has become a powerful tool in handouts and PowerPoint slides. It is, apparently the hands of a university bureaucracy which has (according to my students), necessary to do both. a momentum all of its own. You might rarely And yet what is the relationship between them, receive a visit from your research or teaching and and between the written and the spoken word? learning dean, but rare indeed is the week in which Create a set of slides which is aligned too closely you are not harried by them via email in respect of to the handout and you will be accused of provid- some target, activity or oversight. ing slides which added nothing to the lecture. Produce slides which depart in any key aspect This is to say nothing of the impact of the perva- from the handout and you will be accused of using sive use of email on any attempt to set reasonable slides which are confusing and poorly aligned to boundaries upon working life. I doubt that I am the lecture handout. Craft a lecture handout and alone in spending the last evening of a holiday in slides which comprehensively cover the content of a state of somewhat anxious anticipation of what the lecture, and await the inevitable accusation might be lurking within my inbox. Nor, I suspect, that the students gained nothing from being am I alone in sneaking peeks at my email while physically present in the lecture. Deliver a lecture supposedly out of the offi ce. Email can feel like a which adds materially to what is set out in your relentless tide which is constantly threatening to handout and slides and accept the no less inevita- swamp us; a sensation which has been aggravated ble accusation that neither your slides nor your by the pervasive availability of smart phones and handout were suffi ciently detailed. tablets. Who would have guessed that the require- Perhaps I should now, ignoring the rather more ment to fi re up a laptop or PC in fact acted as a convenient charms of Westlaw, retreat to the dust- reasonably effective inhibiting factor, militating iest depths of the library with my fountain pen against sending an email at 11 o’ clock at night? In and a spiral bound notebook. Such pleasures are, an age before smart phones it at least took a little however, denied to me in the face of the onslaught effort to send an email, and both the sender and of marking. I shall have to content myself with recipient had generally to be somewhere in the digging out my red biro, in contravention of vicinity of a PC to send and receive that email. university guidance that this is an unnecessarily Now, with the almost universal availability of negative and confrontational colour in which to that ubiquitous device, they just keep on fl ooding provide feedback. But wait, I forgot, technology in. Somehow the compulsion to check for their has denied me even this one small act of defi ance. arrival, or to respond to the imperative ping, is No red biro and stack of coffee-stained scripts almost irresistible. There are, of course, remedies for me. We have embraced the monochrome and to this. An unreliable wireless network and a habit entirely legible wonder that is electronic marking.

3 OBSERVING LAW — DEVELOPING THE IALS OPEN BOOK SERVICE FOR LAW

OBserving Law — the IALS Open Book Service the discoverability and availability of existing for Law titles already published by SAS. (http://ials.sas.ac.uk/digital/humanities-digital- library/observing-law-ials-open-book-service-law) Within the broader project, the IALS has launched is being developed at the Institute of Advanced its OBserving Law — Open Book Service for Law Legal Studies as part of the Humanities Digital with a new edition of Stephen Mason’s Electronic Library (HDL) (http://humanities-digital-library. Signatures in Law. Stephen is an IALS Associate org/), the ’s new open- Research Fellow, a and leading authority access scholarly books platform. on electronic signatures and electronic evidence. His enthusiasm and commitment to open access in We’ve created the HDL through a joint initiative the current project builds on a successful earlier between the School of Advanced Study, Universi- collaboration with the Institute to provide an open ty of London (SAS), and two of the School’s access online version of the innovative Digital research institutes — the Institute of Advanced Evidence and Electronic Signature Law Review pub- Legal Studies (IALS) and the Institute of Historical lished by the IALS on the SAS’s Open Journals Research (IHR). The resource combines new open System (http://journals.sas.ac.uk/deeslr/). access publications with digital versions of exist- Appropriately, as the premier title in a new ing print titles that will now, for the fi rst time, be service bringing together the results of legal and freely available to all. Each title is published as an historical research, the opening chapter of Stephen open access PDF usable under creative commons Mason’s book is a fascinating piece of writing on licences, with copies also available to purchase in legal history, representing signifi cant scholarship print and EPUB formats. in outlining the development of the legal Signa- The School launched the HDL on Tuesday 17th ture and tracing the emergence of current digital January 2017 with monographs in history, law and forms and consequences from their use. It will be classics. Over the coming months it will grow to illuminating for a legal and non-legal readership. include books from other disciplines researched in Stephen’s manifesto for future updates (http:// institutes across the School, implementing plans ials.sas.ac.uk/digital/humanities-digital-library/ to take a fl exible approach to scholarly writing, observing-law-ials-open-book-service-law/ publishing monographs and edited collections as electronic-signatures-0) highlights the possibilities well as innovative research in longer and shorter for engagement and collaboration provided formats. As existing titles are rediscovered via the through wider audiences and linked technology Library we anticipate an upturn in print sales as by the new service: some readers purchase a valued work in hard copy — supporting a healthy co-existence of open Once my books go online for free, I aim to access and print. encourage anybody with an interest, whether judge, lawyer, legal academic, law student or The HDL, as a further example of the SAS’s practitioners, academics, students of technical national research promotion and facilitation role, subjects that are relevant, and to engage in the is open to contributing scholars and writers at the text and to help keep it up-to-date. , across the UK and beyond, and to partner organisations and learned societies Continuing initial proof of concept work in the wishing to publish new or existing works under project, we are delighted that the fourth edition of open access terms. Early partners include the Electronic Evidence, edited by Stephen Mason and Royal Historical Society, the foremost society in Daniel Seng with a team of expert contributors, is the UK working with professional historians, in production for publication on the new platform whose New Historical Perspectives series will in 2017. appear on the platform. To further develop the IALS Open Book Service In each case the work of commissioning, peer for Law and provide editorial oversight the reviewing, editing and distributing a new book Institute is establishing an Editorial Board and remains with the individual institute working Advisory Board with representatives drawn from with the School’s publishing department. What the UK legal research communities and scholarly the HDL offers are changes to the potential scope, professional associations for law such as the scale and ambition of these new works, as well as Society of Legal Scholars (SLS). The aim is to

4 develop a broad team of consultant editors with ‘that funders develop policies to encourage moves particular subject expertise in law to help provide towards open access for monographs’. Addition- a new UK service with international reach. ally, in autumn 2016 JSTOR, the digital library founded in 1995 by the president of Princeton OBserving Law and the HDL as a whole will offer University, began making available open access both short-term and long-term advantages for monographs from four university presses in the monograph publication and use and in particular US and UK. The HDL itself launched a month allow greater fl exibility in publishing formats. after the announcement by the Higher Education As well as supporting monographs and edited Funding Council for England to ‘move towards an collections of 80–100,000 words researchers will be open access requirement for monographs’ in the invited to experiment with shorter (and perhaps REF after 2020. In response to these developments, longer) form works when their insights are best academic presses are gearing up for what is likely communicated in a scholarly text of around 40,000 to be another signifi cant shift in arts and humani- words. In addition, the service will allow creative ties publishing. linking to supporting or supplementary content — for example, datasets or extra images — that Through the HDL initiative and the IALS Open cannot be accommodated in traditional print Book Service for Law we are confi dent that the formats. SAS, its Institutes and our users will be well placed to benefi t from the global movement towards Recent statements on the opportunities and chal- open access. lenges for those advocating open access mono- graphs include Professor Geoffrey Crossick’s Steven Whittle ‘Monographs and Open Access’ (2015) (www. IALS Information Systems Manager Institute of hefce.ac.uk/pubs/rereports/Year/2015/monographs/ Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, Title,101531,en.html) with its recommendation University of London

THE REFORM OF PROFESSIONAL LEGAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES: THE STORY SO FAR

The story begins with the ‘Setting Standards’, a criticism. In their 2014 paper the SRA were unsure 2013 report commissioned by the Solicitors Regu- how competence was to be assessed in the future. lation Authority (SRA), the Bar Standards Board By 2015 the SRA were sure; there was to be a (BSB) and ILEX Professional Standards. It looked new Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) at a very large range of matters including profes- with, for its Part 1, ‘academic stage’, centrally sional legal education. Its conclusion about this assessed, computer marked objective questions.4 was that ‘the dominant opinion derived from the Those qualifying would not need degrees; they research is that the system of LSET [Legal Services would just have to pass the SQE. Once again there 1 Education and Training] works well. . .’. was substantial criticism in response. The weight The SRA decided the conclusion on professional of criticism was such as to lead the SRA to decide legal education in ‘Setting Standards’ meant that that it needed to issue a new consultation paper there needed to be a radical change to that system. giving more details about the SQE. When this was This began with them issuing a ‘competence issued it did not inspire confi dence in the pro- statement’ in 2014 purporting to describe what posed new system. We learnt, for example, that modern solicitors need to know before they could fi ve of the six assessments for the SQE Part 1 be solicitors.2 All the legal academic bodies would be three hours long and consisting of 120 were critical of this statement as were others questions.5 The SRA has said that the SQE will who responded to the SRA.3 The SRA ignored the be at graduate level although it will not conform to academic notions of graduate standards.6 The 1 LETR ‘Setting Standards: The Future of Legal Services reality seems to be that there will be a pretence Education and Training Regulation in England and Wales’ (2013) p 46. 4 SRA ‘Training for Tomorrow: Assessing Competence’ 2 SRA ‘Training for Tomorrow’ (2014). (2015) p 17. 3 The Society’s response to this and other papers mentioned 5 SRA ‘A New Route to Qualifi cation: The Solicitors Quali- below is to be found on our website (www.legalscholars. fying Examination (SQE)’ (2016) p 12. ac.uk/position-papers-consultation-responses/). 6 SRA (2015) op cit p 21.

5 that law can be reduced to a long list of simple The BSB’s response to ‘Setting Standards’ has been propositions that solicitors need to memorise in more measured than the approach taken by the order to take the SQE. One small improvement is SRA. Their latest paper ‘Future Bar Training’ that the SRA does now propose that students will which was published last year involved maintain- normally have to have a degree before beginning ing the approach that would normally the process of qualifi cation.7 Once again there has need at least a lower second class degree before been substantial criticism not only from all the qualifying. A number of different options for academic associations but also from practitioner changes in the process of professional qualifi ca- bodies. In March the likely damage that would be tion are canvassed. Most are more evolutionary done by the SQE was raised in the House of Lords. than revolutionary. One suggestion, however, is The SRA however appears to be unmoved. The for a Bar Entrance Examination (BEE) which SRA’s main board will decide at some time would mirror the SQE. Details for this are not between April and June this year whether or not developed. If it is taken further it will face the the SQE will go ahead. If it does the ‘junior’ branch same derision that the SQE does. Leaving aside of the legal profession will become very junior the BEE members of the Society will have different indeed and the reputation of solicitors as being opinions as to which of the BSB’s proposed members of a learned profession will be lost. reforms is more desirable. The Society’s response to the 2016 paper refl ects this.

7 SAR (2016) op cit p 25. Tony Bradney

BREXIT AND THE LAW SCHOOL

Leaving the EU could have a profound effect on • 25th May 2017 at Northumbria University the working lives of legal scholars in the UK. What (Guido Noto La Diega) will it mean for our research (including funding)? • 14th June 2017 at the University of Liverpool What will it mean for the curriculum and EU Law (Michael Dougan and Tamara Hervey) within it, at postgraduate and undergraduate • Early-mid June 2017 at Swansea University level? What might our student body look like after (Victoria Jenkins and Theodora Nikaki) the UK leaves the EU, and how will that affect the • 30th June 2017 at Keele University (Maria law school? How does the prospect and reality of Tzanou) Brexit affect colleagues? • 10th July 2017 at the University of Bristol The Society of Legal Scholars is delighted to be (Albert Sanchez-Graells) funding six events to discuss the impact of Brexit Further details will appear in due course on the on the law school: relevant law school’s website and on the Society of • 2nd May 2017 at the University of Strathclyde Legal Scholars’ website. (Rebecca Zahn and Nicole Busby)

GIVING EXPRESSION TO THE DIVERSE UNITIES OF THE LAW IN TIMES OF BREXIT PROFESSOR IMELDA MAHER

The Society holds an annual reception each year so that, even if they do not attend, our profi le is after Council to which are invited the Executive, raised. We are privileged each year that several Council, prize winners and a long list of stake- senior judges attend, this year being no exception holders who, in addition to the invitation, receive with, for example, Lady Hale, Vice-President of a letter that describes the Society and its mission the UK Supreme Court, The Rt Hon Lord Mance

