Past events

The International State Crime Initiative will host a book launch of Antoine Bousquet's The Eye of War: Military Perception from the Telescope to the Drone.

CLSGC 2019 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence
13 March 2019

Working in the global legal environment – the cultural perspective
9 March 2019

CLSGC Graduate Workshop with Professor Ralf Michaels
7 March 2019

“Modernising consumer markets”: re-thinking the role of competition law and policy’ – Evening Roundtable
1 March 2019

CLSGC and EUPLANT Workshop 'Regulating the Commons: Making Sense of the Emergence of China as a Rule-Shaper and Rule-Maker'
28 February 2019

China's International Investment Strategy - Bilateral, Regional, and Global Law and Policy by Professor Julien Chaisse, Chinese University of Hong Kong
27 February 2019

Restoring the Public: Moral Panics, Fake News, and Communications Warfare
27 February 2019

Seminar on ‘Parliaments in EU external policies – Influential and key to a more legitimate EU?’ by Dr Kolja Raube, Assistant Professor in European Studies, University of Leuven
27 February 2019

CLSGC Graduate Workshop with Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
27 February 2019

Alumni Group Reunion in Switzerland
21 February 2019

Law and Society Lecture 2019: ‘On being able to walk twenty metres’
21 February 2019

Criminalising Dissent: The Stansted 15 and the Hostile Environment
20 February 2019

The Role of Free Speech within Democracy
15 February 2019

The Servier Judgments – The General Court’s Evolving Case-Law on ‘Pay-for-Delay’ Patent Settlement Agreements
12 February 2019

Euro Area Bank Resolution and Crisis Management Arrangements: An Assessment
8 February 2019

CLSGC Graduate Workshop with Professor Hans Lindahl
7 February 2019

The CMA - Our Priorities Now and Ahead
30 January 2019

Dispossession Film Screening and Panel
22 January 2019

CLSGC New Book Symposium on Jennifer Pitts' Boundaries of the International
17 January 2019

CLSGC Annual Lecture 2019: Professor Jennifer Pitts
15 January 2019

Developments in the Taxation of the Digital Economy
14 January 2019

Interdisciplinary workshop: Gender segregation and deconstruction in the UK
7 January 2019

The Erosion of the Civilian 2
14 December 2018

The Afterlives of Torture: Professor Hajjar on the Global Implications of Reactionary Politics
13 December 2018

NVCL 2018-19: Is Tax Reform Really About Tax Competitiveness? - The Impact of Competitiveness and the US Tax Reform in China
7 December 2018

2018 Annual Renmin - QMUL Criminal Justice Centre Conference
6 December 2018

CLSGC 2018 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence by Annelise Riles
5 December 2018

Book Launch: Paul Gragl – Legal Monism: Law, Philosophy, and Politics
5 December 2018

Special Educational Needs Law Workshop
30 November 2018

Immigration LLM | UNHCR at Work, and as a Workplace: A view from the Inside
28 November 2018

Criminal Justice Centre Annual Lecture 2018 with Professor David Ormerod QC
27 November 2018

CLSGC Comparative Disciplines Series: Sociology, Economics, History and Law
22 November 2018

Immigration LLM | Annual Lecture of the LLM in Immigration Law
14 November 2018

Conversations on International Law and Materiality: International Law and Architecture
14 November 2018

ICSID-SIA-BIICL Conference on Proposed Revision of ICSID Rules
13 November 2018

Role of Expert Evidence in Investment Arbitration
12 November 2018

Ad Hoc Seminar on Neoliberal Legality: Understanding the Role of Law in the Neoliberal Project
7 November 2018

NVCL 2018-19: Regulatory Enforcement of Principles-Based Financial Regulation: the (Un)anticipated Effects of Broad Standards
2 November 2018

Book Forum: Accessing Asylum in Europe by Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax
2 November 2018

Global Lawmakers: International Organizations in the Crafting of Global Markets
30 October 2018

4th Annual Lecture of the Energy Law Institute
25 October 2018

CLSGC 5th Annual Seminar in Scandinavian Legal Realism
19 October 2018

Book launch of "Democracy in Small States: Persisting Against All Odds"
18 October 2018

