This week’s event announcements include:
- Conference announcement: ‘Fifty Years of the British Indian Ocean Territory’, 12 November 2015
- Seminar reminder: ‘The Formation of a Constitutional Tradition in Continental Europe since World War II’, 18 November 2015
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Centre for Small States, Queen Mary, University of London
Conference: ‘Fifty Years of the British Indian Ocean Territory’
Thursday 12 November 2015
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) was created on 8 November 1965 by excising the Chagos Islands from the colony of Mauritius and three atolls from the Seychelles. The partitioning of Mauritius on the eve of independence; the involuntary displacement of the Chagos Islanders (pursuant to the construction of a US naval facility on Diego Garcia); and their subsequent chronic impoverishment in Mauritius has remained highly controversial. The marking of fifty years since the BIOT was constituted provides scholars and practitioners with a timely opportunity to reflect upon a range of legal issues which continue to affect the BIOT and to evaluate ways in which they might be resolved.
Conference Organiser: Dr Stephen Allen: s.r.allen@qmul.ac.uk. The programme is available here and in this poster (pdf).
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The UK Constitutional Law Association and the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
INVITATION TO AN EVENING SEMINAR
FOR UKCLA MEMBERS
18 NOVEMBER 2015
SHERRARD ROOM, MIDDLE TEMPLE
6 pm
Speaker: Professor Cesare Pinelli
Cesare Pinelli is one of Italy’s most eminent comparative public lawyers and is full Professor of Public Law at “La Sapienza” University, Rome.
The Formation of a Constitutional Tradition
in Continental Europe since World War II
Reply: The Right Honourable the Lord Carnwath, Justice of the UK Supreme Court
The presentations and subsequent discussion from the floor will be followed by a reception from 7.30pm to 8pm.
Limited places available. RSVP essential by email to Professor Peter Leyland at pl3@soas.ac.uk
UK Constitutional Law Association 