Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Redress Schemes for Personal Injuries
  Sonia Macleod (CSLS), Christopher Hodges (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Invasive species and forest: threats and solutions
  Prof. Carina Keskitalo (Umeå University )
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - De-moralizing harm: the potential of actor network theory (ANT) in critiquing criminalization
  Matthew Weait (University of Portsmouth)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Devolving power to citizens with the use of digital tools in budgeting processes: A path to peace in Colombia?
  Diana Dajer (CSLS)

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - On the Regulatory Geography of Modern Capitalism: Putting ‘Rule of Law’ in its Place
  Michael Dowdle (National University of Singapore)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The importance of space in law
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Regulation Researcher Roundtable: Mining Data
  Various Speakers
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Can adaptation to climate change at all be mainstreamed in complex multi-level governance systems?
  Prof. Carina Keskitalo (Umeå University )
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Taking responsibility after Grenfell
  Helen Carr (University of Kent)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The usability of weather forecasts for UK drought management: interdisciplinary explorations of skill, risk and regulation
  Sophie Haines (University of Oxford)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Victim Oriented Tort Law in Action: An Empirical Examination of Catholic Church Sexual Abuses Cases [co-hosted with the Empirical Legal Studies DG]
  Gijs van Dijck (Maastricht University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 15 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Trump's Man on the Bench: Neil Gorsuch, Or How to Become a US Supreme Court Justice
  Professor Michael Dreyer ( Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Ecological Regulation: What is needed and what is possible?
  Joint event with the Environmental Law Discussion Group
  Professor Fiona Haines (School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne)

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Opening the Black Box of Algorithmic Law
  David Restrepo-Amarilles (Assistant Professor of Private International Law, HEC Paris)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - **BOOK COLLOQUIUM** Global Lawmaking: International Organizations in the Crafting of World Markets
  Followed by a small reception in CSLS- all welcome
  Susan Block-Lieb (Cooper Family Professor in Urban Legal Issues, Fordham University’s School of Law), Terence Halliday (Co-Director, Center on Law and Globalization), Natalie Mrockova (Supernumerary Teaching Fellow in Law, St John’s College (commentator)), Leigh Payne (Professor of Sociology, Latin American Centre, Oxford (commentator))

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Affect and the theo-political economy of the right to freedom of ‘thought, conscience and religion’
  Marinos Diamantides (Professor in Constitutional Law and Ethics, Birkbeck, University of London)

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Colonial laws and policy- Case of 1871 Criminal Tribes Act and its contemporary impact on indigenous tribes and conflict with the state in India
  Shweta Barge (MSc Candidate, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - Catalonia: A Constitutional Debate
  Dr Javier Garcia Oliva (University of Manchester), Professor Josep Capdeferro Pla (University Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Schmitesen Court: The Question of Legitimacy
  Or Bassok (University of Nottingham)
  OxonCourts

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The usability of weather forecasts for UK drought management: interdisciplinary explorations of skill, risk and regulation
  Joint event with the Environmental Law Discussion Group
  Dr Sophie Haines (InSIS, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America
  Dr Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos (University of Oxford)
  OxonCourts

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Narratives of Tower Block Refurbishment: A case study from Oxford, England
  Roxanna Wills (BA Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Gene drive mosquitoes as a regulatory problem
  Assoc. Prof. Javier Lezaun (, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, School of Anthropology, Unversity of Oxford)

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Legal Syncretism in Constitutional Rights in Africa: A Comparative Study of Nigeria, South Africa, and Ethiopia
  Berihun Gebeye (Central European University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 14:00 - The Discourse of Legal Witnessing and Collective Memory: lessons from the archives of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  Benjamin Thorne (University of Sussex)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 24 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Developing Socio-Legal Careers
  Agnieszka Kubal (Lecturer in Sociology, University College London)

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Judicial Review in Norway: A Bicentennial Debate
  Change of Venue: St Cross Building, Seminar Room L
  Anine Kierulf (Law, Oslo University), Prof Aileen Kavanagh (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford)
  OxonCourts

Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Regulating illegal wildlife trade
  Joint event with the Environmental Law Discussion Group
  Michael t’ Sas-Rolfes (School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford Martin Program, University of Oxford)

