The distribution of income and wealth will be the topic of this year\u2019s annual Clive Schmitthoff memorial lecture to be delivered by Professor Neil Brooks from Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada on Monday 6 June.<\/p>\n
The lecture, entitled \u2018Rising Income and Wealth Inequality: What\u2019s Commercial Law Got to Do with It?\u2019, \u00a0forms the focal point of Kent Law School\u2019s two-day Graduate Research Conference<\/a> and will be held in ELT2 on our Canterbury campus at 6pm.<\/p>\n In the abstract to his talk, Professor Brooks says: \u2018<\/strong>I will argue that rising inequality is largely the result of political decisions and indecisions and in particular changes in legal rules, including of course commercial law.\u00a0 The presentation will also review conceptual issues that have arisen in the inequality debate, the consequences of inequality, and the possible responses.\u00a0 Recent works by Tony Atkinson, Thomas Piketty and Branko Milanovic will be reviewed.\u2019<\/p>\n Professor\u00a0Brooks<\/a>\u00a0(pictured) has research interests that include tax law and policy, corporate and international tax, and financing the welfare state. He co-authored\u00a0The Trouble with Billionaires<\/em>\u00a0(2010) with Linda McQuaig, published in the UK as\u00a0The Trouble with Billionaires: How the Super-Rich Hijacked the World (and How We Can Take it Back)<\/em>.\u00a0 He has been a consultant on tax policy and reform issues to the government of Canada, and to the governments of New Zealand, Australia and several Canadian provinces. Over the past few years he has participated in capacity-building projects relating to taxation in a number of low-income countries including Lithuania, Vietnam, China, Mongolia, South Africa, Bangladesh, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Botswana.<\/p>\n In addition to the Clive Schmitthoff lecture, this year’s Graduate Research Conference on Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 June, features papers from postgraduate research students and Kent LLM students on topics ranging from climate change and the right to water in India, to transgender people’s rights and Cypriot Depositors in the European Court of Justice. The second day of the conference will feature panels of Kent LLM students presenting their plans for their minor dissertations.<\/p>\n A full programme of events is available to view below:<\/p>\n WHO NEEDS LAW timetable<\/a><\/p>\n All staff and students are welcome to attend the conference which will be held in Eliot College. Further details are available on the conference\u2019s\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0page and via the@KLSPGConference<\/a>\u00a0Twitter account.<\/p>\n