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. . .
Pandemic (In)Equalities – The cost(s) of ‘singleness’ (Scotland): two workshops – Edinburgh
Pandemic (In)Equalities – The cost(s) of ‘singleness’ (England) – Milton Keynes
Vulnerability and Human Rights: What Does Wales Do Differently, online, organised by Public Law Wales
(B)OrderS Masterclass: Refugees and Decent Work, online and in person at QMUL
How Far Have We Come? Disability Identity Politics in the UK, London
British Academy Summer Showcase, London
How Far Have We Come? Disability Identity Politics in the UK, London
It's a Conspiracy: The Impact of Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation, London
Making Research Accessible: Encouraging Global Cultural Understanding through Writing, London
Spaces of Justice: Between Natural Landscapes and Cityscapes, online and in person, Montréal, Canada – call for papers
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
LSA Global Meeting 2022, hybrid conference
2022
May
British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) Postgraduate Workshop on Comparative Law
Dates: 26–27 May 2022
Venue: online from Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law
See website for full details of this free event.
PhD Conference: Security in a multipolar world: legal challenges and opportunities
Date: 27 May 2022
Venue: online from Liverpool John Moores
See announcement for details.
June
SCOTLIN Early Career Scholars Symposium
Dates: 1–2 June 2022
Venue: University of Edinburgh
See website and programme for details. If colleagues want to join remotely, please email Dr Daria Onitiu at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group Annual Workshop 2022: call for papers
Date: 1 June 2022
Venue: The Cube, Cross Building, Oxford
See website and call for papers for details. Closing date for abstracts: 13 May 2022. There is a £200 prize for the best paper.
Racialized Swarming, Sacralized Politics, and Criminal Penetratabilities: Occupied Jerusalem, and settler colonial Israel: online from Birkbeck
Date: 2 June 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminology Department
Speaker: Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
(B)OrderS Masterclass: Refugees and Decent Work
Date: 6 June 2022
Venue: online and in person at QMUL
Speaker: with Professor Jennifer Gordon (School of Law, Fordham University)
See website for details of this free event.
Too Big to Convict? Corporate Criminal Liability – Challenges and Solutions
Date: 7 June 2022
Venue: online event hosted by University of Derby in partnership with UWE,
University of Portsmouth, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and London Centre for Commercial and Financial Law
Please see announcement for details. To register, please complete the online form by 31 May 2022. Attendance is free and the event will be recorded.
Critical Feminist Engagements with Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) Workshop
Date: 7 June 2022
Venue: London South Bank University
See website for details.
(B)OrderS Book Forum: The refugee status of persons with disabilities
Date: 8 June 2022
Venue: online from QMUL
This is the first book forum of the newly established (B)OrderS Centre at Queen Mary University of London. See website for details.
IALS 75: WG Hart Legal Workshop 2022
Dates: 9–10 June 2022
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Theme: Law, alternative economies and activism
See website for details and registration.
Surveillance, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Florence
Dates: 8–10 June 2022
Venue: European University Institute, Florence
This event is jointly organsied by the University of Portsmouth and European University Institute. Please see announcement for details.
Jennifer Aston, 'Coverture, Trusts and the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857'
Date: 10 June 2022
Venue: Law and History Network: Summer 2022 Online Seminar Series
Law and History Network (@LawHistNetwork) is a collaboration between the legal historians at Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter Universities, aiming to bring together those with an interest in law and history, whatever their location or career stage.See website for details. Booking essential for this free event.
Third EU-POP Summer School: call for participants
Date: 10–11 June 2022
Venue: online and onsite at UCLan Cyprus
See website for details. There is no registration cost. All meals are covered. Flights and accommodation for international participants are not covered.
Building Sustainable Language Rights Legislation: Reflections on the Northern Irish Landscape
Date: 13 June 2022
Venue: Dublin City University
See announcement for details.
Feeling Law: Emotion and relationship in Legal education – Theory, practice, and design
Date: 14 June 2022
Venue: online symposium from Keele Law School
Organised by Keele Law School's research cluster for Legal Education, Innovation & Practice. See flyer for full details.
Gerald J Postema: Rule of Law Beyond National Borders
Date 16 June 2022
Venue: University of Oslo, Norway
See website for details.
Disrupting the (Gendered) Form: A PGR Workshop Facilitating Transformative Imaginations
Date: 17 June 2022
Venue: Durham University – call for participants
See website for details of this event supported by the Society of Legal Scholars. The event is free and funding is provided for the travel and accommodation of all UK-based participants. Childcare bursaries are also available.
The Forgotten Foundations of Feminist Legal Scholarship, Part I: 1970–1985
Date: 17 June 2022
Venue: London in person + online for international participants unable to travel
Organisers: Maria Drakopoulou and Rosemary Hunter
See announcement for details of this Kent Centre for Critical Thought Workshop.
Law and Humanities Research Symposium: call for papers
Date: 17 June 2022
Venue: Open University, Milton Keynes
This event marks the launch of the new Law and Humanities research cluster at the Open University. Please see announcement for details and call for papers. The event is free and some assistance is available for presenters to assist with travel costs, especially for those who are unwaged or do not have institutional support for such costs. Call closes: 27 May 2022.
How Far Have We Come? Disability Identity Politics in the UK
Date: 17 June 2022
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details of this free BA Summer Showcase event.
It's a Conspiracy: The Impact of Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation
Date: 17 June 2022
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details of this free BA Summer Showcase event.
