Dr Neil Chakraborti, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Criminology, University of Leicester, was a guest speaker at a pan-European symposium on the Philosophy of Hate Crime, held in Gothenburg on the 26-28 September.

This event was held as part of a broader project – entitled 'When Law and Hate Collide' – which is designed to provide the European Parliament with a working definition of hate crime and accompanying policy guidance to ensure legislative consistency across all member states of the European Union. The symposium brought together a collective of international hate crime experts from the disciplines of criminology, law, psychology and philosophy, and was part of a series funded by the Daphne III Programme of the European Union and led by the University of Gothenburg, the Goethe Institute Frankfurt, and the University of Central Lancashire.