Law School Podcasts & Media
Welcome to Law School Podcasts, where we showcase some of the most recent recordings made by our lecturing team on significant events and subjects.
Conservatism and Biomedical Enhancement
16:05, Mon 11 May 2009
Professor Allen E. Buchanan Professor of Philosophy, Duke University Thursday 23rd April at 5 pm Ramphal Building Room R0.21
(MP3 format, 99 MB)
Holding Corporate Britain to Account for its Actions Abroad
10:56, Mon 23 Mar 2009
Martyn Day Senior Partnet, Leigh Day & Co Solicitors Wednesday 4 March at 5pm: Warwick Arts Centre Conference Room (ACCT)
(MP3 format, 89 MB)
Creating criminals: prisons and security in an insecure world, Baroness Vivien Stern
13:42, Mon 23 Feb 2009
Baroness Vivien Stern Senior Research Fellow, International Centre for Prison Studies, King's College London On Wednesday February 4th Vivien Stern delivered a public lecture entitled 'Creating Criminals: prisons and security in an insecure world'. Baronness Stern is one of the world's leading scholars and campaigners working on prison reform. Her published books include "A Sin Against the Future: Imprisonment in the World", "Imprisoned by our Prisons and Bricks of Shame", "Britain’s Prisons", "Deprived of their Liberty", "Alternatives to Prison in Developing Countries", and "Sentenced to Die? The problem of TB in prisons in Eastern Europe and Central Asia". She has been awarded honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws by Bristol University and by Oxford Brookes University and is an Honorary Fellow of LSE. She is a Life Peer and sits in the House of Lords as a Crossbencher. During her lecture she was able to draw on her experiences visiting prisons around the globe, as well as her political and academic experience.
(MP3 format, 71 MB)
Psychologising Jekyll, Demonising Hyde: The Strange Case of Criminal Responsibility
14:03, Mon 1 Dec 2008
Professor Nicola Lacey Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory London School of Economics Wednesday 19 November 2008
(MP3 format, 58 MB)
DNA, crime and civil liberties
14:18, Mon 5 Mar 2007
Dr Andrew Roberts asks whether the National DNA Database infringes on our civil liberties and the dangers of a compulsory system.
(MP3 format, 15 MB)
North Korea's nuclear diplomacy
12:57, Mon 5 Mar 2007
North Korea's announcement of a nuclear test has triggered an diplomatic crisis. Chris Hughes, Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, and Dan Joyner, School of Law, discuss the history of the crisis and how events may unfold.
(MP3 format, 34 MB)