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Listen to or watch past events and public lectures from the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, covering topics such as human rights law, immigration, climate justice, legal theory and more.

You can also watch past events from the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, which focus on topics such as arbitration, intellectual property, insurance law and other commercial legal topics.

29 May 2024
Critical Legal talks Series
Reconstructing Critical Legal Studies

9 April 2024
Critical Legal talks Series
‘Reparative Democracy’

15 December 2023
Talk Series Fundamental Rights for Non-Humans
Robot Rights Without Human Frights

27 November 2023
(B)OrderS: Centre for the Legal Study of Borders, Mobility and Migration
Refugee Communities in the Middle East - Protection or Discrimination? A Critical Perspective

24 November 2023
Talk Series Fundamental Rights for Non-Humans
Exploring the Boundaries of Immersive Anthropocentric Human Rights Protection. A Political Justification of Rights of Nature

17 November 2023
Talk Series Fundamental Rights for Non-Humans
Are there any animal rights?

13 November 2023
Criminal Justice Centre
Roundtable: Law and Performance

7 November 2023
Critical Legal Talks Series
Democracy and Rights with Professor Christoph Menke, Goethe University

31 October 2023
Critical Legal Talks Series
The Law of International Society: A Road Not Taken. Reflections on one 19th century moment

26 June 2023
(B)OrderS: Centre for the Legal Study of Borders, Mobility and Migration
Practitioners meet Academics - A Dialogue on Complex Protection Claims and Academic Impact in the Courtroom

29 March 2023
(B)OrderS: Centre for the Legal Study of Borders, Mobility and Migration
Towards Autonomous Borders? Assessing the Human Rights and Rule of Law Challenges of the Deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems for Migration Management

12 December 2022
London Financial Regulation Seminar
DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0?

6 December 2022
London Financial Regulation Seminar
LDI Strategies: The Pensions Regulator on Trial

24 November 2022
Cloud Legal Project
Regulating Artificial Intelligence - Professor Chris Reed

21 November 2022
School of International Arbitration
Application of the Substantive Law in International Commercial Arbitration - limits and challenges for the arbitrators' discretion

9 November 2022
Centre for Research on Law, Equality and Diversity and the Childhood, Law, and Policy Network (CLPN)
Children’s Right to Vote: Should the Voting Age Be Lowered/Abolished?

3 November 2022
Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context
A workshop on Legal Interpretation with Duncan Kennedy

3 November 2022
Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society
Liberal versus Democratic Conceptions of Free Speech

31 October 2022
Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice
‘What is the Point of COP 27?’

31 October 2022
Sovereign Debt Forum
The ECB's Transmission Protection Instrument: A Legal & Economic Analysis

27 September 2022
(B)OrderS: Centre for the Legal Study of Borders and Migration
The Common European Asylum System and the UN Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: A Practitioners

22 September 2022
Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice
The Value of Climate Justice

21 June 2022
Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice
Rethinking Ecocide

6 June 2022
(B)OrderS: Centre for the Legal Study of Borders and Migration
(B)OrderS Masterclass: Refugees and Decent Work

7 June 2022
Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice
The Politics of Ecocide Law

9 May 2022
Institue of Banking and Finance Law
London Financial Regulation Seminar: The Regulation of Hedge Funds: A Global Perspective

3 May 2022
Sustainability and the Law
The UK Climate Change Adaptation Policy Framework by Dr Andy Russell

4 April 2022
Sustainability and the Law
The Agency Costs of Sustainable Capitalism

1 April 2022
Insurance, Shipping & Aviation Law Institute
EU-Asia Aviation Law Forum - 'The ASEAN-EU Comprehensive Air Transport Agreement: Impact and Implications'

16 March 2022
Institute of Tax Law
Partnerships in International Taxation

10 March 2022
School of International Arbitration
Developing a Case Strategy and Advocacy in International Arbitration: Cross-cultural Perspectives

9 March 2022
School of Law
International Women’s Day: Using the law to protect women’s rights and where the law can go further

3 March 2022
Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law Institute
IELR 5.1 pre-publication event: EULAs: Friends or Foes?

22 February 2022
Centre for Commercial Law Studies
Roundtable in Animal Law: “Why Animals are Fundamental-Rights-Holding Persons”

16 February 2022
Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society
Free Speech Platforms in Unfree Countries

9 February 2022
School of International Arbitration
Guerilla Tactics: When Arbitration is a (Not-So-Civil) War

7 February 2022
Institue of Banking and Finance Law
London Financial Regulations Seminar: Time to repeal the UK Securitisation Regulation?

3 February 2022
Legal Advice Centre
The Promise and Perils of Algorithms in Public Administration

27 January 2022
Technology, Media and Telecommunications Law Institute
IELR 4.2 online launch event: Breaking a new frontier

27 January 2022
Immigration Law LLM and Kingsley Napley Seminar
Meet the Practitioners: What are the challenges regarding the implementation of the UK's Commitments under the Withdrawal Agreement to EU Nationals living in the UK?

