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
Contemporary Challenges in Migration Research, Ulster University Belfast
Climate Change & Migration: New Challenges, Legal Responses, and Policy Solutions, Nottingham: call for abstracts
Other events
Towards Improved Reproductive Health Outcomes for Women in Australia: What can be learned from Argentina’s human rights-based approach to sexual and reproductive rights?, hybrid from University of Wollongong
Defences for Victims of Domestic Abuse Who Kill their Abusers, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Epistolary International Law Workshop, LSE, London: call for papers
2024
May
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.
The Underworlds Series: Hope as site of global dis/ordering
Date: 8 May 2024
Venue: online from Queen Mary University of London
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?
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.
Setting Safeguards for Social Media: How to stay safe when living online
Date: 9 May 2024
Venue: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London
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.
Gestation: Justice
Date: 15 May 2024
Venue: Loughborough University, Lesney Avenue, London
See webpage 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.
2024 Cotterrell Lecture: Progress and Regression with Rahel Jaeggi
Date: 16 May 2024
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London
See website for details.
Race and Justice Seminar Series: The Law of Racial Resentment
Date: 16 May 2024
Venue: online from University of York
Speaker: Dr Yuvraj Joshi, Brooklyn Law School, New York
Discussant: Dr Aaron Winter, Lancaster University, Dept of Sociology
See invitation for details.
Roundtable on 2024 elections: Democracy and inclusion
Date: 16 May 2024
Venue: Coslett Building, ARU, Cambridge
Organised by Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion, Anglia Ruskin University/Centre for Governance and Human Rights, Cambridge University
See website for details.
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.
2024 Goldsmiths Law Annual Human Rights Symposium & Lecture
Date: 17 May 2024
Venue: Goldsmiths, Universiyt of London
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: 21–22 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, poster, programme and website for details.
Housing: Is anywhere in the UK getting it right?
Date: 22 May 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.
The MacDermott Lecture 2024: The rule of law in a time of democratic decay
Date: 26 May 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Speaker: Fiona de Londras, Barber Professor of Jurisprudence, Birmingham Law School, and Honorary Professor, Australian National University College of Law
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.
CSLS Annual Socio-Legal Lecture: Everyday ambassadors – lessons from a fractured world
Date: 29 May 2024
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford
Speaker: Professor Annelise Riles
See announcement and invitation for details.
The Underworlds Series: The Wild/Feral as Site of Global Dis/Ordering
Date: 29 May 2024
Venue: online from Queen Mary University of London
See website for details.
Law's Knowledge in Times of a Changing Climate
Date: 30 May 2024
Venue: CSLS, Wolfson College, Oxford
Speakers: Chris Decker, Lisa Voelzmann and Bettina Lange
See announcemnent and invitation for details.
Towards Improved Reproductive Health Outcomes for Women in Australia: What can be learned from Argentina’s human rights-based approach to sexual and reproductive rights?
Date: 31 May 2024
Venue: hybrid from Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong
See announcement for details.
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.
Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar 2024: The future for liberal ideals: how far should political rights of free speech and public protest tolerate intolerance?
Dates: 11–12 June 2024
Venue: UCLAN, Preston
See website for details.
(Re)building Trust in the Police
Date: 12 June 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.
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.
16th Annual SOAS Law PhD Colloquium: call for papers
Date: 14 June 2024
Venue: SOAS University of London and online
See announcement for details. Call closes: 10 May 2024.
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.
Early Modern Legal Records: Equity and Conciliar Courts
Date: 18–19 June 2024
Venue: National Archives, Richmond
See webpages for details: 18 June & 19 June.
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.
Law’s Filmy Imaginations about the South Asian History of Queerness
Date: 8 July 2024
Venue: Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: Swethaa Ballakrishnen
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Empirical Research Methods in Advancing Legal Knowledge Conference
Date: 17 September 2024
Venue: Northumbria Law School
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.
Epistolary International Law Workshop: call for papers
Date: 26 September 2024
Venue: LSE, London
See announcement for details. Closing date: 31 May 2024.
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
Dates: 5–7 December 2024
Venue: Australian National University, Canberra
See announcement for details.
Asian Law and Society Association Early Career/Junior Scholar Workshop: call for applications
Date: 12 December 2024
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
See announcement for details. Call closes: 24 June 2024. This event immediately precedes the one below.
Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting: call for papers and panels
Dates: 13–14 December 2024
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Theme: Whose Law, Whose Voices? Constructing Legal Stories in Asia
See announcement for details. Call closes: 24 June 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.