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Multi-Parenthood in Brazil: an analysis of the Brazilian Supreme Court's position on socio-affective and biological paternity
  Fernanda Mathias (Lecturer, Centro Universitário de Brasília, Brasil)

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Managerial Practices at the International Criminal Court: Enhancing efficiency or reinforcing hegemony?
  Richard Clements (Law, University of Cambridge)
  OxonCourts

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Constitutional Courts: Guardians of Democracy, Guarantors of Justice? Conceptualization and Empirical Application
  Max Steuer (Doctoral Researcher, Comenius University - Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)

Friday 8 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Studying Judicial Disagreement Quantitatively: The Case of Judges on the UK Supreme Court **PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME**
  Change of time: starts at 10 AM
  Lindsay Stirton (Law, University of Sussex)
  OxonCourts

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Hybrid data governance in the cloud
  Dr. Asma Vranaki (Department of Law, University of Bristol)

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Consumer ADR/ODR in Europe: The Dutch Approach 2.0
  Eline Verhage (PhD Candidate, Leiden University – Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)

Friday 15 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - US Courts on Agency Valuation of Environmental Benefits
  Sroyon Mukherjee (Law, LSE)
  OxonCourts

Wednesday 11 July 2018 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Legitimized Refugees: The Political Goal of a Regulated Immigration, and the Promise of Legal Certainty
  Martin Joormann (, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 27 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Co-movement of Political Risk and Sovereign Credit Risk: A Wavelet Coherence Analysis for Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela
  Alper Ozun (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Mapping the past and present state of socio-legal studies in family law in Oxford, and its impact on family justice
  Mavis Maclean CBE (Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford), Professor John Eekelaar (Oxford Centre for Family Law and Policy, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Indigenous peoples’ rights in Lowland Bolivia: Local Perspectives on Mandates and Municipalities
  Jessika Eichler (Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Stories of Care: an ethnographic lens on legal doctrine
  Dr Lydia Hayes (Cardiff University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - In the shadow of the judge: the involvement of judicial assistants in Dutch Courts
  Nina Holvast (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Theory and Methodology, Erasmus School of Law)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Who writes? Explaining authorship on the Supreme Court
  Professor Chris Hanretty (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  OxonCourts

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Board Compliance
  Professor John Armour (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Geography of ‘Land Grabbing’ Regulation: Challenges for Transnational Law
  Dr. Andreas Kotsakis (Oxford Brookes University )
  Regulation Discussion Group

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - The Telcos’ Application of Big Data, IOT and AI and the Consumer Perception of Their Privacy Protection: Case of Taiwan
  Yu-li Liu (Distinguished Professor, National Chengchi University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Constitutional Geometry and post-Westphalian Constitutionalism
  Martin Belov (Associate Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Sofia “St Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Law)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The constitutionalization of private regulators: Understanding the role of private law
  Dr. Paul Verbrueggen (Tilburg Law School)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Narratives, Human Rights Norms and the Local: Understanding the Construction of Legal Meaning around the Rwandan Gacaca Courts
  Dr Julia Viebach (Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford), Benjamin Thorne (PhD Candidate in Law Studies, University of Sussex)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Is Legal Mobilization for the Birds? Legal Opportunity Structures and Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations in the United Kingdom, France, Finland, and Italy
  Dr Lisa Vanhala (University College London)
  OxonCourts

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Innovation and the State: Finance, Regulation, and Justice
  Professor Christie Ford (Allard School of Law)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Mass Atrocity Prosecution Ritual
  Vincent Dalpé (Doctoral Candidate, McGill University, Faculty of Law)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Running out of capacity: Accountability & stakeholder engagement in economic regulation
  Professor Martin Lodge (LSE)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - The Paradox of Punishment: bringing anthropology to law
  Dr Insa Koch (LSE)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Methodical Problems of Legal Transplants
  Maximilian Wörner-Schönecker (Doctoral Candidate, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - QT or not QT? What is your research question?
  TBA
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Court Presidents: The Missing Piece in the Puzzle of Judicial Self-Governance
  Change of Topic
  Dr David Kosař (Masaryk University)
  OxonCourts

