INNOVATION IN THE LAW NEW CHALLENGES, NEW PERSPECTIVES 1-2 December 2014
Edinburgh University Press
EVALUATION REPORT
Table of Contents Executive Summary
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1
Project Title & Timescale
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2
Conference Summary
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3
Participants
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4
Feedback
15
5
Key Outcomes for Organisers
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Key Outcomes for Participants
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7
Objectives & Conference Impact
35
9
Financial Summary
37
10
Future Plans
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Acknowledgements
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Appendix A | Final Conference Programme Appendix B | Final Budget
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Executive Summary Title: Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2014 ‘Innovation in the Law: New Challenges, New Perspectives’
2 days
100%
12 panels
Satisfaction rating
51 speakers
81%
4 training sessions
‘Very satisfied’
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1 Keynote discussion
Abstracts selected from 126 Participants
184 received
54% from Edinburgh University 46% from 32 external universities across 9 different countries
Innovative approach throughout: social media campaign | ‘Behind-the-scenes’ Organising Committee blog | Speaker blog posts instead of papers | Live tweeting of sessions Conference organised significantly within budget Links created between the LL.M and Ph.D communities, and with external postgraduate researchers Special conference edition of Edinburgh Student Law Review (ESLR) to be published in June 2015 4
PROJECT TITLE & TIMESCALE
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Project Title The title of the project was:
The Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2014, ‘Innovation in the Law: New Challenges, New Perspectives’
Project Timescale The Organising Committee for the 2014 conference was established on 23 October 2013, making the project timescale over
13 months.
The conference itself was a 2-day event.
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Prof. Richard SPARKS, Head of the Law School, opening the event on 1 December
CONFERENCE SUMMARY
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Purpose The conference was held at Edinburgh Law School on 1-2 December 2014 and sought to
build on the successes of the first such conference held in December 2013. The conference aimed at providing postgraduate researchers in law and allied disciplines (e.g. criminology) with a
forum for presenting
their research,
networking
and receiving training taiored to their specific needs. The conference also aimed at strengthening links between the Ph.D and LL.M cohorts at Edinburgh Law School, by providing training sessions relevant to LL.M students (including one exclusively targeted at LL.Ms) and including LL.Ms in the conference team.
Team The bulk of the conference organisation was carried out by the 6 Ph.D researchers on the
Organising Committee: Humberto CARRASCO | Laura DOWNEY | Tom Gerald DALY | David KOMUVES | Ekrem SOLAK | Leslie STEVENS In October 2014 Ognjenka MANOJLOVIC (LL.M, European Law) agreed to act as our
Liaison
LL.M
and was integral to the organisation of Training Session 3: ‘Life After the LL.M:
Ph.D and Other Options’. She also organised 8 LL.M volunteers to help with the conference on the day: Basant ABDEL-GHANY ABDEL-MEGUID, Emiel DE BUIJNE, Thomas GODENER, Fabian MICHL, Neža ŠUBIC, Ellen HEYD, David RETZMANN and Ciaran DONOHUE.
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L-R Tom Gerald DALY | David KOMUVES | | Leslie STEVENS | Laura DOWNEY | Humberto CARRASCO | Ekrem SOLAK
Programme Like the 2013 conference, the 2014 conference featured a mix of panel presentations, keynotes and targeted training sessions for Ph.Ds and LL.Ms.
1 Keynote Discussion 12 Presentation Panels 4 Training Sessions
> See Appendix A: Final Programme
Publicity The conference was publicised through a four-prong publicity strategy using a website as the main ‘hub’, with posters, Twitter and Facebook used to draw people to the website and to enhance our physical and online presence, and ‘brand’ recognition.