CLSGC Annual Lecture 2018 by Professor James Tully
17 October 2018

CLSGC Ad Hoc Seminar on Cosmopolitanism and Pluralism
15 October 2018

What Powers should the Government have in Foreign Investment?
12 October 2018

Arctic Cooperation: Drifting Apart or Working Together?
12 October 2018

CLSGC Book Symposium on Authority & the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion
10 October 2018

CLSGC Graduate Workshop with Professor Paul Schiff Berman
10 October 2018

An Evening with the Board: Computer-Implemented Inventions on Appeal at the EPO
8 October 2018

IV CINETS Conference 2018: Mobility and Security in an Era of Globalization Crimmigration at a Crossroads?
5 October 2018

NVCL 2018-19: Increasing Consumers’ Trust in Digital Markets
5 October 2018

SIA-WIPO Joint Symposium 2018: ADR for Art and Cultural Heritage Disputes
3 October 2018

'Compliance as a Service’: GDPR Accountability and the Evolving Relationship Between Cloud Providers and their Customers
2 October 2018

Bitcoin and Insolvency: Realising the Value
28 September 2018

Challenging the Death Penalty in the Commonwealth Caribbean
28 September 2018

Anti- and Counter-terrorism and human rights in Europe: 5 snapshots of current controversies
20 September 2018

Case Law of the EPO Boards of Appeal
19 September 2018

Brexit: An Insider’s View From Brussels – What Went Wrong and What Comes Next
13 September 2018

CCLS Alumni Reunion in Sao Paulo, Brazil
12 September 2018

Encouraging Diversity in Tomorrow’s Lawyers: Who’s Responsible?
12 September 2018

LEAD Book Launch and Seminar: International Courts and the African Woman Judge: Unveiled Narratives
7 September 2018

Professor Mark Van Hoecke Innaugural Lecture
3 September 2018

Comparative Disciplines Series: Sociology, Economics, History and Law
24 July 2018

ISCI Report Launch - State Propaganda in Syria: from War Crimes to Pipelines (Dr. Nafeez Ahmed)
4 July 2018

2018 Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium
28 June 2018

Common Ownership and its Role on Merger Enforcement
21 June 2018

Fourth Alumni Conference of the School of International Arbitration - 'Containing the Beast'
15 June 2018

The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities Conference
14 June 2018

Disruptive Technologies, Data and Digital Services: Skilling Lawyers for Tomorrow's Information Economy
13 June 2018

Cybersecurity, Cloud, Law, and Regulation
5 June 2018

CLSGC Book Symposium on Toward Democracy by Professor James Kloppenberg
29 May 2018

Recognition, Denial, and Human Rights:Theoretical Approaches
24 May 2018

Taxation in a Digitalised Era: Challenges and Considerations
23 May 2018

Routledge Crimes of the Powerful Double Book Launch
22 May 2018

'Privacy and Surveillance in a Digital Era: Challenges for Transatlantic Cooperation and European Criminal Law'
17 May 2018

Artificial Intelligence and Financial Crime: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?
15 May 2018

CLSGC Book Symposium on 'Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring' by Dr Nimer Sultany
10 May 2018

The ICC and Baker McKenzie Annual Conference 2018: Trends and Developments in Global Competition Law
4 May 2018

Analysing the Western Sahara Campaign Case
3 May 2018

Symposium on Sociological Jurisprudence by Professor Roger Cotterrell
25 April 2018

CLSGC Ad Hoc seminar with Associate Professor Keisuke Kondo
24 April 2018

“Twilight Issues” in International Arbitration
24 April 2018

Joint QMUL/Sorbonne PhD law Conference
19 April 2018

PARIS EVENT: Arbitration Is Dead, Long Live Arbitration!
12 April 2018

Development Finance in Emerging Markets: Challenges, Innovations, and Results
12 April 2018

More Than Just a Game IV: Culture, Identities, Freedoms and Artificial Intelligence
5 April 2018

PARIS EVENT: Cloud Computing and the GDPR
3 April 2018

CEILA Annual Lecture: "The EU and the Law of the Sea - An Assessment"
28 March 2018

ISCI Annual Lecture: Richard Falk - World Order, State Crime & Human Rights
22 March 2018

Moving on from Mansion House: ‘docking’ the post- Brexit framework
21 March 2018

George Hinde Moot Final 2018
21 March 2018

LLM Law and Economics and MSc Law and Finance End of Term Lecture
16 March 2018

CLSGC Comparative Disciplines Series: Sociology, Economics and Law
14 March 2018

33rd Annual Joint Colloquium of Arbitrators - 'Ethics in International Arbitration: Arbitrators, Counsel, Experts, Witnesses, Parties and Funders'
12 March 2018