British Academy Summer Showcase
Dates: 17–18 June 2022
Venue: British Academy, London
Two days of free events including talks, workshops and performances and a Research Late reception. See website for details.
Making Research Accessible: Encouraging Global Cultural Understanding through Writing
Date: 17 June 2022
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details of this free BA Summer Showcase event.
Judging Values and Participation in Mental Capacity Law
Date: 20 June 2022
Venue: British Academy, London
See website and programme for full details.
Vulnerability and Human Rights: What Does Wales Do Differently?
Date: 21 June 2022
Venue: online, organised by Public Law Wales
See website for details of this free event.
COST Action CA19103 - PhD School/Conference Meeting: open for applications
Dates: 24–28 June 2022
Venue: Royal Holloway, London
See announcement and website for details.
Pitching Workshop: Family Law Reform Now Network – call for abstracts
Date: 27 June 2022
Venue: online
Hosted by Dr Charlotte Bendall and Dr Rehana Parveen. See announcement for details.
Blackscapes: Urban precarity, state violence and insurgent politics in a zone of nonbeing
Date: 30 June 2022
Venue: online from Birkbeck Criminolgoy Department
Speaker: Dr Jamie Amparo Alves
See website for details of this event in the Race and Justice Seminar Series.
Liberalism and Ecology in the Anthropocene
Date: 30 June–1 July 2022
Venue: University of Messina, Italy
Conference organised by the European Society of International Law Interest Group on International Environmental Law. See website for details.
July
Pandemic (In)Equalities – The cost(s) of ‘singleness’ (Scotland)
Date: 5 July 2022
Venues: Edinburgh
See website for details.
Pandemic (In)Equalities – The cost(s) of ‘singleness’ (England)
Date: 7 July 2022
Venue: Milton Keynes
See website for details.
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2022
Date: 7 July 2022
Feminism, Law and Citizenship
Dates: 10–12 July 2022
Venue: University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris
Plenary speakers: Lady Hale and Dian Roman
See announcement for details. This is a rescheduling of an event that was postponed in 2020 and 2021. It will take place in person (not online).
LSA Global Meeting 2022, hybrid conference, online and Lisbon, Portugal
Dates: 13–16 July 2022
Venue: ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
Theme: 'Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy'
Please visit website for details. The SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event.
Legal Professional Privilege: A human right or a barrier to justice?
Date: 19 July 2022
Venue: Northumbria Law School
See website for details.
August
Critical Legal Conference 2022
Dates: 31 August –2 September 2022
Venue: Tromsø, Norway
Theme: Liminalities
See website for details.
September
2022 International Empirical Legal Studies Conference
Dates: 1–2 September 2022
Venue: Netherlands Academy for Empirical Legal Studies, Amsterdam
See website for details.
Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2022
Dates: 6–9 September 2022
Venue: King's College London
See website for details.
Carceral Policy, Policing and Race Conference
Dates: 7–9 September 2022
Venue: SOAS University of London
See website and announcement for details.
Crime, Justice and the Human Condition: Beyond the cris(es) – reframing and reimagining justice
Dates: 13–14 September 2022
Venue: Keble College, University of Oxford
See website for details.
The 5th Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum: call for papers
Date: 15 September 2022 (tbc with speakers)
Venue: Nottingam Trent University
Proposals are invited for papers on any aspect of the law and/or practice of partnerships, LLPs or other alternative forms of business organisations, in the UK or overseas. Please see the attached document for further information. Closing date: 19 May 2022.
SAFI Conference 2022: 'Responsibility': call for abstracts
Dates: 29 September–1 October 2022
Venue: Verona, Italy
Keynote speakers: Judith Butler, Marina Calloni, Adriana Cavarero and Erzsébet Rózsa
See website for details.
October
Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts, and Alternative Payments: Regulating the “Wild West"
Dates: 13–14 October 2022
Venue: in person at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
See announcement for details. Call closes: 27 May 2022.
International Conference on Law and Art in the 19th Century: Power in images: call for papers
Dates: 19–21 October 2022
Venue: Verona, Italy
See website for details. Closing date for submission of proposals: 31 July 2022. Closing date for applications: 30 June 2022.
Arbitration in Britain and its Empire: Developments and Divergences
Date: 22 October 2022
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Organisers: Francis Boorman (IALS), Christian Burset (Notre Dame) and Catharine MacMillan (King’s College London).
See website for details.
November
SAFESOC Death in Prisons Conference, Oxford
Dates: 2–3 November 2022
Venue: Oxford
See SAFESOC website for details in due course.
Spaces of Conflict, Spaces of Justice: Between Natural Landscapes and Cityscapes – call for papers
Date: 3–4 November 2022
Venue: jointly hosted by Sapienza and McGill Universities at McGill University, Montréal, Canada – call for papers
Please see announcement for details. Closing date: 31 July 2022.
The Neglected Decade: Legal Issues of the 1950s: call for papers extended
Date: 23 November 2022
Venue: online hosted by Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Organised by Professors Rosemary Auchmuty and Fiona Cownie. See announcement for full details. Call closes: 12 May 2022.
Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting: call for papers
Dates: 9–10 December 2022
Venue: Vietnam National University, Hanoi
See website for details. Closing date for submission of abstracts: 7 June 2022. Note that this event includes an Early Career/Junior Scholars workshop held on the first day. Applications for the workshop close on 14 June 2022.
2023
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 dates: 15 October 2022 (Haifa) and 15 February 2023 (Lille).
May
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.