Events

Semester 1

• Robert Thomas (Manchester), “The Impact of the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman on Special Educational Needs and Disability in England”(PLSS) 1 October 2025.
• Nabil Khabirpour (Cambridge), “A Tale of Two Cases and a Story Yet Untold: Access to Justice and Legal Advice under the Civil Limb of Article 6(1) ECHR” (PLSS) 15 October 2025.
• Shiling Xiao (Manchester), “Book Launch: Judicial Review in Greater China” (co-hosted with Manchester Asian Law Group) (PLSS) 29 October 2025.
• ManReg PGR Event 29 October 2025.
• Andrew Harding (NUS), “Common Law Transplantation and the Interface with Customary Law in SE Asia” (co-hosted with Manchester Asian Law Group) (PLSS) 5 November 2025.
• Ricardo Buendia (Manchester), “Exacerbated domination: how platforms and AI are changing the world of work” (ManReg) 19 November 2025.
• David Feldman (Manchester/Cambridge), “Book Launch: Key Ideas in Constitutional Law” (PLSS) 26 November 2025.
• Paul Wragg, (Leeds) “In Defence Of Mutual Autonomy: Conceptual Doubts About Horizontal Online Free Speech Rights” (ManReg) 3 December 2025.

Semester 2

• Duncan Wallace (Melbourne), “A History of the Hardial Singh Principles” (PLSS) 4 February 2026.
• Liam Davies (Liverpool), “Viewing birth registration as a (normative) ‘tactic’” (ManReg) 25 February 2026.
• Javier Garcia Oliva (Manchester), “R v Brown and Common Law Rights” (PLSS) 4 March 2026.
• Ayako Hatano (Oxford), “Regulating Hate Speech in Japan: Developments, Debates, and Challenges” (PLSS) 16 March 2026.
• Neil Cobb (Manchester), “Can England’s Lawyers Think Like Machines” (ManReg) 18 March 2026.
• Lewis Graham (Manchester), “Our Conservative Supreme Court” (PLSS) 25 March 2026.
• Michael Gordon (Liverpool), “Political Responsibility as a Constitutional Principle” (PLSS) 15 April 2026.
• Ruth Lamont (Manchester), “Life in Parliament as a Researcher” (ManReg) 29 April 2026.

Semester 1

• Robert Thomas (Manchester), “Administrative Justice” (PLSS)
• Javier Garcia Oliva (Manchester), “The Very Troubled Life of the Troubles Legacy Act” (PLSS)
• Paolo Sandro (Leeds), “Legally Unlimited After All? Reevaluating the Scope of the Legislative Power of the UK Parliament in Light of the Ouster Clauses Saga” (PLSS)
• Ben Yong (Durham), “The Efficient Secret? The Civil Service in Public Law” (PLSS)
• Sebastian Payne (Kent), “‘From a View to a Death’: Legal Foundations of the Intelligence Services and Military Deployments” (PLSS)
• Phil Handler (Manchester), “Malice Aforethought in England: 1785-1907" (ManReg)
• John Cotter (Keele), “Impeachment as an EU Law Concept” (ManReg)

Semester 2

• Leonid Sirota (Reading) and Guy Baldwin (Manchester), "Throwing Away the Key? Whole Life Sentences in Comparative Perspective" (PLSS)
• John Adenitire (QMUL), “Against Religious Freedom” (PLSS)
• Luke Graham (Manchester), “Charity and Statutory Powers to Alleviate Destitution” (PLSS)
• Shiling Xiao (Manchester), “Two Faces of Chinese Constitutional Review: Commitment to Law and the Ruling Party” (PLSS)
• Krisztina Rozsnyai (ELTE), “Saving Hungarian Courts from the European Level: Mission Impossible?” (PLSS)
• Daniella Lock (KCL), “UK National Security, Private Actors and the Law” (PLSS)
• Stephanie Barclay (Georgetown), “Reflections on the US Constitution and the Role of the Judiciary” (PLSS)
• Fae Garland (Manchester) and Mitch Travis (Leeds), “A Gold Standard in Intersex Rights? Reconciling Healthcare and Human Rights in Malta” (ManReg)
• Carolyn Abbot (Manchester) and Maria Lee (UCL), “Philanthropy and Environmental Law” (ManReg)

