EXTERNAL EVENTS

This online symposium addresses how dance practice and dance-based research can enrich understandings of consent within legal frameworks; and in turn, how contemporary legal interpretation might contribute to embodied and dance-embedded understandings of consent. This symposium is fully funded by AHRC Network, The Choreography of consent: experiments in dance/law research.

Screening of a film based on the research of the Laws of Social Reproduction project.

See website for details.

Speaker: Sir Richard Arnold, Alumni and Visiting Professor at Westminster Law School and Court of Appeal judge

Hosted by the Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture.

Title: For Women Scotland 2, The Equality and Human Rights Commission, and understandings of (trans+) gender

Keynote speaker: Dr Kay Lalor, Manchester Metropolitan University

See announcement for details of this British Academy ECR Network event.

Organised by the Nuffield Foundation and the University of Glasgow. See announcement and website for details.

Speakers: Colm O'Cinneide, University College London, and Simon Halliday, University of Strathclyde.

Speaker: Michelle Pace, Professor in Global Studies, Roskilde, Denmark.

Speaker: Professor Colm O’Cinneide

An exclusive evening reception featuring an intimate conversation with Dr I Stephanie Boyce, the first person of colour and the first Black President of the Law Society of England and Wales. Organised by Support Through Court.

This two day conference is from 26–27 February 2026.

This conference focuses on how policy discourses structure what counts as violence, whose voices are heard, and which responses become possible. It examines how lived experience is translated into administrative, legal and political categories, and how that translation can both enable and limit recognition, justice and care.

Speaker: Richard Hermer KC, Attorney General for England and Wales

The National Archives’ collections offer a valuable insight into how the government interacted with and viewed LGBTQ+ communities in the past, at a time when the state played a major role in repressing and controlling the lives of gay and bisexual people.

Organised by the Public Law Project with King’s College London Legal Clinic and Centre for Climate Law and Governance and Landmark Chambers

Theme: How can we use the law to ensure governments deliver climate justice?

Speaker: Professor Joshua Page (University of Minnesota)

Keynote: Richard Watermeyer, Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Higher Education Transformations, University of Bristol

Chair: Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Strategy, Higher Education Policy Institute

Keynote: Lord Patrick Vallance, Minister of State for Science, Innovation, Research and Nuclear.

Speaker: Professor Dave Cowan

Title: A 'charter for scroungers and scrimshankers': a biography of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977

This lecture will be delivered by Professor Sharon Cowan, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025–2026.

Speaker: Professor Joanne Conaghan, Bristol University School of Law

This is the latest event in the JRF's Talking about Homes project.

This event is part of the Crime, Justice and Society Seminar series.

Professor Joshua Page will discuss his recent book, Legal Plunder: Predatory Policing and Punishment in the United States, written with Professor Joe Soss, University of Minnesota.

All are welcome to attend this panel discussion.

Discover King Henry VIII’s groundbreaking act and its far-reaching consequences.

See the invitation from Professor Linda Mulcahy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford. Further details and website link will be announced in due course.

Speaker: Professor Bernard Harcourt, Corliss Lamont Professor of Law and Civil Liberties at Columbia University

See website for details.

Speaker: Dr Abenaa Owusu-Bempah, Associate Professor of criminal law and criminal evidence (LSE)

Chair: George Letsas, Professor of Philosophy of Law (UCL Laws)

Speaker: Professor Sir Ian Kennedy KC (hon)

Published in The Law Teacher at the end of 2025, the eight articles collected in the special issue demonstrate that, despite being a core first-year module with large student numbers, contract law is a remarkably fertile ground for innovation in teaching and learning. Amidst unprecedented change both on and off the university campus, the subject of contract law is a constant where lasting innovations could be developed. The launch event and the incorporated discussion will provide food for thought for law teachers of contract and other large core modules in the English curriculum.

See website of details.

Speaker: Professor Natasha Affolder, University of British Columbia

This event is organised be Professor David Capper and Dr Gift Sotonye-Frank, and supported by the Society of Legal Scholars.

See announcement for details.

Deadline for submissions: 16 February 2026.

This event is organised by the Campaign for Social Science.

Join University of Glasgow historian Dr Rosemary Elliot for a fascinating talk that uncovers the extraordinary story of Eliza O’Doherty (McIver), an Irish woman whose 1858 divorce, and her bold legal appeals the following year, shaped the rights of mothers in Scotland.

Save the dates for this two-day conference from 26–27 March.

This is a two-day event running from 30 March–1 April 2026.

Registration is now open.

