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Ann Stewart was recently interviewed at a conference in Coimbra, Portugal about her recent book and her work on gender studies.

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Ann Stewart was invited to give the inaugural Tove Stang Dahl memorial public lecture at the Law Faculty at the University of Oslo Norway on 7^th March.

The title of the lecture was ‘Who do we care about? Reflections on gender , law and justice ‘ based on her book 'Gender Law and Justice in a Global Market' (CUP 2011)

Tove Stang Dahl was a Norwegian legal scholar, criminologist, Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1988 until her death, and a pioneer of feminist jurisprudence. She was one of the founders of the field of women's law as an academic discipline at the University of Oslo. Anne Hellum Professor of Women’s Law introduced the lecture. It was attended by leading academics as well as policy makers and activists with interests in gender and law issues within Norway and internationally. The lecture was followed by a very stimulating audience discussion.

On 8^th March Ann gave a guest lecture to staff and students involved with the Women's Law and Human Rights international masters’ programme. The topic was ‘Disability Discrimination by Association: A Case of the Double Yes’ and involved a discussion of Ann’s published work with her colleagues, Sylvia Niccolai and Catherine Hoskyns on Coleman v Attridge Law in the European Court of Justice (Social and Legal Studies 20 (2): 173-190.)

Excellent technical writing on corporation tax abounds but it tends to be inaccessible to public lawyers, political theorists and political economists. Although recent years have seen not only an explosion in public law scholarship, but also a reawakening of interest in interpretative political theory and political economy, the potential of these perspectives to illuminate the corporation tax debate has remained unexplored. In this important work, John Snape seeks to reconcile these disparate strands of scholarship and to contribute to a new way of understanding and conceptualising the reform of the law relating to corporate taxation. Drawing on important developments in public law scholarship, the study combines elements of political theory and political economy. It advances a new interpretation of corporation tax law as an instrument of rule, through the maximisation of a nation’s economic potential. Snape shows how corporate taxation belongs at the centre of any discussion of economic globalisation, not only because of the potential of national tax systems to influence inward investment decisions but also because of the potential of those decisions to shape the public interest that those tax systems might embody. Following public law and politics models, the book looks afresh at the impact of Britain’s political institutions, of the processes of its representative government and of the theory that moulds and orders the values that the corporation tax code contains. This is a timely exploration of cutting-edge issues of public policy.

Dalvinder Singh is invited to speak at a conference, “Institutional Structure of Financial Regulation: International Perspectives and Local Issues in Hong Kong and Mainland China”, May 2012. The Conference is jointly hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Law Faculty’s Centre for Financial Regulation and Economic Development and the Duisenberg School of Finance, The Netherlands. The aim of the conference is to examine the reforms of the institutional structure of financial regulation presently going on at the international level, and thus policy implications for the local reforms in Hong Kong and the Mainland China.

Dr George Meszaros was awarded an £11,000 grant by the Brazil Partnership Development Fund 2011-12. This is for a two year project, entitled Land Futures: the law, political economy and socio-legal impacts of contemporary transformation in Brazilian land tenure and use patterns. Initially this will support the development of a network with a series of partner institutions including the Federal and Catholic Universities of Parana and the University of Brasilia, later (2012) expanding to other Brazilian agencies including (the Institute for colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA)) the (Institute of Applied Economic Research, IPEA) and the Getulio Vargas foundation’s Centre of Agricultural Studies. The aim of the project is to establish a high quality multi-disciplinary network with Brazilian researchers and practitioners looking at land futures issues, but also to develop a multi-disciplinary research and publication cluster here at 糖心TV University.

Victor Tadros 'The Ends of Harm: The Moral Foundations of Criminal Law' (OUP, 2011)

Every modern democratic state imprisons thousands of offenders every year, depriving them of their liberty, causing them a great deal of psychological and sometimes physical harm. Relationships are destroyed, jobs are lost, the risk of the offender being harmed by other offenders is increased and all at great expense to the state. How can this brutal and costly enterprise be justified? Traditionally, philosophers answering this question have argued either that the punishment of wrongdoers is a good in itself (retributivism), or that it is a regrettable means to a valuable end, such as the deterrence of future wrongdoing, and thus justifiable on consequentialist grounds. This book offers a critical examination of those theories and advances a new argument for punishment's justification, calling it the 'duty view'. On this view, the permission to punish offenders is grounded in the duties that they incur in virtue of their wrongdoing. The most important duties that ground the justification of punishment are the duty to recognize that the offender has done wrong and the duty to protect others against wrongdoing. In the light of these duties the state has a permission to punish offenders to ensure that they recognize that what they have done is wrong, but also to protect others from crime. In contrast to other justifications of punishment grounded in deterrence, the duty view is developed in the light of a non-consequentialist moral theory: a theory which endorses constraints on the pursuit of the good. It is shown that it is normally wrong to harm a person as a means to pursue a greater good. However, there are exceptions to this principle in cases where the person harmed has an enforceable duty to pursue the good. The implications of this idea are explored both in the context of self-defence, and then in the context of punishment. Through the systematic exploration of the relationship between self-defence and punishment, the book makes significant progress in defending a plausible set of non-consequentialist moral principles that justify the punishment of wrongdoers, and marks a significant contribution to the philosophical literature on punishment.

The study day on violence against women organised by the Law School in conjunction with local women's groups, and featuring contributions from Alan Norrie and Donna Chung, has been nominated for a programme action award by the organisation Soroptimist International of Great Britain and Ireland. For details of these awards and previous nominations see

Rebecca Probert has been shortlisted for a prize in the 2011 Family Law Awards. The Family Law Awards 2011 will be hosted by Clive Coleman and are an opportunity to celebrate and recognise the many successes and outstanding achievements of family law practitioners. They are an opportunity for Family Law and its readers to acknowledge the hard work and commitment throughout the year among the nominees and the profession as a whole.

The Awards will take place on 18 October 2011 at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, London.
For more details of this award see the link below.

Jackie Hodgson interviewed by France Arte TV, for the 'Le Blogeur' series, in a programme on criminal investigations in Europe, to be screened later this year.

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