Virtual conference. Meet some of the most dynamic and interesting firms in the UK. With panel discussions, firm-led workshops and networking sessions.

Opportunity to network with the firm's lawyers, take part in interactive workshops and learn Baker McKenzie’s top tips for applications.

Application deadline: 1 November 2020

A virtual law careers event for students with disabilities and long-term health conditions. Attending firms include: Weil. White & Case, RPC and Macfarlanes.

Guest Speaker: Johannes Roessler (Warwick)

Title: 'Perceptual Self-Knowledge and Doxastic Self-Determination'

Abstract. According to a widely held view of the nature of belief (which I label the Activity thesis, AT), beliefs belong to the ‘active side’ of the human mind. In this paper I explore a challenge to AT. I argue that reflection on the distinctive immediacy of perceptual knowledge, as we ordinarily understand it, puts pressure on an assumption informing AT, viz. that reasons for belief can always coherently be treated as a basis for ‘making up one’s mind’. Our best reasons for perceptual beliefs, I suggest, manifestly entail that we hold the belief they support, and so imply that our minds are already made up. (For example, one's best reason for believing that p may be 'I can see that p'.) I do not mean to suggest that perceptual beliefs should therefore be classified as belonging to the 'passive side' of the human mind. Rather, I think we should question the exhaustiveness (and perhaps usefulness) of the active vs passive distinction, as it has been employed in the philosophy of mind.

Guest Speaker: Angie Hobbs (Sheffield)

Title: 'Is Ancient Greek Philosophy Any Use in a Pandemic'

Please contact Eileen John for further details.

The Department of Economics is pleased to announce that Dr Keston Perry will be delivering a talk as part of the 360 Guest Lecture Series 2020/21 for this academic year.

Climate reparations: how did we get here?

Date: Thursday 26 November, 6-7pm,
Location: Microsoft Teams - Live Webinar

This event is for staff and students only and registration is required in order to attend.

About the speaker

Dr Keston Perry is lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of England, Bristol. As a political economist, his work centres on the sources of institutional and economic change and how marginalized social groups redefine possibilities for social transformation. He has published on industrial policy, economic development, climate justice, global finance with particular reference to resource wealthy countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. His most recent work was published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Energy Research and Social Science, and the International Journal of Political Economy and in popular outlets like the Guardian UK, Al-Jazeera and Africa is a Country.

In 2020, he has given several media interviews and talks on issues of racial inequality in UK Higher Education, diversity in economics, post-pandemic economics, and on climate justice and reparations in the Global South, including a recent report on climate reparations for the United Nations Association of the UK.

He is working on book on the role of global finance in transforming the development landscape in Latin America and Caribbean nations with Routledge. Previously, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and acted as an external advisor for the United Nations Development Programme.

Registration

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Dr Keston Perry is lecturer in Economics at the University of the West of England, Bristol. As a political economist, his work centres on the sources of institutional and economic change and how marginalized social groups redefine possibilities for social transformation.

What to expect during the application process, life as a pupil at Serle Court and insights into careers at the Commercial Chancery Bar. Meet barristers of different seniorities and hear talks from our Pupillage Secretary and other members of Chambers. To attend please email your RSVP to Lyric McDonald (pupillage@serlecourt.co.uk).