poster
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website
Twitter Facebook
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PARTICIPANTS
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Number of Participants There were
126 participants in total at the 2014 conference
There were 88
registered participants
at the conference, with the categories as
follows:
36 Speakers
32 PhD Delegates
20 LLM Delegates
There were 39
unregistered participants at the conference
the Organising Committee (6)
the LL.M Volunteers (4)
the majority of chairs, discussants and training speakers (27)
Prof. Richard Sparks, Head of School, who opened the conference
Dr James Harrison, Director of the Ph.D Programme, who closed the conference
Staff/Student Status Of the participants:
25 were staff 101 were students
Internal/External Participants Of the participants:
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57 were from external universities
1
66 were from Edinburgh Law School
EU observer
2 were from Edinburgh University (Training Session 1) 1 was an observer from the European Parliament Fig. 1
External Participants from Universities in the UK
University
19 different UK universities
Bedfordshire Birmingham Bristol Dundee Essex Exeter Glasgow Lancaster Leeds Manchester Newcastle Nottingham Oxford QUB Sheffield St Andrews Strathclyde Swansea UCL 13
Fig.2
External Participants from Universities Outside the UK
Europe
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University Abuja Amsterdam
different non-UK universities
Bayreuth Copenhagen Cork Geneva Genoa Ghent Hungary Munich Osnabruck Rotterdam Speyer
32 external universities in total
Africa
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FEEDBACK
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How we Collected Feedback The Organising Committee received overwhelmingly
positive feedback
on
the conference, and collected it by four main means:
A survey filled out by participants on Eventbrite
Tweets received from participants
E-mails received from participants
Feedback received by speaking with participants on the day
Eventbrite Survey Feedback The feedback from speakers and other conference participants through the Eventbrite survey was overwhelmingly and 81%
positive, with a 100% satisfaction rating,
‘very satisfied’. The results by question asked were as follows:
How did you hear about the 2nd Annual Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference?
66%
were referred to the Conference through a friend/colleague speaking to the strength of Edinburgh’s reputation for excellence and its established postgraduate research community
Did you find the Conference website had all the information you needed?
70% found the Conference website had all the information they needed
How easy were pre-conference procedures, including registration?
Over 70% very easy
found pre-conference procedures
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Did you find the Conference Committee's Blog and other social media communications informative?
Over 70%
found the Committee Blog and social
media campaign ‘very
informative’
Did you find it helpful to read the speaker blogs for the panels you attended?
Over 70%
How would you rank the academic quality of the panel presentations you attended?
81% of respondents found the academic quality of presentations above average or better
Of the training sessions you attended, please indicate how helpful you found them to the development of your skills.
The training sessions were extremely well received with noteworthy praise for the “PhD talkshow” and
How informative did you find the keynote address, 'Breaking Boundaries: Interdisciplinary as an Answer and Challenge to Legal Research?'
found reading speaker blogs ahead of the Conference helpful to their participation
“Life Beyond the LLM” sessions as very
helpful
by 52% and 71% respectively
62%
who attended the Keynote address on
interdisciplinarity found it ‘very
informative’
If you presented at the Conference did you find the interaction and feedback you received helpful?
62% of presenters found interaction and feedback very helpful
How would you rank your overall satisfaction with the Conference?
An overwhelming 81% of attendees and presenters were very satisfied with their experience
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Prof. Lesley MCARA speaking at the Keynote Discussion Pan el: ‘Breaking Boundaries: Interdisciplinarity as an Answer and Challenge to Legal Research ’
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Tweets Received We received a large volume of very positive tweets, during and after the conference, from conference participants, including panel speakers and staff members. A selection of this feedback is provided below.
From: Professor Grame Laurie
(Speaker at Training Session 3: ‘Life Beyond
the LLM: Ph.D and Other Options)
From: The Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences & the Law (represented by Nayha Sethi, Deputy Director of the Institute)
From: Aisling McMahon
(Speaker at Training Session 4: ‘Ph.D Talkshow:
Workloads, Balance and the Power of No’)
From: Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
(tweeted by Silvia
Suteu, Associate Director of the Centre, who attended)
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From: Alan Cusack
(Postgraduate Speaker at Panel 2: ‘Theories of Justice and the
Judicial Role’)
From: Megan Rae Blakely
(Postgraduate Speaker at Panel 1: ‘IP Law: Shaping,
Regulating and Commodifying Culture’)
From: Mathilde Pavis
(Postgraduate Speaker at Panel 1: ‘IP Law: Shaping,
Regulating and Commodifying Culture’)
From: Ilaria Di Gioia
(Postgraduate Speaker at Panel 7: ‘States’ Rights, Secession
and Self-Determination’)
From: Louise Forde (Postgraduate Speaker at Panel 9: ‘Rejuvenating Criminal Law’)
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From: Hemi Mistry
(Postgraduate Speaker at Panel 2: ‘Theories of Justice and the
Judicial Role’)
From: James Lee
(Senior Lecturer, king’s College London, Visiting MacCormick
Fellow at the Law School)
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Speaker Dr Louise CONNELLY at Training Session 1: ‘Social Media, Research Impact and Public Engagement ’
E-mails Received We received a number of (unprompted) e-mails from participants on the days following the event, which indicated a very high level of satisfaction with the conference.
