EXTERNAL EVENTS

As part of the Festival of Social Sciences, Mirosław Sadowski is organising two interconnected events on 17 October, with the latter in particular of potential interest to SLSA members:

• an in-person children-oriented workshop on time travel and money;

• and, building on this, a hybrid expert roundtable on law and the future of technology with Guido Noto La Diega (UoStrathclyde), Amy Thomas (UoGlasgow), and Alexander Simmonds (UoDundee).

There is one registration link below with different types of tickets for both events

Speakers: Jonathan Samuels and Daniel Wojahn

Convenor: Professor Fernanda Pirie

This event is part of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies' Michaelmas Seminar Series.

A talk from the Vice Chancellor, Mr Justice Leech

The event will mark the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty and launch ethe JRF’s Poverty in Northern Ireland 2026 Report.

Speaker: Professor Ekow Yankah, University of Michigan

Discussant: Professor Peter Ramsey

Chair: Professor Nicola Lacey

A University of York Open Lecture exploring modern art's clashes with legal boundaries over tax, copyright, and offense reveal the true nature of art.

Speaker: Professor Ann Skelton, Leiden University.

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.

Speakers

• Dr Catherine Trundle (La Trobe University)

• Professor Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford, Wolfson College)

See poster and link below for details.

An evening of discussion on abolitionism with Associate Professor Mark Dsouza (UCL) in conversation with Professor Alan Norrie (Warwick).

For further details and to register in person/online visit the link below or email k.leader@qmul.ac.uk.

These are regular events to discuss an article selected by a member/s of the Centre for Law and Society which they regard as being of particular significance to research in law and society.

The article for discussion is 'Human rights penality and violence against women: The

coloniality of disembodied justice' by Silvana Tapia Tapia (Birmingham Law School).

Discussants: Mattia Pinto (University of York) and Ahmed Memon (Cardiff University)

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).

Speaker: Florian Grisel

Convenor: Professor Fernanda Pirie

This event is part of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies' Michaelmas Seminar Series.

Q&A with Madeleine Lynch, Legal Campaigns Manager at Uplift.

The Surrey Centre for International and Environmental Law inaugural Annual Lecture 2026.

This session will bring together practitioners with experience representing claimants

seeking international protection across the region, to examine access to asylum through a gendersensitive lens.

Note this event will be in Spanish.

Speaker: Professor Fiona Macmillan, Corporation of London Professor of Law, Birkbeck, University of London Visiting Professor of Law, University of Roma Tre

Chair: Professor Johanna Gibson, Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Queen Mary, University of London

This event is the Surrey Centre for International and Environmental Law inaugural Annual Lecture 2026.

The Annual Inspirational Women in Law Awards from Next 100 Years seek to identify individuals from across the legal profession who are leading the way in improving equality and diversity.

This two-day event will take place on 5 and 6 November 2026.

See announcement

and on LinkedIn on the link below.

Closing date: 6 October 2026.

Book launch by Professor David Dyzenhaus.

This event is the Glasgow Open Justice Lecture 2026-27.

The W A Wilson Memorial Lecture: 'Adoption and the Power of Law: Lessons from a Comparative Study' to be delivered by Professor Dr Anne Röthel, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany.

Organised by the Centre for the History of Law and Governance Research, University of Nottingham.

Speaker: Professor Linda Mulcahy, CSLS

See link for details of all the seminars in this series.

A live fireside chat and Q&A with Professor Richard Moorhead OBE and Zelda Perkins CBE, CEO & Founder of Can’t Buy My Silence UK.

Are you a socio-legal scholar who is interested in how writing can animate or shape your research? The Power, Justice & Imagination Network, hosted by LHub at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, is putting on a free afternoon of craft and writing workshops at the National Maritime Museum on 7 November 2026. Explore how the law shapes refugee boat journeys and hone your creative writing skills. Book here.

Small boats play a powerful role in how the public imagines migration. Media  and political debate have shaped a culture in which law is used to target small boats crossings. Inspired by the National Maritime Museum’s newly-curated migrant-centred exhibition ‘Crossings’, and working with Mass Observation diaries on ‘Seeking Asylum’, the Refugee Law Initiative, and SOS Mediterranee, our workshops give you the chance to engage with migrant journeys and reframe legal texts through craft and creative writing.

These events have been organised by the Power, Justice and Imagination collaboration at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, with the National Maritime Museum, The Mass Observation Archive, The Literary Consultancy, The Refugee Law Initiative, and SOS Mediterranee. Funded and supported by the Being Human Festival.

