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2025

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2026

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Latest  events . . .

SLSA events

Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body, Manchester: Call for papers and presentations

Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood, Reading

Workshop: Legal perspectives on climate reparations, University of Bristol: call for expressions of interest

Other events

British Academy Screening: The Memory of Justice, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Book Launch: Keepers of the Common Good by D J Galligan, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford

Socio-Legal Annual Lecture by Professor Martti Koskenniemi, Wolfson College, Oxford

Cultures of Knowledge and Emotion in Health Care Practices, Wolfson College, Oxford

The BSLC Inaugural Annual Janine Sargoni Memorial Lecture, University of Bristol

Not Just in Outer Space: A story of 'aliens' in nationality law, University College London

GW4 Network on Family, Regulation and Society Annual Lecture 2025, University of Bristol

Elaborating the Constitution through Institutional Pluralism, UCL Faculty of Laws, London

How to Hide a Genocide, Edinburgh Law School

Women and Equality in Publishing: A study of leading UK law journals, Edinburgh Law School

Why Justice Matters: Personal stories from Lord David Wolfson, Mayfair, London


2025


February

The Miscarriages of Justice following the Hillsborough Disaster

Date: 13 February 2025

Venue: Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester

Speaker: David Conn,  Investigations Correspondent at The Guardian and current news reporter of the year

See website for details.

In Conversation with Michael Mansfield KC

Date: 13 February 2025

Venue: University of Chichester

See website for details.

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Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: How is it possible to write a global history of laws?

Date: 18 February 2025

Venue: CSLS Manor Road Building

Speaker: Professor Jean-Louis Halpérin, L’École Normale Supérieure, Paris

See announcement for details.

The Criminal Justice System and Motherhood

Date: 18 February 2025

Venue: University of Bedfordshire, Luton

See website for details.

Transatlantic Perspectives on Legislating AI

Date: 19 February 2025

Venue: IALS, London

Speaker: Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

See website for details.

Toulson Law Lecture 2025: The role of judges in the rule of law and the promotion of international flourishing, University of Surrey

Date: 19 February 2025

Venue: Rik Medlik Building, University of Surrey, Guildford

See website for details.

Justice Beyond Human Rights: Lessons from Saudi Women’s activism

Date: 19 February 2025

Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University and online

Speaker: Dr Nora Jaber, Edinburgh University

See announcement for details.

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Not Just in Outer Space: A story of 'aliens' in nationality law

Date: 20 February 2025

Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London

Speaker: Professor Devyani Prabhat (University of Bristol)

See website for details.

Manchester Asian Law Group Lecture 2025 - Professor Ngoc Son Bui

Date: 20 February 2025

Venue: University of Manchester

See website for details.

Legal London Tour

Date: 21 February 2024

Venue: Royal Courts of Justice, London

Organised by Old Bailey Insight & Legal London. See website for details.

Law and LGBTQ+ Arts and Culture in Modern Britain

Date: 24 February 2025

Venue: University of York

Organised by Equality and Diversity Office, University of York. See website for details.

Book Launch: Keepers of the Common Good by D J Galligan

Date: 24 February 2025

Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford

See website for details.

The History of Misinformation

Date: 25 February 2025

Venue: British Academy, London

See website for details.

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Webinar: Childhood and Disability

Date: 25 February 2025

Venue: online from QMUL Childhood, Law & Policy Network

See website for details.

Mycelium Law

Date: 25 February 2025

Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London

See website for details. This is an LHub (Law and Humanites Hub) event.

GW4 Network on Family, Regulation and Society Annual Lecture 2025

Date: 26 February 2025

Venue: University of Bristol Law School

Speaker: Professor Anne Barlow

Theme: W(h)ither Family Law?

See website for details. 

How to Address Inequalities as Part of 'Good Growth', AcSS webinar 

Date: 26 February 2025

Venue: online from the Academy of Social Sciences

See website for details and registration.

The Fabrication of Homeland Security: Tracing police entanglements across India and Israel/Palestine

Date: 27 February 2025

Venue: online Race and Justice Seminar Series event

Speaker: Dr Rhys Machold, University of Glasgow

See website for details.

The Future of Gender and Sexuality Data: Perils and possibilities

Date: 27 February 2025

Venue: Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh

Chair: Sharon Cowan

See website for details.

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March

British Academy Screening: The Memory of Justice

Date: 1 March 2025

Venue: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Speaker: Professor Philippe Sands, Professor of the Public Understanding of Law, University College London

See website for details.

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: Criminalising the Unspeakable: Rethinking the history of sodomy

Date: 4 March 2025

Venue: CSLS Manor Road Building

Speaker: Professor Alice Taylor, KCL

See announcement for details.

