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Research Seminar Speaker:  Robert Blakey Abstract: The capabilities of brain imaging technology are advancing, together with the novelty of its applications to increasingly complex behaviours, such as offending. This field experiment tested the effects of public engagement in neuroscience on attitudes towards young offenders. Brainstorm is a play about teenage brain development, televised...

Speaker:  Lisa Forsberg Abstract:  Sex offenders are sometimes offered or required to undergo pharmacological interventions intended to diminish their sex drive (anti-libidinal interventions or ALIs). In this paper, we argue that much of the debate regarding the moral permissibility of ALIs has been founded on an inaccurate assumption regarding their intended purpose...

Research Seminar  To ask whether ‘the political constitution’ is deliberative might seem odd. After all, every conceivable constitutional model with normative appeal will envisage a large measure of debate aimed at securing wide-ranging, reasoned and well-evidenced opinions, where participants are willing to reflect on their own viewsafter hearing those of others....

Research Seminar Abstract The fundamental issue that is considered by the presentation is whether there are good explanations for the state of the public interest defence to claims for copyright infringement.

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Speaker:  Professor Pierre d'Argent Abstract: War reparations represent a particular challenge and test for the rules relating to the International responsibility of States. After having recalled the major historical instances when war reparations were claimed, this lecture will address some salient recurring legal issues. Beyond those legal technicalities, economic and moral issues...

Abstract: "This lecture will highlight the cultural and societal pressures on victims to conform to the behaviour codes set within the communities they live in. It will also highlight the challenges for law enforcement and the risks that victims face in coming forward to report matters to the police. Three case...

Research Seminar Abstract: I will speak about my involvement in a study funded by the EU Parliament that is directed towards the objective of compiling a reliable and comprehensive information resource for practitioners concerning the evidentiary effects of authentic instruments in the 25 EU Member States that are bound by European Union...

Research Seminar Speaker:  Dr Carlo Panara Abstract: The participation of local and regional authorities in EU processes should be promoted and enhanced by the EU, the Member States and the same local/regional authorities. These should perform a stronger role in the constitutional architecture of the EU. In this way they would contribute more...

Speaker:  Dr Edward Bristol-Alagbariya Municipal Crises, Politics and Conducts in Contemporary Global Society: The Case of Ethnic-based Crises in Nigeria. Abstract: This seminar will describe the ethnic conflicts that currently exist in Nigeria, endangering order and security in the country and even threatening international peace and security. It will then examine how...

  This lecture will be followed by a discussion. Abstract: The talk will examine to what extent the Paris talks have helped to build a more effective international climate regime and how the outcome may be assessed from an international law perspective.