News: conferences, events and seminars
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2019
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2020
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Book Launch: The Plural Practice of Adoption in Pacific Island States, Jennifer Corrin and Sue Farran (eds), London
Wellbeing and Resilience for Law School Managers, London
Advocacy and Vulnerable Witnesses: 20 Years on from the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999, Nottingham
A Workshop on Vulnerability and the Organisation of Labour, Nottingham: call for papers
Brazil-Japan Litigation and Society Seminar 2, Sao Paolo, Brazil: call for contributions
Interdisciplinarity as Resistance, Gothenburg, Sweden: call for papers
Inspiring Women, Inspiring Careers in Law, London
Early Career Learning and Teaching Symposium, Leeds
More Laws, Less Justice! London
Words Laying Down the Law: Translating Arabic legal discourse, London: call for papers
Crime Justice and Social Harms, Oxford: call for papers
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and methods, Berlin
Impact and Law Reform Conference, London: registration now open
Here Versus There: Beyond comparison in queer and sexuality politics, Maynooth University, Ireland
Law at the Margins of the City, London
Socio-Legal Methodology Master Class, Oxford: save the dates!
The Perennial Problem of Disclosure – A way forward?, Bristol
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples, London
2019
May
Workshop: Applications of Corpus Linguistics Methods for Socio-Legal Research
Date: 20 May 2019
Venue: School of English, Birmingham City University
This BA/Leverhulme Research Grant-funded event is free, but please visit the website to register.
The Court as Archive
Date: 20 May 2019
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Speaker: Dr Trish Luker, University of Technology Sydney
Please see website for details.
Book Launch: The Plural Practice of Adoption in Pacific Island States, Jennifer Corrin and Sue Farran (eds)
Date: 20 May 2019
Venue: School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London
The launch of volume 5 in the World of Small States series, published by the Centre for Small States. See website for details.
The Role of Plants, Fungi and Algae in Environmental Forensics
Date: 20 May 2019
Venue: Guy's Campus, King's College London
Please see flyer for details.
William Twining in Conversation with David Sugarman
Date: 21 May 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Please see website for details of this free event.
Regulation Discussion Group: The past, present, and future of law reform in Canada
Date: 21 May 2019
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see attachment for details.
A History of Women’s Prisons: An artwork exhibition
Date: 24 May 2019
Venue: The Crypt Gallery, Euston Road, London
This is a collaborative project between academic Susy Menis and artists Noriko Hisazumi and Fabiana Vigna. Please see website for details.
20th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law
Dates: 23–25 May 2019
Venue: Instituto Jurídico da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra (UCILeR - University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research), Coimbra, Portugal
Theme: The limits of law
Please see flyer for details.
Roma Rights in Europe: Cross-disciplinary approaches
Date: 24 May 2019
Venue: Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Organiser: Dr Egle Dagylite
Please see poster and website for details of this free research symposium.
Regulation Discussion Group: The search for ‘regulatory sovereignty’ in the global pharmaceutical sector and the potentialities for a ‘healthy Brexit’
Date: 28 May 2019
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see attachment for details.
Transgender: Intersectional/international conference
Dates: 28–29 May 2019
Venue: University of Edinburgh
Please see website for details and programme.
Wellbeing and Resilience for Law School Managers
Date: 29 May 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Russell Square, London
Please see website for details
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2019: Dignity
Dates: 30 May–2 June 2019
Venue: Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, USA
Please see website for details.
June
What is the Family of Law: The influence of the nuclear family – book launch
Date: 3 June 2019
Venue: No 10, The Square, Glasgow
Launch of Dr Alan Brown's book What is the Family of Law: The influence of the nuclear family, published by Hart. See poster for details.
Digitized Global Mobilities
Dates: 3–4 June 2019
Venue: Utrecht University, Netherlands
Please see website for details.
Canadian Law and Society Association/Association Canadienne Droit et Société Annual Meeting
Dates: 3–5 June 2019
Venue: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Please see website for meeting details.
CKOP Event: The ethical responsibilities of professionals in a climate of uncertainty – an unconference
Date: 5 June 2018
Venue: Open University in London
This event is organised by the Centre for Knowledge in Organisations and Professions. Please see website for details.
Harmonisation and the Law – interdisciplinary and comparative enquiries. An interdisciplinary approach to legislative drafting?
Date: 5 June 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Please see website for details of this free event.
Transnational Figurations of Displacement: Investigating protracted displacement through the lens of transnationalism
Date: 5 June 2019
Venue: University of Sussex, Brighton
Please see poster for details.
Towards an International Regime on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity: Will the international community succeed in developing a fair regime?