Semester 1

• Robert Thomas (Manchester), “The Northern Ireland Public Services Ombudsman’s Report into Personal Independence Payment and Collective Administrative Justice" (PLSS)
• Alison Young (Cambridge), “Populism – UK Style” (PLSS)
• Ruth Lamont (Research Impact Co-Ordinator) and Robert Thomas (Co-Director of Research), Impact/Grant-Writing Event (ManReg)
• Javier Garcia Oliva (Manchester) and Helen Hall, (Nottingham) Book Launch: Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights: Insights from Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia (Toronto University Press, 2023) Speakers: Professor David Feldman (Birkbeck), Sebastian Payne (The Constitution Society)
• Elena Pineros (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) “Legal Protection of Minors from a Comparative Perspective: Controversial Issues Regarding Gender Identity”

Semester 2

• PhD and Early Career Researchers Event/Policy@Manchester Training Event (ManReg)
• Colin Mackie (Leeds), “Multinational Enterprises, NGOs and the Mediation of Environmental Disputes: an empirical study” (ManReg)
• Margherita Pieraccini (Bristol), “Commons, Commoning and Environmental Regulation” (ManReg)
• Jacob Rowbottom (Oxford), “Private censorship and free speech at work” (ManReg)
• Guy Baldwin (Manchester), “The Constitutionality of Citizenship Deprivation: Comparing Australia and the UK” (PLSS)
• Luke Graham (Manchester), “Inhuman or Degrading Punishment and the Administrative State" (PLSS)

21 November 2018, Williamson 4.07 at 1.30pm

Dr Senthorun Raj, Keele University

'Alleviating Anxiety and Cultivating Care: Young Trans People in the Family Court of Australia'

27 September 2018, University Place, Room 3.213 

Karen Jaehrling, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany 

'German public procurement regulation and its interplay with European regulation and case law: obedient anticipation, implementation one-to-one or testing the waters?'

• 11 October 2017, Williamson 4.07, approx. 2.00pm

Professor Joseph Jaconelli (University of Manchester)

‘“Let him have it Chris”   - What is the basis of Incitement Liability?’

• 7 November 2017, Roscoe 3.4, 2.00pm

Professor Diane Crocker (Department of Sociology and Criminology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)

 Regulating Campus “Rape Culture”: Lessons from Complexity Theory

Professor Marius Smit (North-West University, South Africa)

Religion and public schools in South Africa: the Ogod case 

• 6 December 2017, Williamson 4.07, 1.30pm

John Stanton (City University)

Metro-mayors and devolution deals: Democracy, accountability and localism

• 7 February 2018, Williamson 4.07, 1.15pm

Professor Dave Cowan (Bristol University)

 Regulating housing tenures after Grenfell  

• 2 July 2018, Williamson 4.07, 1.15pm

Professor Paul Kibel, Professor of Law at Golden Gate University, USA,

"A Waterway Repurposed": the Manchester Ship Canal. 

This presentation offered legal perspectives on the development of the Manchester Ship Canal.

• Graham Smith (ManReg), Combating impunity for human rights abuse.
• Malcolm Oswald (UoM), How should citizens contribute to public policy-making? A case for citizens' juries.
• Dr Aleksandra Jordanoska (ManReg), Corporate managers as regulatory actors: regulating individuals for corporate crime in the financial markets.
• Dr Kate Gleeson (Macquarie University, Law School), Obstacles to justice for survivors of institutional child sexual abuse.
• Prof Rafael Valim (Catholic University of Sao Paulo), Brazil: the state of exception in contemporary constitutionalism.
• Prof Margot McDermont (Bristol) and Martin Innes (Cardiff), Productive margins: regulating for engagement.
• Brexit, Regulation and Society.