Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research
Events 2016-17
Martinmas Semester 2016
Forum for British and Political Thought Workshop
‘The Present Crisis: Origins and Outcomes’
Speakers include Lord Norton of Louth, Lord McFall, David Melding AM, Mike Russell MSP, David Torrance, Katie Stevenson, Dauvit Broun, Aileen McHarg, Richard English, Malcolm Petrie
Saturday 17 September
9:30am – 5:30pm, Arts Lecture Theatre, St Andrews
ILCR Reading Group (i)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Tuesday 20 September
12.30pm (Room 9, 71 South St) for 1pm (Old Class Library, 71 South Street)
ILCR Workshop
Milos Vec, Institut Für Rechts und Verfassungsgeschichte, Universität Wien
Reading: ‘Sources in the 19th Century European Tradition: The Myth of Positivism’, available here
Relevant background reading “From the Congress of Vienna to the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919” available here
Monday 10 October
12.30pm (Room 9, 71 South St) for 1pm (Old Seminar Room, 71 South Street)
ILCR Seminar (In collaboration with the Intellectual History Seminar Series)
‘The ‘Family of Nations’. A rhetoric figure and its ideology’
Milos Vec, Institut Für Rechts und Verfassungsgeschichte, Universität Wien
Monday 10 October
5.15pm (Room 10, St Katharine’s Lodge)
Centre for Global Constitutionalism Seminar
‘Conceptualizing International Rights to Resist’
Professor Antonio Franceschet, University of Calgary
Wednesday 12 October
5-6.30pm, School I
Saint Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar
Maria Macuch, Institute of Iranian Studies, Berlin
Monday 17 October
5.15pm, Old Class Library, Department of Mediaeval History
ILCR Discussion Group
‘Legal Constructions of Consanguinity: Succession in Sasanian Iran’
Maria Macuch, Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Tuesday 18 October
2pm-4pm, New Seminar Room, 65 South St
The Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence Public Lecture
‘ISIS and its Future Pasts’
Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou
Wednesday 19 October
5pm, Arts Seminar Room 4
‘Law’s Two Bodies’ workshop (i)
David Thomas (Barrister and Honorary Professor in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London)
Interview with Professor John Hudson, followed by questions and discussion
Friday 28 October
12.30-2pm: Lunch will be available 12.30pm (Room 9, 71 South St). Event begins at 1pm (Old Class Library, 71 South Street)
Centre for Global Constitutionalism Seminar
‘The EU and its Member States in Global Governance: Stronger Together?’
Dr Joris Larik, University of Leiden
Wednesday 2 November
5-6.30pm, School I
CSTPV / CGC Workshop
‘How do International Organisations Respond to Terrorism: Global and Regional Responses’
Thursday 3 November
By invitation only
‘Law’s Two Bodies’ workshop (ii)
Professor Malik Dahlan (Principal of Institution Quraysh for Law & Policy)
Interview with Professor John Hudson, followed by questions and discussion
Monday 7 November
1.30-3pm (Old Class Library, St John’s House): Lunch will be available 1.30-2pm. Event begins at 2pm
School of Classics Research Seminar
‘The lives of the Justinian Code from Constantinople to Cambridge’
Simon Corcoran (Newcastle)
Friday 11 November
4.05 pm, School II, St Salvator’s Quad
Centre for Global Constitutionalism Seminar
‘Dangerous Trade: Humanitarian Arms Export Governance and International Reputation’
Dr Jennifer Erickson, Boston College
Wednesday, 23 November
5-6:30pm, School I
The Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, Public Lecture:
‘The Problem of Genocide’
Professor Martin Shaw
Wednesday 7 December, 5pm
School II, St Salvator’s Quadrangle
Candlemas Semester 2017
Saint Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies Seminar
‘Infamy and exclusion in Late Antiquity (Roman and early Canon Law)’
Lorena Atzeri, Università Statale, Milan
Monday 30 January
5.15pm (Old Class Library)
ILCR Workshop
Lorena Atzeri, Università Statale, Milan
Tuesday 31 January
12.30pm (lunch in Rm 11, 71 South Street) for 1pm seminar (Old Class Library)
ILCR Reading Group (iii) Rights and Indigenous Peoples
Ali Watson, University of St Andrews
Tuesday 7 February
12.30pm (lunch in Rm 9, 71 South Street) for 1pm seminar (Old Class Library)
Centre for Global Constitutionalism Seminar
Resisting the International Criminal Court: Analysing African Anti-impunity Antipreneurialism
Kurt Mills, University of Glasgow
Tuesday, 7 February
5-6.30pm, School III
ILCR Workshop
‘The Leis Willelme and the Unfree’
Ros Faith
Thursday 9 February
12.30pm for 1pm (lunch and workshop in Room 9, 71 South Street)
ILCR Reading Group (iv) Natural Law and Rights
Knud Haakonssen, Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt / University of St Andrews
Tuesday 28 February
12.30pm (lunch in Rm 9, 71 South Street) for 1pm seminar (Old Class Library)
Centre for Global Constitutionalism Seminar
Anarchism and Republicanism
Professor Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University
Wednesday, 1 March
5-6.30pm, School I
‘Law’s Two Bodies’ workshop (iii)
Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC
Interview with Professor John Hudson, followed by questions and discussion
Tuesday, 7 March
2pm, New Seminar Room (71 South St)
History of Women, Gender and Sexuality Lecture (School of History and ILCR)
‘Intimate Citizenship: What Difference Have Social Movements Made?’
Sasha Roseneil, University of Essex
Wednesday, 8 March, 5.15 pm
School I (The Quadrangle)
Law and Literature Lecture
‘Thomas Hobbes and the Norman Conquest’
George Garnett, University of Oxford
Monday 17 April, 5pm
Parliament Hall
Centre for Global Constitutionalism Seminar
Brazil and International Conflict Mediation: Can this Rising Power Innovate?
Adriana Erthal Abdenur, Igarape Institute and Brazilian National Council for Technological and Scientific Development
Wednesday, 5 April
5-6:30pm, School I
ILCR Visiting Fellow Lecture
‘What Happened to English Constitutional History?’
Professor Thomas Gallanis, University of Iowa and ILCR Senior Visiting Fellow
Thursday 20 April
12.30pm (lunch in Rm 9, 71 South Street) for 1-2 pm lecture, Old Class Library
Masterclass – Professor Thomas Gallanis
‘Bloody Code, Bloody Historians’
Friday 21 April
2-4pm, Old Seminar Room
ILCR Annual Lecture
‘Food (Sticky and Fast) and Ties that Bind’
Professor William Ian Miller, University of Michigan
Thursday 27 April
5 pm, Parliament Hall
‘Law’s Two Bodies’ workshop (iv)
Hugh Dillon
Interview with Professor John Hudson, followed by questions and discussion
Thursday 4 May
12.30pm (lunch in Rm 9, 71 South Street) for 1pm workshop (Old Seminar Room)