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Chair Stephen BOGLE and panel speakers Prof. Niamh NIC S HUIBHNE, Aisling MCMAHON and Grant 23 STIRLING at the final training session: ‘Ph.D Talk Show: Workloads, Balance and the Power of No’
KEY OUTCOMES FOR ORGANISERS
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Organising the 2014 Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference was an
invaluable
learning experience for the Organising Committee; even for those who already had significant organisational experience it was on a scale they had not previously experienced.
What Did We Learn?
Constructing Funding
Applications
Strategic Planning
Brainstorming Innovative approaches
Creating a branding suite
Poster and flyer creation
Abstract Selection
Programme Development
Effective Use of Social
Website creation and management
Task Management
Time Management
People management
Organisational Problem
Legacy Planning
Media
Solving
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Learning Outcomes and Legacy Management 1.
Sharing What We Learned – The Committee Blog
In order to share what we learned, we also took turns to write up our experiences up in a Committee blog. This was a sort of
‘behind-the-scenes’ look
at conference
organisation, aimed at helping organisers of similar conferences, at being honest and open about difficulties we faced, and providing feedback on issues (e.g. abstracts) where we could not provide individual deedback. We uploaded one post per month, on the following subjects:
Tom Gerald Daly ‘What’s a Postgraduate Conference For, Anyway?’ – 28 February 2014
Humberto Carrasco ‘First Steps’ – 31 March 2014
Leslie Stevens ‘Dissemination Plans, Conference Abstracts and the PhD Journey’ – 30 April 2014
Laura Downey ‘PhD Skills, Life After the PhD, and Existential Angst’ – 30 May 2014
David Komuves ‘Creating a Buzz’ – 1 August 2014
Ekrem Solak ‘Team EPGLC 2014 – on the importance of teamwork and diversity of experience’ – 31 August 2014
Tom Gerald Daly ‘The Day Has Come! Abstract Submission Deadlines and Choosing the Right Date’ – 26 September 2014
Leslie Stevens ‘Congratulations to All who have Submitted Abstracts!’ – 31 October 2014
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2.
Applying Training Directly In the short term
2 days after Training Session 1
on the use of social media, one of the
Organising Committee, Tom Daly, used the knowledge from that session to give a talk
to
LLMs helping with social media on the BENELEX Project run by Dr Elisa Morgera at the Law School (a €1.5million grant for research on benefit-sharing and environmental law – see www.benelex.org). The talk by Dr Louise Connelly at Training Session 1, in particular, formed the basis of Tom’s talk and was very well received by both the LLMs and Dr Morgera.
In the medium term
convenors of research areawell as being on management
A number of the Organising Committee members are specific discussion groups at the Law School, as
committees
for some of the Centres at the Law School. The skills learned in organising the 2014 Conference are already proving useful and will enhance their ability to
contribute to the research community at the Law School.
> See further: ‘Legacy Planning’ on p.32
Tom introducing the other members of the Organising Committee at the opening session: 27 L-R: Tom Gerald DALY, Leslie STEVENS, Laura DOWNEY, David KOMUVES and Ekrem SOLAK
KEY OUTCOMES FOR PARTICIPANTS
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Learning and Development Outcomes for Participants
Conference organisation
Presentation skills
Providing constructive
Social media techniques
What Academic
Constructing a blog
How to construct a Ph.D
Tips on work/life
Networking with people in their research field
The concerns of postgraduate students (staff)
feedback on research
Funding applications entail post (speakers) proposal (LL.M students)
balance
How Might They Apply What They Have Learned?
