Lord Phillips: A view from the Supreme Court
Funding arrangements do not “satisfactorily guarantee” the Supreme Court’s institutional independence, said Lord Phillips (President of the Court) in his lecture at UCL on 8 February, which marked the...
View ArticleProvost’s Circle reception 2011
The Provost’s Circle is a collective of individuals who have each pledged a gift of £1,000 or more to UCL in the last twelve months, and together want to help to shape the university’s future. UCL...
View ArticleLunch Hour Lecture: Sex, Drugs, the Internet & Juries, 10th March
Sarah Polcz, UCL Laws, reports on last week’s Lunch Hour Lecture, “Sex, Drugs, Race and the Internet: Jury Myths and Challenges”. UCL Laws’ Professor Cheryl Thomas confronted these misconceptions,...
View ArticleUS Supreme Court Justice Breyer at UCL Laws
On 17 March, UCL’s Judicial Institute was delighted to host a visit by US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, a rare occasion for our law students to hear about the American justice system, direct...
View ArticleBill of Rights debate gets people listening
It’s not often that the most distinguished attendees of a lecture are seated in the audience and not on stage. On 26 October, Sir Leigh Lewis, chair of the Commission on a Bill of Rights and former...
View ArticleUCL Jurisprudence Review hosts debate on free speech and privacy
The UCL Jurisprudence Review launched its 17th volume by hosting a 1 November debate on ‘The Normative Value of Free Speech and Privacy’. Napoleon Emm. Xanthoulis reports. In her opening address, Dean...
View ArticleImplementing the EU’s CO2 Storage Directive: Challenges and Opportunities
Environmental lawyers, geologists and international policy makers were amongst the diverse participants attracted to a 7 November event hosted by the UCL Carbon Capture Legal Programme. The conference,...
View ArticleThe Triumph of Human Rights: Dream or Nightmare?
Claire Lougarre, UCL Laws PhD candidate, reports on ‘The Triumph of Human Rights: Dream or Nightmare?’, a UCL Lunch Hour Lecture held on 26 January. The talk was presented by Colm O’Cinneide (Reader,...
View ArticleFreedom of the press vs. privacy rights
The focus of the seventh UCL Laws/Bindmans debate, held on 8 February, would have struggled to be more topical against the backdrop of the ongoing Leveson Inquiry. The Inquiry was set up to look at the...
View ArticleWhat is modern slavery?
Written by Neil Rodger, UCL Communications Manager So, what is modern slavery? That was the question posed in a Lunch Hour Lecture given by Dr Virginia Mantouvalou (UCL Laws), Co-Director of the UCL...
View ArticleWhat will happen when artificial intelligence and the internet meet the...
Written by Cathryn Evans (UCL Laws) On Thursday 22 October, UCL Honorary Professor, Richard Susskind OBE and his son Daniel Susskind, a lecturer in economics at Oxford, launched their new book, ‘The...
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