Friday 28 July 2017

• 10:00 - Law and Medical Sciences conference
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers

Monday 9 October 2017

• 13:00 - Nuremberg Was Not the First International Criminal Tribunal — by a Long Shot
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 12:30 - Planetary Defence: Asteroids, Nuclear Weapons and International Law
  Professor James Green (University of Reading)

Monday 16 October 2017

• 13:00 - Transitional Justice in Brazil and the Jurisprudence of Inter-American Court Of Human Rights
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:30 - 'The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World'
  Professor Oona Hathaway (Yale Law School)
  Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 12:30 - Mobile Indigenous Peoples Use of the 2006 Forest Rights Act in India: Access to Justice, Gender Equality, and Forest Governance
  Indrani Sigamany (University of York)

Monday 23 October 2017

• 13:00 - Seeking a 'Just Justice': Discursive Strategies of Resistance in Côte d'Ivoire
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 17:45 - The Intersection of International Law, Foreign Policy, and National Security
  Avril D. Haines (Columbia University)
  Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Monday 30 October 2017

• 13:00 - Book Colloquium: Voting Rights of Refugees
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 13:00 - 'Justifying the Use of Force Against Terrorist Groups'
  Anthony Dworkin (European Council on Foreign Relations)
  Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 12:30 - International Law and the Sustainable Development Goals – shaping the rules for our common future
  Dr Markus Gehring (British Institute of International and Comparative Law University of Cambridge)

Monday 6 November 2017

• 13:00 - Transitional Justice and Stabilisation: Risks or Opportunities?
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Monday 13 November 2017

• 13:00 - Competing Memories: Truth and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone and Peru
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Monday 20 November 2017

• 13:00 - Rape and Sexual Violence during the Bosnian War: Transitional Justice Gaps and Challenges
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Monday 27 November 2017

• 13:00 - Travelling Jurisprudence: the Circulation of Legal Reasoning on International Crimes between Europe and Latin America
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - CSLS Book Launch: Redress Schemes for Personal Injuries
  Dr Sonia Macleod, Professor Christopher Hodges
• 16:30 - Redress Schemes for Personal Injuries
  Sonia Macleod (CSLS), Christopher Hodges (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 12:30 - 'The Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflicts'
  Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Emanuela-Chiara Gillard (ELAC, Oxford)
  Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Friday 19 January 2018

• 13:00 - The Role of US Antitrust Law in the Global Competition Community: the Isolation of US Antitrust Law
  Professor Spencer Weber Waller (Loyola University Chicago)

Monday 22 January 2018

• 12:45 - Conflict in a Connected World: Journalism, Justice and Accountability in the Realm of Open Source Information
  Eliot Higgins (Bellingcat)

Friday 26 January 2018

• 13:00 - The Role of of US Antitrust Law in the Global Competition Community: Antitrust and Democracy
  Professor Spencer Weber Waller (Loyola University Chicago)

Monday 29 January 2018

• 13:00 - The Mladić Case before the ICTY – an Insider’s Perspective
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Jonas Nilsson (International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY))
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 January 2018

• 13:00 - Invasive species and forest: threats and solutions
  Prof. Carina Keskitalo (Umeå University )
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 12:30 - De-moralizing harm: the potential of actor network theory (ANT) in critiquing criminalization
  Matthew Weait (University of Portsmouth)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 5 February 2018

• 13:00 - The Right to Life, UN Rules of Engagement and Use of Deadly Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Professor Siobhán Wills (Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - "It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti" Film Screening and Discussion
  All attendees are invited to a drinks reception
  Professor Siobhán Wills (Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 12:30 - Devolving power to citizens with the use of digital tools in budgeting processes: A path to peace in Colombia?
  Diana Dajer (CSLS)

Monday 12 February 2018

• 13:00 - The UN in Kosovo: Building the Rule of Law and Respect for Human Rights, a Very Mixed Record
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Bill O’Neill (UN Mission in Kosovo)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 12:30 - On the Regulatory Geography of Modern Capitalism: Putting ‘Rule of Law’ in its Place
  Michael Dowdle (National University of Singapore)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 19 February 2018

• 13:00 - Genocide on Trial. Witnessing and Evidence at Rwanda's Gacaca Courts and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Julia Viebach (Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - The importance of space in law
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 13:00 - Regulation Researcher Roundtable: Mining Data
  Various Speakers
  Regulation Discussion Group
• 17:00 - "No Place for a Rebel": Film Screening and Discussion
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 12:30 - Can adaptation to climate change at all be mainstreamed in complex multi-level governance systems?
  Prof. Carina Keskitalo (Umeå University )
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 26 February 2018

• 13:00 - Voice, Agency and Responsibility in Northern Ireland
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm.
  Dr Cheryl Lawther (Queen’s University Belfast)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 12:30 - Taking responsibility after Grenfell
  Helen Carr (University of Kent)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 6 March 2018

• 13:00 - The usability of weather forecasts for UK drought management: interdisciplinary explorations of skill, risk and regulation
  Sophie Haines (University of Oxford)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 12:30 - Victim Oriented Tort Law in Action: An Empirical Examination of Catholic Church Sexual Abuses Cases [co-hosted with the Empirical Legal Studies DG]
  Gijs van Dijck (Maastricht University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 15 March 2018

• 14:00 - Trump's Man on the Bench: Neil Gorsuch, Or How to Become a US Supreme Court Justice
  Professor Michael Dreyer ( Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

Friday 23 March 2018

• 17:00 - Miguna Miguna: "Kenya's Current Political Crisis"
  Dr Miguna Miguna, Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 April 2018

• 13:30 - Ecological Regulation: What is needed and what is possible?
  Joint event with the Environmental Law Discussion Group
  Professor Fiona Haines (School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne)

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 12:30 - Opening the Black Box of Algorithmic Law
  David Restrepo-Amarilles (Assistant Professor of Private International Law, HEC Paris)

Monday 30 April 2018

• 13:00 - European Union and Democratisation: Backsliding in Tow of Unsuccessful Conditionality?
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Katarína Šipulová (Judicial Studies Institute, Masaryk University Brno)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 May 2018

• 16:00 - **BOOK COLLOQUIUM** Global Lawmaking: International Organizations in the Crafting of World Markets
  Followed by a small reception in CSLS- all welcome
  Susan Block-Lieb (Cooper Family Professor in Urban Legal Issues, Fordham University’s School of Law), Terence Halliday (Co-Director, Center on Law and Globalization), Natalie Mrockova (Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Law, St John’s College (commentator)), Leigh Payne (Professor of Sociology, Latin American Centre, Oxford (commentator))

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 12:30 - Affect and the theo-political economy of the right to freedom of ‘thought, conscience and religion’
  Marinos Diamantides (Professor in Constitutional Law and Ethics, Birkbeck, University of London)

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 13:00 - International Criminal Law and Border Control: The Expressive Role of the Deportation and Extradition of Rwandan Citizens
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Nicola Palmer (King's College London)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 10 May 2018

• 12:30 - Colonial laws and policy- Case of 1871 Criminal Tribes Act and its contemporary impact on indigenous tribes and conflict with the state in India
  Shweta Barge (MSc Candidate, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - Catalonia: A Constitutional Debate
  Dr Javier Garcia Oliva (University of Manchester), Professor Josep Capdeferro Pla (University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)