Presentation skills learned will be valuable at other conferences
Feedback skills
will serve them well in critiquing the work of other
researchers
Social media skills will allow them to enhance their online presence 29
Guidance on academic funding
will help researchers to construct
more effective funding applications and have a sense of the work involved in carrying out work under research grants
Networking skills
will help participants to enhance their research and
research presence, and possibly find collaborators in the future
Organisers of
upcoming Postgraduate Conferences
will have
gained useful tips for their own events
LL.Ms will be able to write more
effective Ph.D Proposals
Tips on Work/Life Balance
may help students suffering from anxiety
and difficult workloads, and provide useful advice into the future
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Martin KELLY and Ilaria DI GIOIA, winners of ‘best blog post’ and ‘best presentation’
Lively discussions at Panel 1: ‘IP Law: Shaping, Regulating and Commodifying Culture’
Chair Alex LATHAM, discussant Dr Euan MACDONALD and speakers Alan CUSACK, Martin KELLY and Hemi MISTRY at Panel 2: ‘Theories of Justice and the Judicial Role’
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Ongoing discussion at the coffee breaks in the Playfair Library
Dr Shawn HARMON, Chair Laura DOWNEY and speakers Prof. Lesley MCARA and Prof. Burkhard SCHAFER at the Keynote Discussion Panel: ‘Breaking Boundaries: Interdisciplinarity as an Answer and Challenge to Legal Research’
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Discussant Dr Kasey MCCALL-SMITH providing feedback in Panel 4: ‘Rethinking International Law’
Panel 7: ‘States’ Rights, Secession and Self-Determination’
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Josh HUGHES presenting in Panel 12: ‘Legality, Rights and the War on Terror’
Shane MCNAMEE presenting in Panel 5: ‘Technology and Law: Confronting Uncertainty, Testing Promises ’
LL.M Ognjienka MANOJLOVIC pitching a question to the panel in Training Session 3: ‘Life After the LL.M: Ph.D and Other Options’
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OBJECTIVES & CONFERENCE IMPACT
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Objectives The conference achieved all of the objectives of the Organising Committee, by providing postgraduate researchers with a supportive environment in which to develop their presentation skills, meet others in their field, network and receive training tailored to their specific needs. A core aim of strengthening links between the LL.M and Ph.D cohorts at the Law School was also achieved: the LL.M volunteers proved to be of great assistance at the conference; and we hope to have created lasting links between the two cohorts. The conference also had the added value of showcasing the vibrant research community at Edinburgh Law School and exposing staff and researchers here to high quality research being conducted elsewhere.
Conference Impact The 2014 Conference has achieved the following specific results:
Created Links between the Ph.D and LL.M cohorts
Strengthened links between new and existing Ph.D researchers
Developed networks
between the Ph.D cohort at Edinburgh Law School
and Ph.D researchers elsewhere
Generated awareness
elsewhere of the strong research community at
Edinburgh Law School
Introduced Edinburgh Law School
to high-quality research being
conducted elsewhere
Presented the Ph.D programme to LL.M students
Enhanced the Law School’s online presence
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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
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Financial Summary
We received £4,700 of funding in total for the Conference, £3,000
from the
IAD and £1,700 from the School of Law
No registration fees
were charged for the Conference but cost-savings of
£700+ was achieved (£3,926 was spent out of the total awards received)
We achieved cost
savings of over 16% by:
o
Sourcing local talent for our training sessions and keynote address
o
Doing our graphic design in-house
o
Designing our website ourselves
o
Printing the Conference programmes in black/white in-house
o
Hosting a wine-reception in a local restaurant as opposed to a full-conference dinner (saving over £200 versus the University caterer)
52% of total spend was on catering using the University’s sole vendor
Over £850 in cost-savings
were achieved in comparison to the 2013
Conference
> See Appendix B: Final Budget
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FUTURE PLANS
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Conference Edition of ESLR The 2014 Organising Committee has finalised an agreement with the
Edinburgh
Student Law Review (ESLR)
to publish a conference edition of the ESLR, based on papers from the 2014 conference. The publication plan is as follows:
Selected papers from the conference panels will be published
The maximum word-count per contribution will be 6,000 words
The conference edition will be published in the same format, and with the same visual style and House Style, as other editions of the ESLR
The special conference edition will be published as a 'second' volume of the ESLR, to be launched jointly with the non-conference edition in June 2015
The papers will reflect the diversity, nature and high quality of scholarship presented at the Conference. The Conference Edition provides additional value to Conference presenters and will further the overall reach and impact of the Conference for the benefit of future conferences.
