Thursday

10:00 - 10:20

Registration & Coffee

Register and mingle with presenters and guests over a cup of coffee in LG 1.

Any bags or coats can be left in the cloakroom in LG 2.

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10:20-10:30

Opening Remarks

Opening Remarks by the Director of Graduate Studies at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, QMUL in LG 1.

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10:30-12:00

Panel 7

Human Rights Across Borders

Chair: Matthew Evans, Director of Legal Advice Centre, QMU

Room LG 1

Jessica Shurson, PhD Candidate, QMUL - Revisiting The Alien Tort Statute: Promoting Human Rights through Universal Civil Jurisdiction

Liam Halewood, PhD Candidate, Liverpool John Moores University - Extraterritorial Applicability of the Right to Life: A Comparative Analysis of ‘Jurisdiction’ under the ECHR and the ICCPR

Nabilah Hani Ahmad Zubaidi, PhD Candidate, Aberystwyth University - Online Child Pornography, Grooming, and Cybersex: Exploring Parallels in the Phenomena

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Panel 8

EU Law

Chair: Angelos Dimopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Law, QMUL.

Room 1.2.

Giulia Gentile, PhD Candidate, King’s College London - Silver-lining in the EU (Rule of Law): The ECJ as a Watchdog of Democratic Values

Giulia Priora, PhD Candidate, Central European University - Catching Sight of a Glimmer of Light: The Emergence of a Distributive Narrative in the EU Copyright Reform Process

Rachel Alkalay, PhD Candidate, QMUL - A New Balance for a New Age and Article 13 of the New EU Copyright Directive

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Panel 9

Contract/Commercial 2

Chair: Christina Perry, Reader in Law, QMUL

Room 2.1.

Adekemi Adebowale, PhD Candidate, Bangor University - The Pre-contractual Duty of Utmost Good Faith - An Unjustified Burden on the Insured

Mustafa Oguz Tuna, PhD Candidate, University of Dundee - Use of ADR in Energy Investment Disputes

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12:00-13:00

Lunch & Poster Exhibition

View this year’s selected posters highlighting our theme, “Silver Linings”.

Rooms 3.1 & 2.1.

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13:00-14:30

Panel 10

Constitutionalism, Justice and the Rule of Law 2

Chair: Caroline Morris, Senior Lecturer, QMUL

Room LG 1

Md. Abdur Razzak, LLM Student, University of Leeds - Access to Justice for Persons with Disabilities in Bangladesh: Reflections on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Sarah Court-Brown, PhD Candidate, QMUL - Common Law Constitutionalism in the UKSC’s Recent Adjudication - A Silver Lining for the Brexit Process

Fitria Fitria, PhD Candidate, University of York - Legal Pluralism in Refugee Protection: Case Study of ‘the 2015 Rohingya Refugee Crisis’ in Aceh

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Panel 11

Arbitration

Chair: Mary Mitsi, Research & Teaching Fellow, QMUL.

Room 1.2.

Fikayo Taiwo, PhD Candidate, University of Essex - Liberal and Restrictive Approaches to Legal Representation in Arbitration Proceedings: A Case of the Unintended Consequences of Nigeria’s Arbitration Rules

Rahmi Kopar, PhD Candidate, University of Dundee - Expanding Scope of the Legitimate Expectations Principle in Investment Treaty Arbitration: An Analysis in Light of Recent Spanish Awards

Iyllyana Che Rosli, PhD Candidate, University of Sussex - The Challenges in Maintaining the Harmonisation Standards of the New York Convention 1958

Stanislava Nedeva, PhD Candidate, University of Exeter - Have Faith in Good Faith: The Place of the Concept in Traditional English Common Law, “Modern” Common Law, and International Law and Arbitration: An Oil and Gas Perspective

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Panel 12

Human Rights Law 2

Chair: Richard Ashcroft, Professor of Bioethics, QMUL

Room 2.1

Aastha Agnihotri, LLM Student, Queen Mary University of London Interlinking Organ Scarcity and Human Rights: What Lessons Can India Learn?

Terry McGuinness, PhD Candidate, University College London Utilising Fatal Facts: The Coroner’s Role in Saving Lives

Clara López, PhD Candidate, King’s College London Mining and FPIC in Peru: Enhancing the Effectiveness of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the Light of International Human Rights Law

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14:30-15:30

Coffee Break & Poster Exhibition (Voting)

A chance to refresh with a cup of coffee and light snack, and vote for the best poster.

15:30-17:00

Soapbox Session

The term soapbox refers to a situation where someone expresses strong opinions about a particular subject.

For this reason participants will present their research in an engaging manner to the audience, focusing on the more controversial/opinionated parts of their research in 5 minutes!

This session of the conference is usually quite lively, so they better be prepared to defend their opinion!

Lecture Theatre

Marie Cariou-Velly, PhD Candidate, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - Tax and Gender: Encouraging Women’s Paid Employment through Tax Measures, A Silver Lining of Gender bias?

James Greenwood-Reeves, PhD Candidate, University of Leeds - Constitutional Grounds of Disobedience: How Liberal Democracies Give Protesters the Moral Grounds to Disobey Laws

Felicity Turton, PhD Candidate, QMUL - Dealing with Data in EU Competition Law

Riccardo Fornasari, PhD Candidate, University of Bologna; University of Paris Nanterre - The Effects of European Union Political Economy over the Current Contract Law Developments

Zi Yang, PhD Candidate, University of Strathclyde - True and Fair Override Fails to Prevent the Abuse of OffBalance Sheet Accounting within the Companies Act 2006 Information Disclosure System

Anne-Claire Bernard-Tomasi, PhD Candidate, University of Westminster - The Corporation, Corporate Legal Rights and Privacy Law: The Question of the Legal Protection of Privacy in the Corporate Context in the United Kingdom and the United States

Naheed Sultan, PhD Candidate, Aberystwyth University - Corporate Governance: Comparative Approach Limitations

Chufan Yang, PhD Candidate, Bangor University - Regulatory Decision Making and Economic Analysis in the EU Procurement Debriefing

Marcio Augusto Campos, PhD Candidate, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; University of Brasilia - Internationalising International Tax Law: Existential Crisis and Silver Linings

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17:00-18:00

Keynote Speech & Closing Remarks

Renowned QC, Amanda Weston, will conclude the Silver Linings QMUL Postgraduate Law Conference.

Conference Organising Committee will announce the winners of the Poster competition.

Lecture Theatre

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18:00-20:00

English Pub

Fancy a drink with your fellow attendees?

Head to the Knight’s Templar where a space has been booked.