6 of the Supreme Court (who will speak at the proximity and complexity of the relationship between conference in September) and the Rt Hon Lady the jurisdictions of these islands is apparent. Justice Arden of the Court of Appeal (who gave the SLS Centenary lecture in 2016) attending. The proximity of the two jurisdictions is refl ected in We were also delighted to welcome for the fi rst their shared legal heritage of the . (And time Her Honour Judge Khatun Sapnara, who is apologies to the Scots present as the Scottish legal order the fi rst person of Bangladeshi origin to hold a is omitted from my comments. I think that in part senior judicial post in the UK and Mr Justice John refl ects the fact that the legal heritage between MacMenamin, a member of the Irish Supreme and the two Irish jurisdictions is different and less intense with Irish lawyers like Mr Bunbury Dillon not Court. Others such as representatives from higher looking to qualify in Edinburgh.) education bodies, professional training bodies and academic publishers were also present allowing The relationship between the legal orders is complex for informal conversations that are important for and — as Mr Bunbury Dillon’s tombstone shows — is the advocacy work of the Society such as our open to misunderstanding. For me this can be seen in recent submission to the SRA. The Society Execu- the much lauded common travel area between the UK tive is ever mindful of what a large and diverse and Ireland which, in principle, allows citizens resident body our membership is and always fl ags that in on these islands to move freely between them. The legal submissions. Nonetheless, it is important that base for the area differs between the two jurisdictions. the voice of the Society is present at the proverbial For the UK, it has its origins in the 1948 British table. Hence when responding to a consultation, a Nationality Act which stated that British law was member or committee of the Executive will take to apply to Irish citizens in the same way as British responsibility and liaise with the Executive and subjects. In Ireland, British citizens were exempted by Council before responding — we are in essence a statutory instrument from the Aliens Act 1935. In Irish representative democracy. ports and airports, there is no provision made for the CTA with Irish and UK citizens lining up with all Finally, while I am mindful that I am not an Irish other EU citizens entering the state unlike the position President, but a President of the Society who in the UK where random stops occur at special entry happens to be from Ireland and is now based in points. Architecture can sometimes — dare I say it — Dublin, I was nonetheless delighted when the trump law. Brexit has served to bring to the fore what Executive asked me to see if we could hold the I think can be termed the somewhat inarticulate but reception at the Embassy of Ireland in London. nonetheless convenient messiness of the law and the I was even more delighted when the Ambassador relationship between the two jurisdictions. agreed. Ambassador Mulhall spoke eloquently and wittily and without notes — he is a very hard This dual quality of complementarity and complexity act to follow. However, it is customary for the is something with which the UK will become more Society President to speak and below is the speech acquainted with the passing of the Great Repeal Bill. — a brief refl ection on the diverse unities of law The Irish constitution dealt with inherited laws which that are evident in the Society and all the more carried over all existing laws into the Irish jurisdiction, relevant as we await the announcement of Brexit. although those laws did not carry a presumption of constitutionality. The peeling back of inherited laws I look forward to welcoming you to what I hope continues nearly 100 years on with the most recent will be a balmy and sunny Dublin in September. spring clean of the Irish statute book removing laws as ‘Mr Ambassador, distinguished guests, members of the far back as the time of Henry VIII. While the legal heri- tage between the UK and the EU is of a much shorter judiciary, members of the Society, colleagues and duration than that of Ireland and the UK, nonetheless friends, I would like to thank the Ambassador for allow- there are (the European Parliament suggests) over ing this reception to be held in the Embassy — a fi rst for 20,000 pieces of legislation that bind the UK and EU the Society and a venue which refl ects the close relation- together and which the UK will gradually need to ship between the legal traditions of Ireland and the UK. consider and possibly repeal. There is also the vexed Last weekend I went to an old Irish country church- question of whether and to what extent it will be neces- yard. There, there is the tombstone of Mr Benedict sary to mimic new laws coming from the EU — Bunbury Dillon of Ballyquin House who is immor- especially those relating to issues of trade, services and talised as a law student of the Queens Inns who died environment. in September 1840. The Greys Inns records show that My concern with Brexit is that the impatient political Mr Bunbury Dillon of Ballyquin House was indeed a discourse of the ‘hard exit’ seems at odds with what is student there and that he had come from Kings Inns being discussed by my colleagues in the Society and in — which unoffi cially through the early reign of Queen law schools up and down the country — where the Victoria was sometimes known as Queens Inns. Mr sheer enormity of the tedious task of repealing and Bunbury Dillon was equipping himself for legal prac- replacing thousands of laws is being debated in the tice not just in Dublin but also in London but somehow knowledge that rushed laws rarely do the job. his ambition got mistranslated by his grieving family and the local stone mason rendered him a student of the Mindful of the needs of the law, it is all the more impor- familiarly but inaccurately labelled, Queens Inns. tant to ensure some consistency between this tedious Thus, in this unfortunate young man’s death, both the necessity and the more exciting and excitable political

7 discourse of Brexit. A dissonance between political here tonight. The Society is nothing without its mem- discourse and legal reality is bad news for the rule of bers and in turn the Executive and Council ensure the law and the stability it brings to society. vitality of the Society. I want to pay tribute to my won- derful colleagues on the Executive. We are a large body A bulwark against this dissonance is of course the work — close to 3000 members — and the Exec and Council of legal scholars — our members highlight the unpopu- serve the members well — simply getting on with the lar message that Brexit is neither straightforward nor job ably assisted by Mrs Sally Thomson and Mrs Sara easy. There is much work to do. Bladon. Collegiality is alive and well in the Society. Part of that work is determining what the newly crafted relationship will be between the four jurisdictions Finally, one of the functions of the Society is to recog- represented in the Society: for example the challenge nise intellectual rigour and imagination. And tonight of protecting the Good Friday Agreement, the common we do this by awarding two prizes. The fi rst is the SLS travel area and devising legal mechanisms that will 2016 Best Poster Prize, kindly sponsored by Wiley. It is facilitate trade. In scoping scenarios and probing hypo- jointly awarded to Mr Jed Meers (York) for his poster theticals the expertise of scholars is critical — including entitled ‘Shifting the Place of Social Security: Social the large number of Irish nationals and Irish alumni Rights under Austerity in the UK’ and to Ms Rachel now working in British universities, some of whom Pimm-Smith (Warwick) for her poster ‘Victorian Child I am very happy to see here tonight. They have a Protection: Did Intervention Make Poor Children More particular insight to offer as to the nature of the future Desirable Citizens?’. relationships between these jurisdictions. They are — like their compatriots and fellow alumni at the bar and The Society also awards a prize for the best paper in the City the natural successors of Mr Bunbury submitted and presented at the conference. The winner Dillon — who in turn would no doubt be amazed to see this year, seeing off some stiff competition, is Professor the very large numbers of English solicitors registering Maria Lee from UCL for her article: ‘Knowledge and with the Irish Law Society in advance of Brexit. Landscape in Wind Energy Planning’ published as the fi rst article in the 2017 edition of our journal Legal It is the role of the Society to advance legal education. Studies, the jewel in the Crown of the Society. Warmest It does this by assisting its members in many ways congratulations to you all and sincere thanks to the including, of course, the annual conference which will judges of both competitions. be held in Dublin for the fi rst time in September this year. Do come. The theme is The Diverse Unities of the Thank you to you all for your support of the Society and Law and it is great to see some of the plenary speakers for joining us this evening.’

CONSTITUENCY NEWS

The University of Aberdeen Law School has Agreement: A new Stimulus for International recently welcomed four new Faculty members: Efforts to Promote Renewable Energy Develop- Gloria Alvarez, Marta Iljadica and Daria ment’ in the Journal of and Man- Shapovalova who all started in January. In early agement; her book, Ecological Governance (CUP) February Naomi McGregor was appointed as was published in paperback. A book launch of a marketing offi cer to further develop growing Continuity, Change and Pragmatism in the Law: student numbers. Professor Tina Hunter delivered Essays in Memory of Professor Angelo Forte (eds, her inaugural lecture, ‘Does Petroleum Law as a Andrew Simpson, Scott Styles and Adelyn Wilson) Discipline Really Exist’ to an appreciative audi- was held. Dr Zeray Yihdego visited Lusaka, ence. A new course, International Arbitration Zambia in February as part of the EU-funded Law, was added to the Dispute Resolution LLM DAFNE project on the Water-Energy-Food nexus Programme. in developing countries. Professor Hunter will travel to Bergen to deliver lectures on petroleum Professor Evans-Jones continues work on a new law development in the North Sea and to work on book on unjustifi ed enrichment. Dr Roy Partain a research project with Professors Ernst Nordtveit has been invited to deliver a research paper at the and Jorn Sunde. China University of Political Science and Law. Dr Abbe Brown has signed a contract with Edward The law division at the University of Abertay Elgar to write a monograph, Intellectual Property, have recently appointed three new Faculty mem- Climate Change and Technology: Managing Legal bers. Professor Nick Grier joins from Edinburgh Intersections, Relationships and Confl icts. Dr Olivia Napier University where he was head of depart- Woolley has published ‘The Paris Climate Change ment for many years. The author of a number of

8 widely used works on Company Law, Banking Dr Carol Jones (Reader), Dr Maria Anna Corvaglia Law and Debt, Professor Grier’s research interests (Lecturer) and Dr Esen Ezgi Tas¸cıog˘lu (Research are in Company Law, particularly corporate gov- Fellow). Dr Janine Clarke was awarded a Europe- ernance. Dr Alan Brown has recently completed an Research Council Consolidator Grant to under- his PhD at Strathclyde; his research interests are in take a fi ve-year comparative study of resilience relation to atypical families with a strong theoreti- in survivors of war rape and sexual violence. cal jurisprudential background. Jade Kouletakis, Professor Rosie Harding’s project ‘Everyday Deci- previously at Cape Town University and the sions: Interrogating the Interface Between Mental University of the Western Cape, is now complet- Capacity and Legal Capacity’ funded by her ing her PhD in Intellectual Property. She looks British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship contin- forward to exploring the synergies between South ues. Professor Martin Trybus leads an Innovative Africa and Scotland as two jurisdictions with Training Network on the Transatlantic Trade a common Romano-Dutch legal heritage each and Investment Partnership (TTIP) funded by a infl uenced by English law. Horizon 2020 Marie Curie award. At Aston Law School an annual lecture series was The Institute for European Law welcomed Advo- established in memory of the former Head of cate General Eleanor Sharpston QC to deliver its School, Professor Jill Poole. The Lord Chief Justice, Annual Lecture and Judge Mirjana Lazarova Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, delivered the inaugu- Trajkovska of the European Court of Human ral lecture in early March on a day that also saw a Rights as a Visiting Scholar. The School was also rare sitting of the Court of Appeal in Birmingham. delighted to welcome Lady Justice Gloster who The School was delighted to welcome to the delivered this year’s Holdsworth Presidential lecture Professor Poole’s family and friends; the address. In another recent highlight, scholars judiciary, local practitioners and academics; and from around the world gathered in Birmingham Aston staff, students and alumni. In an impas- to refl ect on post-Brexit Britain, and specifi cally sioned and thought provoking speech, Lord the function of Preferential Trade Agreements in Thomas spoke about the need to keep Commercial its new international role. Law up to date and the challenges posed in this regard by disputes settled through arbitration. He The School of Law at Birkbeck has been restruc- also touched upon legal education, persuasively tured to refl ect the growing strength of its research making the case for procedure to be an early core and teaching programmes in the fi eld of criminol- element of the undergraduate curriculum. ogy. Alongside a Department of Law, it now The expansion of Aston Law School continues includes a Department of Criminology and the with the addition of two new Faculty members to renowned Institute for Criminal Policy Research support teaching and research in Contract and (ICPR) has been fully incorporated within the : Adam Shaw-Mellors as a lec- School. Writing for the Harvard Law Review outgo- turer having completed doctoral studies at Aston; ing US President Barack Obama used data from and Kristie Thomas as a senior lecturer from ICPR’s World Prison Brief to highlight the vast Nottingham University. Aston reports with plea- disparity between America’s prison population sure the shortlisting of their Student Law Society, and that of other states across the world. and the Society’s President, in the LawCareers.Net In January the School’s annual Patrick McAuslan annual Student Law Society awards. An impor- lecture was given by the eminent South African tant focus of their continuing growth has been the judge, Dikgang Moseneke. In an inspiring lecture creation of modules that provide opportunities he spoke of contemporary challenges in his coun- for multi-disciplinary study and creativity. Their initiative to develop students’ entrepreneurial try, especially in the context of student protests skills and intellectual property knowledge, fund- about the cost of university education. The School ed by an award from the UK Intellectual Property welcomed Professor Frederik Swennen from Offi ce, has been expanded to include doctoral Antwerp University as a Visiting Fellow in the students from across the University and is set to spring term. become a core component on many programmes. Three Faculty members have been successful in This focus on multi-disciplinarity continues in obtaining project grant funding from the Nuffi eld two new modules starting in 2017/18 for under- Foundation: Professor Penny Cooper was award- graduate students in law and business: (1) Fraud, ed £191,000 to examine vulnerability in the courts; Bribery and Corruption and (2) Free Speech, Out- Daniel Monk was awarded £150,000 to examine rageous Invasions and the Media. Fraud, Bribery contact between siblings in the public care system; and Corruption will provide students with the and Dr Jessica Jacobson was awarded £40,000 to opportunity to study across academic disciplines, examine enhancing problem-solving practice in including law and management, and to explore youth courts. Other funding awards include: the latest research from fi elds including forensic £93,000 to Dr Stewart Motha from the Royal Soci- linguistics, cyberpsychology and neuroscience. ety to examine ‘Legalising the State of Emergency Birmingham Law School has welcomed new in the Late Ottoman Empire’; Dr Tiggey May was Faculty members in Professor Elen Stokes (Profes- awarded £275,000 by the Dawes Trust to research sorial Fellow in Energy and Environmental Law), professional enablers and money launderers

9 involved in organised crime groups; and Dr International Bar Association. Dr Duncan Fair- Jessica Jacobson was awarded £27,000 by Restor- grieve published in Practice: ative Solutions Community Interests to support Contract Law in a Mid-Channel Jurisdiction (Hart the Restorative Prison Project; and £97,000 from Publishing, 2016). Recent books published by the Open Society Foundation to support the ICPR BIICL include Jill Barrett and Richard Barnes (eds), World Prison Research Programme. Law of the Sea: UNCLOS as a Living Treaty (2016). The British Institute of International and Com- Dr Lawrence McNamara is undertaking research parative Law (BIICL) welcomed Professor Yarik funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Kryvoi as Senior Research Fellow in International on the subject, ‘Opening up closed judgments: Economic Law and Director of the Investment Balancing secrecy, security and accountability’. Treaty Forum. Professor Kryvoi joined from the Dr Duncan Fairgrieve and Professor Eva Lein University of West London, where he will contin- have secured funding and collaboration from ue to be affi liated. Anton Didenko has been the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale appointed to a new post of Research Fellow in the Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on Collective Redress in Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, specialising Consumer Protection in the EU and South-Eastern in the areas of banking and fi nance. Europe. BIICL bid a sad farewell to the Director of its The Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law has been Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, Professor funded by the Legal Education Foundation to Christina Murray. Dr Eva Lein has been appoint- continue providing the Secretariat of the All Party ed Professor of Comparative Law at the Universi- Parliamentary Group (APPG) on the Rule of Law. ty of Lausanne; she will combine this role with The Centre has played a part in arranging the her position at BIICL as Herbert Smith Freehills programme of the APPG which has featured Senior Research Fellow. Dr Lawrence McNamara discussions with leading academics and practitio- has been appointed Reader at York University and ners on a wide range of rule of law issues. BIICL will remain at BIICL as Senior Research Fellow in has made submissions to several parliamentary the Rule of Law. Research Fellow in Cultural Her- inquiries into Brexit and the legislative process itage, Richard Mackenzie-Gray Scott, has moved and Professor Robert McCorquodale has been to the to commence a appointed Special Advisor to the parliamentary PhD. Swee Leng Harris has become a consultant to Joint Committee on Human Rights for its inquiry co-ordinate the Secretariat of the All Party Parlia- into business and human rights. mentary Group on the Rule of Law on behalf of The events programme of BIICL continues to bring the Bingham Centre. together academics and practitioners from around BIICL introduced a series of new short courses in the world to address a wide range of public and the autumn designed for mid-career legal practi- private international law and rule of law areas, tioners from government, business, civil society with over 70 events being held in 2016. The theme and private practice, as well as academics. New of Brexit has been a common strand to a series of courses were offered on the Rule of Law (1 day), events over the autumn and winter, which have Cross-Border Dispute Resolution (2 days), run- examined civil dispute resolution, trade, migra- ning alongside the existing 2-day Public Interna- tion, competition law and the Article 50 case of tional Law in Practice course. Miller among other issues. The 2016 Harry Wein- rebe Annual Memorial Lecture was delivered in The second book from BIICL’s major project November 2016 by Lord Carnwath, Justice of the (funded by Brill) that commemorates 100 years UK Supreme Court and a member of the UNEP since the setting up of the Grotius Society was International Advisory Council on Environmental published in late 2016. Edited by Dr Jean-Pierre Justice, speaking on ‘Towards Climate Justice? Gauci and Dr Andraž Zidar (formerly of BIICL, Evaluating the Paris Agreement a Year On’. now University of Bologna), The Role of Legal Advisers in International Law contains 26 essays by Brunel Law School welcomes new Faculty mem- leading scholars and distinguished practitioners. bers. Professor Arad Reisberg, Professor of Corpo- rate Law and Finance, joined as Head of School. BIICL’s report on ‘Human rights due diligence Two new members join to teach on the universi- in law and practice’, written by Professor Robert ty’s portfolio of corporate law courses: Professor McCorquodale and Lise Smit, was launched in Dan Prentice, Emeritus Professor of Corporate October 2016 by the funders and collaborators, Law at the , took up the role Norton Rose Fulbright. It analyses the results of a of Honorary Professor of Law at Brunel Law survey of over 150 companies worldwide, as well School along with the chair of the company law as interviews with senior management, on their committee of the Council of the Bars and Law practice in relation to having human rights due Societies of the European Union (CCBE), Professor diligence processes and the legal implications and Vanessa Knapp OBE. In addition, Dr Guido Com- benefi ts of doing so. Dr Julinda Beqiraj and Dr parato (Commercial Law); Dr Jessica Corsi (Crimi- Lawrence McNamara published ‘Children and nal Law); and Dr Robin Pierce (Data Protection access to justice: National practices, international and Tort Law) have joined the faculty. Joining in challenges’, a report of research funded by the 2017 will be: Dr Francesco De Pascalis (from the