Friday 11 May 2018

• 14:00 - The Schmitesen Court: The Question of Legitimacy
  Or Bassok (University of Nottingham)
  OxonCourts

Monday 14 May 2018

• 13:00 - Book colloquium: Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Gwen Burnyeat (University College London), Dr Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 May 2018

• 13:00 - The usability of weather forecasts for UK drought management: interdisciplinary explorations of skill, risk and regulation
  Joint event with the Environmental Law Discussion Group
  Dr Sophie Haines (InSIS, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 14:00 - Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America
  Dr Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos (University of Oxford)
  OxonCourts

Thursday 17 May 2018

• 12:30 - Narratives of Tower Block Refurbishment: A case study from Oxford, England
  Roxanna Wills (BA Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford)

Monday 21 May 2018

• 13:00 - Amnesties and Inclusive Political Settlements
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Professor Louise Mallinder (Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 May 2018

• 13:00 - Gene drive mosquitoes as a regulatory problem
  Assoc. Prof. Javier Lezaun (, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, School of Anthropology, Unversity of Oxford)

Wednesday 23 May 2018

• 14:00 - The Discourse of Legal Witnessing and Collective Memory: lessons from the archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  Benjamin Thorne (University of Sussex)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 14:00 - Legal Syncretism in Constitutional Rights in Africa: A Comparative Study of Nigeria, South Africa, and Ethiopia
  Berihun Gebeye (Central European University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 24 May 2018

• 12:30 - Developing Socio-Legal Careers
  Agnieszka Kubal (Lecturer in Sociology, University College London)

Friday 25 May 2018

• 14:00 - Judicial Review in Norway: A Bicentennial Debate
  Change of Venue: St Cross Building, Seminar Room L
  Anine Kierulf (Law, Oslo University), Prof Aileen Kavanagh (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
  OxonCourts

Monday 28 May 2018

• 13:00 - A Glimpse Into Contested Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Peru: The Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Ñusta Carranza Ko (Ohio Northern University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 May 2018

• 13:00 - Regulating illegal wildlife trade
  Joint event with the Environmental Law Discussion Group
  Michael t’ Sas-Rolfes (School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford Martin Program, University of Oxford)

Thursday 31 May 2018

• 12:30 - Multi-Parenthood in Brazil: an analysis of the Brazilian Supreme Court's position on socio-affective and biological paternity
  Fernanda Mathias (Lecturer, Centro Universitário de Brasília, Brasil)

Friday 1 June 2018

• 14:00 - Managerial Practices at the International Criminal Court: Enhancing efficiency or reinforcing hegemony?
  Richard Clements (Law, University of Cambridge)
  OxonCourts

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 12:30 - Constitutional Courts: Guardians of Democracy, Guarantors of Justice? Conceptualization and Empirical Application
  Max Steuer (Doctoral Researcher, Comenius University - Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)

Friday 8 June 2018

• 10:00 - Studying Judicial Disagreement Quantitatively: The Case of Judges on the UK Supreme Court **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME**
  Change of time: starts at 10 AM
  Lindsay Stirton (Law, University of Sussex)
  OxonCourts

Tuesday 12 June 2018

• 13:00 - Hybrid data governance in the cloud
  Dr. Asma Vranaki (Department of Law, University of Bristol)

Thursday 14 June 2018

• 12:30 - Consumer ADR/ODR in Europe: The Dutch Approach 2.0
  Eline Verhage (PhD Candidate, Leiden University – Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)

Friday 15 June 2018

• 14:00 - US Courts on Agency Valuation of Environmental Benefits
  Sroyon Mukherjee (Law, LSE)
  OxonCourts

Wednesday 11 July 2018

• 11:30 - Legitimized Refugees: The Political Goal of a Regulated Immigration, and the Promise of Legal Certainty
  Martin Joormann (, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 27 September 2018

• 12:30 - Co-movement of Political Risk and Sovereign Credit Risk: A Wavelet Coherence Analysis for Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela
  Alper Ozun (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 8 October 2018

• 13:00 - The ICC Rohingya Case: Radical or Routine?
  The talk will begin at 13:15, light sandwich lunch will be served from 13:00
  Prof Payam Akhavan (McGill University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Mapping the past and present state of socio-legal studies in family law in Oxford, and its impact on family justice
  Mavis Maclean CBE (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford), Professor John Eekelaar (Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 12:30 - Indigenous peoples’ rights in Lowland Bolivia: Local Perspectives on Mandates and Municipalities
  Jessika Eichler (Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 15 October 2018

• 13:00 - Keynote Seminar: Judge Flavia Lattanzi at OTJR
  The talk will begin at 13:15, light sandwich lunch will be served from 13:00
  Prof Flavia Lattanzi
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Stories of Care: an ethnographic lens on legal doctrine
  Dr Lydia Hayes (Cardiff University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 12:30 - In the shadow of the judge: the involvement of judicial assistants in Dutch Courts
  Nina Holvast (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Theory and Methodology, Erasmus School of Law)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 19 October 2018

• 14:00 - Who writes? Explaining authorship on the Supreme Court
  Professor Chris Hanretty (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  OxonCourts

Monday 22 October 2018

• 13:00 - ‘Battling for (In)justice: Resurgent Authoritarianism, Ongoing Conflict, and Transitional Justice in the Arab Region’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Dr Noha Aboueldahab (Brookings Doha Center)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Board Compliance
  Professor John Armour (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 13:00 - The Geography of ‘Land Grabbing’ Regulation: Challenges for Transnational Law
  Dr. Andreas Kotsakis (Oxford Brookes University )
  Regulation Discussion Group

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 11:30 - The Telcos’ Application of Big Data, IOT and AI and the Consumer Perception of Their Privacy Protection: Case of Taiwan
  Yu-li Liu (Distinguished Professor, National Chengchi University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 12:30 - Constitutional Geometry and post-Westphalian Constitutionalism
  Martin Belov (Associate Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Sofia “St Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Law)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 29 October 2018

• 13:00 - ‘Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Elena Butti (CSLS, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 13:00 - The constitutionalization of private regulators: Understanding the role of private law
  Dr. Paul Verbrueggen (Tilburg Law School)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 12:30 - Narratives, Human Rights Norms and the Local: Understanding the Construction of Legal Meaning around the Rwandan Gacaca Courts
  Dr Julia Viebach (Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford), Benjamin Thorne (PhD Candidate in Law Studies, University of Sussex)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 2 November 2018

• 14:00 - Is Legal Mobilization for the Birds? Legal Opportunity Structures and Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in the United Kingdom, France, Finland, and Italy
  Dr Lisa Vanhala (University College London)
  OxonCourts

Monday 5 November 2018

• 13:00 - Book Launch: ‘When Political Transitions Work: Reconciliation as Interdependence’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Fanie du Toit (UNDP Iraq)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 November 2018

• 13:00 - Innovation and the State: Finance, Regulation, and Justice
  Professor Christie Ford (Allard School of Law)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 12:30 - The Mass Atrocity Prosecution Ritual
  Vincent Dalpé (Doctoral Candidate, McGill University, Faculty of Law)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 13:00 - Running out of capacity: Accountability & stakeholder engagement in economic regulation
  Professor Martin Lodge (LSE)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Monday 12 November 2018