School of Law Alumni Reunion in Islamabad, Pakistan
9 March 2018

CLSGC Legal advocacy as liberal resistance: the experience of China’s human rights lawyers
9 March 2018

School of Law Alumni Reunion in Lahore, Pakistan
5 March 2018

NVCL Seminar on the Regulation of Systemic Risk
2 March 2018

China and Global Governance Workshop and Future of Chinese Foreign Policy Roundtable
27 February 2018

More Than Just a Game Paris Edition
15 February 2018

Territory’s Value: An Interdisciplinary Workshop with Charles Maier
14 February 2018

'Is there a life after the end of the contract?' with Professor Christine Chappuis
7 February 2018

CLSGC Book Symposium on Brewing Legal Times by Professor Emily Grabham
7 February 2018

Open Forum: Law and Economics and Law and Finance
31 January 2018

CJC and Max Plank Institute Conference
26 January 2018

Annual Lecture in Migration Law with Professor Vincent Chetail
22 January 2018

Roundtable on The Taricco Saga and its Impact on National and EU Criminal Law
22 January 2018

QMUL Postgraduate Law Alumni Drinks in Bangkok
19 January 2018

GLSGC Comparative Disciplines Series: Philosophy, History and Law
17 January 2018

Populism and International Law Seminar
15 January 2018

CLSGC Ad Hoc Seminar - Professor Elaine Mak (Utrecht)
10 January 2018

5th QMUL Reflection Group on Terrorism and Human Rights
14 December 2017

Annual Lecture of the Criminal Justice Centre with Professor Juliet Stumpf
7 December 2017

CEILA Book Forum - Voting Rights of Refugees by Dr Ruvi Ziegler (Reading)
6 December 2017

'Freedom of Speech and Security in Academic Space: a conceptual exploration and further reflections' by Professor Oren Ben-Dor
30 November 2017

CLSGC Comparative Disciplines Series: Linguistics, Literature and Law
29 November 2017

Jurisdiction in International Law Workshop
29 November 2017

UNHCR at Work, and as a Workplace: A view from the Inside
23 November 2017

What next for a UK bill of rights? Inaugural Lecture of Merris Amos
22 November 2017

Lunch and Launch: Data Protection Law for eHealth Businesses
22 November 2017

Erasmus-CLSGC Dialogues
22 November 2017

‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Reconciling National Values and Human Rights’ by Susan N. Herman
21 November 2017

Conversations on International Law and Materiality: International Law, Materiality and Art
21 November 2017

Law and Society Lecture: 'The Lawyer as political actor' by Jolyon Maugham QC
16 November 2017

Meet and Greet the Organisations Working with Asylum and Migration
15 November 2017

CLSGC Annual Conference: Global Legal Pluralism
15 November 2017

Machine Learning: Technology, Law and Policy
14 November 2017

QMUL Law Alumni Reception in Toronto
3 November 2017

New Voices in Commercial Law Series 2017-18
3 November 2017

Friday Lecture Series – The Hon Mr Justice Fraser
3 November 2017

PARIS EVENT: Inspiration of Business Rules from the Judgment of Supreme People’s Court of China on Michael Jordan and Jia Duo Bao trademark cases
2 November 2017

Inspiration of Business Rules from the Judgment of Supreme People’s Court of China on Michael Jordan and Jia Duo Bao trademark cases
31 October 2017

International Human Rights and Freedom: Possibilities, Epistemologies, Legacies and Alternatives
31 October 2017

Ben Golder Public Lecture "Foucault and Human Rights"
30 October 2017

Transnational Activism and State Violence: Direct Action, Dereliction and the Case of the Killings Aboard the Mavi Marmara
26 October 2017

Criminal Justice and Accountability in Africa – National and Regional Developments Conference
26 October 2017

Amicus ALJ New Journal Launch
20 October 2017

10th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Conference to review progress and challenges
20 October 2017

Centre for Small States Annual Lecture with Professor Baldur Thorhallsson
19 October 2017

Breaking through the barriers: challenging mediation misconceptions and unmasking its mystery
19 October 2017