10 University of Zurich) as a Lecturer in Financial Employer’ category in this year’s National Under- Law; Dr Elena Zaccaria (from the London School graduate Employability (NUE) Awards. In Sep- of Economics) to a Lectureship in Corporate and tember 2016 the School and Hugh James began a Commercial Law; and Dr Stelios Andreadakis major new initiative, designed to support student (from Oxford Brookes University) to a Senior learning and employability skills, with the launch Lectureship in Corporate and Financial Law. of a work placement programme for Cardiff Law students. The scheme has so far provided 18 stu- Dr Adrienne Barnett was awarded the Early dents with full time salaried work placements Career Researcher Prize at Brunel for her research during their third year. into how courts and professionals respond to domestic violence in child contact proceedings. Professor John Witte Jr from Emory University Her research was particularly noted for its impact visited Cardiff in December to give a lecture to and application outside of academia. Professor staff and students on ‘From Gospel to Law: Arad Reisberg has been invited to participate in Luther’s Reformation of Law, Politics and Society the Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC) and What it Means for us Today’. The lecture pro- Advisory Group convened to consider and vided an erudite and witty account of the effects address the legal uncertainties which may result of the Reformation upon law and society. The from the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. evening also saw a wine reception to celebrate Professor Javaid Rehman was appointed to the both the launch of the Law and History research Academic College of the AHRC, commencing in group, formed in October to bring together staff in 2017. Professor Alexandra Xanthaki launched both the Law and History Departments at Cardiff, the Athens Refugee Project, funded by Brunel and convened by Dr Russell Sandberg and Dr University’s Development and Alumni Relations Sharon Thompson and the publication of Law and department, in which law students volunteered History (Routledge) edited by Professor Norman in the Eleonas Refugee Centre as well as in the Doe and Dr Russell Sandberg. Faros Centre for unaccompanied minors, both in Athens. Other recent publications include a new research report by Dr Lucy Series, Professor Phil Fennell At Canterbury Christ Church University, the and Dr Julie Doughty on welfare cases in the Court School of Law is delighted to welcome Dr Chisa of Protection and also Professor John Harrington’s Onyejekwe (from ) monograph Towards a Rhetoric of Medical Law and Dr Chrispas Nyombi (from University of (Routledge, 2017) which has been shortlisted for Bedfordshire). the 2017 SLSA Legal Theory Prize. Dr Lydia Hayes’ monograph Stories of Care: A Labour of Law The law school has now started a masters by is to be published by Palgrave in March 2017 and research programme and a PhD programme was the subject of a presentation at a conference which has welcomed new students. Dr Adaeze on socially sustainable public procurement at Okoye has published a monograph with Rout- ledge Research in Corporate Law series titled: Leicester Law School. Legal Approaches and Corporate Social Responsibility. Cardiff research groups and Centres continue to Her book explores the proposition that corporate be active. Cardiff hosted the GW4 Network on social responsibility is a valid legal enquiry. Dr Family Regulation and Society in December. The Okoye was awarded £1200 from the Society of Family Law research group hosted a seminar by Legal Scholars small projects fund and £500 from Professor Nigel Lowe on Brexit while the Law and the Inner Temple to fund a Critical Law and Cor- History research group organised a session on porate Social Responsibility Network conference Judicial Retcons by Dr Russell Sandberg. The Law, to be held in June 2017. Experience and Practice (LEAP) Network organ- A special issue of the European Journal of Current ised an event on ‘Connecting Research with Policy Legal Issues on ‘law and vulnerability’ has been in Wales: Health, Disability and Social Care’. published including papers from faculty members The Law and Global Justice group have hosted a Ms Ellen Gordon-Bouvier, Dr Sofi a Graca and lecture by Dr Aman Hingorani and a workshop on Dr Gowri Nanayakkara. African Judiciaries with Dr Sara Dezalay (Cardiff) and Dr Peter Brett (QMUL). The Law and Gender At the Cardiff School of Law and Politics, Jason group convened a celebration of women’s writing, Tucker (Reader in Law and Deputy Director of the thinking and other work-in-progress about law to Centre for Professional Legal Studies) was award- mark International Women’s Day. Lecturer in Law ed a National Teaching Fellowship for his out- Manon George presented a documentary on S4C standing achievements in learning and teaching. in December about her great-great-uncle David Jason’s current focus is translating the traditional Lloyd George. Professors Ambreena Manji and law curriculum into a clinical, interdisciplinary John Harrington presented at a conference on the learning experience, which enables students to Arusha Declaration at Edinburgh University in develop the graduate attributes required to make February. Dr Sharon Thompson presented ‘We the transition into the world of work. A long Want Prenup! The Gold Digging Trope in Family standing collaboration between the School of Law Law’ at in February 2017. Dr and Politics and Hugh James Solicitors has won Russell Sandberg presented a paper co-authored the Best Collaboration between a University and by Dr Sharon Thompson, ‘The Wider Issues Raised

11 by Religious Tribunals’ at the Zushi-Smith Sym- (now ) in 2008. He returns to posium on the Commission on Religion or Belief City as Director of the Legal Practice Course and in British Public Life at Bristol University in becomes Chair of a new School committee focused December. Dr Sandberg’s work was cited in the on programme development and regulatory House of Lords Library Briefi ng for the Arbitra- change. James replaces David Amos as LPC tion and Mediation Services (Equality) Bill. Course Director, who assumes a new School management role of Associate Dean (External The Rt Hon Dominic Grieve QC MP delivered a Engagement). public lecture at the School on Brexit and the Law. The School of Law and Politics partnered with the Several colleagues have published new books Equality and Human Rights Commission Wales or signifi cant revisions of existing ones: Luke to host their annual lecture by Adam Wagner McDonagh’s European Patent Litigation in the entitled ‘Fake News, Human Rights and Access Shadow of the Unifi ed Patent Court (Edward Elgar, to Justice’ in March. The lecture was preceded 2016) was launched in February with a panel by an exhibition of the School’s work on equality, discussion; Elaine Fahey’s The Global Reach of EU human rights and access to justice organised by Law (Routledge, 2017); Steven Truxal, Economic Dr Sara Drake and Dr Lydia Hayes. and Environmental Regulation of International Avia- tion: From Inter-National to Global Governance (Rout- The at City, University of ledge, 2017); Enrico Bonadio has co-edited (with London sadly reports the death in service of two Alberto Alemanno) The New Intellectual Property of colleagues. On Christmas Eve, Mr Sam Kearsley, Health: Beyond Plain Packaging (Edward Elgar, Head of Academic Services (Academic Pro- 2016); Panos Koutrakos has co-edited (with Nia- grammes), passed away. The Dean of the City Law mh NicShuibhne and Phil Syrpis) Exceptions from School, Professor Carl Stychin, described Sam’s EU Free Movement Law: Derogations, Justifi cation contribution and the School’s loss: ‘Sam made a and Proportionality (Hart Publishing, 2016) and wide ranging and enduring contribution to The with Jukka Snell Research Handbook on the Law of City Law School and to City as a whole. As Dean, the EU’s Internal Market (Elgar, 2017). The second I valued his excellent judgment and sound advice. edition of Susan Blake, Julie Browne and Stuart We all appreciated his calm, reassuring presence Sime’s (all CLS) The Jackson ADR Handbook has as well as his quiet determination. Most impor- been published (OUP, 2016) as has the fourth tantly, we witnessed his care and compassion for edition of their A Practical Approach to Alternative others, which was directed to students and col- Dispute Resolution (OUP, 2016). The former is leagues alike. Sam was an outstanding manager heavily relied on by the courts, and the latter has and I know that he was exceptionally proud of become one of the standard texts for the develop- his team’. On the 10th January Senior Lecturer Dr ing use of ADR. Riccardo Montana passed away. Riccardo joined the Law School from Kingston University in 2011. Susan Blake ga ve her inaugural lecture ‘Alterna- The Dean wrote on everyone’s behalf: ‘Riccardo’s tive Dispute Resolution: A Platform for Party work combined a rigorous empirical methodology Autonomy or the Privatisation of Justice?’ in with a deep understanding of legal theory. His October. Panos Koutrakos organised a debate on research was highly original, offering us fascinat- the legal implications of Brexit for Scotland and ing insights into the Italian criminal justice system. for Northern Ireland, addressed by Sir Alan Dash- It was also comparative law scholarship of the wood QC (Professor of EU Law at the City Law very highest order. No less impressive was Ricca- School), Sir David Edward QC (a former judge rdo’s talent as a teacher, a vocation for which he at the CJEU) and Brian Doherty (formerly head was a natural. His popularity amongst students of the solicitor’s offi ce to the Northern Ireland was obvious to anyone. It was based both on Executive) and has organised a lecture by Judge their respect for him as well as appreciation for his Lars Bay Larsen, a current judge of the ECJ. Jason commitment to their learning. To his colleagues, Chuah addressed a conference in Rotterdam to Riccardo displayed qualities of collegiality to mark the 60th anniversary of the CMR Conven- which we should all aspire. Quite simply, he tion on the theme of Asian road transport and embodied the very best of legal academia’. lessons from the CMR. Steven Truxal addressed ‘The Future of Air Transport 2016 Conference’ in In the Professional Programmes Department, the London on mergers and acquisitions and competi- Law School was pleased to welcome three new tion issues in the aviation sector. Angela Jackman, colleagues as well as the return of a former who as well as her academic work is a recognised colleague to a new role. On the BPTC, Lynne specialist practitioner in the fi elds of mental capac- Townley, previously of the Financial Ombudsman ity and Court of Protection litigation, has been Service, was welcomed as was Jennifer Collins, handling an appeal in the Supreme Court concern- previously a barrister in practice at Westgate ing abortion law in Northern Ireland. Carl Stychin Chambers, specialising in child law. On the LPC, made a presentation on Legal Education in the UK Jo Bingham from the University of Surrey has at the invitation of New York University Abu joined. Finally, James Catchpole has been wel- Dhabi to a workshop on Global Legal Education. comed back to The City Law School. James joined Elaine Fahey has broadcast on the BBC World the LPC team at City in 2003 as Deputy Course Service about the EU/CETA negotiations and Director before moving to the College of Law Enrico Bonadio has written in .

12 The Law School has seen a varied and extensive committees at Westminster and Holyrood, by par- programme of events this term. ticipating in a range of events and in writing for academic and wider audiences. Following publi- De Montfort University reports a number of fac- cation of his book Constitutional Law of Scotland, ulty changes and developments: Professor Trevor Professor Page has been awarded a British Acad- Buck retired in 2016 and been made an Emeritus emy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant award for Professor; Professor Michael Hirst also retired a study entitled: ‘Sub-state constitutionalism in in 2016; Jo Samanta became a Professor in 2016; comparative perspective: The case of Scotland’. and Vanessa Bettinson has become a Reader. De Montfort welcomes the following new Faculty Dr Kirsteen Shields spent part of the autumn as members: Dr Aurelien Portuese (as a senior lec- the fi rst Academic Fellow at the Scottish Parlia- turer); Dr Simi Akintoye (as a lecturer); Ms Melica ment research unit, SPICe, where she provided Martin and Dr Conrad Nyamutata (as part-time research expertise on human rights to inform lecturers); and Dr Laura-Stella Enonchong (as an parliamentary committees and debates, including early-career academic fellow). writing a major paper on ‘Human Rights in Scotland’. She also contributed to the Summer Professor Jo Samanta and Professor José Miola Academy of Food Law and Policy in Bilbao in July (University of Leicester) have been given a seed 2016, convened by Professor Alberto Alemanno award from the Wellcome Trust for their research in collaboration with Harvard Food Law and project ‘Assessing Real and Perceived Barriers Policy Clinic and bringing together practitioners, to Innovative Medical Practice’. Dr Aurelien policymakers and industry representatives. Portuese has secured a visiting fellowship at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at Professor Pamela Ferguson has been appointed Oxford University. Dr Rajnaara Aktar has secured by JUSTICE to its fi rst working party in Scotland. The working party will be chaired by Lord Eassie funding from the SLSA Mentoring Scheme and and will consider the legal advice which is given the European Research Council in respect of her to suspects during police detention. Despite the fi eldwork on unregistered marriages. In autumn rights of suspects being improved following the 2016, De Montfort Law School launched the new Cadder decision, practice has been slower in Law Clinic, which is headed by Omar Madhloom. responding. A large majority of suspects now The Clinic allows students working under the waive their right to legal advice, with those who supervision of qualifi ed solicitors to advise clients. request it mostly receiving a brief telephone con- Professor Ronnie Mackay’s work on diminished versation. The working party will review current responsibility was cited by Lord Hughes in the practice and identify the procedural changes Supreme Court’s decision in R v Golds [2016] necessary to make the right of access to a lawyer UKSC 61. effective in practice. Law School became part of Dundee Durham Law School celebrates its 50th anniver- University’s wider School of Social Sciences in sary in 2017 and an ambitious series of events 2015 and one product of this has been signifi cant are planned for later this year. The Law School is amendment to the taught Masters programmes, witnessing a period of growth in its academic enabling greater integration between the pro- staff, with fi ve full-time appointments planned on grammes offered by the Law School and by the an annual basis and appointments in EU Law, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law Public Law and Human Rights, Intellectual Prop- and Policy, by the Centre for Water Law, Policy erty Law and BioLaw this year. Dr Laura Graham and Science as well as with other programmes moves to Northumbria University, as a Senior in Environmental Studies. With the University Lecturer. re-establishing its School of Business, a new LLM specialisation in Banking and Finance Law has Durham continues to undertake excellent research been started, featuring interdisciplinary teaching projects. Dr Aoife O’Donoghue, together with combining elements of law, fi nance and business. Professor Rosa Freedman of Reading, have com- menced an AHRC funded project entitled the ‘UN Professor Robin Churchill has moved from partial Gender Network’. The project focuses on bringing to full retirement (but remains an active scholar in together a range of academics, activists, state many ways) and Ms Elizabeth Kirk has moved to representatives and UN staff to discuss gender a chair at Nottingham Trent University, but three inequality within the organisation. The project new staff will be arriving in the summer, includ- aims to propose policy and legal changes the UN ing Dr Brian Jones from Liverpool Hope. may pursue in order to tackle gender inequality within the Secretariat and Agencies. Dr Jacques Hartmann won the Creative Teaching Award for the School of Social Sciences for the The research groups have hosted many interesting establishment of a new module preparing stu- seminars on topics ranging from Hegel and Natu- dents to compete in the Telders International Law ral Law to pre-nuptial agreements. Professor Elea- Moot Court Competition in The Hague. nor Spaventa convened the Brexit Lecture series, which was a public lecture series that covered Several staff, notably Professors Alan Page and various aspects of the decision to leave the Euro- Colin Reid, have been contributing to debates pean Union. Additional seminars on ‘Brexit’ were on Brexit by giving evidence to parliamentary hosted by The Durham European Law Institute.