26 January 2022
Queen Mary Intellectual Property Law Institute
QMIPRI Open Seminar on Open Access to Scientific Publishing

17 January 2022
Institue of Banking and Finance Law
London Financial Regulation Seminar: The Professional Standards of Executive Remuneration Consultants

14 January 2022
Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context
Book launch: Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law (CUP, 2021)

8 December 2021
Centre for Law, Democracy, and Society
The Nation-State: Not Yet Ready for the Dustbin of History?

25 November 2021
Immigration Law LLM and Kingsley Napley Seminar
Meet the Practitioners: The UK's New Plan for Immigration and the Nationality and Borders Bill: what are the UK needs for labour migration, the government's proposals and the UK's international commitments in this area?

18 November 2021
Centre for Law, Equality and Diversity
Book Launch: The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era

17 November 2021
Immigration Law LLM
Rights of migrants at the borders and the role of the national human rights institutions

16 November 2021
Centre for Law, Democracy and Society
Democracy, the rule of law, and the rise of populism: ‘illiberal democracy’ within Europe

3 November 2021
Centre for Climate Crime and Justice
Centre for Climate Crime and Justice: 2021 Inaugural Lecture

2 November 2021
Institue of Banking and Finance Law
Making Commercial Law through Practise Seminar

29 October 2021
Centre for Commercial Law Studies
COP26: What to Expect?

16 June 2021
Criminal Justice Centre
Annual Lecture of the Immigration Law LLM 2021

8 June 2021
School of Law Anti-Racism Working Group
“Race”, Anti racist Internationalism and the Global Colour Line

17 May 2021
International State Crime Initiative
Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim

4 May 2021
International State Crime Initiative
Book Launch: Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech

21 April 2021
International State Crime Initiative
Looting the North, Looting the South: Investigating Transnational Corruption

2 March 2021
International State Crime Initiative
Torture: The Marks of Civilisation

3 February 2021
Institute of Interactive Entertainment Law and Policy
Value creation in video games and international taxation

13 January 2021
Institute of Interactive Entertainment Law and Policy
Influencers and the video game industry - from social responsibility to legal liability

11 December 2020
School of Law
MAPS Conference: Conflicting Responses to Refugees and Migra​nts in Covid-19 Europe

9 December 2020
Institute of Banking and Finance Law and the Institute of Regulation and Ethics
Evening with Mr David Rouch, Partner at Freshfields

9 December 2020
Insurance Law Institute
Maritime Law 5th edition: Book Launch and Panel Discussion

8 December 2020
Institute of Tax Law
Brexit, trade and tax – a global view from Timothy Lyons

2 December 2020
School of International Arbitration
Covid-19 and its affects in international arbitration

25 November 2020
Institute of Interactive Entertainment Law and Policy
IELR 3.1 Launch Event Copyright Perspectives on Creativity

12 November 2020
Insurance, Shipping and Aviation Law Institute
FCA test case on business interruption (BI) insurance coverage

29 October 2020
Insurance, Shipping and Aviation Law Institute
Insurance brokers and their role

10 September 2020
Insurance, Shipping and Aviation Law Institute
Insurable Interest and the Law book launch

29 July 2020
Centre for Commercial Law Studies
Building Trust in the Digital Economy Workshop

23 June 2020
Queen Mary Intellectual Property Law Institute (QMIPRI)
QMIPRI Webinars on IP Responses to Covid-19: innovation during crisis, data tracking privacy, pharmaceutical supply chains and 3D Printing

22 June 2020
School of Law
Cry the Beloved Country: George Floyd and America’s continuing racial tragedy

18-25 June 2020
Centre for Commercial Law Studies
CCLS 40th Anniversary Lecture Series

17 June 2020
Insurance, Shipping and Aviation Law Institute
Two Perspectives on Ship Finance: English jurisdiction clauses and Innovation

16 June 2020
Queen Mary Intellectual Property Law Institute (QMIPRI)
QMIPRI Webinars on IP Responses to Covid-19: access to diagnostics, vaccines and treatments

5 May 2020
‘EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation’ (EUPLANT)
'The Principle of "One Country, Two Systems" in Chinese Constitutional and its Operation in Hong Kong

27 March 2020
‘EU-China Legal and Judicial Cooperation’ (EUPLANT) and Centre for European and International Legal Affairs
Webinar: The Implications of Xi Jinping’s New Era for Global Human Rights

5 March 2020
School of Law
2020 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence by Professor Renisa Mawani

5 February 2020
Centre for European and International Legal Affairs
The Contribution of the General Court to the Rule of Law in the EU

13 March 2019
School of Law
2019 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence

5 December 2018
School of Law
Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence by Annelise Riles

17 October 2018
Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context CLSGC)
'Two Lawyers on Nonviolence: Mohandas K. Gandhi and Richard B. Gregg'

21 November 2017
Human Rights Collegium
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Reconciling National Values and Human Rights

16 November 2017
'The Lawyer as political actor' with Jolyon Maugham QC

27 April 2017
Centre for Culture and Law
Identity Politics in India

16 March 2017
School of Law
The 3rd Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence: 'Honor, Citizenship and the Law' by Anthony Appiah (NYU)

