News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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Latest events . . .
SLSA events
SLSA Annual Conference 2024, Portsmouth: in-person registration closed; online registration closes on 22 March
From the University to the Grand Chamber: How can academic work on asylum and immigration have greater impact in the European Court of Human Rights?, Royal Holloway University of London: programme available and registration open
Contemporary Challenges in Migration Research, Ulster University Belfast
Climate Change & Migration: New Challenges, Legal Responses, and Policy Solutions, Nottingham: call for abstracts NEW
Other events
Race and Justice Seminar Series: Bringing order to border, online from University of York
Sussex European Institute and Oles Honchar Dnipro National University Roundtable: Teaching EU law and policy, online event
AI Minds and Governance Frameworks, QMUL, Mile End Road, London, and online
Cambridge Creative Encounters Exhibition, Cambridge: (IN)VISIBLE: – film screening on Law, Identity and Power
German Association of Law and Economics 21st Meeting, Hamburg: call for papers
2nd Conference of the Swiss Network for Law and Society, Bern: Call for panels
Sámi survivance: Homemaking as decolonization of everyday life, Lund University and online
Society of Legal Scholars, University of Bristol: call for papers
2024
March
Cambridge Creative Encounters Exhibition: (IN)VISIBLE: – film screening on Law, Identity and Power
Dates: 14–27 March
Venue: West Hub, JJ Thomspon Ave, Cambridge.
See website for details. Features an original film that brings together dance, poetry, sound, and music to interrogate the experiences of women lawyers in India, by Bhumika Billa, University of Cambridge. See this blog for details. The film will also be screened at SLSA 2024 on 27 March in the Gender, Sexuality, and Law stream.
UK SALSA Inaugural Meeting
Date: 25 March 2024
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Organised by the UK South Asian Legal Scholars Association. See invitation for details of this inperson event.
Our Interlocked Universe: Sociohistorical Network Analysis
Dates: 26–27 March 2024
Venue: University of Southampton
Organised by the National Centre for Research Methods. See website for details.
Waste as Site for Global Dis/Ordering
Date: 27 March 2024
Venue: online from QMUL
Speakers: Heather Davis, Assistant Professor of Culture and Media, The New School, New York; Michael Hennessy Picard, University of Edinburgh School of Law
See website for details.
Race and Justice Seminar Series: Bringing order to border
Date: 27 March 2024
Venue: online from University of York
Speakers: Lucy Mayblin, Thom Davies, Arshad Isakjee, Joe Turner, Tesfalem Yemane.
See website for details.
April
Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion
Date: 3 April 2024
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London, and online
See website for details.
Book Discussion: Child Migration and the Geopolitics of Compassion
Date: 3 April 2024
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London
Author: Anita Casavantes Bradford (University of California Irvine)
See website for details.
Propaganda and Emerging Technologies: Information Society Project
Dates: 5–6 April 2024
Venue: Yale Law School, New Haven CT, USA
See website for details.
AI Minds and Governance Frameworks
Date: 10 April 2024
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London, and online
See website for details.
Attempting to Kill the Law of Peace
Date: 11 April 2024
Venue: Mansfield Cooper Building, University of Manchester
Speaker: Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame
Organised by the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Instituteand the Law School at the University of Manchester. See website for details.
Researching Human Rights in a War Zone
Date: 11 April 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Speaker: Brian Dooley, Senior Advisor, Human Rights First, Washington DC
See website for details.
Reimagining the Public-Private Divide
Dates: 12–13 April 2024
Venue: University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
See website for details.
Domestic Abuse in a New Immigration Landscape – The challenges facing migrant victim-survivors of domestic abuse
Date: 16 April 2024
Venue: City Law School, City University of London
See website and programme for details.
How to get a PhD in Law: The PhD in Law and research methods
Date: 17 April 2024
Venue: online from IALS
See website for details.
Free Evidencing Impact Workshops
Date: 17 April 2024
Venue: online from NCRM
There are two workshops: one for ECRs and one for established researchers. See website for details.
Sámi survivance: Homemaking as decolonization of everyday life
Date: 17 April 2024
Venue: Lund University, Sweden, and online
This is the final event in the 'Decolonial Sociology of Law Seminar Series'. See announcement for details.
The Juridification of Justice: Potentials and Limitations
Dates: 18–19 April 2024
Venue: University of Exeter
See announcement for details.
Hierarchies of Citizenship: Criminology, global inequality, and the injustice of membership
Date: 18 April 2024
Venue: The Great Hall, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast
Speaker: Professor Katja Franko, University of Oslo
This is the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice Annual Lecture. See website for details.
#publicdisco Special Edition: From crisis to empowerment, Public Law Project, London
Date: 19 April 2024
Venue: Allen & Overy, 1 Bishops Square, London
See website for details.
Sussex European Institute and Oles Honchar Dnipro National University Roundtable: Teaching EU law and policy
Date: 24 April 2024
Venue: online event from the University of Sussex
See website for details.
Art Not Evidence: Issues and implications of prosecuting rap
Date: 30 April 2024
Venue: LSE, Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 2AE
See website for details and registration.
