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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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Latest  events . . .

SLSA events

Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood, Reading: call for papers

Other events

Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care, IALS, London: call for papers

Public Law Project: Influencing law and policy webinar series 

Campaign for Social Science: Annual Sage Lecture – All change! 2024 – A year of elections, London

British Academy: ERC Consolidator Grant Webinar

Law Commission Consultation on Burial and Cremation: webinar

Free screening of ‘The Fight for Haiti' & live Q&A with Etant Dupain, BLOC Cinema, QMUL

The History of Double Jeopardy and Criminal Jurisdiction, QMUL

Borders of Exclusion: The power of visual counter-narratives in epistemic knowledge, University of Sussex

Changes in Light: Premiere, IALS, London

Transatlantic Perspectives on Legislating AI, IALS, London

Stephen Livingstone Lecture 2024: Human rights heroes – to equality and beyond!, Queen's University Belfast


2024


International Law in the UK: A troubled relationship?

Date: 8 November 2024

Venue: in-person at University of Worcester

See website for details. 

Rights-to-Unite Project Launch, UCD Sutherland School of Law

Date: 8 November 2024

Venue: Dublin and online 

Speakers: Professor Dagmar Schiek (PI), Professor Imelda Maher, Dr Audrey Plan, Dr Mary Naughton, Dr Lia Tsuladze, Dr Simonida Kacarska

Discussant: Professor John O’Brennan

Chair: Professor Professor Brigid Laffan as Chair

See website for details.

JUSTICE Annual Conference 2024: Protecting the Rule of Law

Date: 8 November 2024

Venue: Citypoint, London

See website for details.

International Law in the United Kingdom: A troubled relationship?

Date: 8 November 2024

Venue: University of Worcester 

Hosted by the UK Constitutional Law Association. See website for details.

Secrets of The National Archives: Thomas Cromwell's notebooks

Date: 8 November 2024

Venue: webinar from The National Archives

See website for details.

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Histories of Sexuality in the Time of Crisis Workshop

Dates: 8–9 November 2024

Venue: Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

See website for details. 

Ninth Annual Research and Orientation Workshop on Global Protection of Refugees and Migrants

Dates: 8–14 November 2024

Venue: Kolkata, India

See announcement for details. 

CSLS Seminar: The Incarcerations

Date: 11 November 2024

Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford

See website for details and announcement for further seminars in this series.

Law Commission Consultation on Burial and Cremation

Date: 11 November 2024

Venue: University of York

See website for details.

Critical Legal Talks: 'Of law and the world'

Date: 11 November 2024

Venue: online from QMUL, London

Speaker: David Kennedy, Manley O Hudson Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School

See website for details.

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Dual book launch: Proving International Crimes and The President's Kill List

Date: 12 November 2024,

Venue: Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea University

Speakers: Luca Trenta and Yvonne McDermott Rees

See website for details.

Justice, Recovery and Reconstruction in Ukraine

Date: 12 November 2024

Venue: The Spine Building, University of Liverpool

See website for details.

Public Law Project: Influencing law and policy webinar series

Dates: 12–14 November 2024

Venue: online from the Public Law Project

This event is entirely online and recorded for post-event access for delegates. See website for details.

Inaugural Kapila Hingorani Dialogues

Date: 13 November 2024

Venue: Cardiff University

Speakers:  Justice Prof Joel Ngugi of the Kenya Court of Appeal, Cardiff Visiting Leverhulme Professor, and Aman Hingorani, advocate of the Supreme Court of India

Chair: Professor Wendy Larner

Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would like to attend.

Digital Justice Journeys

Date: 13 November 2024

Venue: online from Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion, ARU

See announcement and poster for details.

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The Global and Local Politics of Surveillance, Technology and Counterterrorism

Date: 13 November 2024

Venue: University of Glasgow

See website for details.

KJuris: Scott Altman – If your morals make you discriminate at work, change jobs

Date: 13 November 2024

Venue: Strand Building, King's College London

See website website for details.

