EXTERNAL EVENTS

This is a two-day event running from 30 March–1 April 2026.

Registration is now open.

This session takes place during SLSA 2026 with lead editor Tatiana Grieshofer and discussant Naomi Creutzfelt.

See announcement for details.

Bhumika Billa will screen her short choreopoetry film titled ‘(IN)VISIBLE’ on the lived experience of women lawyers, and contextualise the film using her doctoral findings on how systemic bias seeps into the letter of the law.

Speaker: Dr Jonah Miller, University of Westminster.

Workshop to explore the different ways in which you can build impact into your research design.

How can art, performance and creativity deepen our understanding of disability - and create powerful ways to share lived experiences?

Presenter: Dr Carson Arthur, University of Law

Respondent: Dr Kodwo Eshun, Goldsmiths University of London

Judge Peter Herbert OBE, founder of Society of Black Lawyers, speaks on race, law, history, African Odysseys, culture and Pan Africanism

This exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday until 12 April 2026. This page highlights the case and trial of Bobby Britt.

The organisers seek abstracts of research papers concerning the draft Wills Bill 2025 and the Law Commission’s consultation and reports in this matter.

Interactive workshop to share powerful insights from research and creative dissemination work with past and present university students who have experience of the criminal justice system.

Speaker: Dr Noura Hezam Al-Mutairi (Assistant Professor at Kuwait University)

Theme: The Regulation of Deceased Persons’ Right to Be Forgotten in GCC Countries: As a Shield for the Protection of Post-Mortem Privacy

Speakers: Dr Kirsty Duncanson and Dr Emma Henderson, School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University, Australia

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.

In conversation with Lord Justice Rabinder Singh.

A two-day event from 16–17 April 2026. Join leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers at Edinburgh Law School for a two day workshop exploring emerging challenges in environmental law, from carbon dioxide removals to the expanding influence of artificial intelligence.

Barrister Monica Feria-Tinta explores nature’s day in court at the Linnean Society.

Book discussion on Madam War Criminal: Biljana Plavšić, Serbia’s Iron Lady, by Olivera Simić

This event is organised by the QM Centre for International Law (CeILa) and Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CLASS).

Speaker: Professor Helen Stalford, University of Liverpool, and Principal Co-Convenor of the AHRC-funded Centre for People’s Justice.

Speakers: Dr Sarah Bennett and Dr Alison Lui, Liverpool John Moores University.

Keynote speaker: Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE

Bringing together leading scholars from across the UK and beyond, the conference explores the legal, social, and cultural history of marital breakdown from the early nineteenth century to the eve of the Divorce Reform Act. Papers address themes including parliamentary divorce, domestic violence, gendered narratives of abuse, bigamy, and the long shadow of coverture on modern family law.

Thanks to the generosity of the ESRC, travel bursaries are available for PhD students, ECRs, the unwaged, and those without institutional funding. Please register and contact jennifer.aston@northumbria.ac.uk for further information.

Speakers: Dr Siobhan Weare, Dr Dominic Willmott and Dr Maddy Millar

Join Exeter's Healthscapes network for a workshop on health politics in Southwest Asia and North Africa.

Workshop is built around work-in-progress articles studying a diverse range of themes – abortion, gender-based violence, social reproduction, obstetric violence and gender recognition – from an array of contexts – Australia, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malta, Pakistan and the United Kingdom.

Speaker: Professor Philippa Webb, Professor of Public International Law, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; Barrister, Twenty Essex

What happens to international law when it is ignored, and regime change is driven by force rather than democracy?

Chair: Professor Carl Stychin

This seminar marks the launch of Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law by Professor Devyani Prabhat (University of Bristol), published by University of London Press as part of the Reimagining Law and Justice series.

The second Mark George KC Memorial Lecture will examine the pressing issue of wrongful convictions, reflecting on recent miscarriages of justice and on the 1984 Orgreave attacks, following the announcement of a public inquiry into police misconduct towards picketing miners at the Orgreave coking plant.

A Sussex Universe event asking: Can neuroscience help us understand addiction as a 'broken brain' condition and should this impact how the legal system assigns blame?

See website for details and programme. All welcome.