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Beyond the Ivory Tower: Housing Possession
  Dr Lisa Whitehouse (University of Hull), Cathy Gough (Turpin & Miller Solicitors)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Proselytisation and Religious Freedom in Bangladesh
  Jahid Bhuiyan (Associate Professor, Department of Law, Northern University Bangladesh; Research Fellow at North-West University, South Africa; Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies), Discussant: Dr Farrah Raza (Stipendiary lecturer in Public Law, Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Social Citizenship in flux: rights, responsibilities and regions
  Mark Simpson (Lecturer in Law and Researcher at the Transitional Justice Institute, School of Law, Ulster University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Children, Terrorism, and the Rule of Law
  Dr Jessie Blackbourn (CSLS, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Lessons from the Parliamentary Scrutiny of Regulation, in Comparative Perspective: Canada and the UK
  Lorne Neudorf (University of Adelaide, Australia)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 29 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Theses by former students
  Sajjad Koshroo (Counsel at Allen and Overy, DPhil student at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies), Owain Johnstone (Modern Slavery Researcher at Ethical Trading Initiative)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Accessing information v. analyzing policy: Using the FOI Act in the United Kingdom
  Dr John R Campbell (Emeritus Reader in the Anthropology of Africa and Law, Sociology & Anthropology, School of Oriental & African Studies)

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - “We find a girl of fifteen nowadays is still between a small girl and a big girl”: Using Hansard to explore legislative change to the minimum age of marriage in Singapore (1960 – 2015)
  Charlotte Kelly (DPhil Candidate, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Legal Techniques and Secrecy
  Dr Bernard Keenan (former immigration solicitor; lecturer in the School of Law, Birkbeck College, London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Conceptualizing, Measuring and Mapping the Formal Judicial Independence of International Courts
  Dr Theresa Squatrito (University of Liverpool)
  OxonCourts

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - A History of Law Schools: A Battle Between Law as a Science and Law as a Product of Society
  Joshua Krook (PhD Candidate at the University of Adelaide Law School; Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Vanishing litigants? Vanishing trials? Vanishing precedent? Revisiting socio-legal debates about litigation trends in the UK and their implications
  Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford)

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The strain between the right to housing and the economic freedoms in Spain after the mortgage crisis
  Andrei Pastrana (PhD candidate, University of Santiago de Compostela)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Global Internet Governance after WCIT-12 and China’s Choice
  Professor Wenming Zheng (Professor of Media Law, Capital University of Economics and Business, China; Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Hague: Constructing an International Forum
  Naina Gupta (Architectural Association)
  OxonCourts

Wednesday 13 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The Cognitive Impact of Legal Structure on Comparative Legal Reasoning
  Jörg Zimmermann (Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The guarantee of fair and just working conditions in the new Collaborative Economy models in Europe
  Alvaro San Martin (PhD Candidate, Complutense University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Surviving Dictatorship: Citizenship and Sustainable Collective Action in Underprivileged Urban Chile
  Dr Simón Escoffier (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Latin America Centre, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Actorness of International Courts and Tribunals
  Raphael Oidtmann (University of Mannheim)
  OxonCourts

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Gender, Craft, Law and Politics: Notes for an Ethnography of Legislative Drafting
  Dr Emily Grabham (Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - 'Amongst the Most Desirable Reading’: Advertising and the Fetters of the Newspaper Press in Britain, c. 1848-1914
  Professor Anat Rosenberg (Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya; Visiting Scholar, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - OxonCourts 1st Judicial Studies Graduate Colloquium
  Various Speakers
  OxonCourts

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Transnational legal ordering at the societal boundaries of multinational mining enterprises: A legal anthropological approach
  Laura Knöpfel (PhD Candidate and research fellow at the Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 18 March 2019 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:30 - CONSUMER ODR: Delivering Fairness and Justice for Consumers, Business and Markets **Registration now closed**
  Various Speakers

