Name: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Events this person is hosting:

Thursday 26 April 2018

Opening the Black Box of Algorithmic Law
Date: 26 April 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : David Restrepo-Amarilles (Assistant Professor of Private International Law, HEC Paris)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room F
Organiser: Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 3 May 2018

Affect and the theo-political economy of the right to freedom of ‘thought, conscience and religion’
Date: 3 May 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Marinos Diamantides (Professor in Constitutional Law and Ethics, Birkbeck, University of London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room F
Organiser: Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 10 May 2018

Colonial laws and policy- Case of 1871 Criminal Tribes Act and its contemporary impact on indigenous tribes and conflict with the state in India
Date: 10 May 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Shweta Barge (MSc Candidate, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room F
Organiser: Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 17 May 2018

Narratives of Tower Block Refurbishment: A case study from Oxford, England
Date: 17 May 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Roxanna Wills (BA Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room F
Organiser: Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 24 May 2018

Developing Socio-Legal Careers
Date: 24 May 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Agnieszka Kubal (Lecturer in Sociology, University College London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room F
Organiser: Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 31 May 2018

Multi-Parenthood in Brazil: an analysis of the Brazilian Supreme Court's position on socio-affective and biological paternity
Date: 31 May 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Fernanda Mathias (Lecturer, Centro Universitário de Brasília, Brasil)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room F
Organiser: Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 7 June 2018

Constitutional Courts: Guardians of Democracy, Guarantors of Justice? Conceptualization and Empirical Application
Date: 7 June 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Max Steuer (Doctoral Researcher, Comenius University - Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room F
Organiser: Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 14 June 2018

Consumer ADR/ODR in Europe: The Dutch Approach 2.0
Date: 14 June 2018, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Eline Verhage (PhD Candidate, Leiden University – Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room F
Organiser: Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 2 May 2019

Regulation of anonymous on-line speech by The São Paulo Appeals Court
Date: 2 May 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Rafael Queiroz (University of Sao Paolo)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 9 May 2019

The normativity of medical guidelines and their use by medical tribunals in the Netherlands and England
Date: 9 May 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Friso Jansen (Senior Lecturer in Law, Birmingham City University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 16 May 2019

A Common Law Warranty for Consumer Financial Contracts
Date: 16 May 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Susan Block-Lieb (Professor of Law, Cooper Family Chair in Urban Legal Issues, Fordham University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 23 May 2019

Happiness, Housing and the Law
Date: 23 May 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Janice Gray (Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 6 June 2019

Social Foundations of Anglophone Caribbean Constitutions: Impact on the Implementation of the Death Penalty in the Caribbean and Impediments Towards Abolition
Date: 6 June 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Florence Seemungal (University of the West Indies Open Campus)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Room 341, CSLS, Third Floor
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 13 June 2019

The Radicalisation Cases in the Family Courts: A Critical Evaluation
Date: 13 June 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Fatima Ahdash (PhD student in Law, LSE)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 20 June 2019

Human Rights & Climate (in)justices: Examining the role of law and policy in vulnerable coastal areas of the Global South
Date: 20 June 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Birsha Ohdedar (Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 24 October 2019

Institutional Design of Judicial Review: Kelsen before the Bulgarian Constitutional Court
Date: 24 October 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Ivo Gruev (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organisers: TBA
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 7 November 2019

On the Entanglement of Tax Law, Indigeneity, and Citizenship: The 1919 Alaska School Tax
Date: 7 November 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : 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)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organisers: TBA
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Tuesday 12 November 2019

Islamic Finance: The Convergence of Faith, Capital and Power
Date: 12 November 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Sajjad Khoshroo (Counsel, Allen & Overy)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organisers: TBA
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 5 November 2020

Taking personhood seriously: the socio-legal tensions of non-human and non-animal recognition
Date: 5 November 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Noah Wescombe (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
Venue Details: via Zoom webinar (see https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-socio-legal-studies/events for details)
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Wednesday 18 November 2020

Community Mediation across Ethnicities: Building for Conflict Resolution in Diverse Societies
Date: 18 November 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Carson Smith (CSLS, Oxford)
Venue Details: via Zoom webinar (see https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-socio-legal-studies/events for details)
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 3 December 2020

Silicosis and the State: Reframing Contestations between Capital and Labour in Contemporary India
Date: 3 December 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Shruti Iyer (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
Venue Details: via Zoom webinar (see https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-socio-legal-studies/events for details)
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 16 October 2025

