Events

1. Dr Ryan O’Connor - The impact of the Capitol riots on US political debate: A critical constructivist analysis of the ‘event’ and its impact
2. Dr Laura Rodes-Saldaña - Rethinking Company Law Towards a Sustainable Economy
3. Maria Eduarda Oliveira - Sex Trafficking in Portugal
4. Leon Skerritt - The Societal Impact of Countering Terrorism, Political Violence, and Extremism
5. Melisa Oleschuk - Barriers and Importance of Civil Society Engagement in the Universal Periodic Review: A Case Study of the United States
6. Sabah Athar - Communitarian localism vs. proprietary localism: Sanctuary Cities and the State-City Dynamic in Texas
7. Carley Lightfoot - Challenging Subjects: Sentience and the Legal Status of Research Animals in the UK
8. Valentino Cattelan - How to enhance student's engagement, performance and employability through an innovative assessment stewardship service
9. Socially just education in the neoliberal university: using liminality to stimulate critical reflection and reflexivity around citizenship
10. A Reality, An Idea, a Colonial Legacy by Dr Valentino Cattelan 
11. How is the Cost of Living Crisis affecting young people in Birmingham?

1. Jessica Gallagher - The Prison System and 12 Years of Abject Disaster: 'The scale of failure is staggering'
2. Professor Hugh Koch - How Can Lawyers Assess Credibility and Truthfulness
3. Sabah Athar - How history informs the present: the impact of the Mexican empresario system on the development of localism in Texas through the lens of contemporary sanctuary cities
4. Vicki Prais - From the Field: Building a Career in Human Rights by Vicki Prais
5. Dr Emma Scali - Book launch seminar: ‘Sovereign Debt and Socio-Economic Rights Beyond Crisis: The Neoliberalisation of International Law’
6. International Business Law Research Group Launch Seminar: Contemporary Issues in International Business Law
7. The ACLU's Campaign for Smart Justice: Ending Mass Incarceration in the US by Melisa Oleschuk
8. The SQE and Social Welfare Solicitors by James Shipton
9. The Bill of Rights and Prisoner Rights by Rebecca Lawrence
10. Student Research Collaborations in Practice: Working Class Academics by Dr Storey and Keris Richardson
11. Rethinking nature: why we need to reconsider how the law responds to environmental issues
12. Feminisation of Ageing and Socioeconomic Rights Realisation: What Hope for African Older Women? By Dr Philip Oamen

1. Dr Jessica Guth - Religious dress in the European Courts - seeking equality or justifying discrimination against Muslim women?
2. Dr Rebecca Smyth - Contesting Citizenship: An intersectional feminist approach to abortion in international human rights law, with a focus on El Salvador and Ireland
3. Dr Iyan Offor - Global Animal Law: Ethnocentric “Globabble” or a Light in the Dark?
4. Dr Mitchell Longan - Cloud Gaming Demystified: An Introduction to the Legal Implications of Cloud-Based Videogames
5. Professor Hugh Koch - Lawyer Resilience, Empowerment and Expertise
6. Dr Alice Story, Favour Betty Kalu, and Aise-Osa Igbinomwanhia - World AIDS Day 2021: A Research Discussion on Women and Girls with HIV
7. Dr Emma Scali - Socio-Economic Human Rights in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Debt Crisis and the Neoliberalisation of International Law
8. Ms Myriam Gicquello - The Psychology of International Adjudication: Are Permanent Courts Necessarily Better Than Ad Hoc Tribunals?
9. Dr Ilaria Di Gioia - Intrastate conflicts and lessons learnt from the marijuana legalisation
10. Thomas Kidney -The Shadow Docket: Precedent and American Exceptionalism?
11. Rebecca Lawrence - A Right to Rehabilitation under the ECHR?
12. Michael Lane - Human Rights: Theories of Compliance and the Universal Periodic Review
13. Dr Amna Nazir, Ms Catie Harvey and Mr Elshareef Ali - Safeguarding Human Rights in Sudan
14. Dr Lily Hamourtziadou -The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq

