News: conferences, events and seminars
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Events
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
Decolonising the Criminal Question: Colonial legacies, contemporary problems, Warwick
Law Commission 14th Programme of Law Reform Academic Conference – online organised by the Law Commission, SLS, SLSA and ALT NEW
SLSA postponed events to be rescheduled
Other events
Chronotopes of Law and Multi-scalar Governance: New contexts – with Mariana Valverde, online from University of Helsinki
International Law Association Spring Conference 2021 - online from QMUL
Book Launch Webinar: The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society – hosted by the Law and Society Association
Food Insecurity in International Law and Governance: Critical discourses of technology, modernisation and indigeneity in law and policy relating to food security – online from De Montfort University: call for papers
Fourth Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum: call for papers – Nottingham Trent University
International State Crime Initiative Event: Looting the North, Looting the South – investigating transnational corruption – online from QMUL
International State Crime Initiative Book Launch: Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide – Identity, history and hate speech – online from QMUL
Leaders in SHAPE: Tristram Hunt – in conversation with Conor Gearty: online from the British Academy
2021
March
SLSA Cardiff Virtual Conference 2021
Dates: 30 March–1 April 2021
Venue: online hosted by Cardiff University
See website for full details. Recorded sessions and other resources available for delegates on the live platform until 30 April 2021.
April
Law and Humanities in a Pandemic: Gendering the Pandemic
Date: 21 April 2021
Venue: online hosted by IALS
This is the seventh event in this year's Director's Seminar Series. See website for details. This event is free but registration is required.
Abolition as Imagination: Yielding possibility; crafting future
Date: 21 April 2021
Venue: online
Please see website and flyer for details of this series of Read and Resist events which are free and open to all.
International State Crime Initiative Event: Looting the North, Looting the South – investigating transnational corruption
Date: 21 April 2021
Venue: online from QMUL
Speaker: Professor Kristian Lasslett (University of Ulster)
See website for details.
International Law Association Spring Conference 2021
Date: 23 April 2021
Venue: online from Queen Mary University London
See website for details. Note: closing date for registration Monday 19 April 2021.
Law Commission 14th Programme of Law Reform Academic Conference
Date: 23 April 2021
Venue: online organised by the Law Commission, SLS, SLSA and ALT
See website for full details.
Plural Ideas of Justice: Stories, narratives and experiences from India
Dates: 23–24 April 2021
Venue: online/Mumbai hosted by JUSTICE
See website for details.
Leaders in SHAPE: Laura Bates
Date: 26 April 2021
Venue: British Academy webinarBritish Academy webinar
Speaker: Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project
Discussant: Professor Conor Gearty
See website for details of this free event.
WG Hart Workshop: New Perspectives on Jurisdiction and the Criminal Law
Dates: 26–28 April 2021
Venue: online at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Full programme now available. Please see website for details and booking for this free three-day webinar.
A Hitchhiker´s Guide to Comparative Tax Scholarship
Date: 28 April 2021
Venue: online hosted by Copenhagen Business School
This is seminar 7 in the 'CBS Tax Colloquium: Exploring taxation and fiscal policy beyond the corporate sphere' free online seminar series. See website for details.
Book Launch Webinar: The Routledge Handbook of Law and Society – hosted by the Law and Society Association
Date: 28 April 2021
Venue: online hosted by the LSA
Registration is required for this free event. See website for details.
University of Strathclyde Law School 5th Annual Postgraduate Law Conference: Reimagining justice and ethnography
Dates: 29–30 April 2021
Venue: online
Please see website for details.
May
International State Crime Initiative Book Launch: Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide – Identity, history and hate speech
Date: 4 May 2021
Venue: online from QMUL
Speakers: Dr Anita Schug, Rohingya Medics Organisation & Swedish Rohingya Association; Professor Penny Green, Queen Mary University of London; Dr Ronan Lee, Queen Mary University of London
This is the launch of Dr Ronan Lee's book. See website for details.
Multiscalar Legal Studies: A conversation with Mariana Valverde and Luis Eslava
Date: 5 May 2021
Venue: online from the Helsinki Socio-Legal Initiative
Speakers: Mariana Valverde (Toronto) and Luis Eslava (Kent)
Please see website for details.
Speaking Gender, Sexuality and Law at the Kitchen Table: 2
Date: 5 May 2021
Venue: online from Keele University
Speaker: Dr Dania Thomas
Please see website for details. This is the first in a series of events.
Law and the City: Annual graduate conference
Dates: 6–7 May 2021
Venue: McGill University, Faculty of Law, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Please see website for details.
Leaders in SHAPE: Tristram Hunt – in conversation with Conor Gearty
Date: 10 May 2021
Venue: online from the British Academy
See website for details of ths free event.
Communities in Europe: Between continuity and transition
Dates: 13–14 May 2021
Venue: online from Graduate Centre for Europe, University of Birmingham
Please see announcement for details.
Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building solidarity during this crisis (and the next)
Date: 19 May 2021
Venue: online
Please see website and flyer for details of this series of Read and Resist events which are free and open to all.
Applying Foucault´s Theory on Episteme to Constitutional Tax Issues
Date: 12 May 2021
Venue: online hosted by Copenhagen Business School
This is seminar 8 in the 'CBS Tax Colloquium: Exploring taxation and fiscal policy beyond the corporate sphere' free online seminar series. See website for details.
Law and Humanities in a Pandemic: The margins and the (epi)centres: place, space and the pandemic
Date: 19 May 2021
Venue: online hosted by IALS
This is the final event in this year's Director's Seminar Series. See website for details. This event is free but registration is required.
A Sacred Covenant? Historic, legal and cultural perspectives on the development of marital law
Date: 20 May 2021
Venue: online hosted by Northumbria University
Keynote speaker: The Rt Hon the Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE
Please see announcement for details.
Chronotopes of Law and Multi-scalar Governance: New contexts – with Mariana Valverde
Date: 20 May 2021
Venue: online from University of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
See website for details.
LSA Graduate Student and Early Career Online Workshop
Date: 25 May 2021
Venue: online (Chicago time)
This free workshop immediately precedes the LSA Annual Meeting. See website for details.
Roundtable: Comparative perspectives on tax challenges faced by the global south
Date: 26 May 2021
Venue: online hosted by Copenhagen Business School
This is seminar 9 in the 'CBS Tax Colloquium: Exploring taxation and fiscal policy beyond the corporate sphere' free online seminar series. See website for details.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 27–30 May 2021
Venue: Virtual conference
See website for details.
June
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society: Early career manuscript workshop
Date: 14 June 2021
Venue: online, hosted by Cambridge University Press
Series editors: Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jens Meierhenrich, London School of Economics and Political Science; Rachel E Stern, University of California, Berkeley
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2021. See announcement for details.
International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law 2021
Dates: 17–18 June 2021
Venue: online hosted by Leuven University Faculty of Law
Please see announcement for full details.
Beyond Consensus Ad Idem: In the shadows of contract law doctrine
Dates: 21–22 June 2021
Venue: online event hosted by University of Technology, Sydney
Convenor: Renata Grossi, UTS Faculty of Law
Please see announcement for details.
Tuning in to Activism as Improvisation, Musicality, and Spirituality
Date: 23 June 2021
Venue: online
Please see website and flyer for details of this series of Read and Resist events which are free and open to all.
July
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2021: 'Change and the law: hope, opportunity, shock and dread' online event
Date: tbc
Venue: online event organised by Law and Humanities
Please see announcement for details.
Food Insecurity in International Law and Governance: critical discourses of technology, modernisation and indigeneity in law and policy relating to food security: call for papers
Date: 8 July 2021
Venue: online from De Montfort University Centre for Law Society and Justice
See announcement for details. Closing date for submission of abstacts: 8 May 2021.
Fifth Tax Policy Conference, Centre for Tax Law
Dates: 5–6 July 2021
Venue: Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge or alternative arrangements tbc
Please see website for details. As always socio-legal material is welcome: see the recent Tax Justice and Tax Law.
September
British Crime Historians Symposium: Call for papers
Dates: 2–3 September 2021
Venue: online from Centre for Criminal Justice Studies in the School of Law, University of Leeds
Please see announcement for full details. Call closes: 28 May 2021.
Critical Legal Conference 2021
Dates: 2–4 September 2021
Venue: University of Dundee
Please see website for details.
Fourth Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum: call for papers
Date: 9 September 2021
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
This conference provides a unique opportunity for those teaching, researching or practising in partnership or LLP law, or related areas, to hear papers from leading academics and practitioners. Please see announcement for details. Closing date for proposals: 23 April 2021. Registration open June/July.
Decolonising the Criminal Question: Colonial legacies, contemporary problems
Dates: 16–17 September 2021
Venue: University of Warwick
Further details will be announced in due course. This is an SLSA-sponsored event under our Seminar Scheme.
Are We Owned? A multidisciplinary and comparative conversation on intellectual property in the algorithmic society
Date: 8 October 2021
Venue: University of Stirling
Please see website for details of the Modern Law Review-funded in-person event.
2023
May
23rd International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2023: call for papers
Dates: 24–27 May 2023
Venue: hosted online by Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
Please note that this event was originally scheduled to take place in May 2021. See announcement for full details. Closing date: 6 January 2023.
SLSA postponed events to be rescheduled
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples: postponed – further details in due course
Date: tbc
Venue: City, University of London
Please see webpage for details. This is an SLSA Seminar Competition event. Due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding coronavirus this event as been postponed. Further information will be announced in due course.
Interdisciplinarity as Resistance: postponed – further details in due course
Dates: tbc
Venue: Konstepidemin Arts Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
See website for details.