Don’t miss this year’s JUSTICE Student Conference 2022, taking place over Zoom on 9 and 10 March, designed for recent graduates, new pupils, and current students.

Opening this year’s conference is barrister Zehrah Hasan (Garden Court Chambers), a Director and founding member of Black Protest Legal Support. Following her keynote address, you’ll be able to take part in two workshops on the current legal challenges JUSTICE is addressing, from reforming the parole system to the Nationality and Borders Bill, as well as a careers panel with representatives from across the profession.

Tickets are £5 for JUSTICE members and £15 for non-members. Don't miss out - book your ticket today!

This session is designed to help participants to develop self-editing and self-assessment skills in English. Participants are asked to bring along a piece of writing that they have been working on (or already submitted) which has not been corrected by another reader. Sign up now!Link opens in a new window

The Government Operational Research Service (GORS) are now recruiting for one year analytical placements and 10-12 week summer placements starting in summer 2022, and are visiting the University of Warwick to tell you about the opportunities available. Past placement students have attended one of these presentations, consequently applied and been successful, going on to really enjoy their year and thrive on their return to university.

ACE gives you the chance to practice assessment centre activities like those used by law firms during the recruitment process. All tasks are brand new for 2022 – and you’ll also get the chance to have a speed interview with feedback with a member of the BPP team. You will also hear from a panel of representatives from a variety of firms, including Latham & Watkins, Osborne Clarke and Walker Morris, who will discuss recruitment, the application process, and answer any questions you may have.

Rachael Burgoyne, will be coming in (virtually) to speak about her experience of working as a philosophy teacher. Please contact Barnaby Walker for more information about the event.

Come along to this on-campus event to understand who EY are and what we do. At this event you will hear all things EY. From our people, our culture, our service lines and our opportunities!

Johan will present his paper, Which Measure of Information?, in room S2.77. The session will be hybrid, so you can either join via Teams or attend in person. If the latter, please show your interest in advance by sending an email to (pgphil.wips@warwick.ac.uk), so we are sure to have enough space for everybody.

Here is the abstract of Johan’s talk:

 Abstract

Teleosemantics is a discipline which aims to explain how meaning arises from natural processes. According to informational teleosemantics, the content of a mental representation is constrained by the information available to the representing system. Authors who adopt an informational version of teleosemantics, such as Martínez (2013) and Shea (2018) develop statistical formulae which capture, for any given environmental item, whether some representational state carries information about that item. Content is then restricted to only those items that the representational state carries information about. In this paper I argue that we should concern ourselves with how much information a representational state carries about some environmental item, rather than merely whether information is carried. A natural tool for this purpose is Claude Shannon's measure of mutual information. I argue that calculating mutual information allows for a novel solution to one variety of the indeterminacy problem for mental content, the so-called “specificity problem”. Armed with a measure for the quantity of mutual information, one can further constrain mental content according to which item maximises mutual information. 

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Title: ‘Don’t Tell the Bride… that the wedding wasn’t valid’

The popular TV programme Don’t Tell the Bride is perhaps best known for showing hapless grooms organising the wedding of their dreams – and the brides’ nightmares. But it may also have had an impact on the way that the options for getting married are perceived. Since March 2015, it has featured only non-legally binding ceremonies and referred to couples ‘registering’ their marriage separately. This lecture will explain why the ceremonies being organised lack legal status and why the narrative of ‘registration’ is problematic. Drawing on new empirical research, it will also explore the broader issues around non-legally binding ceremonies, what the outcome will be for the person who is duped into an unrecognised marriage, and how new proposals for reform will help.

Human Rights in the UK and Commonwealth Caribbean with Professor Leslie Thomas QC

This lecture series will explore the dynamics of race, class and power in the legal systems of the UK and the Commonwealth Caribbean, how those systems have been shaped by the legacy of colonialism, and how the legal system plays a dual role as an instrument of oppression and as a means for the oppressed to defend themselves.