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Session 1: Wednesday 3rd April 13.30 - 15.00

CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE Roxanna Dehaghani and Daniel Newman Experiences of Criminal Justice in South Wales Matt Tidmarsh Professionalism in Probation Robyn Holder Democratising Justice: Rethinking Victim Inclusion

FAMILY LAW AND POLICY Session: Families, Conflict and Violence Chair: Anne Barlow Grace Tsai Women’s Socio-Legal Status and Experiences of Domestic Violence in the Atayal Tribes Sam Lewis Towards an Ethics of Care Approach to Child-to-Parent Violence Rachel Treloar The Interrelationship of Financial and Child Related Issues in Parents’ Accounts of High-Conflict Post-Separation Disputes: Gender Matters

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS Session: Children's Rights and Childhood Maria Forsman The Child, Children (in Vulnerable Situations) and the Child-in-Context: A Three-Dimensional View on Children’s Rights, to Focus Social justice and Empowerment Naomi Lott Establishing the Right to Play as an Economic, a Social and a Cultural Right Rebecca Thornburn Stern and Aoife Daly Treated Like a Child: Age Discrimination and Children’s Rights

LAWYERS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS Agnieszka Kubal Cause Lawyering 'with the grain'? Immigration and Refugee Lawyers in Russia Jo Wilding Legal Aid Lawyers and the ‘Boom and Bust’ Cycle Alex Batesmith True Believers: International Criminal Justice Practitioners and the Inversion of the ‘Cause Lawyer’ Paradigm

EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Session: The Scope of Protection for People with Disabilities

Chair: David Barrett

Rhiannon Frost

Is Section 15 of the Equality Act 2010 Too Wide?

Peter McTigue

Rethinking Equality Protection for People Living with HIV

Anubhuti Jain and Shikha Rohra Discrimination against Leprosy Victims as a Violation of International Human Rights


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GRAPHIC JUSTICE: LAW, COMICS, AND RELATED VISUAL MEDIA Laura Kalliomaa-Puha, Eliisa Pitkasalo, and Anne Ketola Comic Contracts and Access to Social Rights: Can Comic-Style Communication Improve the Accessibility of Social Welfare Documents? Thomas Giddens The Law as Comics: Multimodality in the Motor Vehicles (Display of Registration Marks) Regulations 2001 Hannah Baumeister Drawing on Genocide Angus Nurse Mothers and Daughters, Fathers and Sons: The Church as Political Oppressor in Dave Sim's Cerebus

REVISITING REFUGEE PROTECTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Session: Comparative International Refugee Protection 1 Chair: Dr Dallal Stevens Tamara A. Kool and Zina Nimeh The Conundrum of Palestinian Refugees: Citizenship and Inclusionary Practices in Jordan Ria Sunga Their Suffering is Our Suffering too”: The Indochinese Refugees, Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines as a Country of First Asylum

CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEMS & ADR Dr Kate Leader From the Bear-Gardens to the County Court: The Creation of the Litigant in Person Ms Lisa Gibb Tort Personal Injury Reforms; Ideological or Necessary? Is the Current System Fit for Purpose? Mr Masood Ahmed

Public Bodies and Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Civil Court Process

SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE Session: Universal credit Philip Larkin Old Inequality and New Contracts: Non-Regular Employment Contracts and Impediments to Welfare Policy Ciara Fitzpatrick and Alexandra Chapman In-Work Conditionality and the Ageing Worker in Northern Ireland Charlotte O’Brien The Two-Child Rule: an Aristocratic Turn in the Law

METHODOLOGY AND METHODS Rossana Deplano Quantifying International law? An Empirical Study of the Legal Effects of UN General Assembly Resolutions Steven Hoffman, Mathieu Poirier, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Prativa Baral and Lathika Sritharan Has the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Reduced Global Cigarette Consumption? Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluations Using Interrupted Time-Series Analysis and In-Sample Forecast Event Modelling Mary Guy EU Health – What Happens when Lawyers and Political Scientists Work Together?


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SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT Chair: Gavin Dingwall Fiona Donson and Aisling Parkes Framing Families as Interventions: Prison System Co-Option of Child and Family Contact with Incarcerated Parents Marie Hutton A Labour of Love: Prisoners’ Families and the Legal Repercussions of Shouldering the Burden of Care Guiseppe Zago A Thin Line between Protection and Isolation: Experiences of Imprisonment of Queer Individuals in English and Italian Prisons

MEDICAL LAW, HEALTHCARE AND BIOETHICS Session: Beginning of Life Debra Wilson Surrogacy and the Genetic Link Requirement Elizabeth Chloe Romanis Artificial Wombs, Terminating Pregnancies and the Abortion Act 1967 Samantha Halliday The Protection of Human Dignity at the Margins of Life INTERROGATING THE CORPORATION Session: Public and Governmental Interventions Tobore Okah-Avae The Corporate Objective: Shareholder Primacy, Executive Pay and Public Policy Colin Moore Cut the Bullshit! Legitimate Expectations between the Corporation and Stakeholders Durand Cupido Public Law Intervention into Company Operations: The Law of Salvage as a Case Study Metji Makgoba Constructing Black Economic Empowerment in South African Mining: Government v Corporate Discourse

GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW Chair: Flora Renz Tsachi Keren-Paz The Uniqueness of Harm in UDONI (Unauthorized Dissemination of Nude/intimate Images, a.k.a ‘Revenge Porn’) Sarah Singh Criminalising Vulnerability: A Feminist Approach to Women who Fail to Protect their Children from Harm Juliana Senra The Consequences of Defining Sexual Violence through the Concept of Constraint, Dismissing Consent - Reflections on the Portuguese Legislation Zulfia Abawe Legal Pluralism and Domestic Violence


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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW Chair: Jasem Tarawneh Felipe Figueroa Popper's Three World Ontology as a Framework for IP Andrew Griffiths The Responsibility of Brand Owners for their Supply Chains: Potential Legal Liability and the Limits of Social Responsibility Smita Kheria An Exploration of the Dissonance between Protection of Moral Rights in the UK and Creative Practitioners’ Perspectives

LABOUR LAW AND SOCIETY Aneta Tyc The WTO Needs Reforms: Is there Space for Labour Rights? Daire McCormack-George On the Nature of Work and the Purpose of Labour Law Tor Brodtkorb A Comparative Analysis of Standards for Fair Dismissal in the UK and Australia

MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW Chloe Waterman Neuro-centrism within Mental Capacity Law: Evidence from Case Law Hope Davidson Mental Health and Mental Capacity Law Update – Ireland

INFORMATION Chair: Richard Hyde Andrew Noble Second Chances and Secrets: Reform of the UK Criminal Records Disclosure Regime Sean Whittaker Uncovering the Environment: The Use of Public Access to Environmental Information

PROPERTY, PEOPLE, POWER AND PLACE Chair: Jill Dickinson Sarah Keenan Timeless Land, Vacant Ownership: Property in the Wake of E-Conveyancing Molefhi Phorego Land Expropriation Without Compensation: Is it Constitutional? Joanna Kusiak Grassroots Expropriation? The German Constitution and the Civic Struggle for the Social Ownership of Housing in Berlin ______________________________________________________________________________________

Session 2: Wednesday 3rd April 15.30 - 17.00 CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE Holly Greenwood The UK 'Innocence Movement': Insights from Social Systems Theory Michelle Coleman What About My Rights? The Presumption of Innocence and #MeToo Samantha Pegg and Kirsty Welsh Threats to Disclose Intimate Images - Are We Failing Victims of Domestic Abuse?

FAMILY LAW AND POLICY Session: Family Relationships Chair: Annika Newnham Jan Macvarish and Daniel Monk Understanding Siblings: a Socio-Legal Perspective Stuart Bedston, Lindsay Youansamouth, Georgia Philip and Yang Hu Fathers, Mothers and Recurrent Care Proceedings Sarah Hansen Relationships Post-Adoption: the Operation of Article 8 of the ECHR and Adopters, BIrth-Parents and Children.

