EXTERNAL EVENTS

This is a two-day event from 15–16 June 2026.

Conference theme: The Future of the International Legal Order

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

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

This is the Next 100 Years project annual awards ceremony.

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

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

A panel discussion and Q&A looking at modern slavery, coercion, forced labour and what it means to be a University of Sanctuary.

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

Registration is open on the link below.

Fifty years since the UK ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights it has still not been incorporated into UK law.

This two-day conference, from 16 to 17 June 2026, will include three panels of paper presentations and keynote lectures delivered by Professor Philip Alston, Professor Aoife Nolan and Dr Emma Wincup (Joseph Rowntree Foundation).

It is funded by the Society of Legal Scholars and the Centre for Law and Social Justice, University of Leeds.

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

The launch of two new books that rethink how violence, harm, and justice are understood - from intimate settings to a planetary scale.

Professor Colin Tyler, University of Hull, examines the growing restrictions on protest, their impact on citizens, and the ethical basis of protest.

Professor McCall-Smith holds the Chair of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Edinburgh.

The British Academy will be hosting its next webinar on Friday 19 June 2026, 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 Advanced Grants.

The British Academy Ideas Festival returns on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 June 2026. Celebrating bold thinking and unexpected discoveries from the histories that shape our identities to the forces influencing politics, culture and technology.

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.

This event invites sexual violence researchers from different disciplines and institutions to reflect on how we speak out about our research. Through interdisciplinary conversations and workshops, we hope to navigate and address challenges in disseminating sexual violence research, including the risks and responsibilities that arise with increased visibility, exposure and engagement.

This is a one-day workshop brings together academics from Colombia, South Africa, Romania, Brazil and Mexico to engage with questions of decolonisation.

This two-day workshop will run from 22–23 June 2026.

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

See website below for details.

Located at Queen’s University Belfast, this is the second forum in the series which aims to provide an important space to develop research excellence at the intersections of law and the humanities, and foster intellectual community, supporting early-career scholars.

See website for updates.

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

Workshop on essential skills you need to identify and access original source material among modern legal records.

This is a two-day event from 24–25 June 2026.

A book symposium on Marco Brigaglia's book Foucault on Power, Law, and Society A Reappraisal (Routledge 2026).

Speaker: Marco Brigaglia, Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Palermo, Italy.

Hosted by The Cloud Legal Project.

Dates: 25–26 June 2026

The co-convenors of the Society of Legal Scholars Public Law section are delighted to announce a two-day, in-person conference at the University of Worcester. The conference, which is supported by the Society of Legal Scholars Subject Section Fund, will explore the public law and constitutional implications of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit).

This three-hour workshop is focused on designing a cross-faculty course inspired by the work of Robbie Shilliam and Stephanie Butcher, and focused on the provocations, possibilities, and challenges of advancing 'epistemic justice' and the role of universities in contributing to socially just cities.

Hosted by The Cloud Legal Project, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.

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.

This event runs from 28 June–3 July 2026.

Applications to this year's mobility-themed special workshop at the 32nd World Congress of the International Association Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Please see here for further information about the stream. Wider details about the conference are available on the website link below. Please do not hesitate to reach out to Dr Ben Hudson and/or Nadire Özdemir if you have any questions.

This is an evening webinar, offering an overview of the SHAPE Involve and Engage 2027–28 call, guidance on the application process, and the opportunity to ask questions.

Register on the Zoom link below.

This workshop will address differences in the ways the concept of ‘Policy’ is used by lawyers and socio-legal scholars on one side and political and social scientists on the other. Organised by Caer Smyth, Dan Wincott and Dave Cowan.

It will run from 30 June–1 July 2026.

Speaker: Martin Firrell

Organised by The Law and the Humanities Hub.

A workshop exploring Horizon Europe Pillar 2 opportunities.

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.

• Speaker: Professor Rana Mitter OBE FBA, S T Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at The Harvard Kennedy School

• Title: China, the US and Europe in the Era of Xi and Trump

From the Molly Houses of the 18th century, to the arrest and trial of Oscar Wilde, to the laws protecting LGBTQ+ people today, explore the rich history of Covent Garden with this Bow Street Museum of Crime and Justice Walking Tour.

The annual Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion (CAJI) Conference 2026 is organised around a shared concern: how changes in the global order are reshaping the way law is made, interpreted, and used. Across jurisdictions and fields of practice, long-standing assumptions about legal authority, regulatory stability, and the reach of rights are being unsettled by shifting geopolitical power, economic realignment, technological concentration, and new forms of cross-border influence.

Further information is available on the website.

These workships, organised by the University of Galway, will take place from 2 to 4 July 2026.

Conference theme: EU and UK: 10 years after the referendum

Two-day workshop from 2–3 July 2026.

Located at Cardiff University, this is the third forum in the series which aims to provide an important space to develop research excellence at the intersections of law and the humanities, and foster intellectual community, supporting early-career scholars.

See website for updates.

Join the Centre of European Law for a conversation on the recent Dillon judgment of the UK Supreme Court.

The Warwick Commission on the Future of Social Sciences will lead a sector-wide conversation on the future direction of the social sciences on 6 & 7 July 2026.

See website below for details and registration.

This event has been organised in partnership with the Academy of Social Sciences.

This event looks at the impact that cultural and linguistic understanding and misunderstanding can have on decisions in immigration and asylum appeals.

See website for details.

The University of Leeds School of Law is hosting a free, full day interdisciplinary workshop exploring the growing challenges posed by authoritarianism and right wing populism to the rule of law in the UK and beyond. See website for details.

Some travel bursaries are available. Closing date for applications: 12 June 2026.

Registration is open.

See website below for full details.

This two-day hybrid workshop will take place on 7 & 8 July 2026.

See announcement for details and the Teams joining link below.

This year's lecture on 'The 21st Century Judge: privileges, pitfalls, and potential' will be given by The Rt Hon Lady Wise, President of the Scottish Tribunals and Inner House Judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.

Bringing together scholars, practitioners, and PhD candidates from across the UK and beyond, the event offers a rich programme of paper presentations, thematic roundtables, and networking opportunities. Attendees will hear from leading voices including opening keynote speaker Professor Olympia Bekou, Head of the School of Law at the University of Nottingham; closing remarks from Professor Charlotte Villiers of the University of Bristol Law School.

This is a two-day event on 9 and 10 July 2026.

This one-day course will offer an in-depth exploration of decolonising academia by asking: What are the possibilities when it comes to decolonial research?

Located at Warwick University, this is the fourth forum in the series which aims to provide an important space to develop research excellence at the intersections of law and the humanities, and foster intellectual community, supporting early-career scholars.

See website for updates.

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

See website for details.

Join a discussion around River Rights with nature rights Lawyer, Mónica Feria-Tinta, author of A Barrister for the Earth and Julia Leino of the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland.

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

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

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

Registration is open.

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.

Closing date: 10 July 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.

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.

Call closes: 7 July 2026.

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 in Societies Research Cluster at Wolfson College and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, invite PhD students and Early Career Researchers in Law to apply to participate in a one-day workshop on Social Class and Law, taking place on 9 September 2026 from 9:30am–6:00pm. 

This one-day workshop is designed for PhD students and early career researchers

legal scholars interested in researching social class in the legal profession, legal processes, and/or substantive law.

See announcement for details.

Registration is at the link below.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Call closes: 15 July 2026.

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

See announcement for further details: