Research events

Seminar series

January 2023

The symposium was held to mark the retirement of Professor Chris Rodgers in June 2022 and explored the relationship between:

• property concepts
• property rights
• environmental law

Much of professor's Rodgers research and published work focused on property rights and environmental protection. This manifested itself in his published work addressing several related themes:

• the development of environmental stewardship as a new paradigm for land use.
• the interactions between the law of nature conservation and property rights-
• legal issues for implementing environmental land management; and
• the need for wider reform of our understanding of legal conceptions of “property” and their role in environmental protection.

 

March 2023

The Law School hosted a Seminar Series titled 
'Legacies of Empire':

• 'Re-Imagining Democracies in Latin Lamerica and the Caribbean,
  1780-1870' with Professor Eduarco Zimmermann 
• 'European Public Law After Empires' with Dr Signe Larsen 
• 'Legacies of Empire' with Dr Martha Gayoye

 

 

 April 2023

The Law School will be hosting a seminar series, titled 'Failure in Constitutionalism'.

'Degrowth and the Human Right to Water: Towards a Transformative Approach'

In this presentation, Dr Birsha Ohdedar will first examine the links between growth, unsustainable water exploitation, and the human right to water in law and policy. He then discusses the potential of degrowth to transform the right to water by examining legal principles around the commons, solidarity, democratic decentralization, and their intersections with degrowth literature. Finally, he outlines some of the challenges and opportunities of reframing the human right to water through the lens of degrowth. 

June 2023

The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 – One Year On

In late June 2023, the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar will be hosted at Newcastle University by Dr Joshua Jowitt and Dr Rachel Dunn (Leeds Law School). The event will bring together scholars and policy makers from around the world to mark one year since the passing of the UK’s landmark Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022. Panellists will consider whether the legislation has had any impact on the legal protection of animal interests, as well as the larger question of whether sentience is itself an appropriate foundation for such legal protection.