• 13:00 - ‘Reparation for Victims of Mass Atrocities: Reflections on Key Challenges’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Professor Clara Sandoval (University of Essex )
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - The Paradox of Punishment: bringing anthropology to law
  Dr Insa Koch (LSE)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 11:30 - Methodical Problems of Legal Transplants
  Maximilian Wörner-Schönecker (Doctoral Candidate, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 12:30 - QT or not QT? What is your research question?
  TBA
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 16 November 2018

• 14:00 - Court Presidents: The Missing Piece in the Puzzle of Judicial Self-Governance
  Change of Topic
  Dr David Kosař (Masaryk University)
  OxonCourts

Monday 19 November 2018

• 13:00 - ‘The Legality of Rebel Courts during Non-International Armed Conflicts’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Dr Mark Klamberg (Stockholm University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Beyond the Ivory Tower: Housing Possession
  Dr Lisa Whitehouse (University of Hull), Cathy Gough (Turpin & Miller Solicitors)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 12:30 - Proselytisation and Religious Freedom in Bangladesh
  Jahid Bhuiyan (Associate Professor, Department of Law, Northern University Bangladesh; Research Fellow at North-West University, South Africa; Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies), Discussant: Dr Farrah Raza (Stipendiary lecturer in Public Law, Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 12:30 - Social Citizenship in flux: rights, responsibilities and regions
  Mark Simpson (Lecturer in Law and Researcher at the Transitional Justice Institute, School of Law, Ulster University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 26 November 2018

• 14:00 - 'The Death of the ICC? The Politics of International Criminal Justice in Africa'
  NB: Please note the time/venue change! Due to increased demand, the event will take place at 2-4pm in The Cube seminar room. Discussants: Prof Payam Akhavan (McGill) and Dr Holly Porter (LSE) Co-hosted with the Oxford Central Africa Forum * A light sandwich lunch is served from 2pm outside of The Cube*
  Dr Phil Clark (SOAS), Prof Payam Akhavan (McGill University), Dr Holly Porter (LSE)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Children, Terrorism, and the Rule of Law
  Dr Jessie Blackbourn (CSLS, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 13:00 - Lessons from the Parliamentary Scrutiny of Regulation, in Comparative Perspective: Canada and the UK
  Lorne Neudorf (University of Adelaide, Australia)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 29 November 2018

• 12:30 - Theses by former students
  Sajjad Koshroo (Counsel at Allen and Overy, DPhil student at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies), Owain Johnstone (Modern Slavery Researcher at Ethical Trading Initiative)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 14 January 2019

• 11:00 - Accessing information v. analyzing policy: Using the FOI Act in the United Kingdom
  Dr John R Campbell (Emeritus Reader in the Anthropology of Africa and Law, Sociology & Anthropology, School of Oriental & African Studies)
• 13:00 - Journalism and Transitional Justice: Seminar + Workshop
  NB: The presentation will be followed by an editorial and publishing workshop given by Mr. Cruvellier. The workshop will commence after a short break at 3pm. Light refreshments will be provided.
  Thierry Cruvellier (JusticeInfo.net and Fondation Hirondelle)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 12:30 - “We find a girl of fifteen nowadays is still between a small girl and a big girl”: Using Hansard to explore legislative change to the minimum age of marriage in Singapore (1960 – 2015)
  Charlotte Kelly (DPhil Candidate, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 21 January 2019

• 13:00 - Film Screening: ‘The Faces We Lost’: A Memorial Landscape of Contemporary Rwanda
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Piotr Cieplak (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 12:30 - Legal Techniques and Secrecy
  Dr Bernard Keenan (former immigration solicitor; lecturer in the School of Law, Birkbeck College, London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 25 January 2019

• 14:00 - Conceptualizing, Measuring and Mapping the Formal Judicial Independence of International Courts
  Dr Theresa Squatrito (University of Liverpool)
  OxonCourts

Monday 28 January 2019

• 13:00 - ‘But what about men?’: Gender Discomfort in International Criminal Justice
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 12:30 - A History of Law Schools: A Battle Between Law as a Science and Law as a Product of Society
  Joshua Krook (PhD Candidate at the University of Adelaide Law School; Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 4 February 2019

• 13:00 - Witness Testimony and the Negotiation of 'Culture' at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Nigel Eltringham (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Vanishing litigants? Vanishing trials? Vanishing precedent? Revisiting socio-legal debates about litigation trends in the UK and their implications
  Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford)

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 12:30 - The strain between the right to housing and the economic freedoms in Spain after the mortgage crisis
  Andrei Pastrana (PhD candidate, University of Santiago de Compostela)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 7 February 2019

• 12:30 - Global Internet Governance after WCIT-12 and China’s Choice
  Professor Wenming Zheng (Professor of Media Law, Capital University of Economics and Business, China; Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 8 February 2019

• 14:00 - The Hague: Constructing an International Forum
  Naina Gupta (Architectural Association)
  OxonCourts

Monday 11 February 2019

• 13:00 - Book Launch: 'Apartheid Guns and Money' - Exposing a Global Network of Profit
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Hennie van Vuuren (Open Secrets and Institute for Security Studies)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 February 2019

• 12:30 - The Cognitive Impact of Legal Structure on Comparative Legal Reasoning
  Jörg Zimmermann (Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 12:30 - The guarantee of fair and just working conditions in the new Collaborative Economy models in Europe
  Alvaro San Martin (PhD Candidate, Complutense University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 18 February 2019

• 13:00 - Panel Discussion: Prospects for Meaningful Accountability for Rights Violations in Sri Lanka
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Kiran Grewal (Goldsmiths, University of London), Farzana Haniffa (University of Cambridge and University of Colombo), Gehan Gunatilleke (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 21 February 2019

• 12:30 - Surviving Dictatorship: Citizenship and Sustainable Collective Action in Underprivileged Urban Chile
  Dr Simón Escoffier (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Latin America Centre, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 22 February 2019

• 14:00 - The Actorness of International Courts and Tribunals
  Raphael Oidtmann (University of Mannheim)
  OxonCourts

Monday 25 February 2019

• 13:00 - Un-Becoming a Victim: Between Historic Reminder and Hallucination, Geographical Document and Childhood Memory, Collective Tragedy and Personal Healing
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Saša Rajšić (Independent Artist and Researcher)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Gender, Craft, Law and Politics: Notes for an Ethnography of Legislative Drafting
  Dr Emily Grabham (Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent)

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 12:30 - 'Amongst the Most Desirable Reading’: Advertising and the Fetters of the Newspaper Press in Britain, c. 1848-1914
  Professor Anat Rosenberg (Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya; Visiting Scholar, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 1 March 2019

• 10:00 - OxonCourts 1st Judicial Studies Graduate Colloquium
  Various Speakers
  OxonCourts

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 12:30 - Transnational legal ordering at the societal boundaries of multinational mining enterprises: A legal anthropological approach
  Laura Knöpfel (PhD Candidate and research fellow at the Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 18 March 2019