Thursday 28 March 2019 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - **POSTPONED** An empirical analysis on linkage between non-tax revenue, public expenses and corruption in transition countries
  Associate Professor Alper Őzűn (Academic Visitor, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 16 April 2019 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - An empirical analysis on linkage between non-tax revenue, public expenses and corruption in transition countries
  Alper Ozun (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Wednesday 1 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Governing canal life
  Professor Dave Cowan (University of Bristol)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Regulation of anonymous on-line speech by The São Paulo Appeals Court
  Professor Rafael Queiroz (University of Sao Paolo)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Law's Wars, Law's Trials
  Richard L. Abel (Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA Law)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - The normativity of medical guidelines and their use by medical tribunals in the Netherlands and England
  Dr Friso Jansen (Senior Lecturer in Law, Birmingham City University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 13:00 - Revolving Doors and the Market for Regulatory Compliance
  Professor Colin Provost (Associate Professor of Public Policy, UCL School of Public Policy/Department of Political Science)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Stakeholder Representativeness
  Various Speakers
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - A Common Law Warranty for Consumer Financial Contracts
  Professor Susan Block-Lieb (Professor of Law, Cooper Family Chair in Urban Legal Issues, Fordham University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 13:00 - Ranking and Regulating: Markets and Hierarchies in the Governance of Higher Education Today
  Prof. Colin Scott (University College Dublin)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - The Court as Archive
  Dr Trish Luker (University of Technology Sydney)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Expectations, Visions and Imaginaries in the Regulation and Legitimation of Health Research and Technologies: Regulating or Regulatory Futures?
  Dr Mark Flear (School of Law, Queen's University Belfast)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Happiness, Housing and the Law
  Dr Janice Gray (Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - **CANCELLED** The Past, Present, and Future of Law Reform in Canada
  Marcus Moore (University of Oxford)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 30 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - The formalisation of South African waste pickers in a globalised recycling economy
  Allison Lindner (PhD student at the Centre for Critical International Law, University of Kent)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Search for ‘Regulatory Sovereignty’ in the Global Pharmaceutical Sector and the Potentialities for a ‘Healthy Brexit’
  Dr. John Wright (Associate Professor in Regulatory Governance, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney), Dr. Dimitrios Doukas (Reader in EU Law, School of Law, University of Manchester)
  Regulation Discussion Group

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Social Foundations of Anglophone Caribbean Constitutions: Impact on the Implementation of the Death Penalty in the Caribbean and Impediments Towards Abolition
  Dr Florence Seemungal (University of the West Indies Open Campus)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - Law, Accounting, Organizations: Taking stock and moving forward
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Regulating AI through consumer and civil law
  Professor Cecilia Danesi (University of Buenos Aires)
  Regulation Discussion Group
• 17:00 - **Annual Socio-Legal Lecture** Working Law: Courts, Corporations, and Symbolic Civil Rights
  Lauren B. Edelman (Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley)

Thursday 13 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - The Radicalisation Cases in the Family Courts: A Critical Evaluation
  Fatima Ahdash (PhD student in Law, LSE)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 13:00 - OxonCourts Mini-Workshop on Legal Mobilization
  Jonas von Hoffmann (University of Oxford), Fernanda Farina (University of Oxford), Virginia Passalacqua (European University Institute)
  OxonCourts

Tuesday 18 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Negotiating Internet Governance
  Dr Roxana Radu (SNSF Postdoctoral Researcher)

Thursday 20 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Human Rights & Climate (in)justices: Examining the role of law and policy in vulnerable coastal areas of the Global South
  Birsha Ohdedar (Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 4 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Upgrading the enforcement of consumer protection in the EU - some remarks on the proposal for a directive on representative actions
  Dr Jagna Mucha (Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 29 July 2019 (14th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Methodology Masterclass 2019
  TBA

Monday 7 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘Law and Political Economy’ in Europe
  TBA
• 16:30 - Theorizing Law and Political Economy in the Era of Neoliberalism
  Professor Amy Kapczynski (Yale Law School)