Is the European Media Freedom Act Necessary? A Comparison of its Article 4 to Existing EU Regulation on Surveillance, Privacy, and Media Freedom
Date: 16 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Sheila B. Lalwani (The University of Texas at Austin)
Venue Details: Seminar Room G & Online - Zoom
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 30 October 2025

Protests and Precedent: How Nepal’s Supreme Court Interprets Equality
Date: 30 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Sachin Siwakoti (CSLS)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G & Online - Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 4 December 2025

Algorithmic Systems and Public Banking: Curse or Blessing for Fundamental Rights and Financial Inclusion?
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Laurenz Döring (University of Münster)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G & Online - Zoom
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 11 July 2018

Legitimized Refugees: The Political Goal of a Regulated Immigration, and the Promise of Legal Certainty
Date: 11 July 2018, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Martin Joormann (, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Room 341, CSLS, Third Floor
Organisers: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 17 January 2019

“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)
Date: 17 January 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Charlotte Kelly (DPhil Candidate, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 24 January 2019

Legal Techniques and Secrecy
Date: 24 January 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Bernard Keenan (former immigration solicitor; lecturer in the School of Law, Birkbeck College, London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 31 January 2019

A History of Law Schools: A Battle Between Law as a Science and Law as a Product of Society
Date: 31 January 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Joshua Krook (PhD Candidate at the University of Adelaide Law School; Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room F
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Wednesday 6 February 2019

The strain between the right to housing and the economic freedoms in Spain after the mortgage crisis
Date: 6 February 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Andrei Pastrana (PhD candidate, University of Santiago de Compostela)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Room 341, CSLS, Third Floor
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 7 February 2019

Global Internet Governance after WCIT-12 and China’s Choice
Date: 7 February 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Wenming Zheng (Professor of Media Law, Capital University of Economics and Business, China; Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Wednesday 13 February 2019

The Cognitive Impact of Legal Structure on Comparative Legal Reasoning
Date: 13 February 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Jörg Zimmermann (Academic Visitor, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Room 341, CSLS, Third Floor
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 14 February 2019

The guarantee of fair and just working conditions in the new Collaborative Economy models in Europe
Date: 14 February 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Alvaro San Martin (PhD Candidate, Complutense University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 21 February 2019

Surviving Dictatorship: Citizenship and Sustainable Collective Action in Underprivileged Urban Chile
Date: 21 February 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Simón Escoffier (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Latin America Centre, University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 28 February 2019

'Amongst the Most Desirable Reading’: Advertising and the Fetters of the Newspaper Press in Britain, c. 1848-1914
Date: 28 February 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Anat Rosenberg (Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer), Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya; Visiting Scholar, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 7 March 2019

Transnational legal ordering at the societal boundaries of multinational mining enterprises: A legal anthropological approach
Date: 7 March 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Laura Knöpfel (PhD Candidate and research fellow at the Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 28 March 2019

**POSTPONED** An empirical analysis on linkage between non-tax revenue, public expenses and corruption in transition countries
Date: 28 March 2019, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Associate Professor Alper Őzűn (Academic Visitor, CSLS)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Room 341, CSLS
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Tuesday 16 April 2019

An empirical analysis on linkage between non-tax revenue, public expenses and corruption in transition countries
Date: 16 April 2019, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Alper Ozun (CSLS)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Room 341, CSLS
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 2 May 2019

Regulation of anonymous on-line speech by The São Paulo Appeals Court
Date: 2 May 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Rafael Queiroz (University of Sao Paolo)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 9 May 2019

The normativity of medical guidelines and their use by medical tribunals in the Netherlands and England
Date: 9 May 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Friso Jansen (Senior Lecturer in Law, Birmingham City University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 16 May 2019

A Common Law Warranty for Consumer Financial Contracts
Date: 16 May 2019, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Professor Susan Block-Lieb (Professor of Law, Cooper Family Chair in Urban Legal Issues, Fordham University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 23 May 2019

Happiness, Housing and the Law
Date: 23 May 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Janice Gray (Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 30 May 2019

The formalisation of South African waste pickers in a globalised recycling economy
Date: 30 May 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Allison Lindner (PhD student at the Centre for Critical International Law, University of Kent)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 6 June 2019