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS Session: The Child's Right to Education Bart Kleine Deters The Right to Education in Developing Countries: Does it Lead to Better Primary Education Outcomes? Amy Brown Sounds of Silence: Is Silence Voice? Seamus Byrne School Exclusions in England: An Escalating Children’s Rights Crisis Alison Struthers Teaching Fundamental British Values Through a Human Rights Lens in Primary Schools

VULNERABILITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE Session: Theoretical Frameworks of Vulnerability Chair: Jess Mant and Roxanna Dehaghani Ellen Gordon-Bouvier The Temporality of Vulnerability in Private Family Law Jenny Boddy Vulnerability as a Theoretical Framework for Interrogating Property Law Bryan Birtles Means v Ends, Procedural v Substantive, Donoghue v Stevenson

Session 2: Wednesday 3rd April 15.30 – 17.00

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LAW, POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY Session: Liberalism and Universalism Vy-Liam Ng Examining the “Asian Way” of Human Rights law: Is a First principle of Non-Interference a Legally Valid and Culturally Relative Approach in Matters Relating to Genocide? Ian Turner Liberal Legalism versus Critical Legal Studies: Critiquing Civil and Political Rights in the Age of Islamist Terrorism. Miroslaw Michal Sadowksi Law in the Service of Illiberalism: The Case of Central Europe

LAWYERS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS Andy Boon Lawyers and the Rule of Law Sophie Flemig, Neil Stevenson and David Cabrelli Reimagining Regulation - The Scottish Legal Profession Post-Roberton Review Emilia Korkea-Alo The Power of Law?: The Role of Legal Advisors in NGO Political Advocacy

EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW Session: Gender Equality Chair: David Barrett Rajnaara Akhtar and Kate Wilkinson Cross Patriarchy as Corruption: How Gender Imbalance Impacts on Rights in the Family and the Environment Nicola Barker Revisiting the Public/Private Divide in the Human Rights Act 1998 Gift Sotonye-Frank Eliminating Gender Stereotyping Underlying Adolescent Pregnant School Girls’ Exclusion Through a Human Rights Based Comprehensive Sex Education Under CEDAW

SOCIO-LEGAL ISSUES IN SPORT Chair: Simon Boyes David Mcardle Legal Responses to Sport-Related Concussion: A Pilot Study of Coaches’ Perceptions Ashley Lowerson Football Banning Orders: Are the Statistics Fit for Purpose? Ini-Obong Nkang “Trafficking? In Football?!” Factors Leading to the Trafficking and Exploitation of African Minors

REVISITING REFUGEE PROTECTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Session: Comparative International Refugee Protection 2 Chair: Dr Dallal Stevens Fitria Fitria The Role of Local Customary Law in Protecting Refugees: Case Study of Protection towards Rohingya in Aceh in 2015 Shahedul Khan Coexisting with the Rohingya refugees: Bangladesh Struggles for her Sovereignty. Renuka Balasubramaniam Refugee Protection in Malaysia and the Rule of Law


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CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEMS & ADR Dr Orhan Emre Konuralp Mandatory Mediation under Turkish Law Dr Ronán Feehily Mitigated Mandatory Mediation, Operating within the Contours of Acceptable Public Policy Professor Bryan Clark Court Based Mediation in Scotland

SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE Session: Administrative Justice in the Welfare State Paulien de Winter Enforcement Styles at Social Security Agencies Joe Tomlinson Developing the Concept of Design in Administrative Justice: A Case Study of Social Security Tribunal Reform

METHODOLOGY AND METHODS Alfonso Diaz Vera and Pablo Sanz Bayón A Critical Review on the Contemporary Epistemic Status in Law and Economics Allison Lindner A Methodology for an Econosociolegal Approach to the South African Waste Management Economy Alice Finden Counter-Mapping Experiences of Emergency Law: an Exploration of Critical Methods to Understand State Violence

SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT Chair: Tim Hillier Jose Pina-Sánchez and Lyndon Harris Sentencing Gender? Investigating the Extent and Origin of Sentencing Gender Disparities in the Crown Court Carly Lightowers, Jose Pina-Sánchez and Emma Watkins Contextual Culpability: How Alcohol Intoxication and its Social Context Impacts Sentencing for Violent Offenders Laura Sharp Sentencing Without Guidelines in Scotland: Why Freddie Pargetter would not have Received a Custodial Sentence if He had been Prosecuted in Scotland

MEDICAL LAW, HEALTHCARE AND BIOETHICS Session: Informed Consent (Montgomery) Craig Purshouse Informed Consent and Gay Conversion Therapy Matthew Watkins Rationalising the Autonomy in Montgomery: Clarifying the Legal Standard of Care for Information Disclosure Louise Austin Informed Consent and the Reasonable/Particular Patient: Protecting Procedural or Substantive Autonomy


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INTERROGATING THE CORPORATION Session: Extending Corporate Social Responsibility Verity McCullagh Is CSR still necessary? An Analysis of the EU Directive on Non-Financial Reporting and its Impact on Reporting Practices Neshat Safari Will the UK 2018 Corporate Governance Code Tame the Corporate Fat Cats? Miriam Nwachukwu and Simisola Akintoye The Nature and Extent of Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Corporations in Developing Economies

GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW Session: Roundtable on the Future of Legal Gender Project Chair: Flora Renz Emily Grabham Gender and the Politics of Legislative Drafting Davina Cooper Renewing the Place of Gender in Critical Public Life Flora Renz Legal Pluralism and Single-Sex Spaces Robyn Emerton Feminist Approaches to Law Reform

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW IN CONTEXT Chair: Meryn Martin Jennifer Lander Shifting States: The Constitutional Risks of Extractive Development Jing Wang, Nan Chen and Kevin Burns Examining the Effectiveness of the Tourism Law of China 2016 Mervyn Martin and Maryam Shadman-Pajouh Does Strategic Ambiguity have a Place in the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding?

LAW AND EMOTION Session: Launch of the International Society for Therapeutic Jurisprudence UK Chapter John Stannard The Epistemology of Therapeutic Jurisprudence Anna Kawalek Therapeutic Jurisprudence: The Application to an England and Wales Review Court

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW Chair: Jasem Tarawneh Yuanqiong Hu Realignment of Innovators: Patents, Norms and Social-Technical Creativities in Biomedicine Pradeepan Sarma The 'Integrity' of Canada's 'Users' Rights Doctrine'? A Dworkinian Approach Rebecca Moosavian Commodification of Image & the Privacy-Publicity Interface Jasem Tarawneh Due Cause and its Balancing Role within Trade Mark Law: a Reality Check


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INDIGENOUS RIGHTS Chair: Sarah Sargent Noelle Higgins and Gerard Maguire Enhancing the Participation of Indigenous Peoples at a UN level; A Critique of UN Resolution 71/321 John Harrington Sovereignty, Community and Development. The Normative Politics of Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge in Kenya Mark Harris Resource Extraction and Indigenous Rights: the Fight of the Wangan and Jagalingou people in Queensland to Stop the Carmichael Mine Clay Wilwol Beyond Neoliberal Multiculturalism? Reflections on the Case of Cherán

LABOUR LAW AND SOCIETY Natalie Sedacca Migrant Domestic Workers and the Right to Work Yair Sagy and Faina Milman-Siva The ILO, Prison Labour, and the Private/Public Divide: A View From Israel Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth and Kata Konstantin Is it Worth to Work More? The New Aspects of the So-Called „Slave Law” in Hungary

MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW Thomas Webb A Postcode Lottery? Initial Findings of a Freedom of Information Act 2000 Study on the Administration of the s.23 Hospital Managers’ Discharge Power. Convening 'Socio-Legal Jurisprudence' Steam Jessica Fish The Culture of Expertise of Approved Mental Health Professionals

LEGAL EDUCATION Rachael O’Connor The Use of Reverse Mentoring as a Strategy to Address Issues Arising from Hierarchy and Implicit Bias in Higher Education in Order to Build an International Learning Community Rosie Taylor-Harding Students as Co-Producers of Learning Communities Craig Newbery-Jones Rethinking Time, Space and Jurisdiction: Chronotopes of Legal Education and Legal Practice in the Twenty-First Century

THE LAW(S) OF CONFLICT AND DISASTER Session: 'At its most Janus-Faced' Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen From Knives to Kites: Developments and Dilemmas around the Use of Force in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict since "Protective Edge" Alexandra Bohm The Responsibility to Protect: A Success for Conflict Management? Max Brookman-Byrne Narrating War: Legal Status, Character and Caricature in UK Ministry of Defence Airstrike Reporting'


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PROPERTY, PEOPLE, POWER AND PLACE Chair: Jill Dickinson

Sarah Blandy

Law and Lore in Uneasy Space

Antonia Layard The Bus Project Jed Meers and Caroline Hunter The Face of Property Guardianship: Online Property Advertisements and Googling your Next Home _______________________________________________________________________________________

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Session 3: Thursday 4th April

09.00 - 10.30

CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Jaime Waters, Jake Phillips, Chalen Westaby and Andrew Fowler

"I am kind of the vessel that just carries their emotions and feelings and just gets it out there really":

Emotional Labour and Criminological Research.