Legacy Planning The 2014 Organising Committee has carried out its work with ‘sustainability’ in mind, in the hope that a third Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference will be organised in December 2015. The Organising Committee has been working on encouraging newer Ph.D students to form a committee to organise a third conference. The Organising Committee has also compiled a ‘handover’ document for a new committee, containing all login details for the e-mail, website and social media accounts, visuals, tips on updating the website and social media accounts, and relevant contacts. They will also have access to our Dropbox folder, which contains all meeting agendas and minutes, programmes, e-mail lists and other material. The logo created for the 2014 conference can be easily amended for the 2015 conference and the 2014 Committee are fully willing to provide any necessary training in editing the website, Twitter and other media, and to fully ‘de-brief’ a new committee on the 2014 conference.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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As well as the LL.M volunteers and all those who acted as discussants, chairs and trainers at the conference, whose names are in the final programme (see Appendix A), the Organising Committee would like to express our thanks to the members of the Organising Committee for the first conference in 2013, as well as the following people, who have helped to make the conference possible, supported the project, and provided administrative support:
The Institute for Academic Development
Law Events
The Researcher-Led Initiative Fund
Alison STIRLING
Nicola Cuthbert
Lesley DOBSON Lorna GALLACHER
The Law School
Roddy MCDOUGALL
The Research Support Fund Prof. Lesley MCARA
Postgraduate Office
Prof. Richard SPARKS
Amanda MACKENZIE
Dr James HARRISSON Anna WYATT Organising Committee 2013
Law Reception Megan CRUICKSHANK Samera Yasin
Aisling MCMAHON Silvia SUTEU Giedre JOKUBAUSKAITE Konstantine ERISTAVI Alex LATHAM
Law IT Support [anyone else?] John LOCKHART Dominic Suominen Neil Davidson
ESLR Editorial Board Lorna MCFARLANE; Terence MERCK; JannMichael GREENBURG; Alisha MALIK; Shannon Shannon RUSSELL; Joseph LIPTRAP; Danielle MCALONAN; Emily YEOW; Laetitia HUA; Alasdair PETERSON; MarĂa Paz GATICA; Juliette BRELSFORD; Ilya KOTLYAR; Marko John SUPRONYUK; Amanda WYPER
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INNOVATION IN THE LAW NEW CHALLENGES, NEW PERSPECTIVES 1-2 December 2014
Edinburgh University Press
PROGRAMME
Welc ome to the 2014 Conferenc e We are very pleased to welcome you to the second annual Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference, which seeks to build on the successes of the first conference held in December 2013, with a similar mix of panel presentations, keynotes and targeted training sessions for Ph.Ds and LL.Ms. Thank you to every one who has made the conference possible.
This programme contains the main information you will need for the conference. Additional conference information, including our Committee blog, is available on our website: www.lawphdconference.ed.ac.uk. Helpers will also be on hand on the day to direct you to rooms and address any issues you may have.
We hope you have a great experience in Edinburgh. Do remember to give us your feedback through Eventbrite.
