• Type: None
• Timing: Thursdays 12.30-1.30
• Web Address: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-socio-legal-studies/events
• Organising department: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

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)

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)

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 )

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

• 12:30 - Taking responsibility after Grenfell
  Helen Carr (University of Kent)

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)

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)
• 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 12:30 - The Mass Atrocity Prosecution Ritual
  Vincent Dalpé (Doctoral Candidate, McGill University, Faculty of Law)

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

• 11:30 - Methodical Problems of Legal Transplants
  Maximilian Wörner-Schönecker (Doctoral Candidate, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg)

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

• 12:30 - QT or not QT? What is your research question?
  TBA

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 12:30 - Islamic Finance: The Convergence of Faith, Capital and Power
  Sajjad Khoshroo (Counsel, Allen & Overy)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 13:00 - Law and Love in the Peshawar family courts
  Sara Naeem (Social Anthopology)

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)
• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Oya Aydin (PhD Candidate, University of Ankara)

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)

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)

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)

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)