NASAMER-KÜREMER  and  University of  Essex  Joint  Workshop on  Business and Human Rights

“Europe: A Friend or A Foeof Global Public Law” Colloquium in Collaboration with Center for Global Public Law 

“Novelties in the Law  on Personal Data Protection”  Asst. Prof. Dr. Nilgün Başalp Yıldırım, Bilgi University Faculty of Law (5 May 2016)

European Society of International Law Research Forum “The Making of International Law”

“Driverless Cars and Insurance” Professor Robert Merkin QC - Lloyd’s Professor of Commercial Law, University of Exeter

“Taking Stock of the Results of the Campaign Against Torture” Professor Sir Nigel Rodley - Chair Person of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and former the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture

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My subject is a conundrum:  the agency of independent judges in a democracy.  In what way are judges both agents and independent?  I shall turn to the issue of agency first and secondly to judicial independence.

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