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Centre for Law and Society Highlights
The Centre for Law and Society has:
- Organised, co-organised, hosted, supported or been associated with over 30 events (conferences, workshops, public lectures etc) within and beyond Lancaster. This has usually involved inter-disciplinary collaboration between Law and other departments, centres, institutes and institutions.
- Provided financial support to sustain the research activities of Law School colleagues, most recently, Dr Richard Austen-Baker (2009) and Dr David Seymour (2010).
- Prepared, co-ordinated and supported more than 10 bids for research funding. Several of these bids have been successful.
- Fostered publications directly arising from its activities, including special issues of learned periodicals and edited collections.
- Providing access to publications arising from the work of the Centre and films of public lectures associated with the Centre through this website.
- Established the appointment of distinguished Honorary Fellows approved by the University who support the work of the Centre through occasional lectures at the University and, generally through their association with the Centre. Appointments include Colin Ettinger (Partner, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, London, author and former President of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers) and Craig Murray (former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, author and former Rector of the University of Dundee).
- Secured an ESRC-funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2011), held by Dr Christos Boukalas. Dr Boukalas is formally attached to the Centre.
- Brought together colleagues from different departments within and beyond Lancaster, developed professional and allied linkages and has brought to Lancaster leading figures in their fields.
- Enhanced the research culture of the Law School, the Faculty and the University, playing an important role in demonstrating a strong research culture for the purposes of the Research Excellence Framework (REF).
Conferences, Workshops, Guest Lectures and Seminars organised or supported by the Centre for Law and Society
2013
1st February 2013. Dr Paul Iganski (Senior Lecturer in Social Jusice, Lancaster University) - "Understanding how 'hate' hurts, and its significance for the criminal law" at Lancaster University.
In association with the Dynamics of Memories Group.
2012
11th December 2012. Half Day Conference – “Silences and Emphases: Film, Memory, and Representations of War” at Lancaster University.
Speakers included Peri Langdale, Corinna Peniston-Bird (Lancaster University), Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University), Thomas Rohkrämer (Lancaster University), Agata Fijalkowski (Lancaster University) & Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire). Organised on behalf of the Dynamics of Memories Research Group and co-sponsored by the Centre for Law and Society.
30th Ocotober 2012. Professor Linda Colley, CBE, FBA, (Princeton University) – “Britain, Empires, and the Re-Writing of Written Constitutions” at Lancaster University.
The Iredell Lecture in Law and History 2012.
28th April 2012. Conference – “Guernica 75: Memories of the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War” at the People’s History Museum, Manchester.
Speakers: Paul Preston (LSE); Helen Graham (RH), Richard Baxell.
Co-sponsored by the International Brigade, The People’s History Museum and the Dynamics of Memory Research Group. AHRC Supported.
16th February 2012. Professor Kieran McEvoy (Queen's University Belfast) - “Victims as Idealized Citizens; Transition, Mobilisation and the Contested Past in Northern Ireland” at Lancaster University.
Co-sponsored by the Dynamics of Memories Research Group.
2011
3rd November 2011. Professor Amanda Vickery (Queen Mary, London University) - “Burglary and the Englishman's Castle” at Lancaster University.
The Iredell Lecture in Law and History 2011.
27th January 2011. Book Launch and Seminar. Dr Agata Fijalkowski, “From Old Times to New Europe. The Polish Struggle for Democracy and Constitutionalism” at Lancaster University.
Co-sponsored by the Dynamics of Memory Research Group.
2010
25th November 2010. Professor David Sugarman (Lancaster University Law School) - “The Law Lords, Amnesty International and the Pinochet Case: What Happened and Why?” at The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.
Chaired by Lord Justice Stephen Sedley. Co-sponsored by The British Institute of International and Comparative Law; The Centre for Contemporary British History @ Kings College, London; The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; The Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London; The Legal History Section of the Society of Legal Scholars; and SOLON.
20th October 2010. Conference – “Legal Education and Scholarship: Past, Present and Future. In Honour of William Twining” at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.
Speakers included Raymond Cocks (Keele); Wesley Pue (UBC); Fiona Cownie (Keele), Hilary Sommerlad (Leicester); Anthony Bradney (Keele); Paul Maharg (Northumbria). Followed by a response from William Twining (UCL).
Funded by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and Hart Publishing.
The conference proceedings were published as a special issue of the International Journal of the Legal Profession, 2011, co-edited by A. Sherr and David Sugarman.
22nd July 2010. Conference – “Insecure Times, Emergency Measures, State(s) of Exception?” at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University.
Keynote speakers: Conor Gearty (Law, LSE); Bob Jessop,(Sociology, Lancaster); Costas Lapavitsas (Economics, SOAS); and Martin Loughlin (Law, LSE). Other contributors were Christos Boukalas, (Politics, Lancaster); Fergal Davis (Law, Lancaster); Michael Dillon (Politics,Lancaster); Michael Kratke (Sociology, Lancaster); Christopher May (Politics, Lancaster); and David Seymour (Law, Lancaster).
Supported by an award of £1,270 from the IAS Incubation Programme.
Organised by Christos Boukalas (Politics and International Relations) and David Sugarman (Law).
15th February 2010. Odette Magnet (Cultural Attache, Embassy of Chile, London; novelist; and human rights activist) - “Latin Women Author’s and the Struggle Against Impunity in South America” at Lancaster University.
In association with Women’s Studies, DELC, History, the Dynamics of Memory Research Group, and the Latin America Research Group.