O rg a n i si n g C o m mi t te e 20 1 4 Tom Gerald DALY
|
David KOMUVES
Public law
Technology & Law
Chairing Panel 2
Chairing Panel 5
Our Sponsors
|
Leslie STEVENS | IP Law Chairing Panel 1
Laura DOWNEY |
Humberto CARRASCO |
Medical Law
Competition Law
Chairing Panel 8
Chairing Panel 6
Ekrem SOLAK Company Law Chairing Panel 11
MONDAY 1 DECEMBER 9.00-9.30
Registration and coffee
Playfair Library
9.30-10.00
Welcome and Introductory remarks
Prof. Richard SPARKS, Head of Edinburgh Law School
Playfair Library
10.00-11.45
Parallel Panels
Panel 1 IP Law: Shaping, Regulating and Commodifying Culture Chair Leslie STEVENS | Discussant Dr Paolo CAVALIERE
Raeburn Room
20-min. presentations + discussant feedback + Q&A
1. ‘Innovative Performing Practices, Time for New Perspectives in Mathilde PAVIS Intellectual Property Law’ University of Exeter 2. ‘The Value Problem in Law and Culture’ Megan Rae BLAKELY University of Glasgow 3. ‘Go Back to Go Forward? New Indications of Geographical Origin (IGOs) Andrea ZAPPALAGLIO for a New Developmental Policy’ University of Oxford 4. ‘The Law as a Means to Business Innovation: Lessons from the History Evgenia (Jenny) KANELLOPOULOU of Music Copyright’ University of Edinburgh Panel 2 Theories of Justice and the Judicial Role Chair Alex LATHAM | Discussant Dr Euan MACDONALD
Playfair Library
5.
Alan CUSACK University College Cork Martin KELLY University of Edinburgh Hemi MISTRY University of Nottingham
‘An Inconvenient Truth: Epistemic Flaws in the Adversarial Legal Tradition’ 6. ‘A Solution to the Mikado Problem: Updating Construction and the Separation of Powers’ 7. ‘The Role of Judicial Dissent in the Advancement of International Criminal Justice: Empowering Actors, Shaping Norms and Laws’
Panel 3 Company Law: New Approaches to Unsolved Questions Chair Katarzyna CHALACZKIEWICZ-LADNA | Discussant David CABRELLI
Moot Court Room
8.
Navajyoti SAMANTA University of Sheffield Georgios ZOURIDAKIS University of Essex Bashir ASSI Erasmus University Rotterdam
‘Quantifying Multi-Country Corporate Governance Traits: Challenges and Solutions’ 9. ‘Does Law Matter in Distribution of Profits? A Comparative Examination’ 10. ‘Investment Fund Managers Incentives and the Law: European Perspectives’ 11.45-12.15
Coffee break
12.15-13.45
Training Session
Playfair Library Session 1 Social Media, Research Impact and Public Engagement Chair Nevena KOSTOVA
Playfair Library
Speakers Dr Louise CONNELLY, Institute for Academic Development (IAD) Dr Heather REA, Beltane Public Engagement Network 13.45-14.45
Lunch
Playfair Library
14.45-16.30
Parallel Panels
Panel 4 Re-Thinking International Law Chair Winston WU | Discussant Dr Kasey MCCALL-SMITH
20-min. presentations + discussant feedback + Q&A
11. ‘Defining Rape in International Criminal Law: Conceptualising the Harm’ Eithne DOWDS Queen’s University Belfast 12. ‘Serious Violations of Human Rights: The Emergence of a New Special Ilia Maria SIATITSA Regime?’ University of Geneva, Switzerland 13. ‘The Taiwan Strait Missile Test Crisis (1995-1996) and Its Implications on Yuheng DENG Law of Force’ University of Bristol
Playfair Library
Panel 5 Technology and Law: Confronting Uncertainty, Testing Promises Lorimer Room Chair David KOMUVES | Discussant Nicolas JONDET 14. ‘Artificial Legal Intelligence on the Internet: The Next Approach to Jesus Manuel NIEBLA ZATARAIN Enforce the Law Online’ University of Edinburgh 15. ‘2 Steps Forward, 1 Step Back: The Problematic Protection of Shane MCNAMEE Consumers of Digital Content’ University of Bayreuth, Germany
16. ‘Penal Populism Online and the Democratisation of Authoritarian Qi CHEN Regimes’ University of Nottingham Panel 6 Shaping the Future of Competition Law Chair Humberto CARRASCO | Discussant Dr Arianna ANDREANGELLI
Room L05
