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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Family Dispute Resolution Symposium, University of Sunderland
The Supreme Court's Practice in Cases related to the War in Ukraine, online from Global South Network Judges Guest Lecture Series
Symbol ’24: Icons for Society: Past, present & future – an exploration of 40 years of symbol culture, online from the British Academy
Thematic and Disciplinary Challenges in Socio-Legal Studies: The JLS 50th anniversary PhD/early career scholar conference, Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff: call for applications
Public Law Project Annual Conference: Judicial review trends and forecasts 2024, in-person only, London
British Academy Late: The human experience, British Academy, London
Empowering Athletes’ Human Rights: Global Research Conference on Athletes’ Rights, The Hague, Netherlands
The Foundations of Digital Research Methods: An advanced critical introduction, NCRM Autumn School 2024, University of Liverpool
Minimum Income Standard for the UK 2024, JRF webinar
Relations and Health Law Workshop, online from Sussex Law School
Association of Law Teachers Early Career Symposium, Leeds
British Academy Open House, London
British Academy: Book Prize shortlist event, London
JUSTICE event: Regulating AI in the UK: Time to think or behind the pack, London
International Law in the United Kingdom: A troubled relationship?, Worcester
Not Just in Outer Space: A story of 'aliens' in nationality law, UCL, London
The ‘Inconspicuous Impact’ of Feminist Pressure Through Law, UCL, London
Time, Space and Monumentality Conference, University of Greenwich
2024
August
Being a Judge in Israel; Taking judging seriously
Date: 25 August 2024
Venue: online guest lecture from Global South Network, University of Leicester
Guest speaker: Justice Ruth Ronnen, Supreme Court of Israel
See invitation and website for details.
Doing Oral Histories: Writing the Lives of Australia’s Environmental Lawyers
Date: 30 August 2024
Venue: UCL Laws, London
Speaker: Dr Susan Bartie, Australian National University
See invitation for details.
September
Society of Legal Scholars
Dates: 3–5 September 2024
Venue: University of Bristol
See website for details.
Time, Space and Monumentality Conference
Date: 5 September 2024
Venue: University of Greenwich, Institute for Inclusive Communities and Environments
See website for details.
Minimum Income Standard for the UK 2024
Date: 5 September 2024
Venue: JRF webinar
See wesbite 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.
Social Hierarchies in Catastrophic Times: International law, critique, and structural change
Dates: 3–7 September 2024
Venue: Kochi, Kerala, India
See website for details.
ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre’s Annual Conference: Reshaping the relationship between vulnerability and policing
Date: 5 September 2024
Venue: Cloth Hall Court, Quebec St, Leeds
See website for details.
The Supreme Court's Practice in Cases related to the War in Ukraine
Date: 6 September 2024
Venue: online from Global South Network Judges Guest Lecture Series
Guest speaker: Judge Dr Vitaliy Urkevych, Secretary of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court of Ukraine
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.
Digital Rights: call for abstracts
Date: 9 September 2024
Venue: online hosted by University of Derby, in partnership with Valencia University, Portsmouth University and Haifa University
See announcement for details. Call closes: 5 August 2024.
Family Dispute Resolution Symposium
Date: 9 September 2024
Venue: University of Sunderland
See website for details.
Transport: Bridging the gap between research evidence and political/public action
Date: 10 September 2024
Venue: AcSS online event
See website for details. This event is part of the AcSS Election 24: ideas for change based on social science evidence Project.
JUSTICE event: Regulating AI in the UK: Time to think or behind the pack
Date: 10 September 2024
Venue: Herbert Smith Freehills, Exchange House, Primrose St, London
See announcement for details. Early bird booking available until 1 September.
Consent: 5th SAFI Annual Conference
Dates: 10–12 September 2024
Venue: University of Glasgow
See website for details.
Reimagine Ageing Showcase
Date: 11 September 2024
Venue: University of Leeds
See website for details.
Association of Law Teachers Early Career Symposium
Dates: 11–12 September 2024
Venue: Leeds Marriott Hotel, Leeds
See website for details.
7th Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum
Date: 12 September 2024
Venue: Nottingham Law School
See invitation and website for details.
ERC Starting Grant Webinar
Date: 12 September 2024
Venue: online
See announcement for details.
MethodsCon: Futures: call for contributions
Dates: 12–13 September 2024
Venue: University of Manchester
See website for details.
British Academy Open House
Date: 15 September 2024
Venue: British Academy, Carlton House, London
See website for details of this opportunity to explore new event spaces in the BA's Grade-I listed home.
British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Traning Courses 2024
Dates: throughout autumn 2024
Venues: BIICL, Russell Square London and/or online
- Pharmaceuticals and the Law – 16–18 September (hybrid)
- Business and Human Rights – 19 September (hybrid)
- International Refugee and Migration Law – 20 September (hybrid)
- Artificial Intelligence Governance – starts 23 September
- International Cultural Heritage – starts 23 September
- Public International Law in Practice – starts 25 September
- Transitional Justice – Timing and Tools – starts 25 September 2024
- Cyber Operations and International Law – starts 26 September
- International Labour Law – starts 27 September
- Climate Change Litigation – 10 October
- Energy Law – 2–3 December (Hybrid)
- Law of the Sea – 4–5 December (Hybrid)
See announcement for further details.
Critical Legal Conference: Critical Nordic Colonial Legal Histories stream
Dates: 16–18 September 2024
Venue: Lund, Sweden
See announcement for details.
Empirical Research Methods in Advancing Legal Knowledge Conference
Date: 17 September 2024
Venue: Northumbria Law School
See announcement for details.
1st European Conference of the International Association of Consumer Law
Date: 17 September 2024
Venue: Girton College, Cambridge
See website for details.