Date: 6 June 2019
Venue: SOAS, University of London, Russell Square, London
Please see website for details.
More Laws, Less Justice!
Date: 6 June 2019
Venue: SOAS, University of London, Russell Square, London
This is the Eleventh Doctoral Research Colloquim. See website for details.
Therapeutic Justice in the Uk: First meeting
Date: 6 June 2019
Venue: The Open University, Milton Keynes
Organisers: Dr Anna Kawalek (Trustee for the International Society of Therapeutic Jurisprudence) and Dr Emma Jones (Member of the Advisory Board for the International Society of Therapeutic Jurisprudence)
Please see website for detail of this free International Society for Therapeutic Justice event.
Redressing Historical Institutional Abuse and Sexual Violence in Transitional Societies
Date: 7 June 2019
Venue: Human Rights Centre, Queen's University Belfast
Keynote speaker: Professo Anne-Marie McAlinden, Queen's University Belfast
Please see flyer for full details.
Inspiring Women, Inspiring Careers in Law, London
Date: 7 June 2019
Venue: Allen & Overy LLP, One Bishops Square, London
Keynote speaker: Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE is the President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Please see website for details.
Institute of Commercial and Corporate Law Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 2019
Date: 10 June 2019
Venue: Durham Law School
Please see poster and website for details.
Impact and Law Reform Conference
Date: 11 June 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Registraiton now open. Please see webpage for details.
Law, Power, and Justice in Game of Thrones: call for abstracts
Date: 11 June 2019
Venue: Durham University.
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 3 May 2019.
Working Law: Courts, corporations, and symbolic civil rights
Date: 11 June 2019
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Manor Road, Oxford
Speaker: Professor Lauren B Edelman
Please see website for details of this event.
Regulation Discussion Group: Regulating AI through consumer and civil law
Date: 11 June 2019
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Please see attachment for details.
ASLI Conference: The rule of law and the role of law in Asia
Dates: 11–12 June 2019
Venue: Asian Law Institute, Faculty of Law, Bukit Timah Campus, National University of Singapore
Please see website for details.
Women's Legal Landmarks: In conversation – Lois Bibbings and Teresa Sutton
Date: 12 June 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Speakers: Lois Bibbings – Section 5(1) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885; Teresa Sutton – R v Jackson (1891)
Please see website for details of this free event.
Social Justice and Mental Health: What role for law?
Date: 11 June 2019
Venue: Liberty Building, University of Leeds
Speaker: Professor Nikolas Rose, King’s College London
This is the Centre for Law and Social Justice Annual Lecture. Please see attachment and website for details.
Here Versus There: Beyond comparison in queer and sexuality politics
Date: 17 June 2019
Venue: Maynooth University, Ireland
Please see website for details. This is an SLSA-supported event under our Seminar Competition.
Corruption, Democracy and Human Rights: Exploring new avenues in the fight against corruption
Dates: 20–21 June 2019
Venue: European University Institute, Florence, Italy
This is a joint event organised by Portsmouth Law School and the European University Institute. Please see website for details.
Thirty Years of Children's Rights Scholarship: Taking stock and thinking ahead
Dates: 20–21 June 2019
Venue: University of Liverpool in London Campus, 33 Finsbury Square, London
Please see website for details.
Advocacy and Vulnerable Witnesses: 20 years on from the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999
Date: 21 June 2019
Venue: Centre for Advocacy, Nottingham Law School
Please see website for details.
Rethinking Property Approaches in Resources for the Circular Economy
Date: 21 June 2019
Venue: Coventry Law School, Coventry
Further information on this event is available on the conference website.
UCLan Cyprus: PGR law conference 2019
Date: 21 June 2019
Venue: UCLan Cyprus
Please see website for details.
Labour Law Research Network LLRN4 Valparaíso: A global conversation on labour law
Dates: 23–25 June 2019
Venue: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Please see website and attachment for details of call.
International Critical Management Studies Conference: 'Being open to Care, Being Open about Care'
Dates: 27–29 June 2019
Venue: The Open University, Milton Keynes
Please see website for details.
July
Monstrous Ontologies. Politics, Ethics, Materiality
Date: 1 July 2019
Venue: Roehampton University, London
Please see website for details.
The Perennial Problem of Disclosure – A way forward?
Date: 5 July 2019
Venue: Bristol Law School, UWE Bristol
Speakers:
- Anthony Edwards – 'Contemporary issues with disclosure in the police station'.
- Dr Abenaa Owusu-Bempah-Abenaa – 'Defence disclosure'
- Dr Hannah Quirk – 'Uncovering disclosure errors: Appeals and the CCRC'
Please see website for details. This event has been organised under the SLSA's Seminar Competition.
