The UCL Laws events programme reflects the diversity of teaching and research offered by the Faculty, with a regular selection of lively seminars, lectures, debates and conferences on a wide variety of engaging legal topics. Many of the events are accredited by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, the Bar Standards Board, and IP Reg for CPD credit. The majority of our events are free and open to everyone - unless otherwise stated.

• May 2013
• June 2013
• July 2013

May 2013

Annual Bentham House Conference
Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law

Friday 10 & Saturday 11 May 2013

The focus of this two-day conference is on general themes in the contract theory literature, including for example the nature of promising and more generally voluntary obligations, economic, instrumental and pluralistic conceptions of contract, the relationship between contract and other moral concerns such as fault, and the application of these more abstract philosophical ideas to specific doctrinal issues, such as contract formation, contract interpretation, unfair terms, defences and remedies.

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UCL Labour Rights Institute
Cure the disease and kill the patient – Labour rights in Greece after 3-years of Austerity

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 5.30 - 7.30pm

This small symposium focuses on the state of labour law in Greece after 3-years of austerity and deregulatory reforms partly introduced to satisfy the requirements imposed by the EU Commission-ECB-IMF Memoranda of Understanding accompanying the country’s two main bailout packages of May 2010 and February 2012. This event proposes to debate in greater detail the labour law, industrial relations and human rights implications of these reforms from a national, European, and ILO perspective.

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Claims for Damages in Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law: Legal Framework and Economic Principles for the Evaluation of Damages

Wednesday 15 & 22 May & Monday 3 & 10 June 2013 (4 x 2.5 hour lectures)

The course will examine the legal framework for claims for damages in EU and UK competition law as well as in intellectual property law and the economic principles for the evaluation of damages in these contexts. The topic is of particular importance in view of the increasing numbers of competition law claims for damages in the UK, the harmonization initiatives at the EU level, the recent reforms envisaged in UK competition law promoting private enforcement and the importance of damages claims for infringement of IP rights, in view of the issues raised by other forms of protection of IP rights, such as injunctions.

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June 2013

UCL & Baker & McKenzie Third Annual Lecture on International Law and Litigation:
Investment Treaty Arbitration: An International Lawyer's Perspective

Thursday 6 June 2013, 6pm

This lecture assesses investment treaty arbitration through the eyes of a public international lawyer, and the lens of public international law. Contrary to a purely “commercial” approach to the resolution of disputes between foreign investors and States – which tend to proceed on the basis that both actors are to be treated as similar economic entities acting in the same playing field – this perspective offers the necessary and invaluable contribution of public international law. Such law takes into account the public nature of these disputes, and the specificities and functions of sovereign States, on questions such as interpretation, attribution and the consequences of the application of general principles of international law..

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UCL Institute for Human Rights with the Equal Rights Trust
Poverty and Rights: Can and Should the Law Promote Socio-Economic Equality?

Thursday 6 June 2013

In these times of austerity, the impact of public spending cuts on the most disadvantaged is in the spotlight. With research suggesting that the poor are disproportionately negatively impacted by spending cuts, the question of whether the law should step in on their behalf to challenge public spending decisions is at the fore. The longstanding divide between those who think that it is not the place of the law to redistribute resources and those who think socio-economic rights cannot be fully realised without such redistribution, is reignited. Can equality law be used to transform human rights? Should the law lift people out of poverty? What is the appropriate role of the law in advancing the equal enjoyment of social rights such as the rights to health and education? Can the courts promote socio-economic equality without usurping the role of the state in determining resource allocation? Does it matter?

 

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UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL)
with Taylor Wessing LLP
The role of experts and scientific advisors in patent litigation around the European Union

Tuesday 11 June 2013

This day conference focuses on the role of experts and scientific advisors in patent litigation around the EU. It has speakers from the USA, The Netherlands, Germany, UK, Spain, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and Italy. It also includes judicial input from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of the USA, UK, Germany and Holland.  For the first time ever, some experts who have given evidence in patent actions and scientific advisors to the court have been gathered together to give their views on the subject.

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UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law (IBIL)
supported by Taylor Wessing LLP
Community Trade Marks - Are they a Swiss Cheese? Do Community Trade Marks still have unitary effect in the EU?

Wednesay 12 June 2013

This annual lecture honours the memory of Professor Sir Hugh Laddie, former UCL Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Court of Appeal Judge.

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July 2013

Curent Legal Issues Colloquium
Law and Michael Freeman

Monday 1 & Tuesay 2 July 2013

The themes of the Colloquium will encompass children's rights, corporal punishment of children, family and child law generally, medical ethics and the law, jurisprudence, Jewish law and legal systems/legal pluralism, all areas of research to which Michael has made significant contributions. Leading international scholars and practitioners from each of these areas will be presenting their current work and some are reflecting specifically upon Michael's contributions to the field. Michael freeman will also give the keynote lecture on the evening of the first day of the colloquium, on 'Rethinking Children's Rights', chaired by Baroness Hale of Richmond

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Public Lecture in the Law and Michael Freeman Colloquium
Rethinking Children's Rights

Monday 1 July 2013 at 6pm

The UNCRC is nearly a quarter of a century old. Have we invested too much hope in it? An audit would show that children's lives have not got noticeably better. Professor Freeman will ask Is it because the Convention is not good enough?; Is it because the rights approach is the wrong way to tackle the ills of childhood?; Or is it because the UNCRC is another strategy to control and regulate children? Professor Freeman will suggest that all three answers are both right and wrong./p>

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