The organisers seek abstracts of research papers concerning the draft Wills Bill 2025 and the Law Commission’s consultation and reports in this matter.

This one-day workshop will bring together scholars and practitioners from across disciplines to interrogate algorithmic biases and consider frameworks and strategies to build more inclusive, rights-based, and participatory AI systems.

Book discussion on Madam War Criminal: Biljana Plavšić, Serbia’s Iron Lady, by Olivera Simić

Keynote speaker: Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE

Speaker: Professor Philippa Webb, Professor of Public International Law, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; Barrister, Twenty Essex

What happens to international law when it is ignored, and regime change is driven by force rather than democracy?

Theme: Critical Crossroads: A Criminology That Confronts

This is a two-day conference running from 28–29 April 2026.

Closing date for submissions: 15 March 2026.

This two-day event runs from 7–8 May 2026. See poster ...

and call for abstracts for details.

Closing date: 1 February 2026.

This three day conference will take place from 11–13 May 2025. The organisers are hoping to attract submissions covering not only legal but also interdisciplinary perspectives, in particular anthropological and socio-legal insights.

Keynote speakers:

• Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Ghent University

• Justice Ben Kioko, African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights

• Christopher Roberts, Chinese University of Hong Kong

This two days conference runs from 11–12 May 2026.

See announcement for details. Call closes: 1 May 2026.

This is the CSLS Socio-Legal Annual Lecture.

Speaker: Professor Sida Liu, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong

The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace invites submissions from current and recent graduate students (within two years of receiving their PhD).

This is a two-day event running from 13–14 May 2026.

This event takes place over three days from 28 to 31 May 2026.

Theme: Rage Against the 'Machines': Feeling and Challenging Systems of Normalisation and Oppression

Call closes: 3 April 2026.

Speaker: Grégoire Webber, Professor of Law and Philosophy (Queen's University, Canada)

Chair: George Letsas, Professor of Philosophy of Law (UCL Laws)

This three-day event will take place from 15 to 17 June 2026.

Theme: The UNCRPD Twenty Years On: New Horizons and Emerging Challenges.

Call closes: 19 March 2026.

This is a two-day conference running from 16–17 June 2026. See announcement for details.

Call closes: 17 April 2026.

Registration is open on the link below.

This is a two-day event from 16–17 June 2026. See announcement for details.

This two-day conference will take place from 17 to 18 June 2026. It will also include a graduate student workshop.

The organisers of the eighth annual Law and Humanities roundtable invite original, and interdisciplinary paper presentations in response to this year’s theme. See call for papers for details.

Call closes: 6 February 2026.

This summer school runs for seven days from 22 to 28 June 2026.

Applications close on 22 May 2026.

Abstracts are invited for this two day workshop from 22 to 23 June 2026.

Convenors: Luka Glušac (University of Belgrade), Naomi Creutzfeldt (University of Kent), and Chris Gill (University of Glasgow)

See website below for details. Closing date: 15 March 2026.

Skills workshop for identifying and accessing original source material among modern legal records.

A two-day event from 26–27 June 2026.

A conference to celebrate the work of Costas Douzinas. The speakers are Peter Goodrich, Gil Leung, Adam Gearey, Ozan Kamiloglou, Julia Chryssostalis, Andreas Philippopoulos-Michalopoulos, Patrick Hanafin, Cormac Deane, Ceylan Yildiz, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Dan Matthews, Marcus De Matos, Moniza Rizzini-Ansari, Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, Illan Wall, Jaco Barnard-Naude.

See website for details.

The School of Law and the Department of English at the University of Southampton, UK, warmly invite abstracts for submissions for oral contributions to a Legal Humanities and Creative Writing Workshop: Stories of ‘Separation’ and ‘Gathering’ in Legal and Creative Imaginaries (spring/summer 2026, date tbc) on the productive role of fictional genre in law and legal thought. Please see the full Call for Abstracts for details.

This is a two-day event running from 1 to 2 July 2026.

Two-day workshop from 2–3 July 2026.

This conference runs for three days from 22 to 24 July 2026.

See announcement and website for details.

Call closes: 19 February 2026.

This is a two-day event from 21–22 August 2026.

Call closes: 20 February 2026.

This three-day event will run from 2 to 4 September 2026.

Theme: 'Doing Law Differently'. See website below for details.

Call opens on 30 January and closes on 27 March 2026.

Registration opens on 11 May 2026.

This is a three-day event from 7–9 September 2026 is the final conference of the DISSECT research project (ERC) for the study of evidence in international human rights adjudication. See announcement and link below for details.

The theme is 'Enabling democracy'. See announcement and website for details.