EXTERNAL EVENTS
Here we feature non-SLSA events of interest to members of the SLSA.
If you would like a conference, workshop or seminar added to this page, please contact Marie Selwood. For details of the SLSA Annual Conference, Postgraduate Conference, and our seminars and workshops, please visit the SLSA events section.
EVENT DETAILS
6 July 2026
Workshop: Future of Social Sciences
Date:
6 July 2026
Venue:
Warwick Conferences Centre
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.
7 July 2026
PLP Report Launch: Culture and Language in the Immigration and Asylum Tribunals
Date:
7 July 2026
Venue:
Webinar from the Public Law Project
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.
9 July 2026
BAILII: Sir Henry Brooke Lecture
Date:
9 July 2026
Venue:
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, London
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.
9 July 2026
Women in Legal Academia: Empowering Underrepresented Voices in UK Law School
Date:
9 July 2026
Venue:
University of Nottingham
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.
14 July 2026
Soundings: A Showcase of Sonic Methods in Law and Panel Reflections
Date:
14 July 2026
Venue:
Manchester Metropolitan University
Soundings is a project involving which explores the intersection of sound, art, embodiment, law and justice. It focuses on how sound-art and embodied methods can disclose the way legal alienation is experienced and perceived. The project is currently co-led by Dr Shane Burke (Cardiff Law School), Dr Joy Twemlow (Manchester Law School), and Katie Chatburn (SODA).
See announcements and link to registration page.
17 July 2026
The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums: Workshop 4
Date:
17 July 2026
Venue:
Warwick University
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.
21 July 2026
The (Re)Emergence of Slavery Crimes
Date:
21 July 2026
Venue:
Manor Road Building, University of Oxford
Slavery and the slave trade as international crimes, war crimes, and human rights violations are (re)emerging as strengthened safeguards. Recently slavery and the slave trade are part of UN treaty negotiations, of a UN General Assembly Resolution, of amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and as recognized exceptions to State immunity for wrongful acts. The afternoon lecture will visit the revived and revised evolution of slavery crimes, including their common misperceptions.
24 August 2026
Hard-to-Reach: Applied Research Methods with Hidden, Marginal and Excluded Populations – 5-day course
Date:
24 August 2026
Venue:
Nuffield College, Oxford
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
3 September 2026
Queering Private Law Conference
Date:
3 September 2026
Venue:
UCL Faculty of Laws
Private law presents itself as neutral and technical, a body of rules that simply reflects how the world is. But its foundational concepts carry assumptions about whose relationships, identities, and lives count as normal. This two-day conference, from 3–4 September, brings queer theory into conversation with private law, asking what is revealed when we take those assumptions seriously and refuse to treat them as inevitable. It gathers scholars committed to exposing the heteronormative and cisnormative underpinnings of private law doctrine, and to asking how queer theory can transform private law and our assumptions about it.
6 September 2026
Representation and Justice: Law, Media and Popular Culture Workshop: call for abstracts
Date:
6 September 2026
Venue:
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
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.
7 September 2026
What Truth? Evidence as Politics in Human Rights Courts
Date:
7 September 2026
Venue:
Tarragona, Spain
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.
8 September 2026
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: call for abstracts
Date:
8 September 2026
Venue:
Online hosted by Derby University
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.
See Final Call below ....
... and link to submission form.
Call closes: 7 July 2026.
9 September 2026
Social Class and Law Workshop: call for applications
Date:
9 September 2026
Venue:
Wolfson College, Oxford
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.
Closing date for applications extended: 7 July 2026.
9 September 2026
Critical Legal Conference: Law, Gender, Queerness, and the Moving Body – call for papers
Date:
9 September 2026
Venue:
University of Westminster
The Law, Gender, Queerness, and the Moving Body stream at the Critical Legal Conference, to be held at the University of Westminster from 9–11 September 2026, invites submissions. See the call for papers for details.
Note: call closes 29 June 2026.
16 September 2026
Voices of Justice: Transforming Communication in Policing and Criminal Justice
Date:
16 September 2026
Venue:
British Academy, London
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.
18 September 2026
Sustainable Uses of Artificial Intelligence for Better Lawmaking and Better Regulation
Date:
18 September 2026
Venue:
IALS, Russell Square, London
The event is co-organised by the Sir William Dale Centre for Legislative Studies, of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London in cooperation with the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Artificial Intelligence for Regulation SUSTAIN-AI-REG (LUMSA, Italy).
18 September 2026
Sustainable Uses of Artificial Intelligence for Better Lawmaking and Better Regulation
Date:
18 September 2026
Venue:
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
This roundtable forms part of the first Open Forum on 'Innovation for Regulation', organized by the Centre of Excellence on Sustainable AI and Regulation.
22 September 2026
Centre for Social Futures: New Late Summer School Series
Date:
22 September 2026
Venue:
Lancaster University
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.
23 October 2026
A Roundtable and Book Launch: Whose Law? Asia, Empire, and the Making of Global Legal Order
Date:
23 October 2026
Venue:
St Cross College, Oxford
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).
27 November 2026
Collections Uncovered: Disability at the British Library: call for presenters
Date:
27 November 2026
Venue:
British Library, London, and online
Join the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub and the British Library to explore disability histories. Presentations will highlight disability stories within the British Library collections, creating space for conversations around access, history, and future directions.
See website for details. Call closes: 31 July 2026.