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’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood, Reading
Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Human Rights, Brunel University, London
Other events
'The "Ideal mother", Family Law and Domestic Abuse, UCL, London
What is Missing when Defendants Disown their Actions?, UCL, London
The Age of Mistrust?, British Academy, London
WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care, IALS, London: call for papers
GW4 Network on Family, Regulation and Society Annual Lecture 2025, Bristol
Parity of Esteem as a Constitutional Principle in NI and Beyond, Queen's University Belfast
Navigating the Right to a Fair Trial for Vulnerable People, Goldsmiths, London
BSC Probation Network: Where next for probation and community justice?, Sheffield
1984 - The year of Anti-Racism: Then and now, London
Law Commission Consultation on Business Tenancies Event, Cardiff
2024
December
Law and Social Justice: Exploring intersections and innovations conference
Date: 13 December 2024
Venue: online from Leeds Trinity University
See announcement for further details.
(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
Law Commission Review of Disabled Children's Social Care: Consultation event
Date: 10 January 2025
Venue: Irwin Mitchell, Sheffield
See website for details.
PhD Day: invitation to PhD law students
Date: 11 January 2025
Venue: University of Exeter
See invitation for details. Closing date for applications: 10 December 2024.
Commission on Legal Pluralism: The Transformative Power of Legal Pluralism?
Dates: 13–15 January 2025
Venue: Jakarta, Indonesia
See website for details.
BSC Probation Network: Where next for probation and community justice?
Date: 14 January 2025
Venue: Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield
Inaugural event of the British Society of Criminology Probation & Community Justice Network. See website for details.
The Geometry of Legal Thought
Date: 16 January 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Kevin Toh, UCL
See website for details.
North and South: Judicial cooperation between the United Kingdom and the Global South
Date: 20 January 2025
Venue: University of Leicester and online
Speaker: President of the UK Supreme Court/the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Robert Reed, Lord Reed of Allermuir
See invitation for details.
Book Launch – Structural Injustice and the Law
Date: 20 January 2025
Venue: UCL Institute for Human Rights, London
See website for details.
The European Research Context for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Date: 22 January 2025
Venue: British Academy, London
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.
Digital Rights, online conference: call for papers
Date: 23 January 2025
Venue: online hosted by University of Derby, in partnership with Valencia University, Portsmouth University and Haifa University
See announcement for details. Call closes: 9 December 2024. Registration is also open: closing date 20 January 2025.
Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Human Rights
Date: 23 January 2025
Venue: Brunel University, London
See announcement for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
'The "Ideal Mother", Family Law and Domestic Abuse
Date: 30 January 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Shazia Choudhry
See website for details.
The Age of Mistrust?
Date: 30 January 2025
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details.
DigiRights Project Final Conference – The digitalisation of defence rights: time for new perspectives … and directives?
Dates: 30–31 January 2025
Venue: KU Lueven, Belgium
See announcement for details.
February
World Conference on Qualitative Research
Dates: 4–6 February 2025, in person/11–13 February 2025, online
Venue: Kraków, Poland, and online
See website for details.
Accessibility and the Limits of the Equality Act 2010
Date: 6 February 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, Endlseigh Gardens, London
Speaker: Professor Anna Lawson, University of Leeds
Chair: Lady Tanni Grey-Thompson, House of Lords
See website for details.
Navigating the Right to a Fair Trial for Vulnerable People
Date: 5 February 2025
Venue: Goldsmiths, University of London
Speaker: Dr Alan Cusack and Dr Roxanna Dehaghani
See website for details.
Law Commission Consultation on Business Tenancies Event
Date: 10 February 2025
Venue: Law Building, Cardiff University
See website for details.
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.
The Miscarriages of Justice following the Hillsborough Disaster
Date: 13 February 2025
Venue: Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester
Speaker: David Conn, Investigations Correspondent at The Guardian and current news reporter of the year
See website for details.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Legislating AI
Date: 19 February 2025
Venue: IALS, London
Speaker: Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
See website for details.
Annual Toulson Law Lecture: Lord Hodge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court
Date: 19 February 2025
Venue: Rik Medlik Building, University of Surrey, Guildford
Theme: The role of judges in the rule of law and the promotion of international flourishing
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.
GW4 Network on Family, Regulation and Society Annual Lecture 2025
Date: 26 February 2025
Venue: University of Bristol Law School
Speaker: Professor Anne Barlow
Theme: W(h)ither Family Law?
See website for details.
March
The BSLC Inaugural Annual Janine Sargoni Memorial Lecture
Date: 5 March 2025
Venue: Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol
Theme: Radical Lawyers? Rethinking the law and society canon
Speaker: Professor Linda Mulcahy
See website for details.
1984 - The year of Anti-Racism: Then and now
Date: 8 March 2025
Venue: The London Archives
See website for details.
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.
What is missing when defendants disown their actions?
Date: 13 March 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Bebhinn Donelly-Lazarov
See website for details.
Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood: call for papers
Date: 19 March 2025
Venue: University of Reading and hybrid
See announcement for details. Call closes: 6 December 2024. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Family Law as Social Policy: Taking Family Problems Upstream
Date: 20 March 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professior Rob George,
Chair: Professor Mavis Maclean
See website for details.
April
British Academy: First annual SHAPE conference
Date: 2 April 2025
Venue: Carton House, London
Save the date: further details will be available in the new year.
Symposium on Roger Cotterrell's Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies
Date: 3 April 2025
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London
See website for details.
How Do New Legal Rights Emerge?
Date: 7 April 2025
Venue: Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham
Speakers: Dr Meghan Campbell and Dr William Mack, University of Birmingham
See website for details.
Parity of Esteem as a Constitutional Principle in NI and Beyond
Date: 9 April 2025
Venue: The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast
See website for details.
SLSA Annual Conference 2025
Dates: 15–17 April 2025
Venue: University of Liverpool
See website for details.
May
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium: call for applications from ECRs
Dates: 7–9 May 2025
Venue: Berlin, Germany
See website for details. Closing date for applications: 15 January 2025.
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.
Law and Society Association Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop
Date: 21 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See website for details.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 22–25 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See meeting details. Registration is now open.
Criminal Mind Research Network launch event
Date: 23 May 2025
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
See announcement for details.
June
Conference on Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond: call for papers
Dates: 5–6 June 2025
Venue: Institut d'études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles
See website for details. Call closes: 25 January 2025.
WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care: call for papers
Dates: 11–12 June 2025
Venue: IALS, Charles Clore House, Russell Square, London
See website and announcement for details. Call closes: 6 January 2025.
UK Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Health Conference: Opportunities, challenges and the vulnerabilities of health throughout the life course
Dates: 19–20 June 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
Speakers: Professor Amy T. Campbell, University of Illinois; Dr Nigel Stobbs, Queensland University of Technology; Dr John Stannard, Queen’s University Belfast
See announcement for details.
2026
June
WG Hart Workshop 2026: call for proposals
Dates and venue: tbc
IALS is now seeking proposals to organise the 2026 WG Hart Workshop. The WG Hart Bequest provides a budget of approximately £7000 to use towards the running costs of the Workshop. In addition to this, the Institute covers the cost of venue hire, publicity and administrative support. The Workshop structure follows the pattern of a two-day workshop with plenary and parallel sessions, so as to permit participation by a wide range of scholars. The deadline for proposals is 28 February 2025. Further details can be found on the website.