EXTERNAL EVENTS

Speaker: Dr Abenaa Owusu-Bempah, Associate Professor of criminal law and criminal evidence (LSE)

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

The guest speaker will be the Honourable Justice Kari Kuusiniemi, President of the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland. Dr Nauman Reayat Founder and Chief Convener of the Global South Network (GSN)/Lecturer in Law, Leicester Law School, University of Leicester will chair the session.

See announcement

and invitation for details.

Speaker: Dr Giulia Gentile, Essex Law School, University of Essex

Chair: Dr Marc Mimler, City Law School, City St George's, University of London

This talk will focus on the recently published Interdisciplinary Research Methods in EU Law: A Handbook.

Speaker: Professor Sir Ian Kennedy KC (hon)

Published in The Law Teacher at the end of 2025, the eight articles collected in the special issue demonstrate that, despite being a core first-year module with large student numbers, contract law is a remarkably fertile ground for innovation in teaching and learning. Amidst unprecedented change both on and off the university campus, the subject of contract law is a constant where lasting innovations could be developed. The launch event and the incorporated discussion will provide food for thought for law teachers of contract and other large core modules in the English curriculum.

Speaker: Dr Lucy Crompton, ESRC Post-doctoral Fellow

Time: 2–3pm

This online seminar tells the previously untold story of financial remedies law. The speaker argues that the Court of Appeal engaged in a doctrinally questionable resistance to the House of Lords’ attempts to embed substantive equality of outcome between the spouses, in White and Miller; McFarlane. That resistance entrenched a subtle but powerful form of gender discrimination, favouring financial contributions and protecting the earning capacity of the moneyed spouse. Dr Crompton will also introduce Judicial Citation Analysis, the methodology she developed to make this story visible. 

No registration is required. A link to join is provided below and the ID and passcode are in this document. Enquiries to l.crompton@exeter.ac.uk.

Explore Scotland’s hidden history and impact in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

The Centre for Rights and Equality in Health Law, Leicester Law School, is hosting this inaugural Global Health Justice, Law and Ethics seminar series.

Keynote speaker: Professor of Law, Centre for Health, Law, and Society, University of Bristol Law School, UK

See invitation for details.

This free webinar explores ways of working between smaller, frontline and community-based organisations, with those providing legal expertise, working in collaboration to confront injustice and achieve systemic change. 

This free online event, hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, is to launch the book of the same name, edited by Fiona Cownie and Rosemary Auchmuty. Contributors will briefly outline our quirky collection of essays, telling the stories of 1950s events with a legal twist. You can find out about the attempted takeover of the Savoy Hotel, the Great London Smog, Law on the BBC ... and much more! There will be ample opportunity for questions, comments and discussion. All are welcome!

Speaker: Professor Natasha Affolder, University of British Columbia

Launch of State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Network, by Bernard Keenan, published by MIT Press.

This event is organised be Professor David Capper and Dr Gift Sotonye-Frank, and supported by the Society of Legal Scholars.

For the last 18 months the Choreography of Consent AHRC Research Network infused legal spaces with dance research and brought legal thinking to dance studios. The event takes the form of a guided tour (run twice) through the IALS building on Friday 20 March.

Join LSE Law School for a public lecture on 23rd March exploring the role of mass media in the pursuit of justice.

See invitation and website for details.

This event is organised by the Campaign for Social Science.

Dr Kiruba Munusamy will talk about the role of the legal system in dismantling, and sometimes perpetuating, caste-based inequalities.

Join University of Glasgow historian Dr Rosemary Elliot for a fascinating talk that uncovers the extraordinary story of Eliza O’Doherty (McIver), an Irish woman whose 1858 divorce, and her bold legal appeals the following year, shaped the rights of mothers in Scotland.

Save the dates for this two-day conference from 26–27 March.

Organised by the Next 100 Years project.

The two-day conference on 26–27 March brings together German and international scholars to examine these challenges in an interdisciplinary setting.

This Dialogue on Law and Diplomacy (DLD) session brings together people from diplomacy and law to ask what role law plays in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Keynote speaker: Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE

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?

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?

This is the Stephen Lawrence Research Centre Annual Lecture 2026.

Theme: Critical Crossroads: A Criminology That Confronts

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

Closing date for submissions: 15 March 2026.

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

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

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 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.

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.

See the call for papers on the link below.

Call closes: 13 March 2026.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abstracts are invited for this two day workshop from 22 to 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. Closing date: 15 March 2026.

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.

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.

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.