EXTERNAL EVENTS

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.

Organised by the Next 100 Years project to mark the publication of Lady Hale's latest book, With the Law on Our Side: How the Law Works for Everyone and How We Can Make It Work Better.

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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.

The launch of this year's independent state of the nation report which sets out the nature and scale of poverty in Northern Ireland hosted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

This is the Royal Institute of Philosophy annual lecture.

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

To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Law School at Queen Mary, this one-day symposium will explore shifts in law and legal thought between 1965 and 2025 and the impact, or lack of impact, that these have had.

Two-day event from 8–9 December 2025. This in-person event is free of charge.

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

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.

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Speaker: Professor Máiréad Enright, Loughborough University

Three-day conference from 29–31 January 2026.

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.

Call closes: 5 December 2025.

Keynote speaker: Dr Kay Lalor, Manchester Metropolitan University

See announcement for details of this British Academy ECR Network event.

Call closes: 19 December 2025.

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 Natasha Affolder, University of British Columbia

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. 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

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)

Two-day conference from 16–17 June 2026. See call for papers for details.

Call closes: 11 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.

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.

Two-day workshop from 2–3 July 2026.

Call closes: 31 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.

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.

Call closes: 22 December 2025.