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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Latest events . . .
SLSA events
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body, Manchester
Other events
The Irish Unity Dividend: The Benefits for Everyone – book launch and panel discussion, Queen's University Belfast
Model Law? Template Legal Culture and the Global Production of Environmental LawModel Law?, UCL, London
Class-based Disablism in Higher Education: Disabled Academics' Experiences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
2025
July
Facing the Future: Justice
Date: 10 July 2025
Venue: National Library of Scotland
See website for details.
Public Panel Discussion: 'Do we need a new AI Bill of Human Rights?'
Date: 10 July 2025
Venue: King's College, London
See website for details.
1885 and its Long Shadow: Sexual offences in historical context
Date: 11 July 2025
Venue: online from the Open University
See website for details. Hosted by The Open University Legal Histories Research Cluster and the British Sociological Association Global Histories and Sociology Study Group.
Law in Universities, Law in Society
Date: 14 July 2025
Venue: South Bank University, London
See website for details.
Contested Imaginaries: Youth, Inequality, and Security in Argentina
Date: 15 July 2025
Venue: Leeds Social Sciences Institute
Speaker: Professor Emilio Ayos, University of Buenos Aires
See website for details.
Researching Equality at Work and in Society in a Hostile Political Context
Date: 15 July 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
A roundtable workshop exploring challenges faced by scholars working on equality, inclusion and social justice. See website for details.
Behind Closed Books: Money Laundering in UK Insolvency Proceedings
Date: 17 July 2025
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds and online
See announcement for details. Registration is open.
Legal Humanities Association: Launch event and inaugural AGM
Date: 22 July 2025
Venue: online
Speakers: Elena Loizidou, Greta Olson, and Scott Veitch
See website for details.
Doing Otherwise: Tracing feminist urban methodologies
Date: 22 July 2025
Venue: Senate House, London
See website for details.
Innovations and Challenges in Criminal Justice
Date: 23 July 2025
Venue: Northumbria University
See website for details.
Labouring Bodies, Unjust Laws: Reimagining the Laws of Social Reproduction
Dates: 23–24 July 2025
Venue: India International Centre, New Delhi and streaming online
Organised by the Laws of Social Reproduction project. See website for details.
Taking Secrets to the Grave
Date: 25 July 2025
Venue: Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
See website for details.
2025 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute
Dates: 28 July–8 August 2025
Venue: Jesus College, Oxford
See website for details.
August
Symposium: Behind Bars: Memory, justice and the future of penal heritage
Dates: 21–22 August 2025
Venue: Shrewsbury Prison
See website for details.
Law, Drugs, and the Moving Body
Date: 25 August 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
See website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Nordic Law and Gender Conference 2025: Against all odds
Dates: 28–29 August 2025
Venue: University of Copenhagen
See website for details.
September
Society of Legal Scholars’ Annual Conference: registration open
Dates: 2–4 September 2025
Venue: University of Leeds
See website and flyer for details.
To Detain or Punish
Date: 3 September 2025
Venue: The London Archives
See website for details.
Critical Legal Conference 2025: call for papers and invitation to PhD Day
Dates: 4–6 September 2025
Venue: University of Exeter
See website and announcement for cfp details and the invitation to the PhD Day on 3 September. Call closes: 1 August 2025.
CLC 2025 'Law and process' stream: call for papers
Dates: 4–6 September 2025
Venue: University of Exeter
See call for papers for details. Closing date: 1 August 2025. Registration is now open.
Class-based Disablism in Higher Education: Disabled Academics' Experiences
Date: 8 September 2025
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
See website for details.
Responsible AI in Health Care
Dates: 10–12 September 2025
Venue: Rotterdam, The Netherlands
See announcement for details.
The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System
Dates: 10–11 September 2025
Venue: Cardiff University
See announcement for details.
8th Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum
Date: 11 September 2025
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
See website and programme for details.
10th Sustainability Collaborative Conference: call for papers
Dates: 11–12 September 2025
Venue: University of Bristol
See announcement for details. Closing date: 10 August 2025.
Inclusive Legal Education Conference
Date: 11 September 2025
Venue: Leeds Beckett University
See website for details.
25 Years of the Human Rights Act
Date: 18 September 2025
Venue: Liberty Building, University of Leeds
See website for details.
AI and the Employed Bar: Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges
Date: 24 September 2025
Venue: Middle Temple, London
See website for details. Organised by the Middle Temple Employed Bar Society event in association with the Centre for Ethics & Law, UCL Laws Faculty, University College London.
Visual Storytelling for Reproductive Justice
Date: 24 September 2025
Venue: Loughborough Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University
Speaker: Dr Bibiana Oliveira Serpa, IAS Residential Fellow
See website for details.
Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Commercial Law
Dates: 24–25 September 2025
Venue: Swansea University
See announcement for details.
Methodologies Symposium: 'Law is but let me explain it once more': call for papers
Dates: 24–25 September 2025
Venue: Newcastle University
See website and announcement for details. Call closes: 7 July 2025.
Universities and the Common Good: A global conversation about how to respond to contemporary challenges
Date: 25 September 2025
Venue: Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford
See website for details.
October
The Irish Unity Dividend: The Benefits for Everyone – book launch and panel discussion
Date: 2 October 2025
Venue: Moot Court, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
Chair: Amanda Ferguson
Panel: Ben Collins and Colin Harvey
See website for details.
SAFI Annual Conference
Date: 9–10 October 2025
Venue: University of Amsterdam
Theme: Reimagining Justice
See booklet and website for details.
November
Constructing Legal Entities: On Persons, corporations and states: call for papers
Date: 3 November 2025
Venue: Aula am Campus, University of Vienna
Please see announcement for details of the Third Ars Iuris Legal Potentials Conference. Call closes: 4 July 2025.
From Binary to Bench: Empowering equal opportunities and AI literacy in global legal education
Date: 5 November 2025
Venue: University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, and online
See website for details. This is an SLS-funded symposium organised by Dr Melanie Stockton-Brown and Dr Basak Bak.
Pure Imagination: Stories, Institutions and Law Reform
Date: 17 November 2025
Venue: King's College London
See website for details.
Regulating AI in a Changing World: Oversight and enforcement
Date: 20 November 2025
Venue: IALS Council Chamber, London
See website for details.
'The 'Ideal Mother,' Family Law and Domestic Abuse
Date: 20 November 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws
Speaker: Professor Shazia Choudhry, University of Oxford
Chair: Professor Rosemary Hunter KC (hon), Loughborough University
See website for details.
December
Resistance and Agency in the Digital Society: Beyond Literacy, transparency, and risk assessment:
Date: 15 December 2025
Venue: University of Lausanne, Switzerland
See announcement for details of the cfp. This event is the Law and Society Initiative (IDES) Annual Conference.
2026
January
Beyond the State: New perspectives on the conceptual relationships between constitution and society: call for papers
Dates: 29–30 January 2026
Venue: Institut Universitaire de France, Paris
See announcement for details. Call closes: 3 July 2025.
March
Model Law? Template Legal Culture and the Global Production of Environmental Law
Date: 19 March 2026
Venue: Faculty of Laws, UCL, London
Speaker: Professor Natasha Affolder, University of British Columbia
See website for details.
Modern Studies in Property Law: call for papers
Dates: 30 March–1 April 2026
Venue: University of Southampton
See announcement for details. Call closes: 15 September 2025.