• 09:30 - CONSUMER ODR: Delivering Fairness and Justice for Consumers, Business and Markets **Registration now closed**
  Various Speakers

Thursday 28 March 2019

• 11:30 - **POSTPONED** An empirical analysis on linkage between non-tax revenue, public expenses and corruption in transition countries
  Associate Professor Alper Őzűn (Academic Visitor, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 16 April 2019

• 11:30 - An empirical analysis on linkage between non-tax revenue, public expenses and corruption in transition countries
  Alper Ozun (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 29 April 2019

• 13:00 - Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective: Book Launch of ‘Justice framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice’
  The discussion will begin at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch will be served at 13:00.
  Marcos Zunino (British Institute of International and Comparative Law)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2019

• 16:30 - Governing canal life
  Professor Dave Cowan (University of Bristol)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 2 May 2019

• 12:30 - Regulation of anonymous on-line speech by The São Paulo Appeals Court
  Professor Rafael Queiroz (University of Sao Paolo)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 12:30 - Book Launch: 'The Trial of the Kaiser'
  Professor William A. Schabas (Middlesex University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Law's Wars, Law's Trials
  Richard L. Abel (Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA Law)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 9 May 2019

• 12:30 - The normativity of medical guidelines and their use by medical tribunals in the Netherlands and England
  Dr Friso Jansen (Senior Lecturer in Law, Birmingham City University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 13:00 - Revolving Doors and the Market for Regulatory Compliance
  Professor Colin Provost (Associate Professor of Public Policy, UCL School of Public Policy/Department of Political Science)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Monday 13 May 2019

• 13:00 - Leila Sadat Lecture
  Leila Sadat (Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 13:00 - Stakeholder Representativeness
  Various Speakers
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 16 May 2019

• 12:00 - A Common Law Warranty for Consumer Financial Contracts
  Professor Susan Block-Lieb (Professor of Law, Cooper Family Chair in Urban Legal Issues, Fordham University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 13:00 - Ranking and Regulating: Markets and Hierarchies in the Governance of Higher Education Today
  Prof. Colin Scott (University College Dublin)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Monday 20 May 2019

• 13:00 - Panel Discussion: Transitional Justice in Colombia - New Challenges
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Juanita Leon (La Silla Vacia), Andrei Gomez-Suarez (University of Bristol and UCL), Miguel La Rota (Colombian Prosecution Office), Annelen Micus (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - The Court as Archive
  Dr Trish Luker (University of Technology Sydney)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 13:00 - Expectations, Visions and Imaginaries in the Regulation and Legitimation of Health Research and Technologies: Regulating or Regulatory Futures?
  Dr Mark Flear (School of Law, Queen's University Belfast)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 12:30 - Happiness, Housing and the Law
  Dr Janice Gray (Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 28 May 2019

• 13:00 - **CANCELLED** The Past, Present, and Future of Law Reform in Canada
  Marcus Moore (University of Oxford)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 30 May 2019

• 12:30 - The formalisation of South African waste pickers in a globalised recycling economy
  Allison Lindner (PhD student at the Centre for Critical International Law, University of Kent)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 4 June 2019

• 13:00 - The Search for ‘Regulatory Sovereignty’ in the Global Pharmaceutical Sector and the Potentialities for a ‘Healthy Brexit’
  Dr. John Wright (Associate Professor in Regulatory Governance, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney), Dr. Dimitrios Doukas (Reader in EU Law, School of Law, University of Manchester)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 6 June 2019

• 12:30 - Social Foundations of Anglophone Caribbean Constitutions: Impact on the Implementation of the Death Penalty in the Caribbean and Impediments Towards Abolition
  Dr Florence Seemungal (University of the West Indies Open Campus)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 7 June 2019

• 10:00 - Law, Accounting, Organizations: Taking stock and moving forward
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 11 June 2019

• 13:00 - Regulating AI through consumer and civil law
  Professor Cecilia Danesi (University of Buenos Aires)
  Regulation Discussion Group
• 17:00 - **Annual Socio-Legal Lecture** Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights
  Lauren B. Edelman (Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley)

Thursday 13 June 2019

• 12:30 - The Radicalisation Cases in the Family Courts: A Critical Evaluation
  Fatima Ahdash (PhD student in Law, LSE)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 13:00 - OxonCourts Mini-Workshop on Legal Mobilization
  Jonas von Hoffmann (University of Oxford), Fernanda Farina (University of Oxford), Virginia Passalacqua (European University Institute)
  OxonCourts

Tuesday 18 June 2019

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Negotiating Internet Governance
  Dr Roxana Radu (SNSF Postdoctoral Researcher)

Wednesday 19 June 2019

• 13:00 - Conference: Justice for Transnational Human Rights Violations - At the Crossroads of Litigation, Policy and Scholarship
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 20 June 2019

• 12:30 - Human Rights & Climate (in)justices: Examining the role of law and policy in vulnerable coastal areas of the Global South
  Birsha Ohdedar (Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 4 July 2019

• 12:30 - Upgrading the enforcement of consumer protection in the EU - some remarks on the proposal for a directive on representative actions
  Dr Jagna Mucha (Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 29 July 2019

• 12:30 - Methodology Masterclass 2019
  TBA

Monday 7 October 2019

• 09:00 - CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Law and Political Economy’ in Europe
  TBA
• 16:30 - Theorizing Law and Political Economy in the Era of Neoliberalism
  Professor Amy Kapczynski (Yale Law School)

Monday 14 October 2019

• 13:00 - Documenting Crimes in Syria and Iraq: ISIS and the Crimes Against the Yazidis
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Sareta Ashraph (Garden Court Chambers; Visiting Fellow of Practice, Programme on International Peace and Security, ELAC, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - The map of civilization: 4,000 years of law
  Prof. Fernanda Pirie (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies )
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 21 October 2019

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Book Launch: Transforming Rwanda – Challenges on the Road to Reconstruction
  This event stands cancelled. Due to a health emergency, the speaker has been advised not to travel.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jean-Paul Kimonyo (Senior Adviser, Office of the President of Rwanda; Fellow, Rift Valley Institute)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Delivering Dispute Resolution
  Professor Christopher Hodges (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 12:30 - Institutional Design of Judicial Review: Kelsen before the Bulgarian Constitutional Court
  Ivo Gruev (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 28 October 2019

• 13:00 - Measuring Peace: Local Participation and Perspectives in Peacebuilding
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Anupah Makoond (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Business and Human Rights in Australia
  Professor Sally Wheeler (Australian National University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 4 November 2019

• 13:00 - Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace: Are There Reasons for Hope?
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Julieta Lemaitre (Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Cause Lawyering with the grain? Immigration and Refugee Lawyers in Russia
  Agnieszka Kubal (Lecturer in Sociology, University College London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 12:30 - On the Entanglement of Tax Law, Indigeneity, and Citizenship: The 1919 Alaska School Tax
  Max Zahnd (JSD candidate at Berkeley Law School and PhD Candidate in Geography/Polar Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute at University of Cambridge)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 11 November 2019