Annual Lecture in Dispute Resolution 2017: Mediation — Our Sleeping Beauty and the (Seeming) Dualism of Prince Charming
12 October 2017

CLSGC Comparative Disciplines Series: Religion, Anthropology and Law
11 October 2017

Cross-border challenges in competition enforcement in innovative markets
4 October 2017

Death at Sea and the Securitisation of Search and Rescue
29 September 2017

Brexit: Challenges and Opportunities for Small States
18 September 2017

CCLS International Transnational Commercial Law Institute Launch
14 September 2017

Nazi-Looted Art: From Fair and Just Solutions to Litigation
13 September 2017

Art, Crime and Criminals: Painting Fresh Pictures of Art Theft, Fraud and Plunder
7 September 2017

Third Workshop of the AHRC Network Grant Series on: Art, Crime and Criminals: Painting Fresh Pictures of Art Theft, Fraud and Plunder Organised by Professor Duncan Chappell, Dr Saskia Hufnagel and Ms Marissa Marjos. This inaugural workshop aims specifically at discussions in the area of art theft and vandalism. The following two workshops will focus on art fraud (January 2017, London) and looting and iconoclasm (September 2017, Berlin, Ministry of Finance). The workshop will be structured around a number of presentations by prominent actors in the field, but the main parts are discussions around the topic between all participants. The aim of the workshop series is to encourage interdisciplinary research, cross-jurisdictional sharing of knowledge and exchange of ideas between academics, practitioners and policy makers. Art crime traverses both academic disciplines and jurisdictional boundaries. Academics within the various disciplines do not often engage with each other. Practitioners equally come from various backgrounds, such as, police, customs, museums, galleries, auction houses, dealerships, insurance companies, art authenticators, forensic scientists, private security companies etc. These groups rarely work together and it could even be said that there is a high level of distrust and misunderstanding between them. The proposed network not only aims at bringing the different players together, but also establishes a communication platform that will ensure their engagement beyond the three workshops. Organisations invited to the workshop include: Metropolitan Police, Carabinieri, Interpol, Europol, The Art Loss Register, Art Recovery International, Private Policing Sector, Historic England, Artists, Insurance Sector, Clerics, Journalists, Association of Chiefs of Police, MPs, Academics from various disciplines, Art Dealers and many more. Speakers Protecting Cultural Heritage – Agencies’ perspectives Samer Abdel Ghafour (UNESCO) Francoise Bertolotti (Interpol) Maryia Polner (WCO) Looting and the Grey Market – Legal Perspectives Stefano Alessandrini (Consultant to the Avvocatura dello Stato, Italy and the Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali – Rome) Claudia von Selle (Zschunke Law Firm Berlin/Paris) Patty Gerstenblith (DePaul University, Chicago) Robert Kugler (Höly, Rauch & Partner Law Firm Berlin) Terrorism, Iconoclasm and Related Trafficking Bonnie Magness-Gardiner (FBI) Lynda Albertson (ARCA) Sam Hardy (American University of Rome) The Special Problem of Human Remains Trafficking and Desecration Duncan Chappell (University of Sydney) Damien Huffer (Stockholm University) Protecting Cultural Heritage Valerie Higgins (American University of Rome) Laurie Rush (US Army, Fort Drum and Blue Shield) Joris Kila (University of Vienna) Regional Case Studies Stefan Gruber (Kyoto University) Donna Yates (University of Glasgow) Helen Walasek (Independent researcher, London) Michaela Boland (Journalist, The Australian) Vicki Oliveri (University of Western Sydney) Ken Polk (University of Melbourne) Directions For directions to the venue, please refer to the map. How to book This event is free but prior booking is required. Register online via Eventbrite. Contact For more information on this event, please email lawevents@qmul.ac.uk. Photography, video and audio recording School of Law events may be photographed or video and audio recorded. These materials will be used for internal and external promotional purposes only by Queen Mary University of London. If you object to appearing in the photographs, please let our photographer know on the day. Alternatively you can email lawevents@qmul.ac.uk in advance of the event that you are attending.

Law and Environment in Small States Conference
5 September 2017

Pathways to statehood: Scotland and Catalonia
4 September 2017

Grenfell Tower Fire: The Avoidable Tragedy
19 July 2017

The Role of Central Banks in Financial Crisis Management Post-Brexit
23 June 2017