Cyrus Tata

How Do Criminal Justice Dis-Connections Generate ‘Ideal’ Penal Subjects?

Kate Leader

The Disappearing Defendant: Law, Presence and Access to Justice

FAMILY LAW AND POLICY

Session: Defining Family and Family Assets

Chair: Anne Barlow

Charlotte Bendall

“Me” versus “we”: Reconsidering the Law’s Understandings of Family Finances

Marie Fox, Mo Ray and Carol Gray

'Are we Family? Defining the Legal Family to Include Companion Species’

CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

Session: Child Refugees

Ruth Brittle

An Introduction to the Climate surrounding Child Refugees

Jessica Brennan

Child Friendly Justice within the Irish Refugee Determination Procedure: An Idealism or a Concept Worthy

of Practical Implementation?

Tanya Herring

The Refugee Child: Addressing the Prevention and Protections Against Exploitation

VULNERABILITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE

Session: Self-Representation in the Family Court after LASPO

Chair: Jess Mant and Roxanna Dehaghani

Jess Mant

Who Counts as Vulnerable?: Experiences of Litigants in Person in the Post-LASPO Family Court Process

Kerry-Ann Barry

Procedural Fairness and Litigants in Person: A Paradox or Possibility?

Elliot Ross

To What Extent are the Cuts to Legal Aid in Family Law, Effected since 2012, Compatible with Children’s

Rights and Access to Justice?

Session 3: Thursday 4th April 09.00 – 10.30

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LAW, POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY

Session: Theoretical perspectives

David McGrogan

International Law, the Conservative Disposition, and Conservative Critique

Luke Mason

Employing Conservative Ideas in Labour Law: the Employment Relation as a Stable Social Institution

Hamish Dempster

The Academic Lawyer and the Rule of Law

LAWYERS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS

Elaine Freer

Emotional Labour and the Criminal Bar: the Role of the Chambers Structure in Supporting Practitioners

Andrew Francis and Lydia Bleasdale

Great Expectations: Millennial Lawyers and the Structures of Contemporary Legal Practice

Bernadette Macdonald

“Do you want to be in my gang?” Can Legal Practitioners Better Reflect on Their Learning Needs within

Communities of Practice or is Reflection an Individualistic Endeavour?


Session: Religious Freedom and Freedom of Expression

Chair: David Barrett

Ilias Trispiotis

The Wrongfulness of Religious Discrimination

Katie Hunt

Objections and Obstacles to Equal Pastoral Care for Non-Religious Prisoners

Felix Hempel

A Qualitative and Comparative Analysis of the Right to Reply in the Press in England and Germany

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ENVIRONMENT, LAW AND GOVERNANCE

Session: Reconceptualising environmental law

Anita Purewal

Environmental Protections and Sentimental Attachments: A Call for Global Unity

Kenneth Kang

Switching around the Constants and Variables in International Environmental Law

Marie Petersmann

The Use and Misuse by Human Rights Courts of the ‘General’ Interest in Environmental Protection:

Granting Legitimacy, Countering Indeterminacy and Constructing Commonality

Kate Wilkinson Cross

Technological Innovations Tackling Biodiversity Loss: Solutions or Misdirection?

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CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEMS & ADR

Professor Kaijus Ervasti

Court-Connected Mediation and Change of Court Culture

Dr Tasnim Ahmed

Modern Dispute Resolution: Emergence of Regulatory Frameworks in the EU and Within the Context of

International Arbitration

Mr Morad El Kadmiri

The Use of the Comparative Method in International Commercial Arbitration

LAW AND LITERATURE

Thanos Zartaloudis

An Inquiry into the 'Origins' of Archaic Greek Practices of Supplication

Marie Hockenhull-Smith

"If the master's faults be ever so flagrant, he is not accountable for them to the insolence of a servant".

Secrets, Servants, and the Distribution of Rights

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SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE

Session: Citizenship and Responsibilities

Sasha Gillespie

Caring for the Disabled and Associative Disadvantage: to what Extent are Carers’ Rights as Citizens

Undermined by the Vital Role they Play?

Lisa Scullion, Peter Dwyer, Katy Jones, Philip Martin and Celia Hynes

Honouring the Armed Forces Covenant? Veterans’ Experiences in the UK Social Security System

Helen Carr and Ed Kirton-Darling

‘Tommy this and Tommy that’ - Mobilising Housing Rights and the Homeless Veteran in England and

Wales

METHODOLOGY AND METHODS

Steve Crawford

Making Things Visible and Tangible

Tatiana Tkacukova, Matt Gee, Bridgette Toy-Cronin and Bridget Irvine

Corpus Linguistics as a Methodological Tool for Socio-Legal Studies

Ieva Eskyte, Leonardo Sandoval and Anna Lawson

Videovoice in Participatory Action Research: Opportunities and Challenges

Michael Ashworth

A Spectacle and a Performance: Using Foucault and Goffman to Analyse Local Newspaper Coverage of the

First LGBTI Press Conference in Uganda

SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT

Chair: Gavin Dingwall

Anthea Huckleby

Tracking People: Controversies and Challenges

Jessica Gallagher

Identifying the Causes of the Prison Crisis in Order to Enable Meaningful Reform

Tim Hillier

Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word? Remorse, Guilty Pleas and the Penalties for Exercising the Right to

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MEDICAL LAW, HEALTHCARE AND BIOETHICS

Session: Health and Care

Vinny Kennedy

The Care Crisis – Will a Cap on the Cost of Care Contribute to a Financially Sustainable System?

Ouma Smith

Health Coverage from the Bottom: The Politics and Promises of Universal Health Coverage in Kenya

Jean McHale & Elizabeth Speakman

Public Health Law and the Devolveds: The Brexit Effect(s), Immediate, Intermediate, and Long-Term

INTERROGATING THE CORPORATION

Session: Directors’ Duties

Joan Loughrey, Andrew Keay and Terry McNulty

A Qualitative Study of Judicial Review of Directors’ Business Judgement

Oludara Akanmidu

Attaining Effective Enforcement of Directors’ Duties: the Deterrent Superiority of Public Enforcement

Alison Cronin

Corporate Criminality and Enforcement – Challenging the Assumptions

GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW

Chair: Flora Renz

Cameron Giles

Context and Character: The Potential Evidentiary Role of Mobile Dating Applications

Rosemary Hunter and Danielle Tyson

Post-Provocation Sentencing in Domestic Homicides: The Role of Mental Impairment in Defence Narratives

Allison Moore and Paul Reynolds

In Whose Best Interests? A Critical Analysis of the Contradictory Demands of the Mental Capacity Act 2005

and the Sexual Offences Act 2003 with Regards to Capacity, Sexual Autonomy and Autistic People

INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW IN CONTEXT

Chair: Meryn Martin

Dania Thomas

Changing Debt Demand Dynamics, Race and Value Extraction: A Case-Study of ‘low income’ Sovereign

Debt Distress

Ernest Enobun

Normative Conflicts and the Complex Relationships between Treaties and International Organisations in

Energy Governance

LAW AND EMOTION

Lorenzo Cavalaglio and Adèle Julia Chenaux

“The Parents of the Trust were Fraud and Fear, and a Court of Conscience was the Nurse”. The Role of

Emotions in the Origins and in the Diffusion of Trusts.

Jen Neller

Emotion and Identity in the Passage of Hate Speech Legislation

Beth Duane

Prison Violence in Ireland: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Chair: Rebecca Moosavian

Titilayo Adebola

Variations in Intellectual Property Governance in Africa: Attempts at Harmonisation

Louise Hatherall

Public Interest Challenges to Gene Patents: A Network Analysis Of Patent "Outsiders"

Sameer Avasarala and Samiya Zehra

Understanding “Subsequent Bad Faith” and the Trademark Holder Inclination in Domain Dispute

Resolutions under the UDRP in light of Trademark Act, 1999 & INDRP

Rachel Maguire

“You’re a hack”: Regulating the Use of Creative Works Shared in Online Communities

ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE

Chair: Richard Kirkham

Session: Digitisation and Administrative Justice

Paul Daly

Artificial Administration: Administrative Justice in the Age of Machines

Sarah Craig

Mis-Translation in Asylum and Immigration Decision-Making: Reflections on the Move towards the Digital

Tribunal

Stergios Aidinlis

Organisational Value Orientation in UK Administrative Data Sharing for Research

LABOUR LAW AND SOCIETY

Margaret Downie

Medical and Legal Approaches to Menopause in the Workplace

Lorna Dibble

The Role of the Third Sector in Employment Dispute Resolution

Wouter Verheyen and Fiona Unz

Risk Management Tools for the Protection of Gig Worker, Consumer and Third Parties in Crowd Mobility

and Crowd Logistics?

MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW

Eliza Varney

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and English Contract Law: A Tale of Two

Unfinished Bridges?

Daniel Bedford and Juliet Brook

Goodbye Banks v Goodfellow - Adopting the Mental Capacity Act 2005 as the Test for Testamentary

Capacity

Oliver Lewis and Genevra Richardson

What is the “Right to live in the Community”?

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LEGAL EDUCATION

Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, Heidi Poikonen, Taru Kekoni and Kaarina Mönkkönen

Social Law Clinic: Law and Social work students giving Counselling for Clients of Adult Social Work

Louise Crowley

The Family Law Clinic at University College Cork

Max Lowenstein

Mooting Learning Opportunities – Students’ Challenges, Emotions and Feedback for Improvement

THE LAW(S) OF CONFLICT AND DISASTER

Session: ‘At its Margins'

Adam Dalgleish

'Who are Refugees? Displacement, Development and Ethical Context'

Thomas Welch

'Protection and Assistance of Vulnerable Populations at Point of Transition: Statelessness and the

Rohingya'

Ben Hudson

'Migration in the Mediterranean: Exposing the Limits of Vulnerability at the European Court of Human

Rights (ECtHR)'

LAW, GOVERNANCE AND BELONGING

Chair: Devyani Prabhat

Sheona York

Global Compact on Migration December 2018 – Can a People-Centred Approach solve the “migrant crisis”?

Dominika Harasimiuk

Are We Citizens or are We Economic Migrants? EU Citizenship at its Constitutional Moment

Lisa Roodenburg

A Sense of Belonging in Hong Kong: Urban Identity as an Instrument for Human Rights Realization

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11.00 - 12.30


Panel session

Anthea Hucklesby, Loraine Gelsthorpe and Robin Moore

Influencing Criminal Justice Policy and Practice: the Role of Research


Session: State Intervention

Chair: Rachel Treloar

Michelle Donnelly

Non-Cooperation as Justification for Compulsory State Intervention

Fatima Ahdash

Gender, Counter-terrorism and the Family in the UK: Narratives of Infantalisation and Demonisation

Liza Thompson

Impossible Expectations? A Study of Abused Mothers in the Child Protection System

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS

Session: Young Offenders’ Rights

Louise Forde

Welfare, Justice and Accountability in Youth Justice Systems: A Children’s Rights Perspective

Nessa Lynch

A Principled Framework for Serious Violent Offending by Children

David Ngira

Informal Justice Systems and the Protection of the Best Interest of the Child among the Kipsigis of Kenya


Session: Post-LASPO Advice Provision

Chair: Jess Mant and Roxanna Dehaghani

Tatiana Tkacukova, Hilary Sommerlad and Matt Gee

Role of McKenzie Friends on Social Media

Marie Burton

Breaking the Connection: Comparing Local Delivery with Telephone-Only Advice in Social Welfare Legal

Aid

Jane Krishnadas and Mavis Maclean

Mapping and Transforming Pathways to Justice Across the Public and Private Sector

LAW, POLITICS AND IDEOLOGY

Session: The Political

David Churchill

Democracy and Policing: Time, Process, Politics

Christos Boulakas

A Political Reading of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016

Gavin Anderson

The Law and Politics of Mindfulness

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Rachel Cahill-O'Callaghan

Judicial Dissent and Cognitive Bias: An Argument for Robust Opposition

Krzysztof Kozminski and Katarzyna Kowalska

Modern Technologies in the Area of the Judiciary and the Situation of People at Risk of Social Exclusion.

New Role of Legal Clinics?

Yuangiong Hu

The Role of Legal Profession and Expertise in Patent and Biomedical Innovation Discourse


Lewis Graham

When Strasbourg Mumbles: ‘Dialogue’ between the ECtHR and the UK Supreme Court in an Era of

European Rights Scepticism

Kate Clayton-Hathway

Exploring the Public Sector Equality Duty as Reflexive Law: A Socio-Legal Case Study

David Barrett

Creating a Fertile Environment for Regulators and Inspectorates to Enforce Equality and Human Rights Law


Session: Reconceptualising Climate Change A

Daniel Kim

Science in Court: An Analysis of Climate Change Litigation in the US from 1990 to 2018

Muhammad Nurshazny Ramlan

Religious Law for the Environment: Comparative Islamic Environmental Law in Singapore, Malaysia and

Indonesia

Kate Wilkinson Cross

Comparing the Transformative Potentials of the FCCC AND THE CCD: An Ecofeminist Exploration

REVISITING REFUGEE PROTECTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Session: History, Agency, Journeys

Chair: Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax

Yewa Holiday

Voices of Refugees in the Legal Life of the Refugee Journey

Dr Nadine El-Enany

Migration, Law and the Politics of Recognition: From Empire to Windrush.

Dr Nafees Ahmad

Rethinking Refugee Protection in Post-Global Compact on Migration: Locating the Role of Refugees in their

Integration and Protection beyond the Current Crisis and Expanding the Grounds for Asylum beyond

Contemporary Conceptualization

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CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEMS & ADR

Dr Paolo Vargiu

Semiotics of Investment Arbitration

Ms Fikayo Taiwo

Liberal and Restrictive Approaches to Legal Representation in Arbitration Proceedings: A Case of the

Unintended Consequences of Nigeria’s Arbitration Rules

Ms Anna Liza Spiliakou

Assessing International Commercial Arbitration's Autonomy with the Use of Niklas Luhmann's Social

Systems Theory

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LAW AND LITERATURE

Agata Fijalkowski

Tadeusz Cyprian: Polish Criminal Lawyer and Photographer (1898-1979)

Benjamin Got

Literature and the Public in Aufklärung

Alexander Powell

Law and the Cultural Imaginary: A Queer Discursive Analysis of Victim (1961)


Session: Judicial Enforcement of Social Rights

Luciano Bottini Filho

Robin Hood in Reverse: Identifying Positive Impacts in Social Rights Litigation

Athanasios Psygkas

Extraordinary Statutes: The Constitution of the Welfare State

Gijsbert Vonk

The Rise of the Repressive Welfare State: Do Courts make a Difference?

METHODOLOGY AND METHODS ROUNDTABLE 1

Chair: Davina Cooper

Emilie Cloatre, Helen Carr, Thanos Zartaloudis, and Amanda Perry-Kessaris

At the Crossroads of Humanities and Social Sciences: Interdisciplinary Methods and Conversations

SENTENCING AND PUNISHMENT

Chair: Jessica Gallagher

Cyrus Tata

The Sentencing Professions: Humanising, Individualising and Normalising Work

Gavin Dingwall

‘Dangerous’ Children: Reflections on Age-Specificity and the Legitimacy of Incapacitative Sentencing

MEDICAL LAW, HEALTHCARE AND BIOETHICS

Session: End of Life

Nataly Papadopoulou

Article 2 ECHR: A Breach of the Rights of those Wanting to End their Lives?

Glenys Williams

The Minimally Conscious State: A More Considered and Cautious Approach?

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INTERROGATING THE CORPORATION

Session: Stakeholders, Shareholders and Whistleblowers

Onyeka Nwoha

The Proposed European Union Directive on Whistleblowing: a New Dawn for Corporate Whistleblowers?

Maria Lucia Passador and Federico Riganti

Less is More in the Age of Information Overload: the Paradigm Shift from a Shareholder- to a Stakeholder-

Oriented Market

Ibukunoluwa Iyiola-Omisore

Making Corporate Law great again in Emerging Markets


Chair: Alex Powell

Zanele Nyoni

Same-Sex Marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa: Dreaming the Impossible Dream?