Radically Legal: Berlin constitutes the future

Date: 13 November 2024

Venue: Houghton Street, LSE, London

Speaker: Dr Joanna Kusiak, University of Cambridge

See website for details.

The Global and Local Politics of Surveillance, Technology and Counterterrorism, University of Glasgow

Date: 13 November 2024

Venue: Gilbert Scott Building Room, University of Glasgow 

See website for details.

Error of Judgement: The truth about the Birmingham bombings

Date: 14 November 2024

Venue: University of Sunderland

Speaker: Chris Mullin

See website for details.

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Secrets of The National Archives: Shakespeare's will

Date: 15 November 2024

Venue: webinar from The National Archives

See website for details.

Depletion: The human costs of caring

Date: 15 November 2024

Venue: SOAS, London

See website for details.

Book launch: The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland by Conor McCormick and Brice Dickson

Date: 18 November 2024

Venue: Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast

See website for details.

Political Prisoners in Russia and the Occupied Territories of Ukraine

Date: 18 November 2024

Venue: Montague Lecture Centre, Mile End Road, QMUL, London

See website for details.

Campaign for Social Science: Annual Sage Lecture – All change! 2024 – A year of elections

Date: 18 November 2024

Venue: Wimpole Street, London

Speaker: Hannah White OBE, Director and CEO of Institute for Government

See website for details.

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Next 100 Years's Fifth Heilbron Lecture

Date: 19 November 2024

Venue: Art Workers' Guild, London

Speaker: Flora Page, Barrister

See website for details.

Book Symposium: Statehood as Political Community – International law and the Emergence of new states by Dr Alex Green

Date: 19 November 2024

Venue: Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland

Author: Dr Alex Green, York University

Discussants: Dr Conor Crummey, Dr Gurkan Capar and Dr Sahara Nankan

See website for details.

Free screening of ‘The Fight for Haiti' & live Q&A with Etant Dupain

Date: 19 November 2024

Venue: BLOC Cinema, QMUL

See website for details.

Researcher Reflexivity and Including ‘Outsider’ Researcher Perspectives

Date: 20 November 2024

Venue: online from the National Centre for Research Methods

See website for details.

Structural Vulnerability and International Human Rights Adjudication

Date: 21 November 2024

Venue: Edinburgh Law School

Speaker: Marisa Iglesias, Pompeu Fabra University

See website for details.

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Seminar – Justice Beyond the Courts: Music, testimony, voice

Date: 22 November 2024

Venue: The Buttery, Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford

Speakers: Carey Young (artist), Damian Gorman (poet), Rawz (poet), Naomi Waltham-Smith

See website for details.

Performance – Justice beyond the courts: Musical performance and discussion

Date: 22 November 2024

Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford

Performer: Sam Lee, folk singer and song collector

See website and Workshop Programme for details of this performance and discussion event. Registration is now open: see Workshop Booking form and Musical Performance Booking Form.

How Child Protection Harms Refugees – and Others

Date: 25 November 2024

Venue: University of Oxford and online

Speaker: Hedi Viterbo

See website for details.

The Rule of (Environmental) Law?: Some reflections on the Aarhus Convention

Date: 27 November 2024

Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London

Speaker: Professor Áine Ryall, University College Cork

See website for details.

Resurgent Authoritarianism’s Challenge to Democracy’s Status as an International Norm

Date: 27 November 2024

Venue: Queen's University Belfast

Speaker: Professor Brad R Roth, Wayne State University

Chair: Professor Colin Harvey, Queen’s University Belfast

See website for details.

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Leverhulme Lecture: Wiitkaamaaganak – Adoption and the resurgence of Anishinaabe citizenship orders

Date: 27 November 2024

Venue: University of Birmingham and online

Speaker: Dr Damien Lee, Toronto Metropolitan University

See website for details.

The History of Double Jeopardy & Criminal Jurisdiction

Date: 27 November 2024

Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London

Speakers: Professor Peter Alldridge, QMUL, and Professor Ann Mumford, KCL

See website for details.

