Past Law on Trial events
You can read about past Law on Trial events below. In addition, you can also view videos, podcasts and images for past events.
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2023
- 19 June 2023: Critical Perspectives on Commercial Law: From Tattoos to Patent Drawings and Models of Market Players
- 20 June 2023: From Studying Law to Practicing Law: Celebrating 30 Years of Birkbeck Law Graduates
- 21 June 2023: The Social and Political Lives of Trials, with Allison Tait, Mayur Suresh, Basak Ertür, Elena Loizidou
- 22 June 2023: Bowie Love: Beyond Law
- 23 June 2023: Ecological Destruction and Climate Litigation on Trial, with Stewart Motha and Fleur Ramsay
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2021 Law, pandemic and crisis
- 14 June 2021: 'Fragile Constitutions And The Rise Of Authoritarianism' (video)
- 15 June 2021: 'Black Resistance To British Policing In The Past And Present' (video)
- 16 June 2021: 'Pharmaceutical Patents And Pandemics: Public Health And Private Wealth?' (video)
- 17 June 2021: 'Technology And The Pandemic: Labour, Money, And Power' (video)
- 18 June 2021: 'Down We Go Together: Law, The Pandemic and Critical Thinking' (video)
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2019 Communication technologies on trial
- 10 June 2019: 'Democracy' (video)
- 11 June 2019: 'Social and Financial Exclusion' (video)
- 12 June 2019: 'Cultural Production' (video)
- 13 June 2019: 'Work and the Environment' (video)
- 14 June 2019: 'Privacy, Security and Surveillance' (video)
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2018 Punishment and Rights Violations
- 11 June 2018: 'Othello on Trial' (performance and symposium discussion)
- 12 June 2018: 'Public Opinion and the Politics of Punishment' (panel discussion)
- 13 June 2018: Daniel Monk, Birkbeck, University of London, 'School Dress Codes: In Whose Best Interests?' (response from Laura Lundy, Queen’s University, Belfast and Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Children’s Rights)
- 14 June 2018: 'Punishment on Trial' (panel discussion)
- 15 June 2018: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, CUNY Graduate Center, Dr Beth E. Richie, University of Illinois, and Deborah Coles, INQUEST, 'Building the World We Want: Prison Abolition and Gender, Racial and Economic Justice'
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2017 Religion on Trial
- 12 June 2017: Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University, 'Why Does Liberalism Find It So Hard To Cope With Religious Identity?'
- 13 June 2017: Dr Kevin Barker, University of Suffolk and Kwame Dawes, poet and author, 'Babylon System: Prophecy and Political Advocacy in Marley’s Lyric (video)'
- 14 June 2017: 'Islamic Law and Gender Justice (video)' (panel discussion)
- 15 June 2017: 'Islamic Finance: The Middle East, Malaysia and the West (video)' (panel discussion)
- 16 June 2017: Marinos Diamantides, Birkbeck, University of London, and Dr Anton Schutz, Birkbeck, University of London 'Demystifying Secularisation (video)'
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2016 The European Union at the Crossroads
- 13 June 2016: Michelle Everson, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Europe at the Crossroads: Change as Crisis? (video)'
- 14 June 2016: 'Brexit: Should the UK Leave the EU? (video)' (panel discussion)
- 15 June 2016: 'Europe's Migration Crisis' (panel discussion)
- 16 June 2016: 'Can the EU Regulate a Financial Crisis? (video)' (panel discussion)
- 17 June 2016: 'The EU at the Crossroads: Can Europe Build Itself a Future? (video)' (panel discussion)
- 13 June 2016: Michelle Everson, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Europe at the Crossroads: Change as Crisis? (video)'
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2015 The University on Trial
- 15 June 2015: 'The Islamophobic University (video)' (panel discussion)
- 16 June 2015: 'Barring Access: Criminal Convictions, Risk Management and Higher Education (video)' (panel discussion)
- 17 June 2015: Adam Gearey, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Lives That Slide Out of View: Jurisprudence and Poverty (video)'
- 18 June 2015: 'Scholars, Intellectuals and Research Evaluation Exercises (video)' (panel discussion)
- 19 June 2015: 'The End(s) of the Legal Academy (video)' (workshop), featuring:
- Richard Collier, Newcastle University, 'Wellbeing in the Legal Profession: Law Firms, Law Schools and the (Un)Happy Lawyer (or, What Do We Talk About, When We Talk About Wellbeing in Law?)'
- Patricia Tuitt, Birkbeck, University of London,'The Law School and the Force of Law'
- Soo Tian Lee, Birkbeck, University of London, ' The Structure of a University: Instrumentalism, Idealism and Forms of Life'
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2014 Scientific Evidence
- 16 June 2014: Renata Salecl, Birkbeck, University of London, 'What’s On My Mind? Law, Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis'
- 17 June 2014: 'Justice and Research Evidence: Examining the Use of Research Evidence to Police Rape Cases'
- 18 June 2014: 'Forensic Futures'
- 19 June 2014: 'State Violence Under the Microscope'
- 20 June 2014: 'The Power of Experts'
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2013 Legal Utopias: The Future of Law and Legal Education
- 17 June 2013: Adam Gearey, Birkbeck, University of London, 'The Utopian Law School and the Fate of the University'
- 18 June 2013: 'Legal Education: Socialist Survivors'
- 19 June 2013: 'New Foundations: Re-Designing the Academic Stage of Legal Training'
- 20 June 2013: Lisa Webley, University of Westminster, 'Cultural Capital, the Legal Profession and Indirect Discrimination'
- 21 June 2013: 'Dream a Little Dream of Law'
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2012 Crime, Order and Justice
- 18 June 2012: Matthew Weait, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Unsafe Law: Public Health, Human Rights and the Legal Response to HIV'
- 19 June 2012: Kat Craig, Christian Khan Solicitors, and Owen Greenhall, Garden Court Chambers, 'Protesting in a Time of Cuts: A Clampdown on Civil Liberties?'
- 20 June 2012: Tim Newburn, London School of Economics, 'Reading the Riots'
- 21 June 2012: John Pitts, University of Bedfordshire, 'Spinning the Crisis: Riots, Politics and Parenting'
- 22 June 2012: Simon Fulford, Khulisa UK, and Amanda Nelmes, LEAP Confronting Conflict, 'Empowerment as Resistance: Critical Praxis in an Age of Incarceration'
2011 Social Justice and Exclusion
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2010 Social Rights
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