Kay Lalor

‘Listening intently’ to LGBTI lives: Diplomatic Narratives of Listening and Hearing in LGBTI rights

Danish Sheikh

Privacy in Public Spaces: The Transformative Potential of Navtej Johar v. Union of India

Murry Darmoko

Preventive and Repressive Law on LGBT rights in Indonesia

EMPIRE, COLONIALISM AND LAW

Yair Sagy (co-authors: Eyal Katvan and Yoram Shachar)

Official Law Reporting in the British Empire: A View from Mandatory Palestine

Rachel Pougnet

The "national-subjet" under French Colonial Rule

Justine Collins

An Examination of the Transplantation & Use of English Policing Laws and Martial Law within the British

West Indies Societies 1650-1700s.

LAW AND EMOTION

Richard Collier

‘Surely Everyone Else is Coping, What is Wrong with Me?’ Legal Academics and the Legal Profession’s

Recent ‘Wellbeing Turn’ - The ‘Missing Piece of the Jigsaw’?

Elaine Gregerson

“So it’s just worry. Gnawing worry”. Using Auto-Ethnography to uncover Hidden Emotions in University

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

Chair: Smita Kheria

Ruth Flaherty

“If It Weren’t for You Meddling Kids!” An Empirical Look at Fanfiction, Pastiche and Fair Dealing in the

Digital Single Market

Shane Burke

Traversing Heritage: Sound and Intellectual Property Law

Emmanuel Oke

Defining Intellectual Property as an Investment. Should Contribution to Economic Development play any

Role?

ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE

Chair: Richard Kirkham

Session: Designing Administrative Justice Systems

Sarah Nason, Jonathan Roberts, Ann Sherlock, Helen Taylor and Huw Pritchard

Mapping Administrative Justice in Wales

Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth and Virág Kornélia Hellenbarth

Professionalization, or Undermining the Rule of Law? The Current Reform of the Hungarian Administrative

Justice

Gavin McBurnie

A General Theory of the Ombuds Role in System Improvement

ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE

Chair: Sophie Vigneron

Session: Trade

Anthony O'Dwyer

The Artists’ Resale Right Directive 2001/84/EC: A Means of Targeted Intervention for Visual Artists

Mirosław Michał Sadowski

(Il)licit Art Trade in South-East Asia: Hong Kong and Beyond

Caroline Cox

“No one in the world needs an elephant tusk but an elephant”. A Reflection on the Ivory Act 2019; its Aims,

Objectives and Potential Ompact.


Gillian Loomes

Mental Capacity, Advance Decision-Making, and Disability Politics: A Socio-Legal Exploration

Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Michael Dunn and Penny Cooper

Judging Values and Participation in Mental Capacity Law

Alex Ruck Keene

Reflections on Law Reform. An Insider Perspective Schedule

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LEGAL EDUCATION

Hilary Sommerlad

“But we want to come in the front door”. A Qualitative Study of ‘BAME’ Women Lawyers; Implications for

Legal Education

Chloe Wallace

Global Citizens or Displaced Students? Learning Communities and Study Abroad

Linda Chadderton

'Legally Bound.' The Escape Room Concept

THE LAW(S) OF CONFLICT AND DISASTER

Session: 'At its Intersections'

Michael Kearney

'Framing Resilience: From Disaster to Conflict via Austerity'

Amal Ali

'Demarginalising International Law: A Defense of Intersectionality'

LAW, GOVERNANCE AND BELONGING

Chair: Caroline Derry

Francesca Meloni

The Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth and the Politics of Invisibility in Canada

Shaimaa Abdelkarim

Denouncing the Mist of Nationalism through the Senses Belonging

Tracey Varnava

‘Dear neighbour…’ What Local Newsletters Reveal about Perceptions of Place, Space and Belonging in

Canterbury, UK

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Session 5: Thursday 4th April 14.30 - 16.00

CRIMINAL AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE Richard Nobles and David Schiff The Cleansing Effect of The Guilty Plea Laura Sharp Criminal Responsibility and The Unconscious Driver in Scotland: The Case for Statutory Reform Louise Taylor and Lucy Justice Autobiographical Memory Misconceptions and the Police Investigative Response to Rape Complaints

FAMILY LAW AND POLICY Session: Family Property, Cohabitation and Caring Chair: Joanna Miles Anna Heenan Equal Sharing and the Invisibility of Caring Annika Newnham Journey to the Centre of the Common Intention Constructive Trust Anne Barlow Cohabitation Law Reform Debate Post-Equal Marriage and Equal-Civil Partnerships

CHILDREN’S RIGHTS Session: Child Exposure to Crime/Violence against Children Fiona MacDonald Violence Against Children: An International Comparison Searching for Better Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as Exampled Using the Cluster of Articles Titled ‘Violence Against Children’ Jamie-Lee Mooney Child Sexual Exploitation: Towards a 'Child-Centred' Protection System Avitus Agbar Tackling the Scourge of Child Marriages in Cameroon: A Socio-legal Perspective

VULNERABILITY AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE Session: Social Justice, Legal Empowerment and Communities Chairs: Roxanna Dehaghani and Jess Mant Sue Westwood Socio-Legal Pedagogy and Access to Justice: Mapping a Research Agenda Naomi Creutzfeldt and Chris Gill Access to Justice for Energy Poor and Vulnerable Consumers: Shifting the Responsibility from The National to the Local? Helena-Ulrike Marambio The Role of Legal Empowerment for Women with Physical Disabilities in Post-War Sri Lanka


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LAWYERS AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS Richard Moorhead LawTech Lawyers: Dystopia, Utopia, and Empirical Perspectives Steven Vaughan More Than Just Document Monkeys? Exploring How Transactional Lawyers in the UK ‘Add Value’ Eleanor Rowan How Independent is Independent Legal Advice? Trevor Clark What Next? A Meta-Analysis of Empirical Research on Large Law Firms and Ethics

EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS LAW Chair: Peter McTigue Anna Lawson and Maria Orchard Models for the Enforcement of Accessibility Rights: Synergies, Tensions and Opportunities Susan Bright and Sarah Nield Disability Adaptations in Residential Leasehold Buildings and the Contribution of Equality Law Agnieszka Kubal Who are the Humans Behind the Human Rights Cases? Migrations Cases from Russia to the European Court of Human Rights

ENVIRONMENT, LAW AND GOVERNANCE Session: Reconceptualising Climate Change Daniel Kim Science in Court: an Analysis of Climate Change Litigation in the US From 1990 to 2018 Muhammad Nurshazny Ramlan Religious Law for the Environment: Comparative Islamic Environmental Law in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia Kate Wilkinson Cross Comparing the Transformative Potentials of the FCCC AND THE CCD: An Ecofeminist Exploration _______________________________________________________________________________________


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REVISITING REFUGEE PROTECTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY Session: States, Responsibility and Refugee Law Chair: Yewa Holiday Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax Caring is Sharing? Insights from International Law on Solidarity as a (legally-binding) Duty of Enhanced Co-operation Nicolette Busuttil Rendering Visible the Migrant with Psychosocial Disabilities: Realising the Promise of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

SOCIAL RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND THE WELFARE STATE Session: Localism and regionalism Jed Meers Discretion as Blame Avoidance: Passing the Buck to Local Authorities in ‘Welfare Reform’ Carla Reeson Homelessness Statistics: A "shambolic" Development Mark Simpson The Introduction of Universal Credit in Northern Ireland: Some Preliminary Findings

METHODOLOGY AND METHODS ROUNDTABLE 2 Matthew Jay, Rachel Pearson, Linda Wijlaars, Stu Bedston, Karen Broadhurst and Ruth Gilbert Legal Epidemiology: A Quantitative Approach to the Study Of Law

BANKING AND FINANCE Steven Montagu-Cairns Corporate Criminal Liability and the Failure to Prevent Offence: An Argument for the Adoption of an Omissions Based Offence in AML Mike Jide Ogunmiluyi A Comparative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Prosecution Approaches to Finance Related Crime in the UK and the US Alison Lui The Swiss Leaks Scandal: Legal and Ethical Dilemmas of Whistle-Blowing on Tax Evasion


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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LAW AND CYBERSPACE Session: Criminal Law and New Information Technologies Chair: Mark O’Brien Laura Bliss Legality, the Criminal Law and Social Media Maria Grazia Porcedda and David S Wall Data Crime and the Cascading Impact of the Cybercrime Chain Asma Vranaki Scarce Regulatory Resources: Tactical Enforcement and Hybrid Data Governance in the Cloud