17. ‘Export Cartels: Analysing the Gap in International Competition Law and Trade’ 18. ‘The Curious Case of Minority Shareholdings in EU Competition Law: To Reform or Not To Reform?’ 19. ‘Tension between Objectives of UK Competition Policy and the Relationship between the Company and Its Directors’
Tiffany KWOK University of Birmingham Anna TZANAKI University College London Samet CALISKAN Newcastle University
16.30-17.00
Coffee break
Playfair Library
17.00-18.00
Keynote Discussion Panel
Breaking Boundaries: Interdisciplinarity as an Answer and Challenge to Legal Research Chair Laura DOWNEY Speakers Prof. Lesley MCARA, Prof. Burkhard SCHAFER & Dr Shawn HARMON
19.00-21.00
Wine reception
Vittoria on the Bridge | 19 George IV Bridge
Playfair Library
The restaurant is very near the conference venue: see map and directions overleaf Canapés and wine will be served The reception is downstairs in Vittoria and the booking is under the name Leslie STEVENS
Wine reception 1 December
19.00
Directions Vittoria on the Bridge 19 George IV Bridge From Old College (conference venue) Exit on South Bridge (main exit) Turn left on exiting Turn left on to Chambers Street At end of Chambers Street turn right on to George IV bridge Vittoria is on the left-hand side, as you walk toward the city centre
Vittoria on the Bridge Reception venue Old College Conference Venue
From Prince’s Street Walk up the Mound (beside National Gallery) Climb North Bank Street Turn right on to George IV bridge Vittoria is 200 metres on the right-hand side
From Waverley Station Exit at Market Street Turn right, staying on Market Street Turn left on North Bank Street Turn right on George IV bridge Vittoria is 200 metres on the right-hand side
NB: The reception is downstairs and the booking is under the name Leslie STEVENS
TUESDAY 2 DECEMBER 9.00-10.00
Coffee
Carstares Room
10.00-11.45
Parallel Panels
Panel 7 States’ Rights, Secession and Self-Determination Chair Tom Gerald DALY | Discussant Dimitrios KAGIAROS
Lorimer Room
20-min. presentations + discussant feedback + Q&A
20. ‘When Liberty Overthrows Federalism: Is Nullification of Federal Law Legitimate?’ 21. ‘The Constitutional Prohibition of Secession Under the Prism of International Law: The Cases of Ukraine, Kosovo and Cyprus’ 22. ‘Self-Determination: New Challenges & Perspectives’
Ilaria DI GIOIA Birmingham City University Nikolaos A IOANNIDIS University of Bristol Sean BUTLER University College Cork
Panel 8 Biotechnology: Private Interests and Public Goods Chair Laura DOWNEY | Discussant Gerard PORTER
Elder Room
23. ‘The Falsification of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies’ Morgan SHIMWELL University of Sheffield 24. ‘A Re-imagination of Pharmaceutical Patents Conception in the TRIPS Jennifer MIKE Agreement through a Feminist Perspective’ University of Exeter 25. ‘Partnership and Biobank Governance’ Tarmphong CHOBISARA University of Edinburgh Panel 9 Rejuvenating Criminal Law Chair Ben MATTHEWS | Discussant Dr Anna SOUHAMI
Raeburn Room
26. ‘Criminal Responsibility and Adolescent Cognitive Development: A Neuroscientific Perspective’ 27. ‘The Implications of Divergent Approaches in Justice for the Rights of the Child in Conflict with the Law’ 28. ‘Monitoring, Harm Assessment and Classification: The Response to Novel Psychoactive Drugs in the UK and Europe’
Hannah WISHART University of Manchester Louise FORDE University College Cork Joseph RITCHIE University of Manchester
11.45-12.15
Coffee break
12.15-13.45
Parallel Training Sessions
Carstares Room Session 2 Guidance on Academic Funding Chair María Paz GATICA RODRÍGUEZ Speakers
Dr Elisa MORGERA (PI, Benelex Project); Carol GEORGE (Research Fellow, EBiSC Project, Mason Institute); and Alison STIRLING (Head, Research and Knowledge Exchange Office)
