UCL Laws Events & CPD
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.
June 2013
Centre for Law, Economics and Society
CPD course on Innovation, Competition Law and IP Rights
12 & 13 June, 18 & 19 June, from 2 - 6.30pm
- Speaker: Professor Herbert Hovenkamp, University of Iowa School of Law and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws
- Admission: Fees apply
- Accreditation: 16 CPD hour (SRA and BSB)
In the modern knowledge economy companies are striving to achieve competitive advantage by expanding their IP rights portfolio. For this companies are employing IP as a way to harm their competitors or as a monetary exchange in IP related transactions. However as recent litigation in the pharmaceutical sector demonstrates competition law and IP law disputes are interconnected. This course will analyse the value of competition law in addressing a variety of practices used in innovation-intensive markets. These include the interconnection of networks, ‘duties to deal’, the licensing and distribution of IP rights (standard setting organisations and patent pools) and reverse settlements as adopted by firms active in the manufacturing and delivery of services or non-practising entities, drawing from examples in both EU and US law. The course will also consider the uses and limitations of competition law and policy as a vehicle for promoting innovation. It will also examine realistic reforms that can be undertaken in IP law and competition law across various sectors of the economy as well as the practical implications of that interaction for a number of commercial practices.
UCL Centre for Law, Economics and Society
The Limits of Competition Law in Latin America: A Conversation with Julián Peña
Wednesday 19 June 2013, 6-8pm
- Panel includes: Prof. Julian Pena
- Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws - Seminar Room 8
- Admission: Free of charge and open to all
- Accreditation: This event is not accredited for CPD
As Latin America continues to thrive amidst the global economic downturn, the quality of competition law regimes and industrial policies has been the subject of recent discussions and political activities. The increasing internationalisation of Latin American firms and shifting political scenarios are testing the adequacy of the competition law regimes in this region. The time is ripe for a thoughtful discussion about what Latin America has achieved so far and the changes to be implemented regarding the protection and promotion of competition. Julian Peña, one of the leading experts in this topic, will join us for a conversation about the current state of competition law in Latin America. He will present his latest work "The Limits of Competition Law in Latin America", recently published in "The Global Limits of Competition Law" (Ioannis Lianos & Daniel Sokol, Eds.).
Free of charge and no registration required
UCL / Bindman Debate
International Human Rights Breaches - State Accountability v State Immunity
Wednesday 19 June 2013
- Panel includes: Prof. Eileen Denza CMG; Omar Deghayes, Cageprisoners, former Guantanamo prisoner; Ben Emmerson QC, Matrix Chambers; and Julian Knowles QC, Matrix Chambers
- Chair: Professor Geraldine Van Bueren QC, Queen Mary's College, London
- Venue: UCL Central Campus
- Admission: Free of charge and open to all
- Accreditation: This event is not accredited for CPD
The UCL / Bindmans Debate will provide a forum to discuss the issues surrounding international human rights breaches. The pros and cons will be considered in what will be a lively debate
July 2013
Curent Legal Issues Colloquium
Law and Michael Freeman
Monday 1 & Tuesay 2 July 2013
- About the event: The UCL Faculty of Laws is celebrating Professor Michael Freeman's extraordinary contribution to legal scholarship over the course of his distinguished career in the 2013 Current Legal Issues Colloquium.
- Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws
- Admission: Fees apply
- Accreditation: 6.5 CPD hour per day (SRA and BSB (pending))
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
Programme information and registration details
Public Lecture in the
Law and Michael Freeman Colloquium
Rethinking Children's Rights
Monday 1 July 2013 at 6pm
- Speaker: Professor Michael Freeman (UCL Laws)
- Chair: The Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE (UK Supreme Court)
- Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws
- Admission: Fees apply
- Accreditation: 1 CPD hour per day (SRA and BSB (pending))
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.
UCL Centre for Criminal Law with Old Bailey Chambers
Expert Evidence
Thursday 25 July 2013 at 6pm
- Speaker: Professor Ian Dennis
(Director, Centre for Criminal Law, and
Door Tenant at Old Bailey Chambers) and Professor Nigel Eastman
(Consultant Psychiatrist)
- Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws
- Admission: Free of charge
- Accreditation: 1.5 CPD hour per day (SRA and BSB (pending))
This event will cover an update of the law of expert evidence, including admissibility, duties of an expert witness and current controversies, as well as a case-study of psychiatric evidence relating to partial defence of murder.