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NATIONAL CRITICAL LAWYERS’ GROUP CONFERENCE 2011
“The State We’re In”
University of Kent, Canterbury
5th – 6th March 2011
http://www.nclg.org.uk/Conference%202010/Conference%202011%20index.htm
The National Critical Lawyers’ Group is proud to present the National Critical Lawyers Conference 2011, hosted in Woolf College at the University of Kent at Canterbury by the UKC Critical Lawyers’ Group.
The conference is sponsored by Kent Law School, Social & Legal Studies.and the Haldane Society This year’s conference, entitled ‘The State We’re In’, will provide space for critical discussion of a wide range of issues including the Financial Crisis and Funding Cuts; Israel and Palestine; the war in Iraq; Disability Rights; Equality Issues; Law, Gender and Sexuality; EU & Sovereignty; Environmental Issues; Justice within Asylum and Immigration Law; Ethics of Medical Law; Corporate Governance and Capitalism; Comparative Law; Critical Legal Education; Privacy & Censorship; Housing Law and many others.
Plenary speakers include:
Courtenay Griffiths QC;
Michael Mansfield QC;
Liz Davies;
Vera Baird MP;
Phil Shiner;
Roger Smith;
Professor Bill Bowring;
Professor Alex Callinicos;
Sir Burton Hall; and
Professor Paddy Ireland
We encourage students, academic, practitioners, activists and anyone else with an interest in the law to attend as a means of stimulating critical legal thought and action.
We hope to provide Continuing Professional Development hours accredited by both the Bar Council and the Law Society for both speakers and attendees.
There will also be subsidised accommodation available to students. As this accommodation is limited in number, it will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis.
Provisional Timetable
Saturday 5th March 2011
0900-1045: Arrivals & Registration (Woolf College, University of Kent)
1045-1100: Welcome address
1100-1300: Plenary Session
11300-1400pm: Lunch
1400-1530pm: Panel Session 1
1530-1600: Coffee Break
1600-1800pm: Plenary Session 2
There will be a Drinks Reception kindly sponsored by the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Kent during the evening.
Sunday 6th March 2011
0930-1100: Panel Session 2
1100-1130: Coffee Break
1130-1300: Panel Session 3
1300-1400: Lunch
1400-1600: Plenary Session 3
Panel Sessions
This year’s panel sessions include:
· The War on Terror
· Inequality and Property
· EU and Sovereignty
· Access to Justice
· Piracy
· Can law protect the planet ‘Aarhus Convention’
· Ethics of Medical Law
· International War and Law
· Human Rights
· Justice within Asylum and Immigration Law
· Criminal Justice
· Corporate Governance/Capitalism
· Critical Look at Comparative Law
· Legal Education/Pro-Bono
· Equality Bill
· Disability Rights
· Privacy/Censorship – ‘Where are we with Article 10’
· Housing
· Surveillance
· Law, Gender and Sexuality
· Race and the Law
· The Financial and Economic Crisis
· World Trade and Finance
· Israel and Palestine
· Critical Legal Education
The National Critical Lawyers’ Group local organising committee: nclg2011@kent.ac.uk
Ian Grigg-Spall
Academic Chair
National Critical Lawyers Group
Kent Law School
University
Canterbury
CT2 7NS
Tele 01227 766233
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