Events
Thu 15 Oct, '26- |
The Road to COP31: Multilateral Climate Cooperation in a Changing World with Vicente Paolo YuAbout the Event: Global leaders and international stakeholders are meeting for COP31, the 31st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Antalya, T眉rkiye in November 2026, at a time when multilateralism and international law are facing significant geopolitical and economic crises and fragmentation. Escalating military conflicts, rising energy vulnerabilities, trade and financial shocks, and intensifying competition over trade, technology and critical resources are reshaping the political space for cooperation and the material capacity of states to deliver ambitious climate action. These pressures are particularly acute for developing countries, which confront rising climate impacts alongside constrained access to affordable finance, technology and policy space. This lecture examines what is at stake for the UN climate process in this challenging global context, especially for countries and communities who are least responsible for, but who bear the greatest impact of climate change. The lecture will consider the main issues at stake in Antalya, what challenges will be confronted in negotiation halls and beyond, and the role and importance the multilateral climate regime in the current global context.
Vicente Paolo Yu is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the GLOBE Centre, Warwick Law SchoolLink opens in a new window and Visiting Fellow with the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)Link opens in a new window, 天美传媒. He is a Senior Legal Advisor with the Third World Network, Senior Lecturer, University of the Philippines College of Law, Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), and Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Mr Yu has decades of experience with trade and climate negotiations and has worked with governments, UN agencies NGOs on global governance, climate change, investment, South-South cooperation, and sustainable development issues. This event is followed by a drinks reception.
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Thu 22 Oct, '26- |
Seminar: Offshore Companies: Between Tax Optimization and Illegality 鈥� Bostjan TurkS2.09About the Event: Business operations involving offshore companies have reached a significant global scale. It is estimated that the total financial assets held by individuals and companies in tax havens amount to approximately USD 13.25 trillion, representing roughly 12 percent of global GDP. However, the legal status of such assets is sometimes uncertain. A major challenge arises from the conflict between demands for transparency – and the associated registers of beneficial owners, which the international community legitimately advocates – and the individual right to privacy and data confidentiality, which is grounded in international legal instruments (such as data protection legislation). The clash between these two rights presents a significant legal challenge, necessitating the implementation of new mechanisms, such as limited transparency, based on the demonstration of a legitimate legal interest. This seminar will discuss the criteria distinguishing lawful from unlawful business activities involving offshore companies under national and international law, paying particular attention to the distinction between lawful tax optimisation and unlawful conduct. About the Speaker: is Director of the Institute for Civil and Business Law, Ljubljana. He is also a visiting professor at several European universities, with his teaching and research focussing on cross-cutting issues of law of obligations and corporate law. Lunch will be provided.
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Thu 29 Oct, '26- |
Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle: AI in and beyond Work in the UK: Contesting New Forms of Exploitation and SurveillanceS.2.09, Warwick Law School, Social Sciences BuildingAbout the Event: Theme: AI in and beyond Work in the UK: Contesting New Forms of Exploitation and Surveillance The use of Artificial Intelligence at work has become an issue for industrial disputes across many sectors in the UK. These issues include AI being used as an opportunity for layoffs and casualisation; deskilling; new forms of algorithmic management and surveillance; work intensification; and unpaid data extraction. Simultaneously, the UK government has pursued a pro-tech-sector AI policy – involving multiple new public sector contracts, data centres and nuclear power projects – while communities raise urgent questions about not only the environmental impact of data centres but also the governmental and corporate data extraction and use of AI to manage, predict, police and wage war. We will discuss the political and legal questions this conjuncture raises: the relationship between labour, data and value; state and corporate knowledge and power through new AI and data extraction infrastructures; the unequal distribution of harms, environmental implications and violence; and the possible relationships between labour and community forms of organising and resistance. About the Speaker: is a researcher in the trade union research organisation and an independent scholar. She focuses on the politics of class and labour movements, psychic life, and the scientific and technological governance of our ability to work. Her research has appeared in journals such as , , , and , as well as in non-academic publications such as , of which she was a co-editor. She is author of (Pluto Press, 2019), which brought into theoretical dialogue social movements in the Greek debt crisis. At LRD, she produced the guide (2026). She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance from the University of Kent. Chaired by: Dr Serena NatileLink opens in a new window, Warwick Law School About The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle: The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circlebrings together staff and students across the 天美传媒 who are interested in the regulatory, governance, human rights, and political economy challenges of technology in/and on society. The group is coordinated by the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), Warwick Law School and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) with the aim to create a space for sharing and discussing research and policy developments.
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