• 13:00 - Breaking Legal Ground: ICC Investigations in Palestine
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Dr Mishana Hosseinioun (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford), Rodney Dixon QC (Temple Garden Chambers)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Water Efficiency in the public sector. The role of social norms
  Dr Kevin Grecksch (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 12:30 - Islamic Finance: The Convergence of Faith, Capital and Power
  Sajjad Khoshroo (Counsel, Allen & Overy)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 18 November 2019

• 13:00 - For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Dr Ayca Çubukçu (LSE Human Rights, London School of Economics)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Reproductive Labour, Law and Property Accumulations: Rereading East African Social History
  Professor Ambreena Manji (Professor of Land Law and Development, University of Cardiff)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 16:30 - Book launch – Paul Rock in conversation with Linda Mulcahy and Emma Rowden: The writing of The Democratic courthouse: A Modern History of Design, Due Process and Dignity’.
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 25 November 2019

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Libya: Finding Routes to Justice Amidst Conflict
  In light of the UCU strike, this event has been postponed.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Elham Saudi (Lawyers for Justice in Libya)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - **CANCELLED** The Poodle Problem: Are Corporate Lawyers Still Professionals?
  Dr Steven Vaughan (University College London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 2 December 2019

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Cultural Restitution in the Transitional Justice Context: A Discussion of African and Asian Cases
  In light of the UCU strike, this event has been postponed.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Phyllis Ferguson (Oxford Transitional Justice Research), Prof Dan Hicks (Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum; School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Stage managers of the criminal courtroom: Uncovering the lives of Crown Court clerks through oral history
  Dr Dvora Liberman (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 27 January 2020

• 13:15 - Libya: Finding Routes to Justice Amidst Conflict
  Elham Saudi (Lawyers for Justice in Libya)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Jurist in Context: William Twining in conversation with Ruth Chang, David Sugarman and Linda Mulcahy
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 12:30 - Law and Experience – A socio-legal perspective on German asylum adjudication
  Teresa Büchsel (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 3 February 2020

• 13:15 - Cultural Restitution in the Transitional Justice Context: A Discussion of African and Asian Cases
  Phyllis Ferguson (Oxford Transitional Justice Research), Prof Dan Hicks (Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum; School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Monday 10 February 2020

• 13:15 - Justice and (Self) Protection in Camp Settings: Findings from South Sudan and CAR
  Dr Rebecca Sutton (Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 16:00 - An Open Dialogue: What does collaborative, ethical research w/ indigenous peoples look like?
  Carson Smith (CSLS, Oxford), Anna Reed (Latin American Studies, Oxford)
  Indigenous, Interdisciplinary Discussion Group

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 12:30 - Transitioning from QUAL to mixed methods: Teething Problems and Pragmatic Solutions in Researching Public-Sector Data Sharing in the UK
  Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 17 February 2020

• 13:15 - Transformative Theory of Justice
  Prof Roman David (Lingnan University; Academic Visitor, Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Monday 24 February 2020

• 16:30 - Looking for Law in China: Empirical Research in an Authoritarian Context
  Michael Palmer (Emeritus Professor of Law, SOAS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 16:00 - Indigenous Frameworks in Academia Series
  TBC
  Indigenous, Interdisciplinary Discussion Group

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 12:30 - Constitution-Making in a Post-Conflict Environment: A Socio-Legal Perspective of the Libyan Process
  Felix-Anselm van Lier (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 2 March 2020

• 13:15 - Intimacies of Violence: Conflict, Rape and Sexual Desire
  Dr Jelke Boesten (Department of International Development, King’s College London)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - The Poodle Problem: Are Corporate Lawyers Still Professionals?
  Dr Steven Vaughan (University College London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Friday 6 March 2020

• 13:00 - Law and Love in the Peshawar family courts
  Sara Naeem (Social Anthopology)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 9 March 2020

• 13:15 - The Nature of Women, Peace and Security: Lessons from Colombia
  Dr Keina Yoshida (Doughty Street Chambers; Centre for Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - **CANCELLED** The Art of Justice: Reconfiguring the Courtroom Object
  TBA
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 12:30 - From voluntary to forced migration: a socio-legal overview of Syrian labour in Lebanon
  Jessy Nassar (PhD Candidate, KCL)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Oya Aydin (PhD Candidate, University of Ankara)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 27 April 2020

• 13:15 - ONLINE SEMINAR: The Guidelines on Investigating Violations of International Humanitarian Law
  Please note that due to the unprecedented circumstances, OTJR's seminar series will relocate online (via live conference with the speakers) until further notice. Please register below.
  Claire Simmons (School of Law, University of Essex)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Monday 4 May 2020

• 15:15 - ONLINE SEMINAR: Out of Bounds - Can Transitional Justice Address Transnational Human Rights Violations?
  Please note that due to the unprecedented circumstances, OTJR's seminar series will relocate online (via live conference with the speakers) until further notice. Please register below.
  Dr Francesca Lessa (Latin American Centre, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Monday 18 May 2020

• 13:15 - ONLINE SEMINAR: On the Thunder Road to Reconciliation - Ukraine’s Transitional Justice Policy
  Please note that due to the unprecedented circumstances, OTJR's seminar series will relocate online (via live conference with the speakers) until further notice. Please register below.
  Dr Kateryna Busol (Chatham House, Robert Bosch Stiftung Academy Fellow)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 May 2020

• 12:30 - Understanding the relationship between the use of care and care proceedings
  Professor Judith Masson (University of Bristol)

Monday 19 October 2020

• 16:30 - Transnational archives: Power, voice and archival violence in transnational justice
  Dr Julia Viebach (African Studies Centre, Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 18:30 - Christian Frederick Cole: The Story of England's first Black Barrister
  Please register in advance. Joining instructions will be sent by email ahead of the event.
  Pamela Roberts (Founder and Director, Black Oxford Untold Stories)

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 12:30 - Pivots: Doing Socio-Legal Research on Cultural Heritage in a Pandemic
  Rangga Dachlan (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 13:30 - Race Equality in Higher Education
  Dr Foluke Ifejola Adebisi (Senior Lecturer at the Law School, University of Bristol), Professor Iyiola Solanke (Professor of EU Law and Social Justice, University of Leeds), Dr Machilu Zimba (Policy Advisor (Race Equality, Religion and Belief), Equality and Diversity Unit, University of Oxford)

Monday 2 November 2020

• 16:30 - Beastly Identification: conservationist legal regimes and documents in the government of big cats in India
  Dr Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 18:30 - Oxford Law Equality and Diversity Lecture 2020 - Critical Race Theory
  Kendall Thomas (Nash Professor of Law at Columbia University)

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 12:30 - Taking personhood seriously: the socio-legal tensions of non-human and non-animal recognition
  Noah Wescombe (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 13 November 2020

• 15:30 - What role should an effective tax system play in supporting people with disabilities?
  Paul Brice (University of Oxford)
  Tax Law and Policy Discussion Group

Monday 16 November 2020

• 16:30 - Innovation in the absence of a state: law, technology and politics in the Somali territories
  Dr Nicole Stremlau (PCMLP, Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 12:30 - Community Mediation across Ethnicities: Building for Conflict Resolution in Diverse Societies
  Carson Smith (CSLS, Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 30 November 2020

