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Hosted by the School of Business and Law, Social Justice Research Cluster at Leeds Trinity University, this year's Law and Social Justice conference takes place on December 12, 2025 and will explore themes of Bridging Perspectives and Advancing Change.
Programme
| Session time | Session theme | Session title | Speaker |
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| 9:50 | Virtual Arrival and Networking | ||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Welcome Address and Keynote | Welcome Address | Professor Charles Egbu Vice Chancellor Leeds Trinity University |
| Key Note - Social justice for ourselves: getting in and getting on in the legal professions | Professor Jane Ching Nottingham Law School Nottingham Trent University |
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| 10:30 - 11:30 | Corporate Governance and Economic Justice | Equitable Responses to Injustice in Company Law | Dr David Gibbs-Kneller University of East Anglia Professor Arad Reisberg Brunel University of London |
| Evaluating Corporate Investors’ Policy Commitments in the Context of Investor-State Dispute Settlement Awards | Dr Angelica Rutherford Leeds Beckett University |
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| Advancing Human Rights and Equality through Corporate Governance in Nigeria | Dr Tobiloba Opeyemi Awotoye Lead City University, Ibadan Dr Tawakaltu Queen Oyinloye University of Ilorin |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 | Break | ||
| 11:45 - 13:00 | Human Rights and Workplace Equality | ‘Article 10 - An Opportunity to Ensure Ethical Press Practice?’ | Danielle Hopton-Jones University of Worchester |
| Race and Disability Pay Gap Reporting: Advancing Workplace Equality through Transparency | Dr Alex Patrick University of Reading |
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| The Price of Equal Justice: Disability and Financial Exclusion in Civil Proceedings | Dr Çağrı Mardin Bilkent University Faculty of Law |
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| Margins to Monitors: Advancing Environmental Justice through Host-Community Participation in Nigeria’s Oil & Gas Regulation | Dr Deborah Kobani Liverpool Hope University |
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| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 13:45 - 14:45 | Education, Access, and Public Policy | Social justice and responsible lending in the credit union sector | Dr Andrea Fejős Essex Law School University of Essex |
| Mapping Behavioural Barriers in Higher Education: Towards a Model of Inequality and Access | Dr Alexandra Griazina Liverpool Hope University |
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| Using public procurement evaluation criteria to advance social outcomes: a comparative look at the European Union and Poland | Mateusz Brzeziński Faculty of Law and Administration University of Warsaw |
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| 14:45 - 15:00 | Break | ||
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Governance, Accountability, and Environmental Justice | Rethinking the Justiciability of Oil and Gas Pollution Cleanup in Nigeria | Dr Morningglory Nwafor Liverpool Hope University. |
| Can Litigation against Corporations Lead to Systemic Change in Climate Policies? Lessons from the Milieudefensie v. Shell Appeal Case | Francesca Mussi University of Trento |
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| Indian constitutionalism and the parliamentary sovereignty syndrome: judicial responses and the struggle for electoral integrity | Shailja Shukla Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University |
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| 16:00 | Close | ||
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