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Events

Professor Insa Koch, Full Professor of British Cultures at the University of St. Gallen, on her monograph Drugs, Race and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law: when Enemies Become Victims (OUP, 2026) (more details tbc) – Mon 15th June 2026 [an event organised by the Politics Department]

Professor Surabhi Chopra, Leverhulme Visiting Professor, King’s College London: '‘Immigration detention in Hong Kong: Advocacy in the dark’ – Wed 6th May 2026, 4/2055 [an event jointly convened by CJS and the Centre for International Law and Globalisation].

Dr Ben Jarman, Research Fellow (Anniversary Fellowship), Southampton Law School: ‘Accountability and the life sentence’, Tues 10th Mar 2026, 2pm-3pm (4/4051)

Dr Steven Cammis, Birmingham Law School, ‘“In short, to hell with everyone else”: Silencing of activism through sentencing in England and Wales’ - Wednesday 11 February 2026

Büşra Demiral Bakırman, visiting scholar at Southampton Law School, and Associate Professor at Istanbul University, 'The Criminal Prosecution of Children in Conflict with the Law: Legal Frameworks and Procedural Considerations', Wed 4 Feb 2026, 2pm-3pm, 4/4003 (Moot Room).

Professor Gerhard Kemp, UWE: 'The direct application of customary international law as a basis to prosecute core international crimes: Recent developments in, and lessons from South Africa' - Wednesday 3 December 2025, 4/2055 (Law staff common room)

Professor Kris Gledhill, Auckland University of Technology Law School: 'Evidence-based sentencing: lessons from New Zealand case law' - Tue 18 November 2025, 4/2055 (Law staff common room)

Professor Lucia Zedner, Oxford, 'Prosecuting Extremism: why choices of criminal law, war, or terrorism matter' Wednesday 5 March 2025

Professor Peter Ramsay, LSE, The Rights of the Sovereign: Criminal Law as Public Law, Wednesday 27 November 2024

Christy Dickerson and Shayla J Galloway, CJS and Death Penalty Casework Clinic Seminar: Capital Defence in the US, Thursday 17 October 2024

Professor David Gurnham, Centre for Justice Studies, and Dr Ekaterina Yahyaoui, Galway University School of Law, Kafka’s Imprint on Law and the Arts, Wednesday 3 to Thursday 4 July 2024

Professor Harry Annison and Dr Kate Paradine, Growing Hope and Power: charities, academics and evidence, June 2024

Dr Omar Madhloom, University of Southampton, Using reflective practice to embed therapeutic jurisprudence into criminal defence, Wednesday 15 May 2024

Professor Alan Norrie, Warwick Law School, On the Vindictive, Vindicative and Validatory in Criminal Justice: thoughts on Happy Valley, Wednesday 1 May 2024

Professor Jacqueline Hodgson, Warwick Law School, James Bourke, Governor, HM Prison Winchester, Phoebe Dunn, Koestler Arts, Marginalised People’s Creative Responses to Justice Problems: the arts and public audiences, Wednesday 27 March 2024