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2024

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2025

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Latest  events . . .

SLSA events

Interpretation in Courts in Wales and the Republic of Ireland – simultaneous and consecutive interpretation compared, Cardiff

Other events

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium, Paris: call for applications from ECRs

1st European Conference of the International Association of Consumer Law, Girton College, Cambridge

Challenging Punishment as the Justice Norm within and Beyond International Criminal Law, Queen's University Belfast

Reimagine Ageing Showcase, University of Leeds

Shame and Medical History Seminar, Wellcome Centre, Exeter, and online

A Power Trip: Guided London walk on the theme of power, politics & law, starts at Somerset House, London

Slavery’s Long Goodbye: A Wilberforce Institute Lecture, Kingston upon Hull

Conference on Supporting Families within the Family Justice System, University of Essex and on Zoom: call for papers

JUSTICE Annual Conference 2024: Protecting the Rule of Law, London

Being a Judge in Israel; Taking judging seriously, online guest lecture from Global South Network, University of Leicester 


2024


July

British Academy Summer Showcase

Dates: 12–13 July 2024

Venue: British Academy, London 

See website for details.

Summer School: Public international law

Dates: 15–19 July 2024

Venue: BIICL, Russel Square, London, and online

See website for details of this British Institute of International and Comparative Law event.

'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. 

Workshop: Modern Legal Records: Civil Justice & Society in England & Wales, 1840-1985

Date: 16 July 2024

Venue: National Archives, Richmond

See website for details.

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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. 

Challenging Punishment as the Justice Norm within and Beyond International Criminal Law

Date: 30 July 2024

Venue: Queen's University Belfast

Speakers: Professor Natasa Mavronicola, University of Birmingham, & Dr Mattia Pinto, University of York

See website for details.

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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.

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.

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 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. 

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.

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.

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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. 

Reimagine Ageing Showcase

Date: 11 September 2024

Venue: University of 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.

MethodsCon: Futures: call for contributions

Dates: 12–13 September 2024

Venue: University of Manchester

See website for details. 

British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Traning Courses 2024

Dates: throughout autumn 2024

Venues: BIICL, Russell Square London and/or online

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.

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.

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.

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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. 

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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.

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.

Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History

Dates: 24–26 October 2024

Venue: San Francisco, USA

See website for details. 

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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.

 

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.

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December

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: 22 August 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: call for papers

Dates: 7–8 December 2024

Venue: Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

See website for details. Call closes: 1 August 2024.

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. Call closes: 6 June 2024.

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.

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2025


January

Commission on Legal Pluralism: An international course on legal pluralism: call for applications

Dates: 8–11 January 2025

Venue: Universitas Indonesia Law School, Jakarta, Indonesia

See flyer for details. Closing date for applications: 10 June 2024.

Commission on Legal Pluralism: The Transformative Power of Legal Pluralism?: call for papers

Dates: 13–15 January 2025

Venue: Jakarta, Indonesia

See website for details. Call closes: 5 July 2024.

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.

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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.


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.