EXTERNAL EVENTS

Free official tour of the highest court in the land, housed in a beautiful Grade II Listed building. Multiple dates including 10, 17, 20 and 24 August.

Focusing on hard-to-reach populations, this intensive course – which runs 24–28 August 2026 – introduces applied research methods for conducting high-quality qualitative and quantitative research with marginal, hidden, and excluded groups.

For further information, and application please contact Melanie Sawers at: melanie.sawers@nuffield.ox.ac.uk

A British Association of Comparative Law seminar on intellectual property law, exploring harmonisation, divergence and comparative developments across the EU, UK & US.

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

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

Registration is open.

Private law presents itself as neutral and technical, a body of rules that simply reflects how the world is. But its foundational concepts carry assumptions about whose relationships, identities, and lives count as normal. This two-day conference, from 3–4 September, brings queer theory into conversation with private law, asking what is revealed when we take those assumptions seriously and refuse to treat them as inevitable. It gathers scholars committed to exposing the heteronormative and cisnormative underpinnings of private law doctrine, and to asking how queer theory can transform private law and our assumptions about it.

Submissions are invited for a workshop at the University of Strathclyde School of Law on 3 and 4 September 2026 exploring the relationship between representation, justice, and popular culture.

See announcement for details.

The form for submissions is available on the link below.

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.

This international, inter-institutional conference hosted by Derby University, in partnership with University of Portsmouth and supported by International Society of Economic Criminology, explores, discusses and investigates the phenomena of modern slavery and human trafficking.

The Centre for Protecting Women Online has announced its 2nd Women & Girls’ Online Safety Conference. It will take place on 9 & 10 September 2026.

The Law, Gender, Queerness, and the Moving Body stream at the Critical Legal Conference, to be held at the University of Westminster from 9–11 September 2026, invites submissions. See website for details.

This workshop draws on interdisciplinary collaborations to examine the relationship between law and social reproduction.

The 9th Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum provide a unique opportunity for those practising in, researching, teaching or otherwise with an interest in partnership or LLP law, practice or policy, or related areas such as corporate law, employment and tax, to hear papers from policymakers (including DBT and HMRC), and leading practitioners and academics.

See link below for programme and registration.

This is the launch of the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network, a new collaborative initiative designed to foster dialogue, resource-sharing, and research-informed teaching on race and empire in legal education.

John Hyde reveals how the real Post Office Scandal was that their lawyers knew the evidence was flawed but failed to act.

A two-day hybrid conference from 16–17 September 2026 uniting researchers and practitioners to improve policing and criminal justice through better communication and trust.

Join Patrick Voss to look at how lawyers, judges and juries developed from Magna Carta to today and how Londoners shaped modern justice.

Organised by the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, this conference will explore the links between money, power, and violence across war, debt, everyday life and global economic systems.

The conference takes place from 17–18 September 2026.

The conference is hosted by Lancaster University Law School’s new Human Rights and Global Vulnerabilities research cluster and is kindly funded in part by the Society of Legal Scholars.

See website for details of this international conference on the theme of 'Feminist Lawmaking'.

The event is co-organised by the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies, of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London in cooperation with the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for Regulation SUSTAIN-AI-REG (LUMSA, Italy).

This roundtable forms part of the first Open Forum on 'Innovation for Regulation', organized by the Centre of Excellence on Sustainable AI and Regulation.

The Centre for Social Futures, Lancaster University, UK, is delighted to announce the launch of an exciting new series of late summer schools dedicated to explore and define why, how and in which ways key values might inform Futures thinking and practice. The theme of this year's event is 'Empathy'.

This five-day event runs from 22–26 September 2026. See link below for full details.

Unit Chambers is pleased to host its annual Family Law Conference, bringing together leading King’s Counsel, practitioners and specialist contributors to examine the key developments shaping family justice today.

Explore Elizabeth Curdew’s life as a 19th-century repeat offender - examining crime, punishment, and how Victorian society treated women.

The BIICL is offering the following courses from 28 September to 2 October 2026. They will cover a wide range of timely and critical topics, including business and human rights, law of the sea, cultural heritage law, climate change litigation, public international law in practice and space law.

• Short Course: Business and Human Rights - Starts 28 September 2026

• Short Course: Law of the Sea - Starts 28 September 2026

• Short Course Cultural Heritage Law - Starts 30 September 2026

• Short Course: Climate Change Litigation - Starts 30 September 2026

• Short Course: Artificial Intelligence Regulation - Starts 1 October 2026

• Short Course: Public International Law in Practice - Starts 1 October 2026

• Short Course: Space Law - Starts 2 October 2026

You can find out more about each of the courses on the link below. 

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

This year’s PLP annual conference asks: How is public law adapting to a new landscape and where does its potential lie as a force for democratic accountability? How can the legal community work with civil society to strengthen the Rule of Law, support democratic institutions and help build resilience in communities? How can we ensure fairness and accountability when civic space in the UK is shrinking? What lessons can we learn from other countries?

Early bird registration open.

Academics, researchers, teachers, professionals, and students are invited to submit abstract proposals for presentations related to the themes addressed in this call for papers for this seminar series that will take place from 21–22 October 2026.

Closing date: 5 September 2026.

The Centre for Childhoods and Social Justice is delighted to welcome Professor Ann Skelton, one of the world’s leading children’s rights scholars and advocates, to deliver its 2026 Annual Lecture.

This event is organised by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) in association with the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA).

The Black Research Connections Conference is a landmark annual gathering spotlighting the brilliance, influence and future-shaping contributions of Black researchers across the UK.

2026–2027 marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of the Wolfenden Report into homosexual offences and prostitution. This one-day conference invites submissions which explore how the Wolfenden Report and its legacies remain relevant today. Please see the announcement enclosed for details. The deadline for proposals is 14 August 2026.

Join the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub and the British Library to explore disability histories. Presentations will highlight disability stories within the British Library collections, creating space for conversations around access, history, and future directions.

See website for details. Call closes: 31 July 2026.

A two-day event from 3–4 December 2026 organised by Hannah Arendt Center in collaboration with SAFI Network.

E-mail for enquiries: ontrial.conference@gmail.com.

The PhD Days are 2 & 3 March 2027. The Annual Conference is on 4 & 5 March 2027.

See announcement for further details: