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Join Nigel Swycher (Chad’s/Law) and Richard Kempner (Aidan’s/ Law) for presentations from two alumni who graduated from Durham in the 1980s and reached the pinnacle of the Intellectual Property profession.
20 November 2024
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre
Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction What’s next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the larger goal has been to secure recognition of fetuses and embryos as persons under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a step that the modern antiabortion movement argues would make liberal abortion laws unconstitutional.
02 December 2024
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
This event is taking place online via Zoom.
This lecture explores the current race in both the Global North and South to secure much needed critical minerals, and the attendant human rights abuses and impacts on local communities arising from the new resource rush.
12 December 2024
6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
PCL048, Hogan Lovells Lecture Theatre, Durham Law School, Palatine Centre, Durham
How has resistance to destructive extractivist investment affected the outcomes of natural resource politics? This talk reflects on how social movements, NGOs, and other forms of active citizenship contesting the illegalities or socio-environmental injustices of over-extractive natural resource operations have influenced the economic outcomes in different contexts.
13 December 2024
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Online via Zoom
Mike Leigh’s film depicts access to abortion in postwar London. This is the hypocrisy of England before the Abortion Act, where safe abortion is available if you can afford it and less safe abortion is available if you know who to ask. Discussant: Dr Mary Neal.
29 January 2025
2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Hogan Lovells
CELLS seminar: The decriminalisation of euthanasia in Colombia - is it all about dignified death? Abstract: From the mid-20th century, there has been a growing outcry against the dehumanisation of death resulting from the excessive use of technology and medical paternalism.
24 February 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
This event is taking place online, via Zoom.
‘Reimagining the Court of Protection: Participation, Mediation and Best Interests Disputes’.
12 March 2025
TBC
In recent years, the debate about sightings or even contact with UAP, previously called UFOs, has reignited in an unexpected and drastic manner.
24 April 2025
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
This is a hybrid event. The event is taking place in PLC048, and online via Zoom.
