When: Thursday, April 11, 2024, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PMWhere: Room 313, Third Floor, School of Law, Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS
Schools in recent years have faced a series of difficult legal questions: how to respond to children wanting to change their gender identity; can single sex schools admit/exclude trans children; when does teaching about current affairs become political indoctrination. The talk will look at how those issues became battlegrounds in schools, and what they tell us about the possibilities, and the limitations, of the law.
Dan Squires KC is a barrister at Matrix Chambers, Deputy High Court Judge, and a Visiting Professor of Law at Queen Mary. He has a wide-ranging public law and human rights practice and has been involved in over a dozen cases before the UK Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights. He has conducted a number of internal investigations for schools and universities on allegations of discrimination, treatment of trans children and teaching of “political” issues. He is the co-author of The Negligence Liability of Public Authorities (Oxford University Press, 2nd edn, 2019) and has published articles in leading journals including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and the Law Quarterly Review.
This event is in collaboration with Human Rights Law Centre and will be followed by a drinks reception.