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Recent publications

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Proceedings

• Peter Smith presented a paper, "Condominium of Units - British Isles Variants", at a one-day conference, University of Silesia Katowice, Poland, 21 June 2010.
• Peter Smith presented a paper, "British Isles Apartment Ownership", at a one-day conference, University of Silesia Katowice, Poland, 21 June 2010.
• Paul Almond presented a paper, "Regulatory Myths', Manslaughter, and Health and Safety in the Media: The Silly and the Serious", at the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Meeting, Markyate, Bedfordshire, 17 June 2010.
• James A Green presented paper, 'The Persistent Objector Rule in International Law', as part of the School of Law's staff seminar series, University of Reading, 16 June 2010.
• Robert Barnidge Jr presented a paper, "The United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, the International Law Commission, and International Liability for Injurious Consequences Arising Out of Acts Not Prohibited By International Law: Theory and Practice", at Energy Security and Its Impacts on the International Legal System Conference, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, 11 June 2010.
• Ronan McCrea presented a paper, "De Facto Secularism in a Diversifying Religious Environment; The Meaning of Religious Symbols in Public Life in Europe", at the Religion in the Public Square Conference, Central European University, Budapest, 4-5 June 2010.
• Paul Almond and Sarah Colover presented a paper, "Punitiveness and Public Attitudes Towards Work-Related Fatality Cases", at the Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Chicago, USA, 3 June 2010.
• Thérèse Callus presented a paper, "Les proches et fin de vie médicalisée" (Family and medical end- of-life decision making), at the 3rd International Workshop of the Réseau International Universitaire de Bioéthique, 26-29 May 2010, funded by the French National Research Agency, with a contribution from the School of Law.
• Daphne Zografos presented a paper, "IP Strategies for the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expressions", at the ATRIP Conference, Individualism and Collectiveness in Intellectual Property Law, Stockholm, 23-26 May 2010.
• Chrisopher Hilson presented a paper, "Climate Change Litigation: A Social Movement Perspective", at the Workshop on Legal and Criminological Consequences of Climate Change, IISL, Onati, Spain, 29-30 April 2010.
• James A Green presented a paper, "Objections to the Persistent Objector Rule", at the Annual Conference of the British Branch of the International Law Association, Oxford Brookes University, 15 April 2010.
• Daphne Zografos presented a paper, "Using Intellectual Property Rights to Create Value in the Coffee Industry.  Case Studies from Indonesia and Vietnam", at the 6th Annual Asian IP Law and Policy Day: Recent IP Law Developments in Asia, New York, 7 April 2010.
• Paul Almond presented a paper, "Mediating Punitiveness: Understanding Public Attitudes towards Work-Related Fatality Cases", at the SLSA Annual Conference, UWE Bristol, 31 March 2010.
• Christopher Newdick presented a paper, "Why PCTs Need Ethical Frameworks", at the National Prescribing Centre, First Annual Conference on Local Decision-Making, London, 16 March 2010.
• Ronan McCrea presented a paper, "Religion in the Workplace", to the Liberal Democrats Humanist Group, at the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference, International Convention Centre, Birmingham, 12 March 2010.
• Robert P Barnidge Jr was an invited speaker on panels dedicated to Israel/Palestine, Non Proliferation, and Iran, at the annual Frank Church Symposium: The Middle East: Today and Tomorrow, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, 3-5 March 2010.
• Anne Thies presented a paper, "The Reception of International Law by the European Court of Justice", before the Oxford Public International Law Discussion Group, New College, Oxford, 18 February 2010.
• Sandy Ghandhi presented a paper, "The Human Rights Committee; Challenges and Prospects" at the CIPL Seminar Series, Brunel University, 10 February 2010.
• Robert Barnidge Jr presented a paper, "The Law of Proportionality and the Israel-Hamas War of 2009" at the seminar series of the Middle East & Mediterranean Studies Programme, King's College, London, 9 February 2010.
• Thérèse Callus was an invited lead discussant at a roundtable meeting of family law academics and policy makers from the Centre for Social Justice the purpose of which was to advise on policy for a potential government reform of core issues in family law at the Nuffield Foundation, 16 December 2009.
• Patricia Leopold was an invited participant at a seminar at No 10 Downing Street on "Towards a Written Constitution" hosted by Rt Hon Michael Wills MP, Minister of State, Ministry of Justice, 2 December 2009.
• Patricia Leopold was one of three speakers on the 'Damien Green Affair' at a seminar at University College London, 23 November 2009.
• Lawrence McNamara presented a paper, "Media Freedom and The Right to Know: The Effects of Counter-Terrorism Laws and Cultures" in the seminar series at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University, 30 November 2009.
