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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.