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 2 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 3