EXTERNAL EVENTS

Organised by Giulia Battistoni (SAFI President), Sabrina Zucca-Soest (SAFI President) and Luíza De Paula (SAFI Ambassador for Spain). Speakers: Elisabetta Orlandi (Lille), Elena Alberti (Halle), Marina Saez (Florence), Sofia Grossi (Rome).

See poster for details and link below for further information about SAFI.

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

The British Academy runs webinars for UK-based researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in applying for European Research Council (ERC) grants, led by British Academy Fellows who have experience with ERC Grants and panels.

The aim of these webinars is to provide participants with a deeper understanding of the proposal and evaluation format and the key issues they are required to address in planning, writing, and costing a proposal.

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 talk will show how the abandonment and distortion of legal discursive practices unfolds.

An event to share the latest findings on poverty in Scotland and discuss the vital role local government can play in preventing and reducing it.

All are welcome at this seminar series on Mondays from 12 October to 30 November 2026. The first seminar is 'Book presentation: Terror on Trial: An Ethnography of French Courts' with Sharon Weill, The American University of Paris.

See the announcement below for full details of the complete programme.

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 first article for discussion is 'Fantasy legal exhibitions' by Amanda Perry-Kessaris (University of Kent) and Victoria Barnes (Queen’s University Belfast).

See the link below for the full 2026–2027 programme.

This event is organised bye the Center for Transnational Legal Studies.

Speaker: Professor David Luban (Georgetown Law)

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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This five-day event invites abstracts for a session themed on innovations and future directions for methods in legal geographical research. See the announcement on the link below.

Call closes: 30 September 2026.

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

See announcement for further details:

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.

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

Call closes: 27 October 2026.