2010
December 2010
Dr McNamara presented 'Secrecy, the State and the Media...
Dr Lawrence McNamara presents the inaugural seminar of the seminar series 'The War on Terror and the Impact on Muslim Communities'Dr Mohamed Elewa Badar addresses United Nations Personnel in Criminal Law and Shari‘a Seminar
Dr Mohamed Elewa Badar addressing United Nations Personnel in Criminal Law and Shari‘a Seminar at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Headquarters in Vienna, AustriaMichael Birnhack of Tel Aviv University presents "Legal Transplants and Cultural Colonialism: Hebrew Authors and English Copyright Law in Mandate Palestine"
The Centre for International and Public Law (CIPL) and the Intellectual Property, Media and Internet Research Group (IPMIRG) were pleased to welcome Professor Michael Birnhack to Brunel Law School in December. Michael’s speech was on legal transplants and cultural colonialism.November 2010
Dr Badar in Criminal Law and the Rights of the Child Colloquium
Dr Mohamed Elewa Badar in Criminal Law and the Rights of the Child Colloquium organized by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, LondonInterdisciplinary lecture: DNA in Law and Forensic Science
Dr Giannoulopoulos and Dr Makarov explore DNA from an interdisciplinary point of view, in a lecture that brought together law students taking Evidence and Biosciences students taking Methods in Forensic Investigation.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Brunel Law School is sponsoring the UK Network on Minority Groups and Human Rights’ conference on Minority and Indigenous Rights: Emerging Themes and Challenges to be held on 18 and 19 November at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies...Ian Walden, Queen Mary, University of London, "Porn, Pipes and the State: Censoring Internet Content
Wednesday 10 November 2010 11am Hamilton Building, Newton NorthThe Centre for International and Public Law (CIPL) and the Intellectual Property, Media and Internet Research Group (IPMIRG) were pleased to welcome Professor Ian Walden to Brunel Law School in November. Ian’s speech sheds light on interesting questions related to the freedom of the speech on the internet...
October 2010
Dr Mohamed Elewa Badar in Shari’á Law and Military Operations Seminar organized by NATO School and International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC) in Siracusa, Italy
Dr Mohamed Elewa Badar, the Co-Director of Brunel Centre for International and Public Law (CIPL), presented a paper and participated in the panel discussions of Shari’á Law and Military Operations Seminar organized by the NATO School in co-operation with The International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Sciences (ISISC), Siracusa, Italy, 11 - 15 October 2010...September 2010
Induction 2010 - LLB
LLB freshers receive a warm welcome by the Head of School, the Deputy Head (Programmes) as well as the module convenors for Level I courses...Induction 2010 - LLM
The Head of School Prof Javaid Rehman introduces our new students to Brunel Law School.Induction 2010 - football
Freshers get the opportunity to face on the football pitch many of the academics that will be teaching them during the next three or four yearsAudience with the Pope
Prof Rehman was invited to join a select group of individuals who had performed exceptional services for the promotion of Religion including People of Faith and those aiming to build an inter-faith dialogue...Prof Roda Mushkat's legal expertise relied upon by the Court of Appeal of Hong-Kong
Roda Mushkat's prominent position as a leading expert in the area of international legal personality, with particular reference to the conceptually intricate 'case of Hong Kong', has received further affirmation in a recent citation by the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong...July 2010
June 2010
Paulette Morris delivered a paper at the Knowledge Exchange - Helpline Workshop at the University of Edinburgh in June 2010
With a focus on managing mediation help lines, the title of this presentation was 'They're unreasonable and I don't want to'. The paper was concerned with conflict between parents and teenagers (sixteen and seventeen year olds) and focused on the initial telephone calls with each of them.Brunel Law School co-organised a major international conference on Law and Religion at Balliol College, Oxford.
Brunel Law School together with Oxford Society for Law and Religion and other UK and international associations co-organised a major international conference on Law and Religion at Balliol College, Oxford (7 - 9 June 2010)...Dr Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos gives paper on the impact of 9/11 on French criminal justice at John-Jay College of Criminal Justice conference in Morocco.
Dr Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos gave a paper on Criminal Justice in France after 11 September: Has the Balance Between Liberty and Security Been Disturbed?, at the Ninth Biennial International Conference on “Societies in Transition: Balancing Security, Social Justice and Tradition” in Marrakesh, Morocco, 2 - 5 June 2010...Dr Peter Petkoff was invited to speak at international conference at the Central European University in Budapest
Dr Peter Petkoff is an invited speaker at the 18th Annual Conference on 'The Individual vs. the State' at the Central European University, Budapest. The topic of the conference this year is Religion in the Public Square...May 2010
PG and PhD students; funded opportunity to visit Beijing
Brunel Law School is delighted to announce that Dr Mohamed Elewa Badar, a lecturer in law and the Deputy Director of the Centre for International and Public Law has managed to secure an impressive opportunity for 8 UK/EU PG students in the School to visit Beijing this year to attend 4 weeks of courses on international humanitarian law and international human rights offered by the Faculty of International Law at China University of Political Science and Law.Brunel Law School students raise money for legal aid
A team of Brunel Law students complete the London Legal Walk.Brunel student gives closing speech in Beijing training event
Three Brunel Law School students, Justin Zinda, Susan Yaa Amankwa and Hina Shahzad, spent a month trainingin China with the Study China Programme, under a UK government sponsored scheme which aims to foster mutual understanding between the People's Democratic Republic of China and the United Kingdom...Feminist Judgments Project
Prof Christine Piper took part in the symposium on the work of the Feminist Judgments Project (FJP) at the annual conference of the Socio-legal Studies conference in April. This project, funded by the ESRC, has also involved Felicity Kaganas who wrote the alternative judgement for Re L, the leading case on contact and domestic violence...April 2010
Dr Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos gave a paper at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences conference in San Diego, California (http://www.acjs.org/)
In his presentation, Dimitrios analysed the fourth amendment exclusionary rule – introduced by the US Supreme Court in Mapp v Ohio – from the scope of a comparison with the automatic exclusionary rules currently applying in Greece...A special CIPL presentation by Anees Ahmed: Prosecuting the crimes of the Khmer Rouge: Challenges for the prosecution
Anees Ahmed - Senior Assistant Prosecutor at the UN-assisted Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Cambodia).
Date: Thursday 15 April 2010 at 4 pm
Venue: Room 159/160 Marie Jahoda Building
“These hands are not for hurting”
On 12 April 2010, a group of Brunel law students had members of the local community take part in hand printing a banner to raise awareness on the serious issue of domestic violence...Dr Mohamed Elewa Badar presents a paper on ‘General Principles of Law, the International Criminal
A photo from the presentation.March 2010
AHRC-funded Colloquium
Dr Peter Petkoff presented a paper on Oriental Canonical Collections at the first of four AHRC-funded Colloquia, 30 – 31 March 2010, Robinson College, Cambridge.
Brunel Law School and the International Association of Penal Law host seminar on Criminal justice in the 21st century: the impact of security
Brunel Law School and the International Association of Penal Law (British Section) hosts a seminar on Criminal Justice in the 21st century. Friday, 26 March 2010.The famous Keyhole
The famous Keyhole at the Villa of the Knights of Malta on Aventino in Rome.
Dr Manisuli S invited to serve as Judge at International Media Law Court competition
Oxford University's Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy have invited Dr Manisuli S to serve as a Judge at their 3rd Monroe E Price International Media Law Moot Court Competition. The oral finals will be held at Oxford University between 24 and 27 March 2010 and Dr Manisuli S will be serving as a Judge on 25 and 26 March.