13 In February, The Human Rights Centre convened by the AHRC, Newton Fund and Ningbo Science a seminar on the Miller judgment, which was and Technology Bureau (China). The event was funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account. attended by around 100 3D printing companies, Also funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration and widely reported in the international press Account, the Centre for Criminal Law and Crimi- becoming one of the most widely reported 3DP nal Justice hosted an invitation-only workshop events to date. The operation of a technical licens- on ‘Brexit and Organised Crime’ that saw contri- ing system based around watermarking technolo- butions from academics, and policing and prose- gies, where watermarks disguised in 3D printed cution practitioners from the UK and Ireland. In objects are capable of moving between digital March, the Institute for Commercial and Corpo- mediums, was demonstrated at the workshop. rate Law welcomed The Right Hon. Lord Mance, Justice of the Supreme Court for the Annual There are four new lecturers at Keele University Lecture. School of Law. Mark Ecclestone-Turner’s research interests generally span the fi elds of medical law In February 2017, the School hosted the SLS and ethics, intellectual property rights, public Annual Seminar: ‘The Future of Commercial Law: health and international law. Senthorun Raj’s Ways Forward for Harmonisation’. Organised research interests focus on ideas of emotion, gen- by Professor John Linarelli and Dr Orkun Akseli, der and sexuality across various sub disciplines the seminar brought together over 20 speakers of law. Sally Richards is broadly interested in and included a Keynote Lecture from Professor administrative justice scholarship and legal con- Emeritus Sir Roy Goode. sciousness research in socio-legal studies. Sue Westwood’s research interests are in relation to The Essex School of Law at the University of ageing, gender and sexuality in regulatory con- Essex was delighted to welcome the following texts; the performance of kinship through will- new faculty members in September 2016: Dr Flora writing and Powers of Attorney; assisted dying Huang; Dr Meagan Wong; Dr Gus Waschefort; debates in the context of the regulation of death Dr Theodore Konstantinides; Dr Hedi Viterbo; Dr and dying; the operation of anti-discrimination Carlo Petrucci; Dr Julien Sterck; Mr Kojo Koram; law in closed care spaces for older people; and Mr Lee Hansen; Dr Malakee Makhoul; and Mr dementia ‘citizenship’ and diversity. Mohammed Alshaleel. Michael Fay has been shortlisted for OUP Law Dr Flora Huang was awarded the HEFCE Newton Teacher of the Year 2017. Keele recently hosted the Funds to organise a conference in the University Regional Client Interviewing Finals with teams of Essex in March. The conference, ‘Ethics in from Keele, Derby and Leicester. Keele will be Chinese Financial Markets’ aims to promote wel- hosting the Association of Law Teachers annual fare and sustainable economic development in conference in 2018. Chinese markets and build capacity to allow exploration of new Newton activities. Moreover, The School has started an exciting (and very popu- Dr Huang’s article entitled ‘The ‘Tech’ of Two lar) new undergraduate elective in Mental Health Cities: What Hong Kong Failed but Shenzhen Law. This module looks at how the law applies to Succeeded’ (co-authored with Horace Yeung) was people with mental health conditions. The course awarded City Venture Research Grants in 2016, seeks to develop an understanding of Mental funded by the Coller Institute of Venture, Tel Aviv Health Law, to address and answer the funda- University. Dr Huang was also appointed as peer mental questions of Mental Health Law, and to reviewer of the Global Challenges Research Fund encourage a critical perspective on the areas (GCRF) of the ESRC in 2016. Dr Yseult Marique covered. Keele will be relaunching the LLM in was awarded a British Academy Rising Star Law and Society. This programme allows students Engagement Award in 2016. She has organised to gain a rigorous understanding of law and legal two workshops on ‘Comparative Public Law institutions from an interdisciplinary perspective. in Europe — Opportunities and Challenges’ in It is a small and selective programme that delivers September 2016 (Essex) and December 2016 (Brus- high quality postgraduate training to students sels). These were followed by a conference at the wishing to pursue a PhD in law and socio-legal British Academy in March 2017. The objective is studies or a career in the public and NGO sectors. to develop a research community of young The course is particularly attractive to emergent academics keen to develop a research agenda in researchers who desire to pursue an intensive comparative public law building on cooperation programme of study in law and society. with policy-makers, legal practitioners and civil servants. At the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies Pro- fessor Diamond Ashiagbor has been appointed to At Exeter University Dr Andrea Lista has become the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). a Professor and Dr Stephen Skinner and Dr A University of Oxford graduate with a PhD from Catherine Dupre have each become Readers. Dr the European University Institute in Florence, Griffi n, with Dr Phoebe Li (Sussex) and Dr Hing Professor Ashiagbor joined IALS in October 2016, Kai Chan (Nottingham Ningbo), organised a taking responsibility for its research promotion workshop in December 2016 concerning 3D print- and facilitation strategy and research studies ing. This was part of an ongoing project funded programme. Her research interests have focused

14 on labour/employment law, particularly in the Award 2017 for their article ‘Online RPM and context of regional integration (the European MFN under Antitrust Law and Economics’. Dr Union and the African Union); trade and develop- Subhajit Basu spoke to BBC Radio Coventry and ment; economic sociology of law; human rights, Warwickshire in February about the diffi culties equality and multiculturalism. faced by deaf people who try to use interpreters to communicate by telephone with private com- Dr Nora Ni Loideain has been appointed as Direc- panies and government agencies. Dr Basu was tor of the Information Law and Policy Centre at invited by Professor Joe Cannataci, UN Special the IALS from May 2017 onwards to take forward Rapporteur on the Rights to Privacy, to attend as the work of Dr Judith Townend who has joined an expert discussant at the Second Annual Gener- the law school at the University of Sussex. Dr Ni al Assembly which was held in Prague in October. Loideain is currently a Research Associate for the In December 2016, Professor Ian Cram appeared Technology and Democracy Project at CRASSH. on BBC Look North to discuss the issues sur- Her doctoral research at the University of Cam- rounding lifelong anonymity for child offenders. bridge examined the impact of the right to privacy on the EU Data Retention Directive. Previously, The International Tax Review’s Global Tax 50 has she was a Legal and Policy Offi cer for the Offi ce of listed Professor Rita de la Feria as one of the top 50 the Director of Public Prosecutions of Ireland and most infl uential individuals in the tax world. In clerked for the Irish Supreme Court. Her research February 2017, Professor de la Feria delivered her interests focus on governance, human rights and inaugural lecture, ‘VAT Anti-fraud Policy, Third technology, particularly in the fi elds of digital Party Liability, and the Rule of Law’. Professor privacy, data protection and state surveillance. Andrew Francis spoke at the European Confer- The Legal Records at Risk Project, funded by ence on Quality Assurance and Staff Accreditation private donation, is concerned with records of in October. private institutions specialised to law and is work- In December, LexisNexis published the third edi- ing with the National Archives and the British tion of Professor Andrew Keay’s book, Directors’ Records Association to develop a records rescue Duties. Dr Jen Hendry and Dr Ilias Trispiotis strategy and process. Signifi cant records are at co-convened the 2016 Annual Conference of the risk, especially because of recent developments UK Branch of the International Association of in legal services, resource constraints and digital Legal and Social Philosophy in October 2016. obsolescence. This project aims to identify records Dr Hendry presented her paper ‘Indigenous of research value, why they are at risk and what Communities, Collective Rights and the Collective solutions can be put in place to mitigate that risk. Voice’ at Oxford Brookes University School of The scope includes records of barristers, law fi rms, Law and NUI Galway’s Human Rights and Legal legal executives, patent agents, licensed convey- Theory seminar series. Dr Hendry also published ancers, court interpreters, arbitration records and two chapters: ‘“Existing in the Hyphen”: On Rela- the records of ancillary bodies such as legal statio- tional Legal Culture’, in Culture in the Domains of ners and law publishers. The Project will provide information owners with guidance on identifying Law and ‘Constitution as Dialogue: Legal Plural- and appropriately managing their valuable ism and the American Experience’ (with M. records and locating suitable archive repositories Tatum) in Constitutional Recognition of First Peoples for their preservation for posterity. The Director in Australia: Theories and Comparative Perspectives. of the Project, Clare Cowling (clare.cowling@sas. In September Professor Anna Lawson was one ac.uk), would be glad to hear from researchers of four experts invited to deliver a presentation whose work has been made possible by the use of before the European Parliament’s Committee on archival records of private institutions or hindered Employment and Social Affairs public hearing on by the loss of records. The Project web pages are the Commission’s proposal for a European Acces- at http://ials.sas.ac.uk/research/areas-research/ sibility Act. In October, Professor Lawson partici- legal-records-risk-lrar-project. pated in the Social Forum of the UN Human Rights At the University of Leeds Professor Pinar Council at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. The Akman was interviewed in October on the Bloom- Forum’s topic was the human rights of disabled berg Law School, a radio broadcast from New people. In November, Professor Oliver Lewis York, for her reaction to the Advocate General delivered the keynote speech at a conference on Opinion issued on the Intel appeal at the Court mental health and rights organised by Mental of Justice of the European Union. In December, Health Catalonia (Salut Mental Catalunya). Professor Akman provided competition law train- Professor Lewis gave his inaugural lecture in ing, as a part of the European Networking and November. Entitled ‘Disabling Legal Barriers’, the Training for National Competition Enforcers, to a lecture drew on his experience of litigation and group of competition authority offi cials, company advocacy in central and eastern Europe over the executives, practitioners and doctoral students last 15 years. Professor Elies van Sliedregt gave at the European University Institute in Florence. her inaugural lecture in December. Entitled ‘Joint Professor Pinar Akman’s research (co-authored Criminal Confusion — The Rise and Fall of the with Professor Daniel Sokol, the University of Joint Enterprise Theory in English and Interna- Florida) was nominated for an Antitrust Writing tional Criminal Law’, the lecture discussed the

15 effect of the Jogee ruling on debates on joint enter- Akman) and ‘Beyond the Theoretical: Articulating prise in international criminal law and explored Enforcement Strategies for Successful European the limits and possibilities of joint enterprise as a Antitrust Criminalization’ (Dr Whelan). liability theory for fi nding individuals criminally liable for collective forms of violence. The ESRC and National Natural Science Founda- tion of China have awarded a research team at the Professor Duncan Sheehan organised a conference School of Law £320,000 for a project titled ‘Boost- on Secured Transactions Law Reform, which was ing Growth through Strengthening Investor and hosted by the Centre for Business Law and Prac- Creditor Protection in China: How China Can tice at the University of Leeds and partly funded Learn from the UK Experience’. It is one of nine through the SLS Small Projects and Events Fund, collaborative research projects that seek to in January. develop and deepen understanding of the Chinese fi nancial system and its crucial role in supporting In October the Race Relations Act 1965 (RRA 1965) the future development and continued growth Banner was unveiled. The Banner was created by of the Chinese economy. The research team at the artist Alinah Azadeh for the 2015 Anniversa- Leeds includes Professor Gerry McCormack ries Exhibition at the Houses of Parliament and (Principle Investigator), Professor Roger Halson, won for the School by Professor Iviola Solanke. Professor Andrew Keay, Professor Joan Loughrey, The unveiling marked the opening of an exhibi- Dr Sarah Brown, Dr Jingchen Zhao and Dr Zinian tion in the School curated by Antony Butcher on Zhang who will work in collaboration with col- the evolution of anti-discrimination law in Britain leagues from Wuhan University, who have been over the last 50 years since the RRA 1965. The awarded a further £200,000 for their participation Centre for Technology and Society, at FGV Law in the project. School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has recently pub- lished the results of a two-year project in a report In January Leicester Law School welcomed Olivia titled ‘Terms of Service and Human Rights’. Dr Hamlyn, Clark Hobson and Kate Gooch. Research Konstantinos Stylianou served as one of the two continues to fl ourish with many involved in excit- co-directors of the fi rst phase of the project and ing projects. This time round, of particular note helped author the fi nal report. Professor Surya are the seed funds awarded to Jose Miola with Subedi OBE has been appointed an Honorary Tracey Elliott and colleagues from DMU by the Queen’s Counsel (QC) for his contribution to Wellcome Trust to look at ‘Real and perceived international law and human rights. barriers to innovative medical treatment’. The team will run focus groups to explore what doc- The United Nations Offi ce on Drugs and Crime tors perceive as the barriers to responsible medical engaged Professor Clive Walker as a special innovation. The information will then be exam- consultant on the revision of counter-terrorism ined to see whether such barriers actually exist legislation in . Professor Walker gave a and to propose effective solutions. Anna Carline keynote paper on ‘The War of Words with Terror- (PI), Mandy Burton and Sally Kyd, along with ism’ at the International Congress on Crime and Emma Palmer from the Department of Neurosci- Cyberspace conference at the Universidad Miguel ence, Psychology and Behaviour, have been Hernández, Elche (Spain) in December. The 6th awarded a contract with the Sentencing Council to annual report of the Independent Reviewer of carry out an evaluation of sentencing guidelines Terrorism Legislation (David Anderson QC) into on robbery and sexual offences. Rufat Babayev the operation of the Terrorism Acts was published has been awarded a grant by the British Academy in December and included a substantial chapter for a project entitled ‘EU migrants’ rights and UK (‘Foreign Terrorist Fighters and UK Counter- welfare reforms: Jobcentre plus practices’. Janet Terrorism Laws’) by his Senior Special Adviser, Ulph is part of a group led by the Arts Council and Professor Walker. the Museums Association working to produce ethical guidelines relating to museum closure for In October, Dr Peter Whelan presented a paper museum staff and governing bodies. This work at the 10th Annual Competition Law, Economics builds upon Janet’s guidance to the museum sec- and Policy Conference, held in Cape Town, and tor on legal title to museum collections, which was co-organised by the Competition Commission of supported by an Arts and Humanities Research South Africa and the Competition Tribunal of Council Leadership Fellowship. South Africa. In November, Dr Whelan presented his latest research paper at the Centre for Europe- Professor Marie Fox joined Liverpool Law School an Legal Studies at the . in 2016. Liverpool Law Clinic, the School’s The paper, ‘European Cartel Criminalization and in-house legal practice, welcomed three new Regulation 1/2003: Avoiding Potential Problems’, members of staff. Jo Bezzano was appointed to the was published in Dr Whelan’s latest co-edited col- Law Clinic Immigration and Asylum Lecturer/ lection The Consistent Application of EU Competition Practitioner post. This is a new post externally Law. Professor Akman and Dr Whelan published funded by the Strategic Litigation Fund and an articles in the same edition of the Antitrust Law anonymous charity for 2 years 4 months, and then Journal, the world’s leading competition law funded by the University. Deborah Tyfi eld and journal: ‘The Reform of the Application of Article Lucy Yeatman have also joined the Clinic as 102TFEU: Mission Accomplished?’ (Professor lecturer/practitioners.

