In this masterclass, Nath Gbikpi, solicitor at Leigh Day with a focus on immigration and asylum law, and Visiting Fellow at LSE Law School, discusses UK Refugee and Migration Law, debunking some of the myths around asylum.
Speaker: Nath Gbikpi
This paper draws on political theory to make sense of the perennial debate between those who believe that corporations exist to maximise shareholder value (“shareholderists”) and those who think that corporations serve a broader societal purpose and should therefore answer to a more diverse gallery of stakeholders (“stakeholderists”).
Speaker: Dr Heikki Marjosola
‘Duty of Care’ tells the exclusive inside story of Roger Cox, the Dutch lawyer who initiated the ground breaking climate trials against the (Dutch) government, and against the oil and gas giant Shell, two landmark rulings, that sent shockwaves through political and corporate boardrooms around the world.
Jessica Simor is a leading specialist in public/regulatory, EU and human rights law, with particular experience in the fields of energy, transport, data retention/interception, tax and the environment.
Speaker: Jessica’s Simor KC
We are delighted to welcome Robert Pickering, former Chief Executive of Cazenove, and author of Blue Blood: Cazenove in the Age of Global Banking, for a fireside chat about his impressive career and what it takes to be successful in the intensely competitive world of investment banking.
Speaker: Robert Pickering
There is a lot of current debate about the meaning, nature, importance of and limits to academic freedom, including how it relates to freedom of expression.
This interest and debate has been heightened in the UK by recent legislation on the Higher Education Freedom of Speech Act, as well as by prominent cases of disruption or cancellation of speakers by those with opposing views.
Speaker: Akua Reindorf KC
The PIL hub lunch-time seminar series aims to provide an opportunity to discuss and debate leading research on contemporary, theoretical and historical issues of international law.
Speaker: Emma Scali
A lecture during November/December for the “16 Days of Action Against Domestic Violence” on Nath’s involvement in the cases of Transnational Marriage Abandonment discussing the ways in which borders/immigration law facilitated domestic abuse.
Speaker: Nath Gbikpi
Corporate Governance is an increasingly hot topic in company law. In this session Steph will explain what corporate governance is, look at the key sources of it and take you through the contents of the UK Corporate Governance Code and how its principles and provisions work in practice.
Speaker: Stephanie Maguire
As part of the Underworlds series, this event focuses on breath as site of global dis/ordering.
Rather than concentrating only on how the right to breathe is formally recognised (or not) in international law, this event foregrounds the patterns of dis/ordering that are embedded in infrastructures of toxicity, and the unevenly allocated affordances of breath and breathing these engender.
Speaker: Daniela Gandorfer and Jean-Thomas Tremblay
Author of "Faultless Grammar" The busy lawyer’s reminder guide, Ben Staveley, will run an info session for students hoping to fine-tune their written English.
How the word tax is used matters. In the UK, for example, the word ‘tax’ often can be seen to communicate a quick meaning to readers. The ‘bedroom tax’ became shorthand for a retraction of welfare benefits;1 the ‘period tax’, or ‘tampon tax’, referred to the VAT on sanitary products (similar to the ‘pasty tax’ from 2012, which was also the VAT on baked goods)2 ; 3 and, the ‘death tax’, which was linked to the proposed changes to probate fees in 2018.
Speaker: Dr Amy Lawton
