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SLSA events
Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence, QUB: call for papers
Disability and Rights: The possibilities and limits of rights discourse under neoliberalism, online: call for abstracts
Pracademia in Law Schools – An international community of practice, online from Leeds Beckett Law School
Workshop: Legal perspectives on climate reparations, University of Bristol: call for expressions of interest
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body, Manchester
Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood, Reading
Other events
2025 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute: call for applications
Launch: Legal Worker's Inquiry – Worker Writing from across the Sector In Britain, Manchester and London
Book Launch - Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law by Chloë Kennedy, QMUL, London
Land and Property Beyond the Centenary, online conference: call for papers
Limits of Restrictions: Religious Minorities in Europe and Asia, University of Exeter: call for papers
'Law in Context': Early Career Workshop, CSLS, Oxford: call for papers
Who Were the Law-givers: A Panel Discussion, Wolfson College, Oxford
Modern Slavery and Human Rights: Migrant workers in the agricultural and care sectors in the UK, online from Durham University
Socio-Legal Annual Lecture by Professor Martti Koskenniemi, Wolfson College, Oxford
Legal Education in Primary Schools: Ideas, realities and practicalities, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Publications
NILQ Reflections on Writing: Professor Duncan Sheehan, University of Leeds
Other
Vacancies
British Academy: call for International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. See website for details. Closing date: 18 March 2025.
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships: open for applications
Applications are invited from early career researchers or innovators for funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UKRI’s remit. See website for details. Closing date: 18 June 2025.
REF 2029 Main and Sub-panel Recruitment: call for applications
The REF main and sub-panels are at the heart of the REF assessment process, and they bring together specialist expertise in each Unit of Assessment (UoA). Within the REF there are four main panels and 34 sub-panels. Applications are invited from individuals wishing to apply for these roles. Applicants must have the support of their employing organisation for their appointment, and applications welcomed from diverse groups. See website for details. Closing date: 28 April 2025
Barbara Huber Scholarship Program: Max Planck Institute – call for applications
The program is open to outstanding academics from foreign research institutions for particularly innovative research projects that contribute significantly to scientific progress through new perspective, questions, or findings in the subject areas of Criminology, Public Law, or Criminal Law. Each department may award one Barbara Huber Scholarship per calendar year. See website for details. Closing date: 30 September 2025.
AHRC International Fellowships for PhD and Early Career Researchers 2025: open for applications
Applications are invited for these fellowships based in the USA, Japan and China. See website for details. Closing date: 13 March 2025. See website for details.
ESRC postdoctoral fellowships: open for applications
Applications are invited for these ESRC fellowships for scholars who have completed a PhD at a UK research organisation. See website for details. Closing date: 25 March 2025.
Consultations and surveys
Sentencing Council: Hare coursing sentencing guidelines – consultation
The Sentencing Council has published a consultation paper on draft hare coursing sentencing guidelines. See website for details. Closing date: 25 April 2025.
Other announcements
Public Lecture recording: Professor David Sugarman: 'Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case'
This lecture was delivered by Professor Sugarman at the University of Cambridge on 3 December 2024. Visit website to listen to the recording.
Human Rights, Gender Apartheid, and Giving VOICE to the Afghan Women's Cricket Team: Sky News interview
Sky Sports News has published an interview with Shubham Jain (Centre for Sport and Human Rights and Cambridge Law Faculty) as part of its coverage of the ongoing International Cricket Council (men's) Champions Trophy 2025 in Pakistan. See news story for details.
OUP seeks volunteers for its Law Research Panel
Oxford University Press (OUP) is recruiting legal professionals to join its newly formed OUP Law Panel. Participants from across a range of legal professions, fields, and organizations will be invited to provide critical feedback and insight on the areas that matter to them. See website for details.
Springer Nature: Book publishing essentials – free mini course
Sign up for Springer Nature’s free mini-course on book publishing, to get a comprehensive overview and all the essential details, directly to your inbox. See website for details. There is also a step-by-step guide to book publishing.
Invitation to Participate in Research about AI and Legal Work
Professor Orna Rabinovich and Dr Vera Shikhelman are researchers engaged in a large-scale research project funded by the European Research Council on Dispute Resolution Automation (DRA). They are inviting legal professionals to take part in a short online survey. See invitation and project website for further details.
Gustav Figdor Award for Law, Social Sciences and Economics: open for applications
The Gustav Figdor Award for Law, Social Sciences and Economics is awarded for outstanding scholarly works in the fields of jurisprudence and legal theory, the social sciences and economics that are regarded as achievements equivalent to a habilitation and have been published or accepted for publication by a publishing house (peer review) no more than two years before the date of submission. In 2025, applications are accepted from scholars in the fields of jurisprudence and legal theory. See website for details. Closing date: 20 March 2025.
Academic Mentoring: Professor Didi Herman
Professor Didi Herman has retired from Kent Law School and is now offering confidential help to individuals and universities looking to improve scholarship for publication, mentoring, and the REF. See her website for details.
Professor Herman is now also offering expert consultancy to law schools for advance preparation for REF 2028.