Women, Gender and Constitutionalism

Date: 27 November 2024

Venue: Bentham House, UCL, London

See website for details.

The Kadi Litigation: Sanctions and the rule of law

Date: 28 November 2024

Venue: King's College London

See website for details of this JUSTICE event.

The Future of International Climate Change Law and the Role of National and International Litigation

Date: 28 November 2024

Venue: Strathclyde Law School and online

Speaker: Professor Francesco Sindico

See website for details.

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Turning over a New Leaf: AI ethics in/through the archives, online from the National Archives

Date: 28 November 2024

Venue: online from the National Archives

Speakers: Dr Eleanor Drage, Co-Director of the AI: Narratives and Justice Programme, and Dr Kerry McInerney, co-lead of the Global Politics of AI project

See website for details.

Book Launch: 'Voices in the Dark' by Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen

Date: 28 November 2024

Venue: Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, London and online

In conversation with: Samer Abdelnour and Kirsten McConnachie

See website for details.

On Reliability and Sexual History Evidence

Date: 28 November 2024

Venue: Edinburgh Law School

Speaker: Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group

See website for details of this Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group.

Legal Design: New potentialities for law

Date: 28 November 2024

Venue: Cavendish Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University

Speaker: Professor Michael Doherty

See website for details.

The Future of International Climate Change Law & The Role of National & International Litigation

Date: 28 November 2024

Venue: University of Strathclyde

Speaker: Professor Francesco Sindico, University of Strathclyde

See website for details.

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Book Discussion: Excusing Homicide (‘Crimes of Passion’, a case study)

Date: 28 November 2024

Venue: QMUL, London

Speaker/author: Adrian Howe, University of Melbourne

See website for details.

Borders of Exclusion: The power of visual counter-narratives in epistemic knowledge

Date: 27 November 2024

Venue: University of Sussex, Brighton

See website and announcement for details.

Gender Stereotyping in International Human Rights Law and Discourse

Date: 29 November 2024

Venue: University of Bologna, Italy

See announcement for details. 

Legal History in Unexpected Places – registration now open

Date: 29 November 2024

Venue: online from the Open University

See website for details. 

Beyond the Spectacle: Exploring the nexus of art, migration, and the law

Date: 29 November 2024

Venue: Cavendish Campus, University of Westminster

See website for details.

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December

British Academy Global Perspectives Lecture

Date: 2 December 2024

Venue: British Academy, London

Speakers:  Justice Prof Joel Ngugi of the Kenya Court of Appeal, Cardiff Visiting Leverhulme Professor, and Professor Tetyana Antsupova, British Academy Global Professor, British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Chair: Professor Ambreena Manji

This event is by invite only, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would like to attend.

The Local Injustice of Bankruptcy: Geographical variation in access to debt relief within England

Date: 2 December 2024

Venue: University of Oxford and online

Speaker: Joe Spooner

See website for details.

British Academy: ERC Consolidator Grant Webinar

Date: 2 December 2024

Venue: online from the British Academy

See website for details.

British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Traning Courses 2024

Dates: December 2024

Venues: BIICL, Russell Square London and/or online

See announcement for further details.

Stephen Livingstone Lecture 2024: Human rights heroes – to equality and beyond!

Date: 4 December 2024

Venue: Queen's University Belfast

Speaker: Patrick Corrigan, Head of Nations and Regions and Northern Ireland Programme, Director of Amnesty International UK

See website for details.

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The ‘Inconspicuous Impact’ of Feminist Pressure Through Law

Date: 5 December 2024

Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London

Speaker: Dr Sharon Thompson (Cardiff University)

See website for details.

White Collar Crime – Challenges and Solutions

Date: 5 December 2024

Venue: Derby University and online

See announcement for details. Registration now open: see invitation for details.

Technology and Social Justice

Date: 5 December 2024

Venue: LegalTech and LTU, New Station Street, Leeds

Speaker: Dr Jessica Guth

See website for details.

