Patents stop people doing things. So why are they a good thing?
“So long as men are governed by unexamined prejudices and led away by sounds, it is natural for them to regard Patents as unfavourable to the encrease of wealth. So soon as they obtain clear ideas to...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Human Rights Philanthropy
Claire Lougarre, UCL Laws PhD candidate What would you do if Saif Gaddafi offered you millions of pounds towards a research project, or if Rupert Murdoch did? Accepting money for research from...
View ArticleWhat is modern slavery?
Written by Neil Rodger, UCL Communications Manager So, what is modern slavery? That was the question posed in a Lunch Hour Lecture given by Dr Virginia Mantouvalou (UCL Laws), Co-Director of the UCL...
View ArticleMedia regulation: time to turn the mirror of transparency?
Written by Anna Donovan, PhD student at UCL Laws. We should fret less about state versus self regulation and think much more carefully about how best to protect speech. This was the lesson of the...
View ArticleWhat corrupts independence and trust?
Written by Professor Richard Moorhead (UCL Laws) Money’s influence on knowledge and politics was at the heart of the Centre for Ethics & Law’s annual lecture, March 14. “The Place of...
View ArticleChevron Case: Ecuador’s Defense
Written by Ira Ryk-Lakhman, MPhil/PhD candidate (UCL Laws) On Friday, 13 November 2015, Dr Diego Garcia Carrion, the Attorney General for Ecuador came to UCL to present his book “Chevron Case: Defense...
View ArticleLunch Hour Lectures: International Law and the protection of cultural...
Unusually for a Lunch Hour Lecture, Professor Roger O’Keefe (UCL Laws) spoke without the support of slides for nearly an hour about international efforts to protect cultural heritage in war zones –...
View ArticleOne Country, Two Systems: an unfinished experiment?
In this lecture by the former Dean of Law of the University of Hong Kong, Professor Johannes Chan, we were taken on a whistle-stop tour of the history of the legal and political confrontations between...
View ArticleThe international protection of refugees and asylum seekers: New thinking, or...
Written by Gaiane Nuridzhanian, PhD candidate, UCL Laws On 24 February 2016 Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, Emeritus Professor of International Refugee Law at the University of Oxford, spoke at UCL about...
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