EXTERNAL EVENTS

Speaker: Professor Linda Mulcahy, CSLS

See link for details of all the seminars in this series.

The series is part of the British Society of Criminology’s Race Matters Network and is organised by Monish Bhatia from the Department of Sociology at the University of York. All sessions take place online, are free to attend and are open to the public, so please feel free to share this invitation with colleagues, students and anyone else who may be interested.

See announcement for details and poster on the link below.

• Panellists: Professor Kojo Koram, Loughborough University (author); Dr Rebecca Askew, Manchester Metropolitan University (discussant); Dr Simon Flacks, University of Sussex (discussant)

• Chairs: Dr Hedi Viterbo and Dr Tanzil Chowdhury, Queen Mary University of London.

  
  

Jointly hosted by the Criminal Justice Centre and the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society.

This talk will map and analyse new and emerging forms of denial, including the trend of revisionist undermining of established transitional justice findings in the context of democratic backslide and culture wars; the mimicry of transitional justice mechanisms by illiberal regimes seeking to deny atrocities; and the shift from information suppression to information disorder as the key obstacle for human rights advocates in the digital age.

• Speaker: Ron Dudai, Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, and the Law School, QUB

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.

Are you a socio-legal scholar who is interested in how writing can animate or shape your research? The Power, Justice & Imagination Network, hosted by LHub at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, is putting on a free afternoon of craft and writing workshops at the National Maritime Museum on 7 November 2026. Explore how the law shapes refugee boat journeys and hone your creative writing skills. Book here.

Small boats play a powerful role in how the public imagines migration. Media  and political debate have shaped a culture in which law is used to target small boats crossings. Inspired by the National Maritime Museum’s newly-curated migrant-centred exhibition ‘Crossings’, and working with Mass Observation diaries on ‘Seeking Asylum’, the Refugee Law Initiative, and SOS Mediterranee, our workshops give you the chance to engage with migrant journeys and reframe legal texts through craft and creative writing.

These events have been organised by the Power, Justice and Imagination collaboration at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, with the National Maritime Museum, The Mass Observation Archive, The Literary Consultancy, The Refugee Law Initiative, and SOS Mediterranee. Funded and supported by the Being Human Festival.

This year's Stephen Livingstone Lecture will be given by Professor Kanstantsin Dzehtsiaro, Professor in Human Rights Law and Associate Dean for Global Engagement of the School of Law and Social Justice (University of Liverpool)

Speaker: Aoife Nolan, Professor of International Human Rights Law and Director of the Human Rights Law Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham.

This event will be followed by a reception.

The British Academy has announced four upcoming ERC Proposal Reading Days taking place across four cities in November 2026:

• Cardiff University – 16 November

• University of Birmingham – 17 November

• Durham University – 24 November

• University of Glasgow – 25 November

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

Speaker: Magda Boutros, Sciences Po Paris (PSIA)

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Professor Luke Moffett launches Algorithms of War, examining civilian harm and accountability in AI-driven warfare.

The Black Research Connections Conference is a landmark annual gathering spotlighting the brilliance, influence and future-shaping contributions of Black researchers across the UK.

Discover how international criminal law can address digital harms like online hate speech, disinformation, and digital surveillance.

Event Speakers: Dr Sarah Zarmsky and Professor Fionnuala Ni Aolain

This JRF webinar is aimed at anyone who writes and talks about decent and affordable homes in the UK.

Speakers:

• Sir Robert Buckland KC, former Lord Chancellor

• Sam McAlister, the former BBC journalist

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.

Speaker: Anna Loebbert

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Discussants: Mattia Pinto (York Law School) and Ahmed Memon (Cardiff University)

Chair: Caer Smyth (Cardiff University)

Join the session on the link below.

See the announcement for full details.

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 article for discussion is 'The legal infrastructures of UK border control—Cerberus and the dispositif of speculative suspicion' by Gavin Sullivan (Edinburgh Law School) and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (Queen Mary University London)

Discussants: Samuel Singler (University of Oxford) and Mariana Valverde (University of Toronto)

Organised by Next 100 Years, the speaker is Professor Sandra Wachter.

Organised by Manchester Business and Property Courts Forum.

A multi-disciplinary, interactive workshop on climate litigation organised by the Human Rights Lawyers Association and Legal Voices for the Future in collaboration with the International Law & Affairs Centre at City Law School.

• Speaker: Professor Brian Dooley, Institute Honorary Professor, Senior Advisor at Human Rights First

• Chair: Professor Louise Mallinder, Queen’s University Belfast

Organised by Queen's Institute for Peace, Security and Justice.

