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INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED LEGAL STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
UNI VERSI TY OF LONDON
W G HART LEGAL WORKSHOP 2015
Law and the Ageing of Humankind
ACADEMIC DIRECTORS:
Professor Jonathan Montgomery, University College London
Professor Richard Ashcroft, Queen Mary, University of London
Monday 22 June – Tuesday 23 June, 2015
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Monday 22 June
SESSION 1 KEYNOTE
Professor Jonathan Herring, University of Oxford
Should Elder Law Exist?
SESSION 2: RIGHTS OF OLDER PERSONS (PLENARY)
Professor Israel Doron, Department of Gerontology, University of Haifa, Israel
Professor Jean McHale, Professor of Health Care Law, Director of the Centre for Health Law,
Science and Policy. Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham
Human rights and the older citizen: a case for “special protection”?
Dr Eugenia Caracciola di Torella, University of Leicester School of Law; Annick Masselot,
University of Canterbury New Zealnd
The EU and the challenge of eldercare
Maeve O'Rourke, Durham Human Rights Centre, Durham Law School,
Older person's rights to be free from torture and ill-treatment: the UK and Ireland
SESSION 3 KEYNOTE 2
Onora O'Neil tbc (invited)
RECEPTION, DINNER
Tuesday 23 June
PROPERTY AND TAX
Ann Mumford, King’s College London
Inheritance taxation, death duties and Piketty
Juliet Brook, University of Portsmouth
Where there's a will - presumptions, assumptions and litigation
Sidney Ross, Barrister, 11 Stone Buildings
Ways to protect estates against post-death claims
Richard Walters, Queen Mary, University of London
Title to be confirmed (either pensions or family home)
ADVANCE DECISIONS TO REFUSE TREATMENT
Isra Black, Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, King’s College London; Dr Ralf Jox, Institute
of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians Universität (LMU),
München, Germany
‘When and how I shan't die': advanced decisions to refuse treatment as a human right
Ruth Horn
Who should decide? Patient preferences and advanced decisions in England, France
and Germany
DO NOT ATTEMPT RESUSCITATION DECISIONS
Kate Beattie, Barrister, One Crown Office Row
Discussing death: Do not resuscitate orders and patient rights in end of life decisionmaking
Dr Leyla Osman
Do not attempt resuscitation' (DNAR) decisions - a mandatory decision to be routine and
desensitised early in life for our ever-greying population
RELATIONSHIPS AND AGEING
Dr Mimi Zhou, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Dr Michael Dunn, the Ethox Centre,
University of Oxford
Theorising 'Elder Law': towards relational account'
Dr Sue Westwood, University of Surrey
‘My friends are my family': an argument about the limitations of contemporary law's
recognition of relationships in later life'
Barbara Jones, Senior Attorney, AARP Foundation, Pasedena, USA
Emerging legal issues affecting grandparents who are the primary caregivers of their
grandchildren
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INTO 'CARE'?
Beverley Clough, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool
Health and community care in an ageing population: Accountability, equality and social
justice
Craig Lind, University of Sussex; Rod Edmunds, Queen Mary, University of London
Choosing where to live: ageing, capacity and professional misunderstandings of the law
RIGHTS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN CARE
Helen Meenan and Nicola Rees, School of Law, Kingston University; Professor Israel Doron,
Department of Gerontology, University of Haifa, Israel
From wrongs to rights: international perspectives on a rights culture in residential care
for older persons
Dr Nicholas Kang-Riou, University of Slaford
Revisiting the right to autonomy of older people in care homes from the lens of
relational autonomy
Alison Brammer, School of Law, Keele University; Professor Mo Ray, School of Public Policy
and Professional Practice, Keele University
Adult abuse in residential settings in England - analysis of care standards tribunal
jurisidiction
VULNERABILITY
Daniel Bedford, School of Law, University of Portsmouth
'Avoiding institutionalisation: dignity, vulnerability and exposure to risk
Dr Rosie Harding, School of Law, University of Birmingham
'You can put a dog to sleep, but my mother had to go through hell': Carer accounts of
end of life with dementia
DISCRIMINATION
Dr Elaine Dewhurst, Senior Lecture in Employment Law, Gary Lynch-Wood, Senior Lecturer
in Corporate Governance and Dr Sheena Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Organisational
Psychology, University of Manchester; Dr David Horton, Lecturer in Law, University of
Liverpool
The interconnection between job substitutability, retirement flexibility and age
discrimination principles
Stuart Goosey, Queen Mary, University of London
Identifying wrongful age discrimination
FINAL KEYNOTE
Professor Richard Ashcroft and Professor Jonathan Montgomery
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