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - The map of civilization: 4,000 years of law
  Prof. Fernanda Pirie (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies )
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Delivering Dispute Resolution
  Professor Christopher Hodges (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Institutional Design of Judicial Review: Kelsen before the Bulgarian Constitutional Court
  Ivo Gruev (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Business and Human Rights in Australia
  Professor Sally Wheeler (Australian National University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Cause Lawyering with the grain? Immigration and Refugee Lawyers in Russia
  Agnieszka Kubal (Lecturer in Sociology, University College London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - On the Entanglement of Tax Law, Indigeneity, and Citizenship: The 1919 Alaska School Tax
  Max Zahnd (JSD candidate at Berkeley Law School and PhD Candidate in Geography/Polar Studies at the Scott Polar Research Institute at University of Cambridge)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Water Efficiency in the public sector. The role of social norms
  Dr Kevin Grecksch (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Islamic Finance: The Convergence of Faith, Capital and Power
  Sajjad Khoshroo (Counsel, Allen & Overy)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Reproductive Labour, Law and Property Accumulations: Rereading East African Social History
  Professor Ambreena Manji (Professor of Land Law and Development, University of Cardiff)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Book launch – Paul Rock in conversation with Linda Mulcahy and Emma Rowden: The writing of The Democratic courthouse: A Modern History of Design, Due Process and Dignity’.
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - **CANCELLED** The Poodle Problem: Are Corporate Lawyers Still Professionals?
  Dr Steven Vaughan (University College London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Stage managers of the criminal courtroom: Uncovering the lives of Crown Court clerks through oral history
  Dr Dvora Liberman (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Jurist in Context: William Twining in conversation with Ruth Chang, David Sugarman and Linda Mulcahy
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Law and Experience – A socio-legal perspective on German asylum adjudication
  Teresa Büchsel (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - An Open Dialogue: What does collaborative, ethical research w/ indigenous peoples look like?
  Carson Smith (CSLS, Oxford), Anna Reed (Latin American Studies, Oxford)
  Indigenous, Interdisciplinary Discussion Group

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Transitioning from QUAL to mixed methods: Teething Problems and Pragmatic Solutions in Researching Public-Sector Data Sharing in the UK
  Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Looking for Law in China: Empirical Research in an Authoritarian Context
  Michael Palmer (Emeritus Professor of Law, SOAS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Indigenous Frameworks in Academia Series
  TBC
  Indigenous, Interdisciplinary Discussion Group

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Constitution-Making in a Post-Conflict Environment: A Socio-Legal Perspective of the Libyan Process
  Felix-Anselm van Lier (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Poodle Problem: Are Corporate Lawyers Still Professionals?
  Dr Steven Vaughan (University College London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Law and Love in the Peshawar family courts
  Sara Naeem (Social Anthopology)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - **CANCELLED** The Art of Justice: Reconfiguring the Courtroom Object
  TBA
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - From voluntary to forced migration: a socio-legal overview of Syrian labour in Lebanon
  Jessy Nassar (PhD Candidate, KCL)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Oya Aydin (PhD Candidate, University of Ankara)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 19 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Transnational archives: Power, voice and archival violence in transnational justice
  Dr Julia Viebach (African Studies Centre, Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 22 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Pivots: Doing Socio-Legal Research on Cultural Heritage in a Pandemic
  Rangga Dachlan (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 2 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Beastly Identification: conservationist legal regimes and documents in the government of big cats in India
  Dr Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 5 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Taking personhood seriously: the socio-legal tensions of non-human and non-animal recognition
  Noah Wescombe (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 16 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Innovation in the absence of a state: law, technology and politics in the Somali territories
  Dr Nicole Stremlau (PCMLP, Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Community Mediation across Ethnicities: Building for Conflict Resolution in Diverse Societies
  Carson Smith (CSLS, Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 30 November 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - The Limits of Private Governance: Norms and Rules in a Mediterranean Fishery
  Dr Florian Grisel (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 3 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Silicosis and the State: Reframing Contestations between Capital and Labour in Contemporary India
  Shruti Iyer (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 18 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Inside Europe’s Asylum Courts: Legal Geography, Ethnography and the Hollowness of Refugee Law
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Nick Gill (University of Exeter)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Boycott, Resistance and the Law: Cause Lawyering in Conflict and Authoritarianism
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Dr Anna Bryson (Queen's University Belfast)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 1 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Chinese law and development
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Matthew Erie (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The relation between prosecution and political trends in Turkey
  Nurcan Gunduz (Eastern Mediterranean University)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Practicing Proportionality: Legal Knowledge Practices in the German Repetitorium
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jacco Bomhoff (LSE)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 15 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Mundanization of Automated Decision-Making in Public Services through Litigation
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Anne Kaun (Södertörn University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Radical Lawyering and the Reshaping of the Law since the 1970s in the UK and France
  Pierre-Louis Sanchez (Visiting Student, Centre for Socio-legal studies)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Art of Justice: Reconfiguring the Courtroom Object
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Johannah Latchem (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 1 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - A Precarious Life: ‘Ethnography at home’ on an English council estate
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Dr Roxana Willis (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:30 - Identity and emotion in the judgements of the European Court of Human Rights
  Yussef Al Tamini (European University Institute)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 8 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Infra legalities: a method assemblage for studying law and data infrastructure together
  To join remotely via Zoom please email admin@csls.ox.ac.uk by 10am on the day.
  Gavin Sullivan (University of Edinburgh)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - What makes interest rates matter? Studying financial markets as socio-legal phenomena
  This event has been postponed until Trinity Term 2021
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Mark Haskew (DPhil student, Centre for Socio-legal Studies)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Polarization and Partisanship in State Supreme Court Elections
  Professor Bert Krtitzer (University of Minnesota Law School)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 7 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Title TBA
  Professor Penelope Andrews (New York Law School)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Legal geographies of hyper-precarity in the Italian gig economy
  Dr Gianluca Iazzonlino (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Of tax law, space, and colonization: The implementation of the 1919 Alaska school tax
  Dr Max Zahnd (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Decolonising Collections? The Benin Artefacts in British Museums
  Zhanna Ter-Zakaryan (Centre for Socio-legal Studies, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Can Law Mitigate the Motherhood/Caretaker Penalty?
  The Zoom link for this seminar is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83360063929?pwd=TkloYVJQMkQwODg5MUxmZy9xaTQ1UT09 Meeting ID: 833 6006 3929 Passcode: 092074
  Professor Catherine Albiston (Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - State Innovation in public health policies and its capacity to respond to new challenges
  Pedro de Paula (Visiting Researcher, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - (How) can we develop practical ethics from particular scandals: Academics’ Logics and the Case of the Post Office
  Professor Richard Moorhead (Exeter University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - When Peace Kills Politics: International Intervention and Unending Wars in the Sudans
  Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Cambridge University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - The Political Economy of Fact-Checking Online Disinformation in Africa
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Media Law and Policy Seminar Series

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Nexus between digital repression and movements' tactical innovations in the Arab World
  Mona Abdelsattar (Oxford Interrnet Institute)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - In conversation with Professor Fernanda Pirie: Book launch: The Rule of Laws
  The Zoom link for this seminar is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83360063929?pwd=TkloYVJQMkQwODg5MUxmZy9xaTQ1UT09 Meeting ID: 833 6006 3929 Passcode: 092074
  Professor Michael Lobban (LSE), Professor Morgan Clarke (Anthropology, University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Nixon’s VAT: the Rise and Fall of the U.S. Education Value-Added Tax
  The Zoom link for this seminar is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83360063929?pwd=TkloYVJQMkQwODg5MUxmZy9xaTQ1UT09 Meeting ID: 833 6006 3929 Passcode: 092074
  Professor Ajay Mehotra (American Bar foundation)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Governance of digital technologies, and the regulatory and policy frameworks to supervise the economic power of technology companies
  Beatriz Kira (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia
  Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81468819921?pwd=UDA1dks5ZjgwMkV0WDk0ejlnem84dz09
  Dr Lynette Rose (Yale NUS College, Singapore)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Legal Aid Without Lawyers: How Boston’s Nonlawyers Delivered and Shaped Justice for the Poor, 1878-1922
  Contact student convener at caio.machado@wolfson.ox.ac.uk for Zoom link.
  Kelsea Jeon (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 7 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Finding the True Convert: Tensions between Church and State in Asylum Appeal Hearings based on Conversion to Christianity
  Lena Rose (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 14 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Due process 4.0: procedural guarantees for a digital era
  João Lordelo Tavares (University of Coimbra)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 21 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - (How) can we develop practical ethics from particular scandals: Academics’ Logics and the Case of the Post Office
  Professor Richard Moorhead (Exeter University)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Punishment, state, and society in the Global South: making sense of mass incarceration in Brazil
  Luiz Phelipe Dal Santo (Criminology)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Limits of Private Governance Norms and Rules in a Mediterranean Fishery
  Dr Florian Grisel (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Negative Comparative Law: A Strong Programme for Weak Thought
  Professor Pierre Legrand (Sorbonne)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Cannabis Legalization: An ethnography of the global movement and market forces
  Jessica Steinberg (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Code Democracy Presumes: How Media Influence Politics
  Professor Lawrence Lessig (Harvard)