News: conferences, events and seminars
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Latest events . . .
Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference titled: Law & Prejudice, Montreal, Canada – call for papers
RCSL Annual Meeting: Law, society and digital pasts, presents and futures, Lund, Sweden – call for papers
IVR World Congress 2024, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Immigration and Privacy in the Law of the European Union: book launch, QMUL, London
Islamophobia and Counter-terrorism in the UK, online from Birkbeck
Housing Studies Association Annual Conference 2023: Sheffield – call for papers
Legal Research for Social Impact, York
SLSA events and co-sponsored events
SLSA 2023 University of Ulster: call for papers now open
2022
December
Design Thinking and Legal Design in Clinical Legal Education
Date: 2 December 2022
Venue: online from CLEO (Clinical Legal Education Organisation)
See website for details of this free event.
An Ethical Social Economy: Lecture by Philip Kolvin
Date: 5 December 2022
Venue: University of Westminster, London
Speaker: Philip Kolvin KC
See website for details of this free event.
Aspects of Empowerment in Legislation and Education: Inaugural lecture
Date: 6 December 2022
Venue: Berrill Lecture Theatre, Open University, Milton Keynes
Speaker: Professor Stephanie Pywell
See website for details of this free events
'Rules: A Short History of What We Live By' with Professor Lorraine Daston
Date: 8 December 2023
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London
See website for details.
Book Launch: The Abortion Act: a Biography of a UK Law, by Sally Sheldon, Gayle Davis, Jane O'Neill and Clare Parker
Date: 8 December 2022
Venue: online from University of Bristol
Hosted by Centre for Health, Law, and Society and the Centre for Law and History Research. See wesbite for details of this free event.
Book Launch: Immigration and Privacy in the Law of the European Union – The Case of Information Systems
Date: 8 December 2022
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London
See website for details of this free (B)OrderS Book Forum event.
Resisting Ecocide: Restoring Balance and Harmony to West Papua
Date: 9 December 2022
Venue: online and QMUL, Mile End Road, London
See website for details.
Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 9–10 December 2022
Venue: Vietnam National University, Hanoi
See website for details.
Lawyering in the Anti-trafficking Space
Date: 13 December 2022
Venue: School of Law and Social Justice Building, University of Liverpool
See website and poster for details of this free event.
Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries: Legal history in the curriculum
Date: 15 December 2022
Venue: online from OU Law School - Legal History Research Clusters
Programme and booking now available. See website for details.
Islamophobia and Counter-terrorism in the UK
Date: 15 December 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck University of London
Speakers: Rizwaan Sabir and Tarek Younis
See website for details of this free event.
2023
Global Corporate Law Seminar Series, online – call for papers
Dates: Spring Term 2023
Venue: online from Global Corporate Law
See announcement and website for details. Closing date: 1 December 2022.
January
Joint International Research Project in the Field of Gender Equality: Haifa, Israel, and Lille, France – call for papers
Dates: 9 January 2023 and 3–6 July 2023
Venue: Unviersity of Haifa, Israel, and Lille University, France
See announcement for details. Closing date for Lille only: 15 February 2023.
Sentencing Seminar: Current issues in sentencing policy and research
Date: 13 January 2023
Venue: City Law School, London
Organised by the Sentencing Council and City Law School. See website for details of this free event.
AHRC UKRI 'Where Next?' Launch Event
Date: 25 January 2023
Venue: online
See website for details.
February
Legal Research for Social Impact
Date: 1 February 2023
Venue: University of York
Please see website for details of this rearranged event organised by the Public Law Project.
Issues and Developments in Entertainment Law
Date: 7 February 2023
Venue: University of Westminster, London
Speaker: Sir Richard Arnold, Alumni and Visiting Professor at Westminster Law School and Court of Appeal judge
See website for details.
AHRC Engaging with Government 2023: two-day course
Dates: 21–23 February 2023
Venue: Institute for Government, London
See website for details of this free event.
March
Housing Studies Association Annual Conference 2023: Sheffield – call for papers
Dates: 29–31 March 2023
Venue: Sheffield
Theme: 'From the Floorboards Up: Foundations and Futures of Housing Justice'
See website for details. Closing date: 12 December 2022.
April
SLSA Annual Conference 2023
Dates: 6–9 April 2023
Venue: University of Ulster, Derry-Londonderry
Further coming soon.
May
Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference titled: Law & Prejudice – call for papers
Dates: 4–5 May 2023
Venue: Montreal, Canada
See announcement for details. Closing date: 5 February 2023.
International Conference of the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG)
Dates: 4–6 May 2023
Venue: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
See announcement for details.
Evidentiary Regimes of UN Treaty Bodies: Perspectives from research and practice
Dates: 15–16 May 2023
Venue: Ghent, Belgium
See website for details. This event is organised by the DISSECT HORIZON 2020 research project.
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.
Law and Society Association Graduate Student & Early Career Workshop
Date: 31 May 2023
Venue: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Applications are invited for this workshop convening immediately preceding the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting. See website for details.
June
LSA Annual Meeting 2023
Dates: 1–4 June 2023
Venue: Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico
See website for details.
ISA World Congress of Sociology: Session on Transnational Queer Politics and Human Rights
Dates: 25 June–1 July 2023
Venue: Melbourne, Australia
See website for details.
WG Hart Workshop 2023: Theorists in company law: announcement and call for papers
Dates: 29–30 June 2022
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
See website for details. Call closes: 14 February 2022.
July
Authoritarianism and Genocide: Narratives of exclusion – call for papers
Dates: 10–14 July 2023
Venue: Barcelona, Spain
This is the 16th Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. See website for details. Call closes: 1 December 2022.
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2023: call for papers
Date: 14 July 2023
Venue: online and University of Verona
See announcement for details. Call closes: 14 February 2023.
Ninth Biennial Conference on Applied Legal Storytelling: call for proposals
Dates: 26–28 July 2023
Venue: City Law School, University of London
See announcement for details. Closing dates: 2 December 2022 (priority) and 3 February 2023 (extended).
August
RCSL Annual Meeting: Law, society and digital pasts, presents and futures – call for papers
Dates: 30 August–1 September 2023
Venue: Stockholm, Sweden
Organised by the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University. See website and poster for details. Call closes: 28 February 2023.
September
International Creative Research Methods Conference: call for contributions
Dates: 11–12 September 2022
Venue: Manchester and online
See announcement for details. Call closes: 1 December 2022.
2024
IVR World Congress 2024
Date: tbc
Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea
Theme: The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy
See announcement. Further details will be published in due course.
June
WG Hart Workshop 2024: call for proposals
Dates: tbc
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
See website for full details. Call closes: 28 February 2023.