Session 3 Life Beyond the LL.M: Ph.D and Other Options Chair Ognjenka MANOJLOVIC Speakers
Lecture Theatre 183
Moot Court Room
Prof. Graeme LAURIE, Prof. Niamh NIC SHUIBHNE, Dr Chloë KENNEDY & Andrew BLACK
13.45-14.45
Lunch
Playfair Library
14.45-16.30
Parallel Panels
Panel 10 Rights as Catalyst and Subject of Change Chair Giedre JOKUBAUSKAITE | Discussant Dr Cormac MAC AMHLAIGH
20-min. presentations + discussant feedback + Q&A
29. ‘The ‘Fifth Stage’ of Drug Control: International Law, Dynamic Rick LINES Interpretation and Human Rights’ University of Essex 30. ‘Capabilities: A New Approach to Human Rights for the Elderly’ Roz BUTLER Swansea University 31. ‘Slipping Down the Slope and the Vices and Virtues of Forgetting Magdalena JOZWIAK Online’ VU University Amsterdam
Playfair Library
Panel 11 Regulation in the Wake of Financial Crisis Chair Ekrem SOLAK | Discussant Dr Parker HOOD
Raeburn Room
32. ‘Does Legal Innovation Cope with Financial Innovation?: Risk Regulation Perspectives on Financial Markets Law’ 33. ‘The Many Challenges in Regulating the Liability of Credit Rating Agencies: A Comparative Analysis of the Innovative Regulatory Framework & Tendencies in Case Law’
Michael WOLFGANG MÜLLER Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Jan DE BRUYNE & Cedric VANLEENHOVE Ghent University, Belgium
16.30-17.00
Coffee break
17.00-18.00
Training Session
Panel 12 Legality, Rights and the War on Terror Chair Kenneth CAMPBELL | Discussant Dr Filippo FONTANELLI
Moot Court Room
34. ‘The ‘War on Terror’: The State of Permanent Legal Emergency and Human Rights’ 35. ‘The Legality of Autonomous Weapons Systems under the Law of Armed Conflict’
Ben STANFORD University of Bedfordshire Joshua HUGHES Lancaster University Playfair Library
Session 4 Ph.D Talk Show: Workloads, Balance and the Power of No Chair Stephen Bogle
Playfair Library
Speakers Prof. Niamh NIC SHUIBHNE, Aisling MCMAHON & Grant STIRLING 18.00-18.15
Prizes and Concluding Remarks
Dr James HARRISON, Ph.D Programme Director
Playfair Library
Prizes will be awarded for ‘best blog post’ and ‘best presentation’ The prizes are kindly sponsored by Edinburgh University Press
Don’t forget to vote!
We’ll give you 2 ballots on the first day
Pick 1 favourite blog & 1 favourite presentation
Put them in the ballot box and we’ll tally them at the end of Day 2
Getting around entrance/exit
Moot Court Room
P3
P
Presentation Panel sessions
T
Training Sessions
K
Keynote Discussion Panel
P12
T3
P1
Lecture Theatre 183
P9
P8
P11
T2
Lorimer Room
P7
P5
Room L05
P6
P2
P4
P10
K
T1
T4
LL.M Assistance One of the purposes of this conference is to build and strengthen links between the Ph.D cohort and the LL.M cohort at the Law School. The Ph.D researchers on the Organising Committee have been lucky to have the assistance of our LL.M Liaison, Ognjenka Manojlovic, who has been a great link to the LL.M students, as well as chairing and doing much of the organisation for Training Session 3, ‘Life After the LL.M: Ph.D and Other Options’.
LL.M Liaison Ognjenka MANOJLOVIC LL.M | European Law
LL.M Volunteers Basant ABDEL-GHANY ABDEL-MEGUID | Human rights LL.M
Through Ognjenka, 8 LL.M students have been kind enough to volunteer to help the conference run smoothly on the 1 st and 2 nd December. Along with the Committee, they will be on hand to help with directions, questions and technological issues.
Emiel DE BUIJNE | European Law LL.M
We look forward to working with them and further strengthening these links after the conference.
Ellen HEYD | European Law LL.M
Thomas GODENER | European Law LL.M Fabian MICHL | M.Sc student Neža ŠUBIC | European Law LL.M
David RETZMANN | European Law LL.M Ciaran DONOHUE | European Law LL.M
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Final Budget | Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2014