The 2009 ATLAS Agora was hosted by the London School of Economics from June 22 to July 3, 2009, with Professor Damian Chalmers serving as the Academic Director.

Week 1:
June 22nd – June 26th, 2009
  • Monday

    6/22

  • Tuesday

    6/23

  • Wednesday

    6/24

  • Thursday

    6/25

  • Friday

    6/26

9:30
11:00
12:30
2:00
4:00
5:30
6:00
7:30

Introduction

International Law and Cognition Formation

Dr. Andrew Lang

Lunch

Dissertation Research Seminar

Research

Prof. Damian Chalmers

The Research Question and Evaluation

Pre dinner drinks, Charman's Dining Room

Dinner, Senior Common Room

Research

Prof. Hugh Collins

Comparison

Dissertation Research Seminar

Lunch

The Idea of the Commons in Law: Cultural Property

Dr. Tantiana Flessas

Law and the Public Sphere

Dr. Andrew Scott

Distinguished Guest Lecture

Peter Miller

'Moore's Law and the Making of Markets'

Rethinking the Judge

Dr. Florian Hoffmann

Lunch

Legal Accountability

Dr. David Kershaw

Distinguished Guest Lecture

Peter Sutherland

Research

Prof. Neil Duxbury

Legal Explanation

Lunch

Dissertation Research Seminar

Professor Neil Duxbury

Model Laws and International Capacity Generation

Dr. Jan Kleinheisterkamp

Tour around legal London

Mr. Justice Cranston

Dissertation Research Seminar

Dr. Jan Kleinheisterkamp

Lunch

Legal Certainty and Invisible Transactions

Dr. Eva Micheler

Week 2:
June 29th – July 3rd, 2009
  • Monday

    6/29

  • Tuesday

    6/30

  • Wednesday

    7/1

  • Thursday

    7/2

  • Friday

    7/3

9:30
11:00
12:30
2:00
4:00
5:30
6:00
7:30

Research

Mr. Alain Pottage

Lunch

Legal Persuasion and Hard Choices

Dr. Waitraud Schelkle

Distinguished Guest Lecture

Research

Prof. Mike Redmayne

Enquiry and Evidence

Dissertation Research Seminar

Lunch

Law and the Constitution of Civil Society

Prof. Hugh Collins

Lunch

Research

Hancke Testing Explanations

Dissertation Research Seminar

Prof. Mike Redmayne

Concluding Dinner

Drinks, Chairman's Dining Room

Dinner, Senior Dining Room

Local Meanings and International Law

Dr. Dev Gangjee

Lunch

Legal Autonomy

Dissertation Research Seminar

Distinguished Guest Lecture

Miguel Poiares

Ideas of the Human Condition and Transnational Law

Dr. Damian Chalmers

Lunch

Concluding the Atlas