Justice in the 21st century?
Honorary President: Michael Mansfield QC
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2004
The National Critical Lawyers Group started at the Kent Law School and aims to extend the critical teaching which is an integral part of legal studies at the University of Kent .
The Group is now the umbrella organisation for a number of critical lawyers’ groups that have grown up in universities in England and Scotland .
The 2004 Conference has been one of the biggest gatherings of radical lawyers – solicitors, barristers, academics, students – seen in this country for many years.
We had the pleasure of having stimulating discussions that enthused a new generation of lawyers and will help them to apply their learning and their practice for the benefit of society as a whole.
Plenary and workshop sessions on:
. international law after 9/11
. national security, anti-terrorism and the attack on civil liberties
. immigration and asylum law
. the Hutton enquiry
. fertility and embryology legislation
. biotechnology regulation
. prison conditions
. workers’ rights
. the future for Africa
. environmental justice
. criminal justice
. hate crime
. homelessness
. the compensation culture
. law clinics and legal services
. patent law
. equality law
. and more
Saturday 7th February 2004
9.00 onwards
Registration, Keynes Foyer
Tea and coffee will be available in the foyer
Opening Plenary: 11.00am to 12.45pm
KLT1
Welcome: John Wightman, Head of Department, Kent Law School , and David Melville, Vice Chancellor, University of Kent
Helena Kennedy QC: Justice in the 21 st Century?
Prof. Peter Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck): Justice in the Age of the American Empire
Imran Khan: Race, Asylum and Immigration
Prof. Joanne Conaghan ( Kent ): Justice for Women
Prof Roger Smith (Director, Justice): Justice in the 21 st Century?
12.45 – 1.45pm Lunch
(available in Eliot College Dining Hall, Rutherford College Dining Hall, or in Origins, Darwin College )
Session 1: 1.45pm – 3.15pm
1 Workshop discussion with plenary speakers:
KLT1
Prof. Peter Fitzpatrick
Imran Khan
Prof. Joanne Conaghan
Helena Kennedy QC
Prof Roger Smith
2 Environmental Justice
KLT4
Chair: Michelle Wheeler
Phil Michaels (Lawyer, Friends of the Earth): ‘”Ghost Ships” and Environmental Injustice’
Dr David Wolfe (Barrister, Matrix Chambers): ‘Environmental Justice: A View from the Bar’
Paul Stookes (Chief Executive, Environmental Law Foundation): ‘Environmental justice: civil law aspects’
Discussant: Donald McGillivray ( Kent )
3 Law and Reproductive Medicine
KLT5
Chair: Dr Ellie Lee (Kent)
Steve Wilkinson (Keele):
Emily Jackson (LSE):
John Gillott (Genetic Interest Group):
Discussants: Peter Mills (Human Fertility and Embryology Authority) and Dr Hazel Biggs ( Kent ).
4 Workers Justice and Globalisation: Panel 1
KLT3
Chair: Hussein Ansari
Prof. Steve Anderman (Essex):
Sammy Adelman ( Warwick ):
5 Policing Hate Crime
Venue: KSR8
Chair: Simon Bailey
Prof. Les Moran (Birkbeck): ‘Homophobic Violence’
Henrietta Hill (Barrister, Doughty Street ): ‘Race and Policing’
6 Critical Criminology
Venue: KSR4
Chair: Dr Keith Hayward ( Kent )
Prof. Paddy Hillyard ( Ulster ): ‘Beyond Crime and Criminology: Taking Harm Seriously’
Wayne Morrison (Queen Mary): ‘Genocide: criminology’s fatal omission’
7 Criminal Justice: Panel 1
Venue: KSR17
Chair: Katie Gotterson
Lynn Hancock ( Open University ): ‘Jurors’ Confidence in the Criminal Trial’
Prof. Steve Uglow ( Kent ): ‘The Criminal Trial and the CJA 2003′
8 Asylum, Immigration and Justice: Panel 1
Venue: Keynes Quiet Senior Common Room
Chair: Felipe Alviar
Dr Bernard Ryan ( Kent ): ‘EU immigration and asylum law in Britain ‘
Frances Webber ( Institute of Race Relations): ‘Access to Justice’
Roland Bioshah
9 Justice and Homelessness
Venue: KSR8
Chair: Mathieu Fréville
James Bowen (Barrister, 6 Kings Bench Walk): ‘Law, Policy and Homelessness’
Linda Pierce (Barrister, 6 Kings Bench Walk), t.b.c.