The BSLC Inaugural Annual Janine Sargoni Memorial Lecture

Date: 5 March 2025

Venue: Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol

Theme: Radical Lawyers? Rethinking the law and society canon

Speaker: Professor Linda Mulcahy

See website for details.

Next 100 Years: Celebration of female trailblazers in the legal profession

Date: 5 March 2025

Venue: DLA Piper, London

Guests: Dana Denis-Smith, Dr I Stephanie Boyce, Barbara Mils KC, Jon Hayes

See announcement for details.

Cultures of Knowledge and Emotion In Health Care Practices

Date: 5 March 2025

Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford

See announcement for details.

Cultures of Knowledge and Emotion in Health Care Practices

Date: 5 March 2025

Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford

See announcement for details.

Minimum Wage: Tool of emancipation or tool of coercion? – Panel discussion

Date: 6 March 2025

Venue: Lecture Theatre, Law School, Sebastian Street, City St George's

See website for details. 

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Towards a Legal Theory of Prices: Mapping the conceptual terrain

Date: 6 March 2025

Venue: UCL Laws, London

Speaker: Dr Anna Chadwick

See website for details.

Muslim Women and Gender Equality

Date: 7 March 2025

Venue: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

See website for details.

1984 - The year of Anti-Racism: Then and now

Date: 8 March 2025

Venue: The London Archives

See website for details.

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: Rituals of Law: Legal Cosmopolis in an Early Modern Indian Ocean Port

Date: 11 March 2025

Venue: CSLS Manor Road Building

Speaker: Dr Mahmood Kooria, University of Edinburgh

See announcement for details.

Can Law Tackle the Climate Crisis?

Date: 11 March 2025

Venue: Old Fire Station, Oxford

Speaker: Rebekah Hill, Good Law Project 

See website for details.

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UK Immigration Legislation and a Hierarchy of Modern Slavery Victimhood

Date: 12 March 2025

Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Hull

Speaker: Dr Marija Jovanovic

See website for details.

How to Hide a Genocide

Date: 12 March 2025

Venue: Edinburgh Law School

See website for details.

What is missing when defendants disown their actions?

Date: 13 March 2025

Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London

Speaker: Professor Bebhinn Donelly-Lazarov

See website for details.

Working with Former Combatants: Understanding violence, peace and memory

Date: 13 March 2025

Venue: Queen's University Belfast

See website for details.

Forensic Linguistics and the Law

Date: 14 March 2025

Venue: Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics

Speakers: Dr Edina Harbinja (Aston Law School), Dr Lucia Busso (Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics) and Dr David Wright (Nottingham Trent University)

See website for details.

Re-orienting Punishment towards Forgiveness: The role of interpersonal concepts in legal reconstruction

Date: 18 March 2025

Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London

See website for details. This is an LHub (Law and Humanites Hub) event.

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Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood

Date: 19 March 2025

Venue: University of Reading and hybrid

See announcement for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.

Women and Equality in Publishing: A study of leading UK law journals

Date: 19 March 2025

Venue: Edinburgh Law School

See website for details.

Family Law as Social Policy: Taking Family Problems Upstream

Date: 20 March 2025

Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London

Speaker: Professor Rob George,

Chair: Professor Mavis Maclean

See website for details.

Why Justice Matters: Personal stories from Lord David Wolfson

Date: 20 March 2025

Venue: central London location tbc

See website for details of this Support Through Court event.

Doing Criminal Justice with Integrity

Date: 20 March 2025

Venue: Edinburgh Centre for Legal Theory, Edinburgh Law School

Speaker: Professor Paul Roberts, University of Nottingham 

See website for details.

The Next 100 Years of Women in the Law

Date: 20 March 2025

Venue: CMS Manchester

See website for details.

Elaborating the Constitution through Institutional Pluralism

Date: 25 March 2025

Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London

Speaker: Professor Athanasios (Akis) Psygkas, Western University

See website for details.

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April

British Academy: First annual SHAPE conference

Date: 2 April 2025

Venue: Carton House, London 

Save the date: further details will be available in the new year. 

Symposium on Roger Cotterrell's Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies

Date: 3 April 2025

Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London

See website for details.

Workshop: Legal perspectives on climate reparations

Date: 4 April 2025

Venue: Lady Hale Moot Court Room, University of Bristol

See announcement and Call for EOIs for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.

MI5: Official Secrets Exhibition

Dates: 5 April–28 September 2025

Venue: The National Archives, Kew

See website for details.

How Do New Legal Rights Emerge?

