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The Politics of Judicial Appointment
Has the time come for some form of political appointment of Supreme Court judges? Should there be parliamentary scrutiny of judicial appointments?
Th…
4 years, 9 months ago
Should The State Be More Candid About Sudden Death?
Should there be a legal duty on the state to be more transparent in sudden and unexpected death cases?
The lecture discusses the duty of candour, nam…
4 years, 10 months ago
Napoleon: Shadows & Gardens
This lecture will explore Napoleon‘s life through his interactions with the natural world and a series of gardens that were important to him during t…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Maths of Life and Death
Every time you look at the world you are building a model. With every new experience these representations of your environment are refined and reconf…
4 years, 10 months ago
A Just and Rights-Based Framework for Nature
International negotiations concerning our environment such as on climate and biodiversity, often put the scientific case behind economic and politica…
4 years, 10 months ago
Where do Mathematical Symbols Come From?
Where do we get our mathematical symbols from? Why is the set of integers called ℤ ? When was the equals sign first used? How about zero? Good notati…
4 years, 10 months ago
Space Sounds: The Music of the Cosmos
“In space, no one can hear you scream”. The chillingly accurate tagline of Ridley Scott’s 1979 space horror classic, Alien, is often belied in scienc…
4 years, 10 months ago
Is Incitement to Religious Hatred The New Blasphemy?
The criminalisation of religious speech before the ordinary courts in England began in 1676. Although the law on blasphemy was finally abolished in 2…
4 years, 10 months ago
Dickens's Public Readings: A Tale of Two Desks
This illustrated lecture marks 150 years since Dickens’s death by reflecting on the nature of his creative genius and his legacy.
It examines the the…
4 years, 10 months ago
England‘s Anglican Reformation
The English Reformation gave rise to the global Christian communion called Anglicanism: but neither immediately nor directly. This highly distinctive…
4 years, 10 months ago