Dr. Ming-Sung Kuo will present a paper entitled ‘Beyond Constitutionalism: Thinking Hard about Multilevel Constitutional Ordering in the Shadow of the State of Emergency’ at the ‘Legal Theory and Legitimacy beyond the State: What’s Law Got to Do with It?’ panel on the 2016 ICON-S (International Society of Public Law) conference in Humboldt University (Berlin), Germany on 17-18 June, 2016. To find out more click here.

Dr. Ming-Sung Kuo will present a paper entitled ‘Between Trailblazer and Trend-Follower: Political Rights and the Taiwan Constitutional Court’s Role in Democratic Transition’ at the ‘Bills of Rights and Regional Institutions: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on European and East Asian Cases’ International Workshop in University of Tuebingen, Germany on 16-17 June, 2016. To find out more click here.

Professor Dalvinder Singh has been awarded a prestigious Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship, European University Institute, Florence, from May-July 2016. During his fellowship he will be participating in workshops on his current area of research associated with the European Banking Union and cross border banking supervision and resolution, and the challenges faced by countries in the European and Central Asia region. This work forms part of a World Bank project he is working on in collaboration with Katia D’Hustler and Pamela Lintner.

• Topice to be covered are:-

' Existing scholarship focuseson ‘security’, ‘sovereignty’ and ‘rights’ rather than on ‘food’ with the consequence that some international economic lawyers think calls for changes to existing rules based on these three accounts are misconceived'.

'Focusing on ‘food’ in addition to ‘security,’ ‘sovereignty’ and ‘rights’ opens space for a more nuanced discussion over how international economic rules can be changed'

'A new idea of ‘food sustainability’ addresses the heart of the problems identified in the other accounts in a way that is more conducive to regulatory change'.

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Fiona Smith is being quizzed by MPs in a select-committee style hearing at the House of Commons on the Implications of BREXIT on Food. It’s being held by the Food Foundation and the Food Policy Research Council. To read the press release click here and to find out more click here.

Fiona Smith is speaking at the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Food Security at the University of Cambridge on the 9th March on the topic of “Regulating Agricultural Subsidies to Produce Positive Effects for Food Security” to find out more click here.

Fiona Smith presented at ’The Embedded Liberalism Compromise Revisited: Twenty Years of Domestic Policy under WTO Law held at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia on the topic of “From Agriculture to Food Security: Embedded Liberalism and Stories of Regulatory Failure” from 20th Feb to 27th Feb. The proceedings will be published.

Hugh Beale chaired the first session (which will include a speech by Věra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality) and was speaking in the second session of a ERA Conference on "New EU rules for digital contracts", also held in Brussels. His presentation was on "Remedies and exercise of remedies". To find out more Hugh Beale click here.

Hugh Beale has presented a report to the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament on two proposed Directives, one on supply of digital content and the other on Online and other distance sales. His report was called “Scope of application and general approach of the new rules for contracts in the digital environment”. To find out more about Hugh Beale click here.

Dalla Stevens will giving a paper ‘Motivations for forced migration: Is asylum in ‘crisis’? at an international conference in Bochum, Germany from 18-20 Feb entitled Why people migrate: Multiple causes, complex reasons and their normative assessment.

Dallal Stevens will be going to Brussels with the Crossing the Mediterranean by Boat team to provide a policy briefing on our preliminary findings for the ESRC-funded project on Tuesday 16 Feb.

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Dr Dallal Stevens is visiting Brussels with a cross faculty team to attend a policy briefing session where they will be informing policy makers about their initial findings for the ESRC Grant Crossing the Mediterranean by Boat : Mapping and Documenting Migratory Journey and Experiences. To read more about this exciting project please click here.