The Realisation of Human Rights in Societies Beyond Growth
Dates: 30 April 2024–1 May 2024
Venue: University of Essex, Colchester
See website for details.
May
Student-led PhD Conference 2024 (PGRs and ECRs): call for papers
Date: May 2024 tbc
Venue: Liverpool John Moores University
See announcement for details. Closing date: 16 February 2024.
Symposium on Climate Change and Migration: call for papers
Date: 2 May 2024
Venue: Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
See website for details. Call closes: 28 February 2024.
Law Network Doctoral Conference: Coercion and Well-being in Europe
Dates: 6–7 May 2024
Venue: Nantes Université, France
See announcement for details.
Writing Workshop for Early Career Scholars from the Global South
Dates: 6–7 May 2024
Venue: Singapore
See website for details.
From the University to the Grand Chamber: How can academic work on asylum and immigration have greater impact in the European Court of Human Rights?: programme available and registration open
Date: 9 May 2024
Venue: Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey
See website for programme and registration details. This is an SLSA-supported Impact Grant event.
Race, Legal Form and the Labour Contract
Date: 9 May 2024
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, Endsleigh Gardens, London
Speaker: Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, University of Kent
Chair: Professor Nicola Countouris, UCL Laws
See website for details.
17th Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference: call for papers
Dates: 10–11 May 2024
Venue: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Theme: Law and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
See announcement for details. Call closes: 8 March 2024.
Reforming the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990: Workshop on posthumous conception
Date: 10 May 2024
Venue: Birmingham Conference & Events Centre, Birmingham
See announcement and webpage for further details and registration.
How to get a PhD in Law Researching, disseminating and publishing
Date: 15 May 2024
Venue: online from IALS
See website for details.
LCH Graduate Student Workshop 2024: call for papers
Date: 16 May 2024
Venue: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
See website for details. Closing date: 31 January 2024. This student workshop precedes the LCH conference below.
Contemporary Challenges in Migration Research
Date: 17 May 2024
Venue: Ulster University Belfast
See announcement and flyer for details of this event which is funded via the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities: Senses of Law: call for papers
Dates: 17–18 May 2024
Venue: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
See website for details. Closing date: 31 January 2024.
Deepfakes and the Law: registration now open
Date: 20 May 2024
Venue: City, University of London, Northampton Square Campus
See website for details.
McGill BLP SGI Transformative Business Law Summer Academy: call for applications
Dates: 26–31 May 2024
Venue: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
See announcement and website for details. Application close: 31 March 2024.
Modern South Asia Workshop: call for applications from advanced graduate students and recent PhDs
Dates: 27–28 May 2024
Venue: South Asia location tbc
Organised by the Yale Macmillan Center, South Asian Studies Council. See website for details. Closing date: 29 February 2024.
Using Creative Research Methods
Dates: 28–29 May 2024
Venue: University of Southampton
Organised by the National Centre for Research Methods. See website for details.
Everyday Ambassadors: Lessons from Socio-Legal Studies for a Fractured World
Date: 29 May 2024
Venue: Buttery, Wolfson College, Oxford
Speaker: Professor Annelise Riles
See website for details of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies' Annual Lecture.
June
Europe Twenty Years after the 2004 Enlargement of the EU: Vices, virtues, and future challenges – call for papers
Dates: 6–7 June 2024
Venue: Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
See announcement for details of this 3rd Annual Nomos Conference. Call closes: 29 February 2024.
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies: call for papers
Dates: 5–7 June 2024
Venue: São Paulo, Brazil
See website for details. Call closes: 31 January 2024.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2024
Dates: 6–9 June 2024
Venue: Hyatt Regency Denver, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
Theme: 'Unsettling Territories: Tradition and Revolution in Law and Society'
See website for details.
In the Thick of Images: Law, history and the visual
Dates: 10–11 June 2024
Venue: University of Lucerne, Switzerland
See website for details.
Workshop: Legal struggles on Indigenous land rights in Sápmi: call for papers
Dates: 12–13 June 2024
Venue: School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
See website for details. Call closes: 29 February 2024.
Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law: New spaces, temporalities and actors
Date: 19 June 2024
Venue: in-person event, Manchester Metropolitan University
See announcement for details.
Climate Change & Migration: New Challenges, Legal Responses, and Policy Solutions: call for abstracts
Date: 19 June 2022
Venue: University of Nottingham
See website and announcement for details. This event is funded via the SLSA Seminar Competition. Call closes: 12 April 2024.
WG Hart Workshop 2024: 'Historicising jurisprudence: person, community, form'
Dates: 26–27 June 2024
Venue: Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London
See announcement for details.
Workshop: Marking 100 years of the ban on cameras in courtrooms: call for papers
Date: 21 June 2024
Venue: SOAS University of London
See announcement for details. Closing date: 5 April 2024.
ALT Annual Seminar: Community and purpose in the law school: call for papers
Dates: 26–27 June 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details.