• Carl Stychin presented a paper, "Faith in Rights: Sexual Orientation Anti-Discrimination Law and Religious Objectors" at the 'Conscientious Objection' Workshop, Centre for Law, Ethics and Society, Keele University, 23 October 2009. 
• Christopher Newdick presented a paper, "An English perception of the draft Cross-border Access to Health Directive - Balancing Individual Rights and Social Solidarity" at the Faculty of Law, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 3 October 2009.
• Paul Almond and Sarah Colover presented a paper, "Mediating Punitiveness: Understanding public attitudes towards work-related fatality cases" at the European Society of Criminology Conference, Ljubljana, 10 September 2009.
• Christopher Newdick presented a paper, "The Impact of the NHS Constitution - Balancing Private Rights with Public Duties" at the UK Forum on Priority Setting, University of Manchester, September 2009.
• Christopher Newdick presented a paper, "Topping-Up - Fundamental Ethics, or the Least Worst Option?" at the Applied Health Economics Group, London School of Economics, September 2009.
• Rachel Horton presented a paper, "Fault and Protection: A Role for Strict Liability in Discrimination Law?" at the SLS Conference, Keele University, 9 September 2009.
• James A Green presented a paper, "The Caroline Incident of 1837 and the Modern International Law Governing Self-Defence" at the Second Biennial General Conference of the Asian Society of International Law, Tokyo, 2 August 2009.
• Louise Hague presented a paper, "University Ombudsmen; Is there a role for them in Biritish Universities?" at the University of Reading, Teaching and Learning Conference, 14-15 July 2009.
• Lawrence McNamara presented a paper, "Proxies for the Authorities? The Use of the Media in the Investigation and Prosecution of Terrorism Offences" at the Terrorism and Law Expert Roundtable - The Culture of Control, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 6-7 July 2009.
• Christopher Newdick presented a paper, "A Patient's Bill of Rights for Ontario? - England's Experience with the NHS Constitution" at the Ontario Ministry of Health, Toronto in June 2009.
• Grace James presented a paper, "Working Families - Legal Challenges" as part of a Key Note Round Table discussion at The Mother War Conference, University of Surrey on 26 June 2009.
• Alison Bisset presented a paper, "Coordinating the Operations of Truth Commissions and Domestic Criminal Courts under the Rome Statute Regime: Lessons from East Timor and Sierra Leone" at the Oxford transitional Justice Research conference 'Taking Stock of transitional Justice', University of Oxford, 26-28 June 2009.
• Paul Almond presented a paper, "Corporate Manslaughter and the Culture of Control" at the Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Denver, USA on 28-31 May 2009.
• Anne Thies presented a paper, "The impact of general principles of EC Law on its liability regime towards retaliation victims after FIAMM" at a panel discussion on 'Kadi and FIAMM: Sharper Divisions between the EC and the International Legal Orders?", BIICL, London on 13 May 2009.
• Charlotte Smith and Mark Wilde presented a paper, "R v Pease (1832)" at the Landmark Cases in Tort symposium, King's College London on 24 April 2009.
• Sandeep Gopalan presented a paper, "The U.S. and Europe as International Actors" at the International Law Association British Branch Conference, Hull on 18 April 2009.
• Robert Barnidge Jr presented a paper, "Examining the Prospects and Possibilities of a New Dispensation to Bridge Islam and International Humanitarian Law" at the Islam and International Humanitarian Law Workshop, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University, New York on 17 April 2009.
• Sandeep Gopalan presented a paper, "Shame Sanctions and Social Norms in International Law" at the European Consortium for Political Research Workshop, Lisbon on 16 April 2009.
• Sandy Ghandhi presented a paper, "The International court of Justice and the Provisional Measures Order in the Georgia v Russian Federation Case" at the 'Conflict in the Caucasus: Implications for International Legal Order' Conference, University of Reading on 15 April 2009.
• James A Green presented a paper, "The Russian Claim of Self-Defence" at the 'Conflict in the Caucasus: Implications for International Legal Order' Conference, University of Reading on 15 April 2009.
• Christopher Hilson presented a paper, "Legal Framing and Social Movement Research: An Overview and an Assessment" at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2009, Lisbon on 14-19 April 2009.
• Sandeep Gopalan presented a paper, "A Social Norms Approach to Behaviour Modification: The Case of Fairtrade Coffee" at the Politics of Consumption and Leisure Conference, Southern-Illinois University on 10 April 2009.
• Thérèse Callus presented a paper, "Lesbian Co-parents: a Pilot Study" at the SLSA Annual Conference 2009 at De Montfort University, Leicester on 7 April 2009.
