Assize Seminar: Cutting-Edge Criminal Law
Assize Seminar: Friday 14th May 2021, beginning at 3pm, hosted by the University of Oxford.
We have a very exciting panel of speakers and commentators, and the promise of some
fascinating discussion of important issues in criminal law and criminal justice.
As in the last Assize seminar at the University of Cambridge (recordings available here:
https://www.cccj.law.cam.ac.uk/assize-seminars), the event will be hosted online, on Zoom. The presentations from the speakers will be available in advance, to be watched before the session on 14 May.
Details are below and places are limited to facilitate discussion; to apply for a place please go to:
(That form is being updated: at the point you sign-up it might say 2pm, but the start will now be 3pm, to enable our practitioner commentators to attend)
15:00 Introduction
15:10 Discussion session 1
Speaker: Dr Mark Dsouza, Associate Professor, UCL
Title: “False beliefs and consent to sex”
Commentator: David Emanuel QC, Garden Court Chambers
15:55 Break
16:00 Discussion session 2
Speaker: Dr Gabrielle Watson, Shaw Foundation Fellow in Law, Lincoln
College, Oxford
Title: “Ethical Perspectives on the Guilty Plea”
Commentator: HHJ Farrell QC, Honorary Recorder of Cambridge and Peterborough
16:45 Break
16:50 Discussion session 3
Speaker: Abenaa Owusu-Bempah, Assistant Professor of Law, LSE
Title: “The irrelevance of rap”
Commentators: (double bill)
Kirsty Brimelow QC, Doughty Street Chambers
Joel Smith, Furnival Chambers and Junior Treasury Counsel at the Central
Criminal Court
17:35 Breakout sessions for those interested in further discussion
18:00 Close
Costs
Silk £0.00 +7 Years £0.00 -7 Years £0.00 Pupil £0.00 Non Member £0.00