ERC Synergy Grant Webinar
Date: 18 September 2024
Venue: online from British Academy
See announcement for details.
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.
Symbol ’24: Icons for Society: Past, present & future – an exploration of 40 years of symbol culture
Dates: 19–20 September 2024
Venue: online from the British Academy
See website for details.
Conference on Supporting Families within the Family Justice System: call for papers
Date: 20 September 2024
Venue: University of Essex and on Zoom
See invitation for full details.
Epistolary International Law Workshop
Date: 26 September 2024
Venue: LSE, London
See announcement for details.
Human Rights and Northern Ireland
Date: 27 September 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
See announcement for details.
October
A Power Trip: Guided London walk on the theme of power, politics & law
Date: 8 October 2024
Venue: starts at Somerset House, London
See website for details.
Shame and Medical History Seminar
Date: 10 October 2024
Venue: Wellcome Centre, Exeter, and online
Theme: Shame, pride, and all the invisible things: the emotions regulating access to healthcare
Speaker: Dr Mara Pieri, University of Coimbra
See website for details.
Public Law Project Annual Conference: Judicial review trends and forecasts 2024
Date: 16 October 2024
Venue: in-person only, Exchange House, Primrose Street, London
See website for details.
British Academy Late: The human experience
Date: 17 October 2024
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details of this interdisciplinary event.
Interpretation in Courts in Wales and the Republic of Ireland – simultaneous and consecutive interpretation compared
Date: 18 October 2024
Venue: The Temple of Peace, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff
See announcement for details. This event is supported via the SLSA Seminar Competition.
British Academy: Book Prize shortlist event
Date: 21 October 2024
Venue: British Academy, Carlton House, London
See website for details.
Empowering Athletes’ Human Rights: Global Research Conference on Athletes’ rights
Date: 23 October 2024
Venue: Centre for Sport and Human Rights, The Asser Institute, The Hague, Netherlands
See website for details.
Thematic and Disciplinary Challenges in Socio-Legal Studies: The JLS 50th anniversary PhD/early career scholar conference: call for applications
Dates: 23–24 October 2024
Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff
See announcement for details. Deadline for applications: 9 September 2024.
Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History
Dates: 24–26 October 2024
Venue: San Francisco, USA
See website for details.
The Foundations of Digital Research Methods: An advanced critical introduction
Dates: 28–30 October 2024
Venue: in-person NCRM Autumn School 2024, University of Liverpool
See website for details of this free event. Closing date for applications: 6 September 2024.
Relations and Health Law Workshop
Date: 31 October 2024
Venue: hosted online by the Health Care Law Research Group, from Sussex Law School
See website for details.
November
International Law in the UK: A troubled relationship?: call for papers
Date: 8 November 2024
Venue: in-person at University of Worcester
See website for details. Call closes: 9 September 2024.
JUSTICE Annual Conference 2024: Protecting the Rule of Law
Date: 8 November 2024
Venue: Citypoint, London
See website for details.
International Law in the United Kingdom: A troubled relationship?
Date: 8 November 2024
Venue: University of Worcester
Hosted by the UK Constitutional Law Association. See website for details.
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.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium: call for applications from ECRs
Dates: 14–15 November 2024
Venue: Paris, France
Theme: Governance
See website for details. Applications close on 11 September 2024.
Next 100 Years's Fifth Heilbron Lecture
Date: 19 November 2024
Venue: Art Workers' Guild, London
Speaker: Flora Page, Barrister
See website for details.
December
The ‘Inconspicuous Impact’ of Feminist Pressure Through Law
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Dr Sharon Thompson (Cardiff University)
See website for details.
Heritage in War and Peace IV: Human rights perspectives through past, present and future: call for papers
Dates: 5–6 December 2024
Venue: University of Strathclyde
See website for details. Call for papers closes: 6 September 2024.
Common Law Forms in Civil Law Asia, Australian National University
Dates: 5–7 December 2024
Venue: Australian National University, Canberra
See announcement for details.
Second International Gender Studies In Turkey Conference
Dates: 7–8 December 2024
Venue: Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
See website for details.
Asian Law and Society Association Early Career/Junior Scholar Workshop
Date: 12 December 2024
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
See announcement for details. This event immediately precedes the one below.
(Re-) Drawing Borders: When and where was the United Kingdom?
Dates: 12–14 December 2024
Venue: Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
See invitation for details.
Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 13–14 December 2024
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Theme: Whose Law, Whose Voices? Constructing Legal Stories in Asia
See announcement for details.
2025
January
Commission on Legal Pluralism: The Transformative Power of Legal Pluralism?
Dates: 13–15 January 2025
Venue: Jakarta, Indonesia
See website for details.
Current Legal Problems: The social side of fair process
Date: 23 January 2025
Venue: UCL, Endsleigh Gardens, London
Speaker: Professor Joe Tomlinson, University of York
See website for details.
February
2nd Conference of the Swiss Network for Law and Society
Dates: 10–12 February 2025
Venue: Institute of Social Anthropology, UniS, University of Bern, Switzerland
See website for details.
Not Just in Outer Space: A story of 'aliens' in nationality law
Date: 20 February 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Devyani Prabhat (University of Bristol)
See website for details.
March
UK Immigration Legislation and a Hierarchy of Modern Slavery Victimhood
Date: 12 March 2025
Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Hull
Speaker: Dr Marija Jovanovic
See website for details.
May
Slavery’s Long Goodbye: A Wilberforce Institute Lecture
Date: 14 May 2025
Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Kingston upon Hull
Speaker: Professor Chris Evans, University of Wales
See website for details.
June
Conceptual Innovation, Methods & Law: an interdisciplinary legal residence: call for applications
Dates: 16 June–3 July 2025
Venue: Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
See announcement for details. Closing date: 20 August 2024.