GENDER, SEXUALITY AND LAW Chair: Flora Renz Pieter Cannoot The Pathologisation of Trans* persons in the ECtHR's Case Law on Legal Gender Recognition Alex Sharpe Legal Arguments that Gender Self-Declaration Will Undermine Cis Women’s Rights to Exclude Trans Women from Women-Only Spaces are Seriously Flawed Isabel Simonsen Carrascal A Queer Postcolonial Analysis of the Reports by the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Gloriana Rodriguez Queer Defiance in the Midst of Leviathan: Comparing Guatemala and Brazil

EMPIRE, COLONIALISM AND LAW Nadine El-Enany ‘The body belongs to the state’: Families’ Interrogation of Racial State Violence Elizabeth O'Loughlin The Emancipatory Potential of International Law in Domestic Courts: A Case Study of Kenya Ayse Sezgin Understanding Food Sovereignty through TWAIL: A Critical Approach to International Governance of Food

LAW AND EMOTION Neil Graffin The Emotional Demands of 21st century Legal Practice Emma Jones “Alcohol and Laughter”: Coping with the Emotional Demands of 21st century Practice Chalen Westaby and Andrea Subryan Emotional Labour and the Legal Profession: Form and Consequences of Performing Emotional Labour and Emotional Labour Conflict


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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW Chair: Smita Kheria Rosemary Toll The Music Industry: An Industry in Transition Giulia Priora Copyright Rules in the News Industry under a Distributive Perspective. The Case for Empowering Reporters

ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE Chair: Richard Kirkham Session: Administrative Justice Institutions Jo Wilding Administrative Justice in Immigration Detention Caer Smyth ‘Tick the box and move on’: Specialised Argument in the Public Local Inquiry and its Impact on the Environment Dale McFadzean and Mhairi Campbell Public Interest Litigation in Scotland: Lowering the Bar?

ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE Chair: Janet Ulph Sarah Sargent Theoretical Approaches A Critical Legal Theory of Intangible Cultural Heritage Xiujuan Hu Would it be Difficult for China to Ratify the Second Protocol to the Hague Convention? Trish Luker What is a Signature? Law’s Documentary Practices

MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW Beverley Clough The Logics of Liberty in Mental Capacity Law Danielle Watson Here and Queer: How the CRPD uses a queer commentary perspective to protect minority rights Paul Skowron and Matt Matravers Mental Disability Law and the Liberalism of Fear

LEGAL EDUCATION Anthony Bradney What Can University Law Schools Say About Employability? What Should University Law Schools Say About Employability? Fiona Cownie An Alternative View of Graduate Attributes Jess Guth Is there Method in the Madness: The SQE and the Death of Law?

BREXIT, LAW AND SOCIETY ROUNDTABLE Kenneth Armstrong, Tamara Hervey and Anand Menon 'UK Futures after 29th March 2019' _______________________________________________________________________________________


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LAW, GOVERNANCE AND BELONGING Chair: Matt Howard Sofia Cavandoli Struggles for Self-Determination in International Law Yussef Al Tamimi How Human Rights Shape our Sense of Belonging: Mixed-Gender Swimming as an Integration Issue in Switzerland Keren Bright Belonging Emerging from Protest: The Curious Case of a House and a Shark _______________________________________________________________________________________


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16.30 - 18.00


Konstantinos Kalliris and Theodore Alysandratos

One Judge or Three Judges? Some Findings from a Recent Reform in the Greek Criminal Justice System

Caroline Sweeney

Accountability for Atrocities Committed in Syria: An Unattainable Ideal?

Yu Mou

Psychological Coercion and Police Interrogation in China

Avitus Agbor

Prosecuting the Offence of Misappropriation of Public Funds in Cameroon: Lessons From the Special

Criminal Court


Session: Regulating Non-Traditional Families

Chair: Anne Barlow

Brian Tobin

Female Same-Sex Couples and the Non-Regulation of Home-Insemination in Ireland: The Case for Reform

Kathryn O'Sullivan

Posthumous Conception (& Inheritance) under Irish law: A Critique of Government Proposals for Regulation

Philip Bremner

Collaborative Co-Parenting and the Dutch Proposals for Multiple Parenthood


Session: Reconceptualising Climate Change B

Peter Oniemola

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change and United Kingdom’s Support for Developing Countries Post-

Brexit

Chitzi C. Ogbumgbada

Renewable Energy Promotion in the Age of Global Isolationism: The Enduring Role of International

Environmental Law


Session: Immigration, Asylum and Migrant Workers

Chair: Roxanna Dehaghani and Jess Mant

Lauren Cooper

Access to Justice for Asylum Seekers-Vulnerability in the Appeals Process

Sarah Turnbull

Vulnerability, Immigration Detention, and (Penal) Reform

Renuka T Balasubramaniam

Opportunities for Transforming the Social Protection of Workers and Communities in the Malaysian Palm

Oil Industry


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SEXUAL OFFENCES AND OFFENDING

Chair: Susan Leahy

Elizabeth Agnew

Towards a Gendered-Response to Sexting among Young People

Aravinda Kosaraju

A Critical Analysis of Children’s Subjectivities in Child Sexual Exploitation Discourses in England and Wales

Louise Crowley

Bystander Intervention at University College Cork


Nikki Godden-Rassul

Portraits of Women in Law: Re-Envisioning Gender, Law and the Legal Profession in Law Schools

Julia Margaret Hammond

A Century of Women Solicitors in England and Wales: A Brief ‘herstory’ of Time.


Michele Tedeschini

Human Rights After Fukuyama: In Search of an Actually Existing Left

Louisa Riches

The Universal Periodic Review: Civil Society and Communities of Practice

Ahmed Almutawa

Human Rights in the Arab World: The Arab Court of Human Rights and the Enforcement of the Arab

Charter on Human Rights

EXPLORING LEGAL BORDERLANDS

Session: Borderlands of Digital Societies

Chair: Ioannis Kampourakis

Discussant: Mavis Maclean

Pedro Fortes

Law and Algorithms: Legal Borderlands in Digital Societies

Kira Almann

Connectivity Beyond Access: Crossing the Digital Divide in Search of a Human Right to the Internet


Session: Social Rights Protection in International Human Rights Law

Philip Alston

Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights

Mike Adler

The Case for a Social Maximum

Luke D. Graham

Grounding Destitution Within the Sphere of Human Rights: Laying the Foundations for a Human Rights-

Based Definition of Destitution


Lawrence McNamara, Naomi Creutzfeldt, Jane Tinkler, Joe Tomlinson and Kathryn Wright

Impact: The Researcher Experience and the Implications if the Impact Agenda for Legal Research

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BANKING AND FINANCE

Andromachi Georgosouli

Market Change and the Adaptability of Financial Regulation

Richard Ridyard

Sovereign Fiscal Disruption and Deposit Insurance In The Eurozone

Tomasz Braun

Legal and Regulatory Compliance of Financial Institutions within Multi-Jurisdictional Environment: An

Accepted Fiction

JURISPRUDENCE OF THE BODY

Session: Limited and Unlimited Bodies

Chris Dietz and Ruth Pearce

Diagnosing Gender: Trans Health Law

Sam Lewis

Understanding and Challenging British Criminologists’ Antipathy Towards the Biosocial Turn.

Emilie Cloatre and Francesco Salvini Ramas

Law, Alternative Therapies and the Fluidity of Health/Care

Marie Jacob

The Watching of Sarah Jacob: Fasting, Imposture, and Proof

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, LAW AND CYBERSPACE

Session: Generating Data: Legal Boundaries and Dilemmas

Chair: Maria Grazia Porcedda

Louise McNeil

Pervasive Surveillance: Legal Conundrums in the Globalised Era of Big Data

Allison Holmes

Law Enforcement Processing under the Data Protection Act: Dealing with Downstream Data Use

Simisola Akintoye

Cats Against Regulation: Algorithms and the GDPR in the Human Brain Project


Chair: Flora Renz

Alex Powell

I Want the Proof, the Whole Proof and Nothing but the Proof: Authenticity and Credibility in Sexual Identity

Asylum Claims

Christopher Wells

“Where do I put it?”: Bisexual Erasure, James Joyce’s Buck Mulligan and the Transitory Spaces of Bisexual

Identity in Contemporary Legislation.

Claire Horn

Artificial Womb Technology, Care, and the Law


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Jean Molloy

Imperialism and the Emergence of International Law

Anam Soomro

A Critical Inquiry into Freedom of Movement: Race, Colonialism and the Making of International Law

Brian Olunga

A Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) Critique of the Right to Adequate Housing:

Towards an Alternative Legal Edifice as a Solution to the Proliferation of Slums and Forced Evictions in the

Global South

LAW AND EMOTION

Caroline Strevens

Contradictory Messages: How does that make you feel?

