13th SOAS Law PhD Colloquium 2021: Law and Inequality
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Law and Inequality
13th SOAS Law PhD Colloquium 2021
Legal systems across the world recognise the fundamental equality of all human beings and promise equality before the law and the equal protection of law. However, inequalities in accessing and enjoying resources, services and opportunities persist on the grounds of gender, nationality, religion, ideology, political beliefs and so on. They persist at different levels, such as in the global North/South context, or within countries and societies. They also exist in a relational context, such as inequalities between the state and citizen; exploitation of one group at the hands of another; or between states and non-state actors. Furthermore, in the wake of the Covid 19 pandemic, inequality has become a central point of discussion in numerous disciplines. Jarring disparities in access to healthcare, technology and welfare have forced us to confront socio-economic inequalities and their dangerous consequences. The law interacts with inequality in multifarious ways. Failures of existing legal frameworks and approaches in addressing inequality call for further analysis into our legal principles, doctrines and institutions.
This Colloquium invites submissions that discuss how the law relates to inequality. We invite submissions related to this theme including (but not limited to):
(a) The role of law in creating and/or perpetuating structural inequalities
(b) Exclusionary role of law
(c) Inequalities exposed by the pandemic
(d) Conceptualisation and problematisation of the notions of inequality
(e) Pervasiveness of inequality in different areas of law such as tax law, financial regulation,
intellectual property rights, energy law, environmental law etc
(f) Inequality and its effects on democratic values, human rights and judicial processes
(g) Remedies to inequality proposed through doctrinal, historiographical, comparative and
socio-legal research approaches.
This one-day Colloquium aims to bring together doctoral researchers to present their work in a supportive and collaborative environment. Participants will get a chance to present their research and receive feedback from leading academics in their field. Participants should be registered in a PhD Programme (or other research degree). Participants need not necessarily be registered in the Law department.
| 9-9.15am |
Opening Remarks Prof Scott Newton, Head of SOAS School of Law |
| 9.15-10.45am |
Panel I: Constitutional Law, Nationality Law and Criminal Law 1. 'Law and Constitutions of Colonial Spaces - Interethnic Valley in Early Colonial Peru' Damian Gonzalez (Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt) Discussant: Prof Scott Newton 2. 'Ignored by the Law and Practice: The Age of Innocence and Dominic Ongwen's Judgement' Silvina Sanchez Mera (La Trobe University, Melbourne) Discussant: Dr Kate Grady 3. 'Dual Nationality and Double Standards: Deprivation of Nationality in the Fight Against Terrorism' Samuel Hartwig (Max Planck Institute, Freiburg) Discussant: Prof Lutz Oette |
| 10.45-11am | Break |
| 11am-1pm |
Panel II: Environmental Law 1. 'Addressing Law's Unequal Treatment of Nature by Recognising Nature's Legal Rights' Alice Bleby (University of New South Wales) Discussant: Prof Philippe Cullet 2. 'Waste Management in India: How Legal Equality Hides Structural Inequalities' Monalisa Saha (West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata) Discussant: Prof Philippe Cullet 3. 'Mining and Equity - District Mineral Fund and the Goa Permanent Fund' Roopa Madhav (SOAS) Discussant: Dr Subir Sinha 4. 'Authorising Indigeneity: The Role of Federal Recognition in the Repatriation of Native American Cultural Property' Bella Marshall (University of Warwick) Discussant: Dr Mayur Suresh |
| 1-2pm | Break |
| 2-3.30pm |
Panel III: International Comparative Law 1. 'Can Justice be Exported? German Legal Transplants into Somalia' Rene Broslus (University of Bayreuth) Discussant: Prof Martin Lau 2. 'Authoritarian Legal Transplant in Sub-national Polity: Rule of Law in Post-Colonial Hong Kong' Eric Lai (SOAS) Discussant: r Sanzhu Zhu 3. 'Co-production of Nuclear Technology and World Order' Denise Naicker (SOAS) Discussant: Prof Gina Heathcote |
| 3.30-3.45pm | Break |
| 3.45-5.45pm |
Panel IV: Law and Society, Discrimination Law 1. 'Legal Transplants from UK into the GCC with reference to Mergers and Acquisitions Legislation' Nikola Georgiev (SOAS) Discussant: Mr Ian Edge 2. 'Appellate Religious Adjudication in Secular States: an Avenue for Discrimination and Widening Socio-Economic Inequality' Gloria Akpore (University of Gambia) Discussant: Prof Mashood Baderin 3. '(In)Equality in the Access to ECHR for Extremely Vulnerable Individuals' Lorenzo Azzondamessa (University of Palermo and Pantheon Sorbonne) Discussant: Dr Clara della Croce 4. 'Closing the Information Gap in Foreign Direct Liability Claims: The Role of Mandatory Human Rights Disclosure' Nicky Touw (University of the Netherlands) Discussant: Dr Michelle Staggs-Kelsall |
| 5.45-6pm | Concluding Remarks |