30 November 2016
Centre for and Society in a Global Context
CLSGC Policy Lecture: Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im (Emory)

21 June 2016
Art, Crime and Criminals
Workshop 1: Painting Fresh Pictures of Art Theft, Fraud and Plunder

16 June 2016
Cracking law
QMUL Cracking Law Episode 1 - EU Law - Dr Thomas MacManus and Nicolas Raufast

31 March 2016
2016 Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context
CLSGC Annual Lecture on 'Mare Nostrum: International Law, Spatial Order, and the Mediterranean' by Professor Anne Orford

23 March 2016
2016 Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context
CLSGC Policy Lecture: 'The Politics of Climate Change Negotiation’ by Dr Dan Bondi Ogolla

16 March 2016
2016 Annual Cotterrell Lecture
The Second Annual Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence: Professor Eve Darian-Smith

19 February 2016
2016 Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context
Ad Hoc Seminar by Dr Chloe Kennedy

28 January 2016
2016 Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context
CLSGC Policy Lecture: 'Sexual, Gender and Bodily Diversity in the Inter-American Human Rights System' by Tracy Robinson

27 January 2016
2016 Criminal Justice Centre
CJC Seminar Series: 'Current Challenges in European Criminal Law' - Professor Stefano Manacorda

20 January 2016
2016 Criminal Justice Centre
CJC Seminar Series: 'Current Challenges in European Criminal Law' - Professor Emilio de Capitani and Professor Roberto Kostoris

17 November 2015
2015 Human Rights Collegium
Lost Journeys: The Stories of Child Refugees

13 November 2015
2015 Centre for European and International Legal Affairs
CEILA Inaugural Lecture by Advocate General Maciej Szpunar

6 November 2015
2015 QLLM082 Regulation of Financial Markets
Lecture by Professor Charles Goodhart

28 May 2015
2015 Annual Cotterrell Lecture
The Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence: Professor Brian Tamanaha

7 May 2015
2015 Criminal Justice Centre
CJC Annual Lecture: Rashida Manjoo, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women

12 March
2015 Criminal Justice Centre
CJC Seminar: 'The Consequences of the Data Retention Judgement for Mass Surveillance'

05 February 2015
2015 Human Rights Collegium
Judge Paul Mahoney: ‘The Changing Face of the European Court of Human Rights’

04 December 2014
2014 Human Rights Collegium
'To Remember and Never Forget': The Story of Holocaust Survivor Hannah Lewis

27 November
2014 Institute of Global Law Economics and Finance (IGLEF)
Rule of Law and International Investments in the ASEAN Region

17 January 2014
2014 Banking Law
Graham Nicholson, Bank of England, 'The role and responsibility of the Bank of England under the post-crisis regulatory framework'

6 December 2013
2013 Banking Law
Simon Gleeson: Deposit Insurance and Crisis Management

18 October 2013
2013 Energy Law
Andrew Clarke: The Energy Outlook and Life as an In-house Lawyer

12-13 April 2013
2013 UK IVR Annual Conference
Legal Theory and Legal History: A Neglected Dialogue?

7 March 2013
Human Rights Collegium 2013
The Right to Housing: Law, Concepts, Possibilities

5 March 2013
Human Rights Collegium 2013
Confessions of a Judicial Activist, Justice Albie Sachs

14 February 2013
Herchel Smith Intellectual Property lecture 2013
Graham Dutfield: Did Kary Mullis 'Really' Invent the Polymerase Chain Reaction

16 January 2013
Professor David Rosenbloom NYU: Recent Developments in US Tax Law

22 January 2013
Banking and Finance Law 2013
Mr Lee Buchheit: Short History of International Debt Crises: from the XIXth century to the Eurozone Crisis - The Options Now.

11 December 2012
GLOCUL Lecture 2012
Professor SN Balagangadhara 'Reconceptualising India Studies'

7 December 2012
Banking and Finance Law 2012
Mr Graham Nicholson, Bank of England: The new regulatory and supervisory structure in the UK

6 December 2012
2012 Public Law LectureNeil Walker 'Our Constitutional Unsettlement'

4 September 2012
RELIGARE Conference 2012Unregistered Marriages and Alternative Dispute Resolution in European Legal Systems

16 May 2012
Professor Lizzie Barmes' Inaugural Lecture
'Law and Other Stories About Behavioural Conflict at Work'

1 March 2012
Queen Mary Law and Society Lecture
Sir Ross Cranston FBA 'Judges, politics and the state: the judicial role'

23 November 2011
Criminal Justice Centre Event
The Extradition Review Team Debate - "The Future for UK Extradition"

9 June 2011
Criminal Justice Centre Conference
'The Future of Expert Evidence'

23 March 2011
Professor Rosa M Lastra's Inaugural Lecture:
‘The Quest for International Financial Regulation’

16 March 2011
2011 Butterworths Lecture on Law and Society:
'The Changing Nature of the Judicial Process' by Rabinder Singh QC

8 March 2011
International Women's Day 1911 - 2011 - Professor Kate MallesonProfessor Kate Malleson talks about the triumphs and struggles of British women in the legal sphere in the last 100 years, and the ongoing fight for gender equality.

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