16 Liverpool Law School has introduced a new ‘law teaching family law and the law of obligations. with a year abroad’ programme. This exciting Her research focused mainly on family law, but it degree programme allows students to gain a was much broader in range, characterised above Qualifying Law Degree whilst also allowing the all by the aim to uncover and contest the social opportunity to spend their third year on an and political assumptions behind existing legal approved placement at a European or overseas rules and prevailing opinion. Her work on adop- partner institution. Liverpool Law School recently tion, parenthood, domestic violence and, more partnered with The Sutton Trust to deliver its recently, the law of sexual offences identifi ed her ‘Pathways to Law’ programme pioneering initia- as one of the most original thinkers of her genera- tive designed to widen access to the legal profes- tion. Her monograph, Divorcing Responsibly (2003), sion to students in Years 10 to 13. Set up by The on the infl uence of post-liberal notions of choice Sutton Trust and The Legal Education Founda- on the law of divorce, was awarded the Socio- tion, it supports students in Years 10 to 13 from Legal Studies Association Book Prize in 2004. non-privileged backgrounds aspiring to a career Helen’s article on ‘Loss of Chances in the Law’, in law. Liverpool’s Placement Scheme is a major published in the Modern Law Review in 1996, and employability offering for Liverpool law students winner of the Wedderburn Prize in 1997, has been with placements in the summer vacation both in cited with approval by the House of Lords, and the UK and abroad, ranging from local fi rms of been a major point of reference in tort scholarship. solicitors, legal departments and Citizens Advice With Michael Freeman, she edited several works Bureaux to international law fi rms. and collections on the relationship between law and science (Law and Science: Current Legal Issues Last year, more than 300 students contributed to (1998); Science in Court (1998)). She was a founding the Liverpool Law Clinic through modules and member of the Institute of Ideas Parents’ Forum, projects. The Clinic’s lawyers recently authored and a member of the editorial boards of Law, the fi rst ‘Best Practice Guide’ to statelessness law Probability and Risk, the International Journal of Law in the UK, and the Clinic has been recognised in Context, and the Modern Law Review. She was a by UNHCR The UN Refugee Agency, as one of regular contributor to radio and television pro- only two organisations in the UK with a focus grammes. This catalogue of achievement does not on statelessness law and practice. The award- begin to account for all the qualities that made winning Hillsborough Pro Bono Project came to a Helen special to her colleagues in LSE Law, and conclusion in April 2016 with the verdicts in the to her much wider networks of colleagues and Hillsborough Inquests, ending almost three years friends: her good humour, her keenness to engage of work by more than 90 students who helped to with other colleagues’ work, her outstanding organise tens of thousands of pages and images record as a teacher and research supervisor, the for the inquest. fearlessness, integrity and sense of duty she brought to all her endeavours. Professor Jeremy Liverpool Law School’s research has received Horder, Head of LSE Law, writes: ‘Helen was a coverage in the national media, as a result of wonderfully dynamic and forceful character, and Professor Helen Stalford’s role as special advisor a tower of strength in her family and in the to the House of Lords’ EU Committee inquiry Department. The freshness, daring and icono- into unaccompanied migrant children and Sean clasm of her scholarship meant that, of anything Columb’s work on the Egyptian organ trade. Pro- she wrote, one could without question say that fessor Michael Dougan, and the wider EU Law @ once read, it would not be forgotten. We will all Liverpool team, was recognised in the University miss her terribly’. In Helen’s honour, the depart- Staff Awards as Winner of Outstanding Contribu- ment has arranged a Family Law Moot. The moot, tion to Public Engagement for work on the refer- the fi rst round of which will be held shortly in endum on EU membership and Brexit. This work 2017, has been very ably set up by one of LSE is ongoing and includes online videos, a number Law’s students, Ségolène Lapeyre. This moot is of invitations to provide oral evidence to parlia- unique in terms of its area of law, and it is mentary select committee inquiries, public designed to honour and to remember Helen. engagement events and guest lectures at various UK and European institutions. Last year also In Michaelmas Term, top 45 national law fi rm saw an expansion of innovative interdisciplinary Weightmans LLP generously agreed to provide research within the Law School, with Christine funding for LSE students to undertake research in Schwobel-Patel and Rob Knox’s conference on the healthcare and medical law. The scholarship will Aesthetics of International Law, and Anastasia be in honour of late partner Rena Field, a well- Tataryn’s workshop on Social Movements and known and highly respected clinical negligence Law in Ukraine. partner who worked at the fi rm for over 13 years. The agreement will be known as the ESRC-Rena Law Department, London School of Economics Field Scholarship. Weightmans, renowned for and Political Science: Helen Reece their work in the healthcare sector, will provide It is with the greatest regret and overwhelming funding to enable LSE Law to create a PhD schol- sadness that the Department announces the death arship or offer students research or fi eldwork on 26th October 2016 of Helen Reece, Associate bursaries in healthcare or medical law; or to create Professor of Family Law at LSE. Helen joined LSE a collaborative PhD scholarship in the fi eld of Law as an Associate Professor (Reader) in 2009, healthcare or medical law.

17 Over 180 LLB students and over 260 LLM students role in helping socio-legal studies become the started their degrees at LSE in September 2016. dynamic and thriving fi eld it is today’. New LLM courses on offer this academic year include Commercial Remedies convened by Dr Temi Mwale was included in the ‘Forbes 30 Under Solène Rowan and Dr Charlie Webb. 30 Europe’ list, in the Social Entrepreneur category: Temi is a 3rd year LLB student, and CEO and LSE Law Students this year have the benefi t of the Founder of The 4Front Project, which is a youth- new LSE LIFE facility, which is the School’s new led social enterprise that aims to understand and centre for academic, personal and professional reduce serious youth violence by empowering development. It is the place for all undergraduate young people. Two LSE LLB students were award- and taught master’s students to fi nd support, ed prestigious scholarships in Michaelmas Term. guidance and ideas about how to succeed in Panashe Jinga has been awarded a Freshfi elds studies and to extend their learning and discovery Stephen Lawrence 2016 Scholarship by the global outside the classroom. law fi rm Freshfi elds Bruckhaus Deringer. The scholarship scheme is a fi rst-in-kind social mobil- In Michaelmas Term, LSE Law continued to take ity scheme and seeks to address the dispropor- part in Pathways to Law, which is the Sutton tionate under-representation of black men in large Trust’s fl agship legal access programme, working commercial law fi rms. In addition to fi nancial with students in Years 12 and 13. The department support, Freshfi elds Stephen Lawrence scholars also takes part in the Alison Wetherfi eld Founda- receive coaching, commercial familiarisation, tion project. This project is for Year 12 students in mentoring and an alternative route to a training the London area, and it aims to provide young contract interview at Freshfi elds. Taehyun Baek people with an interest in law access to the legal has been accepted onto the Pegasus Access and profession and an insight into the study of law at Support Scheme run by Inner Temple. The scheme university. The programme includes seminars encourages prospective applicants to the bar who lead by LSE law faculty, an annual law conference may face potential barriers in pursuing this career. and a law mentoring scheme. At Middlesex University, the Doctoral Institute LSE Law has conducted a number of knowledge continues to fl ourish under the directorship of exchange activities in Michaelmas Term. These Professor William Schabas with over 100 students include the continuance of an active role in many enrolled in the PhD programme. The Institute aspects of the ongoing debate around Brexit, and coordinates regular events, including discussion the Article 50 litigation. Professor Niamh Moloney groups, writing skills workshops and student- published several articles on Brexit and Financial led writing retreats. The Institute also hosts a Services, including in the European Business Organ- bi-annual doctoral seminar which provides an isation Law Review. Professor Tom Poole and Dr Jo additional opportunity for students to present Murkens have been active publishing and appear- their work and receive feedback from peers and ing in the media to discuss many different issues faculty members. around Brexit. LSE Law’s numerous contributions to the debate, along with news of past and forth- Based in Middlesex University School of Law, coming events, may be found on a special page of the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre the LSE Law website. (EHRAC) is currently working on over 300 cases in collaboration with partner organisations The LSE Law Working Paper Series continues including the Memorial Human Rights Centre successfully, publishing new research by faculty (Russia), the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Associa- in a freely accessible online format. The series tion (Georgia), Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly- comprises three issues over the academic year Vanadzor (Armenia), the Ukrainian Helsinki (Spring, Summer and Winter) and in this term’s Human Rights Union (Ukraine) and the Legal issue, ten working papers were published. Education Society (Azerbaijan). EHRAC’s current areas of focus include cases of domestic violence, Professor Christine Chinkin, Director of LSE’s LGBTI rights and discrimination on grounds of Centre for Women, Peace and Security, has been religion. In March EHRAC lawyers represented awarded the Sir Brian Urquhart Award for distin- the applicant at a hearing of the Grand Chamber guished service to the United Nations by a UK of the European Court of Human Right in Mera- citizen. In October 2016, Professor Chinkin deliv- bishvili v Georgia — a case concerning the alleged ered the prestigious Lauterpacht Lectures on the ‘political prosecution’ of the former Prime Minis- theme of ‘International Law and Women, Peace ter of Georgia. Since EHRAC’s founding in 2003, and Security’. Congratulations to Professor Nicola over 130 judgments have been passed down by Lacey, who was recognised in the New Year’s the European Court of Human Rights as a result of Honours List, receiving a CBE for her services to cases brought by it and 97% of these judgments Law, Justice and Gender Politics. Professor Linda established violations of the ECHR. Mulcahy won the Socio-Legal Studies Association 2016 Annual Prize. The award acknowledges her Middlesex University Legal Advice Centre was contributions to the socio-legal scholarly commu- re-launched in January, offering pro bono legal nity: ‘She is truly a leading citizen of the socio- advice to residents in the London Borough of legal community and has played a very important Barnet in areas including housing, welfare and

18 benefi ts, family, children, domestic violence, wills in November, Dr Ilke Turkmendag presented a and probate, debt and bankruptcy, employment paper on regulatory issues around the human and Brexit related matters. Led by Husniye Sera genome editing at the EURORDIS workshop in Ustek-Bazen, a graduate of the School of Law and Paris. In the same month Visiting Professor of STS Solicitors in Hendon, and Dame Vera Baird QC delivered the Law School’s Lughaidh Kerin, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Legal Annual Lecture on the role of Police and Crime Education, the MDX Legal Advice Centre was Commissioners. established in response to two issues: fi rstly gov- ernment cuts to and secondly the need In December, Colin Murray presented his paper for students to learn experientially. ‘Pilgrims in an Unholy Land: The United King- dom’s Law Offi cers in Times of Crisis’ at the Uni- In his capacity as Jean Monnet Chair of European versity of Liverpool’s conference ‘After Chilcot: Public Law Professor Laurent Pech hosted an Evaluating the Legal Implications of the Iraq international conference in March at Middlesex Inquiry’. Professor Muireann Quigley has joined University, Dubai. The conference focussed on the Editorial Board of Medical Law International the Rule of Law and Arbitration, exploring legal and in December gave a keynote lecture, on ‘Lib- issues of common interest relevant to the Euro- ertarian Paternalism & Nudging: On Alluring pean Union, the United Arab Emirates and the Concepts & Public Policy’, at the 9th Annual Irish wider region. Behavioural Science and Policy Network. Recent publications from faculty members The Newcastle Forum for Human Rights and include: Alice Donald and Philip Leach, Parlia- Social Justice welcomed several guest speakers ments and the European Court of Human Rights in the last semester, including Dr Aidan Hehir (Oxford University Press, 2016); Carla Buckley, (School of Politics and International Relations, Alice Donald and Philip Leach (eds) Towards University of Westminster), presenting his paper Convergence in International Human Rights Law: ‘“Progress” or “The Unravelling of the Interna- Approaches of Regional and International Systems tional Order”?: Protecting Human Rights in the (Brill, 2016); and William Schabas, Introduction 21st Century’ and the writer and broadcaster to the International Criminal Court; 5th edition Tarek Osman delivering a lecture on ‘The Chal- (Cambridge University Press, 2017). lenge of Islamism in the Modern World’. In Febru- ary Dr Nayha Sethi of Edinburgh University Newcastle University enjoyed a busy end to 2016 delivered a Law, Innovation, and Society seminar and start to 2017 as it prepared to host the SLSA on ‘Regulating for Uncertainty in Research and Annual Conference in April 2017. The Law School Experimentation’. has welcomed David Lawrence, who joined in November as an REA postdoctoral fellow. He is Congratulations are due to Dr Kevin Crosby, presently fi nishing off his PhD at the University whose paper ‘Keeping Women off the Jury in of Manchester, and has a background in medical 1920s England’, funded by the British Academy/ science and biotechnological ethics and law. In Leverhulme Trust and Newcastle University, was February they were also joined by Dr Semande one of only three papers to be shortlisted for Best Ayihongbe who will be taking up the position of Paper at the SLS Annual Conference in Oxford. Research Associate on Professor Muireann Quig- Congratulations are also due to Professor Kathryn ley’s Wellcome Trust-funded project ‘Everyday Hollingsworth and Dr Daithí Mac Síthigh for Cyborgs: Mapping Legal, Ethical, and Conceptual important external appointments. Professor Hol- Challenges’. Dr Jane Ball retired in February. lingsworth has been appointed to the advisory board (chaired by Michael Gove) of the Howard The European Asylum Support Offi ce (EASO) has League’s programme to end the criminalisation of published its Judicial Analysis of the Common Euro- children in residential care homes. Dr Mac Síthigh pean Asylum System (CEAS), drafted by a team of has been appointed as a panellist of the Uniform three international experts in the fi eld, including Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) Dr María-Teresa Gil-Bazo (on behalf of the Inter- system administered by ADR.EU. national Association of Refugee Law Judges). Professor Sophia Tang recently published her Northumbria University is delighted to welcome new monograph on Confl ict of Laws in the People’s the following faculty members to the Law School: Republic of China. This monograph is the result of Professor Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Ann Ferguson, the fi ve-year project funded by the National Social Guido Noto La Diega, Daniel Fenwick, Ana Speed, Science Foundation of China, co-authored with Pro- Adam Ramshaw, Katherine Dunn, Paul Dargue, fessor YongPing Xiao (Wuhan University, China) Laura Graham and Lyndsey Martin. and Professor Zhengxin Huo (CUPL, China). In January Northumbria Law School students Professor TT Arvind and Dr Hélène Tyrrell joined visited the International Courts and Tribunals in panellists from the Universities of Sheffi eld and The Hague, The Netherlands. The trip included Strathclyde to speak at a seminar entitled ‘Exit visits to the International Criminal Tribunal for from the European Union: Article 50, Parliament the former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal and the Prerogative in the UK Courts’, hosted by Court, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and the the University of Liverpool in November. Also International Court of Justice. Students were also

