News: conferences, events and seminars
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2019
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2020
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Judging the Troops: Exceptional security measures and judicial impact in India, London
Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Issues in Religion and Society, London: call for papers
International Conference of Legal Regulators 2019, Edinburgh
Decolonisation and the Law School, Bristol
Knowledge Frontiers Symposium: Natures, cultures and communities, Dublin: call for applications
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
July
Judging the Troops: TLI seminar
Date: 25 July 2019
Venue: Transnational Law Institute, King's College London
Speaker: Professor Surabhi Chopra, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong
This event is free but please register. See website for full details.
Socio-Legal Methodology Master Class
Dates: 29–30 July 2019
Venue: St Catherine's College, Oxford
See webpage for details. The SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event. Registration is now open.
August
European Sociological Association Conference: Europe and Beyond – boundaries, barriers and belonging
Dates: 20–23 August 2019
Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University
The ISA Research Committee on the Sociology of Law Session: Democratic Deficit and Judicial Power in Europe Session – organised by Jacek Kurczewski and Mavis Maclean – invites contributions. Please see attachment and website for details.
September
UACES 49th Annual Conference
Dates: 1–4 September 2019
Venue: Lisbon, Portugal
UACES is the academic association for contemporary European studies. See website for details.
The Legal Research Agenda for Medicine, Capacity and Mental Health: A gap analysis
Date: 2 September 2019
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle
See poster and full details and registration.
Law Commission Consultation Event: 'Building families through surrogacy: a new law'
Date: 3 September 2019
Venue: University of Birmingham
Please see website for details of this free events - supported by the University of Birmingham.
International Conference of Legal Regulators 2019
Dates: 5–6 September 2019
Venue: Waldorf Astoria, Edinburgh
Hosted by the Law Society of Scotland. Please see website for details.
Television drama, law and national identity
Date: 6 September 2019
Venue: University of Westminster, London
Please see attachment and website for details.
Postgraduate Bioethics Conference
Dates: 9–10 September 2019
Venue: Swansea University
Please see website for full details.
Early Career Learning and Teaching Symposium
Dates: 10–11 September 2019
Venue: Cloth Hall Court, Leeds
Please see website for details of this joint ALT and University of Leeds event.
European Society of International Law: 2019 annual conference
Date: 12 September 2019
Venue: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
This call is for the ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law. Please see website for details.
Decolonisation and the Law School
Date: 13 September 2019
Venue: The Law School, University of Bristol
Please see website for details of this free event.
Brazil-Japan Litigation and Society Seminar 2: call for contributions
Dates: 16–17 September 2019
Venue: University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Contributions are invited for research roundtable presentations in simultaneous panels. Please see website for details.
Divorce Reform Act 1969: Reflecting on fifty years
Dates: 16–17 September 2019
Venue: Birkbeck College, University of London
Please see attachment for full details of this free event. PhD students are particularly welcome.
Law in Context: Early career workshop – call for papers
Dates: 17–18 September 2019
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, London
Please see flyer and website for details. Call closes: 10 July 2019.
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.
October
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 draft programme. Registration is open and free.
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.
Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Issues in Religion and Society: call for papers
Date: 17 October 2019
Venue: University of Westminster, London
Please see attachment for details. Call closes: 2 September 2019.
A Workshop on Vulnerability and the Organisation of Labour: call for papers
Dates: 25–26 October 2019
Venue: Newton Building, Nottingham Trent University
Please see website for details of cfp and registration. Call closes: 17 July 2019.
Gender and Justice: Theory and practice across contexts: call for proposals
Dates: 28–31 October 2019
Venue: Center for Security and Justice Research, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
See poster for details. Closing date: 22 July 2019.
November
The IEL Collective Inaugural Conference
Date: 6–7 November 2019
Venue: University of Warwick
Save the date. See website for further 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.
December
LSAANZ Conference: Survive, thrive, die: call for abstracts
Dates: 5–7 December 2019
Venue: South Cross University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia
Please see website for details. Call closes: 31 July 2019.
2020
January
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: call for papers
Dates: 15–17 April 2020
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Please see website for further details. Closing date: 30 August 2019.
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.
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.