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.
Once posted, entries will be retained until they have taken place. If you would like your event included on this page, please contact
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Latest events . . .
SLSA events
Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood, Reading
Workshop: Legal perspectives on climate reparations, University of Bristol: call for expressions of interest
Other events
Justice Beyond Human Rights: Lessons from Saudi Women’s activism, MMU and online
Minimum Wage: Tool of emancipation or tool of coercion? – Panel discussion, City University of London
Queer Judgments Book Launch, University of Sussex and online
Next 100 Years: Celebration of female trailblazers in the legal profession, DLA Piper, London
Responsible AI in Health Care, Rotterdam, The Netherlands: call for abstracts
A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? Winning against the odds for human rights, equity, and indigenous peoples, Leeds: call for EOIs
From Binary to Bench: Empowering equal opportunities and AI literacy in global legal education, University of Reading and online
2025
January
Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade
Date: 24 January 2025
Venue: Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University
Speaker: Dr Leila Ullrich, Oxford University
See announcement for details.
The Rights of Lough Neagh
Date: 27 January 2025
Venue: online from Queen's University Belfast
See website for details.
Law and Marxism Book Series: A legal concept of work
Date: 29 January 2025
Venue: online from QMUL, London
See website for details of this discussion of Zoe Adams' new book.
Relating Law and Literature in the Long 19th Century
Date: 29 January 2025
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London
See website for details.
'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.
How to Achieve Justice for Victims and Survivors of International Crimes in Today’s Global Landscape
Date: 30 January 2025
Venue: Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Chowen Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex
Speaker: Antonia Mulvey, Founder and Executive Director of Legal Action Worldwide
See website for details.
Sylvia Pankhurst Centre Annual Lecture 2024–2025: Interrogating movement
Date: 30 January 2025
Venue: online from Manchester Metropolitan University
Speakers: Sajida Ismail (Grass Routes Movement CIC), Alaa Khaled (MMU) and Samantha Morgan (MMU).
See website and announcement 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, and online
See announcement for details.
February
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: Law and Disputing in Early Medieval Britain – Oxford and online
Date: 4 February 2025
Venue: CSLS Manor Road Building
Speaker: Dr Tom Lambert, University of Cambridge
See announcement for details.
The MacDermott Lecture: Revisiting the Public/Private Divide: Corporations, legal education and the common good in a globalized world
Date: 4 February 2025
Venue: Moot Court, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
Speaker: Sundhya Pahuja,iDirector of the Australian Research Council Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law, Melbourne Law School
See website for details.
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.
Holocaust Memorial Day
Date: 5 February 2025
Venue: in person and online, University of Sussex
Guest speakers: Holocaust Survivors, George Summerfield and Peter Summerfield BEM
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.
Queer Judgments Book Launch
Date: 11 February 2025
Venue: University of Sussex and online
The editors (Nuno Ferreira, Maria Moscati and Sen Raj) will be joined by contributors Alex Powell (Oxford Brookes), Alexander Maine (City London), and Lynsey Mitchell (Strathclyde). See website for details.
Screening: Judges Under Pressure
Date: 12 February 2025
Venue: Mansfield College, Oxford
Organised by the Bonavero Institute and Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, the screening will be followed by a panel discussion. See announcement and poster 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.
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: How is it possible to write a global history of laws?
Date: 18 February 2025
Venue: CSLS Manor Road Building
Speaker: Professor Jean-Louis Halpérin, L’École Normale Supérieure, Paris
See announcement 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.
Justice Beyond Human Rights: Lessons from Saudi Women’s activism
Date: 19 February 2025
Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University and online
Speaker: Dr Nora Jaber, Edinburgh University
See announcement 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
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: Criminalising the Unspeakable: Rethinking the history of sodomy
Date: 4 March 2025
Venue: CSLS Manor Road Building
Speaker: Professor Alice Taylor, KCL
See announcement for details.
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.
Next 100 Years: Celebration of female trailblazers in the legal profession
Date: 5 March 2025
Venue: DLA Piper, London
Guests: Dana Denis-Smith, Dr I Stephanie Boyce, Barbara Mils KC, Jon Hayes
See announcement for details.
Minimum Wage: Tool of emancipation or tool of coercion? – Panel discussion
Date: 6 March 2025
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Law School, Sebastian Street, City St George's
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.
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: Rituals of Law: Legal Cosmopolis in an Early Modern Indian Ocean Port
Date: 11 March 2025
Venue: CSLS Manor Road Building
Speaker: Dr Mahmood Kooria, University of Edinburgh
See announcement 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
Date: 19 March 2025
Venue: University of Reading and hybrid
See announcement for details. 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.
Workshop: Legal perspectives on climate reparations: call for expressions of interest
Date: 4 April 2025
Venue: Lady Hale Moot Court Room, University of Bristol
See announcement and Call for EOIs for details. Closing date: 10 February 2025. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
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
Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference: Anatomy of a Crisis: call for abstracts
Dates: 8–9 May 2025
Venue: McGill Universeity, Montreal, Canada
See call for abstracts and poster for details. For all enquires contact:
A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? Winning against the odds for human rights, equity, and indigenous peoples: call for EOIs
Dates: 8–9 May 2025
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
See announcement and invitation for details. Closing date for EOIs: 7 February 2025. Closing date for abstract submissions: 28 February 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.
Dysfunctional Governance: 'Crisis', 'scandal', 'tragedy', 'emergency'
Dates: 15–16 May 2025
Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff: call for abstracts
Submissions are invited for this interdisciplinary workshop. See announcement 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.
‘What’s Next for Feminism?’ LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory: call for papers
Dates: 29–30 May 2025
Venue: LSE, Houghton Street, London
See website for details. Call closes: 1 March 2025.
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.
Law and the Critique of Political Economy: 60th Anniversary of Reading Capital
Date: 6–7 June 2025
Venue: Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia
See website for details. Closing date: 13 April 2025.
WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care: cfp extended
Dates: 11–12 June 2025
Venue: IALS, Charles Clore House, Russell Square, London
See website and announcement for details. Closing date: 24 January 2025.
Summer Academy for Feminist Legal Studies 2025: call for speakers
Dates: 13–15 June 2025
Venue: University of Hamburg, Germany
See announcement for details. If you are interested in participating in the Summer Academy as a speaker, please send a short email with details of your expertise or research area to
Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and the Law: A Conversation between Feminist Scholars in Postcolonial South Asia and the UK: call for abstracts
Dates: 16–17 June 2025
Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff University
See announcement for details. Call closes: 28 March 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.
September
Responsible AI in Health Care: call for abstracts
Dates: 10–12 September 2025
Venue: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
See announcement for details. Closing date: 28 February 2025.
November
From Binary to Bench: Empowering equal opportunities and AI literacy in global legal education
Date: 5 November 2025 – save the date
Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, and online
Further details will be posted when available. This is an SLS-funder symposium organised by Dr Melanie Stockton-Brown and Dr Basak Bak.
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.