• 16:30 - The Limits of Private Governance: Norms and Rules in a Mediterranean Fishery
  Dr Florian Grisel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 12:30 - Silicosis and the State: Reframing Contestations between Capital and Labour in Contemporary India
  Shruti Iyer (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 14:30 - Genome Editing: Continuity or Disruption of Existing Biotechnology Regime?
  Dr. Michael Morrison (HeLEX: Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies, University of Oxford)

Friday 4 December 2020

• 16:30 - General Anti-Avoidance Rules Revisited
  Professor David Duff (Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia)
  Tax Law and Policy Discussion Group

Monday 18 January 2021

• 16:30 - Inside Europe’s Asylum Courts: Legal Geography, Ethnography and the Hollowness of Refugee Law
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Nick Gill (University of Exeter)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 25 January 2021

• 16:30 - Boycott, Resistance and the Law: Cause Lawyering in Conflict and Authoritarianism
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Dr Anna Bryson (Queen's University Belfast)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The History of Slavery
  Professor Trevor Burnard (University of Hull), Dr Faridah Zaman (University of Oxford), Professor Matthew J Smith (UCL)
  Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery

Monday 1 February 2021

• 16:30 - Chinese law and development
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Matthew Erie (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 12:30 - Challenging Laws: Progress and Prospects in Overturning 150 Years of Discriminatory Sexual Offence Legislation in the Commonwealth
  Téa Braun (Human Dignity Trust), Edwin Cameron (Retired Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 12:30 - The relation between prosecution and political trends in Turkey
  Nurcan Gunduz (Eastern Mediterranean University)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group
• 18:00 - A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance
  Mohsin Zaidi (Barrister at 6KBW College Hill)

Monday 8 February 2021

• 16:30 - Practicing Proportionality: Legal Knowledge Practices in the German Repetitorium
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jacco Bomhoff (LSE)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: Immigration & Empire
  Wendy Williams (HMICFRS), Prof Alex Balch (University of Liverpool), Prof Fareda Banda (SOAS University of London), Samantha Knights QC (Matrix Chambers)
  Bonavero Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery
• 17:00 - Immigration and Empire
  Wendy Williams, Professor Alex Balch (University of Liverpool), Professor Fareda Banda (SOAS, University of London)
  Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 12:30 - Academic Freedom as a Human Right?
  Renáta Uitz (Central European University), Stefan Theil (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 16:00 - States, Pharmaceutical Companies, and COVID-19 Vaccine Access
  Michael A Santoro (Santa Clara University), Robert Shanklin (Santa Clara University), Zain Rizvi (Public Citizen)
  Bonavero Network Series

Monday 15 February 2021

• 10:00 - Book Launch: The Justice of Visual Art - Creative State-Building in Times of Transition
  Dr Eliza Garnsey (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations, University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - The Mundanization of Automated Decision-Making in Public Services through Litigation
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Anne Kaun (Södertörn University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 12:30 - Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence in Practice: The Union Hidalgo Case in France
  Alejandra Ancheita (Proyecto de Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales, AC (ProDESC)), Miriam Saage-Maaß (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)), Surya Deva (City University of Hong Kong)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Thursday 18 February 2021

• 12:30 - Radical Lawyering and the Reshaping of the Law since the 1970s in the UK and France
  Pierre-Louis Sanchez (Visiting Student, Centre for Socio-legal studies)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 22 February 2021

• 13:00 - Invoking 'Transitional Justice' without a Transition: Reflections on Sri Lanka's Transitional Justice Programme, 2015-2019
  Kumaravadivel Guruparan (Attorney-at-Law, Sri Lanka)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - The Art of Justice: Reconfiguring the Courtroom Object
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Johannah Latchem (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: Modern Slavery
  Dame Sara Thornton (Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner), Prof Siddharth Kara (University of Nottingham), Kate Garbers (University of Nottingham), Samantha Knights QC (Matrix Chambers)
  Bonavero Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery
• 17:00 - Modern Slavery
  Dame Sara Thornton, Kate Garbers (University of Nottingham), Professor Siddharth Kara (University of Nottingham)
  Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 12:30 - The UN Human Rights Committee’s General Comment 37 on the Right of Peaceful Assembly: A Conversation
  Christof Heyns (Former Member, United Nations Human Rights Committee), Marko Milanovic (University of Nottingham)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Monday 1 March 2021

• 13:00 - Kashmir and the State of Exception
  Habeel Iqbal (Legal Consultant, Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, Kashmir)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - A Precarious Life: ‘Ethnography at home’ on an English council estate
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Dr Roxana Willis (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 12:30 - Religion is Secularised Tradition: Jewish and Muslim Circumcisions in Germany
  Lena Salaymeh (Oxford), John Bowers QC (University of Oxford)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 11:30 - Identity and emotion in the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights
  Yussef Al Tamini (European University Institute)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 8 March 2021

• 13:00 - Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan: National Mechanisms, Positive Complementarity and Command Responsibility
  Douglas Guilfoyle (Associate Professor of International and Security Law, UNSW Canberra)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Infra legalities: a method assemblage for studying law and data infrastructure together
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Gavin Sullivan (University of Edinburgh)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 12:30 - From Compliance Partners to Gatekeepers? The Role of Domestic Courts in Interpreting and Enforcing IHRL
  Raffaela Kunz (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), Alejandro Chehtman (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina))
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 12:30 - What makes interest rates matter? Studying financial markets as socio-legal phenomena
  This event has been postponed until Trinity Term 2021
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Mark Haskew (DPhil student, Centre for Socio-legal Studies)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Wednesday 17 March 2021

• 12:30 - Treaty-Making in Business & Human Rights: Models for a Binding Instrument
  Nadia Bernaz (Wageningen University), Claire Methven O'Brien (Danish Institute for Human Rights)
  Bonavero Network Series

Monday 26 April 2021

• 13:00 - Warm Bonds or Functional Transactions? Being Neighbours During Ethnic Pogroms in India
  Raheel Dhattiwala (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 12:30 - The UN CESCR's General Comment 25 on the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress
  Rodrigo Uprimny (UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), Leah Trueblood (University of Oxford)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Wednesday 28 April 2021

• 14:00 - Book Launch: Multinational Enterprises and the Law
  Peter Muchlinski (SOAS), Ebbe Rogge (Leiden University), John Ruggie (Harvard Kennedy School of Government), Barnali Choudhury (UCL), Surya Deva (City University of Hong Kong), Rae Lindsay (Clifford Chance), John Morrison (Institute for Human Rights and Business), Scott Newton (SOAS), James Zhan (UNCTAD)
  Bonavero Network Series

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 12:30 - The Cab Rank Rule in the Commonwealth: Reflections on the Ethical Duties of Lawyers
  Gautam Bhatia (University of Oxford), Geoffrey Budlender SC (South African Advocate), Helen Mountfield, QC (Mansfield College)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Monday 10 May 2021

