EXTERNAL EVENTS

Two panels followed byan inaugural lecture for the Centre titled The Future of Critique delivered by Rafeef Ziadah.

The Dutch and Flemish Law and Society Association (VSR), in association with the Netherlands Academy for Empirical Legal Studies, will be holding its two-day PhD School for postgraduate students on 27 & 28 January 2026 at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

See announcement

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and website for details.

Book discussion with author Oishik Sircar, Manisha Sethi (independent academic and writer) and Shohini Ghosh (Jamia Millia Islamia).

See invitiation for details.

The joining link is below.

This is the launch of the JRF Annual UP Poverty 2026 report.

Speaker: Professor Máiréad Enright, Loughborough University

An in-person morning session covering AI and automated decision making (ADM) in the public sector, including litigation and law reform, and use and risks of using AI in public law litigation.

Three-day conference from 29–31 January 2026.

The Sylvia Pankhurst Network is hosting its annual lecture, Intersectional Feminism: Resistance, Community Power and Transformative Justice, featuring Lady Unchained in conversation with Sandhya Sharma.

Speaker: Alan Owen, activist and founder of LABRATS (Legacy of the Atomic Bomb, Recognition for Atomic Test Survivors)

Speaker: Fernando Atria (University of Chile)

A webinar presented by the Campaign for Social Science in partnership with the Social Research Association and the UK Evaluation Society as part of our joint series on different applications of AI.

This is a book launch roundtable of Jaco Barnard-Naude's book Spectres of Reparation in South Africa: Re-encountering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The discussants are Maria Aristodemou, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera and Adam Gearey.

Speaker(s): Briget Mac Eochagain, USYD Julie Stone Peters, QMUL/Columbia (online) Maks Del Mar QMUL (Kate Leader: chair) QMUL

Speaker: Dr Amber Darr, Lecturer in Competition Law, University of Manchester

Speakers: Professor Stacy Banwell in conversation with Christina Warner, barrister

The IDES Online New Book Discussion Series aims to provide authors with a platform to present their new books to a diverse audience of socio-legal scholars at UNIL and beyond. In this session, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner will discuss her book Regulatory Violence. The Global Dynamics of Regulatory Experimentation in Biomedicine and Health.

Dr Clucas will discuss the For Women Scotland cases, situating them within recent gender critical case law and discourse and a broader context of resurgent prejudice.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

Keynote speaker: Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE

Call closes: 2 February 2025.

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?

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

and call for abstracts for details.

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 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.

Closing date for submission of abstracts: 1 February 2026.

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

See pre-announcement for details.

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

Call closes: 26 January 2026.

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

Call closes: 31 January 2026.

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.

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.

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 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.

Closing date: 16 January 2026.