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
Law and Global Justice: Research Centres without a Research Field?, University of Durham: workshop and PGR conference
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
Other events
A Cold Climate for Refugee Women?: Seminar Two, online from Women in Refugee Law
Socio-legal Methodology Masterclass: Exploring research methods in mental health law & mental capacity law, in-person York Law School
Legal Professional Privilege in the 21st Century: Adversarialism, confidentiality and justice, Northumbria Law School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Law Commission Project Launch Event: Domestic homicide defences, Northumbria Law School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Crimes of Domination, Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: invitaiton for expressions of interest
Bar Conference 2024, London
Socio-legal and Critical Legal Studies: History of commonalities and differences, online from Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff
2024
April
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.
With the Clothes on Our Backs and a Song on Our Lips: Courting queer love in India
Date: 17 April 2024
Venue: Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield
Speaker: Surabhi Shukla
See website and invitation for details.
Enhancing the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (HRDs): Facilitating access to the EU and supporting HRDs from Third Countries
Date: 17 April 2024
Venue: online from QMUL
Speakers: Professor Elspeth Guild, Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London; Professor Niovi Vavoula, Associate Professor and Chair in Cyber Policy, University of Luxembourg; Vasiliki Apatzidou, PhD Candidate, Queen Mary University of London
See website 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.
A Cold Climate for Refugee Women?: Seminar Two
Date: 29 April 2024
Venue: online from Women in Refugee Law
See website for details.
Human Rights and People of African Descent: Where do we go from here?
Date: 22 April 2024
Venue: 137A, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths University of London
Speaker: Professor Justin Hansford
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.
Socio-legal and Critical Legal Studies: History of commonalities and differences
Date: 24 April 2023
Venue: online from Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff
Speaker: Lizzie Willmington
Discussants: Stewart Motha and Tara Mulqueen
See announcement and website for details.
Law and Global Justice: Research Centres without a Research Field?
Dates: Workshop, 25 April 2024; PGR Conference, 26 April 2024
Venue: University of Durham
The workshop is by invitation: please contact
Legal Professional Privilege in the 21st Century: Adversarialism, confidentiality and justice
Date: 26 April 2024
Venue: Northumbria Law School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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)
Date: May 2024 tbc
Venue: Liverpool John Moores University
See announcement for details.
OU Citizenship and Justice Research Cluster 2024 seminar series: Law, citizenship and female representation
Date: 1 May 2024
Venue: online
Speakers: Dr Caroline Derry & Dr Sophie Doherty
See website and series information for details.
Symposium on Climate Change and Migration
Date: 2 May 2024
Venue: Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
See website for details.
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.
The Supreme Constitutional Court of Palestine: Past, present, and future
Date: 7 May 2024
Venue: online from Global South Network, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester
Guest lecturer: Honourable Justice Ali Jamil Muhanna, President Supreme Constitutional Court of Palestine
See website for details.
OU Citizenship and Justice Research Cluster 2024 seminar series: Art and citizenship
Date: 8 May 2024
Venue: online
Speakers: Professor Umut Erel & Dr. Agnes Czajka
See website and series information 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?
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.
Socio-legal Methodology Masterclass: Exploring research methods in mental health law & mental capacity law
Date: 10 May 2024
Venue: in-person, York Law School
Speakers: Dr Magda Furgalska (Lecturer in Law, York Law School), Dr Ailbhe O'Loughlin (Senior Lecturer in Law, York Law School) and Dr Agnieszka Doll (Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of British Columbia)
See announcement and poster for details.
17th Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference
Dates: 10–11 May 2024
Venue: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Theme: Law and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
See announcement for details.
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.
OU Citizenship and Justice Research Cluster 2024 seminar series: Refugees in Europe
Date: 15 May 2024
Venue: online
Speakers: Dr Neil Graffin & Dr Chiara Berneri
See website and series information for details.
LCH Graduate Student Workshop 2024
Date: 16 May 2024
Venue: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
See website for details. 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.
Futures of Social Justice
Date: 17 May 2023
Venue: Centre for Law and Social Justice, University of Leeds
See website for details.
Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities: Senses of Law
Dates: 17–18 May 2024
Venue: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
See website for details.
Deepfakes and the Law: registration now open
Date: 20 May 2024
Venue: City, University of London, Northampton Square Campus
See website for details.