10 Prisoners, Justice and the Law
Venue: KLT2
Chair: Simon Bailey
Tres-Anne Cooke (Hibiscus), ‘Black Foreign National Women in British Prisons’
Dr Azrini Wahidin ( Kent ): ‘Lost Offenders in Forgotten Places: Elders in Prison’
Lisa Young and Nezlin Newell (Women in Prison): ‘Young Women in Prison’
Sharon Shalev, ‘Supermax Prisons in the USA ‘
3.15 – 3.35 Tea and Coffee available in Keynes foyer
Session 2: 3.35pm – 5.00pm
1 Optional Plenary: War and the Undermining of International Law
Venue: KLT1
Chair: Keith Webb
George Joffe (Centre of International Studies, Cambridge ): ‘Reluctant Imperialism: Human Rights, Regime Change and Pre-emptive Intervention’
Wade Mansell ( Kent ): ‘Bush/Blair and the Undermining of International Law’
John Strawson ( University of East London ): ‘International Law as Ideology’
Dr Yutaka Arai ( Kent ): ‘Conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq ‘ (tbc)
2 Optional Plenary: Iraq – the National Consequences: Civil Liberties and the impact of the Hutton Report
Venue: KLT5
Chair: Lisa Sigalet
Geoffrey Bindman (Bindmans, Solicitors): ‘The Hutton Committee Report’
Charles Garraway (Visiting Prof., King’s College London): ‘Justice in Iraq ‘
Louise Christian (Christian Khan, Solicitors): ‘Representing the Guantanamo Prisoners’
Daniel Moeckli ( Nottingham ): ‘Terror and the War on Civil Liberties’
Discussant: Manjit Gill QC (6 Kings Bench Walk)
3 Should the Human Fertility and Embryology Act be Reformed? ‘Saviour siblings’ and abortion for foetal abnormality
Venue: KLT4
Chair: Dr Ellie Lee ( Kent )
Ann Furedi (British Pregnancy Advisory Service)
Barbara Hewson (Barrister, Hardwicke Civil):
Sally Sheldon (Keele):
Discussants: Juliet Tizzard (Progress Educational Trust), Prof. Marie Fox (Manchester/Keele)
4 Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Panel 2
Venue: KLT2
Chair: Mathieu Fréville
Michael Topolski QC ( Tooks Court ): ‘Justice and the Death Penalty’
Dr Claire Valier (Birkbeck): ‘Justice and the changing normative bases of punishment’
Michael Osofsky (Stanford and Queens, Belfast ): ‘The Death Penalty in Action’
5 Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Panel 3
Venue: KLT3
Chair: Katie Engel
Ed Rees QC ( Doughty Street ): ‘Justice and the use of civil procedures in criminal cases’
Dr Anna Carline (Liverpool John Moores): ‘Women who kill’
Jay Hart ( Kent ): ‘The Sexual Offences Act’
6 Patents, Drugs and Death in the 21 st Century
Venue: Keynes Quiet Senior Common Room
Chair: Simon Bailey
Alan Story ( Kent ): ‘The case for abolishing patents on anti-HIV/AIDS drugs’
Dr Paul Street ( Nottingham ): ‘Pharmaceutical Products or Essential Drugs: The WTO and the Two-Thirds World’
Adam Mannan ( Kent ): ‘Patents and innovation in the 21st Century?’
