EXTERNAL EVENTS

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.

Book event: Dr Eric Yan-ho Lai talks about his new book Legal Resistance Under Authoritarianism: The Struggle for the Rule of Law in Hong Kong, which examines the decline of Hong Kong’s rule of law under China’s expanding authoritarian influence. 

A regular event for discussion of an article selected by a member/s of the Centre for Law and Society. Today's article is 'The local injustice of bankruptcy: geographical variation in access to debt relief in England by Joe Spooner and Saul Schwartz'.

This one-day workshop showcases the results of a groundbreaking two-year interdisciplinary project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council: 'A New Methodological Approach to the History of Divorce, 1858-1923' led by Dr Jennifer Aston with Dr Diane Ranyard at Northumbria University Law School.

Join the Nuffield Foundation for a dedicated webinar guiding Black researchers through the funding process.

This lecture will be delivered by Professor Johanna Gibson, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26

Two panels followed byan inaugural lecture for the Centre titled The Future of Critique delivered by Rafeef Ziadah.

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.

See announcement

... poster

and website for details.

Speaker: Professor Máiréad Enright, Loughborough University

Three-day conference from 29–31 January 2026.

A webinar presented by the Campaign for Social Science in partnership with the Social Research Association and the UK Evaluation Society as part of our joint series on different applications of AI.

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 Nuffield Foundation and the University of Glasgow. See announcement and website for details.

Speaker: Professor Colm O’Cinneide

The National Archives’ collections offer a valuable insight into how the government interacted with and viewed LGBTQ+ communities in the past, at a time when the state played a major role in repressing and controlling the lives of gay and bisexual people.

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?

This lecture will be delivered by Professor Sharon Cowan, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025–2026.

Discover King Henry VIII’s groundbreaking act and its far-reaching consequences.

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.

Keynote speaker: Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE

Call closes: 2 February 2025.

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 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.

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

Closing date: 16 January 2026.