Research Seminars
Our events are open to anyone interested in Criminology and Law. If you are a student or academic from the University of Sheffield or another insitution you are welcome to attend and take part. Also as a modern law school we are committed to the long term training and support of people in practice and the public sector.
Everyone is welcome and there is no need to register for the seminars.
All seminars take place at the School of Law, Bartolome House, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND
| Date | Time | Venue | Research Centre | Speaker | Title | Find out more |
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| 5 October 2011 | 17:15- 18:30 | Moot Court | Centre for Criminological Research | Dr James Treadwell University of Leicester | More than casual violence? - Reflections on undertaking covert ethnographic fieldwork in the English Defence League | Abstract |
| 19 October 2011 | 16:00-17:00 | BG03 | Institute of Commercial Law Studies | Professor Morten Hviid, University of East Anglia | Cover Pricing in invited tenders and competition law | Abstract |
| 26 October 2011 | 16:00-17:00 | Moot Court | Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics | Sheelagh McGuinness, University of Keele | From Moral Status to Many Faces: The Construction of the Embryo in English Law. | Abstract |
| 2 November 2011 | 16:00-17:00 | DB07 | Sheffield Centre for International and European Law | Dr Ole Pedersen, University of Newcastle | Climate Change in the Courts: Incrementalism, Realistic Utopia or Legalism? | Abstract |
| 2 November 2011 | 17:15-18:30 | Moot Court | Centre for Criminological Research | Professor Maggie O'Neill, Durham University | Community Politics and Resistance in Downtown Eastside Vancouver: Participatory and Visual Methodologies | Abstract |
| 8 November 2011 | 16:00-17:00 | Moot Court | Centre for the Study of Law in Society | Jeff King, University College London | The Value of Legal Accountability | Abstract |
| 23 November 2011 | 17:15-18:30 | Moot Court | Centre for Criminological Research | Associate Professor Lillian Artz, University of Capetown | The Changing Face(s) of South African Feminist Activism: A Focus on Gender-Based Violence. | Abstract |
| 7 December 2011 | 16:00-17:00 | Moot Court | Sheffield Centre for International and European Law | Professor Duncan French, University of Lincoln (formerly University of Sheffield) | From the Depths: Rich Pickings of Environmental Principles and General International Law on the Ocean Floor – the Seabed Disputes Chamber’s 2011 Advisory Opinion | Abstract |
| 25 January 2012 | 16:00-17:00 | Moot Court | Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics | Dr Keith Syrett, University of Bristol | Rationing and the human right to health: integral or incompatible? | Abstract |
| 8 February 2012 | 17:15-18:30 | Moot Court | Centre for Criminological Research | Dr Michael Naughton, Bristol University | How the Presumption of Innocence Renders the Innocent Vulnerable to Wrongful Convictions | Abstract and Biography |
| 14 February 2012 | 16:00-17:00 | Moot Court | Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics | Niall Scott, UCLAN | Regeneration and Biomythology | |
| 15 February 2012 | 16:00-17:00 | Moot Court | Institute of Commercial Law Studies | Professor Peter de Cruz, Liverpool John Moores | The use of Comparative Law in legal research: Go compare! | |
| 22 February 2012 | 15:00-16:00 | AG14 | Centre of the Study of Law in Society | Professor Linda Reif, University of Alberta | Children’s Ombudsman Mechanisms in Western Europe: Compliance with UN Standards in the Regional Context and Domestic Application of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and its Protocols | |
| 22 February 2012 | 16:00-17:00 | BG03 | Sheffield Centre for International and European Law | Professor Gerry Maher (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Barry Rodger (University of Strathclyde) | The relationship between jurisdiction and choice of law | Abstract |
| 29 February 2012 | 16:00-17:00 | BLG06 | Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics | Dr Havi Carel, University of the West of England | The Phenomenology of Illness | Abstract |
| 29 February 2012 | 17:15-18:30 | Moot Court | Centre for Criminological Research | Professor Toby Seddon, Manchester University | Inventing the Drug Problem | Abstract and Biography |
| 7 March 2012 | 17:15-18:30 | Moot Court | Centre for Criminological Research | Associate Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, University of Tasmania | "From Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal Lives" | Abstract |
| 14 March 2012 (Postponed) | 17:00-18:00 | Moot Court | Institute of Commercial Law Studies and Sheffield Centre for International and European Law | Dr Lorna Gillies, University of Leicester |
Re-Conceptualising Conflicts Justice as Horizontal EU Law via the Approximation of Residual Jurisdiction POSTPONED |
Abstract |
| 21 March 2012 | 16:00-17:00 | Moot Court | Institute of Commercial Law Studies | Professor David Milman, University of Lancaster | Personal Insolvency: Principles and Practice | |
| 28 March 2012 | 16:00-17:00 | BLG06 | Sheffield Institute of Biotechnology, Law and Ethics | Dr Claire McIvor, University of Birmingham | Debunking some judicial myths about epidemiology and its relevance to personal injury litigation | Abstract |
| 28 March 2012 | 17:15-18:30 | Moot Court | Centre for Criminological Research | Dr Cyrus Tata, Strathclyde University | Sentencing & Punishment in the Information Age: Are we witnessing the slow death of Discretionary Justice? | Abstract and Biography |
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25th April 2012 (Postponed) |
17:15-18:30 | Moot Court | Centre for Criminological Research | Dr Bethan Loftus, Oxford University | POSTPONED | |
| 1 May 2012 | 16:00-17:00 | Moot Court | Centre of the Study of Law in Society | Dr Kai Moller, London School of Economics | 'The global model of constitutional rights and the justification of judicial review' | Coming soon... |
| 2 May 2012 | 18:00-19:00 | Moot Court | The Annual James Muiruri International Law Lecture | Mr Jeremy P Carver, President of the International Law Association and Consultant for Clifford Chance. | 'Does international law work? The case of Africa's Horn' | More information Registration CLOSED |
| 3 May 2012 | 16:00-17:00 | DB13 | Institute of Commercial Law Studies and Centre of the Study of Law in Society | Professor Thomas Lundmark, University of Munster, Germany | Is German law autonomous? | Abstract... |
| 9th May 2012 | 17:15-18:30 | Moot Court | Centre for Criminological Research | Dr Matthew Hall, University of Sheffield | ‘Environmental Harms?', 'Environmental Victims?': Assessing the possibilities of green criminology | Abstract |