Taking Risks and Challenging Legal Thought

22 May 2012

Time: 9:00am
Venue: Joseph Rotblat Building, Queen Mary, University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, EC1M 6BQ

Queen Mary PhD Conference 2012:
Taking Risks and Challenging Legal Thought

9.00 - 19.00
Tuesday 22 May 2012

Queen Mary, University of London invites postgraduate law students and academics to the Queen Mary PhD Conference. The conference will host presentations from doctoral researchers across Europe in traditional paper and poster sessions, as well as an exciting new 'soapbox' session.

Paper Sessions

Each 1.5 hour session will include three papers in a range of areas: Arbitration, Asylum and Refugee Law, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law and Legal History, Criminal Law, European Union Law, Human Rights, Intellectual Property Law, International Law and Medical Law.

Poster Session

Poster presentations will be displayed during lunchtime.

Special Sessions
» The ‘soapbox’ session is new to the Queen Mary PhD Conference and provides a dynamic forum for short presentations on risky ideas or controversial legal views.

» Plenary session: ‘After the PhD: Academia or Legal Career?’

Register online by 17 May 2012
Fee: £15 (inc. lunch and evening reception)
www.law.qmul.ac.uk/events