Postgraduate Seminars

School of Law Doctoral Research Seminar Series 2011-12

The law doctoral research seminar series at Queen Mary gives current second and third year PhD students the opportunity to deliver a presentation on the subject of their thesis. We also welcome external speakers.

The seminars are intended to foster the research community at Queen Mary, so postgraduate students at Queen Mary and other institutions are welcome to attend. For more information contact Hayley O'Hagan, PhD Administrator by email on h.ohagan@qmul.ac.uk.

The 2011-12 doctoral research seminars are held from 12-2pm on Mondays in Room 215, Postgraduate Law Centre, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

DateSpecialisationSpeakersTitle of Talk

2011

Monday 10 October 2011Commercial and Corporate Law
  1. Georgina Tsagas
  1. Tug of War between an open market for corporate control and a long term vision for UK firms: Revisiting the role of target directors during a UK bid post the takeover of Cadbury’s plc.
Monday 17 October 2011Intellectual Property
  1. Shang-Pei Chung
  1. An analysis of patent in action by actor-network theory.
Monday 24 October 2011Criminal Law
  1. Marie-Aimée Brajeux
  1. ASBOS and the criminalisation of anti-social behaviour.
Monday 7 November 2011Banking and Finance Law
  1. Nusret Cetin
  2. Constantinos Tokatlides
  1. Bank insolvency and Cross-border Dimensions.
  2. The CJEU decision in case C-222/02 Peter Paul, and its applicability in investment services.
Monday 14 November 2011Medical Law
  1. Thaddeus Manu and Dr Allan Pamba
  2. Edward L Flippen, McGuireWoods LLP
  1. Access to medicines in LDC.
  2. US Electricity Regulation/De-regulation After California, Enron, the Worst Blackout in US History, and Climate Legislation.
Monday 21 November 2011Human Rights Law
  1. Latif Tas
  2. Sarah Singer
  1. Legal Pluralism in the Western Societies.
  2. The 1951 Refugee Convention.

2012

Monday 23 January 2012Information Technology Law
  1. Michaela MacDonald
  2. Troels Larsen
  1. The Rights in Virtual Assets.
  2. The Chilling Effect.
Monday 30 January 2012Human Rights
  1. Helene Tyrrell
  2. Kimberley Brayson
  1. Foreign Jurisprudence in UK Human Rights Cases: how persuasive is it?
  2. Unveiling ignorance: Redefining human rights discourse through communication and deliberation.
Monday 13 February 2012Competition Law
  1. Kadir Bas
  2. Amr Nabil
  1. The Dagher Case: The antitrust Analysis of Conducts of Joint Ventures.
  2. The predominance of competition rules over IP rights: The Astra Zeneca decision.

 

Monday 20 February 2012Medical Law
  1. Ruth Saunders
  2. Maria Sheppard
  1. Ethics and Regulation of Commercial Biobank Research.
  2. Can patient choice (to a specific treatment) be explained under medical law principles?
Monday 27 February 2012Constitutional Law
  1. Jack Simson Caird
  2. Robin Callender Smith
  1. The democratic value of Parliamentary Constitutional Interpretation.
  2. Courting trouble? The Queen and the Human Rights Act.
Monday 5 March 2012Arbitration
  1. Yonit Percival
  1. International Investment Arbitration - Private and Public International Law Conflated.
Monday 12 March 2012Intellectual Property
  1. Mohamed Hamid Ali
  2. Marilee Owens
  3. Katerina Stechova

 

  1. The Protection of geographical Indications in Pakistan: Implementation of the TRIPS Agreement.
  2. The Securitization of IP Assets 
  3. Copyright Transfers in the EU: a Need to harmonise?