IVR 2019: Special Workshop on Law’s Autonomy and Concepts of Human Dignity
Dates: 7–13 July 2019
Venue: University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Please see website for further details.
IVR 2019: Special Workshop on Legal Fictions Revisited
Dates: 7–13 July 2019
Venue: University of Lucerne, Switzerland
Please see website for further details of IVR 2019.
Tax Policy Conference 2019
Date: 9 July 2019
Venue: University of Cambridge
Topic: 'Tax justice and tax law'
Please see website for details.
Applied Legal Storytelling
Dates: 9–11 July 2019
Venue: University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA
Please see website for details.
Methods and Data in Sentencing Research: Qualitative and quantitative approaches: call for papers
Dates: 11–12 July 2019
Venue: University of Sheffield
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 27 June 2019.
Socio-Legal Methodology Master Class: save the dates!
Dates: 29–30 July 2019
Venue: St Catherine's College, Oxford
See webpage for details. The SLSA is a co-sponsor of this event.
August
European Sociological Association Conference: Europe and Beyond – boundaries, barriers and belonging
Dates: 20–23 August 2019
Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University
The ISA Research Committee on the Sociology of Law Session: Democratic Deficit and Judicial Power in Europe Session – organised by Jacek Kurczewski and Mavis Maclean – invites contributions. Please see attachment and website for details.
September
UACES 49th Annual Conference
Dates: 1–4 September 2019
Venue: Lisbon, Portugal
UACES is the academic association for contemporary European studies. See website for details.
Television drama, law and national identity
Date: 6 September 2019
Venue: University of Westminster, London
Please see attachment and website for details.
Early Career Learning and Teaching Symposium
Dates: 10–11 September 2019
Venue: Cloth Hall Court, Leeds
Please see website for details of this joint ALT and University of Leeds event.
European Society of International Law: 2019 annual conference: call for papers
Date: 12 September 2019
Venue: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
This call is for the ESIL Interest Group on International Environmental Law. Please see website for details. Closing date: 14 May 2019.
Decolonisation and the Law School
Date: 13 September 2019
Venue: The Law School, University of Bristol
Please see website for details.
Brazil-Japan Litigation and Society Seminar 2: call for contributions
Dates: 16–17 September 2019
Venue: University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Contributions are invited for research roundtable presentations in simultaneous panels. Please see website for details.
'Law in Context': Early career workshop – call for papers
Dates: 17–18 September 2019
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, London
Please see flyer and website for details. Call closes: 10 July 2019.
Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and methods
Dates: 23–24 September 2019
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin
Please see webpage for details. This is an SLSA co-sponsored event.
October
Words Laying Down the Law: Translating Arabic legal discourse: call for papers
Dates: 7–8 October 2019
Venue: Atrium Conference Room, Aga Khan Centre,10 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN
Organised by the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. Please see website for details. Closing date: 31 May 2019.
The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform– call for papers
Date: 11 October 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Please email abstracts of up to 500 words to the convenors: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., IALS, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Westminster and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Exeter. See website for further details. Call closes: 31 May 2019.
November
Digital Rights in Brexit: Changes and challenges (Annual Conference of the Information Law and Policy Centre at IALS) – call for papers
Date: 22 November 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Please send an abstract of between 250–300 words and some brief biographical information to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Fellowships and Administrative Officer, IALS: by Friday, 3 May 2019 (5pm, BST). See website for further details.
A Workshop on Vulnerability and the Organisation of Labour: call for papers
Dates: 25–26 October 2019
Venue: Newton Building, Nottingham Trent University
Please see website for details of cfp and registration. Call closes: 17 July 2019.
December
LSAANZ Conference: Survive, thrive, die: call for abstracts
Dates: 5–7 December 2019
Venue: South Cross University, Gold Coast Campus, Australia
Please see website for details. Call closes: 31 July 2019.
2020
April
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples
Date: April 2020 tbc
Venue: City, University of London
Please see webpage for details. This is an SLSA Seminar Competition event.
Modern Studies in Property Law 2020: call for expressions of interest
Dates: 15–17 April 2010
Venue: Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Please see website for further details.
Interdisciplinarity as Resistance: call for papers
Dates: 23–25 April 2020
Venue: Konstepidemin Arts Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
Please see website for details. Closing date: 1 June 2019. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Crime Justice and Social Harms: call for papers
Dates: 31 March–1 April 2020
Venue: Keble College, Oxford
Organised by the Howard League for Penal Reform. Please see attachment and website for details. Call closes: 2 December 2019.
June
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.