19 able to attend important live hearings, relating to collection together and the lecture coincided charges of war crimes and crimes against human- with the publication of the 4th title in this series: ity, and the Ayyash et al.’s hearing. As part of their Consent. experience, students met with judges including Judge Flavia Lattanzi, the President of the Interna- Northumbria has recently produced a number of tional Criminal Court and Judge David Baragwa- publications. These include Legal Perspectives on nath, an International Patron for the Northumbria State Power: Consent and Control edited by Profes- Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies. sors Chris Ashford and Alan Reed, and Associate Dr Mohamed Badar, with Dr Nicola Wake a Professor Nicola Wake. The collection charts an co-ordinator of the trip, said: ‘This was an infor- important and original pathway to understanding mative and powerful experience, enriching their important issues surrounding the issue of consent learning and bringing to life the theory behind the and criminal law from a multi-disciplinary International Criminal Law Module of their approach. A special edition, ‘Comparative Per- course. The trip further opened doors for the stu- spectives on Criminal Justice Reforms’ was pub- dents in terms of internships at these tribunals.’ lished in the Journal of International and Comparative Student Lauren Hartley said: ‘Our recent study Law in December. The edition was edited by trip to The Hague was an invaluable experience Professor Alan Reed and Associate Professor and an opportunity to observe things in real life Nicola Wake. This special edition is divided into that we have been taught in lectures’. The trip will two parts. The fi rst half of the collection explores inform future events in international human rights contemporary issues in substantive criminal law and international criminal law, including a one- and sentencing. The second half of the collection day seminar on ‘Human Traffi cking and Modern assesses evidential issues affecting the operation Day Slavery’ organised by Dr Nicola Wake, and of the law. The Northern Ireland Law Quarterly the Northumbria Law School Summer Academy published a special edition of the ‘Age of Criminal in June on Contemporary Challenges to Interna- Responsibility’ in November, jointly edited by tional Criminal Justice, organised by Dr Badar and Associate Professor Nicola Wake, and Professors Professor Sue Farran. Raymond Arthur and Thomas Crofts. The genesis this special edition lies in the Age of Criminal Professor Chrisje Brants, Adam Jackson, Derek Responsibility conference convened by the guest Johnson (Geography Department, Faculty of editors and jointly supported by Northumbria Engineering and Environment) and Professor Tim University’s Centre for Evidence and Criminal J Wilson are part of a team which has received Justice Studies and the University of Sydney’s an award to investigate Institute of Criminology held at Northumbria ‘Police Detectives on the TOR-network: A Study University in Newcastle in September 2015. on Tensions between Privacy and Crime Fighting’ At Queen Mary University of London Professor (NordForsk, the ESRC and the Netherlands Janet Dine of the CCLS has been appointed Hon- Organisation for Scientifi c Research (NWO)). Led orary Professor at the School of Social Sciences by The Netherlands Open University, with co- and Law at the . Professor participants from The Politihøgskolen (The Nor- Rafael Leal-Arcas of CCLS has been awarded two wegian Police University College) and Stockholm grants: the WiseGRID project, funded by the EU University as well as Northumbria, the total value Commission’s Horizon 2020 for 42 months and the of the RGCI award is €1,136,915. The study will Jean Monnet Chair in EU International Economic address how society can properly deal with the Law for 36 months. tension between privacy and other fundamental rights of citizens (TOR-users), and the exercise The School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast of state power (offi cers on the TOR-network), began last semester in new £20 million premises, when this power is exercised for the purpose of which provide a number of innovative teaching preventing and investigating crime. Police prac- spaces and a social hub. tices will be compared with the demands imposed on detective work by principles found in evidence Professor Sally Wheeler was honoured with an and human rights law. OBE in the New Year’s Honours List 2017 for Services to Higher Education in Northern Ireland. The 3rd Taylor Francis Annual Lecture in Crimi- The School welcomes Dr Amrei Müller (as a Lever- nal Law was held in December. An outstanding hulme Research Fellow) and Dr Neil Partington lecture was delivered by Professor Jeremy Horder, (a Research Fellow under Erasmus+). The Law Head of Law at the London School of Economics, School bids farewell to Professor Jean Allain, who on the subject, ‘Political Corruption in the UK: joined the Faculty at the Monash University. When Should the Criminal Law Intervene?’ This lecture is the result of collaboration between Dr Luke Moffett, together with Professor Kieran Taylor Francis publishing and the series editors of McEvoy, Dr Cheryl Lawther, Dr Clara Sandoval- the Taylor Francis series, Substantive Issues in Villalba (Essex), Dr Peter Dixon (UN) and Dr Criminal Law. The editors are Alan Reed (Nor- James Gallen (DCU) were awarded an AHRC thumbria) and Michael Bohlander (Durham) with grant for a project entitled ‘Reparations, Responsi- Nicola Wake and Emma Smith (both of Northum- bility and Victimhood in Transitional Societies’ in bria). Verity Adams (Durham) brought the edited partnership with REDRESS. The Health & Human

20 Rights Unit, directed by Professor Thérèse the Los Angeles Superior Court gave a seminar Murphy, has won two fellowship competitions, on ‘Digital Privacy & Surveillance Powers’. In securing a three-year Leverhulme Early Career November, Professor Paul Hunt (Essex; a former Fellowship and a two-year Marie Skłodowska- UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health) Curie Fellowship. The latter focuses on the rela- delivered the 2016 Stephen Livingstone Lecture, tionship between risk and rights in pandemics; ‘The Right to Health: Context, Operationalisation the former examines the obligations and responsi- and Leadership’. In December, Professor Sarah bilities of non-state armed groups to secure Joseph (Monash) presented a seminar on ‘A access to health care of populations under their Re-examination of Sticks and Stones’. Faculty infl uence and control, and how these relate to members were busy presenting at various fora. the obligations and responsibilities of states and Professor Dagmar Schiek gave evidence to the international organisations. Dr Robin Hickey, Dr House of Commons’ Northern Ireland Committee Rachel Killean, Professor Ronan Deazley, Dr Dacia on the future of the land border between Ireland Viejo-Rose (Cambridge) and Dr Luke Moffett and Northern Ireland. Professor Anne-Marie were awarded a grant by the NI Department of McAlinder delivered a keynote address, ‘Online Economy under the Global Challenges Research Child Sexual Exploitation: Grooming, Sexting Fund for a project on ‘Restoring Cultural Property and Cyberbullying’, at the annual conference of and Communities after Confl ict’ working in par- the Association of Criminal Justice Research and ticular in Cambodia in partnership with DC-Cam, Development. Dr Kathryn McNeilly spoke at the a Cambodian NGO. Under the same scheme Dr Northern Ireland Assembly Knowledge Exchange Marek Martyniszyn was awarded a grant to inves- Seminar Series about the European Convention on tigate developing countries’ fi ght with interna- Human Rights and Abortion. Dr Mark Flear was tional cartels, a project with a special focus on invited to give a talk on ‘Ethical Innovation or South Africa and China. Regulating Ethics? The European Union’s Regula- tion of Biomedical Research and the Legitimation The Human Rights Centre at Queen’s has been of Technoscientifi c Innovation’ at the Vrije Uni- holding a series of international criminal law talks, versiteit Brussels (Belgium). Dr Yassin Brunger including by former prosecutor at the Extraordi- presented at the International Criminal Court nary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and Assembly of State Parties in The Hague. She pre- University of Liverpool lecturer, Alex Batesmith, sented a paper on ‘The Bemba Ruling and Beyond: International Criminal Court prosecutor, Paul Accountability for Sexual Violence at the ICC’ Bradfi eld, and former Extraordinary Chambers in with speakers including members of the Head of the Courts of Cambodia, Judge Downing. In Octo- the Gender and Children’s Unit and the senior ber the Centre for European and Transnational trial lawyer on the Bemba case. Dr Marek Mar- Legal Studies (CETLS) organised an international tyniszyn presented a paper on due process in EU PhD workshop on intersectionality in law, policy competition law proceedings at the conference on and society with a keynote by Professor Sandra Antitrust Enforcement in a Global Context organ- Fredman (Oxford). Also in October, the School ised by the University of Southern California (US). hosted a conference ‘Lawyers, Confl ict & Transi- tion’, marking the end of a three-year ESRC-funded Recent major publications by members of the project led by Professor Kieran McEvoy and School include: Dr Ciara Hackett’s Development in Professor Louise Mallinder (). In an Era of Capital Control (Palgrave). Drs Heather November the School was visited by colleagues Conway and John Stannard edited The Emotional from the Haifa Law School. The QUB-Haifa Legal Dynamics of Law and Legal Discourse (Hart); and Research Workshop, apart from showcasing the Professor Thérèse Murphy, together with Profes- research of both institutions, provided an oppor- sors Aoife Nolan (Nottingham) and Rosa Freed- tunity to discuss the role of law schools as centres man (Reading), edited The United Nations Special of research and teaching in divided societies. Also Procedures System (Brill). in November Professor Dagmar Schiek, Dr Marek Rosa Freedman joined the School of Law at the Martyniszyn and Dr Dieter Pesendorfer contrib- University of Reading as inaugural Chair of Law, uted to a conference ‘The EU Without the UK: Confl ict and Global Development and the Director Implications and Legal Consequences’, co-hosted of the Global Development Division. James by the University of Warsaw and Queen’s which Devenney joined the School of Law as Professor took place in Warsaw. The response conference of Commercial Law. ‘BREXIT? — 15 Months on: Socio-legal Perspec- tives on Substantive Proposals’ will be held at The School of Law is launching several new Inter- Queen’s on 23rd September 2017 and the call is national Commercial Law LLM programmes in now open. In January the CETLS, TREUP and the Autumn 2017. These include a restructured LLM Human Rights Centre organised an open, round- in International Commercial Law, along with the table discussion forum about practical implica- introduction of 10 distinct specialist commercial tions of the UK Supreme Court’s ‘Brexit’ (Miller/ LLM pathways. These new LLM pathways pro- McCord/Agnew) decisions for Northern Ireland. grammes build upon the research expertise of staff within the Centre for Commercial Law and The School welcomed a number of distinguished Financial Regulation and include specialisations speakers. In October, Judge Cunningham III from in Energy Law and Natural Resources, IDS, IP

21 Law and Management and International Corpo- practitioners. The conference was funded by an rate Finance. The new LLM pathways offer stu- N8 award led by the University of Leeds. In dents a multidisciplinary perspective with elective November the Centre for Criminological Research modules available within other Departments @ and the Sheffi eld Centre for the Study of Law Reading, including the Henley Business School, and Society held a public lecture by Dr Michael Department of Economics, School of Agriculture, Woolcock from the World Bank’s Development Policy and Development, and School of Geogra- Research Group on ‘Experimental Justice Reform: phy and Environmental Sciences. Lessons from the World Bank and Beyond’. The event was hosted by the School of Law’s Dr Mark Rosa Freedman received an AHRC Grant on Brown. In December the School of Law hosted sexual violence and peacekeeping; a BA Grant on a workshop on Legal Status of Single Persons in safeguarding children in peacekeeping opera- Fertility Treatment in the UK at the British Acad- tions; and a JBI Grant on Sexual Orientation and emy in London. The workshop was hosted and Gender Identity minority rights and the UN. Chris organised by the School of Law’s Dr Atina Kra- Hilson and Ruvi Ziegler co-organised (with col- jewska and was funded by a British Academy/ leagues from Politics and Human Geography) an Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant. Also in international workshop on ‘Climate Displacement December, and to commemorate United Nations and Resettlement: Claims-Making from Below’ in Human Rights Day, the School of Law held an February. Despoina (Deni) Mantzari was awarded interdisciplinary workshop on contemporary a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research issues in human rights. The workshop was hosted Grant for the project entitled: ‘The Infl uence by the School’s Human Rights Forum and was of Economic Evidence on Administrative Discre- organised by Dr Damian Gonzalez Salzberg. In tion: Empirical Evidence from the UK Utilities February a seminar to mark the re-launch of the Regulation’. Northern Administrative Law Association (co- Ruvi Ziegler gave a lecture in February on ‘The organised by the School of Law’s Joe Tomlinson with Sam Karim, Kings Chambers) was held at Predicament and Agency of Refugees’ as part of Kings Chambers, Manchester. The event featured the 2017 Inner Temple Reader’s series. The lecture a debate between Richard Clayton QC and Dr coincided with the publication of his monograph Michael Gordon on the recent Miller litigation. The Voting Rights of Refugees (CUP, 2017). keynote address on the topic of ‘The Future of The University of Sheffi eld School of Law wel- Courts and Tribunals’ was given by Lord Justice comes a number of new faculty members: Ryder, Senior President of Tribunals. Dr Apolline Roger (Lecturer in French Law); Two further events held in February were, fi rst, Dr Lindsey Rice (Lecturer in Criminology); Dr that the School of Law hosted a two-day work- Navajyoti Samanta (Lecturer in Corporate & Com- shop on Contemporary Issues in Communal Prop- mercial Law); Joe Tomlinson (Lecturer in Public erty: Dialogues and Debates. The workshop was Law); and Dr Adam White (Research Fellow in convened by the School of Law’s Dr Ting Xu and Criminology). was funded by a British Academy International The School of Law has introduced two new under- Partnership and Mobility Scheme award. Second, graduate programmes which will commence in a seminar entitled ‘UK Quo Vadis? The EEA as a 2017–18: LLB Law (with Chinese Law) and a BA Workable Framework’ was held at the School of Criminology. In 2016–17 part-time and PG Certifi - Law. The main speaker, Michael-James Clifton cate routes for the School’s MA International (Chef de Cabinet, Chambers of President Bauden- Criminology were introduced. bacher, EFTA Court), spoke about the EEA frame- work and how it may relate to the UK post-Brexit. Dr Richard Kirkham received a Nuffi eld Founda- His presentation was chaired by Professor Robert tion award of £83,491 to undertake a research proj- Burrell and discussed by Professor Tamara Her- ect which examines the quality of justice provided vey and Dr Richard Kirkham. The seminar was in the ombudsman sector. Dr Francesca Strumia hosted by the School of Law’s Joe Tomlinson. will be participating in a funded Jean Monnet Network — ‘CTRL + Enter Europe: Jean Monnet Professor Carol Tan replaced Mr Paul Kohler as Migrant Crisis Network (MIGRATE)’, which will Head of the SOAS School of Law in July, while focus on the ‘Balkan human corridor’ of Europe’s Professor Matt Craven’s term as Faculty Dean ‘migration crisis’, addressing the question — came to an end at the beginning of 2016. In Sep- ‘To what extent can further EU integration and tember the School welcomed Dr Muin Boase and enlargement offer a viable solution to the migrant Dr Kanika Sharma as Senior Teaching Fellows. Dr crisis?’ Nimer Sultany and Dr Vanja Hamzic´ were also promoted to Senior Lecturer. Professor Martin In October the Centre for Criminological Research Lau took leave of absence to take up the post of held an international conference on ‘Working with inaugural Dean of the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan the Police on Policing’. The conference was con- School of Law at Lahore University of Manage- vened by Professor Joanna Shapland and Dr Layla ment Science. Professor Diamond Ashiagbor Skinns, and its focus was on exploring approaches left SOAS to take up a chair at the Institute of to collaborative research undertaken in partner- Advanced Legal Studies within the University of ship between academic researchers and police the London.