Republic of Amnesia (2025, 78 mins, UK/Sri Lanka) follows the rise and fall of Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya ('The Struggle') – the youth-led protest movement that forced authoritarian president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee the country in 2022.

This is the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre Annual Lecture 2026.

This is a Law and the Humanities Hub (LHub) event.

Theme: Critical Crossroads: A Criminology That Confronts

This is a two-day conference running from 28–29 April 2026.

This 2-day workshop brings together eight scholars from a range of disciplines – including History, English, Law, and French – who tackle various aspects of comic pleading in legal, religious, poetic, and dramatic texts, and think together about the intersection of law, comedy, and dialogue in the long medieval. The papers discussed will be published in a special issue of Law & Literature.

This year's Christabel Pankhurst Lecture.

Speaker: Dr I Stephanie Boyce CBE FKC, former President of the Law Society.

Speaker: Dr Nafay Choudhury, Assistant Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science

Speakers: Professor Helen Xanthaki, UCL Faculty of Laws, and Profesoor Mauro Zamboni, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University.

A one-day in-person conference on workplace sexual harassment.

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

Join Dr Kiran Mehta to explore the crimes people typically committed in London in 18th and early 19th centuries, and what happened next.

This two-day event runs from 7–8 May 2026. See poster ...

and call for abstracts for details.

This two-day event from 7–8 May 2026 will explore legal, political, and everyday struggles over the human rights of migrants in today’s societies.

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 two days conference runs from 11–12 May 2026.

See announcement for details. Call closes: 1 May 2026.

This is the CSLS Socio-Legal Annual Lecture.

Speaker: Professor Sida Liu, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong

Join a panel of ecologists, lawyers and Members of Parliament to debate this innovative approach to protecting our vanishing wildlife.

The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace invites submissions from current and recent graduate students (within two years of receiving their PhD).

This is a two-day event running from 13–14 May 2026.

Speaker: Jennifer A Petersen, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Southern California

Discussant: Bernard Keenan, UCL Laws

Organised by Political Studies Association: Political and Social Movements Group, Brunel Human Geography Group and Urban Salon London.

See website for draft programme. All welcome.

Located at the University of Glasgow, this first forum in the series will happen in May, providing an important space to develop research excellence at the intersections of law and the humanities, and foster intellectual community, supporting early-career scholars.

Speakers: Dr Nathan Derejko, University of Manitoba Faculty of Law, and

Dr Daragh Murray, Queen Mary School of Law.

This event takes place over three days from 28 to 31 May 2026.

Historian Carrie Gibson tells the epic story of the fight to end slavery.

Theme: Rage Against the 'Machines': Feeling and Challenging Systems of Normalisation and Oppression

Call closes: 3 April 2026.

Organised by the Next 100 Years project.

The symposium aims to foster critical dialogue, interdisciplinary exchange and collaborative thinking around how tourism, hospitality, events and leisure can contribute to more just and equitable futures.

This workshop is designed for students working towards the degree of PhD or LLM by research, in any area of the law, and whose work adopts a comparative approach, or includes a significant comparative law element.

The Law Research Centre at WLV, in collaboration with the UK Intellectual Property Office, is organising this two-day event from 8–9 June 2026.

A two-day event on 11 and 12 June 2026. See call for papers, announcement and website below for details.

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

Conference theme: The Future of the International Legal Order

Call closes: 22 March 2026.

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

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

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

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

Call closes: 19 March 2026.

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

Call closes: 17 April 2026.

Registration is open on the link below.

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

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 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 summer school runs for seven days from 22 to 28 June 2026.

Applications close on 22 May 2026.

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.

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

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

Call closes: 17 April 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.

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).

Call closes: 23 March 2026.

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.

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.

The call for papers is open and international, inviting contributions across disciplines, jurisdictions, and professional backgrounds, structured around the overarching conference theme and the cluster strands. To submit your proposal, please fill in the following form by 20 April 2026.

Further information is available on the website.

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

Call closes: 10 April 2026.

Two-day workshop from 2–3 July 2026.

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

See website for details.

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

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

Call opens on 30 January and closes on 27 March 2026.

Registration opens on 11 May 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.

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