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Law and Social Justice: Exploring Intersections and Innovations Conference

  • Friday 13 December 2024

  • 10:00AM - 3:45PM

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What's happening?

Time What's happening
10:00am

Professor Charles Egbu, Vice Chancellor, Leeds Trinity University - Welcome address

Dr Jess Guth - Feminist and anti-racist perspectives on the Court of Justice of the European Union: Research led teaching as activism for social justice

10:30am

Panel 1: Gender, Law and Social Change

Dr Nikki Godden-Rasul, Newcastle University Law School - Tort Law and Feminist Strategy: Lessons from Social Movement and Community Lawyering

Dr Temitope Omotola Odusanya, Robert Gordon University - Legal Pathways to Gender Parity: Advancing Social Justice Through Structural Reform

11:15am Break
11:30am

Panel 2: Justice, Violence and Human Rights

Atreyee Sengupta, SOAS University of London - Locating the (In)Justice in "Sexual Harrassment": A Socio-Legal Study of Public Universities in India

Sara Vincenzotti, PhD, Newcastle University Law School - The Paradoxical 'Common Sense Narrative' Approach to Conflict-Related Sexual Violence

Zhen Chen, PhD, University of Groningen - Repatriating Indigenous Human Remains: Legal Standing and Community Interests

12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm

Panel 3: Labour Rights and Health Justice

Dr Nigel Pitchford, Leeds Trinity University - We don't have to hear you; how agency workers are legally excluded from raising grievances at places where they actually work and how this can be resolved

Dr Davy Rammila, The University of South Africa (UNISA) - A Human Rights Response to Health Inequality: The South Africa National Health Insurance System

Eirini Koutsoukou, University of Milan - The Right to Health in a Business and Human Rights (BHR) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Context: Reflections on Social Justice and Strategic Litigation

2:30pm Break
2:45pm

Panel 4: Social Justice in Legal Education

Dr Emily Walsh, University of Portsmouth - Practice what you preach: Putting social justice at the heart of the syllabus and assessment design in a first year undergraduate module

James Shipton, Leeds Trinity University - The role of social justice in law school assessments

Dr Simon Best, Leeds Trinity University - Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) as a Tool for Advancing Social Justice in Legal Education

3:45pm Close

 

When?

Friday 13 December 2024, 10:00am-3:45pm

 

Where?

This event will be held online.

 

How to book

This event is free to attend. To book your place, please email law@leedstrinity.ac.uk.

 

Further Information

For further information, please contact law@leedstrinity.ac.uk.

 

 

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