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.
Once posted, entries will be retained until they have taken place. If you would like your event included on this page, please contact
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Latest events . . .
SLSA events
Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood, Reading: call for papers
Irish/English and Welsh/English Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpretation, Cardiff
SLSA PGR Writing Group 2024–2025: first session
Other events
Festival of Social Science, multiple venues
Law and Society Association Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop: call for applications – correction to application link
JUSTICE Annual Conference 2024: Protecting the Rule of Law, London: early bird rate closing soon
A Critical Race Theory Analysis of the Attack on Critical Race Theory, online from QMUL
The Power and Potential of Public Education: Translating the Street Law methodology, QMUL, venue tbc
Book Launch: Non-Human Rights. Critical Perspectives by Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa & Costas Douzinas, QMUL Mile End and online
Tom Sargant Memorial Lecture 2024: Lord Justice Dingemans, London
Book Launch: Gender, Sexuality and Law: A Textbook, edited by Chris Ashford & Alexander Maine, online
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago: submission deadline extended
Empowering Athletes’ Human Rights: Global research conference on athletes’ rights, The Hague, Netherlands
International Sports Law Journal Conference 2024, The Hague, Netherlands
Climate Change, Displacement and Gender, online from Women in Refugee Law
2024
October
Injustice and Inequality: Addressing systemic issues through law, literature, and advocacy
Date: 15 October 2024
Venue: Baker Mackenzie LLP, London
See announcement for details of this Support Through Court event.
Public Law Project Annual Conference: Judicial review trends and forecasts 2024
Date: 16 October 2024
Venue: in-person only, Exchange House, Primrose Street, London
See website for details.
Negotiating with the Devil: Inside the world of armed conflict mediation
Date: 16 October 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Speaker: Pierre Hazan (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue)
Organisers: Professor Louise Mallinder (Queen’s University Belfast) and Dr Julia Viebach (Queen’s University Belfast)
See website for details.
Tom Sargant Memorial Lecture 2024: Lord Justice Dingemans
Date: 16 October 2024
Venue: Dechert LLP, Cannon Street, London
See website for details of this JUSTICE event.
British Academy Late: The human experience
Date: 17 October 2024
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details of this interdisciplinary event.
(Re)building Trust in the Police
Date: 17 October 2024
Venue: online from Campaign for Social Sciences
See webpage for details.
A Critical Race Theory Analysis of the Attack on Critical Race Theory
Date: 17 October 2024
Venue: online from QMUL
See website for details.
Irish/English and Welsh/English Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpretation, Cardiff
Date: 18 October 2024
Venue: The Temple of Peace, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff
See website for details. This event is supported via the SLSA Seminar Competition.
Law and History: Introduction to sources and approaches
Date: 18 October 2024
Venue: online from the Open University
See website for details.
SLSA PGR Writing Group 2024–2025: first session
Date: 18 October 2024
Venue: online
See invitation for details. Email
Festival of Social Science
Dates: 19 October–9 November 2024
Venue: multiple venues across the UK
See website for details.
British Academy: Book Prize shortlist event
Date: 21 October 2024
Venue: British Academy, Carlton House, London
See website for details.
CSLS Seminar: Chasing Demons: Crime Security, and Affect, in Online British Conspiracist Communities
Date: 21 October 2024
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
See website for details and announcement for further seminars in this series.
Book Launch: Gender, Sexuality and Law: A Textbook, edited by Chris Ashford & Alexander Maine
Date: 22 October 2024
Venue: online
See invitation for full details.
Empowering Athletes’ Human Rights: Global Research Conference on Athletes’ rights
Date: 23 October 2024
Venue: Centre for Sport and Human Rights, The Asser Institute, The Hague, Netherlands
See website for details.
The Power and Potential of Public Education: Translating the Street Law methodology
Date: 24 October 2024
Venue: QMUL, venue tbc
See website for details.
International Sports Law Journal Conference 2024
Dates: 24–25 October 2024
Venue: Asser Institute, The Hague, Netherlands and online
See website for details.
Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History
Dates: 24–26 October 2024
Venue: San Francisco, USA
See website for details.
Mental Health in the Criminal Justice System: Towards reform
Date: 25 October 2024
Venue: Stirling Court Hotel, University of Stirling
See website for details of this British Academy of Forensic Sciences event.
CSLS Seminar: Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case
Date: 28 October 2024
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
See website for details and announcement for further seminars in this series.
Climate Change, Displacement and Gender
Date: 28 October 2024
Venue: online from Women in Refugee Law
See website and announcement for details.
Book Launch: Non-Human Rights. Critical Perspectives by Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa & Costas Douzinas
Date: 30 October 2024
Venue: QMUL Mile End Campus and online
See website for details.
Relations and Health Law Workshop
Date: 31 October 2024
Venue: hosted online by the Health Care Law Research Group, from Sussex Law School
See website for details.
November
GW4 Leverhulme Lecture: Access to Justice and Kenya’s Transformative Constitution
Date: 1 November 2024
Venue: Bristol University
Speaker: Justice Prof Joel Ngugi of the Kenya Court of Appeal, Cardiff Visiting Leverhulme Professor
Chair: Professor Evelyn Welch
See poster and speaker bio for details.
Inspirational Women in Law Awards 2024
Date: 5 November 2024
Venue: Clifford Chance, Upper Bank Street, London
See website for details.
British Academy Conference: Prison Voices
Date: 5 November 2024
Venue: Alfred Denny Conference Room, Alfred Denny Building, University of Sheffield
See website for details.
An Evening with Baroness Helena Kennedy Hon FBA and Professor Julia Black PBA
Date: 7 November 2024
Venue: British Academy, London
See website for details.
International Law in the UK: A troubled relationship?
Date: 8 November 2024
Venue: in-person at University of Worcester
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.
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.
PLP 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
Digital Justice Journeys
Date: 13 November 2024
Venue: online from Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion, ARU
See announcement and poster for details.
Secrets of The National Archives: Shakespeare's will
Date: 15 November 2024
Venue: webinar from The National Archives
See website for details.
Next 100 Years's Fifth Heilbron Lecture
Date: 19 November 2024
Venue: Art Workers' Guild, London
Speaker: Flora Page, Barrister
See website for details.
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 for details of this performance and discussion event.
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 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.
Gender Stereotyping in International Human Rights Law and Discourse: call for papers
Date: 29 November 2024
Venue: University of Bologna, Italy
See announcement for details. Closing date: 7 October 2024.
Legal History in Unexpected Places: call for papers
Date: 29 November 2024
Venue: online from the Open University
See website for details. Call closes: 11 October 2024.
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
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 Institute of International and Comparative Law, Traning Courses 2024
Dates: December 2024
Venues: BIICL, Russell Square London and/or online
- Energy Law – 2–3 December (Hybrid)
- Law of the Sea – 4–5 December (Hybrid)
See announcement for further details.
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: call for papers
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: Derby University and online
See announcement for details. Call closes: 21 October 2024.
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.
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, Australian National University
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.
Asian Law and Society Association Early Career/Junior Scholar Workshop
Date: 12 December 2024
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
See announcement for details. This event immediately precedes the one below.
(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.
2025
January
Commission on Legal Pluralism: The Transformative Power of Legal Pluralism?
Dates: 13–15 January 2025
Venue: Jakarta, Indonesia
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?: call for papers
Dates: 30–31 January 2025
Venue: KU Lueven, Belgium
See announcement for details. Call closes: 13 October 2024.
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.
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.
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.
March
AHRC ‘Engaging with Government’ Programme 2024-2025: open for applications
Dates: 4–6 March 2025
Venue: Institute for Government, 2 Carlton Gardens, London
See website for details of this free course. Applications close: 31 October 2024 5pm.
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.
April
SLSA Annual Conference 2025
Dates: 15–17 April 2025
Venue: University of Liverpool
See website for details.
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: submission deadline extended
Dates: 22–25 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See submission site and meeting details.
Closing date extended to: 22 October 2024.
June
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.