News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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2020
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Latest . . .
Every effort has been made to check whether events have been cancelled, postponed and new arrangements made, but you are advised to check directly with event organisers before making any plans.
LSA Annual Meeting: plans to move to Virtual Conference: NB refund deadline for cancellation of physical meeting – 15 April 2020
Lay Participation in Criminal Proceedings, London: CANCELLED
SeNSS Socio-Legal Conference: Using quantitative methods in socio-legal research, Colchester: POSTPONED
All European Academies General Assembly: Research collaboration in changing times, London: CANCELLED
British Society of Criminology Conference 2020, Liverpool: CANCELLED
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
SLS-JAC-SLSA Workshop on Judicial Appointments: ‘Academics as Judges’, Coventry: POSTPONED
SLSA Annual Conference 2020, Portsmouth: CANCELLED
Workshop on Critical Perspectives on Land Registration, London: CANCELLED
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples, London: POSTPONED
Interdisciplinarity as Resistance, Gothenburg, Sweden: CANCELLED
2020
SLS-JAC-SLSA Workshop on Judicial Appointments: ‘Academics as Judges’: POSTPONED
Date: tbc
Venue: Coventry University
This event is organised jointly by the SLSA, the Society for Legal Scholars and the Judicial Appointments Commission. Please see website for details. Due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding coronavirus this event as been POSTPONED. Further details will be announced in due course.
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples: POSTPONED
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.
April
Workshop on Critical Perspectives on Land Registration: CANCELLED
Date: 6 April 2020
Venue: Birkbeck University of London
See website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA under our Seminar Competition scheme. Due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding coronavirus this event as been CANCELLED.
Lay Participation in Criminal Proceedings CANCELLED
Date: 6 April 2020
Venue: Department of Law, LSE, London
See website for details.
Association of Law Teachers Conference 2020: CANCELLED
Dates: 6–7 April 2020
Venue: Stirling Court Hotel, Stirling University
Please see website for details.
SDGS, Biodiversity and Plant Health: International legal aspects
Dates: 10–11 April 2020
Venue: RUDN University, Moscow
Please see flyer for details.
Gendering Green Criminology: CANCELLED
Date: 15 April 2020
Venue: City, University of London
See website for details of this free event. Please note, this event has now been cancelled and will be rearranged in due course.
Modern Studies in Property Law 2020: CANCELLED
Dates: 15–17 April 2020
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Please see website for further details.
IALS/CHULS One-day Workshop: Academic career development in the law school: POSTPONED
Date: 21 April 2020
Venue: University of Liverpool
See website for details.
The Rule of Law in Modern Britain: A core principle or compromised ideal
Dates: 23 April 2020
Venue: Liverpool John Moores University
Please see announcement for details.
Solidarity in the Context of Natural Management Resources
Dates: 23–24 April 2020
Venue: University of Catania, Italy
See flyer for details.
Interdisciplinarity as Resistance: CANCELLED
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. Due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding coronavirus this event as been CANCELLED.
Technologies of Registration Workshop
Date: 24 April 2020
Venue: Centre for Health, Law and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Please see flyer for details.
British Academy of Forensic Sciences Friends Annual Dinner: POSTPONED
Date: 30 April 2020
Venue: Barber Surgeons' Hall, London
Speaker: Ian Kelcey
See website for details.
May
School of Law Postgraduate Research Conference: CANCELLED
Date: 1 May 2020
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
Please see announcement for details.
Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses and Natural Resources Governance: A study in global law, development and justice
Dates: 5–6 May 2020
Venue: Centre for Human Rights and Public Law, Cardiff University
Please see flyer for full details.
What Social Sciences Can Contribute to the Study of (Public) Law: CANCELLED
Dates: 14–15 May 2020
Venue: Faculty of Law, Criminal Sciences and Public Administration, Lausanne, Switzerland
See website for details.
SeNSS Socio-Legal Conference: Using quantitative methods in socio-legal research: POSTPONED
Dates: 18–19 May 2020
Venue: University of Essex, Colchester
Please see website for details.
Supporting Law Students in 2020 and Beyond: Exploring the why, what and how
Date: 21 May 2020
Venue: Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University
Please see website for details.
Voices of Change: Presents, pasts and futures of activis 01 m and protest in Europe: CANCELLED
Dates: 21–22 May 2020
Venue: University of Birmingham
Please see announcement for details. A limited number of bursaries are available.
LSA Annual Meeting: plans to move to Virtual Conference: NB refund deadline for cancellation of physical meeting – 15 April 2020
Dates: 28–31 May 2020
Venue: online
Please see website for details. Please follow link for booking cancellation and refund requests - NB login required.
June
Annual Socio-Legal Lecture – Possession: colonialism and the foundation of legal authority
Date: 2 June 2020
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Speaker: Professor Desmond Manderson, Australian National University
See website for details of this free event. Booking is essential.
All European Academies General Assembly: Research collaboration in changing times: CANCELLED
Dates: 3–4 June 2020
Venue: British Academy, Carlton Terrace London
Please see website for details of alternative arrangements.
Transnational Law Summer Institute
Dates: 6–14 June 2020
Venue: Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Co-hosted by the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College, London and the Faculty of Law, University of Los Andes, Bogota. See website for full details.
