Events

About the Event:

Business operations involving offshore companies have reached a significant global scale. It is estimated that the total financial assets held by individuals and companies in tax havens amount to approximately USD 13.25 trillion, representing roughly 12 percent of global GDP. However, the legal status of such assets is sometimes uncertain. A major challenge arises from the conflict between demands for transparency – and the associated registers of beneficial owners, which the international community legitimately advocates – and the individual right to privacy and data confidentiality, which is grounded in international legal instruments (such as data protection legislation). The clash between these two rights presents a significant legal challenge, necessitating the implementation of new mechanisms, such as limited transparency, based on the demonstration of a legitimate legal interest. This seminar will discuss the criteria distinguishing lawful from unlawful business activities involving offshore companies under national and international law, paying particular attention to the distinction between lawful tax optimisation and unlawful conduct.

About the Speaker:

Bostjan Turk is Director of the Institute for Civil and Business Law, Ljubljana. He is also a visiting professor at several European universities, with his teaching and research focussing on cross-cutting issues of law of obligations and corporate law.

Lunch will be provided.
Please email globe@warwick.ac.uk if you have any dietary or access requirements.

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About the Event:

Theme: AI in and beyond Work in the UK: Contesting New Forms of Exploitation and Surveillance

The use of Artificial Intelligence at work has become an issue for industrial disputes across many sectors in the UK. These issues include AI being used as an opportunity for layoffs and casualisation; deskilling; new forms of algorithmic management and surveillance; work intensification; and unpaid data extraction. Simultaneously, the UK government has pursued a pro-tech-sector AI policy – involving multiple new public sector contracts, data centres and nuclear power projects – while communities raise urgent questions about not only the environmental impact of data centres but also the governmental and corporate data extraction and use of AI to manage, predict, police and wage war. We will discuss the political and legal questions this conjuncture raises: the relationship between labour, data and value; state and corporate knowledge and power through new AI and data extraction infrastructures; the unequal distribution of harms, environmental implications and violence; and the possible relationships between labour and community forms of organising and resistance.

About the Speaker:

Dr Dimitra KotouzaLink opens in a new window is a researcher in the trade union research organisation LRDLink opens in a new window and an independent scholar. She focuses on the politics of class and labour movements, psychic life, and the scientific and technological governance of our ability to work. Her research has appeared in journals such as History of the Human Sciences, Critical Social PolicyLink opens in a new window, Critical Studies in EducationLink opens in a new window, SSM - Mental HealthLink opens in a new window and Journal of Labour and SocietyLink opens in a new window, as well as in non-academic publications such as MuteLink opens in a new window, of which she was a co-editor. She is author of Surplus CitizensLink opens in a new window (Pluto Press, 2019), which brought into theoretical dialogue social movements in the Greek debt crisis. At LRD, she produced the guide AI at WorkLink opens in a new window (2026). She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance from the University of Kent.

Chaired by: Dr Serena NatileLink opens in a new window, Warwick Law School

About The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle:

The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circlebrings together staff and students across the University of Warwick who are interested in the regulatory, governance, human rights, and political economy challenges of technology in/and on society. The group is coordinated by the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), Warwick Law School and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) with the aim to create a space for sharing and discussing research and policy developments.

Through reading groups, events, and policy conversations the group aims to develop cross faculty collaborations that foreground Warwick’s law in context, and interdisciplinary research culture.

For more information on the group, please contact: Dr Siddharth De Souza (Siddharth.De-Souza@warwick.ac.uk) or Dr Serena Natile (Serena.Natile@warwick.ac.uk).

For logistical information about the events, please contact globe@warwick.ac.uk

About the Series​:

Postgraduate and research students are invited to attend a series of lectures by distinguished international scholars, legal practitioners, and industry professionals. Undergraduate students are also welcome.

About the Event:

This socio-legal research examines the legal and financial construction of blue bonds as water-related sustainable finance instruments. While the protection of seas and oceans is increasingly recognised in climate and biodiversity regimes, it remains the least funded global environmental goal. Blue bonds have emerged to channel private finance toward marine and freshwater protection, beginning with Seychelles’ 2018 issuance. This project critically assesses whether different blue bond modalities align with international environmental and human rights law. The research draws on doctrinal analysis and case studies in the Seychelles, Belize, and the Nordic-Baltic region. It adopts a socio-legal perspective informed by critical legal theory and political ecology. Some research findings that will be shared in this seminar include how selected blue bonds fail adequate demonstration of environmental additionality and generate tensions with common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities principle.

About the Speaker:

Arınç Onat Kılıç is a doctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His research examines whether different modalities of blue finance comply with international environmental law and a human rights-based approach.

Discussant: Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang, PhD Researcher, Oxford Department of International Development.

Lunch will be provided.
Please email globe@warwick.ac.uk if you have any dietary or access requirements.

This termly Law School event offers Continuing Professional Development through a review of recent case law developments by our expert colleagues. Volunteers will summarise cases that have intrigued them drawn from fields as diverse as contract law, consumer law, company law, investment arbitration, tax, and intellectual property law. All are welcome to attend (faculty, postgraduate and undergraduate students), either to present a case or to listen and ask questions.

Lunch will be provided.

Please email globe@warwick.ac.uk if you have any dietary or access requirements.

About The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle:

The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circlebrings together staff and students across the University of Warwick who are interested in the regulatory, governance, human rights, and political economy challenges of technology in/and on society. The group is coordinated by the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), Warwick Law School and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) with the aim to create a space for sharing and discussing research and policy developments.

Through reading groups, events, and policy conversations the group aims to develop cross faculty collaborations that foreground Warwick’s law in context, and interdisciplinary research culture.

For more information on the group, please contact: Dr Siddharth De Souza (Siddharth.De-Souza@warwick.ac.uk) or Dr Serena Natile (Serena.Natile@warwick.ac.uk).

For logistical information about the events, please contact globe@warwick.ac.uk