Dr Ayesha Shahid presented a paper at Secularity, Globalization and Power Workshop, Lake District, 11th-13th May 2012. The Workshop was hosted by the Pakistan Workshop Research Group and Centre for Pakistan Studies, SOAS. The paper was entitled “Protecting Divorced Muslim Women’s Rights in Pakistan and Bangladesh: A Comparative Perspective”.
The Centre for International and Public Law (CIPL) has invited Mr. Carlos Zarco Pleguezelos, Head of Consumer Protection at the European Banking Authority who discussed the Objectives and Tasks of the European Banking Authority in the Area of Consumer Protection and Financial Innovation
BLS has organised two internal competitions this year, one for beginners (1st year students) and the other for advanced mooters (for 2nd and 3rd year students).
The Human Rights Law Centre has successfully launched a series of films on Human Rights issues. The initiative is organised within the framework of Brunel Law Film which has attracted student attention in the last 4 years.
The independent Greek film 'Debtocracy' (available on youtube) was the main source of inspiration for the first session of the Reading Group in the second term.
Two members of BLS presented papers in the Sentencing and Punishment stream at the Annual Conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, held this year at DMU, Leicester, 3-5 March.
'Fifty Years in Family Law, Essays for Stephen Cretney', edited by Professors Rebecca Probert and Chris Barton, was published in April by Intersentia. Professor Christine Piper's essay, 'Child Focused Legislation: For the Sake of the Children?', draws on Stephen's research on the Guardianship of Infants Act 1925.
Dr. Mohamed Elewa Badar's jointly authored article entitled 'A comparative Study of the Principles Governing Criminal Responsibility in the Major Legal Systems of the World - England, Canada, United States, Germany, France, Denmark, Russia, China, and Islamic Legal Tradition' has been accepted for publication in Criminal Law Forum 23/4 (2012)
Tony Cole was invited by the New Statesman to comment on the legal status of Argentina's expropriation of 51% of the shares of the formerly State-owned oil company YPF, and on the ability of its former majority shareholder, Repsol, to gain full compensation through international arbitration.
This year students at Brunel will be acknowledging those lecturers and members of the University Staff that stand out from the rest and inspire, challenge and engage their students. Several BLS academics have been nominated for the awards.
Sharmin Chowdhury Hamvas a Ph D researcher has given a paper at the 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference at University of Pittsburgh on 30-31 March 2012.
Twelve Brunel students taking the LLM in International Human Rights, accompanied by their lecturer Dr Andreas Dimopoulos and research assistant Dr Eleni Polymenopoulou, have attended a hearing at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Dr Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos has given a paper at the biennial conference of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in New York, on ‘Legislating Miranda rights in France: why has it taken so long?’. His paper discussed cosmopolitanism and local resistance as conflicting powers shaping law reform.
Professor Piper spoke at a conference on March 24th 2012 to celebrate the contribution of Stephen Cretney to the development of Family Law and scholarship over the last 50 years. Professor Piper’s paper was entitled ‘Child focused legislation: for the sake of the children?’
The trio explored e-life and the challenges posed by the surge in the use of the Internet. Dr Riefa scrutinised the rise of the "consum'actor", a consumer empowered by the Internet to buy and sell items without the need for sophisticated technical knowledge but equally weakened in his position as a consumer traditionally protected by consumer law.
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