Law Research Seminar Series

This free lecture series, which is open to the public, is held on Wednesdays at lunchtime. For more information please contact us.

2018

31 October 2018: Bernard Keenan, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Above and Below The Waterline: Law, Mass Media and Mass Surveillance'
14 November 2018: Jessica Whyte, Western Sydney University, 'The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and Neoliberalism'
28 November 2018: Guido Comparato, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Systems and Individuals: From Economic Organicism to Financial Bio-capitalism'
12 December 2018: Jeremy Pilcher, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Voteauction: Encountering The Aporia Of The Demos'
21 February 2018: Chiu Man-Chung Andy, Beijing Normal University, 'Re-Engineering Children-Adult/Parents Dyad'
7 February 2018: Frederick Cowell, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Why Stay, Why Leave? Traversing "the New Sovereigntism" and Its Impact on International Human Rights Institutions'
17 January 2018: 'Reparations for Colonial Wrongs: What is the Appropriate Measure of Loss for a Transhistorical Debt of Conscience?'

13 December 2017: Nathan Moore, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Coal Seams and Bit Streams: Two Recent Cases On the Conceptual Difficulty of Being and/or Having'
29 November 2017: Maria Drakopoulou, University of Kent, 'Foucault's First Choice: Of Biopolitics, the Canon, and Doing History Otherwise'
15 November 2017: Samera Esmeir, Berkeley, University of California, 'Confronting Conscription: On the Possibilities of Ottoman Rebellions'
1 November 2017: Shaun McVeigh, University of Melbourne, 'Conditions of Carriage: Formulations of Office and Place in Minor Jurisprudences of London'
22 March 2017: Carey Young, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, and Birkbeck, University of London, 'Palais de Justice'
1 March 2017: Noémi Lévy-Aksu, Boğaziçi University, 'The Power of Discretion: Regimes of Exception in the Late Ottoman Empire'
8 February 2017: Elena Loizidou, Birkbeck, University of London, 'Without Law'
18 January 2017: Avery F. Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara, 'Letters from the Hawthorn Archive'

November 2016: 'Law and Body Secrets: The Fantasy Structure of Genes and Brains'
October 2016: 'Lives That Slide Out of View: Law and Poverty'
March 2016: 'Violence and Spirituality: Cosmography Beyond Governmentality at the Turkish/Syrian Territorial Interface'
February 2016: 'Feminist Literary Theory, Legal Texts: An Encounter'
January 2016: 'Sovereignty Enisled'

December 2015: 'Accusation and Expanding Crime-Control Networks;
October 2015: 'Stop and Search: Drawing the Line Between Submission and Consent'
September 2015: 'What the Police Saw?: The Camera, Domestic Violence and Viewing Interpersonal Violence'
February 2015: 'Public Legal Education and Social Justice: Connecting University and Community'

October 2013: 'If We Know, Then We Must Fight: Legacies of 1970s Radical Criminology in the United States'