• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Marina Kurkchiyan (CSLS - University of Oxford)
• Timing: Mondays 4.30pm
• Web Address: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-socio-legal-studies/events
• Organising department: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

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

• 16:30 - Redress Schemes for Personal Injuries
  Sonia Macleod (CSLS), Christopher Hodges (CSLS)

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

• 16:30 - The importance of space in law
  Various Speakers

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)

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

• 17:15 - Stories of Care: an ethnographic lens on legal doctrine
  Dr Lydia Hayes (Cardiff University)

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

• 16:30 - Board Compliance
  Professor John Armour (University of Oxford)

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

• 16:30 - The Paradox of Punishment: bringing anthropology to law
  Dr Insa Koch (LSE)

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)

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

• 16:30 - Children, Terrorism, and the Rule of Law
  Dr Jessie Blackbourn (CSLS, University of Oxford)

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

• 16:30 - Governing canal life
  Professor Dave Cowan (University of Bristol)

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)

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

• 16:30 - The Court as Archive
  Dr Trish Luker (University of Technology Sydney)

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 )

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

• 16:30 - Delivering Dispute Resolution
  Professor Christopher Hodges (CSLS)

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

• 16:30 - Business and Human Rights in Australia
  Professor Sally Wheeler (Australian National University)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

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)

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

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)

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

• 16:30 - The Poodle Problem: Are Corporate Lawyers Still Professionals?
  Dr Steven Vaughan (University College London)

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

• 16:30 - **CANCELLED** The Art of Justice: Reconfiguring the Courtroom Object
  TBA

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 16:30 - Title TBA
  Professor Penelope Andrews (New York Law School)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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