22 The School was sorry to note the retirement, in Dr Catherine Jenkins and Dr Lutz Oette have March 2016 on health grounds, of Professor Peter taken over as Co-General Editors of the Journal of Muchlinski who joined the SOAS Law School in African Law. Professor Fareda Banda was featured 2005. Peter established his reputation as an emi- in the Leverhulme Trust’s 2015 Annual Review nent scholar of international economic law with and also recently helped the World Bank Gender the publication of the fi rst edition of Multinational team with their questionnaire for the next Women, Enterprises and the Law in 1995 by Blackwell Pub- Business and Law report. Dr Gunnar Beck gave lishers. The book has been in continuous print expert evidence to the UK Parliament on ‘Ever since then and a second edition was published in closer union’ in the EU Treaties and the case law of the 2007 by Oxford University Press. Upon his retire- Court of Justice and to the ECR parliamentary ment Peter Muchlinski was appointed Emeritus group of the European Parliament on Reality and Professor at SOAS. He has continued to teach his misconceptions about the legal obligations resulting postgraduate course on Multinational Enterprises from the 1951 Refugees Convention and the EU’s Dub- and the Law and remains research active. He is lin asylum regime (November 2016 and February currently planning a third edition of Multinational 2017). Dr Beck also delivered a lecture and chaired Enterprises and the Law. a panel discussion at Düsseldorf’s Industrie-Club on ‘The European Central Bank’s Quasi-dictatorial As part of its curriculum development plan the Role in the EU’ (February 2017) and acted as SOAS School of Law has introduced a new under- discussant and commentator on Brexit-related graduate module entitled Asylum and Immigration issues for BBC Two’s Daily Politics and BBC Radio Law and a new LLM/MA course on International Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programmes Refugee and Migration Law. Both modules are con- in January and February 2017. vened by Dr Lutz Oette and taught by the conve- nor and Dr Clara della Croce. Dr Ernest Caldwell Stirling Law School welcomed fi ve new col- took over as Chair of the Centre of East Asian Law. leagues: Professor Simon Marsden, Chair in Energy Law, and lecturers Dr Kim Barker, Dr Mo Members of the Law School have been successful Egan, Dr Thomas L Muinzer and Dr Annalisa in obtaining external funding and external honor- Savaresi. These appointments have strengthened ary appointments. Professor Carol Tan, with a Stirling’s specialisms in Energy and Environmen- grant of £36,400 from the British Council Newton tal Law, Intellectual Property, and Commercial Fund Researcher Links programme, held a work- and Criminal Law. shop on Indonesian migrant workers at Universi- tas Indonesia in Jakarta in September 2016. Dr The Law School at University College Cork has Vanja Hamzic´ was awarded US$50,000 in conjunc- recently established the Centre for Law and the tion with his annual Membership at the School of Environment (CLE) in order to consolidate and Social Science in the Institute for Advanced Study better support the wide range of quality, high- at Princeton. Dr Nimer Sultany was awarded impact research activity ongoing within the School a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and in the fi eld of Environmental, Marine, Climate, will spend the 2016–17 year pursuing a research Energy and Natural Resources Law, and to facili- project on ‘Revolution, Constitutionalism and tate broader legal and interdisciplinary research Religion after the Arab Spring’. collaboration and engagement both within and beyond UCC. Dr Kate Grady was a Visiting Scholar at the Asia € Pacifi c Centre for Military Law, School of Law, Dug Cubie was awarded 23,470 under the Irish Research Council New Foundations 2016 Scheme University of Melbourne, during September and for the project: Advancing International Networks October 2016. Dr Petra Mahy was a visiting for Understanding, Researching and Implement- researcher at the Department of Business Law and ing International Disaster Laws (AINURI-IDL). Taxation, Monash University, Australia, through- In partnership with the Irish Red Cross Society, out July 2016. this project will advance understanding of the In November 2016, the School of Law and the emerging fi eld of international disaster laws for Centre for African Studies held the Law and Irish-based humanitarian agencies and academics. Development in Africa Network’s second Lecture Fiona Donson and Aisling Parkes have been Series (chaired by Professor Mashood Baderin) on awarded €23,033 from the Irish Research Council ‘Sovereign Immunity, Rule of Law and its Impact New Foundation Scheme for the project: National on Infrastructure Development in Africa’ at SOAS. Advocacy and Research Strategy to Support Speakers included Dr Emilia Onyema from the Children Affected by Parental Imprisonment. The SOAS School of Law. In December 2016 Professor main visible outputs will be the development of a Lynn Welchman co-convened (with the London strategy which will be launched at the beginning Middle East Institute (LMEI) and several col- of September 2017. leagues from other SOAS departments) a two-day conference at SOAS under the title ‘Gender and At University College Dublin Sutherland School Generation in the After-math of the Uprisings. of Law, the School has had the pleasure of wel- Political Visions, Desires, Movements in the coming a number of new visiting scholars in the Middle East and North Africa Today’. second semester of this academic year, including:

23 Renata Marques da Frota, a post-doctoral practitioners and academics. Also in October, the researcher from Universidade de Coimbra, work- Hon. Mr Justice Nial Fennelly gave the annual ing on alternative dispute resolution; Yuliang Walsh Lecture, which this year focussed on the Pang, a PhD researcher at the University of judicial legacy of the late Hon. Mr Justice Adrian Antwerp, working on a ‘Comparative Study on Hardiman. As part of an ongoing collaboration China’s Legal Policy Space in Import Protection with the Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL), the Under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture’; and Business, Law and Regulation Research Group Professor Victoria Ramos Barbero, a lecturer (BLREG) held an international duo-colloquium from the Universidad de Burgos, researching entitled ‘Consumer Protection and Competition desistance from crime among drug-dependent Policy in a Changing World’ in December. Distin- inmates in Spain. guished contributors from Hong Kong, Japan, Latvia, Poland, the Netherlands and the United There have been a number of signifi cant new Kingdom, along with UCD Sutherland School of publications during the period: Joanne Blenner- Law (SSoL) academics, offered insightful and hassett’s A Comparative Examination of Multi-Party thought-provoking perspectives on the challenges Actions ( Professional), which was for- faced by branches of commercial law during the mally launched by Judge Catherine McGuinness; current period of legal, economic and political and Brian Hutchinson’s Keane on Company Law ‘shocks’, including Brexit. Finally, in conjunction (5th edition, Bloomsbury Professional), which with the University of Copenhagen’s iCourts was also formally launched with presentations Centre of Excellence for the Study of International including those from the Hon. Mr Justice Liam Courts, the School of law hosted a second author’s McKechnie of the Irish Supreme Court and the workshop for the project ‘Legal Authority beyond Hon. Mr Justice Ronan Keane, former Chief Justice the State’. The two-day workshop was organised of Ireland. Richard Collins’s The Institutional by Richard Collins, and held at both the Royal Problem in Modern International Law (Hart) was Irish Academy and the Sutherland School of Law launched with a panel discussion, with contribu- in January. The resulting contributions of legal tions from Patrick Capps (Bristol), Margaret scholars from across Europe and North America Martin (Western Ontario) and Henrik Palmer will be published by Cambridge University Press Olsen (Copenhagen). Marie-Luce Paris has co- in 2017. edited (with John Bell (Cambridge)) a collection of essays, Rights-Based Constitutional Review: Consti- At University College London, Iris Chiu and Jeff tutional Courts in a Changing Landscape which arose King have become Professors. Myriam Hunter- out of the SLS Annual Seminar of July 2013. Liam Henin, Rob George and Martins Paparinskis have Thornton has co-authored Fundamentals of the Irish been promoted to Readerships. Martin Petrin Legal System: Law, Policy and Politics (Roundhall), and Ian Williams have been promoted to Senior with Tanya Ni Mhuirthile (DCU) and Catherine Lectureships. O’Sullivan (UCC). Oliver Gerstenberg and Kevin Toh joined the Finally, Paul McDermott has published the second Faculty of Laws as Senior Lecturers. Niamh edition of Contract Law (Bloomsbury Professional). Connolly, Mark D’Souza, Kate Greasley, Ugljesa Grusic, Silvia Seteu and Daniela Simone joined Niamh Howlin and Mark Coen have received as Lecturers. €19,831 from the UCD Foundation Ltd. for a proj- ect entitled ‘Judge-Jury Interactions in Ireland’. Ian Williams obtained a British Academy/Lever- hulme small research grant in relation to under- In November, the School of Law honoured Benja- standing the Star Chamber as a court of criminal min Cleary, a graduate of the BBL Business and equity. Hazel Genn obtained a Legal Foundation Law degree programme, at the UCD Alumnus Institute grant to look into Health-Justice partner- of the Year Awards. Benjamin’s short fi lm The ships. Ioannis Lianos obtained sponsorship from Stutterer won the Academy Award for Best Live the Modern Law Review seminars to convene a Action Short Film at the 2016 Oscars. Also in workshop on blockchain and the constitution of November, Marie-Luce Paris was awarded the a new legal order. Ying Liew obtained an SLS Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre des Palmes Aca- research activities fund grant in respect of ratio- démiques by the French Ambassador to Ireland. nalizing constructive trusts. Her nomination was decided by the French Minis- ter for Education and Research in recognition of The School of Law at University of Worcester her signifi cant work promoting legal education opened its doors for the fi rst time in September and research relating to Ireland and France. 2016 to students on the LLB (Hons) Law. From next September the School is also offering The School of Law has also hosted a number of LLB(Hons) Law with Criminology and LLB(Hons) successful conferences and workshops over recent Law with Forensic Psychology. Nicola Monaghan, months. In October, in conjunction with the Chris Monaghan and Stephen Hurley were all Employment Law Association of Ireland (ELAI), appointed as Senior Lecturers at the School of the School of Law held a conference on ‘The Work- Law at the University of Worcester, joining Bill place Relations Act 2015 — One Year On’, with Davies as Head of Law and Professor Sarah Greer, contributions from a range of distinguished Deputy Vice .

24 The new School of Law at University of Worcester The Law School is pleased to be hosting the inau- was formally opened on 26th January 2017 by Sir gural West Midlands Regional Schools Mooting Andrew McFarlane, Lord Justice of Appeal. The Competition in 2017. A number of schools will be school has its own specialist law teaching suite participating in the moot, the theme of which will including a mock courtroom in a Crown Court be gross negligence manslaughter. design with Jury Room and Witness room attached. The courtroom is designed to be fully Two inaugural lectures have been held recently. accessible for wheelchair users. The School of Professor Peter Walton delivered his lecture ‘The Law has also opened a Legal Advice Centre, run Future of Insolvency Law: From Ear Cropping to in conjunction with local fi rms specialising in a Catalyst for Enterprise’ in November and Pro- Employment Law. fessor Graham Brooks followed in December Wolverhampton Law School welcomes the fol- and spoke on the subject of the ‘Criminology of lowing new faculty members: Karolina Norris Corruption: Unexplored Avenues of Prevention’. from Coventry University, who specialises in EU York Law School is pleased to welcome Dr Law- and Commercial Law; Lucy Carter-Hyett from Birmingham City University, who specialises in rence McNamara from the Bingham Centre for the International Criminal Law, International Law, Rule of Law. Dr McNamara has been appointed Equity and Trusts; and Dr Lezelle Jacobs from Reader in Public Law at York Law School. He will the University of the Free State South Africa, who retain his links with the Bingham Centre on a part- specialises in Insolvency and Commercial Law. time basis. He has recently been awarded £25,000 The School is saddened to see the departure of by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust to study Sukhwinder Chhokar to Coventry Law School. closed judgments.

