News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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SLSA events
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body, Manchester
Other events
Next 100 Years' Sixth Heilbron Lecture, Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London
Critical Legal Conference 2025, University of Exeter: call for papers and invitation to PhD day
10th Sustainability Collaborative Conference, University of Bristol: call for papers
8th Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum, Nottingham Trent University
Innovations and Challenges in Criminal Justice, Northumbria University
Research Methods Rendezvous, online: application deadline 2 July 2025
Doing Otherwise: Tracing feminist urban methodologies, Senate House, London
'The 'Ideal Mother,' Family Law and Domestic Abuse, UCL Faculty of Laws
Symposium: Behind Bars: Memory, justice and the future of penal heritage, Shrewsbury Prison
Sidney Seminar: Real regime change? The United States under the second Trump administration, online and UCL Faculty of Laws
BA Innovation Fellowships: Policy-led (sustainable futures) – Q&A webinar
2025
June
Minority Languages in Courtrooms the United Kingdom and Ireland
Date: 27 June 2025
Venue: online from University of Aberystwyth and Trinity College Dublin
See website for details.
'Law in Context': Early Career Workshop
Dates: 26–27 June 2025
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
See poster and announcement for details.
The Legal World of Family Migration
Date: 27 June 2025
Venue: online from the Universities of Exeter and Bristol
See announcement for details.
Discussion: 'From Courtrooms to Corridors of Power – Lawyers in Parliament'
Date: 27 June 2025
Venue: Darwin College, Cambridge
See website for details.
Cohabitations: A social, environmental and climate justice research seminar
Date: 27 June 2025
Venue: Birkbeck University of London
See website for details.
Summer School: Introduction to Experimental Methods in Social Sciences: Surveys, Laboratory and Field Experiments
Dates: 30 June–4 July 2025
Venue: NCRM, University of Southampton
See website for details.
State Impunity and Injustice
Date: 30 June 2025
Venue: St Ethelburga's Centre, Bishopsgate, London
See website for details.
July
Next 100 Years' Sixth Heilbron Lecture
Date: 1 July 2025
Venue: Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London
Speaker: Dr Rumiana Yotova, University of Cambridge
See website for details.
Telling a Joined-up Story about Homes and Poverty
Date: 1 July 2025
Venue: online from the JRF
See website for details.
Frameworks of Reference for Academic Freedom
Date: 2 July 2025
Venue: School of Education, University of Bristol
See website for details.
In Conversation with David Garland
Date: 2 July 2025
Venue: Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh
See website for details.
Sidney Seminar: Real regime change? The United States under the second Trump administration
Date: 2 July 2025
Venue: online and UCL Faculty of Laws
See website for details.
Workshop: In the Name of National Security: The fragility of human rights
Date: 3 July 2025
Venue: Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid
Co-hosted by the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. See announcement for details.
BA Innovation Fellowships: Policy-led (sustainable futures) – Q&A webinar
Date: 3 July 2025
Venue: online from the British Academy
See website for details.
The Impeachment of Warren Hastings: The First Governor General of India
Dates: 3–4 July 2025
Venue: University of Worcester
Speaker: Dame Linda Colley
See website for details.
Racial Justice, Equity and Power Conference
Date: 9 July 2025
Venue: University of Suffolk, Ipswich
See website for details.
Global Impact of Attacks on Healthcare in Conflict Zones
Date: 9 July 2025
Venue: Garrod Building, Milton Lecture Theatre, QMUL, London
See website for details.
Language and the Cross-examination of Vulnerable Witnesses
Date: 9 July 2025
Venue: Law Society Hall, London
See website for details.
Facing the Future: Justice
Date: 10 July 2025
Venue: National Library of Scotland
See website for details.
Public Panel Discussion: 'Do we need a new AI Bill of Human Rights?'
Date: 10 July 2025
Venue: King's College, London
See website for details.
1885 and its Long Shadow: Sexual offences in historical context
Date: 11 July 2025
Venue: online from the Open University
See website for details. Hosted by The Open University Legal Histories Research Cluster and the British Sociological Association Global Histories and Sociology Study Group.
Law in Universities, Law in Society
Date: 14 July 2025
Venue: South Bank University, London
See website for details.
Behind Closed Books: Money Laundering in UK Insolvency Proceedings
Date: 17 July 2025
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds and online
See announcement for details. Registration is open.
Legal Humanities Association: Launch event and inaugural AGM
Date: 22 July 2025
Venue: online
Speakers: Elena Loizidou, Greta Olson, and Scott Veitch
See website for details.