Impact and Wellbeing: CANCELLED
Dates: 19–20 June 2020
Venue: Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University
Please see website for details. Message from the organisers: 'In the light of the current emergency, and with a heavy heart, the organisers have decided to cancel this live event in June. We cannot place at risk the wellbeing of any of those involved, or their family, friends, students and societies. We do, however, have a lively group of people, with much to say, to contribute and to share on important topics. We propose to investigate the possibility of moving the event online in some way, perhaps asynchronously and perhaps in the autumn. If you would like to be kept abreast of developments, please contact the organisers at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..'
VIII Strathclyde Postgraduate Colloquium on Environmental Law and Governance: CANCELLED
Date: 21 June 2020
Venue: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 31 March 2020. Organised by the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance.
Stigmatization, Identities and the Law: Asian and comparative perspectives
Dates: 23–24 June 2020
Venue: Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Please see attachment for details.
Feminism, Law and Citizenship
Dates: 24–26 June 2020
Venue: University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris
Please see flyer for details.
The Legal Status of the Irish Language: Past, present and future: call for papers
Date: 27 June 2020
Venue: Trinity College, Dublin
Please see flyer for full details. Call closes: 19 April 2020.
WG Hart Workshop 2020: New Perspectives on Jurisdiction and the Criminal Law
Dates: 29–30 June 2020
Venue: tbc
See website. Further details to be announced in due course.
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.
July
Queen Mary Postgraduate Legal Research Conference 2020: More or less of law?: call for papers
Dates: 2–3 July 2020
Venue: Centre for Commercial Law Studies, QMUL, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
See website for details. Closing date: 1 April 2020.
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2020
Date: 3 July 2020
Venue: University of Southampton
Please see attachment for details.
SOGICA Final Conference
Dates: 7–8 July 2020
Venue: University of Sussex, Falmer Campus, Brighton
Please see website for details of this event organised by the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum Project.
British Society of Criminology Conference 2020: Criminology in an age of global injustice(s): CANCELLED
Dates: 8–10 July 2020
Venue: University of Liverpool
See website for details.
Gender Dimensions of Violence Prevention, Mona Jamaica
Date: 15 July 2020
Venue: University of the West Indes, Mona Law Campus, Jamaica
Seminar Convenors: Dr Ramona Biholar (Faculty of Law) and Dr Dacia Leslie (SALISES)
Please see attachment for call for chapter contributions for a peer-reviewed edited collection arising from this event.
August
Law and Digital Society: Re-imagining the futures – annual meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law: call for papers
Dates: 24–26 August 2020
Venue: Lund University, Sweden
Please see website for details. Call closes: 15 April 2020.
September
British Crime Historians Symposium: call for papers
Dates: 2–4 September 2020
Venue: Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds
See announcement and website for details. Call closes: 8 April 2020.
Critical Legal Conference 2020
Dates: 3–5 September 2020
Venue: University of Dundee
Please see website for details.
British Academy-Ashoka University Research Collaboration Symposium 2020: call for proposals
Dates: 4–5 September 2020
Venue: Ashoka University, India
Theme: Justice – in particular questions at the intersections of formal and lived justice
Please see website for details. Closing date: 22 April 2020.
Law and Emotion in Times of Uncertainty: call for abstracts
Dates: 5–7 September 2020
Venue: Lund University, Sweden
Please see flyer for details. Call closes: 31 March 2020.
University Association for Contemporary European Studies Conference: Health in Europe Panel
Dates: 6–9 September 2020
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Please see announcement for further details.
Enhancing Urban Climate Resilience: The role of law
Date: 10 September 2020
Venue: Tilburg Sustainability Center, Tilburg, Netherlands
Please see website for details.
Final Conference on Small Claims Dispute Resolution for Consumers: A European approach: call for papers
Date: 10 September 2020
Venue: Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels
See announcement for details. Closing date: 20 May 2020.
Inequality within International Tax: call for papers
Dates: 14–15 September 2020
Venue: CBS Law, Copenhagen
See announcement for full details. Closing date: 1 May 2020.
Old Age and Dementia Care: call for papers
Dates: 22–23 September 2020
Venue: Birkbeck, University of London
Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 27 April 2020.
2021
LSA Annual Meetings 2021 and 2022: request for IRC proposals: deadline extended
The Law and Society Association is pleased to invite the submission of proposals to form new or join existing International Research Collaboratives (IRCs) in preparation for the Annual Meetings in Chicago (2021) and Lisbon (2022). See website for details. Closing date: 1 May 2020.
January
SLSA Postgraduate Conference
Dates: January 2021 (dates tbc)
Venue: Cardiff University.
Details to be confirmed in due course.
March
Crime Justice and Social Harms
Dates: 23–24 March 2021
Venue: tbc
Organised by the Howard League for Penal Reform. Further details will be announced in due course. This event was POSTPONED from March/April 2020.
May
International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2021: call for papers
Dates: 27–29 May 2021
Venue: Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
See announcement for full details. Closing date: 6 January 2021.
International Research Collaboratives for LSA 2021 and 2022: call for proposals
The Law and Society Association invites the submission of proposals to form new or join existing International Research Collaboratives (IRCs) in preparation for the Annual Meetings in Chicago (2021) and Lisbon (2022). See announcement for full details. Closing date: 3 April 2020.
June
W G Hart Legal Workshop 2021: Call for workshop proposals and the nomination of academic directors
The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies is seeking proposals and Academic Directors for the 2021 W G Hart Legal Workshop from law schools across the UK. See website for details. Closing date: 31 March 2020.