Social Foundations of Anglophone Caribbean Constitutions: Impact on the Implementation of the Death Penalty in the Caribbean and Impediments Towards Abolition
Date: 6 June 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Florence Seemungal (University of the West Indies Open Campus)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Room 341, CSLS, Third Floor
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 13 June 2019

The Radicalisation Cases in the Family Courts: A Critical Evaluation
Date: 13 June 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Fatima Ahdash (PhD student in Law, LSE)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 20 June 2019

Human Rights & Climate (in)justices: Examining the role of law and policy in vulnerable coastal areas of the Global South
Date: 20 June 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Birsha Ohdedar (Senior Teaching Fellow, SOAS)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 4 July 2019

Upgrading the enforcement of consumer protection in the EU - some remarks on the proposal for a directive on representative actions
Date: 4 July 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Jagna Mucha (Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Room 341, CSLS
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 30 January 2020

Law and Experience – A socio-legal perspective on German asylum adjudication
Date: 30 January 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Teresa Büchsel (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 February 2020

Transitioning from QUAL to mixed methods: Teething Problems and Pragmatic Solutions in Researching Public-Sector Data Sharing in the UK
Date: 13 February 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 February 2020

Constitution-Making in a Post-Conflict Environment: A Socio-Legal Perspective of the Libyan Process
Date: 27 February 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Felix-Anselm van Lier (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 March 2020

Law and Love in the Peshawar family courts
Date: 6 March 2020, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker : Sara Naeem (Social Anthopology)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: CSLS room 341
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Thursday 12 March 2020

From voluntary to forced migration: a socio-legal overview of Syrian labour in Lebanon
Date: 12 March 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Jessy Nassar (PhD Candidate, KCL)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 12 March 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Oya Aydin (PhD Candidate, University of Ankara)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 October 2020

Pivots: Doing Socio-Legal Research on Cultural Heritage in a Pandemic
Date: 22 October 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Rangga Dachlan (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
Venue Details: via Zoom webinar (see https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-socio-legal-studies/events for details)
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 November 2020

Taking personhood seriously: the socio-legal tensions of non-human and non-animal recognition
Date: 5 November 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Noah Wescombe (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
Venue Details: via Zoom webinar (see https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-socio-legal-studies/events for details)
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Wednesday 18 November 2020

Community Mediation across Ethnicities: Building for Conflict Resolution in Diverse Societies
Date: 18 November 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Carson Smith (CSLS, Oxford)
Venue Details: via Zoom webinar (see https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-socio-legal-studies/events for details)
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 3 December 2020

Silicosis and the State: Reframing Contestations between Capital and Labour in Contemporary India
Date: 3 December 2020, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Shruti Iyer (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
Venue Details: via Zoom webinar (see https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-socio-legal-studies/events for details)
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 4 February 2021

The relation between prosecution and political trends in Turkey
Date: 4 February 2021, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Nurcan Gunduz (Eastern Mediterranean University)
Venue Details: Please email studentrep@csls.ox.ac.uk for the zoom link
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 28 October 2021

Decolonising Collections? The Benin Artefacts in British Museums
Date: 28 October 2021, 12:45 - 14:15
Speaker : Zhanna Ter-Zakaryan (Centre for Socio-legal Studies, University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 November 2021

State Innovation in public health policies and its capacity to respond to new challenges
Date: 4 November 2021, 12:45 - 14:15
Speaker : Pedro de Paula (Visiting Researcher, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 November 2021

Nexus between digital repression and movements' tactical innovations in the Arab World
Date: 18 November 2021, 12:45 - 14:15
Speaker : Mona Abdelsattar (Oxford Interrnet Institute)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 2 December 2021

Governance of digital technologies, and the regulatory and policy frameworks to supervise the economic power of technology companies
Date: 2 December 2021, 12:45 - 14:15
Speaker : Beatriz Kira (Blavatnik School of Government)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 October 2025

Is the European Media Freedom Act Necessary? A Comparison of its Article 4 to Existing EU Regulation on Surveillance, Privacy, and Media Freedom
Date: 16 October 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Sheila B. Lalwani (The University of Texas at Austin)
Venue Details: Seminar Room G & Online - Zoom
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group

Thursday 4 December 2025

Algorithmic Systems and Public Banking: Curse or Blessing for Fundamental Rights and Financial Inclusion?
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Laurenz Döring (University of Münster)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G & Online - Zoom
Organiser: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
Host: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group