Doing Otherwise: Tracing feminist urban methodologies
Date: 22 July 2025
Venue: Senate House, London
See website for details.
Innovations and Challenges in Criminal Justice
Date: 23 July 2025
Venue: Northumbria University
See website for details.
Taking Secrets to the Grave
Date: 25 July 2025
Venue: Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
See website for details.
2025 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute
Dates: 28 July–8 August 2025
Venue: Jesus College, Oxford
See website for details.
August
Symposium: Behind Bars: Memory, justice and the future of penal heritage
Dates: 21–22 August 2025
Venue: Shrewsbury Prison
See website for details.
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body
Date: 25 August 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
See website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Nordic Law and Gender Conference 2025: Against all odds
Dates: 28–29 August 2025
Venue: University of Copenhagen
See website for details.
September
To Detain or Punish
Date: 3 September 2025
Venue: The London Archives
See website for details.
Critical Legal Conference 2025: call for papers and invitation to PhD Day
Dates: 4–6 September 2025
Venue: University of Exeter
See website and announcement for cfp details and the invitation to the PhD Day on 3 September. Call closes: 1 August 2025.
CLC 2025 'Law and process' stream: call for papers
Dates: 4–6 September 2025
Venue: University of Exeter
See call for papers for details. Closing date: 1 August 2025. Registration is now open.
Research Methods Rendezvous
Dates: 10 September and 29 October 2025
Venue: online from NCRM
See website for details. Application deadline: 2 July 2025.
Responsible AI in Health Care
Dates: 10–12 September 2025
Venue: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
See announcement for details.
The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System
Dates: 10–11 September 2025
Venue: Cardiff University
See announcement for details.
8th Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum
Date: 11 September 2025
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
See website and programme for details.
10th Sustainability Collaborative Conference: call for papers
Dates: 11–12 September 2025
Venue: University of Bristol
See announcement for details. Closing date: 10 August 2025.
Inclusive Legal Education Conference
Date: 11 September 2025
Venue: Leeds Beckett University
See website for details.
25 Years of the Human Rights Act
Date: 18 September 2025
Venue: Liberty Building, University of Leeds
See website for details.
Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Commercial Law
Dates: 24–25 September 2025
Venue: Swansea University
See announcement for details.
Methodologies Symposium: 'Law is but let me explain it once more': call for papers
Dates: 24–25 September 2025
Venue: Newcastle University
See website and announcement for details. Call closes: 7 July 2025.
Universities and the Common Good: A global conversation about how to respond to contemporary challenges
Date: 25 September 2025
Venue: Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford
See website for details.
October
SAFI Annual Conference
Date: 9–10 October 2025
Venue: University of Amsterdam
Theme: Reimagining Justice
See booklet and website for details.
November
Constructing Legal Entities: On Persons, corporations and states: call for papers
Date: 3 November 2025
Venue: Aula am Campus, University of Vienna
Please see announcement for details of the Third Ars Iuris Legal Potentials Conference. Call closes: 4 July 2025.
From Binary to Bench: Empowering equal opportunities and AI literacy in global legal education
Date: 5 November 2025
Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, and online
See website for details. This is an SLS-funded symposium organised by Dr Melanie Stockton-Brown and Dr Basak Bak.
Pure Imagination: Stories, Institutions and Law Reform
Date: 17 November 2025
Venue: King's College London
See website for details.
Regulating AI in a Changing World: Oversight and enforcement
Date: 20 November 2025
Venue: IALS Council Chamber, London
See website for details.
'The 'Ideal Mother,' Family Law and Domestic Abuse
Date: 20 November 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws
Speaker: Professor Shazia Choudhry, University of Oxford
Chair: Professor Rosemary Hunter KC (hon), Loughborough University
See website for details.
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December
Resistance and Agency in the Digital Society: Beyond Literacy, transparency, and risk assessment: call for papers
Date: 15 December 2025
Venue: University of Lausanne, Switzerland
See announcement for details of the cfp. This event is the Law and Society Initiative (IDES) Annual Conference. Call extended to: 27 June 2025.
2026
January
Beyond the State: New perspectives on the conceptual relationships between constitution and society: call for papers
Dates: 29–30 January 2026
Venue: Institut Universitaire de France, Paris
See announcement for details. Call closes: 3 July 2025.
March
Modern Studies in Property Law: call for papers
Dates: 30 March–1 April 2026
Venue: University of Southampton
See announcement for details. Call closes: 15 September 2025.