• 13:00 - Screening and Discussion: 'Right Now I Want To Scream - Police and Army Killings in Rio'
  Register before 12.30pm on Monday, 10 May to receive the streaming link to watch the documentary film 'Right Now I Want To Scream'.
  Cahal McLaughlin (Queen's University Belfast), Siobhán Wills (Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 12:30 - Do Companies have Human Rights? - The Emerging Jurisprudence in Regional Courts
  Patricia Wiater (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg), Nick Friedman (University of Cambridge)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 12:30 - Automated Decision Making and its Impact on Human Rights in a Time of COVID-19
  Eliška Pírková (Access Now), Mathias Vermeulen (AWO)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Monday 24 May 2021

• 16:30 - Polarization and Partisanship in State Supreme Court Elections
  Professor Bert Krtitzer (University of Minnesota Law School)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 May 2021

• 12:30 - Mapping the Way Forward for Human Rights in Scotland
  Alan Miller (University of Strathclyde), Hayley Hooper (University of Oxford)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Monday 31 May 2021

• 13:00 - Book Discussion - The Rohingya, Justice and International Law
  Kriangsak Kittichaisaree (International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea), Stephen Rapp (Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict), Priya Pillai (Asia Justice Coalition)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Monday 7 June 2021

• 16:30 - Title TBA
  Professor Penelope Andrews (New York Law School)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 June 2021

• 12:30 - Outsourcing and Oversight: How Market Regulation Failure and the Culture of Laissez Faire Led to the Exploitation of Those Who Guard Our Embassies Abroad
  James Sinclair (FSI Worldwide), Elise Groulx Diggs (Doughty Street Chambers), Mustafa Qadri (Equidem), Lucas Roorda (Utrecht University)
  Bonavero Network Series

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 12:30 - Towards a Normative Theory of Just Riots
  Jonathan Havercroft (University of Southampton), Dr Nadine El-Enany (Birkbeck)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Wednesday 13 October 2021

• 17:30 - Book Launch: Towards the Environmental Minimum - Environmental Protection through Human Rights
  If you would like to attend this event in person at the Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, please email bonavero-events@law.ox.ac.uk with the subject '13 Oct Book Launch - In Person' by 12 October 2021. Please note that since seating is limited, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to attend the event in person. Seats will be assigned on a first come, first served basis. If your place is not confirmed, you can still attend the event online. If you would like to attend this event online, register to receive the Zoom webinar link.
  Stefan Theil (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights), Professor Kate O'Regan (University of Oxford), Liz Fisher (University of Oxford), Professor Nicholas Barber (Faculty of Law), Jeff King (University College London)

Monday 18 October 2021

• 16:30 - Legal geographies of hyper-precarity in the Italian gig economy
  Dr Gianluca Iazzonlino (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 17:30 - Virtual Human Rights Fair
  This event is open only to members of the University of Oxford. To attend, please register here with your Oxford email address: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrf-qqrTkoHdY_5bBoXFiljAN2aZ2r2rPU
  Various Speakers

Monday 25 October 2021

• 15:00 - Book Discussion: Transitional Justice in Peacebuilding - Actor-Contingent and Malleable Justice
  This event will run as a Zoom meeting. To attend, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqdu2gqj8pGtBl4rzGa-HaUkPeau3u51VO
  Dr Djeyhoun Ostowar
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Of tax law, space, and colonization: The implementation of the 1919 Alaska school tax
  Dr Max Zahnd (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 12:30 - Assam Citizenship Verification Process and India's Citizenship Amendment Act
  This event will run as a Zoom webinar. To attend, register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z2-rIKgNQmyfui-bn_obew
  Rupali Samuel (Parichay), Bronwen Manby (London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Bonavero Discussion Group

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 12:45 - Decolonising Collections? The Benin Artefacts in British Museums
  Zhanna Ter-Zakaryan (Centre for Socio-legal Studies, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 1 November 2021

• 13:00 - Book Discussion: Dealing with the Authoritarian Past in Brazil - From Cardoso to Rousseff
  This event will run as a Zoom meeting. To attend, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkd-qtpj8qGt3NlpB95QdsDnhoESuAy-hA
  Dr Gisele Iecker de Almeida (Cardiff University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Can Law Mitigate the Motherhood/Caretaker Penalty?
  The Zoom link for this seminar is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83360063929?pwd=TkloYVJQMkQwODg5MUxmZy9xaTQ1UT09 Meeting ID: 833 6006 3929 Passcode: 092074
  Professor Catherine Albiston (Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 12:45 - State Innovation in public health policies and its capacity to respond to new challenges
  Pedro de Paula (Visiting Researcher, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 8 November 2021

• 16:30 - (How) can we develop practical ethics from particular scandals: Academics’ Logics and the Case of the Post Office
  Professor Richard Moorhead (Exeter University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 15 November 2021

• 16:30 - When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans
  Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Cambridge University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 15:00 - The Political Economy of Fact-Checking Online Disinformation in Africa
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Media Law and Policy Seminar Series

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 12:45 - Nexus between digital repression and movements' tactical innovations in the Arab World
  Mona Abdelsattar (Oxford Interrnet Institute)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 22 November 2021

• 16:30 - In conversation with Professor Fernanda Pirie: Book launch: The Rule of Laws
  The Zoom link for this seminar is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83360063929?pwd=TkloYVJQMkQwODg5MUxmZy9xaTQ1UT09 Meeting ID: 833 6006 3929 Passcode: 092074
  Professor Michael Lobban (LSE), Professor Morgan Clarke (Anthropology, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 29 November 2021

• 16:30 - Nixon’s VAT: the Rise and Fall of the U.S. Education Value-Added Tax
  The Zoom link for this seminar is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83360063929?pwd=TkloYVJQMkQwODg5MUxmZy9xaTQ1UT09 Meeting ID: 833 6006 3929 Passcode: 092074
  Professor Ajay Mehotra (American Bar foundation)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 12:45 - Governance of digital technologies, and the regulatory and policy frameworks to supervise the economic power of technology companies
  Beatriz Kira (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 24 January 2022

• 16:30 - The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia
  Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81468819921?pwd=UDA1dks5ZjgwMkV0WDk0ejlnem84dz09
  Dr Lynette Rose (Yale NUS College, Singapore)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 February 2022

• 16:00 - Legal Aid Without Lawyers: How Boston’s Nonlawyers Delivered and Shaped Justice for the Poor, 1878-1922
  Contact student convener at caio.machado@wolfson.ox.ac.uk for Zoom link.
  Kelsea Jeon (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 7 February 2022

• 16:30 - Finding the True Convert: Tensions between Church and State in Asylum Appeal Hearings based on Conversion to Christianity
  Lena Rose (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 14 February 2022

• 16:30 - Due process 4.0: procedural guarantees for a digital era
  João Lordelo Tavares (University of Coimbra)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 17:30 - Coroners’ Inquest Juries in Sixteenth-Century England
  Professor Steven Gunn (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Legal History Forum

Monday 21 February 2022

• 16:30 - (How) can we develop practical ethics from particular scandals: Academics’ Logics and the Case of the Post Office
  Professor Richard Moorhead (Exeter University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 12:45 - Punishment, state, and society in the Global South: making sense of mass incarceration in Brazil
  Luiz Phelipe Dal Santo (Criminology)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 28 February 2022

• 16:30 - The Limits of Private Governance Norms and Rules in a Mediterranean Fishery
  Dr Florian Grisel (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 7 March 2022

• 16:30 - Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought
  Professor Pierre Legrand (Sorbonne)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 12:30 - “The Lady Juror” in the 1920s
  Dr Mark Coen (University College Dublin)
  Oxford Legal History Forum

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 12:45 - Cannabis Legalization: An ethnography of the global movement and market forces
  Jessica Steinberg (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 19 May 2022

• 15:30 - Towards abolition: challenging mass incarceration and money bail
  Alec Karakatsanis (Civil Rights Corps)

Wednesday 7 December 2022

• 15:00 - Strategic Litigation and Sentence Transfers for Migrant Workers
  Anurag Devkota (Human rights lawyer based in Kathmandu, Nepal.)