NCRM Annnual Lecture: New challenges that AI poses to the sciences of society
Date: 21 May 2024
Venue: The Royal Society, London
Speaker: Professor Noortje Marres, University of Warwick
See website for details.
Law Commission Project Launch Event: Domestic homicide defences
Date: 21 May 2024
Venue: Northumbria Law School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
This Law Commission event is hosted by the Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies and the Gendered Violence and Abuse. See website for details.
McGill BLP SGI Transformative Business Law Summer Academy
Dates: 26–31 May 2024
Venue: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
See announcement and website for details.
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
Dates: 6–7 June 2024
Venue: Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
See announcement for details of this 3rd Annual Nomos Conference.
Conference on Empirical Legal Studies
Dates: 5–7 June 2024
Venue: São Paulo, Brazil
See website for details.
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.
Bar Conference 2024
Date: 8 June 2024
Venue: Convene, Bishopsgate, London
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
Dates: 12–13 June 2024
Venue: School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg
See website for details.
Flashpoints Conference: Law, human rights and religion
Date: 17 June 2024
Venue: Nottingham Law School’s Centre for Rights and Justice, Nottingham Trent University and online
See website for details.
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
Date: 19 June 2022
Venue: University of Nottingham
See website and announcement for details. This event is funded via the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Crimes of Domination: invitaiton for expressions of interest
Date: 19 June 2024
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Seminar hosted by Northumbria University’s Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies. See announcement for details. Call closes: 20 May 2024.
Collaborative Workshop for PhD Candidates and Early Career Academics in Public Law, Labour Law, Migration & Asylum, and Human Rights: call for papers
Date: 20 June 2024
Venue: Durham University
See announcement for details. This event is sponsored by the Society for Legal Scholars. Call closes: 16 May 2024.
Pre-charge bail and Release Under Investigation (RUI)
Date: 26 June 2024
Venue: Woburn House, Central London
This seminar will discuss the findings of a research project to examine the impact of changes in the law on pre-charge bail and reflect on their implications for law, policy and practice. See website for details.
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
Date: 21 June 2024
Venue: SOAS University of London
See announcement for details.
ALT Annual Seminar: Community and purpose in the law school
Dates: 26–27 June 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details.
Social Sciences for Democracy
Dates: 26–28 June 2024
Venue: Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy
See website for details.
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.
Agricultural Pesticides vs Food Sustainability: A need to produce ground-breaking knowledge from an interdisciplinary and dialoguing perspective
Dates: 3–4 July 2024
Venue: School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details.
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
Dates: 16–17 July 2024
Venue: Keele University
See website for details.
International Legal Ethics Conference 2024
Dates: 17–19 July 2024
Venue: University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Theme: Legal Professionals in a Digitalising World
See website for details.
German Association of Law and Economics 21st Meeting
Dates: 18–19 July 2024
Venue: University of Hamburg, Germany
See website for details. There is also an experimental workshop for junior scholars on 17 July which is open for registration.
4th Asian Legal History Conference
Dates: 25–26 July 2024
Venue: University of Law, Hue, Viet Nam
See announcement for details.
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
Dates: 3–5 September 2024
Venue: University of Bristol
See website for details.
Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) Conference 2024 Representing Law
Dates: 3–6 September 2024
Venue: Bangor University, North Wales
See website and call for papers for details.
Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times: International law, critique, and structural change
Dates: 3–7 September 2024
Venue: Kochi, Kerala, India
See website for details.
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
Dates: 10–12 September 2024
Venue: University of Glasgow
See website for details.
MethodsCon: Futures: call for contributions
Dates: 12–13 September 2024
Venue: University of Manchester
See website for details. Call closes: 20 April 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
Dates: 18–20 September 2024
Venue: Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
See announcement and website for details.
Human Rights and Northern Ireland
Date: 27 September 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details.
October
Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History
Dates: 24–26 October 2024
Venue: San Francisco, USA
See website for details.
November
Histories of Sexuality in the Time of Crisis Workshop
Dates: 8–9 November 2024
Venue: Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
See website for details.
Ninth Annual Research and Orientation Workshop on Global Protection of Refugees and Migrants
Dates: 8–14 November 2024
Venue: Kolkata, India
See announcement for details.
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.