Professor Paula Giliker delivers lecture and address in Ljubljana17 May 2012Professor Paula Giliker will be delivering a lecture on European Contract Law entitled - A common sales law for Europe? - at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana on 24 May 2012, followed by a keynote address at the national Judicial Academy held at the Supreme Court of Slovenia on Friday 25 May 2012.
Dr Michael Naughton on BBC's The Big Questions4 May 2012Dr Michael Naughton took part in the BBC's The Big Questions live from Ashton Park School in Bristol, where the topic under discussion was "Do some crimes deserve the death penalty?"
European Research Council Studentship: Deadline 7 May 20124 May 2012The School of Law is able to offer one studentship in socio-legal studies which is funded by the European Research Council as part of the New Sites of Legal Consciousness research programme.
Law School team in 2012 South West Legal Support 8k Walk22 April 2012The Law School team completed the 2012 South West Legal Support 8k Walk round Bristol on Wednesday April 18th to raise money for legal advice agencies across the South West. Donations are still welcome at
Paula Giliker speaks at the IV Conference on Law Studies in Europe and Legal Terminology Workshops22 April 2012Paula Giliker, Professor of Comparative Law and Director of European Legal Studies, recently represented the Law School at the IV Conference on Law Studies in Europe and Legal Terminology Workshops (IV Jornadas sobre Estudios de Derecho en Europa y Cursos de Terminologia Juridica) at the University of Valencia friom 17-20 April 2012.
Law Alumni Forum on Human Rights Implementation12 April 2012Bristol Alumni Forum: Human Rights Implementation, London, 26 April 2012, 6.30 pm. The third in the series of this annual Law focused event will be on the topic of Human Rights with a discussion led by Professor Malcolm Evans OBE, Chair of UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, a member of the Foreign Secretary’s Advisory Group on Human Rights and Deputy Director of the Human Rights Implementation Centre at Bristol.
CITL part of Academic Centre for Excellence in Cyber Security Research3 April 2012The University of Bristol has been awarded a new and prestigious status for its world-class research in the field of cyber security, playing a pivotal role in helping to make government, business and consumers more resilient to cyber attack. Andrew Charlesworth, Reader in IT & Law and Director of the cross-disciplinary Centre for IT & Law, based in the Law School and Department of Computer Science, is one of the researchers involved in the bid.
Law School's latest successful PhD: Tehseen Noorani3 April 2012The School of Law congratulates Tehseen Noorani who has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Tehseen’s work, which was supervised by Dr Morag McDermont (Law) and Professor Thomas Osborne (SPAIS), focused on the interface of the personal and the political in mental health.
Professor Bronwen Morgan gains research grants from Australia and Canada28 March 2012Professor Bronwen Morgan has secured Aus$817,858 (£535,000), funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, as sole Principal Investigator for a project entitled “Between Social Enterprise and Social Movement: Responses to Climate Change at the Intersection of Rights and Regulation”. She has also secured US$125,000 (£78,000) from the International Development Research Centre in Canada, as a co-Principal Investigator with Navroz K. Dubash from the Centre for Policy Research, India, for a project entitled “Climate Change as a Challenge of Multilevel Governance: Relations Among National Institutions in India and South Africa, and with the Emerging Global Climate Institutions”.
Helping the Innocent – Innocence Network UK Symposium: Reform of the Criminal Cases Review Commission28 March 2012To mark the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, Dr Michael Naughton and Gabe Tan have organised a Symposium under the auspices of the Innocence Network UK that will discuss how the CCRC should be reformed so that it can better assist applicants who may be innocent.
OPCAT UK NPM Workshop on the Use of Force and Restraints, 20 March19 March 2012On 20th March the Human Rights Implementation Centre will be hosting a workshop of the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) for the UK entitled 'UK NPM workshop on the Use of Force and Restraints.' The aim of the workshop is to discuss the methodology of UK NPM organisations in respect of monitoring the use of force and restraints in places of deprivation of liberty.
Research Seminar: 'Urban citizenship: seeing like a city, seeing like a neighbourhood, seeing like a firm', 30 March19 March 2012The Schools of Law, Geography and SPAIS will be hosting a research seminar, 'Urban citizenship: seeing like a city, seeing like a neighbourhood, seeing like a firm', with Mariana Valverde, Professor of Criminology, University of Toronto on Friday 30 March 2012, 12noon-2.30pm, at the Bristol Institute of Public Affairs, 2 Priory Rd, Bristol.
The View from the EU Bench, Sir David Edward KCMG, PC, QC: 15 March6 March 2012Sir David Edward KCMG, PC, QC will hold a conversation about his role as a Judge of the European Court of Justice, a position from which he retired in 2004, with Professor Panos Koutrakos, Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair in European Law at Bristol Law School on Thursday 15 March, 2012 at 12 noon, in the Old Council Chamber in the Wills Memorial Building
Jennifer Thompson: Innocence and Forgiveness, Watershed, 7 March 2012, 13.30-14.3024 February 2012Jennifer Thompson has become an outspoken opponent of the death penalty and speaks frequently about the need for judicial reform.She is now a member of the Actual Innocence Commission, advisory committee for Active Voices, member of the Constitution Project and Mother’s for Justice. She talks about her work. This event is run jointly with Innocence Network UK and University of Bristol Law School.
Law School's latest successful PhD: Tanya Palmer15 February 2012The School of Law congratulates Tanya Palmer who has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Tanya’s thesis, which was supervised by Lois Bibbings (Law) and Melanie McCarry (School for Policy Studies), ‘Contested Concepts: Sex and Sexual Violation in the Criminal Law’ focused upon ideas about sex.
Law School's latest successful PhD: Wei Hua15 February 2012The Law School is delighted to announce that Wei Hua has been awarded a PhD for her thesis, 'A Dialogical Theory of Minority Rights.
Professor Judith Masson speaks in Niigata on parental child abduction15 February 2012Niigata University in Japan is holding a seminar on The Hague Abduction Convention with experts from its partner universities in Germany and the UK to learn about their experience. Professor Judith Masson will be speaking on parental child abduction.
Dr Michael Naughton delivers seminar paper at Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield, 8 Feb.22 January 2012Dr Michael Naughton, Senior Lecturer in the Law School and SPAIS, and Director of the Innocence Network UK (INUK) at the University of Bristol, will deliver a seminar on 'How the Presumption of Innocence Renders the Innocent Vulnerable to Wrongful Convictions' at the Centre for Criminological Research, University of Sheffield on February 8, 2012.
INUK Event: Joel Hicks - Smiling in the face of a false allegation, 6pm, 18 Jan.11 January 2012On Wednesday 18 January, the Innocence Network UK (INUK) will host a talk by former Bristol Chemistry student, Joel Hicks, who will talk about his experiences of being a victim of a false allegation of abuse against a pupil at a school at which he was working. The event will be held in the Coutts Lecture Theatre, 3rd Floor, Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol.
Law School's latest successful PhD: Sebastián Zárate10 January 2012The School of Law has awarded the degree of PhD to Sebastián Zárate for his thesis entitled 'A socio-legal response to the constitutional problems of independent regulators in the UK and Spain'.
Review of the Law on Ombudsman (Akyikatchy) of the Kyrgyz Republic10 January 2012Review of the Law on Ombudsman (Akyikatchy) of the Kyrgyz Republic in the light of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention against Torture and Draft Law of the Kyrgyz Republic ‘On the National Centre of the Kyrgyz Republic on prevention of torture and other inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment’
Draft Law on Amendments and Additions10 January 2012Draft Law on the Amendments and Additions to certain legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the matter of the establishment of national preventive mechanisms aimed at the prevention of torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