Law Commission Consultation on Burial and Cremation: webinar

Date: 5 December 2024

Venue: online (Microsoft Teams)

See announcement for details.

Heritage in War and Peace IV: Human rights perspectives through past, present and future

Dates: 5–6 December 2024

Venue: University of Strathclyde

See website for details. 

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Exploring Creative Research Methods in Socio-Legal Studies

Dates: 5–6 December 2024

Venue: La Trobe Campus, Melbourne, Australia

See announcement for details. 

Common Law Forms in Civil Law Asia

Dates: 5–7 December 2024

Venue: Australian National University, Canberra

See announcement for details. 

Second International Gender Studies In Turkey Conference

Dates: 7–8 December 2024

Venue: Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

See website for details. 

Changes in Light: Premiere

Date: 9 December 2024

Venue: IALS, London

See website for details of this short film that focuses on the decolonising work of IALS.

Asian Law and Society Association Early Career/Junior Scholar Workshop

Date: 12 December 2024

Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

See announcement for details. 

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Law and Social Justice: Exploring intersections and innovations conference – call for papers

Date: 13 December 2024

Venue: online from Leeds Trinity University

See announcement for further details. Call closes: 29 November 2024.

(Re-) Drawing Borders: When and where was the United Kingdom?

Dates: 12–14 December 2024

Venue: Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

See invitation for details. 

Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting

Dates: 13–14 December 2024

Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

Theme: Whose Law, Whose Voices? Constructing Legal Stories in Asia

See announcement for details. 

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2025


January

Commission on Legal Pluralism: The Transformative Power of Legal Pluralism?

Dates: 13–15 January 2025

Venue: Jakarta, Indonesia

See website for details. 

The Geometry of Legal Thought

Date: 16 January 2025

Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London

Speaker: Professor Kevin Toh, UCL

See website for details.

North and South: Judicial cooperation between the United Kingdom and the Global South

Date: 20 January 2025

Venue: University of Leicester and online 

Speaker: President of the UK Supreme Court/the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Robert Reed, Lord Reed of Allermuir

See invitation for details.

Book Launch – Structural Injustice and the Law

Date: 20 January 2025

Venue: UCL Institute for Human Rights, London

See website for details.

Current Legal Problems: The social side of fair process

Date: 23 January 2025

Venue: UCL, Endsleigh Gardens, London

Speaker: Professor Joe Tomlinson, University of York

See website for details.

DigiRights Project Final Conference – The digitalisation of defence rights: time for new perspectives … and directives?

Dates: 30–31 January 2025

Venue: KU Lueven, Belgium

See announcement for details. 

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February

World Conference on Qualitative Research

Dates: 4–6 February 2025, in person/11–13 February 2025, online

Venue: Kraków, Poland, and online

See website for details.

Accessibility and the Limits of the Equality Act 2010

Date: 6 February 2025

Venue:  UCL Faculty of Laws, Endlseigh Gardens, London

Speaker: Professor Anna Lawson, University of Leeds

Chair: Lady Tanni Grey-Thompson, House of Lords

 See website for details.

2nd Conference of the Swiss Network for Law and Society

Dates: 10–12 February 2025

Venue: Institute of Social Anthropology, UniS, University of Bern, Switzerland

See website for details. 

Transatlantic Perspectives on Legislating AI

Date: 10 February 2025

Venue: IALS, London

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

See website for details.

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.

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March

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.

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.

Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood: call for papers

Date: 19 March 2025

Venue: University of Reading and hybrid

See announcement for details. Call closes: 6 December 2024. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.

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April

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

Date: 3 April 2025

Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London

See website for details.

SLSA Annual Conference 2025

Dates: 15–17 April 2025

Venue: University of Liverpool

See website for details.

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May

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.

Law and Society Association Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop: call for applications

Date: 21 May 2025

Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA

See website for details. Closing date 6 November 2024.

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago

Dates: 22–25 May 2025

Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA

See meeting details.

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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.

Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care

Dates: 11–12 June 2025

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

See website and announcement for details. Call closes: 6 January 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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