Assize Seminars are organised by Mark Dsouza (UCL) | Matthew Dyson (Oxford, Chair) | Paul Jarvis (CBA) | Rachel Clement Tolley (Cambridge)]
Content Warnings: strong language, and references of knife and gun violence
About the Assize Seminars
The Assize Seminars provide a space for cutting edge academic work to play a practical role in understanding and developing the law. They are a chance to challenge, debate and refine criminal justice, providing a bridge from academia to criminal legal practice. Just like the Assize of old, the seminars are peripatetic, rotating between three leading academic institutions: Oxford, Cambridge and University College London, and occasionally, making a special stop elsewhere in England & Wales. Each Assize Seminar runs with the support of the Criminal Bar Association.
Speakers and Seminar Programme
Seminar Programme
- Welcome by Dr Mark Dsouza (UCL Laws)
- Dr Miranda Bevan, Lecturer in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Goldsmiths, University of London: ‘Cut adrift: In search of effective participation for children in police custody’
- Comments by Kath Jatter, GT Stewart and Jude Lanchin, Bindmans LLP
- Dr James Manwaring, Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Homerton College, University of Cambridge: ‘Necessary Self-defence'
- Comments by Melanie Simpson KC and HHJ Angela Rafferty KC