RESEARCH GRANT REPORTS

The following reports have been received with The following day, a smaller group met to discuss respect to Small Projects and Events Fund awards a forthcoming publication, which will disseminate provided by the SLS. the project, in the form of a Research Handbook in European Union Health Law and Policy, to be Professor Tamara Hervey (University of Shef- published by Edward Elgar in early 2017. Each fi eld), ‘Health Systems and EU Law and Policy: contributor shared a draft chapter, and acted as The State of the Art and Direction of Travel’, discussant on another, related chapter. Brussels, January 2016. The purpose of the project is to take stock and to Co-sponsored by NIHDI, the European Social look forward, as the effects of EU law and policy Observatory, the Health Law and Policy Research on health systems, health care and public health Group, University of Sheffi eld, the University are better understood. The Patients’ Rights Direc- Association for Contemporary European Studies tive, for instance, is supposed to have been imple- and the Society of Legal Scholars. mented by all Member States, but emerging data Over 130 people from 16 countries in the EU and from ongoing research prompted interesting dis- beyond gathered at the National Institute for cussions about national compliance. Reforms of Health and Disability Insurance (NIHDI) in Brus- EU law on professional mobility have implications sels on 28th and 29th January 2016, to discuss for health care professionals and systemic capacity ‘Health Systems and EU Law and Policy: The State planning. Assumptions about east-to-west and of the Art and Direction of Travel’. south-to-north professional ‘brain drain’ are chal- lenged by data showing that migration patterns An open conference with six keynote speakers, are much more complex, and variable according and policy responses from 15 panellists concen- to profession. Health is understood in the EU law trated on Health systems and the mobility of and policy as a ‘productive factor’ — investment patients and professionals in the EU; Fiscal sus- in the effects of the EU and IMF’s economic gover- tainability of health systems and EU governance; nance on health and health systems, particularly and EU health law and policy in global contexts. in the MoU states. Hopeful, in that the EU could The panel respondents include policy makers assist Member States to develop effi cient aspects from several DGs in the European Commission; of their health care systems. national health ministries; and professional and civil society networks and coalitions. Both the The project also looks outward, beyond the EU, to in-person Q&A and the Twitterfeed #HCEU16 consider effects of the EU’s health law and policy made for a lively discussion. on the rest of the world. Concerns about the new

25 international trade agreements, such as CETA and crime will take place, whilst Dr Krebs addressed TTIP, as well as the missed opportunities for whether Jogee has implications for the law of the EU to become a leader and rule-maker in manslaughter. Meanwhile, Dr du Bois-Pedain global health, raise important questions for future considered how far an independent responsibility- research. ascription model would be better suited for deter- mining criminal liability for spontaneous violent Dr Matthew Gibson (University of Liverpool) encounters. and Dr Mark Dsouza (University College London), ‘“Joint Enterprise” after Jogee: Recon- The second plenary panel focussed on the policy sidering Law and Policy’, September 2016. problems which joint enterprise scenarios contin- ue to pose for the criminal justice system. The pan- On Thursday 1st September 2016, the International el was chaired by Mr Neil Moore (Legal Advisor Criminological Research Unit of the University to the Director of Public Prosecutions), and papers of Liverpool hosted a one-day conference on the were presented by Professor David Ormerod QC legal and policy implications for joint enterprise of (Law Commission; University College London), the UK Supreme Court’s decision in R v Jogee Dr Ben Crewe, Dr Susie Hulley and Dr Serena [2016] UKSC 8. The event took place at the Univer- Wright (University of Cambridge), Mr Will sity of Liverpool’s London campus in Finsbury McMahon (Centre for Crime and Justice Studies) Square and was generously funded by the Society and Dr Andrew Green (University of Sheffi eld). of Legal Scholars’ Small Projects and Events Fund. Professor Ormerod QC asked if it would have The decision in Jogee, delivered by the United been better for the UKSC to have left it to the Law Kingdom Supreme Court (UKSC) on 18th Febru- Commission to initiate and shape reform in this ary 2016, substantially changed the law of accesso- area of law, whilst Dr Crew, Dr Hulley and Dr rial liability. It effectively abolished the doctrine of Wright presented fi ndings from their research ‘joint enterprise liability’ (or ‘parasitic accessorial into prisoners’ perspectives on the legitimacy of liability’) which previously provided a distinct joint-enterprise based convictions. Subsequently, route to a criminal conviction as an accessory to in separate papers, Mr McMahon and Dr Green an offence. The only route to conviction as an examined the manner in which the law of accesso- accessory that survives is ‘ordinary accessorial rial liability differentially affects persons based on liability’, which requires the prosecution to prove their race and ethnicity. that the secondary party aided, abetted, coun- The second panel was followed by an all-panel selled or procured the principal perpetrator to Q&A session, which was chaired by Ms Gloria commit a criminal offence. Furthermore, the Morrison of the campaign group Joint Enterprise: Supreme Court also clarifi ed that even for ordi- Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA). This stimu- nary accessorial liability, the prosecution must lated lively and interesting discussions across all prove that the defendant knew or foresaw that the strands of debate. The day concluded with a wine conduct assisted or encouraged would amount to reception, followed by a conference dinner for an offence, rather than merely that he was subjec- speakers and key delegates. tively reckless as to that possibility. Accordingly, the UKSC held that the courts had, for over Erin Ferguson (University of Strathclyde), ‘Visu- 30 years, been misreading the law on accessorial alising the Law’, University of Strathclyde Post- liability. Jogee was therefore one of the most graduate Law Conference, October 2016. important decisions affecting domestic criminal law in recent times. The second annual University of Strathclyde Post- graduate Law Conference was held on 27th–28th The conference brought together legal practitio- October 2016. This year’s theme — Visualising the ners, academics specialising in criminal law and Law — invited presenters to develop a paper criminology, criminal justice campaigners, police based on one of six pre-selected images. The representatives and students of the law to debate images acted as conference streams, and present- the key issues of law, policy and principle that ers were asked to consider how the images related arose in Jogee. The day began with a keynote to their research, either literally or through the address from Lord Toulson, Justice of the UKSC, use of metaphor to explore concepts. The aims member of the bench in Jogee, and co-author of the were to bring together postgraduate and early judgment in that case. career researchers from diverse areas of law and to challenge researchers to think about and commu- The fi rst plenary panel scrutinised the implica- nicate their research from a different perspective. tions of Jogee for criminal law doctrine. The panel was chaired by Professor David Ormerod QC The conference attracted over 40 presenters from (Law Commission; University College London), all over the United Kingdom and abroad, includ- and papers were presented by Dr Matthew Dyson ing Italy, Greece, Latvia, the Netherlands and (University of Cambridge); Dr Beatrice Krebs India. The presentations demonstrated a high (University of Reading); and Dr Antje du Bois- level of engagement with the theme and covered Pedain (University of Cambridge). Dr Dyson a range of areas, including EU law, criminal law, discussed the effect of Jogee on the extent to IP law, family law, labour law and jurisprudence. which an accomplice must engage with whether a Approximately 20 additional delegates, who fully

26 participated in discussions and contributed to Commentary was referred to in very elogious the event with thought-provoking questions, terms by Peter Smith from Public Spend Forum attended the conference. Europe in September. As we escalate the promo- tion on social media (Twitter and Facebook), our Dr Saskia Verymeylen gave the keynote address, networks (European Commission Stakeholder entitled ‘Drawing Lines in the Sand: Performativ- Expert Group in Public Procurement; EU Commit- ity of Terra Nullius and Native Title Claims’. tee of the Law Society; European Procurement Delegates were welcomed to the conference by Law Group) and our own blogs (telles.eu and Professor Nicole Busby, Head of Strathclyde Law howtocrackanut.com) we expect the numbers School, and enjoyed a civic reception hosted by to go signifi cantly up in the coming months. Just the Lord Provost of at Glasgow City on Friday, the Chief Trade Economist of the Euro- Chambers. Karen Richmond, a PhD candidate at pean Commission Lucian Cernat favourited on , delivered a skills work- Twitter Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells’ tweet about shop, ‘Visual Methods in Legal Research’, which the Commentary launch. From the information was developed in collaboration with Amanda available we can identify that a number of visitors Perry-Kessaris of the University of Kent. are coming from universities, local councils, The support from the Society of Legal Scholars’ regional governments, the House of Commons, Small Projects and Events Fund meant that we did European Commission and European Coun- not have to charge delegates a registration fee. cil. Colleagues from institutions in the UK, Italy, As a conference primarily aimed at postgraduate Denmark and South Africa have been using the students, this was extremely important to the Commentary as teaching material since Septem- conference committee. One of our aims was to ber and we expect the take-up to increase in the develop an inclusive and accessible conference, next academic year once its dissemination increas- and the fi nancial support from SLS helped us to es. Our plans for the future include a yearly revi- achieve this. sion/update of entries in line with new case law or signifi cant doctrinal developments in the area, The conference was well received by delegates, ensuring the Commentary will remain relevant with the vast majority rating the conference and vibrant for years to come. ‘excellent’ or ‘very good’ in our follow-up survey. Presenters reported that they welcomed the We would like to take the opportunity to once opportunity to approach their research from a dif- more thank the Society of Legal Scholars for its ferent perspective, with many indicating that they support in making this project possible. chose to attend the conference due to its theme. Dr Sam Adelman and Dr Celine Tan (University Participants also indicated that they were grateful of Warwick), ‘Workshop on Governing the Plan- to have the opportunity to connect with other et: Issues in Global Environmental Governance postgraduate researchers, both for the intellectual (An International Economic Law in Context exchange and the informal networking. Commit- Workshop)’, November 2016. tee members gained valuable experience in all aspects of conference planning and evaluation, The second workshop in the International Eco- and the conference is set to become an annual nomic Law (IEL) in Context Workshop Series was event with the Law School. successfully held on Thursday 3rd November 2016 at the . The workshop Dr Pedro Telles (Swansea University) and Dr was organised by the Centre for the Law, Gover- Albert Sanchez-Graells (University of Bristol), nance and Regulation of the Global Economy ‘Public Contracts Regulation 2015 Commentary (GLOBE), Warwick Law School. The IEL in Con- Final Report’. text Workshop Series is organised by the Centre The Commentary to the Public Contracts Regula- for the Law, Regulation and Governance of the tions 2015 by Dr Pedro Telles (Swansea Universi- Global Economy (GLOBE) at Warwick Law School ty) and Dr Albert Sanchez-Graells (University of aimed at exploring the interdisciplinary and Bristol) is now available in full at www.pcr2015. contextual nature of contemporary scholarship in uk. We estimate the length of the Commentary at international economic law, broadly defi ned. around 70–80,000 words. The fi rst 24 entries were released on 4th July, followed by a second release This workshop, ‘Governing the Planet: Issues in on 5th September (25–66) and a fi nal instalment Global Environment’, was attended by 16 people. (67–122) on 8th December. This fi nal instalment The objective of this workshop was to consider was delayed from the target of 31st October due to the various contemporary legal, social, political unforeseen increases in workload for both authors and economic issues in global environmental in late summer. governance and international law. Based upon the involvement of the organiser in several successful The numbers of monthly visits before the fi nal workshops of this nature, one of the main aims of instalment was made available were already in the workshop was to encourage as much discus- the 300–330/monthly visits range with barely any sion as possible between the speakers and those marketing or promotion. As would be expected, attending. This was achieved by allocating an most of the visits come from the UK (67%), hour for each of the three presentations — half an followed by the USA (5%) and Portugal (4%). The hour for the speaker followed by 30 minutes

27 of discussion of the content of the presentation. Director of the Project, provided an overview of The fi nal session comprised an open discussion the Project and its current position at the end of in which attendees could ask questions or make the day’s proceedings. The conference attracted comments about any aspect raised directly or about 35 people and had a range of speakers indirectly in the presentations. and attendees from the Law Commission, BEIS, academia and practice from the UK, Germany and The fi rst speaker, Professor Louis Kotzé from the Republic of Ireland. All the sessions produced the Faculty of Law, North-West University, South some lively debate and discussion. The conference Africa, spoke on ‘Constitutionalising Global Envi- opened at 9.30am and fi nished at 4.45pm. The ronmental Law and Governance’. He outlined presentations will be hosted on the Secured Trans- the emergence of the relatively new fi eld of global actions Law Reform Project website. environmental constitutionalism and analysed its strengths and weaknesses. The conference was opened by Professor Gerard McCormack, the Director of the Centre for Busi- Evadne Grant, School of Law from the University ness Law and Practice. This introduction was of West England (UWE), Bristol was the second followed by the fi rst session which examined speaker presenting on ‘Global Environmental re-characterisation or registration of retention of Governance and Human Rights’. She described title clauses (and other title fi nancing devices) as the limits and potential for using human rights in in-substance security interests. Duncan Sheehan relation to the environment under the European of the University of Leeds asked what would Convention on Human Rights, the African happen to priority and nemo dat rules if we did Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the register or re-characterise them, and Richard Cal- Inter-American Convention on Human Rights. nan put the opposing City of London Law Society Discussion of the presentation included the view of how priorities ought to be reformed while absence of similar treaties in Asia. not re-characterising or registering such devices at The third speaker was Professor Duncan French all. The second session examined specifi c diffi cult from the Law School, University of Lincoln whose asset classes and the means of taking security over presentation was entitled ‘Governing the Planet in them, priority rules and how the rules might be the Era of Climate Change: Navigating Operation- reformed moving forward. Andrea Tosato from al, Normative & Structural Challenges’. Professor the University of Nottingham spoke about intel- French examined the future of global environmen- lectual property, Ed Murray from Allen & Overy tal governance by analysing the Paris Agreement talked about fi nancial collateral, which, being and the Sustainable Development Goals. governed by a European Directive, may (or not) be easier to reform post-Brexit, and David Quest QC Feedback from the speakers indicates that they from 3 Verulam Buildings spoke on the diffi culties were satisfi ed with the format, attendance and around taking security over more esoteric elec- scope for discussion. Feedback from the workshop tronic assets such as crypto-currencies and bitcoin itself also indicated that delegates very much wel- in particular. After lunch, the third session exam- comed the approach of the workshop. Professor ined different international instruments, compar- French suggested that we might consider making ing the Draft Common Frame of Reference, the a symposium of this kind an annual event. More UNCITRAL Model Law on Secured Transactions, information about the workshop can be found on dealt with by Ole Boeger, a judge of the German the website: www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/ Court of Appeal in Bremen, and the Cape Town research/centres/globe/events/iel_seminars/ Convention on International Interests in Mobile planet_workshop/ Equipment discussed by Anton Didenko of the Professor Duncan Sheehan (University of Leeds), University of Oxford. The fi nal session looked at ‘Secured Transactions Law Reform Conference’, consumers and the impact and likelihood of 6th January 2017. reform over bills of sale, and possible impacts of expanding a Personal Property Security Act to This report outlines the conference on ‘Secured consumers. Tamara Goriely and Daria Popescu of Transactions Law Reform’, hosted by the Centre the Law Commission spoke on their proposal for for Business Law and Practice at the University of reform, and Sarah Brown of the University of Leeds on 6th January 2017, and part-funded Leeds spoke more generally on the effect of reform through the Small Projects and Events Fund. on consumers, in terms of third party effects and The conference was held in conjunction with consumer protection against irresponsible lending the Secured Transactions Law Reform Project or oppressive conduct by lenders. Francis Evans, a (https://securedtransactionslawreformproject. senior policy analyst at BEIS, then gave the current org/), and Professor Louise Gullifer, Executive UK Government position on reform.

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