Hosted by The Open University legal histories research cluster, this two-day international conference from 26–27 November explores 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.

At a time when legal education and the legal professions face fresh challenges, this conference explores how law schools and practitioners have responded to changing political, social and economic contexts. It includes contributions from around the world with paper topics ranging from coroners to mediators, law students to judges.

See the link below for the programme and booking form.

Launch of the report Destitution UK 2026 by the JRF.

Speaker: Clive Baldwin, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch.

Speaker: Agnieszka Kubal

See link below for details of all the seminars in this series.

The School of Law and the School of the Arts are hosting this inaugural research colloquium on the theme of character.

• Chair: Maks Del Mar (School of Law) and co-organised with Alfred Hiatt (School of the Arts).

Speaker: Professor Amel Alghrani, Professor of Law, University of Liverpool, and Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

The British Academy will be hosting a webinar on Wednesday 2 December 2026 for UK based researchers in the humanities and social sciences interested in applying for European Research Council ERC grants. The webinar will focus on the ERC Consolidator Grants.

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.

The theme of Professor Dame Diane Coyle's lecture is 'Can policy deliver growth in every postcode?'

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 one-day, in-person, ECR-focused workshop is free to attend. There are five travel bursaries available.

Deadline for bursary applications closes on 6 November 2026.

See announcement and link below for further details and registration.

See the call for papers at the link below.

Call closes: 27 November 2026.

• Speaker: Prof Shun Kaku (Waseda Univeristy, Faculty of Law)

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

This exhibition is open until 21 December 2026 sharing the stories of people across the justice system who live with disabilities, medical conditions and long-term health challenges.

Speaker: Professor Davina Cooper

The theme of this event two-day event from 26–27 January 2027 is 'Making Meaning: Interpreting the Qualitative World'. See website for details. Call closes on 20 November 2026.

This five-day event invites will take place from 18 to 12 February 2027 in New York.

• Speaker: Anna Carline

• Theme: From Emotional Labour to Affectual Bodies: Moving Towards an ‘Affective Ethnography’ of the Criminal Court Space.

See link for details of all seminars in this online series.

This two-day workshop from 25–26 February 2027 aims to consolidate the growing Critical Legal Geographies network through a focused discussion on borders, borderscapes, and the legal production of border spaces.

Closing date: 8 November 2026

Conference Directors:

• Professor Rosemary Auchmuty, University of Reading, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

• Professor Fiona Cownie, Keele University, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Closing date: 1 December 2026.

Join researchers, practitioners, students and emerging scholars from around the world for two days of thought-provoking research presentations, interdisciplinary conversations, a conference dinner and valuable networking opportunities.

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

See announcement for further details:

• Speaker: Veronica Valencia Gonzalez (University of South Carolina)

• Theme: Aesthetic governance in courts and workplaces

See link for details of all seminars in this online series.

This three-day interdisciplinary conference from 24–26 May 2027 brings law and socioeconomics into conversation to examine key threats to democratic governance and the socioeconomic, legal, and institutional responses that could strengthen democratic resilience.

The next annual meeting of the Association for Law, Property and Society (ALPS) will be hosted by Cardiff School of Law and Politics from 27–30 May 2027. ALPS welcomes submissions for papers and fully formed panels (3–4 presenters) from scholars and teachers engaged in a wide range of interdisciplinary research covering all aspects of property law, policy, and theory, and the role property plays in social structures, human relationships, and ecology. Call closes: 30 November 2026 (with communication of acceptance by end January 2027). Registration opens late-January/early-February 2027. To ensure a place on the final programme, all accepted presenters will need to register by close of the registration window: 31 March 2027.

Papers are invited for this two-day conference on 27 and 28 May 2027 on the theme of Discipline. See announcement below for details.

Closing date: 31 January 2027.

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.

The Law and Society Association and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at the University of Hong Kong have announce the call for applications for the Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop immediately preceding the Global Meeting on Law and Society. This is a chance to get feedback on your work from a faculty mentor, take part in professional development sessions on a range of topics, and build connections with peers from around the world. There is no fee, and accepted participants receive a $1000 stipend.

Closing date: 10 November 2026.

The Global Meeting on Law and Society will take place in Hong Kong from 22–25 June 2027 with a virtual conference day occurring on 26 June. This is the eighth iteration of the Global Meeting and will take place at The University of Hong Kong.

Organisers invite submissions for this two-day conference from 13–14 September 2027. Full details on the link below. Call closes: 29 November 2026.