Social Sciences for Democracy: call for papers
Dates: 26–28 June 2024
Venue: Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
See website for details. Call closes: 15 February 2024.
NCRM summer school: 'Large and Complex Social Surveys – New Horizons': open for applications
Dates: 26–28 June 2024
Venue: University of Edinburgh
See website for details. Applications are open for this free event, but places are limited.
July
Kafka’s imprint on Law and the Arts, 100 Years since The Trial
Date: July 2024 (tbc)
Venue: University of Southampton
See website for details.
European Birds of Passage Summer School: call for applications
Dates: 1–4 July 2024
Venue: Strasbourg, France.
See website for details. Applications close on 1 March at 11.59am (Paris time).
Agricultural Pesticides vs Food Sustainability: A need to produce ground-breaking knowledge from an interdisciplinary and dialoguing perspective: call for papers
Dates: 3–4 July 2024
Venue: School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details. Call closes: 31 March 2024.
British Legal History Conference 2024: Insiders and outsiders in the history of law
Dates: 3–6 July 2024
Venue: University of Bristol Law School
Booking is now open. See website for details.
IVR Congress 2024
Date: 7–12 July 2024
Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea
Theme: The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy
See website and poster for details.
British Academy Summer Showcase
Dates: 12–13 July 2024
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details.
'Law in an Age of Permacrisis': International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law Annual Round Table 2024 – call for papers
Dates: 16–17 July 2024
Venue: Keele University
See website for details. Call closes: 26 January 2024.
International Legal Ethics Conference 2024: call for papers
Dates: 17–19 July 2024
Venue: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Theme: Legal Professionals in a Digitalising World
See website for details. Call closes: 7 February 2024.
German Association of Law and Economics 21st Meeting: call for papers
Dates: 18–19 July 2024
Venue: University of Hamburg, Germany
See website for details. Call closes: 2 April 2024. There is also an experimental workshop for junior scholars on 17 July which is open for registration.
4th Asian Legal History Conference: call for papers
Dates: 25–26 July 2024
Venue: University of Law, Hue, Viet Nam
See announcement for details. Calll closes: 15 March 2024.
Is There Hope for Equality Law? 11th Annual Conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination
Dates: 26–28 July 2024
Venue: National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, Bangalore, India
Hosted by NLSIU and The Oxford Human Rights Hub. See website for details.
Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute: call for applications
Dates: 29 July–9 August 2024
Venue: Jesus College, Oxford
See website for details. Closing date for applications: 24 April 2024.
August
World Congress of Philosophy 2024: SAFI Roundtable on women in legal philosophy
Dates: 1–8 August 2024
Venue: La Sapienza, Rome
See webpage for details.
September
Society of Legal Scholars: call for papers
Dates: 3–5 September 2024
Venue: University of Bristol
See website for details. Call closes: 3 April 2024.
Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) Conference 2024 Representing Law: call for papers extended
Dates: 3–6 September 2024
Venue: Bangor University, North Wales
See website and call for papers for details. Call for papers extended to: 3 March 2024.
Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times: International law, critique, and structural change: call for papers
Dates: 3–7 September 2024
Venue: Kochi, Kerala, India
See website for details. Call closes: 2 February 2024.
Féminisme, droit et citoyenneté II/Feminism, Law and Citizenship II
Dates: 8–10 September 2024
Venue: University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris
See announcement for details.
Consent: 5th SAFI Annual Conference – call for papers
Dates: 10–12 September 2024
Venue: University of Glasgow
See website for details. Call closes: 1 March 2024.
Empirical Research Methods in Advancing Legal Knowledge Conference
Date: 17 September 2024
Venue: Northumbria Law School
See announcement for details. Call for abstracts closes: 26 April 2024.
Human Rights in Migration Societies: Exploring the Intersection of Human Rights and Migration in Law, Politics, and Everyday Life: call for papers
Dates: 18–20 September 2024
Venue: Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
See announcement and website for details. Call closes: 31 January 2024.
Human Rights and Northern Ireland: call for papers
Date: 27 September 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details. Closing date: 29 February 2024.
October
Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History: call for proposals and papers
Dates: 24–26 October 2024
Venue: San Francisco, USA
See website for details. Call for proposals closes: 16 February 2024. Call for papers closes: 15 March 2024.
November
Histories of Sexuality in the Time of Crisis Workshop: call for papers
Dates: 8–9 November 2024
Venue: Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
See website for details. Call closes: 10 March 2024.
Ninth Annual Research and Orientation Workshop on Global Protection of Refugees and Migrants: call for papers
Dates: 8–14 November 2024
Venue: Kolkata, India
See announcement for details. Call closes: 8 March 2024.
December
Common Law Forms in Civil Law Asia, Australian National University: call for papers
Dates: 5–7 December 2024
Venue: Australian National University, Canberra
See announcement for details. Call closes: 5 May 2024.
2025
February
2nd Conference of the Swiss Network for Law and Society: call for panel proposals
Dates: 10–12 February 2025
Venue: Institute of Social Anthropology, UniS, University of Bern, Switzerland
See website for details. Call closes: 1 June 2024.