7 Asylum, Immigration and Justice, Panel 2: s55 Asylum Support Cases
Venue: KSR6
Chair: tbc
Adrian Berry (Barrister, 6 Kings Bench Walk): ‘The Ramifications of s.55′
Pete Wilkinson (Barrister, 6 Kings Bench Walk): ‘Pre-litigation and s.55′
Lance Charlton (Barrister, 6 Kings Bench Walk): ‘Article 3 ECHR and Immigration’
Tony Fuller (Migrant Helpline)
8 The Compensation Culture – Negligence in a Litigious Age
Venue: KSR16
Chair: Luke Manzarpour
A debate between:
Jon Holbrook (Barrister, 2 Garden Court (Barrister, Hardwicke Building and Spiked-Online)
and
Niamh O’Brady (Senior Partner, Pattinson and Brewer, Solicitors)
9 Justice and the European Community
Venue: KSR4
Chair: Felipe Alviar
Dr Anneli Albi ( Kent ): ‘Enlargement and the EU’s Constitutional Debate’
Dr Harm Schepel ( Kent ): ”Beyond Power/Knowledge: Law, Science and the Social
Construction of Expertise in Transnational Contexts’
Joanne Scott ( Cambridge ): ‘Assessing Risk in the WTO and the European Community: Law Science and Globalising Markets’
10 Workers Justice and Globalisation: Panel 2
Venue: KSR17
Chair: Hussein Ansari
Daniel Blackburn (International Centre for Trade Union Rights): ‘Globalisation and Labour Rights’
Dr Claire Kilpatrick ( Cambridge ): ‘Justice, Workers and Globalisation’
Nick Toms (Barrister, Doughty Street ): ‘Labour relations and globalisation’
5.00-5.30pm Tea and Coffee Available in Keynes Foyer
Second Plenary: 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Venue: KLT1
Chair: Keith Webb
Tony Bunyan (Statewatch): ‘The War on Civil Liberties’
David Ransom (The New Internationalist): ‘ In justice and Globalisation’
Prof. Peter Muchlinski ( Kent ): ‘Law, Justice and Globalisation’
Prof. Bill Bowring ( London Metropolitan University ): ‘International Human Rights in the 21 st Century’
Krishnadas Sukumaran (Visiting Fellow, Keele): ‘Legal Activism in India ‘
7.30 Dinner Available on Campus in Rutherford College Dining Hall or in ‘Origins’, Darwin College , or at restaurants in Canterbury
8.30 The Film ‘ After Jenin’ will be shown in Eliot Lecture 2
8.00 til late ‘Not the Blair Babes Party’ in Mungos in Eliot College , with music by Bethan Freize and Satellite Sounds
Sunday 8th February 2004
8.00 onwards: Breakfast available in Eliot Dining Hall.
9.00 onwards: Registration, Keynes Foyer (for those just attending on Sunday)
Session 1: 10 am – 11.25 am
1 Optional Plenary: Regulating Biotech
Venue: KLT3
Chair: Michelle Wheeler
Tony Gilland (Science and Society Director, Institute of Ideas ):
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2 Justice in the Age of the New Imperialism
Venue: KLT1
Chair: Luke Manzapour
Dr Adam Gearey and others (Birkbeck)
Phil Shiner (Public Interest Lawyers): ‘International Law and the Occupied Territories’
Discussant: Professor Peter Fitzpatrick (Birkbeck)
3 Justice for Africa in the 21st Century? Panel 1
Venue: KLT5
Chair: Hussein Ansari
Eki Omorogbe ( Kent ): ‘Armed Conflicts: African Solutions for African Problems?’
