Wednesday 16 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - The New Cold War Online and Offline
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm
  Edward Lucas (CEPA)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

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
• 12:30 - Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  TV Paul (McGill)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Exodus: Our Journey to Europe
  James Bluemel

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Sociological explanation and mixed methods: The example of the Titanic
  Jorg Stolz (University of Lausanne)

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Gaming Integrated Deterrence and Defence in Europe in an Era of Strategic Competition
  Ivanka Barzashka (Kings College London)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Moral Manoeuvres: Cybersecurity in Egypt and the Gulf States
  Lunch will be provided from 12:15pm
  James Shires (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

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

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Four Types of Corruption
  Avner Offer (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - AI and Ethics: The European Approach
  Roberto Viola (European Commission)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

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)

• 12:45 - Organizing collective action: Modes of coordination in UK civic fields
  Mario Diani (University of Trento)
• 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)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Russian Way of War
  Chuck Bartles (US Foreign Military Studies Office)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

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

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Understanding the Social and Cultural Bases of Brexit
  Tak Wing Chan (University College London)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Moscow's Syrian Campaign: Change and Continuity in Russian Strategic Culture
  Dmitry Adamsky (IDC Herzliya)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

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

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  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

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Mosques and Islamist Activism: Spatial evidence from Interwar Cairo
  Neil Ketchley (Kings College London)

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Military Intelligence in the Era of Great Power War
  Rose Keravuori (ROSE women LLC)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

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

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

• 12:45 - The intergenerational transmission of language skill
  Alice Sullivan (University College, London)
• 16:30 - Time and technique (title TBC)
  Dr Emily Grabham (Professor of Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent)

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Changing Character of the Mexican War on Drugs: State Building Process, Bureaucracy and U.S. Policy (1940-1980)
  Carlos Pérez-Ricart (St. Antony’s College)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

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

• 12:30 - A Cultural Legal History of Advertising 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

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - The Ethnic Niche and Economic Integration: the employment prospects of the white British, migrants and minority members residing in ethnic niches
  Neli Demireva (University of Essex)

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - A Westphalia for the Middle East?
  Dr Patrick Milton (University of Cambridge)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

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
  Various Speakers