EXTERNAL EVENTS

Speaker: Michael Richardson, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Newcastle University

Speaker: Daniel Mallo, Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Newcastle University and Registered Architect

Speaker: Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE.

Booking is now open for this celebratory evening.

The Global South Network (GSN) invites you to this online guest lecture titled to be delivered by the Chief Justice/President of Curia (Supreme Court) of Hungary, the Honourable Professor Dr András Zs Varga  as part of the GSN Judges Guest Lecture Series.

This is a two-day conference from 5 to 6 November 2025.

The current US administration has rattled the waters of international law in a number of fields. The conference will examine how and why. Organised by the Society of Legal Scholars.

This film explores the paths to breaking the UN Security Council deadlock.

One-day symposium bringing together ECRs whose work critically engages with questions of race, ethnicity, justice, and resistance.

The Symposium is funded by the Society of Legal Scholars.

AI and generative AI tools can both empower and disempower students and lecturers. This Symposium explores how AI and generative AI tools can be used to empower our students with equal opportunities in their legal educations and legal careers, particularly for students who can otherwise be excluded or ‘side-lined’ in legal education and within the legal sector. This Symposium takes an interdisciplinary and international approach in showcasing current best practices and innovation in using AI tools in legal education and to prepare students for future legal careers. The panels will include a focus on Pedagogy and Curriculum Design, International Approaches, Expertise from beyond Law, and Student Perspectives and Student Co-Led AI Teaching Projects.

See poster

and programme for details.

The registration link is below.

Webinar on the Private Law Pathfinder programme, exploring its development and future implementation in family courts across England and Wales.

Panel chaired by Stephen Wildblood KC, Judge in the Family and High Courts:

• Judge Christopher Simmonds, National Lead Judge for Divorce

• Jo Shepherd, Lead Implementation Manager for Pathfinder at HMCTS

• Mary Kaye, Partner at Rayden’s Solicitors

This event is part of the Legal Intersections Research Centre's 25th anniversary celebrations.

Professor Cassandra Sharp will be hosting a Q&A with past directors to celebrate 25 years of the LIRC.

States across the world increasingly use various mechanisms designed to limit access to (long-term) international protection. In parallel, women’s citizenship is at risk in many regions of the world, meaning that their access to protection by the State is increasingly under challenge. In this seminar we explore how refugee women experience penalisation through mechanisms such as cessation of refugee protection or the denial of citizenship and how statelessness impacts upon women in particular.

This will be the fifth in a series of free online seminars hosted by the Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) network on the theme of 'Refuge in a cold climate: the impact on women'.

A webinar to launch the latest report from the Academy of Social Sciences released via its Campaign for Social Science and in partnership with Sage.

This is the inaugural professorial lecture of Professor Jill Dickinson.

A webinar to share the key recommendations from LawCare's latest research and the opportunities they offer the legal sector.

See Life in the Law 2025.

Registration is now open for the British Academy of Forensic Sciences Annual Dinner. Speaker: Seena Fazel, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Oxford, and Director of the Centre for Suicide Research

Academics and students working in forensic science, medicine and law are very welcome.

See announcement for details.

Inaugural Lecture with Professor James Lee.

A special event on the value of knowledge in an age of disinformation, in partnership with the Leverhulme Trust and EXPeditions.

Panel discussion, Q&A & drinks, celebrating Professor Alan Norrie’s new book Rethinking Criminal Justice: Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology (CUP).

Registration is open for the Campaign for Social Science Annual Sage Lecture 2025 in partnership with the Policy Institute and the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership.

Keynote speaker: Julia Gillard AC, 27th Prime Minister of Australia

Also speaking: Yuan Yang, the Labour MP for Earley and Woodley and Stian Westlake FAcSS, Executive Chair of the Economic and Social Research Council

Chair: Professor Bobby Duffy, Director of the Policy Institute at King's College London and Chair of the Campaign for Social Science

One-day event at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Speaker: Professor Shazia Choudhry, University of Oxford

Chair: Professor Rosemary Hunter KC (hon), Loughborough University

This two-day event will be hosted online by the Open University Law School legal histories research cluster.

See invitation and website for details.

Closing date for submission of abstracts: 23 October 2025.

The British Academy is hosting a webinar for UK based researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in applying for European Research Council (ERC) grants. The webinar will focus on the ERC Consolidator Grants.

Registration closes on: 10 November 2025.

Talk from Professor Ardi Imseis KC (Queen's University) offering an exploration of Palestine's involvement in recent cases before the ICJ.

Launch of Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments edited by Nani Jansen Reventlow, Eddie Bruce-Jones, Lyn KL Tjon Soei Len and Adam Weiss.

Organised by the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy & Law.

The first of two new webinars in the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Talking About Homes series.

See announcement and website for further details.

Guest keynote speaker: Dr Joshua Jowitt

The second of two new webinars in the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Talking About Homes series.

See announcement and website for further details.

This is the Royal Institute of Philosophy annual lecture.

Guest Speaker: Quassim Cassam, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick

British Academy of Forensic Sciences, Lund Lecture

Speaker: Professor Fiona Wilcox, His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Inner West London

This virtual panel brings together three distinguished specialists to explore the evolving relationship between AI-generated innovation and the law. Hosted by Oxford University Press.

This is a lecture event held at the London School of Economics featuring a new book titled Common Law Liberalism by Professor John Hasnas.

Abstracts are invited for the 2nd Annual Conference on Law and Social Justice. See announcement for details.

Call closes: 28 November 2025.

A debate on whether AI will revolutionise quantitative health and social science research organised by the National Centre for Research Methods.

This event is the Law and Society Initiative (IDES) Annual Conference. See announcement for details.

This lecture will be delivered by Professor Johanna Gibson, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26

Speaker: Professor Máiréad Enright, Loughborough University

Three-day conference from 29–31 January 2026.

Speaker: Professor Natasha Affolder, University of British Columbia

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

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

Closing date: 21 December 2025.

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.

Call closes: 5 January 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

The Law and Society Association Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop will convene on Wednesday 27 May 2026, immediately preceding the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, USA. 

Applications close: 13 November 2025.

The call for submissions for the LSA Annual Meeting is now open. The event takes place over three days from 28 to 31 May 2026.

Call closing date extended: 28 October 2025.

The British Academy and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation have announced a call for applicants for early career scholars in the humanities and social sciences to attend the Knowledge Frontiers Symposium. The research collaboration symposium will take place between 10–12 June 2026 in Bonn, Germany.

Applications close: 29 October 2025.

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

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

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 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.

Abstracts and informal queries can be directed to David Gurnham d.gurnham@soton.ac.uk and Agnes Woolley agnes.woolley@soton.ac.uk.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2025.

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

See announcement and website for details.

Call closes: 19 February 2026.