Michael Schmitt (Kissinger Watch and Kent) and Emmanuel Mounier ( Kent ): ‘The Poor Countries Odious Debts and International Law’
Wayne Morrison (Queen Mary): ‘ Africa and the forgetful vision of western power: the case of The Congo’
4 University Law Clinics: What Are They For?
Venue: KLT2
Chair: Jenny Ellis
John Fitzpatrick (Director, Kent Law Clinic):
Mike Potts ( Chair , Kent Law Clinic):
Jeremy Taylor ( University of Northumbria )
5 Ethnic Minorities and the Law
Venue: KLT4
Chair: Sharen Lau
Dr Prakash Shah (Queen Mary): ‘Criminal (in)justice in a plural society: South Asians and the English law on homicide’
Ihsan Yilmaz: (SOAS): ‘Turks in London and the Construction of hybrid Turkish-Muslim Law’
Sonya Fernandez ( Kent ): ‘English Law’s Conception of Cultural Identity’
6 Equality and the Law: Panel 1
Venue: KSR4
Chair: Donna Marsh
Dr Matthew Weait (Open University): ‘Church, State and Sexuality in Britain today’
Leo Raznovich ( University College , Oxford ): ‘Gay and Lesbian marriage: the implication of the marriage act in Holland and the international private law principles’
11.25 – 11.45 Tea and Coffee Available in Keynes Foyer
Session 2: 11.45 – 1.10pm
1 Optional Plenary: Legal Education for the 21st Century
Venue: KLT1
Chair: Jenny Ellis
Professor Fiona Cownie ( Hull ): ‘Exploring a Discipline: the Culture of Law and the Professional Identities of Academic Lawyers’
Professor Tony Bradney ( Leicester ): ‘Ethics and Legal Education’
Richard De Friend (Director, College of Law ): ‘Is Legal Education too important to leave to law teachers?’
Prof. Roger Burridge (Warwick; UK Centre for Legal Education): ‘Teaching against tyranny’
2 Mental Health and Justice
Venue: KLT3
Chair: Peter Jones
Phil Fennell ( Cardiff ): ‘Stigmatising Illness: Mental Health, Human Rights and Law Reform’
a.n.other
3 Criminal Justice: Panel 3
Venue: KLT2
Chair: Kerrie-Lee Bearman
Helen Curtis (Barrister, 2 Garden Court ): ‘Justice: the implications of the Eurowarrant’
Kieron Vaughan (Barrister, 2 Garden Court ): ‘Justice: the implications of the Eurowarrant’
4 Equality and the Law: Panel 2
Venue: KLT5
Chair: Hussein Ansari
Marguerite Russell (Barrister, 2 Garden Court ): ‘Why is the UK so backward?’
Dr Rosemary Auchmuty ( Westminster ): ‘Same Sex Marriage’
5 Justice for Africa in the 21st Century? Panel 2
Venue: KLT4
Chair: Talitha Purcell-Gilpan
Ubong Effeh ( Kent ): ‘Sub-Saharan Africa : A Casualty of Global Injustice?’
Gbenga Oduntan ( Canterbury Christ Church University College ): ‘ Mind The Gap: Africa and the Generational Problems of International Litigation in the International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of Arbitration’
Rob Hume ( Anglia Polytechnic University ): ‘Land Titling and Peri-urban poverty in Botswana and Zambia ‘
6 The Future of Legal Services
Venue: KSR6
Chair: Katherine Stone
Alison Graham (Legal Action Group): ‘The Way Forward?’
Law Centres Federation Speaker: ‘ Legal aid: does it work for social progress?’
1.10 – 2.00pm Lunch (available in Eliot Dining Hall or Origins, Darwin College )
FINAL PLENARY: 2.00pm – 3.30pm
Venue: KLT1
Chair: Ian Grigg-Spall ( Kent )
Mike Mansfield QC ( Tooks Court , and Honorary President, NCLG)
Prof Bob Fine ( Warwick )
Diane Langford (Palestine Solidarity Campaign): ‘The wall in the heart of Palestine – fighting oppression’
Prof Abdul Paliwala ( Warwick ): ‘The Global Digital Divide’
Paddy Ireland ( Kent ): ‘Where is capitalism taking us?’
Phil Shiner (Public Interest Lawyers)
Courtenay Griffiths QC (NCLG Practitioner Chair): ‘Towards a National Critical Organisation?’
Post conference: drinks in Keynes Bar.