News: conferences, events and seminars
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2019
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2020
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The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform, London
The Futures of Legal Education and Practice Annual Conference 2019, Milton Keynes
Reconceiving the Womb in Medicine, Law and Society, Manchester
Neuroscientific Evidence in Criminal Cases, Aberdeen
Flashpoints: Human Rights, Law and Religion, Nottingham: call for papers
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and methods, Berlin
Socio-Legal Methodology Master Class, Oxford: registration now open
The Perennial Problem of Disclosure – A way forward?, Bristol
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples, London
2019
September
Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and methods
Dates: 23–24 September 2019
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin
Please see webpage for details. This is an SLSA co-sponsored event.
2019 Goldring Lecture
Date: 26 September 2019
Venue: University of, Wollongong, Australia
Presenter: Mr James Christian, Chief Executive Officer, New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council
Please see flyer for details.
October
Regulating the Future of Human Work: a Christian Ethics Perspective
Date: 4 October 2019
Venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Sutherland Centre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Please see website for details.
Theorizing Law and Political Economy in the Era of Neoliberalism
Date: 7 October 2019
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford
Speaker: Professor Amy Kapczynski, Yale Law School
Please see website for details.
‘Law and Political Economy’ in Europe
Date: 7 October 2019
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Manor Road Bulindg, Manor Road, Oxford
Please see website for details.
Second Interdisciplinary Symposium on Organized Crime
Date: 9 October 2019
Venue: Bristol Law School, University of the West of England
Chairs: Dr Mary Alice Young (Law, UWE) and Dr Michael Woodiwiss (History, UWE)
Please see webpage and attachment for details including final programme and speaker listing. Registration is open and free. Spaces are limited, so signing-up is essential.
The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform
Date: 11 October 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
See website for further details.
JUSTICE Human Rights Conference 2019
Date: 16 October 2019
Venue: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Tudor Street, London
Keynote speaker: Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Green, Chair of the Law Commission
Please see website for details.
Sheffield Institute for Corporate & Commercial Law Early Career Workshop
Date: 16 October 2019
Venue: Sheffield Institute for Corporate & Commercial Law, Sheffield
See website for details. All welcome. Attendance is free.
Human Trafficking: Criminal law and evidence
Date: 16 October 2019
Venue: The Great Hall, Northumbria Univeresity, Newcastle upon Tyne
This Modern Law Review-funded seminar is free but please register to confirm your place. See attachment for details.
Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Issues in Religion and Society
Date: 17 October 2019
Venue: University of Westminster, London
Please see attachment for details.
Neuroscientific Evidence in Criminal Cases
Date: 17 October 2019
Venue: University of Aberdeen
Please see attachment for details and programme.
TLI Focus Seminar Series: The end of globalization?
Date: 18 October 2019
Venue: King's College London
Please see website for details of this free Transnational Law Institute event.
Universal Credit and Gender equality: Exploratory workshop on prospects for actual or fictional judicial review challenges
Date: 21 October 2019
Venue: Birmingham University Law School.
This event is organised under the SLSA Seminar Competition. Please see website for details. Places are limited. Registration closes: 27 September 2019.
A Workshop on Vulnerability and the Organisation of Labour
Dates: 25–26 October 2019
Venue: Newton Building, Nottingham Trent University
Please see website for details of cfp and registration.
Gender and Justice: Theory and practice across contexts
Dates: 28–31 October 2019
Venue: Center for Security and Justice Research, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
See poster for details.
November
Reconceiving the Womb in Medicine, Law and Society
Date: 4 November 2019
Venue: University of Manchester
Please see website for details of this free event.
Reassessing the Truth: The role of scientific and technological progress, the business sector, the sustainable economic and community Development in the energy transition: call for abstracts/paper proposals
Dates: 5–6 November 2019
Venue: West Virginia University, USA
The event is in collaboration with West Virginia University, Center for Innovation in Gas Research and Utilization (CIGRU), the American Society of International Law (ASIL) Interest Group on International Environmental Law and Interest Group on Intellectual Property Law, and gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, UK.
Please see website for details. Closing date: 27 September 2019.
The IEL Collective Inaugural Conference
Date: 6–7 November 2019
Venue: University of Warwick
Save the date. See website for further details.
Positioning the Politics of Consent in Law and History
Dates: 7–8 November 2019
Venue: University Technology Sydney, Australia
Organised by the Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia. Please see flyer for details.
Journalism as Justice, Leicester
Dates: 20–21 November 2019
Venue: De Montfort University, Leicester
Please see flyer for details.
Digital Rights in Brexit: Changes and challenges (Annual Conference of the Information Law and Policy Centre at IALS)
Date: 22 November 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
See website for further details.
The Futures of Legal Education and Practice Annual Conference 2019
Date: 26 November 2019
Venue: Open University, Milton Keynes
Please see website for details.
December
LSAANZ Conference: Survive, thrive, die
Dates: 5–7 December 2019
Venue: South Cross University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia
Please see website for details.
Flashpoints: Human Rights, Law and Religion: call for papers
Date: 16 December 2019
Venue: Centre for Rights and Justice, Nottingham Trent University
Please see website for details. Call closes: 1 November 2019.
2020
January
70 years of the Indian Republic, London: call for abstracts
Date: 20 January 2020
Venue: SOAS, South Asia Institute, London
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 30 September 2019.
Knowledge Frontiers Symposium: Natures, cultures and communities: call for applications
Dates: 30 January–1 February 2020
Venue: Dublin
Organised by the British Academy in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy. Please see flyer for details. Closing date for applications: 16 October 2019.
March
Crime Justice and Social Harms: call for papers
Dates: 31 March–1 April 2020
Venue: Keble College, Oxford
Organised by the Howard League for Penal Reform. Please see attachment and website for details. Call closes: 2 December 2019.
April
Modern Studies in Property Law 2020
Dates: 15–17 April 2020
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Please see website for further details.
Interdisciplinarity as Resistance
Dates: 23–25 April 2020
Venue: Konstepidemin Arts Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
Please see website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
May
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting: call for submissions
Dates: 28–31 May 2020
Venue: Denver, Colorado, USA
Please see website for details. Closing date: 6 November 2019.
June
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples
Date: 11–12 June 2020
Venue: City, University of London
Please see webpage for details. This is an SLSA Seminar Competition event.
Stigmatization, Identities and the Law: Asian and comparative perspectives: call for papers
Dates: 23–24 June 2020
Venue: Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 31 August 2019
Feminism, Law and Citizenship: call for papers
Dates: 24–26 June 2020
Venue: University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris
Please see flyer for details. Call closes: 30 September 2019.
Genocide and Law: Communicating through visual arts and language
Dates: 26–28 June 2020
Venue: Poznan, Poland
This is the 21st International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law and the 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics. Please see flyer for details.