• Robert Barnidge Jr presented a paper, "The Socratic Method in the Teaching of International Law" at Legal Education: Extending the Boundaries Conference, Association of Law Teachers, Amsterdam on 6 April 2009.
• Sandeep Gopalan presented a paper, "Solving the Kashmir Dispute: The Legalized Dependency Model" at the State of Sovereignty Conference, Durham University on 1-3 April 2009.
• Grace James presented an invited paper, "Family-Workplace Regulation - the UK Approach" at Windsor University, Ontario, Canada on 25 March 2009.
• Patricia Leopold gave an invited lecture, "Standards of Conduct in Parliament, Public Trust and the Media" to the Malaysian Bar Council on 16 March 2009. 
• Christopher Hilson presented a paper "Risk and Human Rights Before the ECHR: Towards a New Approach" at the centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), University of Cambridge on 25 Feburary 2009.
• Sandeep Gopalan presented a paper "Bush & Co. - War Criminals?" at the War Crimes Conference, Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London on 20-21 February 2009.
• Sandeep Gopalan presented a paper "An Analysis of the Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis" at the Senior Staff Seminar, University of Hull on 18 February 2009.
• James A Green gave an invited paper "International Law and the Use of Force in Self-Defence" to delegates from HM armed forces at the University of Cambridge, Madingley Hall on 4 February 2009.
• Robert Barnidge Jr gave a paper "Some (Preliminary) Thoughts on Neocolonialism and International Law" at the Sixth International Conference on International Law in the Contemporary World, Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi on 2 February 2009.
• Sandeep Gopalan presented a paper "The International Piracy Problem: Is International Law part of the Problem?" at the Indian Society of International law, 50th Anniversay Conference, New Delhi on 1-4 February 2009.
• Christopher Hilson presented a paper "Risk and Human Rights Before the ECHR: Towards a New Approach" at the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS), University of Cambridge on 25 February 2009.
• Sandeep Gopalan presented a paper, ''The Piracy Menace: Is International Law Part of the Problem?' at the Conference on Contemporary Issues in International Law, Gujarat National Law University, India on 31 January 2009.
• Sandeep Gopalan presented a paper, "The Draft EU Consumer Directive: A Behavioural Law and Economics Analysis" at Manchester-Munster Conference on Modernising and Harmonising Consumer Law, University of Manchester on 12-13 January 2009.
• Thérèse Callus presented, via video, an invited paper, 'L'adolescentet l'acte medical: l'approche du droit anglais' at the Second International Workshop of the Réseau universitaire international de bioéthique et de droit (International Academic Network on Bioethics and Law) held at the University of Kyoto, Japan on 5-7 January 2009.

Grants

• Rosemary Auchmuty has been awarded a British Academy Small research grant of £7048.20 for a project on Civil Partnership Dissolution: expectations and experiences.
• Robert Barnidge Jr has been awarded £1,245 from the Society of Legal Scholars Research Activities Fund Award to conduct field work in Islamabad, Pakistan over a 10 day period in late-December 2010/early-January 2011.  This is as part of his study leave in spring term 2011, which will be working on the project "Assessing the Legality of Pilotless Drone Attacks Under International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law".
• Anne Thies has been awarded a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute in Florence for the academic year 2010/11.  Her research looks at the nature and scope of loyalty obligations of the EU Member States towards the EU in the context of external relations.
• Anne Thies has secured £8,036 from the John Sherborne Foundation to support another study visit to the UK Mission and several international organisations in Geneva with LLM and PhD students of international law in March 2010.
• Nowrin Tamanna has been awarded £1,500 (including the School's contribution) under the RETF pump-priming scheme to support her cross-national pilot study entitled "Privatisation of Justice for Faith-based Communities: The Muslim 'Woman' Question".  Awarded in June 2009.
• Lawrence McNamara has been awarded pump-priming research funding of £1,288 under the Faculty RETF scheme.  The project is entitled "The Regulation of Extreme Hate Music: Hate Speech and Free Speech in Europe".  Awarded in June 2009.
• Jane Donoghue has been awarded £99,972 by the ESRC to study 'An Examination of the Judicial Role in Specialist Anti-Social Behaviour Response Courts in England & Wales'.  The study is to start on 1 October 2009.  Awarded in May 2009.
• Samia Bano is part of a team of colleagues (based at Birmingham University and Queen Mary, London) that has been awarded £25,000 by the Ministry of Justice for a three month initial project on Shariah Councils in the UK.  Awarded in March 2009.
• Lawrence McNamara has secured funding of £309,103.for a joint ESRC/AHRC Research Fellowship on Ideas and Beliefs, which is a part of the major RCUK Global Uncertainties Programme.  Lawrence's project is 'Law, Terrorism and the Right to Know'.  Awarded in February 2009.