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Symposium and Launch of Centre for Conflict, Rights and Justice

Nottingham Law School’s newly formed Research Centre, the Centre for Conflict, Rights & Justice, will hold a one day symposium ‘Legal Perspectives on the Victim’ on 19 December 2012 at Nottingham Trent University. The event will also serve as a seasonal launch and social event for the Centre itself.

Symposium:
The theme of ‘the victim’ is multi-faceted and multi-layered, and the conceptualisation of the victim in various guises will be of interest to a broad range of scholars and practitioners from a variety of legal, socio-legal and criminological perspectives. It has particular topicality at the moment due to a proposed EU Directive on minimum standards of rights, support and protection for victims of crime which will have major consequences for the legal definition of the victim in the UK and across Europe. However the concept of the victim also covers, amongst other things, ‘victim status’ within human rights law, the victimhood of those subjected to miscarriages of justice as well as victims in the areas of family law, commercial law and environmental law.
Papers will cover many perspectives on the concept of the victim, including:
Discrimination, human rights, gender, EU law and the victim, human trafficking, stalking, hate crime, the environment, child grooming.

A keynote address titled ‘Victims, Trauma and Testimony’, will be delivered by Professor Sandra Walklate, University of Liverpool.

Venue: Nottingham Conference Centre, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU

Time: Symposium: 9.15 am - 6.30 pm - launch of Centre: 6.30 pm - 10.30 pm

Further Information and Booking: both events are free to attend, but places are limited. We advise booking your place(s) early to avoid disappointment. For further information and to book please visit our events page.

Please direct inquires to: Tom Lewis, Louise Taylor  or Helen O’Nions (Editor, Nottingham Law Journal). 

Recent Events

On Wednesday 2 May the Centre welcomed Professor Barry Mitchell of Coventry University as its first external speaker. Professor Mitchell presented his fascinating and informative paper The Case Against the Mandatory Life Sentence for Murder and dealt with an interesting series of questions from the audience. Many thanks to Professor Mitchell for his time and thoughts

Current projects

• Tom Lewis is currently writing a monograph on human rights, secularism and religion in Europe, in collaboration with Peter Cumper, University of Leicester (Hart Publishing). Tom is also co-editing a collection of essays by academics from across the world, on freedom of religion in Europe (Edward Elgar Press).
• Elspeth Berry is currently writing a book chapter on human rights in the EU.
• Professor Ralph Henham is currently completing a monograph entitled Sentencing: Time for a Paradigm Shift Abingdon: Routledge (forthcoming 2013).
• Andrea Nicholson is currently working on two empirical projects, one relating to historical child labour and the other concerning trafficking in persons.
• Dr Helen O'Nions is currently working on her second monograph, Asylum: A Right Denied, which will be published by Ashgate in 2013. She is also completing a number of book chapters on minority and cultural rights of migrants and on the rights of the Roma.
• Louise Taylor is about to embark on a new project examining the prosecution of cannabis-related offences.