Martin Regan

Law Students as Emotional Actors in a Subject Imbued with Psychological Significance

Clare Sandford-Couch and Helen Rutherford

The Reporting of Emotion in the Trial and Punishment of George Vass

SOCIO-LEGAL JURISPRUDENCE

Chair: Tom Webb

Lyla Latif

Finding the Interpretative Space within Human Rights Benchmarks to Introduce the Application of Islamic

Taxation

Kenneth Kang

Switching Around the Constants and Variables in International Environmental Law

Adrienne Barnett

‘Steering’ Law Through Science – The Globalisation of Parental Alienation

DECOLONISING LEGAL EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION

Session: De-Centering Perspectives

Chair: Nadine El-Enany

Ahmed Raza Memon

Resistance in Islamic Legal Thought: Juridical Encounter in Settler Colonies of the Empires in the 17th-18th

Century

Amrita Mukherjee

Challenging Mainstream Paradigms in International Law Learning and Teaching: The Place of Subaltern

Studies

Celine Tan

Telling Different Stories: Overcoming Methodological Othering and Epistemological Silences in

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ART, CULTURE AND HERITAGE

Session: Urban and Built Heritage

Chair: Sophie Vigneron

Sara Ross

Putting the New Urban Agenda to Work for the More Equitable Governance of Arts, Culture, and Heritage

Spaces in the City

Omar El Masri

Urban Street Art and Spaces for Representation in Divided Cities: Beirut and Belfast

MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISABILITY LAW ROUNDTABLE

Lucy Series, John Harrington, Gillian Loomes, Alex Ruck Keene

Rhetorical Capacities: Rhetoric and Persuasion in Mental Capacity Law

LEGAL EDUCATION

Morad al Kadmiri

Wigmore's PowerPoint and the Pre-Digital Era

Sarah Wilson

Teaching History in the Twenty-First Century Law School: Some Experience-Based Perspectives on the

Importance of Historical Approaches for the Study of Law

Victoria Ball, Arwen Joyce and Charlotte Mills

What are Undergraduate Law Students’ Perceptions of PhD Tutors Delivering Small Group Teaching?

BREXIT, LAW AND SOCIETY ROUNDTABLE

Katherine Tyler, Adrian Favell, Charlotte O'Brien Jeanette Edwards

Brexit, Rights and Structured Inequalities

PROPERTY, PEOPLE, POWER AND PLACE

Chair: Sarah Blandy

Harley Ronan

The ‘Ground Rent Scandal’ and Financialised Logics of Property

Helen Carr and Rowan Alcock

Understanding the (Re)Regulation of Private Renting in England: Karl Polanyi, the Rogue landlord, the

Responsible Tenant and the Decent Home

Emily Walsh

The Journey towards ‘Family Friendly’ Tenancies in the Private Rented Sector

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Session 7: Friday 5th April

10.00 - 11.30


Laurene Soubise

Regulating Prosecutorial Discretion: Professionalism or Bureaucracy?

Amanda Wilson

Reintegrative Guilting: Restorative Justice’s Hidden Other


Session: Families’ Access to Justice or Mediation

Chair: Annika Newnham

Mavis Maclean

Digital Access to Family Justice post LASPO: Can a Website Have a Duty Of Care?

Rachael Blakey

Family Mediation after LASPO: the Underlying Messages in Codes of Practice

Donna Crowe-Urbaniak

Vulnerability, Autonomy, Power and Resilience: a Socio-Legal Examination of the Issues Faced by Military

Wives post-LASPO

CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

Session: Child-Friendly Justice

Kathryn Hollingsworth and Helen Stalford

“This is a case about you and your future”: Towards Judgements for Children

Robert Porter

Recording of Children and Young People’s Views in Contact Decision Making

Aisling Parkes and Fiona Donson

Crime and Punishment: Tipping the Sentencing Threshold in Favour of Children’s Rights


Session: Vulnerability and Criminal Justice

Chair: Roxanna Dehaghani and Jess Mant

Roxanna Dehaghani and Daniel Newman

Criminal Legal Aid Lawyering in an Age of Austerity: the Vulnerability of the Professionals and the

Profession

Donna Peacock and Faye Cosgrove

Identifying ‘Vulnerability’ in Police Custody: The Impact of the 2018 Revisions to PACE code C for Police

Officer Decision Making

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Chair: Siobhan Weare

Eithne Dowds

Reflections on the Gillen Review into the Law and Procedures in Serious Sexual Offences in Northern Ireland

Susan Leahy

Current Debates and Controversies Regarding the Rape Trial Process in Ireland: An Overview

Grace Moyo

Degrees of (In)justice: Due Process in Adjudicating Campus Sexual Assault

APOLOGIES, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND 'REPAIRING' PAST HARMS IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE

Anna Byson and Kieran McCovey

Apologies, Acknowledgement and 'Repairing' Past Harms in Ireland

Cira Palli-Aspero

Social Reconciliation and the Role of the Historical Method as a Tool for Transitional Justice

Thomas Bundschuh

Corporate Peace Making in Colombia: Where is Justice?


Session: Borderlands of Private Networks

Chair: Pedro Fortes

Discussant: Linda Mulcahy

Dominic Birch

'Gett the home and let this matter be taken up by your neighbours': Legal Pluralism in Early Modern

England and Virginia

Jed Meers

Pubs, 'Vertical Drinking' and Proxy Concepts

Ignacio Riquelme

Governing Intra-Family Violence Through 'Risk'


Session: European Social Citizenship

Victoria Hooton

The Price of Free Movement: Re-Thinking Restrictions on Residency and Welfare in EU Law

Bozena Sojka and Emma Carmel

Portability of Social Security Rights - Transnational Comparison of Healthcare Insurance

Charles O'Sullivan

Europeanisation as a Means to an End: A Case Study of the Habitual Residence Condition as Implemented

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Session: Historical Approaches to Socio-Legal Studies: New Directions in Theory, Methods and Practice

Henry Yeomans

Law, History and Analysis: Incorporating Historical Time into Socio-Legal Studies

Sarah Wilson

Law and Long-Timeframe Analysis: Extending the Reach of Socio-Legal Studies through Envisioning an

‘Historical Criminology’ Agenda

Craig Newbery-Jones

Chatting Criminal History: Transmedia Public Engagement for the Twenty-First Century

Cerian Griffiths

Fraud and Punishment: Sentencing in Eighteenth-Century and Nineteenth-Century London

BANKING AND FINANCE

Ilias Kapsis

The EU Approach to Fintech: Balancing Innovation, Competition and Stability in Financial Markets

Zeynab Malakoutikhah

The International Regulation of Counter-Terrorism Financing

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Session: Bodies Modified and Unmodified

Michael Thomson, Marie Fox and Josh Warburton

Embodied Integrity, Shaping Surgeries, and the Profoundly Disabled Child

John Rumbold

Surgery or Serious Assault: Is There a Clear Limit to Acceptable Body Modification?

Richard Gibson

No Harm, No Foul? Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Metaphysics of GBH


Session: Constructing the Law’s Dealing with Information Technologies and Cyberspace

Chair: Allison Holmes

Rachel Allsopp

Big Data Practices in the Online Gambling Industry: a Foucauldian Perspective on the Production of the

‘Responsible Gambler’

Heather Whitney and Robert Simpson

Search Engines and Free Speech Coverage

Cameron Giles

Ambiguity in Mobile Dating Application Profiles: Implications in Criminal Cases Relating to HIV

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Chair: Chair: Flora Renz

Daniela Nadj

Gender Justice, the Nobel Peace Prize and the case for a Convention on the Prohibition of Violence against

Women

Faye Bird

The UN Security Council and the ISIS ‘Crisis’ of its ‘21st Century Slave Trade’

Qudsia Mirza

Justice and Gender Equality in Islamic Law

Elizabeth Carthy

Exploring and Defining Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Aid Workers in International Law


Radha D'Souza

Colonialism and the Emergence of Transnational Corporations as Organisational Form

Ronald Roberts

The Property Identity Nexus through a Late Apartheid Lens

Raza Saeed

The Ubiquity of State Fragility and the Present Absence of Colonialism


Chair: Tom Webb

Steve Crawford

Socio-Legal Jurisprudence and Constitutional Transition

Lee McConnell

Law as 'Identity-Thinking': Social Change and the Limits of Legal Strategy

Alex Green and Jen Hendry

Legal Pluralism & Political Legitimacy


Session: Challenging Canonical Pedagogy

Chair: Sarah Keenan

Michelle Burgis-Kasthala & Christine Schwoebel-Patel

Decolonising the International Law Curriculum

Luis Eslava and Rose Parfitt

Teaching International Law Internationally: Pedagogy in the Global Colonial Present Tense