Date: 7 April 2025

Venue: Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham

Speakers: Dr Meghan Campbell and Dr William Mack, University of Birmingham

See website for details.

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Parity of Esteem as a Constitutional Principle in NI and Beyond

Date: 9 April 2025

Venue: The Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast

See website for details.

SLSA Annual Conference 2025

Dates: 15–17 April 2025

Venue: University of Liverpool

See website for details.

Sexual Consent and Legal Reform: Towards a Communicative Responsibility Approach

Date: 30 April 2025

Venue: Queen's University Belfast

See website for details.

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May

Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference: Anatomy of a Crisis: call for abstracts

Dates: 8–9 May 2025

Venue: McGill Universeity, Montreal, Canada

See call for abstracts and poster for details. For all enquires contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Closing date: 20 February 2025.

A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? Winning against the odds for human rights, equity, and indigenous peoples: call for EOIs

Dates: 8–9 May 2025

Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds

See announcement and invitation for details. Closing date for EOIs: 7 February 2025. Closing date for abstract submissions: 28 February 2025.

Slavery’s Long Goodbye: A Wilberforce Institute Lecture

Date: 14 May 2025

Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Kingston upon Hull

Speaker: Professor Chris Evans, University of Wales

See website for details.

Dysfunctional Governance: 'Crisis', 'scandal', 'tragedy', 'emergency'

Dates: 15–16 May 2025

Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff: call for abstracts

Submissions are invited for this interdisciplinary workshop. See announcement for details.

Law and Society Association Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop

Date: 21 May 2025

Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA

See website for details. 

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Law and Society Association Annual Meeting

Dates: 22–25 May 2025

Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA

See meeting details. Registration is now open.

Criminal Mind Research Network launch event

Date: 23 May 2025

Venue: Nottingham Trent University

See announcement for details.

Socio-Legal Annual Lecture by Professor Martti Koskenniemi

Date: 28 May 2025

Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford

See website for details.

‘What’s Next for Feminism?’ LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory: call for papers

Dates: 29–30 May 2025

Venue: LSE, Houghton Street, London 

See website for details. Call closes: 1 March 2025.

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 June

Conference on Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond: call for papers 

Dates: 5–6 June 2025

Venue: Institut d'études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles

See website for details. Call closes: 25 January 2025.

Law and the Critique of Political Economy: 60th Anniversary of Reading Capital

Date: 6–7 June 2025

Venue: Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

See website for details. Closing date: 13 April 2025.

WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care: cfp extended

Dates: 11–12 June 2025

Venue: IALS, Charles Clore House, Russell Square, London

See website and announcement for details. Closing date: 24 January 2025.

Summer Academy for Feminist Legal Studies 2025: call for speakers

Dates: 13–15 June 2025

Venue: University of Hamburg, Germany

See announcement for details. If you are interested in participating in the Summer Academy as a speaker, please send a short email with details of your expertise or research area to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and the Law: A Conversation between Feminist Scholars in Postcolonial South Asia and the UK: call for abstracts

Dates: 16–17 June 2025

Venue: Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff University

See announcement for details. Call closes: 28 March 2025.

UK Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Health Conference: Opportunities, challenges and the vulnerabilities of health throughout the life course

Dates: 19–20 June 2025

Venue: University of Manchester

Speakers: Professor Amy T. Campbell, University of Illinois; Dr Nigel Stobbs, Queensland University of Technology; Dr John Stannard, Queen’s University Belfast

See announcement for details.

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 August

Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body: Call for papers and presentations

Date: 25 August 2025

Venue: University of Manchester

See website for details. Call closes: 3 March 2025. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.

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September

Responsible AI in Health Care: call for abstracts

Dates: 10–12 September 2025

Venue: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

See announcement for details. Closing date: 28 February 2025.


November

From Binary to Bench: Empowering equal opportunities and AI literacy in global legal education: call for papers

Date: 5 November 2025

Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, and online

See website of details. This is an SLS-funder symposium organised by Dr Melanie Stockton-Brown and Dr Basak Bak. Call closes: 7 March 2025.


2026

June

WG Hart Workshop 2026: call for proposals

Dates and venue: tbc

IALS is now seeking proposals to organise the 2026 WG Hart Workshop. The WG Hart Bequest provides a budget of approximately £7000 to use towards the running costs of the Workshop. In addition to this, the Institute covers the cost of venue hire, publicity and administrative support. The Workshop structure follows the pattern of a two-day workshop with plenary and parallel sessions, so as to permit participation by a wide range of scholars. The deadline for proposals is 28 February 2025. Further details can be found on the website

 

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