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 16:15 - ‘Objectively justified’ and politically sanctioned: Rethinking the deaths of black men who encountered the police of England and Wales.
  Dr Patrick Williams (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  Carceral Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 16:15 - Punishment and social structure in Brazil under slavery: From the colony to the inauguration of the modern prison.
  Dr. Patrick Cacicedo (University of São Paulo)
  Carceral Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 16:15 - Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia
  Dr Judah Schept (Eastern Kentucky University)
  Carceral Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 13:00 - 'Catch' -Theatre Performance and Workshop with 'Clean Break' theatre company
  Various Speakers

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 17:00 - The Code Democracy Presumes: How Media Influence Politics
  Professor Lawrence Lessig (Harvard)

Wednesday 15 March 2023

• 17:00 - Islamophobia: Discourse, Debates, and Future Directions
  Ms Nazila Ghanea (UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief), Professor Tariq Modood (University of Bristol), The Lord Khan of Burnley (House of Lords), Professor Tarunabh Khaitan (University of Oxford), Dr Suriyah Bi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 15:30 - Oxford Law Equality and Diversity Lecture 2022-23: Humanising the Harms of Hate: The Inevitability of Indifference
  This event will be held in person only and followed by a drinks reception. Please register in advance.
  Professor Neil Chakraborti (University of Leicester)

Wednesday 24 May 2023

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights
  This is a hybrid event. It will be held in-person at the Sir Joseph Hotung Auditorium at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. To attend the event online, please register.
  Shreya Atrey (Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Maayan Niezna (Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Modern Slavery and Human Rights, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford), Virginia Mantouvalou (Professor of Human Rights and Labour Law, UCL Faculty of Laws), Manoj Dias-Abey (Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol and the Co-Director of the Centre for Law at Work), Bridget Anderson (Professor of Mobilities, Migration and Citizenship, University of Bristol), Samantha Currie (Reader in Law, University of Liverpool), Emily Kenway (a writer, activist and policy adviser, University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 13:00 - The Interdependence and Indivisibility of the UNCRC: Implementing and Understanding the Right to Play and the Convention
  Dr Naomi Lott (University of Oxford), Jonathon Sargeant (Australia Catholic University), Michael Follet (OPAL), Neil Coleman (OPAL), Futhi Mbongwe (Play Africa), Dr Sonali Nag (University of Oxford), Hannah Simmons (University of Oxford), Tim Gill (Independent Scholar), Six Silberman (University of Oxford), Ton Liefaard (University of Leiden), Simone van der Hof (University of Leiden), Faith Gordon (Australian National University), John Potter (UCL), Dr Imogen Goold (University of Oxford), Adrian Voce OBE (Starlight Children's Foundation), Sandy Cabrita Gulyurtlu (Starlight Children's Foundation), Kelsey Graber (University of Cambridge), Seamus Byrne (Leeds Beckett), Lara Ibrahim (University of Oxford), Fiona MacDonald (Open University), Tristan Cummings (University of Cambridge), Daniel Ogunniyi (University of Hull), Aoife Daly (University College Cork), Ed Kirton-Darling (University of Bristol), Imogen Clark (Make Space for Girls), Susannah Walker (Make Space for Girls), Alice Ferguson (Playing Out), Jonathan Herring (University of Oxford), Antonia Layard (University of Oxford), Philip Jaffe (UN Committee on the Rights of the Child), Helen Stalford (University of Liverpool), Shreya Atrey (Associate Professor of International Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Claire Raissian (NUI Galway), Sally Atkinson-Sheppard (University of Westminster), Govind Subedi (Tribhuvan University and Child Workers in Nepal), Vinaya Kumar Jha (Tribhuvan University), Louise Forde (Brunel University London)

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 17:30 - Book Launch: The Right of the Child to Play: From Conception to Implementation
  Dr Naomi Lott (University of Oxford), Jonathan Herring (University of Oxford), Philip Jaffe (UN Committee on the Rights of the Child), Helen Stalford (University of Liverpool)

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 16:15 - Capital Accumulation, Racialisation and the Politics of Ecocide
  All welcome. Please register (hybrid event)
  TBA

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 16:15 - Southernising Criminology Discussion Group - Rethinking Organised Crime in Africa :
  Dr. Corentin Cohen (University of Oxford), Prof. Philippe Frowd (University of Ottawa), Dr. Ini Dele-Adedeji (School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London (SOAS)), Dr. Elodie Apard (Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD)), Dr. Precious Diagboya (Senior Research Fellow IFRA University of Ibadan)

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 12:30 - Violence in Immigration Detention: A Comparative Account
  Prof. Mary Bosworth (University of Oxford), Andriani Fili (University of Oxford), Alethia Fernández de la Reguera (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
• 16:15 - Southernizing Education and Reintegration Policies in Prisons: Exploring Prisons without Police and University Programs as an Instance of Generative Justice in the Global South
  Sergio Grossi (Complutense University of Madrid)
  Southernising Criminology

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 13:30 - ConspirOX Seminar: "Cosmic Horror, White Supremacy, and the Dark Enlightenment: The Reception and Utilisation of H.P. Lovecraft within the Contemporary Extreme Right."
  Kye Allen (DPIR)
  ConspirOX (The Oxford University Conspiracy Theory Discussion Group)

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 16:15 - TREWA: (En)acting Securitization and The Politics of Fear in Democratic Chile
  Dr Helene Risor (Potificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
  Southernising Criminology

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 16:15 - Disciplining Mobility: care, mistrust and migration management in Mexico
  TBA
  Southernising Criminology

Monday 10 June 2024

• 15:30 - Transitional Justice and the Rio Negro Community in Guatemala
  Anna-Sophia (Richard), Joaquin (Ruano)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Friday 1 November 2024

• 16:00 - Empowering Black Students: Building an Inclusive Campus Experience at Oxford University
  Melissa Browne (University of Kent)
• 17:00 - Professorial Lecture: Law, Philosophy, and the Susceptible Skins of Living Beings
  Professor David Enoch (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 15:30 - Feminist Gendered injustices and the law: Lessons in re-writing legislation from feminist principles
  Dr Barbara Havelková (Oxford Law Faculty ), Ramona Vijeyarasa
  Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group 2024/25

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 15:30 - Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group: Gender, feminism and unsung workers: The early years of the Law Centres movement 1970-1980
  Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford), Marie Burton (University of Oxford)
  Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group 2024/25

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 16:00 - Book Launch: Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Latin America
  Various Speakers
  Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group 2024/25