1. Dr Emilie Ghio - The Logic and Limits of the EU-led harmonisation process in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic
2. Dr Paul Omar, Publishing Strategies n.4 – Views from a UK journal editor
3. Dr Friso Jansen - The role of experts in the development of regulation: a torch in the darkness
4. Rhiannon Frost - Defining Disability: an analysis of the UK’s commitment to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
5. Michael Lane - Facilitating the Success of the Universal Periodic Review in the United Kingdom: An Analysis of the UK Parliament’s Involvement in the Implementation of Multilateral Recommendations
6. Christina Howden - Publishing Strategies n.5 – Publishing in US journals
7. Dr I-Ju Chen (discussant Michael Lane) - COVID-19 and International Law: Gaps and Responses
8. Dr Alice Storey and Professor Jon Yorke - CHR UPR Project: Submission of the third report to the UN Universal Periodic Review.
9. Marinos Papaioakeim, Director of the Royal Commonwealth Society Cyprus. PhD candidate in Diplomacy and International Relations at the Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Cyprus] - The Concept and Practice of Defence Diplomacy
10. Dr Valentino Cattalan - Islamic finance, Islamic law and Shari’ah-compliance: paralipomena to the narrative of a cosmopolitan market
11. Keith Gompertz - Telling stories: property Law, family dramas and arguing for different outcomes.
12. Keith Gompertz - A Birmingham chocolate family: corporate governance and philanthropy through a Quaker prism.
13. Anil Matoo - Understanding Fire as Tool of War in Genocidal Regimes: A Heraclitean Perspective
14. Dr Jennifer Gant, Publishing Strategies n.6: editing conference proceedings
15. Chris King - Moral rights for visual artists in the US: the Visual Artists Rights Act 1990 and the 5 Pointz Litigation

1. Dr Olga Pleshkova, Staff-student Research Seminar: The impact of the Supreme Court prorogation judgement on the British constitutional law
2. Professor Jon Yorke and Lynn Fulford Shakespeare on Leadership and the Law
3. Dr Tatiana Tkacukova, Access to Justice for LIPs: Applications of Linguistic Research for Socio-Legal Studies
4. Dr Alice Storey, Launch of the UPR Project at BCU: First Stakeholder Report to the USA’s United Nations Universal Periodic Review
5. Dr Nadia Naim, Islamic finance as a catalyst for an alternative Islamic approach to intellectual property economic rights
6. Dr Sarah Cooper, Using Research to Inform Legal Policy and Practice: A Case Study on Compassionate Release
7. Dr Jess Guth, Legal Education Research: What, Why and How?
8. Dr Alan Ma, Emerging legal issues in global supply chains using blockchain technology
9. LLM Student Cohort, Human Rights Day: What human rights means to me?
10. Dr Alice Storey and LLB student Melissa Oleschuk, Research Collaborations between Staff and Students in Practice: HIV, Domestic Violence, and the United Nations
11. Chris King and Samantha Gargaro, Universal clinical legal education for all BCU law students and the role of the Law Clinic
12. Dr I-Ju Chen, A New Generation of EU Free Trade Agreements in the Era of the Digital Economy: Challenges and Opportunities
13. Anil Matoo, The Death Penalty in Hobbes
14. Rose Tempowski, A Model for Assessing the Quality of Scientific References in the State Legislative Process
15. LLM Student Cohort, International Women’s Day
16. Iram Satti, Publishing strategy n.1: Thesis to monograph
17. Dr Sarah Cooper, Publishing strategy n.2: Edited collections
18. Professor Hugh Koch, Becoming more Covid-19 resilient
19. Samuel Grogan , Data protection in light of Covid-19
20. Professor Fernanda Duarte,The Inter-American System of Human Rights and the Organization of American States
21. Stephanie Tytherleigh, Publishing strategy n.3: Publishing a book
22. Dr Liviu Damsa, Discrimination, lack of access, and paradoxes of self-regulation and anti-discrimination policies: The missing anti-discrimination in the self-regulation of financial industry

West Midlands Doctoral Legal Network past events

Building Community and Wellbeing

20th February 2019 

The second event of the WMLDN was hosted at BCU on the 20th February 2019. The event was split into two parts. The first was a workshop on managing various aspects of Doctoral life to promote well-being, hosted by Professor Hugh Koch, who is a Visiting Professor to BCU’s Law School. The second part of the event was a “Shut Up and Write!” session, which is a fantastic technique that encourages focused application.

Details of the event can be found here.