Amanda Perry-Kessaris

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Ailbhe O'Loughlin

The Treatability of Personality Disordered Offenders Under the Mental Health Act 1983: A Malleable

Concept

Claire Hogg

Thoughts on Insanity Defence Jurisprudence in Light of Articles 12 and 14 of the CRPD

Leona Mydlowski, Douglas Morrisson

A Qualitative Study into Registered Sexual Offenders Capacity to Respond to Questions under Mental

Capacity Act 2005

LEGAL EDUCATION

Simon Sneddon

The Battle for BAT TEL

Sonya Onwin

Marmite Subjects: Teaching Academic Skills to Russell Group Students Blended; Foundational Legal Skills;

Transitioning to University

Margaret Downie & Robert Craigmyle

Pathways to Higher Education and the Legal Profession: Transitioning from Further Education to Higher

Education

BREXIT, LAW AND SOCIETY

Session: Brexit, Governance and Legitimacy

Tamara Hervey, Mark Flear and Matthew Wood

Exploring Legitimacy of Health Governance after Brexit through Law and Language: Methodological

Reflections

Djordje Sredanovic

Brexit and Naturalisations: the Implementation and the Lived Experiences of Citizenship Laws

Paul James Cardwell

Brexit, Migration and Governance in the UK

PROPERTY, PEOPLE, POWER AND PLACE

Chair: Caroline Hunter

Dave Cowan and Barbara Hardy Spatial Precarity: A Case Study of Regulatory Obscurity Tola Amodu

Where is My/Our Place? The Role of Public Participation in Navigating Plannings Examinations in Public

Session 8: Friday 5th April

12.00 - 13.30


Steven Cammiss, Brian Doherty and Graeme Hayes

“This is no more than a litigation of political opinion.” The Trial of the Stansted 15: Narrating Politics in the

Criminal Trial

Jen Hendry and Colin King

Procedural Hybrids and the Rule of Law: An Empirical Evaluation of Civil Recovery in Practice

Colin Moore

The Pre-History of Women Police: Matrons, Welfare, and the Criminal Justice System


Session: Changing Families and Changing Law

Chair: Mavis Maclean

Amy Summerfield

Developing the Family Justice Evidence Base from within the MoJ: the Day Job of a Government Social

Researcher

Martha Ceballos

The Silent Change of Parental Orders

Louise Crowley

The Times They Are A-Changin……


Chair: Susan Leahy

Siobhan Weare

Barriers to Male Victims Engaging with the Criminal Justice System in Forced-to-Penetrate Cases in the UK

Jennifer Hamilton

Intimate Citizenship and Marital Rape: The Institution of the Family and the Oppression of Marital Rape

Victims

Hannah Baumeister

Sexualised Crimes, Armed Conflict and the Law: The International Criminal Court and the Definitions of

Rape and Forced Marriage

APOLOGIES, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND 'REPAIRING' PAST HARMS IN TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE

Luke Moffett

Reparations by Non-State Armed Groups during Conflict: Buying off Victims or Building Legitimacy

Ebba Lekball

Reparation in Transitional Justice: Challenges to the Implementation of International Standards for

Reparation Redressing Mass Violations of International Human Rights Law

Sunneva Gilmore

Victim, Survivor or Patient: The Role of Identity in Repairing Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Asli Ozcelik-Olcay

Negotiating Justice in the Shadow of International Law

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Session: Borderlands of Civil Society and Democratic Discourse

Chair: Susan Bright

Discussant: Ioannis Kampourakis

Ashley Rogers and Tony Ward

Legal Consciousness, Civil Society, and Dialogical Spaces

Maureen Duffy

Immigration and Fear in Global Anti-Democratic Narratives

Sila Ulucay

Civilian Checks on the Exercise of the Freedom of Expression in Turkey

Sapna Reheem Shaila

All Good Things Come to Those Who Wait - Building an 'Independent' Body of Judicial Actors in a Post

Independent East Timor


Session: Social rights of non-nationals

Graham Tegg

Better Out than In? The Rights of EU Citizens Living in the UK to Social Assistance post Brexit

Giulia Dugar

The Empowerment of Local Citizenship in 21st Century Japan - Local Practices Emerging from the CSOs to

Ensure Rights for Newcomer Immigrants in the Kōbe Case Study

Claire Lougarre

The Socio-Economic Rights of Non-Nationals in Human Rights Treaties

BANKING AND FINANCE

Maria Lucia Passador

In Vogue Again: The Re-Rise of Spacs in the IPO Market

John Wood

Creative Destruction and the Need to Rethink the Value in Corporate Rescue

Samet Caliskan

Individual Behaviour, Company Liability and Risk: Exposure of Company to Risk of Undesirable Behaviour of

Directors


Session: Bodies in and of Time

Mitchell Travis and Fae Garland

Bodies in time(s): Intersex Embodiment and the Logic of Emergency

Elizabeth Chloe Romanis and Claire Horn

Artificial Wombs and the Problem with Problematising Abortion

Caterina Milo

Abortion and Autonomy: is Bodily Autonomy Enough? Proposing a Model of Authentic Autonomy

Jonathan Brown

‘There can be no property in a corpse’. Venerable Principle, or Communis Error?

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Session: Negligence, Contract and Commerce in Cyberspace

Chair: Mark O’Brien

Petros Terzis

Centre for Information Rights, ‘The reasonable coder’

Robert Herian

Smart Contract Performance and the Rise of Restitution

Hebah Alkhaldi

Cyber Security Threats to Kuwait E-commerce


Chair: Flora Renz

Kcasey McLoughlin

Women Chief Justices in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Kingdom

JoAnna Wall

How the United States Judiciary Became the Last Hope for Saving Women’s Reproductive Rights

Rachel Heah

Reforming Relationships and Sex Education in English Schools – Perspectives from Secondary School Pupils


Louise McNeil

Colonial Impacts on Surveillance Techniques and the Radical Changes of the Twenty-First Century

Jhuma Sen

Early Portias and the Colonial Bar in India: Towards the Legal Practitioners' (Women) Act 1923

Vasja Badalič

The Redefinition of ‘Imminent Threat’ and the Preventive Use of Force in the 'War on Terror'


Chair: Adrienne Barnett

Richard Nobles and David Schiff

Applying Systems Theories to Socio-Legal Studies: Complexity Theory vs Autopoietic Theory – What’s the

Difference?

William Linton

Legal Validity and Social Modernity - A Luhmannian Approach

Thomas E Webb

Legal Complexity, Myth and Certainty


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Session: Beyond Law

Chair: Suhraiya Jivraj

Dave Thomas and Barbara Adewumi

Epistemic Inequality in Education

Patricia Tuitt

Decolonising without Law?

Sheree Palmer

Legal Education: “How can I increase my impact as a teacher upon WP and BME students?”

Iyiola Solanke

Decolonising the Classroom - the Black Female Professors Forum


Tania Barton

On Being a Consumer with Dementia: a Qualitative Study

Helen Taylor

Lost and Confused? The Enduring Conundrum of How the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Applies in Clinical

Practice: A Case Study

Rosie Harding

Making the Case for a Nominated Supporter Scheme in English Law

LEGAL EDUCATION

Chris Ashford, Laura Graham and Samantha Rasiah

Feminist and Queer Legal Zines as Pedagogy: Student Voice and the Law School Community

Verona Ni Drisceoil

Moving Beyond Text and Embracing the Visual in Legal Education: Is it really worth it?

Michael Fay and Yvonne Skipper

“Why not me?” – The Extent to which Students’ Academic Identity Impacts their Sense of Community and

Mental Health

BREXIT, LAW AND SOCIETY

Session: Brexit and the UK Territorial Constitution

Colin Murray

The Strange Case of the Disappearing Rights: Northern Ireland under the Draft EU-UK Withdrawal

Agreement

Gareth Evans

Brexit and the Break-Up of Britain: Assessing the Constitutional Legacy of Brexit in Scotland and Wales

Daniel Wincott, Jo Hunt and Charles Whitmore

Brexit: Civil Society and Constitutional Change

Gregory Davies

Brexit, the Media and the Territorial Constitution

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