Speaker: RONAN TOAL, Barrister, Garden Court Chambers

Ronan Toal

Ronan Toal is a barrister at Garden Court Chambers, specialising in immigration law. He has represented Somali asylum seekers for over 20 years. He has written on various aspects of immigration, asylum and human rights law and is editor of Macdonald's Immigration Law and Practice.'

Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/10795

(Venue: IALS. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Admission Free, All Welcome)

PROFESSOR GRAHAM GREENLEAF, AM, Professor of Law & Information Systems, University of New South Wales (UNSW); Co-Director, Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII); Founding Director, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre, UNSW (2000-10); Asia-Pacific Editor, Privacy Laws & Business International Report (PLBIR).

Chair: Jules Winterton, Associate Director and Librarian, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/10933

(Venue: IALS. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Admission Free, All Welcome)

Speakers: PROFESSOR RAPHAEL COHEN-ALMAGOR, Chair of Politics, University of Hull

Speakers Abstract

The paper is opened with the story of Younes Tsouli, the highly motivated computer geek who was noticed and subsequently recruited to mastermind al-Qaeda activities on the Net. Terrorism is defined as the threat or employment of violence against noncombatant targets for political, religious, or ideological purposes by sub-national groups and/or clandestine individuals who are willing to justify all means to achieve their goals. Terrorist conduct is designed to attract attention to the terrorist's cause and to spread fear and anxiety among wide circles of the targeted population. Subsequently I analyse how terrorists use the Internet, and what can be done to counter their activities. It is argued that the threat of terrorism is real and significant. As the Internet became a major arena for modern terrorists, we need to devise appropriate methods to forestall their activities and establish security.

Website: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/10942

(Venue: IALS. To register email: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk. Admission Free, All Welcome)

Chaired by Professor George Pavlakos, Baroness Onora O'Neill will deliver a lecture at this second Annual Jurisprudence Lecture, sponsored by Hart Publishing.

William Robinson worked for many years in the field of European Union law and language, first at the European Court of Justice and then at the European Commission. In the Commission's Legal Service he coordinated a team of 20 legal revisers who revise the Commission’s draft legal acts and legislative proposals. Since 2010 he has been engaged in research into EU legislative drafting issues at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. His lecture will cover: past calls for EU legislation to be more accessible; action already undertaken; criticism of the present state of the EU statute book; some possible solutions. Organised by the Statute Law Society with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. This is a free event and tickets are not required.

Featuring Professor Penney Lewis, King's College London, this lecture will focus on those new and controversial medical procedures which are separately regulated by the criminal law - cosmetic surgery, contraceptive sterilisation, organ donation and more.

Seminar courtesy of the Asylum Law Initiative (of the Human Rights Consortium School of Advanced Study, University of London) with speaker Professor Stephen Meili, Supervising Attorney in the University of Minnesota Law School\'s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic.