Assize Seminars: Cutting Edge Criminal Law
The Assize Seminars series is convened by Matthew Dyson (Oxford, Chair), Mark Dsouza (UCL), Paul Jarvis (CBA), and Findlay Stark (Cambridge)
Friday 9 November 2018
Speakers: Rudi Fortson QC, 25 Bedford Row and Visiting Professor, Queen Mary, University of London Sir Tony Bottoms, Emeritus Wolfson Professor of Criminology at the University of Cambridge Commentators: Katie Wheatley, of Bindmans LLP Dame Maura McGowan, Judge of the High Court and a Presiding Judge of the South Eastern Circuit Registration via Eventbrite. | About the event: The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic, in this case rotating over the next 18 months between three leading academic institutions: Oxford, Cambridge and University College London, all with the support of the Criminal Bar Association. Papers: “Limitations to Loss of Self Control” (title tbc) Comment: Prof. Jonathan Herring “Making Dishonesty Fit the Crime” Comment: Katie Wheatley “The Role of Equity Factors in Sentencing” Comment: Dame Maura McGowan |