Speaker: Aoife Nolan, Professor of International Human Rights Law and Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham.

This event will be followed by a reception.

The British Academy has announced four upcoming ERC Proposal Reading Days taking place across four cities in November 2026:

• Cardiff University – 16 November

• University of Birmingham – 17 November

• Durham University – 24 November

• University of Glasgow – 25 November

This Joseph Rowntree Foundation event will ask: what would a fair energy system actually look like?

Speaker: Magda Boutros, Sciences Po Paris (PSIA)

See link for details of all the seminars in this series.

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

This JRF webinar is aimed at anyone who writes and talks about decent and affordable homes in the UK.

2026–2027 marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of the Wolfenden Report into homosexual offences and prostitution.

Hosted by South Bank University and the Society of Legal Scholars.

These are regular events to discuss an article selected by a member/s of the Centre for Law and Society which they regard as being of particular significance to research in law and society.

The article for discussion is 'The legal infrastructures of UK border control—Cerberus and the dispositif of speculative suspicion' by Gavin Sullivan (Edinburgh Law School) and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (Queen Mary University London)

Discussants: Samuel Singler (University of Oxford) and Mariana Valverde (University of Toronto)

A multi-disciplinary, interactive workshop on climate litigation organised by the Human Rights Lawyers Association and Legal Voices for the Future in collaboration with the International Law & Affairs Centre at City Law School.

Launch of the report Destitution UK 2026 by the JRF.

This conference will explore the intertwined histories of legal education and the legal professions. Law schools, professional bodies, and the people who made them have a central role in legal history. Legal education shaped professions and people who in turn contributed to the development of legal practice, procedure, and the law itself. As legal education and the legal professions face fresh challenges, this is an opportune time to consider their histories and how those histories are used.  Proposals are welcome for any time period and jurisdiction.

This free, online conference on is hosted by the Open University Law School’s legal histories research cluster.

Abstracts (not exceeding 300 words) should be submitted by email to OULS-legalhistory@open.ac.uk by 16 October 2026.

Speaker: Clive Baldwin, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch.

Speaker: Professor Amel Alghrani, Professor of Law, University of Liverpool, and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

To mark the end of The Women's Library centenary year, Elizabeth Crawford will talk about her association with The Women’s Library as both a researcher, author and dealer in books and ephemera.

The theme of Professor Dame Diane Coyle's lecture is 'Can policy deliver growth in every postcode?'

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.

Speaker: Professor Davina Cooper

This five-day event invites will take place from 18 to 12 February 2027 in New York.

• Speaker: Anna Carline

• Theme: From Emotional Labour to Affectual Bodies: Moving Towards an ‘Affective Ethnography’ of the Criminal Court Space.

See link for details of all seminars in this online series.

This two-day workshop from 25–26 February 2027 aims to consolidate the growing Critical Legal Geographies network through a focused discussion on borders, borderscapes, and the legal production of border spaces.

Closing date: 8 November 2026

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

See announcement for further details:

This three-day interdisciplinary conference from 24–26 May 2027 brings law and socioeconomics into conversation to examine key threats to democratic governance and the socioeconomic, legal, and institutional responses that could strengthen democratic resilience.

Call closes: 15 October 2026.

The next annual meeting of the Association for Law, Property and Society (ALPS) will be hosted by Cardiff School of Law and Politics from 27–30 May 2027. ALPS welcomes submissions for papers and fully formed panels (3–4 presenters) from scholars and teachers engaged in a wide range of interdisciplinary research covering all aspects of property law, policy, and theory, and the role property plays in social structures, human relationships, and ecology. Call closes: 30 November 2026 (with communication of acceptance by end January 2027). Registration opens late-January/early-February 2027. To ensure a place on the final programme, all accepted presenters will need to register by close of the registration window: 31 March 2027.

Papers are invited for this two-day conference on 27 and 28 May 2027 on the theme of Discipline. See announcement below for details.

Closing date: 31 January 2027.

The two-day Legal Philosophy Workshop (LPW) is an annual conference designed to foster reflection on the nature of law and the philosophical issues underlying its different areas. See the website for details.

Call closes: 8 January 2027.

The Law and Society Association and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the University of Hong Kong have announce the call for applications for the Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop immediately preceding the Global Meeting on Law and Society. This is a chance to get feedback on your work from a faculty mentor, take part in professional development sessions on a range of topics, and build connections with peers from around the world. There is no fee, and accepted participants receive a $1000 stipend.

Closing date: 10 November 2026.

Submissions are invited for this five-day conference taking place from 22–36 June 2027.

Call closes: 27 October 2026.