The Legal Research Society

The following is the Society's programme for the coming weeks: Wednesday 13th February, 5pm - Taylor C11 'Minority Report' and Discussion (moderated by Alessia Vacca and Ahmed Hassanein) Please click here for further information. Wednesday 20th February, 5pm - Taylor C28 Justin Borg Barthet, 'The Challenge of Online Gambling to European Socio-Economic Governance' Abstract: In Schindler the ECJ held that lotteries fall within the meaning of the freedom to provide services for the purposes of the EC Treaty, provided that Member States may derogate from the Treaty in order to protect public order and the interests of consumers. The judgment leaves much room for interpretation regarding the extent to which Member States may erect barriers to online gambling within the EC. In the absence of European legislation to clarify the limits of Member States’ powers, it is submitted that a lack of clarity gives rise to ample grounds for costly litigation. In addition, the l...

We will screen ' Minority Report ' on Wednesday 13th February, 5pm in Taylor C11. In the future, criminals are caught before the crimes they commit, but one of the officers in the special unit is accused of one such crime and sets out to prove his innocence. Is this such a far-fetched proposition? Following the movie, Alessia Vacca and Ahmed Hassanein will moderate a brief discussion about the contemporary erosion of fundamental criminal law notions such as the requirement of both a mens rea and an actus reus for the commission of a crime.